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Open hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Members of Congress, Delegates, and the Resident Commissioner will have the opportunity to testify before the Committee on proposed legislation within its jurisdiction.

On November 2, in Room 2128 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance will hold a hearing entitled, “Factors Influencing the High Cost of Insurance for Consumers.”

Rescheduled from October 24.

Hearing memo

Legislation

• H.R. 5535, the “Insurance Data Protection Act”, to prohibit the Federal Insurance Office of the Department of the Treasury and other financial regulators from collecting data directly from an insurance company
• H.R. 2933, the “Federal Insurance Office Elimination Act”
• H. Res. ___, Expressing the continued support of Congress for the McCarran-Ferguson Act and its State-based regulatory system for the business of insurance

Witnesses:

• Robert Gordon, Senior Vice President, American Property and Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA)
• Frank Nutter, President, Reinsurance Association of America (RAA)
• Grace Arnold, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Commerce, on behalf of National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
• Joseph Petrelli, President and Co-Founder, Demotech, Inc.
• Baird Webel, Specialist in Financial Economics, Congressional Research Service (CRS)
• Dr. Carolyn Kousky, Associate Vice President, Economics and Policy Analysis, Environmental Defense Fund

The Committee on Natural Resources will hold a Member Day hearing on, Thursday, November 2, 2023, at 10:15 a.m. EDT in 1324 Longworth House Office Building.

Members are encouraged to testify on issues within the Committee’s jurisdiction, including specific legislation or topics of importance to them and their constituents.

Members who wish to appear before the Committee are asked to notify Sophia Varnasidis, Director of Legislative Operations, [email protected] by 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 31. Members are requested to submit their statements to Sophia Varnasidis, [email protected] by 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 1, 2023.

Rescheduled from October 11.

The purpose of this hearing is to examine the opportunities and challenges in deploying carbon capture utilization and sequestration and direct air capture technologies on federal and non-federal lands.

Witnesses:

• Brad J. Crabtree, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and Carbon Management, U.S. Department of Energy
• Bruno Pigott, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Erin Burns, Executive Director, Carbon180
• Lily R. Barkau, P.G., Groundwater Section Manager, Water Quality Division, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality

Subcommittee hearing entitled: “Examining the SEC’s Agenda: Unintended Consequences for U.S. Capital Markets and Investors.”

Witnesses:

• Dr. S.P. Kothari, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Dalia Blass, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
• Tom Quaadman, Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Ken Bentsen, President and CEO, SIFMA
• Amy Borrus, Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors

The Committee on Rules will meet Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 4:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

• H.R. 4820 – Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Text, H. Rept. 118-154)
• H.R. 4821 – Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024 (Text, H. Rept. 118-155)
• H.R. ___ – Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Jessica Wahl Turner, President, Outdoor Recreation Roundtable
• Rebecca Peters, Okoboji Tourism Director, Vacation Okoboji, Arnolds Park, IA
• Andrew Drummond, Owner, Ski The Whites, LLC, Jackson, NH
• Chris Fox, State Chairman, Iowa Ducks Unlimited, Johnston, IA

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Michael F. Wehner, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Jennifer Jurado, Ph.D., Chief Resilience Officer and Deputy Director, Resilient Environment Department, Broward County, Florida
• Paul M. Dabbar, Former Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

Dabbar served in the Trump administration.

Subcommittee hearing on “Evaluating Material Alternatives for Single-Use Plastics”.

Witnesses:

• Marcus Eriksen, Ph.D., Co-Founder, Executive Director, The 5 Gyres Institute, Leap Lab
• Erin Simon, Vice President, Plastic Waste + Business, World Wildlife Fund
• Humberto Kravetz, Founder and CEO, GSF Upcycling

The purpose of this full committee hearing is to examine federal offshore energy strategy and policies.

Witnesses:

• Elizabeth Klein, Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, U.S. Department of the Interior
• Janet Coit, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce