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Wednesday June 8, 2022

The House stands adjourned until June 8, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT

The Senate stands adjourned until June 8, 2022 at 10:00 AM EDT

June 8, 2022

Supreme Court Opinion Issuance Day

Supreme Court

https://www.supremecourt.gov/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/21

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8:30 AM EDT

Partisan Conflict Index - Data Release

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/real-time-data-research/partisan-conflict-index

8:30 AM EDT

DOD Official Discusses Artificial Intelligence

John B. Sherman, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, talks to Craig Martell, incoming chief of digital and artificial intelligence, about DOD ’s path toward accelerating data and artificial intelligence.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=28979

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/28979

9:00 AM EDT

Decarbonization Policy and International Competitiveness: An event—featuring Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and a panel of experts

Resources for the Future

https://www.rff.org/events/rff-live/decarbonization-policy-and-international-competitiveness/

9:30 AM EDT

Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Arts and Humanities

House Appropriations Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114723

https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fiscal-year-2023-budget-request-for-the-arts

9:30 AM EDT

Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC) June 7-8, 2022 Public Meeting

Department of Health & Human Services

https://aspe.hhs.gov/collaborations-committees-advisory-groups/ptac/ptac-meetings

10:00 AM EDT

Trust: The Key to Social Cohesion and Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean

Center for Strategic & International Studies and Inter-American Development Bank

https://www.csis.org/events/trust-key-social-cohesion-and-growth-latin-america-and-caribbean

10:00 AM EDT

Subcommittee on Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

House Armed Services Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114811

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=96EA5314-BCAE-4187-9839-81F7332DDAC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkjquEi5ow

10:00 AM EDT

Meeting: Resourcing U.S. Priorities in the Indo-Pacific Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Hearing

House Committee on Foreign Affairs

https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=114878

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=C5B2A973-6A08-4DB9-9D54-E8CA484BC01F

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNwkzqudcb8

10:00 AM EDT

Legislative Hearing on: H.R. 291, the COST SAVINGS Enhancement Act; H.R. 345, the Reproductive Health Information for Veterans Act; H.R. 1216, the Modernizing Veterans' Health Care Eligibility Act; H.R. 1957, the Veterans Infertility Treatment Act of 2021; H.R. 6273, the VA Zero Suicide Demonstration Project Act of 2021; H.R. 7589, the REMOVE Copays Act; Discussion Draft, to improve the hiring and retention of the employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

House Veterans' Affairs Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114857

10:00 AM EDT

Legislative Hearing

House Natural Resources Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114854

10:00 AM EDT

"Addressing the Roadway Safety Crisis: Building Safer Roads for All"

House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114856

https://transportation.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/addressing-the-roadway-safety-crisis-building-safer-roads-for-all

10:00 AM EDT

Fiscal year 2023 Budget Request for the United Nations (UN)

House Appropriations Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114868?s=4&r=11

https://appropriations.house.gov/events/hearings/fiscal-year-2023-budget-request-for-the-united-nations-un

10:00 AM EDT

The Urgent Need to Address the Gun Violence Epidemic

House Oversight Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114858

https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/the-urgent-need-to-address-the-gun-violence-epidemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RejrxgL-vEI

10:00 AM EDT

Military to Main Street: Serving Veteran Entrepreneurship

House Small Business Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114855

https://smallbusiness.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=4290

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of7yXoOPylg

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10:00 AM EDT

The Path Forward On U.S.-Syria Policy: Strategy And Accountability

Senate Foreign Relations Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332564?s=4&r=12

https://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/the-path-forward-on-us-syria-policy-strategy-and-accountability-060822

10:00 AM EDT

Nomination Hearing

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332671

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2022/6/nomination-hearing

10:00 AM EDT

Hearings to examine the nominations of Annie Caputo, of Virginia, and Bradley R. Crowell, of Nevada, both to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332632

https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=BF643B5F-5236-4FE2-B618-BEEE743394A6

10:00 AM EDT

Business meeting to consider S.4348, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, S.958, to amend the Public Health Service Act to expand the allowable use criteria for new access points grants for community health centers, and other pending calendar business.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332667

https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/s-4348-and-s-958

10:00 AM EDT

Hearings to examine the nominations of Carlton W. Reeves, of Mississippi, to be a Member, and to be Chair, and Laura E. Mate, of Iowa, Claire McCusker Murray, of Maryland, Luis Felipe Restrepo, of Pennsylvania, Claria Horn Boom, of Kentucky, John Gleeson, of New York, and Candice C. Wong, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Member, all of the United States Sentencing Commission.

Senate Judiciary Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332668

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/06/08/2022/nominations

10:00 AM EDT

Detecting and Quantifying Methane Emissions from the Oil and Gas Sector

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114862

https://science.house.gov/hearings/detecting-and-quantifying-methane-emissions-from-the-oil-and-gas-sector

10:00 AM EDT

Hearing: "Pathways to Congressional Service"

House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114861

https://modernizecongress.house.gov/pathways-to-congressional-service

10:00 AM EDT

Compartmented Posture Hearing (Closed)

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=114865

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114865

10:15 AM EDT

A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Stakeholder Perspectives on SNAP

House Agriculture Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114859

https://agriculture.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=2518

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwSLn11CN0

10:30 AM EDT

Open Commission Meeting - June 2022

Federal Communications Commission

https://www.fcc.gov/news-events/events/2022/06/june-2022-open-commission-meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AV5Z3XFlao

10:30 AM EDT

International Spillovers in Tax Policy

Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and the University of North Carolina Tax Center

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/event/international-spillovers-tax-policy

11:00 AM EDT

Virtual: PPPL Colloquium, Dr. Steven McNamara, Tokamak Energy, "Tokamak Energy and the high field spherical tokamak path to commercial fusion"

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

https://www.pppl.gov/events/2022/pppl-colloquium-dr-steven-mcnamara-tokamak-energy-tokamak-energy-and-high-field

11:00 AM EDT

The (Updated) Case for Free Trade - Senator Patrick Toomey (R‑PA), the National Retail Federation's Jonathan Gold, and Cato's Scott Lincicome

Cato Institute

https://www.cato.org/events/updated-case-free-trade

11:00 AM EDT

Russia, France, and global disorder: A Raymond Aron Lecture featuring Thomas Gomart, with Fiona Hill

Brookings Institution & Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings

https://www.brookings.edu/events/russia-france-and-global-disorder/

11:15 AM EDT

Official Schedule

The President departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews

https://factba.se/biden/calendar/

11:45 AM EDT

Secretary Blinken participates in a discussion and question and answer session at the CEO Summit with U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President and Head of International Affairs Myron Brillant in Los Angeles, California.

The event will be live-streamed on www.state.gov and www.YouTube.com/statedept

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12:00 PM EDT

Rent Stabilization: Local Approaches to Advance Tenant Stability

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Urban Land Institute Minnesota

https://www.minneapolisfed.org/events/2022/rent-stabilization-local-approaches-to-advance-tenant-stability

12:00 PM EDT

War Crimes in Ukraine: The Pursuit of International Justice - H.R. McMaster in conversation with David Schwendiman

Hoover Institution, Stanford University

https://www.hoover.org/events/war-crimes-ukraine-pursuit-international-justice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOY7mXgLQOc

12:00 PM EDT

Subcommittee on Strategic Forces Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

House Armed Services Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114816

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=85FCB6FA-DB57-442D-8795-DD0570DCF7FA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tFtu3Ra0B0

12:30 PM EDT

Strengthening Black Sea Security and Defense in a New Era

The Atlantic Council

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/strengthening-black-sea-security-and-defense/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb9V9Etr9wk

12:30 PM EDT

Secretary Blinken leads a meeting of the Summit Implementation Review Group in Los Angeles, California.

(POOLED CAMERA SPRAY AT TOP)

The camera spray will be live-streamed on www.state.gov and www.YouTube.com/statedept

1:00 PM EDT

Closed Briefing on Russian Cyber Threats

House Foreign Affairs Committee

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=7A50776A-3870-4133-AD7F-5DBC57F307D3

1:00 PM EDT

Press Briefing

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Los Angeles, California

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

1:30 PM EDT

Advancing Equitable Access to Affordable Capital and Credit for Native Americans and Tribal Communities and Organizations in North Carolina

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Whole Community Health Initiative-Kenan Flagler Business School, and UNC Public Policy

https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/community/events/2022-05-17-aea-native-americans-tribal.html

1:45 PM EDT

Defense Official Speaks at Symposium

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks talks to Jim Mitre, acting deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, about accelerating data and artificial intelligence during DOD’s virtual Digital and AI Symposium.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Live-Events/#/?currentVideo=28981

https://www.dvidshub.net/webcast/28981

2:00 PM EDT

Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

House Armed Services Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114815

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=454FB23E-DDA6-4CF4-B066-7A1CD8FD6E03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KjWvB5AGRY

2:00 PM EDT

Fiscal year 2023 Budget Request: United Nations and International Organizations

House Foreign Affairs Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114866

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=9E868919-FD88-4E96-B639-453CB859A655

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WctKCiMAkqk

2:30 PM EDT

Closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters

Senate Intelligence (Select) Committee

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/closed-briefing-intelligence-matters-399

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332669

2:30 PM EDT

The Small Business Workforce Challenge: Causes, Impacts and Solutions

Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332670

https://www.sbc.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings?ID=745726FB-DEBD-4F12-9519-919759FD4E53

2:30 PM EDT

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Michael S. Barr, of Michigan, to be a Member, and to be Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors, and Jaime E. Lizarraga, of Virginia, and Mark Toshiro Uyeda, of California, both to be a Member, all of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/senate-event/332680

https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/06/03/2022/executive-session

2:30 PM EDT

Secretary Blinken, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, and Panamanian Foreign Minister Erika Mouynes participate in a panel discussion at the Civil Society Forum in Los Angeles, California.

https://www.youtube.com/c/StateDept

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3:30 PM EDT

Subcommittee on Military Personnel Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

House Armed Services Committee

https://www.congress.gov/event/117th-congress/house-event/114813

https://armedservices.house.gov/hearings?ID=F960059D-174D-41E6-BD5F-D1C0A799A6FC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho40v-N0U5Q

3:30 PM EDT

Congressman Lamborn on Maintaining American Nuclear Deterrence

The Heritage Foundation

https://www.heritage.org/missile-defense/event/congressman-lamborn-maintaining-american-nuclear-deterrence

3:45 PM EDT

Book Event: Getting China Wrong by Aaron L. Friedberg

Center for Strategic & International Studies

https://www.csis.org/events/book-event-getting-china-wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJMnAt8dBUs

5:40 PM EDT

Official Schedule

The President tapes an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2:40 PM Local)

https://factba.se/biden/calendar/

6:00 PM EDT

2022 Hayek Lecture: Dr. Joseph Henrich Winner The Hayek Book Prize; Author, "The WEIRDest People In The World: How The West Became Psychologically Peculiar And Particularly Prosperous"

The Manhattan Institute

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/2022-hayek-lecture-henrich

8:15 PM EDT

Official Schedule

The President and The First Lady participate in the inaugural ceremony of the Ninth Summit of the Americas; The President delivers remarks (5:15 PM Local)

https://factba.se/biden/calendar/

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WaPo straight up lying