Hill Heat

Subcommittee hearing.

The Committee on Rules will meet Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM ET in H-313, The Capitol on the following measures:

• H.R. 8752 – Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2025
• H.R. 8771 – Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2025
• H.R. 8774 – Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2025

Mark your calendars: Mi’kmaq grandmothers to visit DC on Thursday, June 20 from Nova Scotia. Come hear their stories of protecting sacred indigenous land from the false claims and reckless pipeline plans of Washington Gas’s parent company, AltaGas, in Canada.

Cheryl and April Maloney, who led the Mi’kmaq campaign, will tell their story with words, photos, and video. They’ll describe their “spiritual” campaign that began with the building of a sacred fire near the gas company’s proposed pipeline operation, invoking the spirit and guidance of their ancestors. For nearly ten years, these heroic leaders fought – and won – a bruising pipeline fight against AltaGas.

Along the way, they encountered the kind of false claims, greed, and fossil fuel expansion efforts that Washington Gas now demonstrates almost daily across DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia.

WHAT: Indigenous Grandmothers vs. AltaGas, Washington Gas’ Parent Company — A Cautionary Tale for Washington, DC!

WHERE: Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036

WHEN: Thursday, June 20, 6:30 PM-8:00 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

WHAT ELSE: This event is FREE and drinks will be provided.

RSVP

Full committee hearing.

Witness:

• Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:

• S. 2944, to enable the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to determine the political status of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and for other purposes (Wicker);
• S. 3231, to enable the people of Puerto Rico to choose a permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status for Puerto Rico and to provide for a transition to and the implementation of that permanent, nonterritorial, fully self-governing political status, and for other purposes (Heinrich).

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Chair

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Barbara Leaf, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Jeanne Pryor, Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for the Middle East, United States Agency for International Development

Subcommittee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Dr. Tracy Hadden Loh, Fellow, Brookings Institute
• Adhi Nagraj, Chief Development Officer, McCormack Baron Salazar
• Dr. Morteza Farajian, Executive Director, Build America Bureau at the U.S. Department of Transportation

Investigations & Oversight Subcommittee hearing entitled “Environmentalism Off the Rails: How CARB will Cripple the National Rail Network.”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Ian Jefferies, President and Chief Executive Officer, Association of American Railroads
• Chuck Baker, President, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association
• Dr. Tyler Dick, Professor, Texas Railway Analysis & Innovation Node (TRAIN), University of Texas Austin

Background info on CARB’s net-zero-by-2030 rail emissions policy:

• CARB: Reducing Rail Emissions in California

On Thursday, June 13, 2024, at 11 a.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold an oversight hearing titled “Destroying America’s Best Idea: Biden’s Border Crisis, Desecrating National Park Lands and Damaging Communities.”

The hearing was originally scheduled to begin at 10:15 am, but was rescheduled to allow Republicans to attend a breakfast meeting with Donald Trump.

Witnesses:

• Jaime Williams, Assemblymember, 59th District, New York State Assembly
• Paul King, President, Belle Harbor Property Owners Association, Belle Harbor, NY
• Elizabeth Morrissey, President, Madison Marine Park Homecrest Civic Association, Brooklyn, NY
• Amy Fischer, Director of Refugee and Migrant Rights, Amnesty International USA, Washington, DC [Minority Witness]

Hearing memo

This is a hearing of the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.

Witnesses:

• MJ Maynard, CEO, Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, on behalf of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
• Laura Hendricks, CEO, Transdev U.S., on behalf of the North American Transit Alliance (NATA)
• Marc Scribner, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Reason Foundation
• Greg Regan, President, Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO