Milancy Harris to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security
Dr. Radha Plumb to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment
Brendan Owens to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy,
Installations, and Environment
Dr. Laura Taylor-Kale to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Industrial Base Policy
At the U.S. Green Building Council, Owens oversaw technical development
of LEED, the green building rating.
If confirmed, Owens would
oversee
environmental planning and compliance, renewable energy, energy
management, and energy resilience for DoD’s global portfolio of military
bases and installations, housing, construction, and other property. The
portfolio totals approximately 2.2 billion square feet of space across
nearly 600,000 structures. It is valued at more than $1 trillion.
Some context for those numbers: Two billion square feet is larger than
the built environment of most cities in the world. It is almost 100
times the amount of office space WeWork leased last year in the United
States and Europe. One trillion dollars is more than the GDPs of
Switzerland, South Africa, and Turkey.
Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
U.S. Department of State
Dr. Diana Putnam, Acting Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau of
Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development
The FY 2023 budget
request
includes $1.6 billion for development assistance in Africa; $229 million
for African Affairs in U.S. State, an increase of $20 million, which
would support 26 new positions to “help embassies engage on global
health, strengthen economic linkages, and counter the
PRC’s malign influence in Africa”; $32.6
million for the Economic Support Fund for Africa including the
Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP), the Partnership for
Regional East Africa Counterterrorism (PREACT), the Africa Regional
Democracy Fund, and the Ambassador’s Special SelfHelp program; $33
million for the U.S. African Development Foundation; $55 million for the
African Development Bank; $171 million for the African Development Fund;
$20 million for the Young African Leader’s Initiative; $2.3 billion for
international peacekeeping activities around the world, including the
Democratic Republic of the Congo ($312.9 million), Central African
Republic ($311 million), Sudan ($74.9 million) and South Sudan ($335
million), Western Sahara ($15.8 million), and Mali ($354 million); $5.6
billion in global health programs for Africa; $848 million in migration
assistance for Africa; $50.8 million in international narcotics and law
enforcement for Africa; $19.2 million in military training for Africa;
$6 million in foreign military financing for Djibouti; among other
spending. The budget request also includes $4.7 billion for
international disaster assistance globally
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Committee on
Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene an executive
session on
Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 10 a.m. EDT to
consider bipartisan children’s online privacy legislation and
presidential nominations.
Agenda:
S. 1628, Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act
S. 3663, Kids Online Safety Act
Nomination of David P. Pekoske to be Administrator of the
Transportation Security Administration (PN2063)
Nomination of Donald R. Cravins to be Under Secretary of Commerce for
Minority Business Development (PN2062)
Nomination of Susie Feliz to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs (PN1862)
The TSA oversees oil and gas pipeline
security.
The majority of the Department of Commerce’s budget is for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
On Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 9:30 a.m. ET in 1324 Longworth Hearing
Room and via Webex, and livestreamed on the Committee’s YouTube page,
the Committee on Natural Resources will
meet
to consider the following bill:
H.R.
2021
(Chair Raúl M. Grijalva), To restore, reaffirm, and reconcile
environmental justice and civil rights, and for other purposes.
Environmental Justice For All Act.
Join
us
to find out what Biden needs to do right now – and how we can make sure
he does it – to protect communities from the climate emergency, keep
fossil fuels in the ground, and speed a just transition to renewables.
We are closer than ever before to a climate emergency declaration and
ramping up executive actions to tackle the climate crisis. This is an
all-hands-on-deck moment for our coalition and the broader People vs
Fossil Fuels movement. Register
here
for the movement call on Tuesday July 26th.
