Friday Policy Wine Down - May 20, 2022
A snapshot of the past week in cyber, trade, and environmental policy news.
05/20/2022 | Silverado Policy Accelerator
SILVERADO NEWS
ECO²SEC: Silverado’s Deputy Executive Director Adina Renee Adler's op-ed was published in The Hill: “Recycling critical minerals is an underappreciated national security tool.”
GEOPOLITICS: Silverado’s Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Dmitri Alperovitch hosted a podcast discussion on “How effective is the Russian military: Analysis of the war in Ukraine.”
Here’s what caught our eye this week:
KEY ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS
White House:
- FACT SHEET: In First Stop on Asia Travel, President Biden Tours Model for Samsung’s New Texas Semiconductor Facility
- Statement of President Joe Biden on Senate Passage of Ukraine Supplemental
- Statement by President Biden on the Applications to NATO by Finland and Sweden
- FACT SHEET: U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council Establishes Economic and Technology Policies & Initiatives
Department of Commerce:
- Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to Join Economic Cooperation Talks in Asia, Represent Biden Administration at World Economic Forum in Switzerland
- U.S.-EU Joint Statement of the Trade and Technology Council
- Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement Axelrod Delivers Remarks to the Society for International Affairs 2022 Spring Virtual Advanced Conference on Export Controls & International Politics
Office of the United States Trade Representative:
Department of Defense:
Department of Justice:
Department of Energy:
Department of State:
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
Senate Finance Committee:
- Upcoming Hearing: Supply Chain Resiliency: Alleviating Backlogs and Strengthening Long-Term Security
Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee:
House Homeland Security Committee:
House Foreign Affairs Committee:
- Upcoming Hearing: U.S. Efforts to Support European Energy Security
- Hearing: The Ukraine Crisis: Implications for U.S. Policy in the Indo-Pacific
- Hearing: The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in the Middle East and North Africa
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations:
- Menendez, Risch Lead 50 Colleagues in Letter to POTUS Championing Taiwan’s Inclusion in Proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
- Upcoming Hearing: The JCPOA Negotiations and United States’ Policy on Iran Moving Forward
- Upcoming Hearing: Ninth Summit of Americas
House Committee on Science, Space, & Technology:
House Armed Services Committee:
- Upcoming Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
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