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:

• Ambassador Katherine Tai to Travel to Japan to Join President Biden to Launch the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

Department of Defense:

• $100 Million in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine

Department of Justice:

• Quintet of Attorneys General Statement of Support for the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and Investigations and Prosecutions for Russian War Crimes

Department of Energy:

• Biden Administration Launches $3.5 Billion Program To Capture Carbon Pollution from the Air

Department of State:

• Raising the Flag at U.S. Embassy Kyiv to Resume Operations

CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

Senate Finance Committee:

• Upcoming Hearing: Supply Chain Resiliency: Alleviating Backlogs and Strengthening Long-Term Security

Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee:

• Portman, Peters, Stabenow, Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Strengthen U.S. Supply Chains & Economic Security

House Homeland Security Committee:

• Hearing: Securing the DotGov: Examining Efforts to Strengthen Federal Network Cybersecurity

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:

• Hearing: Building a Workforce to Navigate the Electric Vehicle Future

House Armed Services Committee:

• Upcoming Markup: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023