Volume 152, No. 104 covering the 2nd Session of the 109th Congress (2005 - 2006) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D878-D879 on Aug. 1, 2006.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
JIEDDO
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing from the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) from General Montgomery C. Meigs, USA (Ret.), Director, JIEDDO.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Lieutenant General James T. Conway, USMC to be general and Commandant of the Marine Corps, Benedict S. Cohen, of the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Army, Frank R. Jimenez, of Florida, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, William H. Tobey, of Connecticut, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, Robert L. Wilkie, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, C. Thomas Yarington, Jr., of Washington, and Colleen Conway-Welch, of Tennessee, each to be a Member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and 474 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BOEING COMPANY GLOBAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Boeing Company Global Settlement Agreement, after receiving testimony from Paul J. McNulty, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; and W. James McNerney, Jr., Boeing Company, Chicago, Illinois.
RAPANOS/CARABELL DECISION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water concluded a hearing to examine interpreting the effect of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in the joint cases of Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on ``The Waters of the United States'', after receiving testimony from Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; John Paul Woodley, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Department of the Army; John C. Cruden, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; Jonathan H. Adler, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio; William W. Buzbee, Emory University Law School, Atlanta, Georgia; Chuck Clayton, Izaak Walton League of America, Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Keith Kisling, Burlington, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 3722, to authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign recipients,
Treaty Between the United States and the Oriental Republic Of Uruguay Concerning the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investment, with Annexes and Protocol, signed at Mar Del Plata, Argentina, on November 4, 2005 (Treaty Doc. 109-9);
United Nations Convention Against Corruption (the ``Corruption Convention''), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on October 31, 2003 (Treaty Doc. 109-6); and
The nominations of Christina B. Rocca, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament, Philip S. Goldberg, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, Richard W. Graber, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, and Karen B. Stewart, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, Mark R. Dybul, of Florida, to be Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, with the rank of Ambassador, Henry M. Paulson, Jr., of New York, to be United States Governor of the International Monetary Fund, United States Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, United States Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, United States Governor of the African Development Bank, United States Governor of the Asian Development Bank, United States Governor of the African Development Fund, United States Governor of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and certain officer promotion lists in the Foreign Service.
TAX HAVEN ABUSES
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded a hearing to examine the issue of tax havens and offshore abuses which are undermining the integrity of the Federal tax system, focusing on case histories on the use of offshore trusts and corporations to circumvent U.S. tax, securities and anti-money laundering laws, after receiving testimony from Mark Everson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor; Gary M. Brown, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, and Berkowitz, P.C., Nashville, Tennessee; Haim Saban, Saban Capital Group, Inc., Los Angeles, California; Michael C. French, formerly with Scottish Re Group, Limited, Louis J. Schaufele, III, and Charles W. Blau, Meadows, Owens, Collier, Reed, Cousins, and Blau, LLP, all of Dallas, Texas; Jeffrey Greenstein, Quellos Group, LLC, Seattle, Washington; Michael G. Conn, Bank of America, San Francisco, California; George T. Wendler, HSBC Bank USA, Marlboro, New Jersey; Michael G. Chatzky, Chatzky and Associates, San Diego, California; John P. Barrie, Bryan Cave, LLP, Washington, D.C.; Lewis R. Steinberg, formerly with Cravath, Swaine, and Moore, LLP, New York, New York; and Robert Wood Johnson, IV, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Andrew von Eschenbach, of Texas, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senator Hutchison, and Paul DeCamp, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Peter D. Keisler, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Valerie L. Baker and Philip S. Gutierrez, each to be a United States District Judge for the Central District of California, who were introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer, and Francisco Augusto Besosa, to be United States District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
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