Volume 156, No. 24 covering the 2nd Session of the 111th Congress (2009 - 2010) 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 D138-D139 on Feb. 24, 2010.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011for the Department of State and foreign operations, after receiving testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
COUNTERINSURGENCY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine contracting in a counterinsurgency, focusing on an examination of Blackwater-Paravant contract and the need for oversight, after receiving testimony from Steven M. Ograyensek, Contracting Officer, and James T. Blake, Program Executive Officer and Head of Contracting Activity, both of the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation, U.S. Army, and Colonel Bradley V. Wakefield, USA, (Ret.), former Chief of Training and Education, Combined Security Transition Command--Afghanistan, all of the Department of Defense; John R. Walker, former Program Manager, Paravant, Gilbert, Arizona; Brian C. McCracken, Raytheon Technical Services Company, Washington, D.C.; and Fred Roitz, Xe Services LLC, Moyack, North Carolina.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Transportation, after receiving testimony from Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science and Space concluded a hearing to examine the challenges and opportunities in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fiscal year 2011 budget proposal, after receiving testimony from Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Miles O'Brien,
``This Week in Space'', New York, New York; Robert Gibson, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; Michael J. Snyder, Friendswood, Texas; and A. Thomas Young, Onancock, Virginia.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Tom Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
LAKE TAHOE BASIN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee with the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife concluded a joint hearing to examine S. 2724, to provide for environmental restoration activities and forest management activities in the Lake Tahoe Basin, after receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein, Cantwell, Reid and Ensign; Peter Silva, Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Harris Sherman, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Patrick Wright, California Tahoe Conservancy, South Lake Tahoe; David D. Dicks, Puget Sound Partnership, Olympia, Washington; Alexander B. Grannis, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner, and John R. Tauzel, New York Farm Bureau, both of Albany; Debrah Marriott, Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership, Portland, Oregon; and David Naftzger, Council of Great Lakes Governors, and David A. Ullrich, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, both of Chicago, Illinois.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Res. 414, expressing the Sense of the Senate on the recovery, rehabilitation, and rebuilding of Haiti following the humanitarian crisis caused by the January 12, 2010, earthquake in Haiti;
S. 2961, to provide debt relief to Haiti;
S. Res. 400, urging the implementation of a comprehensive strategy to address instability in Yemen, with amendments;
S. Res. 404, supporting full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and other efforts to promote peace and stability in Sudan; and
The nominations of Leocadia Irine Zak, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Trade and Development Agency, Walter Crawford Jones, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the African Development Bank, Douglas A. Rediker, of Massachusetts, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, Ian Hoddy Solomon, of Maryland, to be United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Donald E. Booth, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Beatrice Wilkinson Welters, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Scott H. DeLisi, of Minnesota, to be Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Harry K. Thomas, Jr., of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, David Adelman, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Rosemary Anne DiCarlo, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, and to be the Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations, Brooke D. Anderson, of California, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations during her tenure of service as Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, and to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, Allan J. Katz, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Portuguese Republic, Ian C. Kelly, of Maryland, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador, and Judith Ann Stewart Stock, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, all of the Department of State, and a promotion list in the Foreign Service.
FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine foreign policy priorities in the fiscal year 2011 International Affairs budget, after receiving testimony from Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BUDGET
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2011 for the Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security.
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a stronger workforce investment system for a stronger economy, after receiving testimony from Anthony P. Carnevale, Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, Washington, D.C.; Cheryl Feldman, Training and Upgrading Fund, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Paul Stalknecht, Air Conditioning Contractors of America, Arlington, Virginia; Joseph M. Carbone, The WorkPlace, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Robert G. Templin, Jr., Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, Virginia.
CHILD PROSTITUTION AND SEX TRAFFICKING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law concluded a hearing to examine child prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States, including S. 2925, to establish a grant program to benefit victims of sex trafficking, after receiving testimony from Senator Wyden; Luis CdeBaca, Ambassador-at-Large, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking In Persons, Department of State; Beth Phillips, United States Attorney, Western District of Missouri, Kansas City; Anita Alvarez, Cook County State Attorney, Chicago, Illinois; and Rachel Lloyd, Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Brian Anthony Jackson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana, and Elizabeth Erny Foote, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, who were both introduced by Senator Landrieu, Marc T. Treadwell, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Georgia, who was introduced by Senator Chambliss, Josephine Staton Tucker, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, and Mark A. Goldsmith, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, who was introduced by Senators Levin and Stabenow, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
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