Volume 165, No. 115 covering the 1st Session of the 116th Congress (2019 - 2020) 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” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D799-D800 on July 10, 2019.
More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S4743-4777
Measures Introduced: Nineteen bills were introduced, as follows: S. 2067-2085.
Page S4773
Measures Reported:
S. 1102, to promote security and energy partnerships in the Eastern Mediterranean, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Page S4770
Measures Passed:
America's Water Infrastructure Act Technical Corrections: Committee on Environment and Public Works was discharged from further consideration of S. 1811, to make technical corrections to the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, and the bill was then passed.
Page S4776
Executive Reports of Committees: Senate received the following executive reports of a committee:
Report to accompany The Protocol Amending the Tax Convention with Spain (Treaty Doc. 113-4) (Ex. Rept. 116-1);
Report to accompany Protocol Amending Tax Convention with Swiss Confederation (Treaty Doc. 112-1) (Ex. Rept. 116-2);
Report to accompany Protocol Amending the Tax Convention with Japan
(Treaty Doc. 114-1) (Ex. Rept. 116-3); and
Report to accompany Protocol Amending Tax Convention with Luxembourg
(Treaty Doc. 111-8) (Ex. Rept. 116-4).
Pages S4771-73
King Nomination--Cloture: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination of Robert L. King, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.
Pages S4749-59, S4759
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 56 yeas to 39 nays (Vote No. EX. 198), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Pages S4760-61
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 9:30 a.m., on Thursday, July 11, 2019.
Pages S4776-77
Pallasch Nomination--Cloture: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination of John P. Pallasch, of Kentucky, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Pages S4761-64
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 54 yeas to 41 nays (Vote No. EX. 199), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S4761
Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 11 a.m., on Thursday, July 11, 2019, Senate vote on confirmation of the nominations of Robert L. King, of Kentucky, to be Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, and John P. Pallasch, of Kentucky, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, in the order listed; that if cloture is invoked on the nomination of Peter C. Wright, of Michigan, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency, the post-cloture time expire at 1:45 p.m.; and that the Ranking Member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works control the time from 1 p.m., until 1:40 p.m.
Page S4764
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
By 78 yeas to 15 nays (Vote No. EX. 195), T. Kent Wetherell II, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Florida.
Pages S4745-48
By 80 yeas to 14 nays (Vote No. EX. 196), J. Nicholas Ranjan, of Pennsylvania, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Pages S4748-49
By 85 yeas to 10 nays (Vote No. EX. 197), Damon Ray Leichty, of Indiana, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Indiana.
Page S4749
Messages from the House:
Page S4768
Measures Referred:
Page S4768
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
Pages S4744-45, S4768
Executive Communications:
Pages S4768-70 Executive Reports of Committees:
Page S4770
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S4773-75
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S4775-76
Additional Statements:
Pages S4766-68
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Page S4776
Record Votes: Five record votes were taken today. (Total--199)
Pages S4748-49, S4761
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:16 p.m., until 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2019. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S4776-77.)
Alerts Sign-up