Volume 164, No. 57 covering the 2nd Session of the 115th Congress (2017 - 2018) 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 D361 on April 10, 2018.
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:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States Transportation Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2019 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from General Darren W. McDew, USAF, Commander, United States Transportation Command, Department of Defense.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a joint hearing with the Committee on the Judiciary to examine Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the use and abuse of data, after receiving testimony from Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Menlo Park, California.
FEDERALISM UNDER THE CLEAN AIR ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine cooperative federalism under the Clean Air Act, focusing on state perspectives, after receiving testimony from Nancy E. Vehr, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Cheyenne; Sean Alteri, Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection, Frankfort; Toby Baker, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Austin; Matthew Rodriquez, California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento; and Shawn M. Garvin, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover.
REGIONAL STRATEGY FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues concluded a hearing to examine the Summit of the Americas, focusing on a regional strategy for democratic governance against corruption in the hemisphere, after receiving testimony from Eric Farnsworth, Council of the Americas and Americas Society, and Eric L. Olson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Latin American Program, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Sharon Fast Gustafson, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
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