Volume 163, No. 204 covering the 1st 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” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1328-D1329 on Dec. 14, 2017.
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:
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S8017-S8050
Measures Introduced: Thirteen bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 2229-2241, and S. Res. 361.
Page S8046
Measures Reported:
S. 584, to amend chapter 6 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Regulatory Flexibility Act), to ensure complete analysis of potential impacts on small entities of rules, with amendments. (S. Rept. No. 115-194)
S. 1769, to require a new or updated Federal website that is intended for use by the public to be mobile friendly, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 115-195)
S. 1869, to reauthorize and rename the position of Whistleblower Ombudsman to be the Whistleblower Protection Coordinator, with an amendment. (S. Rept. No. 115-196)
Page S8045
Measures Passed:
PACT Act: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. 654, to revise section 48 of title 18, United States Code, and the bill was then passed.
Page S8049
Newstead Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Democratic Leader, Senate begin consideration of the nomination of Jennifer Gillian Newstead, of New York, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State; that there be 10 minutes of debate on the nomination, equally divided in the usual form, and that following the use or yielding back of time, Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination with no intervening action or debate.
Page S8041
Compton and West Nominations--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at approximately 3 p.m., on Monday, December 18, 2017, Senate begin consideration of the nomination of J. Paul Compton, Jr., of Alabama, to be General Counsel of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the nomination of Owen West, of Connecticut, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense, under the order of Wednesday, December 13, 2017, en bloc, with the debate time on the nominations to run concurrently; and that at 5:30 p.m., Senate vote on confirmation of the nominations in the order listed, with no intervening action or debate.
Pages S8049-50
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
By 53 yeas to 43 nays (Vote No. EX. 317), James C. Ho, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit.
Pages S8017-33, S8050
Matthew Z. Leopold, of Florida, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
David Ross, of Wisconsin, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Pages S8041, S8050
Scott W. Brady, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania for the term of four years.
Andrew E. Lelling, of Massachusetts, to be United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts for the term of four years.
Pages S8041-42, S8050
14 Coast Guard nominations in the rank of admiral.
Routine lists in the Coast Guard.
Pages S8042, S8050
Messages from the House:
Page S8045
Measures Referred:
Page S8045
Executive Reports of Committees:
Pages S8045-46
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S8046-47
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S8047-48
Additional Statements:
Pages S8044-45
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Page S8049
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S8049
Record Votes: One record vote was taken today. (Total--317)
Page S8033 Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 5:19 p.m., until 3 p.m. on Monday, December 18, 2017. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on pages S8049-
50.)
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