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Feb. 2, 2011: Congressional Record publishes “Senate Committee Meetings”

Volume 157, No. 15 covering the 1st Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) 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 D68-D69 on Feb. 2, 2011.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

TAX REFORM

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine tax reform, focusing on fiscal responsibility, after receiving testimony from C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, and Donald B. Marron, Urban-

Brookings Tax Policy Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Rosanne Altshuler, Rutgers University, New York, New York; and Lawrence B. Lindsey, Lindsey Group, Fairfax, Virginia.

OVERSIGHT: PUBLIC HEALTH AND DRINKING WATER

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine public health and drinking water issues, after receiving testimony from Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Linda S. Birnbaum, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, and Director, National Toxicology Program, Department of Health and Human Services; Kenneth A. Cook, Environmental Working Group, and Diane VanDe Hei, Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, both of Washington, D.C.; Charles Murray, Fairfax Water, Fairfax, Virginia, on behalf of the American Water Works Association; and Thomas A. Burke, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, after receiving testimony from John Kroger, Oregon Attorney General, Salem; Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center, and Michael A. Carvin, Jones Day, both of Washington, D.C.; Walter Dellinger, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina; and Charles Fried, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Caitlin Joan Halligan, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Kathleen M. Williams, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, who was introduced by Senators Nelson (FL) and Rubio, and Mae A. D'Agostino, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and Timothy J. Feighery, of New York, to be Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 157, No. 15