Volume 158, No. 109 covering the 2nd 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 D746 on July 19, 2012.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF for reappointment to the grade of general and to be Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Lieutenant General John F. Kelly, USMC to be general and Commander, United States Southern Command, and Lieutenant General Frank J. Grass, ARNG to be general and Chief, National Guard Bureau, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COLLEGE AFFORDABILITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine making college affordability a priority, focusing on promising practices and strategies, after receiving testimony from Donald E. Heller, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Steven Leath, Iowa State University, Ames; Jim Murdaugh, Tallahassee Community College, Tallahassee, Florida; Thomas J. Snyder, Ivy Tech Community College, Bloomington, Indiana, on behalf of Rebuilding America's Middle Class; and Carol A. Twigg, The National Center for Academic Transformation, Saratoga Springs, New York.
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the impacts of environmental changes on treaty rights, traditional lifestyles, and tribal homelands, after receiving testimony from JoAnn Chase, Director, American Indian Environmental Office, Environmental Protection Agency; Margaret A. Davidson, Acting Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Mike Williams, Yupiit Nation, Akiak, Alaska; Tex G. Hall, Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; Thomas Dardar, Jr., United Houma Nation, Golden Meadow, Louisiana; Billy Frank, Jr., Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Olympia, Washington; and Malia Akutagawa, University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law and the Hawai'inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, Honolulu.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 285, for the relief of Sopuruchi Chukwueke, with an amendment;
S. 3276, to extend certain amendments made by the FISA Amendments Act of 2008, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Frank Paul Geraci, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Western District of New York, Fernando M. Olguin, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, Malachy Edward Mannion, and Matthew W. Brann, both to be a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and Charles R. Breyer, of California, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
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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