Volume 163, No. 82 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 Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D517-D518 on May 11, 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:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded a hearing to examine pesticide registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, focusing on providing stakeholders with certainty through the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act, after receiving testimony from Richard P. Keigwin, Jr., Acting Director, Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency; Sheryl Kunickis, Director, Office of Pest Management Policy, Department of Agriculture; Gary W. Black, Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture; Dale Murden, Texas Citrus Mutual, Mission; and Jay Vroom, CropLife America, and Virginia Ruiz, Farmworker Justice, both of Washington, D.C.
VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMUNITY CARE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine reducing burden and increasing access to healthcare, focusing on improving Department of Veterans Affairs community care, after receiving testimony from David J. Shulkin, Secretary, and Baligh R. Yehia, Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care, Veterans Health Administration, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
CYBER POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine cyber policy, strategy, and organization, after receiving testimony from James R. Clapper, Jr., Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, former Director of National Intelligence; Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.), Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, former Commander, United States European Command; and General Michael V. Hayden, USAF (Ret.), The Chertoff Group, former Director, Central Intelligence Agency.
HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM STATUS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the status of the housing finance system after nine years of conservatorship, including S. 838, to amend the Truth in Lending Act to include retrofit loans such as property assessed clean energy loans, after receiving testimony from Melvin L. Watt, Director, Federal Housing Finance Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 934, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs, medical devices, generic drugs, and biosimilar biological products, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 1028, to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a National Family Caregiving Strategy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 139, to implement the use of Rapid DNA instruments to inform decisions about pretrial release or detention and their conditions, to solve and prevent violent crimes and other crimes, to exonerate the innocent, to prevent DNA analysis backlogs;
S. 534, to prevent the sexual abuse of minors and amateur athletes by requiring the prompt reporting of sexual abuse to law enforcement authorities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 583, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize COPS grantees to use grant funds to hire veterans as career law enforcement officers.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Althea Coetzee, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Risch, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
WORLDWIDE THREATS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to examine worldwide threats, after receiving testimony from former Senator Daniel R. Coats, Director of National Intelligence; Michael Pompeo, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Andrew McCabe, Acting Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Admiral Michael Rogers, USN, Director, National Security Agency; Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, USMC, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Robert Cardillo, Director, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, all of the Department of Defense.
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