Volume 165, No. 163 covering the 1st Session of the 116th Congress (2019 - 2020) 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 D1112-D1113 on Oct. 16, 2019.
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:
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S5805-S5854
Measures Introduced: Fifteen bills and three resolutions were introduced, as follows: S. 2602-2616, S.J. Res. 58, and S. Res. 358-
359.
Pages S5840-41
Measures Reported:
S. 2159, to repeal the Act entitled ``An Act to confer jurisdiction on the State of North Dakota over offenses committed by or against Indians on the Devils Lake Indian Reservation''. (S. Rept. No. 116-130)
Page S5840
Measures Passed:
National Character Counts Week: Senate agreed to S. Res. 358, designating the week beginning October 20, 2019, as ``National Character Counts Week''.
Page S5852
National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 356, designating September 4, 2019, as ``National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Day'', and raising awareness and understanding of polycystic kidney disease, and the resolution was then agreed to.
Pages S5852-53
National Urban Wildlife Refuge Day: Committee on the Judiciary was discharged from further consideration of S. Res. 324, designating September 29, 2019, as ``National Urban Wildlife Refuge Day'', and the resolution was then agreed to.
Page S5853
National Prescription Drug Take Back Day: Senate agreed to S. Res. 359, authorizing the use of the atrium in the Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, a semiannual event for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Page S5853
Congressional Review Act--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at approximately 10 a.m., on Thursday, October 17, 2019, the Committee on Environment and Public Works be discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 53, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to ``Repeal of the Clean Power Plan; Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Existing Electric Utility Generating Units; Revisions to Emission Guidelines Implementing Regulations''; that if a motion to proceed is made and agreed to, the time until noon be equally divided between the two Leaders or their designees, on the joint resolution; and that upon the use or yielding back of that time, the joint resolution be read a third time, and Senate vote on passage of the joint resolution.
Page S5852
National Emergency Veto Message--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the veto message on S.J. Res. 54, relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019, be considered as having been read, that it be printed in the Record, and spread in full upon the Journal.
Page S5852
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2019, Senate vote on passage of S.J. Res. 54, notwithstanding the objections of the President to the contrary.
Page S5852
Message from the President: Senate received the following message from the President of the United States:
Transmitting, pursuant to the Constitution, the report of the veto of S.J. Res. 54, a Joint Resolution that would terminate the national emergency the President of the United States declared in Proclamation 9844 of February 15, 2019, pursuant to the National Emergencies Act, regarding the ongoing crisis on the southern border; ordered to be printed in the Record, spread in full upon the Journal, and held at the desk. (PM-32)
Page S5838
Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
By 85 yeas to 7 nays (Vote No. EX. 319), Barbara McConnell Barrett, of Arizona, to be Secretary of the Air Force.
Pages S5806-12, S5815-28, S5854
By a unanimous vote of 92 yeas (Vote No. EX. 320), Frank William Volk, of West Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Pages S5828, S5854
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By a unanimous vote of 90 yeas (Vote No. 315), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Pages S5812-13
By 61 yeas to 31 nays (Vote No. EX. 321), Charles R. Eskridge III, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas.
Pages S5828-29, S5854
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 61 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 316), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S5813
By 89 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. EX. 322), David John Novak, of Virginia, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Pages S5829, S5854
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 86 yeas to 4 nays (Vote No. 317), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S5813
By 88 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. EX. 323), Rachel P. Kovner, of New York, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
Pages S5829, S5854
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 85 yeas to 3 nays (Vote No. 318), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S5814
Messages from the House:
Page S5838
Measures Referred:
Page S5838
Measures Placed on the Calendar:
Page S5838
Measures Read the First Time:
Pages S5839, S5852
Executive Communications:
Pages S5839-40
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S5841-43
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S5843-51
Additional Statements:
Pages S5836-38
Amendments Submitted:
Page S5851
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Pages S5851-52
Record Votes: Nine record votes were taken today. (Total--323)
Pages S5812-13, S5813, S5814, S5828, S5829
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 7:11 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Thursday, October 17, 2019. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S5853.)
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