Volume 153, No. 158 covering the of the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008) 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 D1379-D1380 on Oct. 18, 2007.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Transportation, focusing on issues related to funding and overseeing infrastructure projects, strengthening highway, rail, and air safety, reducing congestion, and modernizing the National Airspace System, after receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, Secretary, and Calvin L. Scovel, III, Inspector General, both of the Department of Transportation.
SCIENCE PARKS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Innovation concluded a hearing to examine science parks, focusing on bolstering United States competitiveness, including S. 1373, to provide grants and loan guarantees for the development and construction of science parks to promote the clustering of innovation through high technology activities, after receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; J. Michael Bowman, Delaware Technology Park, Inc., Newark, on behalf of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP); Phillip S. Stafford, University of Arkansas Technology Development Foundation, Fayetteville; and Randall T. Kempner, Regional Innovation, Washington, D.C, on behalf of the Council on Competitiveness.
LEAD EFFECTS ON CHILDREN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine lead and children's health, focusing on scientific evidence of lead's effects on children, recent research and incidents highlighting exposures and risks to children from lead, and mechanisms for addressing and preventing childhood lead exposures, after receiving testimony from James B. Gulliford, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Olivia Farrow, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Bruce P. Lanphear, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Thomas G. Neltner, Sierra Club, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of sundry organizations; Mike Nagel, National Association of Home Builders, Roselle, Illinois; and David E. Jacobs, National Center for Healthy Housing, Columbia, Maryland.
TRADE: HEALTH AND SAFETY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine international trade, focusing on import health and safety for today and the future, after receiving testimony from Daniel Baldwin, Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Cal Dooley, Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association, Washington, D.C.; Sandy Kennedy, Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), Arlington, Virginia; and Jean Halloran, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York.
HATCH ACT
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine politics in government, focusing on the scope and enforcement of the Hatch Act, after receiving testimony from James M. Byrne, Deputy Special Counsel, and Ana Galindo-Marrone, Chief, Hatch Act Unit, both of the Office of Special Counsel; B. Chad Bungard, General Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, John Gage, American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, and Thomas Devine, Government Accountability Project, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Ellen C. Williams, of Kentucky, to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator McConnell, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey, of New York, to be Attorney General, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf, and receiving testimony from Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick and Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP, and Chuck Canterbury, Fraternal Order of Police, both of Washington, D.C.; Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, JAGC, USN (Ret.), Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, New Hampshire; Dawn E. Johnsen, Indiana University Bloomington School of Law, Bloomington, Illinois; and Theodore M. Shaw, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and Mary Jo White, Debevoise and Plimpton, LLP, both of New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and ordered favorably reported an original bill entitled, ``Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2007''.
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