Volume 164, No. 6 covering the 2nd 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” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D25-D26 on Jan. 10, 2018.
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, January 10, 2018
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S113-S142
Measures Introduced: Eight bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 2285-2292, and S. Res. 371.
Page S138
Measures Reported:
S. 1693, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to clarify that section 230 of that Act does not prohibit the enforcement against providers and users of interactive computer services of Federal and State criminal and civil law relating to sex trafficking, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 115-199)
Page S138
Measures Passed:
Universal Service Fund Filing Requirements: Senate passed S. 875, to require the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct a study and submit a report on filing requirements under the Universal Service Fund programs, after agreeing to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Pages S141-42
Brown Nomination--Agreement: Senate resumed consideration of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, of Georgia, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia.
Pages S124-42
During consideration of this nomination today, Senate also took the following action:
By 97 yeas to 1 nay (Vote No. 6), Senate agreed to the motion to close further debate on the nomination.
Page S124
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 12 noon, on Thursday, January 11, 2018, all post-cloture time on the nomination be considered expired, and Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination of Michael Lawrence Brown, with no intervening action or debate; and that if cloture is invoked on the nomination of Walter David Counts III, of Texas, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, all post-cloture time be considered expired at 1:45 p.m., and Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination of Walter David Counts III, with no intervening action or debate.
Page S127
A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing for further consideration of the nomination, post-cloture, at approximately 10 a.m., on Thursday, January 11, 2018.
Page S142
Nomination Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nomination:
By a unanimous vote of 98 yeas (Vote No. EX. 5), Thomas Lee Robinson Parker, of Tennessee, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee.
Pages S124, S142
Nominations Received: Senate received the following nominations:
Paul C. Ney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
Holly W. Greaves, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection Agency.
Page S142
Messages from the House:
Page S138
Measures Referred:
Page S138
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S138-39
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S139-41
Additional Statements:
Page S137
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
Page S141
Privileges of the Floor:
Page S141
Record Votes: Two record votes were taken today. (Total--6)
Page S124
Adjournment: Senate convened at 9:30 a.m. and adjourned at 6:42 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 11, 2018. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Majority Leader in today's Record on page S142.)
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