Volume 144, No. 41 covering the 2nd Session of the 105th Congress (1997 - 1998) 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 D362-D363 on April 2, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ANIMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1323, to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations for the protection of the environment and public health, after receiving testimony from Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Craig Cox, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening, Annapolis; Mayor M. Susan Savage, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Patrick A. Takasugi, Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Boise; C. Dewey Botts, North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, Raleigh; Michelle B. Nowlin, Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Jim Moseley, Infinity Pork and AgRidge Farms, Clarks Hill, Indiana, on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council; Harry Knobee, West Point, Nebraska, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; and Tim Maupin, Rocco, Inc., Harrisonburg, Virginia, on behalf of the National Turkey Federation and the National Broiler Council.
CREDIT UNION MEMBERSHIP
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine implications of the recent Supreme Court decision concerning credit union membership, after receiving testimony from Representatives LaTourette and Kanjorski; Michael S. Vadala, Summit Federal Credit Union, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the National Association of Federal Credit Unions; Peggy Lents, Azalea City Credit Union, Mobile, Alabama, on behalf of the Credit Union National Association; K. Reid Pollard, Randolph Bank and Trust Company, Asheboro, North Carolina, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; Neil Mahoney, Woronoco Savings Bank, Westfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of the America's Community Bankers; and Scott Jones, Goodhue County National Bank, Red Wing, Minnesota, on behalf of the American Bankers Association.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met to discuss the political status in Puerto Rico, focusing on S. 472, to provide for referenda in which the residents of Puerto Rico may express democratically their preferences regarding the political status of the territory, and H.R. 856, to provide a process leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico, after receiving testimony from Governor Pedro Rossello, former Governor Luis A. Ferre, on behalf of the New Progressive Party, Ruben Berrios Martinez, Independence Party, and Anibal Acevedo Vila, Popular Democratic Party, all of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
The nominations of Ivan L.R. Lemelle, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, A. Howard Matz, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California, George Caram Steeh, III and Arthur J. Tarnow, each to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Richard H. Deane, Jr., to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Stephen C. Robinson, to be United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel C. Byrne, to be the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York;
S. 1723, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to assist the United States to remain competitive by increasing the access of the United States firms and institutions of higher education to skilled personnel and by expanding educational and training opportunities for American students and workers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. Res. 201, to commemorate and acknowledge the dedication and sacrifice made by the men and women who have lost their lives while serving as law enforcement officers.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts approved for full committee consideration the following bills:
S. 1301, to amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for consumer bankruptcy protection, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 1352, to amend Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to restore the stenographic preference for depositions, with an amendment.
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON PROPELLANTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Federal role in the implementation of Title VI of the Clean Air Act as it relates to the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in metered-dose inhalers (MCI), and an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to phase out essential-use exemptions for CFC-based MDIs, after receiving testimony from John Jenkins, Director, Pulmonary Drug Products Division, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Paul Stolopman, Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Environmental Protection Agency; Sharon Hipkins, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Washington, D.C.; Nancy Sander, Allergy and Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; Henry L. Dorkin, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; Brian Dunkiel, Friends of the Earth, Burlington, Vermont; and Dennis M. Williams, University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, on behalf of the American Pharmaceutical Association.
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