Sept. 30, 2013: Congressional Record publishes “Senate Committee Meetings”

Volume 159, No. 132 covering the 1st Session of the 113th Congress (2013 - 2014) 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 D927 on Sept. 30, 2013.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet)

EPA INSPECTOR GENERAL INVESTIGATION

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee received a briefing to examine the Office of the Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency's investigation of career employee John Beale from Arthur Elkins, Inspector General, and Patrick Sullivan, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, both of the Environmental Protection Agency.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:

S. 1545, to extend authorities related to global HIV/AIDS and to promote oversight of United States programs, with amendments;

S. Res. 213, expressing support for the free and peaceful exercise of representative democracy in Venezuela and condemning violence and intimidation against the country's political opposition, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S. Res. 227, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the heroic rescue of Danish Jews during the Second World War by the Danish people; and

The nomination of Caroline Kennedy, of New York, to be Ambassador to Japan, Department of State.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Stevan Eaton Bunnell, of the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel, and Suzanne Eleanor Spaulding, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs, both of the Department of Homeland Security, and Carol Waller Pope, of the District of Columbia, Ernest W. DuBester, of Virginia, and Patrick Pizzella, of Virginia, all to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority.

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 159, No. 132