Volume 164, No. 164 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 Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1103-D1104 on Oct. 3, 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:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine implementation of positive train control, including passenger railroad extension requests and substantial work remaining beyond 2018, after receiving testimony from Ronald L. Batory, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation; Susan Fleming, Director, Physical Infrastructure, Government Accountability Office; Kevin Corbett, NJ TRANSIT, Newark, New Jersey; and Scot Naparstek, Amtrak, Washington, D.C.
OLYMPIC ABUSE PREVENTION EFFORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security concluded a hearing to examine protecting United States amateur athletes, focusing on examining abuse prevention efforts across the Olympic movement, after receiving testimony from Phil Andrews, USA Weightlifting, Anne Cammett, U.S. Figure Skating, Timothy Hinchey III, USA Swimming, Darrin Steele, USA Bobsled and Skeleton, and Stephen McNally, USA Taekwondo, all of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
REGULATORY OVERSIGHT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of sound and transparent science in regulation, after receiving testimony from former Representative Rush D. Holt; Edward J. Calabrese, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health Sciences, Amherst; and Robert Hahn, Oxford University Smith School, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Steven Dillingham, of Virginia, to be Director of the Census, and Michael Kubayanda, of Ohio, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Regulatory Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RARE DISEASES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine rare diseases, focusing on expediting treatments for patients, after receiving testimony from Mark Dant, EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases, Louisville, Kentucky; Marc C. Patterson, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota; Michael Strupp, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; Lincoln Tsang, Arnold and Porter, London, United Kingdom; and Mallory Factor, IntraBio, Inc., Oxford, United Kingdom.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 664, to approve the settlement of the water rights claims of the Navajo in Utah, to authorize construction of projects in connection therewith, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
H.R. 5317, to repeal section 2141 of the Revised Statutes to remove the prohibition on certain alcohol manufacturing on Indian lands.
BROADBAND INTERNET AVAILABILITY ON TRIBAL LANDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine Government Accountability Office reports relating to broadband internet availability on tribal lands, after receiving testimony from Mark Goldstein, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability Office; Patrick Webre, Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Godfrey Enjady, Mescalero Apache Telecommunications, Inc., Mescalero, New Mexico, on behalf of the National Tribal Telecommunications Association; and Geoffrey C. Blackwell, AMERIND Risk Management Corporation, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
ANTITRUST LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights concluded an oversight hearing to examine the enforcement of the antitrust laws, after receiving testimony from Makan Delrahim, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; and Joe Simons, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.
EXPANDING SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a hearing to examine expanding opportunities for small businesses through the tax code, including S. 293, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for the deferral of inclusion in gross income for capital gains reinvested in opportunity zones, and S. 3278, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide additional protections to taxpayers, after receiving testimony from Christel Slaughter, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and John W. Lettieri, Economic Innovation Group, John Arensmeyer, Small Business Majority, and Caroline Bruckner, American University Kogod School of Business Tax Policy Center, all of Washington, D.C.
PATIENT-FOCUSED CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine patient-focused care, focusing on a prescription to reduce health care costs, after receiving testimony from Sean Cavanaugh, Aledade, Bethesda, Maryland; David Howes, Martin's Point Health Care, Portland, Maine; Jeff Micklos, Health Care Transformation Task Force, Washington, D.C.; and Sally Jo Snyder, Consumer Health Coalition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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