Volume 164, No. 22 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 Extensions of Remarks section on pages E137-E138 on Feb. 5, 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:
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, February 6, 2018 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
FEBRUARY 7
9:30 a.m.
Committee on Environment and Public Works
Business meeting to consider the nomination of Andrew
Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
SD-406
Special Committee on Aging
To hold hearings to examine cost and competition among rheumatoid arthritis therapies.
SD-56210 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
To hold hearings to examine S. 414 and H.R. 1107, bills to promote conservation, improve public land management, and provide for sensible development in
Pershing County, Nevada, S. 441, to designate the Organ
Mountains and other public land as components of the
National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of
New Mexico, S. 507, to sustain economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land in the
State of Montana, to add certain land to the National
Wilderness Preservation System, to designate new areas for recreation, S. 612 and H.R. 1547, bills to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary interest to the City, S. 1046, to facilitate certain pinyon-juniper related projects in
Lincoln County, Nevada, to modify the boundaries of certain wilderness areas in the State of Nevada, and to fully implement the White Pine County Conservation,
Recreation, and Development Act, S. 1219 and H.R. 3392, bills to provide for stability of title to certain land in the State of Louisiana, S. 1222, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to La
Paz County, Arizona, S. 1481, to make technical corrections to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act,
S. 1665 and H.R. 2582, bills to authorize the State of
Utah to select certain lands that are available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management
Plan to be used for the support and benefit of State institutions, S. 2062, to require the Secretary of
Agriculture to convey at market value certain National
Forest System land in the State of Arizona, S. 2206, to release certain wilderness study areas in the State of
Montana, S. 2218, to provide for the conveyance of a
Forest Service site in Dolores County, Colorado, to be used for a fire station, S. 2249, to permanently reauthorize the Rio Puerco Management Committee and the
Rio Puerco Watershed Management Program, H.R. 995, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to modernize terms in certain regulations, and H.R. 1404, to provide for the conveyance of certain land inholdings owned by the
United States to the Tucson Unified School District and to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona.
SD-366
Committee on Environment and Public Works
To hold hearings to examine the impact of Federal environmental regulations and policies on American farming and ranching communities.
SD-406
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
To hold hearings to examine reauthorizing the Department of Homeland Security, focusing on positioning DHS to address new and emerging threats to the Homeland.
SD-3422:30 p.m.
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
To hold hearings to examine defending the homeland, focusing on Department of Defense's role in countering weapons of mass destruction.
SR-232A
Committee on Veterans' Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 242, to amend title 38,
United States Code, to permit veterans to grant access to their records in the databases of the Veterans
Benefits Administration to certain designated congressional employees, S. 624, to allow servicemembers to terminate their cable, satellite television, and Internet access service contracts while deployed, S. 1072, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to improve the provision of services for homeless veterans, S. 2038, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to provide for a presumption of herbicide exposure for certain veterans who served in Korea, S.
2097, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the administration of State homes furnishing care to veterans under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, S. 2105, to modify the presumption of service connection for veterans who were exposed to herbicide agents while serving in the Armed Forces in
Thailand during the Vietnam era, S. 2107, to amend title 38, United States Code, to require the Under
Secretary of Health to report major adverse personnel actions involving certain health care employees to the
National Practitioner Data Bank and to applicable State licensing boards, S. 2131, to amend title 38, United
States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs to furnish medically necessary transportation for newborn children of certain women veterans, S.
2247, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a consistent eligibility date for provision of Department of Veterans Affairs memorial headstones and markers for eligible spouses and dependent children of veterans whose remains are unavailable, S. 2248, to amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to provide certain burial benefits for spouses and children of veterans who are buried in tribal cemeteries, S. 2294, to amend title
38, United States Code, to ensure that individuals may access documentation verifying the monthly housing stipend paid to the individual under the Post-9/11
Educational Assistance Program of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, S. 2304, to amend title 38, United
States Code, to protect veterans from predatory lending, S. 2341, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to improve the processing of veterans benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, to limit the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recover overpayments made by the Department and other amounts owed by veterans to the United States, to improve the due process accorded veterans with respect to such recovery, S. 2357, to require the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to review the processes and requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs for scheduling appointments for health care and conducting consultations under the laws administered by the
Secretary, an original bill to require the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to furnish organ transplant care to veterans at non-Department of Veterans Affairs facilities, an original bill to provide additional protections for our veterans, an original bill to provide outer burial receptacles for remains buried in
National Parks, and an original bill entitled
``Department of Veterans Affairs Senior Executive
Accountability Act of 2017''.
SR-4183:30 p.m.
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Airland
To hold hearings to examine Army modernization.
SR-2224:15 p.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine S. 2286, to amend the Peace
Corps Act to provide greater protection and services for Peace Corps volunteers, S. 2060, to promote democracy and human rights in Burma, S. Res. 92, expressing concern over the disappearance of David
Sneddon, H.R. 1625, to amend the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956 to include severe forms of trafficking in persons within the definition of transnational organized crime for purposes of the rewards program of the Department of State, H.R. 535, to encourage visits between the United States and
Taiwan at all levels, and the nominations of Peter
Hendrick Vrooman, of New York, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Rwanda, and Eric M. Ueland, of Oregon, to be an Under Secretary (Management), both of the
Department of State.
S-1165 p.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
To receive a closed briefing on Turkey.
SVC-217
FEBRUARY 810 a.m.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the evolution of energy infrastructure in the United States and how lessons learned from the past can inform future opportunities.
SD-366
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine the opioid crisis, focusing on the impact on children and families.
SD-43010:30 a.m.
Committee on Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Paul C.
Ney, Jr., of Tennessee, to be General Counsel, Kevin
Fahey, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Thomas E. Ayres, of Pennsylvania, to be General
Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, all of the
Department of Defense, and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, of
Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Nuclear Security,
Department of Energy.
SH-216
Committee on the Judiciary
Business meeting to consider S. 1917, to reform sentencing laws and correctional institutions, and the nominations of Kurt D. Engelhardt, of Louisiana, to be
United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit,
Michael B. Brennan, of Wisconsin, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, Barry W. Ashe, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Louisiana, Howard C. Nielson, Jr., to be
United States District Judge for the District of Utah,
James R. Sweeney II, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Indiana, Susan Paradise
Baxter, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Pennsylvania, Daniel Desmond
Domenico, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Colorado, Adam I. Klein, of the District of
Columbia, to be Chairman and Member of the Privacy and
Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and John C. Anderson, to be United States Attorney for the District of New
Mexico, Brandon J. Fremin, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana, Joseph P. Kelly, to be United States Attorney for the District of
Nebraska, Scott W. Murray, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, David C. Weiss, to be United States Attorney for the District of Delaware,
David G. Jolley, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Tennessee, and Thomas M. Griffin,
Jr., to be United States Marshal for the District of
South Carolina, all of the Department of Justice.
SD-22611 a.m.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Business meeting to consider subcommittee assignments for the Second Session of the 115th Congress, and the nominations of Jelena McWilliams, of Ohio, to be
Chairperson of the Board of Directors, and to be a
Member of the Board of Directors, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, Marvin Goodfriend, of
Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Thomas E. Workman, of New York, to be a Member of the Financial Stability
Oversight Council.
SD-5382 p.m.
Select Committee on Intelligence
To receive a closed briefing regarding certain intelligence matters.
SH-219
FEBRUARY 1310 a.m.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine improving animal health, focusing on reauthorization of Food and Drug
Administration Animal Drug User Fees.
SD-430
FEBRUARY 142:30 p.m.
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
To hold hearings to examine the current readiness of
United States forces.
SR-222
Committee on Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine Native Americans and the 2020 Census.
SD-628
FEBRUARY 159:30 a.m.
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
To hold hearings to examine the state of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, focusing on pending rules, cryptocurrency regulation, and cross-border agreements.
SR-328A
FEBRUARY 282:30 p.m.
Committee on Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of State and redesign plans.
SD-419
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