Volume 163, No. 130 covering the 1st 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 D871-D872 on Aug. 1, 2017.
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)
MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, focusing on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Council perspectives, after receiving testimony from Chris W. Oliver, Assistant Administrator for the National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; and John M. Quinn, New England Fishery Management Council, Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
SUPERFUND PROGRAM 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 Superfund program, after receiving testimony from Steven C. Nadeau, Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP, Detroit, Michigan; Jeffery A. Steers, Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials, Richmond, Virginia; and Katherine N. Probst, McLean, Virginia.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine America's affordable housing crisis, focusing on challenges and solutions, after receiving testimony from Daniel Garcia-Diaz, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government Accountability Office; Grant Whitaker, Utah Housing Corporation, on behalf of the National Council of State Housing Agencies, and Granger MacDonald, National Association of Home Builders, both of Washington, D.C.; Katherine M. O'Regan, New York University Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York, New York; and Kirk McClure, University of Kansas School of Public Affairs and Administration Urban Planning Program, Lawrence.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Stephen B. King, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Department of State, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Lance Allen Robertson, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary for Aging, Brett Giroir, of Texas, and Robert P. Kadlec, of New York, both to be a Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, and Elinore F. McCance-Katz, of Rhode Island, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, who was introduced by Senator Whitehouse, all of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Jerome M. Adams, of Indiana, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, who was introduced by Senator Young, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
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