Volume 156, No. 112 covering the 2nd Session of the 111th Congress (2009 - 2010) 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 D862-D864 on July 28, 2010.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Lieberman (Chair), Bayh, Webb, McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Kaufman, Thune, Inhofe, Sessions, Chambliss, Brown (MA), and Burr.
Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Nelson
(FL) (Chair), Reed, Nelson (NE), Bayh, Udall (CO), Bingaman, Kaufman, Goodwin, LeMieux, Graham, Wicker, Brown (MA), Burr, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Webb (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, Nelson (NE), McCaskill, Hagan, Begich, Burris, Bingaman, Graham, Chambliss, Thune, Wicker, LeMieux, Vitter, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Bayh
(Chair), Akaka, McCaskill, Udall (CO), Burris, Goodwin, Burr, Inhofe, Chambliss, and Thune.
Subcommittee on Seapower: Senators Reed (Chair), Lieberman, Akaka, Nelson (FL), Webb, Hagan, Kaufman, Wicker, Sessions, LeMieux, Vitter, and Collins.
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces: Senators Nelson (NE) (Chair), Reed, Nelson (FL), Udall (CO), Begich, Bingaman, Goodwin, Vitter, Sessions, Inhofe, Graham, and Brown (MA).
Senators Levin and McCain are ex-officio members of the subcommittees.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Peter A. Diamond, of Massachusetts, Sarah Bloom Raskin, of Maryland, all to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Osvaldo Luis Gratacos Munet, of Puerto Rico, to be Inspector General, Export-Import Bank, and Steve A. Linick, of Virginia, to be Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
PROTECTING AMERICA'S WATER TREATMENT FACILITIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine protecting America's water treatment facilities, after receiving testimony from Cynthia C. Dougherty, Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Benjamin H. Grumbles, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, Phoenix; Paul Orum, Blue Green Chemical Security Coalition, and Darius D. Sivin, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), both of Washington, D.C.; and Carlos Perea, MIOX Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Terence Patrick McCulley, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Michele Thoren Bond, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho, and Robert Porter Jackson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
H.R. 2868, to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to enhance security and protect against acts of terrorism against chemical facilities, to amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to enhance the security of public water systems, and to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to enhance the security of wastewater treatment works, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 3335, to require Congress to establish a unified and searchable database on a public Web site for congressional earmarks as called for by the President in his 2010 State of the Union Address to Congress, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2991, to amend title 31, United States Code, to enhance the oversight authorities of the Comptroller General, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 3243, to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to administer polygraph examinations to all applicants for law enforcement positions with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to require U.S. Customs and Border Protection to complete all periodic background reinvestigations of certain law enforcement personnel, with an amendment;
S. 2902, to improve the Federal Acquisition Institute, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 3980, to provide for identifying and eliminating redundant reporting requirements and developing meaningful performance metrics for homeland security preparedness grants, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
H.R. 1517, to allow certain U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees who serve under an overseas limited appointment for at least 2 years, and whose service is rated fully successful or higher throughout that time, to be converted to a permanent appointment in the competitive service, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 3650, to amend chapter 21 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that fathers of certain permanently disabled or deceased veterans shall be included with mothers of such veterans as preference eligibles for treatment in the civil service;
S. 3567, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Broadway in Lynbrook, New York, as the ``Navy Corpsman Jeffrey L. Wiener Post Office Building'';
H.R. 5278, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 405 West Second Street in Dixon, Illinois, as the
``President Ronald W. Reagan Post Office Building''; and
H.R. 5395, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 151 North Maitland Avenue in Maitland, Florida, as the ``Paula Hawkins Post Office Building''.
FLOOD PREPAREDNESS AND MITIGATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery and the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration concluded a hearing to examine flood preparedness and mitigation, focusing on map modernization, levee inspection, and levee repairs, after receiving testimony from Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense; Sandra K. Knight, Deputy Administrator, Mitigation at the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security; Montana House Representative Robert Melhoff, Great Falls; David Maidment, University of Texas at Austin Center for Research in Water Resources; Sam Riley Medlock, Association of State Floodplain Managers, Madison, Wisconsin; Robert G. Rash, St. Francis Levee District of Arkansas, West Memphis; and Joseph N. Suhayda, Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Baton Rouge.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after receiving testimony from Robert S. Mueller III, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Kathleen M. O'Malley, of Ohio, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit, who was introduced by Senator Brown (OH), Beryl Alaine Howell, of the District of Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, who was introduced by Senator Leahy and Representative Norton, and Robert Leon Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, who was introduced by Representative Norton, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
FILIBUSTER
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the filibuster, focusing on legislative proposals to change Senate procedures, including S. Res. 465, to permit the Senate to avoid unnecessary delay and vote on matters for which floor debate has ceased, and S. Res. 440, improving the Senate cloture process, after receiving testimony from Senators Lautenberg and Bennet; Elizabeth Rybicki, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; Gregory Koger, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; and Barbara Sinclair, University of California, Los Angeles.
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