Volume 147, No. 82 covering the 1st Session of the 107th Congress (2001 - 2002) 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 D571-D572 on June 13, 2001.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on the overview for fiscal year 2002 for the Army, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. White, Secretary, and Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, USA, Chief of Staff, both of the Department of the Army.
APPROPRIATIONS--COAST GUARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for Coast Guard Readiness, after receiving testimony from Adm. James M. Loy, USCG, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, and Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, both of the Department of Transportation.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing to examine the Department of Defense's strategic review of missile defense from Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director, and Maj. Gen. Peter C. Franklin, USA, Deputy Director, both of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Department of Defense.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MACEDONIA AND U.S./BALKANS POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the United States efforts to restore peace and stability in Macedonia in order to alleviate the threat that the on-going conflict is having on the security and democracy of the Balkan region, as well as an overview of the scope of United States military, economic, and diplomatic engagement in the Balkans, after receiving testimony from Ambassador James Pardew, Senior Advisor on the Balkans, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; Daniel P. Serwer, Director, Balkans Initiative, United States Institute of Peace; and Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA (Ret.), Stephens Group, Inc., Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, and Maj. Gen. William L. Nash, USA (Ret.), Council on Foreign Relations, all of Washington, D.C.
ENERGY INDUSTRIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine economic issues associated with the restructuring of energy industries, focusing on current energy market problems in California, after receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein, Boxer, and Craig; Severin Borenstein, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley; William W. Hogan, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Lawrence J. Makovich, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Paul L. Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Brookline; Alfred E. Kahn, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and Frank A. Wolak, Stanford University Department of Economics, Stanford, California.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 20.
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Neal A. McCaleb, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Nickles and Inhofe, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination from Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma.
FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY SYSTEM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights held hearings to examine the Department of Justice report assessing ostensible racial and geographic disparities in the federal death penalty system, and S. 233, to place a moratorium on executions by the Federal Government and urge the States to do the same, while a National Commission on the Death Penalty reviews the fairness of the imposition of the death penalty, receiving testimony from Larry D. Thompson, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; Julian Bond, American University, on behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and Citizens for the Moratorium on Federal Executions, and Andrew G. McBride, Wiley, Rein and Fielding, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, both of Washington, D.C.; James J. Fotis, Law Enforcement Alliance of America, Falls Church, Virginia; Samuel R. Gross, Columbia University Law School, New York, New York; and David I. Bruck, Columbia, South Carolina.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
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