Volume 154, No. 16 covering the 2nd Session of the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008) 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 D71-D72 on Jan. 31, 2008.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY RECRUITING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded an oversight hearing to examine military recruiting, after receiving testimony from Major General Thomas P. Bostick, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Recruiting Command, Rear Admiral Joseph F. Kilkenny, USN, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, Brigadier General Suzanne M. Vautrinot, USAF, Commander, Air Force Recruiting Service, Major General Richard T. Tryon, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting Command, and Sergeant First Class Ricky Lee Webb, USA, Master Chief Petty Officer Travis P. Brummer, USN, Master Sergeant David B. White, USAF, and Staff Sergeant James M. Britton, USMC, all Active Duty Recruiters, all of the Department of Defense.
FORECLOSURE PREVENTION AND NEIGHBORHOOD PRESERVATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine strengthening our economy, focusing on foreclosure prevention and neighborhood preservation, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Robert K. Steel, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Michael S. Barr, Center for American Progress, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Alex J. Pollock, American Enterprise Institute, and Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, both of Washington, D.C.; and Doris W. Koo, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Seattle, Washington.
HEALTH CARE SPENDING
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the long-term federal budget outlook and sources of growth in health care spending, after receiving testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
PIPELINES AND CARBON CAPTURE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 2323, to provide for the conduct of carbon capture and storage technology research, development, and demonstration projects, and S. 2144, to require the Secretary of Energy to conduct a study of feasibility relating to the construction and operation of pipelines and carbon dioxide sequestration facilities, after receiving testimony from Senators Kerry and Coleman; Joseph T. Kelliher, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Benjamin H. Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; James Slutz, Acting Prinicipal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Krista L. Edwards, Deputy Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; C. Stephen Allred, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Lawrence E. Bengal, Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission, Little Rock, on behalf of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Task Force on Carbon Capture and Geologic Storage; Ronald T. Evans, Denbury Resources, Inc., Plano, Texas; and Scott Anderson, Environmental Defense, Austin, Texas.
NATIONAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION POLICY AND REVENUE STUDY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine a report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, after receiving testimony from Frank Busalacchi, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Madison; Jack L. Schenendorf, Covington and Burling LLP, Washington, D.C.; Matthew K. Rose, BNSF Railway Company, Fort Worth, Texas; and Tom Skancke, Skancke Company, Las Vegas, Nevada.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the counternarcotics strategy and police training for Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, all of the Department of State; and General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC (Ret.), former Commander, European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Department of Defense.
ELIMINATING AGENCY PAYMENT ERRORS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine eliminating agency payment errors, after receiving testimony from McCoy Williams, Managing Director, Financial Management and Assurance, Government Accountability Office; Daniel I. Werfel, Acting Controller, Office of Management and Budget; Charles R. Christopherson, Jr., Chief Financial Officer, Department of Agriculture; Anthony J. Dale, Managing Director, Federal Communications Commission; Charles E. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Resources and Technology and Chief Financial Officer; and David A. Rust, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs, Social Security Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following:
S. 1638, to adjust the salaries of Federal justices and judges, with amendments;
S. 2450, to amend the Federal Rules of Evidence to address the waiver of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine; and
The nominations of Mark R. Filip, of Illinois, to be Deputy Attorney General, Ondray T. Harris, of Virginia, to be Director, Community Relations Service, and David W. Hagy, of Texas, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, all of the Department of Justice.
ELDERLY VOTERS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine elderly voters, focusing on opportunities and challenges for the 2008 election, after receiving testimony from Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security, Government Accountability Office; Deb Markowitz, Vermont Secretary of State, Montpelier; Michael E. Waterstone, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California; Jason Karlawish, University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, Philadelphia; and Wendy R. Weiser, New York University School of Law Brennan Center for Justice, New York.
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