Volume 165, No. 21 covering the 1st Session of the 116th Congress (2019 - 2020) 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.
“COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR 2019-02-05” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D108-D109 on Feb. 4, 2019.
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 FOR TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
Senate
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, to hold hearings to examine an implementation update on the Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health record modernization, 10:30 a.m., SD-124.
Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the United States Central Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 and the Future Years Defense Program, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
Full Committee, to receive a closed briefing on the United States Central Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2020 and the Future Years Defense Program, 2:15 p.m., SVC-217.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, subcommittee assignments, and an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 116th Congress, 9:45 a.m., SD-366.
Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the outlook for energy and minerals markets in the 116th Congress, 10 a.m., SD-366.
Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to consider committee rules, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 116th Congress, S. 268, to reauthorize the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program and certain wildlife conservation funds, to establish prize competitions relating to the prevention of wildlife poaching and trafficking, wildlife conservation, the management of invasive species, and the protection of endangered species, to amend the Marine Turtle Conservation Act of 2004 to modify the protections provided by that Act, S. 163, to prevent catastrophic failure or shutdown of remote diesel power engines due to emission control devices, S. 94, to amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the establishment of additional or expanded public target ranges in certain States, S. 310, to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthorize the Act, the nominations of Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Administrator, and Peter C. Wright, of Michigan, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Nicole R. Nason, of New York, to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, John Fleming, of Louisiana, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, John L. Ryder, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and 6 General Services Administration resolutions, 10 a.m., SD-406.
Committee on Finance: organizational business meeting to consider committee rules, subcommittee assignments, designation of members to serve on the Joint Committee on Taxation, designation of members to serve as Congressional Trade Advisors on Trade Policy and Negotiations, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 116th Congress, and the nominations of Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary, and Michael J. Desmond, of California, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel, both of the Department of the Treasury, Jeffrey Kessler, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Elizabeth Darling, of Texas, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, 10:15 a.m., SD-215.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold hearings to examine how primary care affects health care costs and outcomes, 10 a.m., SD-430.
Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Neomi J. Rao, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Aditya Bamzai, of Virginia, and Travis LeBlanc, of Maryland, both to be a Member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, 10 a.m., SD-226.
Select Committee on Intelligence: closed business meeting to consider pending intelligence matters; to be immediately followed by a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-
219.
House
No hearings are scheduled.
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