Volume 163, No. 199 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” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1287-D1288 on Dec. 6, 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:
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Daily Digest
Senate
Chamber Action
Routine Proceedings, pages S7859-S7896
Measures Introduced: Nine bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 2195-2203, and S. Res. 349.
Page S7891
Measures Reported:
Special Report entitled ``America's Aging Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges''. (S. Rept. No. 115-191)
Page S7891
House Messages:
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: By 51 yeas to 47 nays (Vote No. 306), Senate insisted on its amendment to H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018, agreed to the requested conference with the House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint conferees on the part of the Senate, after taking action on the following motions to instruct conferees proposed thereto:
Pages S7859-7879, S7891
Adopted:
Rubio Motion to Instruct Conferees to insist that any conference report shall increase the refundable per-child tax credit to no less than $2,000 and that the credit be expanded to benefit more low-wage parents.
Pages S7880-81
Rejected:
By 48 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 307), King Motion to Instruct Conferees to insist that the final conference report not increase the Federal budget deficit for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027.
Pages S7878-79
By 44 yeas to 54 nays (Vote No. 308), Stabenow Motion to Instruct Conferees to insist that the final conference report includes a provision causing the corporate tax rate to revert to 35 percent in the event that real average household wages do not increase by at least
$4,000 by 2020 as a result of the enactment of the bill.
Page S7879
By 47 yeas to 51 nays (Vote No. 309), Booker Motion to Instruct Conferees to insist that the final conference report does not contain any provisions that would increase the number of individuals who do not have health insurance or increase health insurance premiums.
Pages S7880-81
Urban Indian Health Parity Act--Referral Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that the Committee on Indian Affairs be discharged from further consideration of S. 2146, to extend the full Federal medical assistance percentage to urban Indian organizations, and the bill then be referred to the Committee on Finance.
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Bodine Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent-time agreement was reached providing that at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, in consultation with the Democratic Leader, Senate begin consideration of the nomination of Susan Parker Bodine, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; that there be 30 minutes of debate on the nomination, equally divided in the usual form, and that following the use or yielding back of time, Senate vote on confirmation of the nomination, with no intervening action or debate.
Page S7895
Balash Nomination--Agreement: A unanimous-consent agreement was reached providing that at 11:45 a.m., on Thursday, December 7, 2017, Senate begin consideration of the nomination of Joseph Balash, of Alaska, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, as under the order of Tuesday, December 5, 2017.
Pages S7895-96
Messages from the House:
Page S7891
Measures Referred:
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Measures Placed on the Calendar:
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Measures Read the First Time:
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Enrolled Bills Presented:
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Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S7891-92
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S7892-95
Additional Statements:
Pages S7890-91
Authorities for Committees to Meet:
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Privileges of the Floor:
Page S7895 Record Votes: Four record votes were taken today. (Total--309)
Pages S7878-79, S7881
Adjournment: Senate convened at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 6:46 p.m., until 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 7, 2017. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S7896.)
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