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“PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS” published by Congressional Record on Jan. 3, 2020

Volume 165, No. 211 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.

“PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H12308 on Jan. 3, 2020.

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:

PUBLIC BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS

Under clause 2 of rule XII, public bills and resolutions of the following titles were introduced and severally referred, as follows:

By Mr. BYRNE:

H.R. 5538. A bill to amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to subject certain direct spending programs to annual appropriations, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

By Mr. PAPPAS (for himself, Mr. Delgado, Mr. Rouda, Mr.

DeFazio, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr.

Kildee, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Neal, Mr.

Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Slotkin, Mrs.

Lawrence, and Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire):

H.R. 5539. A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to review and develop effluent standards, pretreatment standards, and water quality criteria for PFAS under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, to provide Federal grants to publicly owned treatment works to implement standards, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.

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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 165, No. 211