Volume 165, No. 22 covering the 1st Session of the 116th Congress (2019 - 2020) was published by the Congressional Record.
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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D116-D118 on Feb. 5, 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
(Committees not listed did not meet)
VETERANS AFFAIRS' ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD MODERNIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine an implementation update on the Department of Veterans Affairs' electronic health record modernization, after receiving testimony from James Byrne, General Counsel, performing the duties of Deputy Secretary, and John Windom, Executive Director, Laura Kroupa, Chief Medical Officer (Acting), and John Short, Chief Technology Integration Officer, each of the Office of Electronic Health Record Modernization, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 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, after receiving testimony from General Joseph L. Votel, USA, Commander, United States Central Command, Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 42) authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 116th Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 45) authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 116th Congress.
Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Cassidy (Chair), Risch, Lee, Daines, Gardner, Hyde-Smith, McSally, Alexander, Hoeven, Heinrich, Wyden, Cantwell, Sanders, Stabenow, Hirono, King, and Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Daines (Chair), Barrasso, Lee, Gardner, Hyde-Smith, Alexander, Hoeven, King, Sanders, Stabenow, Heinrich, and Hirono.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining: Senators Lee
(Chair), Barrasso, Risch, Daines, Cassidy, Gardner, Hyde-Smith, McSally, Hoeven, Wyden, Cantwell, Stabenow, Heinrich, Hirono, King, and Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators McSally (Chair), Barrasso, Risch, Cassidy, Gardner, Alexander, Cortez Masto, Wyden, Cantwell, and Sanders.
Senators Murkowski and Manchin are ex officio members of each subcommittee.
ENERGY AND MINERALS MARKETS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the outlook for energy and minerals markets in the 116th Congress, after receiving testimony from Linda Capuano, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; Kevin Book, ClearView Energy Partners, LLC, and Travis Kavulla, R Street Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Simon Moores, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, London, United Kingdom; and Ethan Zindler, BloombergNEF, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee adopted its rules of procedure, and ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original resolution (S. Res. 41) 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
An original resolution (S. Res. 40) authorizing expenditures by the committee for 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.
Also, Committee adopted its rules of procedure, announced the 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, and the following subcommittee assignments for the 116th Congress:
Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness: Senators Cornyn (Chair), Crapo, Roberts, Thune, Isakson, Portman, Toomey, Scott (SC), Cassidy, Daines, Young, Casey, Wyden, Stabenow, Cantwell, Menendez, Cardin, Brown, Warner, and Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight: Senators Thune (Chair), Crapo, Enzi, Cornyn, Burr, Isakson, Portman, Toomey, Warner, Menendez, Carper, Cardin, Bennet, and Whitehouse.
Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy: Senators Portman (Chair), Grassley, Cassidy, Lankford, Young, Brown, Bennet, Casey, and Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on Health Care: Senators Toomey (Chair), Grassley, Roberts, Enzi, Thune, Burr, Isakson, Scott (SC), Cassidy, Lankford, Daines, Young, Stabenow, Cantwell, Menendez, Carper, Cardin, Brown, Casey, Warner, Whitehouse, Hassan, and Cortez Masto.
Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure: Senators Scott (SC) (Chair), Grassley, Crapo, Roberts, Enzi, Cornyn, Burr, Daines, Bennet, Wyden, Cantwell, Carper, Whitehouse, and Hassan.
Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth: Senators Cassidy (Chair), Scott (SC), Lankford, Hassan, and Wyden.
Senators Grassley and Wyden are ex officio members of each subcommittee.
PRIMARY CARE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine how primary care affects health care costs and outcomes, after receiving testimony from Joshua J. Umbehr, Atlas MD, Wichita, Kansas; Sapna Kripalani, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Katherine Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle, on behalf of the National Association for Geriatric Education; and Tracy Watts, Mercer, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing 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, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee for the 116th Congress.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
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