Volume 158, No. 50 covering the 2nd Session of the 112th Congress (2011 - 2012) 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 D309-D311 on March 27, 2012.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2013 for the Department of Defense and the Department of the Army, after receiving testimony from Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary (Comptroller), Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and Environment, Peter R. Lavoy, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Katherine G. Hammack, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment, Lieutenant General Michael Ferriter, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, Major General Timothy J. Kadavy, Deputy Director of the Army National Guard, and Addison D. Davis IV, Chief Executive Officer, Army Reserve Command, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United States Strategic Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from General C. Robert Kehler, USAF, Commander, United States Strategic Command, and General Keith B. Alexander, USA, Commander, United States Cyber Command, Director, National Security Agency, and Chief, Central Security Service, both of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Defense's role in implementation of the National Strategy for Counterterrorism and the National Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Michael A. Sheehan, Assistant Secretary for Special Operations, Low-
Intensity Conflict, Garry Reid, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and Combating Terrorism, and William F. Wechsler, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counternarcotics and Global Threats, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION REQUEST AND FUTURE YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a hearing to examine Army modernization in review of the Defense Authorization request for fiscal year 2013 and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General Robert P. Lennox, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-8, Lieutenant General William N. Phillips, Principal Military Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology and Director, Acquisition Career Management, Lieutenant General John F. Campbell, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, G-3/5/7, and Lieutenant General Keith C. Walker, Deputy Commanding General, Futures, Director, ARCIC, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, all of the Department of Defense.
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation and Community Development concluded a hearing to examine the choice neighborhoods initiative, focusing on a new community development model, after receiving testimony from Sandra Henriquez, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public and Indian Housing; Maria Maio, Jersey City Housing Authority, Jersey City, New Jersey; Susan J. Popkin, Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., Paul N. Weech, Housing Partnership Network, Boston, Massachusetts; Anthony B. Sanders, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia; and Egbert L. J. Perry, Integral Group LLC, Atlanta, Georgia.
REDUCING POLLUTION AND IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy with the Subcommittee on Oversight concluded a joint oversight hearing to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) work with other Federal entities to reduce pollution and improve environmental performance, after receiving testimony from Leslie Gillespie-Marthaler, Senior Advisor, Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency; and Richard G. Kidd, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy, and Environment, Energy and Sustainability, Tom Hicks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, and Kevin Geiss, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Energy, all of the Department of Defense.
RENEWABLE ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine renewable energy tax incentives, focusing on how the recent and pending expirations of key incentives have affected the renewable energy industry in the United States, after receiving testimony from Ethan Zindler, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, both of Washington, D.C.; John Purcell, Leeco Steel, Lisle, Illinois; and John P. Ragan, TPI Composites, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Res. 356, expressing support for the people of Tibet, with an amendment;
S. Res. 395, expressing the sense of the Senate in support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the NATO summit to be held in Chicago, Illinois from May 20 through 21, 2012, with an amendment;
S. Res. 397, promoting peace and stability in Sudan, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. Res. 80, condemning the Government of Iran for its state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights;
S. Res. 391, condemning violence by the Government of Syria against journalists, and expressing the sense of the Senate on freedom of the press in Syria, with an amendment;
S. Res. 344, supporting the democratic aspirations of the Nicaraguan people and calling attention to the deterioration of constitutional order in Nicaragua, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Julissa Reynoso, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Gina K. Abercrombie-Winstanley, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, Frederick D. Barton, of Maine, to be Assistant Secretary for Conflict and Stabilization Operations, and to be Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, William E. Todd, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia, Pamela A. White, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, of Louisiana, to be Director General of the Foreign Service, Carlos Pascual, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Energy Resources, John Christopher Stevens, of California, to be Ambassador to Libya, Jacob Walles, of Delaware, to be Ambassador to the Tunisian Republic, Tracey Ann Jacobson, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, Mark A. Pekala, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Richard B. Norland, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to Georgia, Kenneth Merten, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia, and Jeffrey D. Levine, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, all of the Department of State, and Sara Margalit Aviel, of California, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and lists in the Foreign Service.
PROMOTING INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL TO THE UNITED STATES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security concluded a hearing to examine the economic imperative for promoting international travel to the United States, including S. 2233, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to stimulate international tourism to the United States, after receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; Rebecca Gambler, Acting Director, Homeland Security and Justice, Government Accountability Office; and Thomas J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Roger Dow, U.S. Travel Association, both of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
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