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“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” published by the Congressional Record on June 8, 2015

Volume 161, No. 90 covering the 1st Session of the 114th Congress (2015 - 2016) 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 Extensions of Remarks section on pages E851-E852 on June 8, 2015.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate of February 4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled and any cancellations or changes in the meetings as they occur.

As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.

Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, June 9, 2015 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JUNE 10Time to be announced

Committee on Finance

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Anne

Elizabeth Wall, of Illinois, to be a Deputy Under

Secretary, and Brodi L. Fontenot, of Louisiana, to be

Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of the

Treasury, and Rafael J. Lopez, of California, to be

Commissioner on Children, Youth, and Families,

Department of Health and Human Services.

TBA9 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Peter V.

Neffenger, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Secretary of

Homeland Security, and David S. Shapira, of

Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of the United States

Postal Service for a term expiring December 8, 2019.

SD-3429:30 a.m.

Committee on Environment and Public Works

Business meeting to consider S. 1140, to require the

Secretary of the Army and the Administrator of the

Environmental Protection Agency to propose a regulation revising the definition of the term ``waters of the

United States''.

SD-406 10 a.m.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

To hold hearings to examine passenger rail safety, focusing on accident prevention and on-going efforts to implement train control technology.

SR-253

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

To hold hearings to examine health information exchange, focusing on a path towards improving the quality and value of health care for patients.

SD-430

Committee on the Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine the Federal regulatory system to improve accountability, transparency and integrity.

SD-22610:30 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related

Agencies

Business meeting to markup an original bill entitled,

``Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies

Appropriations Act, 2016''.

SD-1921:30 p.m.

Committee on the Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Luis

Felipe Restrepo, of Pennsylvania, to be United States

Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Travis Randall

McDonough, to be United States District Judge for the

Eastern District of Tennessee, and Waverly D. Crenshaw,

Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Middle

District of Tennessee.

SD-2262 p.m.

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

To hold hearings to examine the escalating threat of ISIL in Central Asia.

RHOB-21752:15 p.m.

Committee on Indian Affairs

Business meeting to consider S. 248, to clarify the rights of Indians and Indian tribes on Indian lands under the National Labor Relations Act; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine addressing the need for victim services in Indian

County.

SD-6282:30 p.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

Subcommittee on National Parks

To hold hearings to examine S. 145, to require the

Director of the National Park Service to refund to

States all State funds that were used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National Park System during the October 2013 shutdown, S. 146, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of

Agriculture to enter into agreements with States and political subdivisions of States providing for the continued operation, in whole or in part, of public land, units of the National Park System, units of the

National Wildlife Refuge System, and units of the

National Forest System in the State during any period in which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture is unable to maintain normal level of operations at the units due to a lapse in appropriations, S. 319, to designate a mountain in the

State of Alaska as Mount Denali, S. 329, to amend the

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the National

Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 403, to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic

Trail in northeastern Minnesota and to extend the trail into Vermont to connect with the Appalachian National

Scenic Trail, S. 521, to authorize the Secretary of the

Interior to conduct a special resource study of

President Station in Baltimore, Maryland, S. 610, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of P.S. 103 in West Baltimore,

Maryland and for other purposes, S. 782, to direct the

Secretary of the Interior to establish a bison management plan for Grand Canyon National Park, S. 873, to designate the wilderness within the Lake Clark

National Park and Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area, and S. 1483, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the James K.

Polk Home in Columbia, Tennessee, as a unit of the

National Park System.

SD-366

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency

Management

To hold hearings to examine wasteful spending in the

Federal government, focusing on an outside perspective.

SD-342

Special Committee on Aging

To hold hearings to examine the proliferation of unwanted calls.

SD-5625 p.m.

Committee on Foreign Relations

To receive a closed briefing on verification and assessment, focusing on how to create a successful inspection regime.

S-116

JUNE 119:30 a.m.

Committee on Environment and Public Works

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Ann

Elizabeth Dunkin, of California, and Thomas A. Burke, and Jane Toshiko Nishida, both of Maryland, all to be to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental

Protection Agency.

SD-40610:30 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Business meeting to markup an original bill entitled,

``Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016'', an original bill entitled, ``Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016'', and an original bill entitled, ``Legislative Branch

Appropriations Act, 2016''.

SD-106

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine accounts of current and former federal agency whistleblowers.

SD-3422:30 p.m.

Select Committee on Intelligence

To receive a closed briefing on certain intelligence matters.

SH-219

JUNE 1610 a.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Jonathan

Elkind, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of

Energy (International Affairs), and Monica C.

Regalbuto, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of

Energy (Environmental Management).

SD-36610:30 a.m.

Committee on Appropriations

Subcommittee on Department of Homeland Security

Business meeting to markup an original bill entitled,

``Fiscal Year 2016 Homeland Security Appropriations

Bill.''

SD-138

JUNE 189:30 a.m.

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management

To hold hearings to examine the EPA's management of the renewable fuel standard program.

SD-342

JUNE 242:15 p.m.

Committee on Indian Affairs

To hold an oversight hearing to examine demanding results to end Native youth suicides.

SD-628

JULY 910 a.m.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine the back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle and related legislation, including S. 854, to establish a new organization to manage nuclear waste, provide a consensual process for siting nuclear waste facilities, ensure adequate funding for managing nuclear waste.

SD-366

CANCELLATIONS

JUNE 1110 a.m.

Committee on the Judiciary

Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.

SD-226

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 161, No. 90