Volume 155, No. 105 covering the 1st Session of the 111th Congress (2009 - 2010) 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 D833-D834 on July 14, 2009.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Michael Barr, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions; Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General, Hartford; Edward L. Yingling, American Bankers Association, Travis Plunkett, Consumer Federation of America, and Peter J. Wallison, American Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
THE ECONOMY AND FRAUD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance concluded a hearing to examine consumer protection from fraud, after receiving testimony from David Vladeck, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Chris Koster, Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City; Charles Bell, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York; and Sally Greenberg, National Consumers League, and Timothy J. Muris, George Mason University School of Law, both of Washington, D.C.
HARDROCK MINING AND RECLAMATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 796, to modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain land, focusing on the royalties states charge and number of abandoned hardrock mine sites and hazards, after receiving testimony from Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior; Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Jim Butler, Parsons Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, Utah; Phillips Baker, Jr., Hecla Mining Company, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; John D. Leshy, University of California Hastings College of Law, San Francisco; and Cathy Carlson, EARTHWORKS, Boulder, Colorado.
GLOBAL WARMING REDUCTION: AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY COMMUNITIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine economic opportunities for agriculture, forestry communities, and others in reducing global warming pollution, after receiving testimony from William Hohenstein, Director, Global Change Program Office, Department of Agriculture; Jeffrey W. Hopkins, Rio Tinto, and Bob Stallman, American Farm Bureau Federation, both of Washington, D.C., and Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense Fund, New York, New York.
TRANSPORTATION'S ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine transportation's role in climate change and reducing greenhouse gases, after receiving testimony from Ray LaHood, Secretary of Transportation; Regina A. McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Ralph Becker, Salt Lake City, Utah; David Bragdon, Metro Council, Portland, Oregon; Steve Winkelman, Center for Clean Air Policy, Port Chester, New York; and Ray Kuntz, Watkins and Shepard Trucking, Helena, Montana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of William J. Wilkins, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel, Daniel M. Tangherlini, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Financial Management and to be Chief Financial Officer, and Rosa Gumataotao Rios, of California, to be Treasurer of the United States, all of the Department of the Treasury, and Carmen R. Nazario, of Puerto Rico, to be Assistant Secretary for Family Support, Department of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senator Carper, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee continued consideration of Affordable Health Choices Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, July 15, 2009.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings to examine the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor, of New York, to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
Hearings recessed subject to the call and will meet again on Wednesday, July, 15, 2009.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR WOMEN VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health care services for women veterans, focusing on the on-
site availability of health care services for women veterans at VA facilities and key challenges that VA facilities are experiencing in providing health care services for women veterans, after receiving testimony from Patricia Hayes, Chief Consultant, Women Veterans Health Strategic Health Care Group, Veterans Health Administration, and Irene Trowell-Harris, Director, Center for Women Veterans, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Randall B. Williamson, Director, Health Care, Government Accountability Office; Joy J. Ilem, Disabled American Veterans, and Jennifer Olds, Veterans of Foreign Wars, both of Washington, DC; Tia Christopher, Swords to Plowshares, San Francisco, California; Genevieve Chase, American Women Veterans, Alexandria, Virginia; and Kayla M. Williams, Broadlands, Virginia.
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