Volume 153, No. 55 covering the 1st Session of the 110th Congress (2007 - 2008) 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 D438-D439 on March 29, 2007.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUDGET: DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of the Navy in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2008 and the future years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Donald C. Winter, Secretary, and Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Chief of Naval Operations, both of the United States Navy; and General James T. Conway, Commandant of the United States Marine Corps.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of David James Gribbin IV, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported:
S. 521, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the ``Gerald W. Heany Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse'';
S. 801, to designate a United States courthouse located in Fresno, California, as the ``Robert E. Coyle United States Courthouse'';
S. 992, to achieve emission reductions and cost savings through accelerated use of cost-effective lighting technologies in public buildings, with amendments;
S. 496, to reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965;
A bill entitled ``The Water Resources Development Act of 2007''; and
The nominations of Roger Romulus Martella, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Bradley Udall, of Colorado, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence In National Environmental Policy Foundation.
CLEAN ENERGY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine clean energy from the margins to the mainstream, focusing on promoting the widespread use of clean renewable power and the Production Tax Credit which was to spur its development, after receiving testimony from John Bruton, European Commission, Washington, D.C.; John Krenicki, Jr., General Electric Energy, Atlanta, Georgia; Todd Raba, MidAmerican Energy Company, Des Moines, Iowa; Johan van't Hof, Tonbridge Corporation, Ontario, Canada; and Ryan H. Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine an update on United States policy towards Iran, after receiving testimony from R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
AGENCIES' IMPROPER PAYMENTS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine eliminating and recovering improper payments, focusing on the Office of Management and Budget report entitled ``Improving the Accuracy and Integrity of Improper Payments'', including trends in agencies' reporting under the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, from fiscal years 2004 through 2006, challenges in reporting improper payment information and improving internal control, and agencies' reporting of recovery auditing efforts, after receiving testimony from Linda M. Combs, Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office of Management and Budget; McCoy Williams, Director, Financial Management and Assurance, Government Accountability Office; John W. Cox, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Housing and Urban Development; David M. Norquist, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Homeland Security; Timothy B. Hill, Director, Office of Financial Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Terry Bowie, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and Lee White, PRG-
Schultz International, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
INDIAN TRUST FUND LITIGATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine Indian trust fund litigation, focusing on settlement legislation relative to pending and potential claims by individual Indians and tribes, after receiving testimony from Dirk Kempthorne, Secretary of the Interior; William W. Mercer, Acting Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; John Bickerman, Bickerman Dispute Resolution, PLLC, Washington, D.C.; John E. Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado; William Martin, Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Elouise C. Cobell, Browning, Montana.
UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held a hearing to examine Department of Justice hiring and firing of United States Attorneys, focusing on preserving prosecutorial independence, receiving testimony from D. Kyle Sampson, former Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of the United States, Department of Justice.
Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 163, to improve the disaster loan program of the Small Business Administration, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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