Volume 153, No. 185 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 D1574-D1575 on Dec. 5, 2007.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following:
S. 2191, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of John S. Bresland, of New Jersey, to be Chairperson, and Charles Russell Horner Shearer, of Delaware, both to be Members of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, and William H. Graves, of Tennessee, Susan Richardson Williams, of Tennessee, and Thomas C. Gilliland, of Georgia, all to be Members of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
(Public Law 93-415), focusing on protecting children and communities, after receiving testimony from J. Robert Flores, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Shay Bilchik, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Washington, D.C.; Deirdre Wilson Garton, Governor's Juvenile Justice Commission, Madison, Wisconsin; Anne Marie Ambrose, Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Services, Office of Children, Youth, and Families, Harrisburg; and Richard Miranda, Tucson Police Department, Tucson, Arizona.
FORECLOSURE CRISIS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the foreclosure crisis, focusing on helping families save their homes, including S. 2136, to address the treatment of primary mortgages in bankruptcy, after receiving testimony from Jacqueline P. Cox, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois; Thomas B. Bennett, Judge, United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama; Mark M. Zandi, Moody's Economy.com, Inc., West Chester, Pennsylvania; Joseph R. Mason, Drexel University LeBow College of Business, and Henry J. Sommer, National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mark S. Scarberry, American Bankruptcy Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Nettie McGee, Chicago, Illinois.
NOMINATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of James B. Peake, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Inouye and former Senator Bob Dole, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
HEALTH AND WELFARE NEEDS OF ELDERLY REFUGEES
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the elderly who have been displaced by war, poverty, and persecution abroad, after receiving testimony from Kelly Ryan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; Brent Orrell, Acting Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael Gabaudan, Regional Representative for the United States of America and the Caribbean, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; C. Richard Parkins, Episcopal Migration Ministries (EMM), on behalf of the Refugee Council USA, and Khammany Mathavongsy, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center California Projects, both of Washington, D.C.; Maria Teverovsky, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), New York, New York; and Salahuddin Ansary, Lutheran Community Services Northwest (LCSNW), Portland Oregon.
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