Volume 153, No. 168 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 D1460-D1461 on Nov. 1, 2007.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming and Wildlife Protection approved for full Committee consideration 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.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Christopher A. Padilla, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Christina H. Pearson, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Benjamin Eric Sasse, of Nebraska, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Senators Hagel and Nelson (NE), after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION LOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security concluded a hearing to examine the Small Business Administration (SBA), focusing on the efficacy of the 7(a) loan program, including the 7(a) program's purpose and the performance measures SBA uses to assess the program's results, evidence of any market constraints that may affect small businesses' access to credit in the conventional lending market, the segments of the small business lending market that were served by 7(a) loans and the segments that were served by conventional loans, and the factors that may cause uncertainty about these costs, after receiving testimony from William B. Shear, Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, Government Accountability Office; Grady Hedgespeth, Director of Financial Assistance, Small Business Administration; Veronique de Rugy, George Mason University Mercatus Center, Arlington, Virginia; and Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Gregory F. Jacob, of New Jersey, to be Solicitor, and Howard Radzely, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Labor, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
FLOOD CONTROL ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the impact of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (Public Law 78-
534) on Indian Tribes along the Missouri River, after receiving testimony from Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, and Jeffery Malcolm, Assistant Director, both of Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Ron His Horse Is Thunder, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; Michael B. Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota; Marcus Wells, Jr., Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; Roger Trudell, Santee Sioux Nation, Niobrara, Nebraska; Robert W. Cournoyer, Yankton Sioux Tribe, Marty, South Dakota; and John Yellowbird Steele, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following:
S. 1946, to help Federal prosecutors and investigators combat public corruption by strengthening and clarifying the law, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 2168, to amend title 18, United States Code, to enable increased federal prosecution of identity theft crimes and to allow for restitution to victims of identity theft, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of John Daniel Tinder, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, and Julie L. Myers, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security.
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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