Volume 167, No. 159 covering the 1st Session of the 117th Congress (2021 - 2022) 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 D976-D977 on Sept. 15.
More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILK PRICING
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, Poultry, Local Food Systems, and Food Safety and Security concluded a hearing to examine milk pricing, focusing on areas for improvement and reform, after receiving testimony from Jim Davenport, Ancramdale, New York, and Catherine H. de Ronde, Andover, Massachusetts, both of Agri-Mark Dairy Cooperative; Christina Zuiderveen, Black Soil Dairy, LLC, Granville, Iowa; Mike Ferguson, Ferguson Dairy Farm, Senatobia, Mississippi; Robert L. Wills, Clock Shadow Creamery, Plain, Wisconsin; and Christopher A. Wolf, Cornell University Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Amanda Howe, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Carlton Waterhouse, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste, who were both introduced by Senator Warner, and David M. Uhlmann, of Michigan, to be an Assistant Administrator, who was introduced by Senator Stabenow, all of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Julieta Valls Noyes, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Population, Refugees, and Migration), Denise Campbell Bauer, of California, to be Ambassador to the French Republic, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco, and Barbara A. Leaf, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Near Eastern Affairs), all who were introduced by Senator Kaine, and Julianne Smith, of Michigan, to be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador, who was introduced by Senator Shaheen, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of C.S. Eliot Kang, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary (International Security and Non-Proliferation), Adam Scheinman, of Virginia, to be Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, with the rank of Ambassador, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, of New Jersey, to be Director General of the Foreign Service, Bathsheba Nell Crocker, of the District of Columbia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the Office of the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, with the rank of Ambassador, and Michael Carpenter, of the District of Columbia, to be U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
LARRY NASSAR INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Inspector General's report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation, after receiving testimony from Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General, and Christopher A. Wray, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; Simone Biles, Houston, Texas; McKayla Maroney, Long Beach, California; Maggie Nichols, Little Canada, Minnesota; and Aly Raisman, Boston, Massachusetts.
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