Volume 152, No. 95 covering the 2nd Session of the 109th Congress (2005 - 2006) 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 D799-D801 on July 19, 2006.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY COMMISSION: HAMDAN V. RUMSFELD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the status of military commissions in light of the Supreme Court decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, after receiving testimony from Elisa C. Massimino, Human Rights First, Katherine Newell Bierman, Human Rights Watch, Eugene R. Fidell, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, LLP, on behalf of the National Institute of Military Justice, James Jay Carafano, Heritage Foundation, and Neal K. Katyal, Georgetown University, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael Mernin, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York, New York; David A. Schlueter, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas; and Scott L. Silliman, Duke University School of Law Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security, Durham, North Carolina.
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report of the Federal Reserve, after receiving testimony from Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Frederic S. Mishkin, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Linda Mysliwy Conlin, of New Jersey, to be First Vice President, James Lambright, of Missouri, to be President, and J. Joseph Grandmaison, of New Hampshire, to be a Member of the Board of Directors, all of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, Geoffrey S. Bacino, of Illinois, to be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board, Edmund C. Moy, of Wisconsin, to be Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. Con. Res. 71, expressing the sense of Congress that States should require candidates for driver's licenses to demonstrate an ability to exercise greatly increased caution when driving in the proximity of a potentially visually impaired individual;
S. 3661, to amend section 29 of the International Air Transportation Competition Act of 1979 relating to air transportation to and from Love Field, Texas;
S. 3679, to authorize appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board;
An original bill, proposed Maritime Administration Improvements Act of 2006; and
The nominations of Mark V. Rosenker, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, R. Hunter Biden, of Delaware, and Donna R. McLean, of the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Reform Board (Amtrak), John H. Hill, of Indiana, to be Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and Andrew B. Steinberg, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, both of the Department of Transportation, and routine lists in the Coast Guard and NOAA.
HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness concluded a hearing to examine high-performance computing as a priority in the overall Federal research and development portfolio, the impact and success of interagency coordination in this area, and United States leadership in high-performance computing in the context of global competitiveness in information technology and its applications, after receiving testimony from Simon Szykman, Director, National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development; Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM Corporation, Somers, New York; Christopher Jehn, Cray Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Jack Waters, Level (3) Communications, Broomfield, Colorado; Joseph Lombardo, University of Nevada National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment, Las Vegas; Michael Garrett, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington; and Stanley Burt, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Frederick, Maryland.
HEALTHY FORESTS RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded an oversight hearing on the implementation of The Healthy Forests Restoration Act (Public Law 108-148), after receiving testimony from Nina Rose Hatfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; Dale Bosworth, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Rick Delaco, Village of Ruidoso, Lincoln County, New Mexico; Colleen MacLeod, Commissioner, Union County, La Grande, Oregon, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Matthew Koehler, WildWest Institute, Missoula, Montana; and Jay Jensen, Council of Western State Foresters, Lakewood, Colorado.
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the science and risk assessment behind the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed revisions to the particulate matter air quality standards, after receiving testimony from George Gray, Assistant Administrator, Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency; John B. Stephenson, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, Government Accountability Office; Roger O. McClellan, Toxicology and Human Health Risk Analysis, Albuquerque, New Mexico; George D. Thurston, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York; and Anne E. Smith, CRA International, and Daniel S. Greenbaum, Health Effects Institute, both of Boston, Massachusetts.
DHS PURCHASE CARDS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Department of Homeland Security purchase cards, focusing on whether DHS's control environment and management of purchase card usage were effective, key internal control activities operated effectively and provided reasonable assurance that purchase cards were used appropriately, and indications existed of potentially fraudulent, improper, and abusive or questionable purchase card activity at DHS, after receiving testimony from Gregory D. Kutz, Managing Director, and John J. Ryan, Assistant Director, both of Forensic Audits and Special Investigations, Government Accountability Office; and David L. Norquist, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 3678, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 843, to amend the Public Health Service Act to combat autism through research, screening, intervention and education, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Elizabeth Dougherty, of the District of Columbia, and Harry R. Hoglander, of Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National Mediation Board, Ronald S. Cooper, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Lawrence A. Warder, of Texas, to be Chief Financial Officer, and Troy R. Justesen, of Utah, to be Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, both of the Department of Education.
CREDIT CARD INTERCHANGE FEES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine antitrust concerns relating to credit card interchange rates--the fees that credit card issuers, and/or processors, charge the merchant to process a credit card transaction, after receiving testimony from Bill Douglass, Douglass Distributing Company, Sherman, Texas, on behalf of the National Association of Convenience Stores; Kathy Miller, The Elmore Store, Elmore, Vermont; Joshua L. Peirez, MasterCard Worldwide, Purchase, New York; and Joshua R. Floum, Visa U.S.A., Inc., Timothy J. Muris, George Mason University School of Law and O'Melveny and Meyers, and W. Stephen Cannon, Constantine Cannon, on behalf of the Merchants Payments Coalition, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 2703, to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, with an amendment.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community.
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