Volume 167, No. 16 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.
“SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Senate section on pages S178 on Jan. 27.
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:
SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS
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SENATE RESOLUTION 17--EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT CLEAN
WATER IS A NATIONAL PRIORITY AND THAT THE APRIL 21, 2020, NAVIGABLE
WATERS PROTECTION RULE SHOULD NOT BE WITHDRAWN OR VACATED
Ms. ERNST (for herself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. Daines, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Moran, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Rounds, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Wicker, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Paul, Mr. Tillis, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Johnson, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Braun, Mr. Sasse, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Cotton, and Mrs. Fischer) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works:
S. Res. 17
Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that--
(1) clean water is a national priority; and
(2) the final rule of the Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency entitled ``The Navigable Waters Protection Rule: Definition of `Waters of the United States' '' (85 Fed. Reg. 22250 (April 21, 2020)) should not be withdrawn or vacated.
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