Volume 167, No. 213 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 in the Daily Digest section section on pages D1361-D1362 on Dec. 9.
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)
DISRUPTING DANGEROUS ALGORITHMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband concluded a hearing to examine disrupting dangerous algorithms, focusing on addressing the harms of persuasive technology, after receiving testimony from Jessica J. Gonzalez, Free Press Action, and James Poulos, Claremont Institute, both of Los Angeles, California; Rose Jackson, Atlantic Council, San Francisco, California; and Dean Eckles, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
PFAS CONTAMINATION
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Federal efforts to address PFAS contamination, after receiving testimony from Sean W. O'Donnell, Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency and Acting Inspector General, Michael J. Roark, Deputy Inspector General for Evaluations, Office of Inspector General, Richard Kidd, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Environment and Energy Resilience), and Laura A. Macaluso, Director, Force Safety and Occupational Health, Office of the Assistant Secretary (Readiness), all of the Department of Defense; Mark Johnson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Columbus; Anthony M. Spaniola, Great Lakes PFAS Action Network, Troy, Michigan; and Andrea Amico, Testing for Pease, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 2614, to provide for the modernization of electronic case management systems, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nomination of Dawn N. Ison, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Department of Justice.
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