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“INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the in the Senate section section on pages S3611-S3612 on July 21.
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:
INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS
The following bills and joint resolutions were introduced, read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred as indicated:
By Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. Lankford):
S. 4577. A bill to improve plain writing and public experience, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Wyden, and Mr. Booker):
S. 4578. A bill to create a new Federal grant program that provides grants to State libraries to allow schools with summer lunch programs to keep their libraries open for student use during the summer months; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. HICKENLOOPER (for himself and Mr. Barrasso):
S. 4579. A bill to amend the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2015, to extend certain deadlines applicable to pilot projects to increase Colorado River System water to address effects of historic drought conditions, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
By Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Ms. Murkowski):
S. 4580. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to require a lactation space in each medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
By Mr. MENENDEZ:
S. 4581. A bill to improve the public service loan forgiveness program under section 455(m) of the Higher Education Act of 1965, to improve loan forgiveness eligibility provisions under such Act for teachers, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. VAN HOLLEN:
S. 4582. A bill to remove obstacles to the ability of law enforcement officers to enforce gun safety laws, and for other purposes; to the Committee on the Judiciary.
By Ms. HIRONO (for herself, Ms. Smith, and Mr.
Merkley):
S. 4583. A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, and to provide for Social Security benefit protection; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. MERKLEY (for himself, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr.
Whitehouse, Mr. Booker, and Mr. Wyden):
S. 4584. A bill to prohibit the use of M-44 devices, commonly known as ``cyanide bombs'', on public land, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
By Mr. MARSHALL:
S. 4585. A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to modify the pesticide registration process, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
By Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. Lankford):
S. 4586. A bill to keep schools physically secure using unobligated Federal funds available to the Secretary of Education to respond to the coronavirus; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mrs. GILLIBRAND (for herself, Mr. Schumer, and Mr.
Cardin):
S. 4587. A bill to award a Congressional Gold Medal to Benjamin Berell Ferencz, in recognition of his service to the United States and international community during the post- World War II Nuremberg trials and lifelong advocacy for international criminal justice and rule of law; to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
By Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Mrs. Blackburn):
S. 4588. A bill to establish a public-private partnership technology investment pilot program; to the Committee on Armed Services.
By Mr. GRASSLEY:
S. 4589. A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to adjust certain credits and deductions for inflation; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. LUJAN (for himself and Mr. Booker):
S. 4590. A bill to provide requirements relating to data caps on broadband internet access service, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
By Mr. BOOKER (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Schumer,
Mrs. Murray, and Mr. Peters):
S. 4591. A bill to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
By Ms. HASSAN (for herself and Mr. Portman):
S. 4592. A bill to encourage the migration of Federal Government information technology systems to quantum- resistant cryptography, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. KELLY (for himself and Ms. Sinema):
S. 4593. A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make certain information available on a public website relating to intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities certified for participation under the Medicaid program, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. MARSHALL (for himself and Mr. Cruz):
S. 4594. A bill to establish a National Regulatory Budget, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. CASEY (for himself, Mr. Booker, Ms. Klobuchar,
Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Brown, Mr. Wyden,
Mrs. Gillibrand, and Mr. Padilla):
S. 4595. A bill to support local governments for jurisdictions that elect or appoint a person with a disability in providing the accommodations needed for the elected or appointed official to carry out their official work duties, and to build the capacity of local governments to have consistent and adequate funding for accommodations; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
By Mr. LANKFORD (for himself, Mrs. Capito, Mr. Inhofe,
Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Blunt, Mr. Cotton, Mr.
Hoeven, Mr. Risch, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Daines, Mr.
Marshall, and Ms. Lummis):
S. 4596. A bill to prohibit the Secretary of Energy, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Transportation, the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from considering, in taking any action, the social cost of carbon, the social cost of methane, the social cost of nitrous oxide, or the social cost of any other greenhouse gas, unless compliant with Office of Management and Budget guidance, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. CASEY (for himself, Ms. Duckworth, Ms.
Klobuchar, Mr. Booker, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Blumenthal,
Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Wyden, and Ms. Hirono):
S. 4597. A bill to allow individuals with disabilities to campaign for elected office without losing access to Federally supported benefits; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. BRAUN (for himself and Mr. Scott of Florida):
S. 4598. A bill to require the Executive Office of the President to provide an inflation estimate with respect to executive orders with a significant effect on the annual gross budget, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. PETERS (for himself and Mr. Lankford):
S. 4599. A bill to streamline the sharing of information among Federal disaster assistance agencies, to expedite the delivery of life-saving assistance to disaster survivors, to speed the recovery of communities from disasters, to protect the security and privacy of information provided by disaster survivors, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. CRUZ (for himself and Mr. Rubio):
S. 4600. A bill to require the reimposition of sanctions with respect to the FARC; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
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