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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 page S4541 on Sept. 12.
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. HICKENLOOPER (for himself, Ms. Lummis, Ms.
Cantwell, and Mr. Wicker):
S. 4814. A bill to establish a demonstration program for the active remediation of orbital debris and to require the development of uniform orbital debris standard practices in order to support a safe and sustainable orbital environment, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
By Mrs. CAPITO (for herself, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Thune,
Mr. Grassley, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Inhofe, Mrs. Hyde-
Smith, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Hagerty, Mr. Risch, Mrs.
Fischer, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Braun, Mr. Graham, Mr.
Blunt, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Sasse, Mr. Tillis, Mr.
Toomey, Mr. Rounds, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Wicker, Ms.
Lummis, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Young, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Hoeven,
Mr. Moran, Mrs. Blackburn, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Scott of Florida, Mr. Cotton, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Burr, Mr.
Daines, Mr. Shelby, Mr. Sullivan, Mr. Tuberville, Mr.
Rubio, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Boozman, Mr. Kennedy, and Mr.
Scott of South Carolina):
S. 4815. A bill to clarify regulatory certainty, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
By Mr. OSSOFF (for himself, Mr. Rounds, Mrs. Shaheen, and Mr. Braun):
S. 4816. A bill to require the Archivist of the United States to submit to Congress a comprehensive plan for reducing the backlog of requests for records from the National Personnel Records Center, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Mr. CRAPO (for himself, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Cornyn,
Mr. Thune, Mr. Burr, Mr. Toomey, Mr. Scott of South
Carolina, Mr. Cassidy, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Daines, Mr.
Portman, Mr. Young, Mr. Sasse, and Mr. Barrasso):
S. 4817. A bill to prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly
$80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds; to the Committee on Finance.
By Mr. CRUZ (for himself, Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Hyde-
Smith, Mr. Lankford, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Inhofe, Mr.
Braun, and Mr. Scott of Florida):
S. 4818. A bill to prohibit the use of Federal and local funds to impose or enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in District of Columbia schools, and to repeal the Coronavirus Immunization of School Students and Early Childhood Workers Regulation Amendment Act of 2021 enacted by the District of Columbia Council; to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
By Ms. ERNST:
S. 4819. A bill to establish a minimum temperature for thermostats at the headquarters of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
By Mr. LEE (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn):
S. 4820. A bill to auction spectrum and to authorize the Federal Communications Commission to borrow funds from the Treasury, to be repaid out of auction proceeds, to ensure rural communications providers have the resources to replace communications equipment and services to protect their networks from Chinese Communist Party espionage; to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
By Mr. LANKFORD (for himself and Mr. Inhofe):
S. 4821. A bill to increase oversight of foreign direct investment in agricultural land in the United States, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
By Mr. WHITEHOUSE (for himself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Schumer,
Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Leahy, Mrs. Feinstein, Mrs.
Murray, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Reed, Mr. Carper, Ms.
Stabenow, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Menendez, Mr. Cardin, Mr.
Sanders, Mr. Brown, Mr. Casey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr.
Tester, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Warner, Mr. Merkley, Mr.
Bennet, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Coons, Mr. Blumenthal,
Mr. Schatz, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Murphy, Ms. Hirono, Mr.
Heinrich, Mr. King, Mr. Kaine, Ms. Warren, Mr.
Markey, Mr. Booker, Mr. Peters, Ms. Duckworth, Ms.
Hassan, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. Smith, Ms. Rosen, Mr.
Lujan, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Ossoff, Mr.
Warnock, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Kelly, and Ms. Sinema):
S. 4822. A bill to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for additional disclosure requirements for corporations, labor organizations, Super PACs and other entities, and for other purposes; read the first time.
By Mr. BURR (for himself and Mr. Wicker):
S.J. Res. 61. A joint resolution to provide for the resolution of issues in a railway labor-management dispute, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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