McCarthy faces a confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday.
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Barbara Boxer, the chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says she also will hold hearings on the GSA findings next week.
Chafee was chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
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Barbara Boxer, D-California, chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, indicated in recent media reports that she would likely introduce the bill in late September.
Some Republicans have made some noise about resisting his nomination, or being opposed to his nomination -- Senator Inhofe, on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, promising that he will fight his nomination vigorously.
"It's been blessed by the leadership as the vehicle they see taking to the Senate floor, " says Alden Meyer, director of Strategy and Policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, referring to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Ca.
"You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration, " says John Chafee, chairman of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee.
Gaffney, Jr. appeared yesterday before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to voice opposition to U.S. accession to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
And while the Obama-appointed Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has refused multiple requests to get involved in the issue, Senator Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, is now calling for investigatory hearings on the matter.
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Senator Inhofe, Chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, held the hearing in response to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's exclusion of treaty critics from testifying.
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In the US Senate, Mr Lieberman is a member of the powerful Armed Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Governmental Affairs Committee.
In fact, just today, the Environment and Public Works Committee, under the leadership of Senator Barbara Boxer, is holding the Senate's first hearings on this bill.
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