Jeff Merkley

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brent Christensen, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Benjamin Leon, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of Andorra, Leo Brent Bozell III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, and Morvared Namdarkhan, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Consular Affairs), all of the Department of State; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine reviewing implementation of the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act, and future opportunities for U.S.-Taiwan cooperation.

11/20/2025

Committee: Committee on Foreign Relations

Business meeting to consider S.2082, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements, S.2235, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, S.2741, to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains, S.3022, to amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize certain Environmental Protection Agency programs, S.2110, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a report on reuse and refill systems, S.2878, to reauthorize funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin, S.287, to designate the Federal building located at 225 South Pierre Street in Pierre, South Dakota, as the "Marcella LeBeau Federal Building," and for other purposes, S.2319, to designate the Federal building located at 300 West Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona, as the "Raul M. Grijalva Federal Building", and the nominations of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Douglas Troutman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ho Nieh, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mitch Graves, and Jeff Hagood, both of Tennessee, Randall Jones, of Alabama, and Arthur Graham, of Florida, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and 3 General Services Administration resolutions.

10/29/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Hearings to examine the beneficial use and regulation of chemicals.

10/23/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Subcommittee: Senate Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight

Hearings to examine the nominations of Ho Nieh, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Douglas Troutman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances of the Environmental Protection Agency.

10/8/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Business meeting to consider the nomination of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; to be immediately followed by oversight hearings to examine the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

9/17/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works