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Dick Durbin: I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Health, Education…

On the recordDecember 11, 2014
I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on December 11, 2014, at 9:30 a.m., in room SD-406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building, to hold a joint hearing entitled, ``Oversight of the Implementation of the President's Executive Order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security.'' The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee on foreign relations
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Dec 11, 2014

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