Committee staff members said the report was approved by a voice vote without dissent, but only 17 of the committee's 25 members were present for the vote.
The report was approved for release by the White House, but the findings come as the Trump administration is defending its climate change policies.
This report was approved by Europe's heads of state in 1971, but immediately knocked out by the collapse of Bretton Woods.
The report was approved in a 12-to-1 vote, with Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, the committee's top Republican, casting the dissenting vote.
Among its findings was that the news report was approved by inattentive executives; was delivered by an overworked anchor, Dan Rather; and did not undergo even the most rudimentary fact-checking.
The report was approved with nine votes; Norman Y . Mineta the Secretary of Transportation, who is a member of the commission, abstained, and a labor representative, Charles Moneypenny, issued a sharp dissent.
The company's remuneration report was approved at a meeting in London, effectively endorsing a substantial bonus for Mr. Dudley, who took over at BP in 2010 from Tony Hayward following the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
At a news conference Friday night after the report was approved, James L. Connaughton, the chairman of the president's Council on Environmental Quality, said President Bush had agreed with leaders of the other major industrialized nations that "the issue warrants urgent action, and we need to bring forward in a more accelerated way the technologies that will make a lasting solution possible".
"The combined effects of human error and the lack of sufficient system controls resulted in a fatal collision that should not have happened," Robert L. Sumwalt, the chairman of the N.T.S.B., said at a meeting during which the board's report was approved.
If the report is approved by European parliament leaders on Monday, the ADDE will be asked "to propose measures for financial improvement" within a month.
After the expense report is processed and appropriate receipts scanned, and the report is approved, all associated receipts should be shredded, except in those cases where the funding source requires all original receipts.
