107th Congress (2001 - 2002)

January 23 - December 16, 2002

Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests via Thomas at thomas.loc.gov

2002/01/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 23, 2002; pages D1 - D8

Committee Meetings

CBO PROJECTIONS

Committee on the Budget: Held a hearing on CBO's Projections. Testimony was
heard from Dan L. Crippen, Director, CBO. 

CONVENTION CENTER--CONSTRUCTION STATUS

Committee on Government Reform: On January 18, the Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia held a hearing on "Status of Construction of the
Convention Center." Testimony was heard from Jeanette M. Franzel, Acting
Director, Financial Management Assurance Team, GAO; the following officials of
the District of Columbia: Harold Brazil, member, City Council and Chairman,
Committee on Economic Development; Eric Price, Deputy Mayor, Planning and
Economic Development; and Natwar Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer; and Lewis H.
Dawley III, General Manager/CEO, Washington Convention Center Authority. 

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing 1 hour of
debate on S. 1762, to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish
fixed interest rates for student and parent borrowers, to extend current law
with respect to special allowances for lenders. The rule provides one motion
to commit. Testimony was heard from Chairman Boehner. 

AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT IMPLEMENTATION

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Aviation held
a hearing on implementation of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act
focusing on the 60-day Deadline for Screening and Checked Baggage. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Transportation:
John Magaw, Under Secretary, Transportation Security; and Kenneth R. Mead,
Inspector General; and public witnesses. 



2002/01/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 24, 2002; pages D10 - D14

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CLONING RESEARCH

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings to examine funding issues surrounding cloning
research, focusing on the clarification of how stem cell research, or
therapeutic cloning, differs from human reproductive cloning, and the ethical
and public-policy issues related to both, after receiving testimony from
Irving L. Weissman, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California,
on behalf of the National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of
Human Cloning; Rudolf Jaenisch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge; and Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth,
and Maria Michejda, Georgetown University Immunology Center and New York
University School of Medicine, both of Washington, D.C.  
Hearings recessed subject to call. 

U.S. ECONOMY

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the state of
the economy, focusing on cyclical adjustments made in 2001, characterized by
reductions in business investment, liquidations in business inventories, and
economic difficulties with U.S. trading partners, after receiving testimony
from Alan Greespan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of James R. Mahoney, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Gregg, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

CORPORATE AVERAGE FUEL ECONOMY STANDARDS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the national security, safety, technological, and employment
implications of increasing the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards,
receiving testimony from Stuart E. Eizenstat, Covington & Burling, former
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Joan B. Claybrook, Public Citizen, J. Andrew
Hoerner, Center for a Sustainable Economy, John German, American Honda Motor
Corporation, Inc., and Gregory Dana, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, all
of Washington, D.C.; Adrian K. Lund, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety,
Arlington, Virginia; Marc Ross, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Allen
Schaeffer, Diesel Technology Forum, Herndon, Virginia. 
Hearings recessed subject to call. 

FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the future of transportation in the United States, focusing on lessons
learned from the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) and
perspectives on reauthorization from the federal, state, and local level,
after receiving testimony from Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation;
Ray Scheppach, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Governors
Association; Mayor Peter Clavelle, Burlington, Vermont, on behalf of the
National League of Cities; Mayor Brent Coles, Boise, Idaho, on behalf of the
U.S. Conference of Mayors, and Commissioner Chris Hart, Hillsborough County,
Florida, on behalf of the National Association of Counties. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Linda Morrison Combs, of North Carolina, to be Chief Financial
Officer, J. Paul Gilman, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of
Research and Development, and Morris X. Winn, of Texas, to be Assistant
Administrator, Administration and Resources Management, all of the
Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. 

ENRON COLLAPSE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine
certain issues surrounding the collapse of Enron Corporation, focusing on its
impact on financial and energy markets, corporate accounting standards and
disclosure of corporate information, and pension investment aspects, after
receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Jr., former Chairman, and Lynn E.
Turner, former Chief Accountant, both of the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission; Bruce B. Henning, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia; John H. Langbein, Yale Law School, New Haven,
Connecticut; and Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego School of Law, San
Diego, California. 

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EARLY EDUCATION

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the quality of early childhood learning programs, focusing
on the importance of early childhood cognitive development, after receiving
testimony from First Lady Laura Bush. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Michael J. Melloy, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth
Circuit, Robert E. Blackburn, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Colorado, James E. Gritzner, to be United States District Judge
for the Southern District of Iowa, Cindy K. Jorgenson, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Arizona, Richard J. Leon, of Maryland, to
be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Jay C.
Zainey, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of
Louisiana, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Melloy and Mr. Gritzner were introduced by Senators Grassley and
Harkin and Representative Leach, Mr. Blackburn was introduced by Senators
Campbell and Allard, Ms. Jorgenson was introduced by Senator Kyl, Mr. Leon was
introduced by Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Mr. Zainey was introduced by
Senators Breaux and Landrieu, and Representative Townsend. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/01/25
Daily Digest - Friday, January 25, 2002; pages D15 - D18

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/01/28
Daily Digest - Monday, January 28, 2002; pages D20 - D22

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/01/29
Daily Digest - [Tuesday], January 29, 2002; pages D22 - D42

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FINANCIAL WAR ON TERRORISM

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine the Administration's implementation of the
anti-money laundering provisions (title III) of the USA PATRIOT Act (Public
Law 107-56), and its efforts to disrupt terrorist financing activities, after
receiving testimony from Senators Levin and Grassley; Representatives Oxley
and LaFalce; Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Michael
Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; Richard Spillenkothen, Director, Division of Banking Supervision and
Regulation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Annette L.
Nazareth, Director, Division of Market Regulation, U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission. 

U.S. ECONOMY

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
surrounding the United States economy and the federal budget, including
economic and budgetary effects of certain tax cuts contained in the Economic
Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, after receiving testimony
from Robert D. Reischauer, Urban Institute, and Peter R. Orszag, Brookings
Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and Brian S. Wesbury, Griffin, Kubik,
Stephens and Thompson, Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 

ENRON CORPORATION COLLAPSE

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the implications for consumers and energy markets of the Enron
bankruptcy, focusing on maintaining the needed investment and competition in
natural gas and electricity production and transmission, after receiving
testimony from Patrick Wood, III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy; James E. Newsome, Chairman, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, William M. Nugent, Maine Public Utilities
Commission, Augusta, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory and
Utility Commissioners; Vincent Viola, New York Mercantile Exchange, New York,
New York; Robert McCullough, McCullough Research, Portland, Oregon; and
Lawrence J. Makovich, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the North American Energy Group. 

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATORS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air,
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held hearings on S. 556, to
amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric powerplants,
focusing on technologies to limit the emissions of carbon and mercury from
power plants and other compliant alternatives, receiving testimony from Robert
S. Kripowicz, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Edward
C. Lowe, General Electric Power Systems, Schenectady, New York; Phil Amick,
Global Energy, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard L. Sandor, Environmental
Financial Products LLC, Chicago, Illinois; Michael D. Durham, ADA
Environmental Solutions, Littleton, Colorado; Richard L. Miller, Hamon
Research-Cottrell, Inc., Somerville, New Jersey; Frank Alix, Powerspan
Corporation, New Durham, New Hampshire; and George R. Offen, Electric Power
Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.  The bill in parentheses is a
companion measure.: Hearings recessed subject to call. 

                                     [Page: D41] 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/04
Daily Digest - Monday, February 4, 2002; pages D44 - D50

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

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Joint Meetings 

JANUARY EMPLOYMENT SITUATION 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 1, committee concluded hearings
to examine the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment data in order to gauge
the status of the January employment situation, as well as the latest consumer
and producer price indexes with respect to the inflation outlook, after
receiving testimony from Lois Orr, Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor. 



2002/02/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 5, 2002; pages D52 - D58

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FIREFIGHTING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
held hearings to examine firefighting issues, focusing on urban search and
rescue task forces response requirements, and funding needs for firefighting
training, equipment, apparatus, communications, safety and health issues, and
staffing, receiving testimony from Stephen D. Paulsell, Boone County Fire
Protection District/Missouri Task Force 1, Columbia; Carlos P. Olaguer,
Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Peter H. Morris, CNN,
Chevy Chase, Maryland, on behalf of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad;
Philip C. Stittleburg, LaFarge, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Volunteer
Fire Council; Harold A. Schaitberger, International Association of Fire
Fighters, Washington, D.C.; and John M. Buckman III, German Township Volunteer
Fire Department, Evansville, Indiana, on behalf of the International
Association of Fire Chiefs.  Hearings recessed subject to call. 

                                     [Page: D54]

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary, and Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary,
(Comptroller), both of the Department of Defense; and General Richard B.
Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the Canadian Senate
Committee on National Security Defense. 

FINANCIAL LITERACY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
examine the need to improve financial literacy and learning for American
consumers, focusing on Federal efforts to increase familiarity with new
technological and financial tools to promote economic prosperity, receiving
testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary, and Sheila C. Bair, Assistant
Secretary for Financial Institutions, both of the Department of the Treasury;
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
and Harvey L. Pitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

2003 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on the cost of the recession,
homeland security, and economic stimulus, receiving testimony from Mitchell E.
Daniels, Jr., Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and approved
the issuance of a subpoena to compel testimony from Kenneth Lay, former CEO
and current board member of the Enron Corporation. 

AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the implementation of the Aviation and Transportation
Security (TSA) Act (P.L. 107-71), focusing on the hiring of tens of thousands
of new employees, additional employee background screening tools, airport
security operations studies, test TSA deployment techniques and technology,
and begin senior management training, after receiving testimony from Michael
P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, John W. Magaw, Under Secretary, and Kenneth M.
Mead, Inspector General, all of the Department of Transportation. 

BIOTERRORISM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues concerning
bioterrorism, focusing on harnessing American scientific and entrepreneurial
expertise to develop effective defense capabilities to protect our forces and
nation, after receiving testimony from Anna Johnson-Winegar, Deputy Assistant
Secretary to the Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense; Lisa A. Simpson,
Deputy Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of
Health and Human Services; Richard Klausner, Special Advisor for
Counterterrorism, National Academy of Sciences; Georges C. Benjamin, Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore; John G. Edwards, Photonic
Sensor, Atlanta, Georgia; Richard J. Hatchett, Memorial
Hospital/Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, on behalf of the
Civilian Medical Reserve Working Group; Una Ryan, AVANT Immunotherapeutics,
Inc., Neeham, Massachusetts; and Bruno W. S. Sobral, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University/Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg. 

PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain revenue
proposals within the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003,
after receiving testimony from Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury. 

FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States foreign policy and the President's proposed budget request for fiscal
year 2003 for foreign affairs, after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell,
Secretary of State. 

RETIREMENT INSECURITY/ENRON COLLAPSE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of the Enron Corporation collapse on the company's 401(k) retirement
investors, after receiving testimony from William D. Miller, Jr.,
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Portland, Oregon; Catheryn
Graham, Hewitt Associates, The Woodlands, Texas; Cindy Olson and Mikie Rath,
both of Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas; Joseph P. Szathmary, Northern Trust
Retirement Consulting, Atlanta, D55Georgia; Karen W. Ferguson, Pension Rights
Center, James A. Klein, American Benefits Council, Erik Olsen, American
Association of Retired Persons, and Stephen M. Saxon, Groom Law Group, on
behalf of the Society of Professional Administrators and Record Keepers (SPARK
Institute), all of Washington, D.C.; Susan J. Stabile, St. John's University
School of Law, New York, New York; and Deborah G. Perrotta, Kingwood, Texas. 

                                     [Page: D55]

HUMAN CLONING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine issues
surrounding scientific and medical aspects of human reproductive cloning,
including the protection of human subjects, and to clarify how human
reproductive cloning differs from stem cell research, receiving testimony from
Representatives Weldon and Greenwood; Irving L. Weissman, Stanford Medical
School, on behalf of the National Academies Panel on Scientific and Medical
Aspects of Human Cloning, and Henry T. Greely, Stanford University Center for
Law and the Biosciences, on behalf of the California Advisory Committee on
Human Cloning, both of Stanford, California; R. Alta Charo, University of
Wisconsin Law School, Madison; and Kris Gulden, on behalf of the Coalition of
the Advancement of Medical Research, Andrew Kimbrell, International Center for
Technology Assessment, and Father Kevin T. FitzGerald, Georgetown University
Medical Center, all of Washington, D.C.
 
Hearings recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

U.S. ECONOMY 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the economic
report of the President, after receiving testimony from R. Glenn Hubbard,
Chairman, and Mark B. McClellan and Randall S. Kroszner, both Members, all of
the Council of Economic Advisers. 



2002/02/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 6, 2002; pages D59 - D66

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FINANCIAL LITERACY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the status of financial literacy and learning for American
consumers, focusing on Federal, State, public and private efforts to develop a
national strategy to promote consumer financial education, after receiving
testimony from former Representative Susan Molinari, on behalf of the
Americans for Consumer Education and Competition; Denise Voigt Crawford, Texas
State Securities Board, Austin; and Stephen Brobeck, Consumer Federation of
America, H. Patrick Swygert, Howard University, on behalf of the Historically
Black Colleges and Universities, Don M. Blandin, American Savings Education
Council, Esther Canja, American Association of Retired Persons, and Raul
Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, all of Washington, D.C. 

2003 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on security, economic,
and long-term fiscal challenges, receiving testimony from Jacob J. Lew, former
Director, Office of Management and Budget; and Robert L. Bixby, The Concord
Coalition, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the effects of certain provisions to repeal the Public Utility Holding
Company Act (PUHCA) of 1935, contained in S. 1766, Energy Policy Act (pending
on Senate calendar), on energy markets and energy consumers, and whether
recent events in the Enron bankruptcy have raised concerns that regulation of
energy companies may be insufficient, without PUHCA, to protect customers of
electric utilities, after receiving testimony from Isaac C. Hunt, Jr.,
Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Cynthia A. Marlette,
General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy;
Roy Hemmingway, Oregon Public Utility Commission, Salem, on behalf of the
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; David L. Sokol,
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, Des Moines, Iowa; and Scott Hempling,
Silver Spring, Maryland. 

                                     [Page: D62]

U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the status of ongoing
U.S. trade negotiations, focusing on World Trade Organization negotiations,
trade remedy laws, fast track authority, labor rights, environmental issues,
and trade adjustment assistance, receiving testimony from Robert B. Zoellick,
U.S. Trade Representative; Gary Broyles, National Association of Wheat
Growers, Rapelje, Montana, on behalf of the Wheat Export Trade Education
Committee and U.S. Wheat Associates; George Scalise, Semiconductor Industry
Association, San Jose, California; Arthur D. Wainwright, Wainwright
Industries, Saint Peters, Missouri, on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers; and Barb Determan, Early, Iowa, on behalf of the National Pork
Producers Council.

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

U.S. STRATEGIC SECURITY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine a new
strategic framework, focusing on implications for U.S. security, after
receiving testimony from William J. Perry, Stanford University Hoover
Institution, Stanford, California, former Secretary of Defense; and Caspar W.
Weinberger, Washington, D.C., former Secretary of Defense. 

U.S. POLICY OPTIONS IN SOMALIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings to examine U.S. policy options in Somalia, focusing on the promotion
of stability, sustainable development, and expanded economic opportunity,
after receiving testimony from Walter H. Kansteiner, Assistant Secretary of
State for African Affairs; Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College, Davidson, North
Carolina; David H. Shinn, former Ambassador to Ethiopia and Special
Coordinator for Somalia, Washington, D.C.; and Robert MacPherson, CARE,
Atlanta, Georgia. 

ACCOUNTABILITY/ENRON COLLAPSE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine
accountability issues surrounding the fall of Enron Corporation, focusing on
fraud, auditor conflicts, vulnerability of institutional investors, and
liability limits, after receiving testimony from Washington Attorney General
Christine O. Gregoire, Olympia; Bruce Raynor, New York, New York, on behalf of
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), AFL-CIO, and
the Amalgamated Bank; Steven M. Schatz, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich, and Rosati
Professional Corporation, Palo Alto, California; Nelson Lund, George Mason
University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia; and Susan P. Koniak, Boston
University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. 

WORLD THREAT 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings to examine
issues surrounding global threats and challenges, focusing on the emerging
global security environment, after receiving testimony from George J. Tenet,
Director of Central Intelligence; Dale L. Watson, Executive Assistant Director
for Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson, USN, Director, Defense
Intelligence Agency, and Carl W. Ford, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for
Intelligence and Research. 

WORLD THREATS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded closed hearings to
examine issues surrounding world threats to American national security, after
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

WOMEN AND LONG-TERM CARE 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions' Subcommittee on Aging to
examine issues related to women and aging, focusing on long-term care and the
predominant role of women as America's caregivers, after receiving testimony
from Senators Murray, Collins, Lincoln, Stabenow, Clinton, and Carnahan;
Laurie Young, Older Women's League, Washington, D.C.; and Gail Gibson Hunt,
National Alliance for Caregiving, Bethesda, Maryland. 

                                     [Page: D63]

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 7, 2002; pages D68 - D74

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Transportation, focusing on the Transportation Security Administration, after
receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, and John W.
Magaw, Under Secretary for Security, both of the Department of Transportation. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the United
Kingdom's House of Commons Defence Committee. 

OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine the conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom, focusing on the role of the
U.S. Central Command in America's global war on terrorism, after receiving
testimony from General Tommy R. Franks, USA, Commander in Chief, United States
Central Command. 

SUPERIOR BANK, HINSDALE, ILLINOIS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the analysis of the failure and implications of Superior Bank, FSB,
Hinsdale, Illinois, focusing on causes of the failure, external audit
findings, and the effectiveness of federal supervision, after receiving
testimony from Jeffrey Rush, Jr., Inspector General, Department of the
Treasury; Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; and Thomas J. McCool, Managing Director for Financial Markets and
Community Investment, General Accounting Office. 

2003 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on tax relief and
fiscal discipline provisions, receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill,
Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 12. 

WAR ON TERRORISM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
future of the War on Terrorism, focusing on accomplishments to date,
continuing terrorist threats, weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. role in
the world, world alliances, peacekeeping, and globalization, after receiving
testimony from Samuel R. Berger, Stonebridge International, Washington, D.C.,
former National Security Advisor; Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA (Ret.), General
Dynamics, Arlington, Virginia, former NATO Allied Commander; and William
Kristol, Weekly Standard, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Project for the
New American Century. 

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings S. 1867, to
establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,
after receiving testimony from former Representative Dave McCurdy, Electronic
Industries Alliance, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Commission to Assess
the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD Commission); Norman R. Augustine, United
States Commission on National Security, Bethesda, Maryland; and Richard K.
Betts, Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, and Maurice
Sonnenberg, Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc., both of New York, New York, both on
behalf of the National Commission on Terrorism. 

PENSION PLAN REFORM 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the impact of the collapse of Enron Corporation on its
401(k) pension plan investors and the Department of D70Labor's role in
enforcement and regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(ERISA), focusing on related pension plan reform proposals, after receiving
testimony from Senators Boxer and Corzine; Representative Bentsen; Elaine L.
Chao, Secretary of Labor; Steven E. Lacey, Portland General Electric, Salem,
Oregon; Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College Carroll School of Management,
Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research
Institute, Washington, D.C.; James Prentice, Administrative Committee of the
Enron Corporation Savings Plan, Houston, Texas; Jan Fleetham, Bloomington,
Minnesota; and Karl V. Farmer, New Hampshire. 

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TRIBAL TRUST FUND 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on certain
legislative proposals relating to the statute of limitations on claims against
the United States related to the management of Indian tribal trust fund
accounts, including S. 1857, to encourage the negotiated settlement of tribal
claims, after receiving testimony from McCoy Williams, Acting Director,
Financial Management and Assurance, General Accounting Office; Philip Hogen,
Associate Solicitor, Division of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior;
and Charles Tillman, Intertribal Monitoring Association, Pawhuska, Oklahoma. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael J. Melloy, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Eighth Circuit, Robert E. Blackburn, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Colorado, David L. Bunning, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky; James E. Gritzner, to be
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, Cindy K.
Jorgenson, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona,
Richard J. Leon, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Columbia, Jay C. Zainey, to be United States District Judge for
the Eastern District of Louisiana, Thomas P. Colantuono, to be United States
Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, James K. Vines, to be United
States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, James Duane Dawson, to
be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, Brian
Michael Ennis, to be United States Marshal for the District of Nebraska;
Nehemiah Flowers, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of
Mississippi; Arthur Jeffrey Hedden, to be United States Marshal for the
Eastern District of Tennessee, Johnny Lewis Hughes, to be United States
Marshal for the District of Maryland, William Carey Jenkins, to be United
States Marshal for the Middle District of Louisiana, Randy Merlin Johnson, to
be United States Marshal for the District of Alaska, David Glenn Jolley, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, Chester Martin
Keely, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama, John
William Loyd, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of
Oklahoma, Ronald Richard McCubbin, Jr., to be United States Marshal for the
Western District of Kentucky, David Reid Murtaugh, to be United States Marshal
for the Northern District of Indiana, Michael Wade Roach, to be United States
Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma, Eric Eugene Robertson, to be
United States Marshal for the Western District of Washington, David Donald
Viles, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maine, and Larry Wade
Wagster, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Fifth Circuit, after the nominee, testified and answered questions in
his own behalf.  

BUSINESS MEETING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider
pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call. 

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No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/08
Daily Digest - Friday, February 8, 2002; pages D75 - D80

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Nancy Dorn, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of
Management and Budget, Dan Gregory Blair, of the District of Columbia, to be
Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and John L. Howard, of
Illinois, to be Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Blair was introduced
by Senator Carnahan. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/11
Daily Digest - Monday, February 11, 2002; pages D81 - D84

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CUBA TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government
concluded hearings to examine issues related to restrictions of travel to
Cuba, including the Administration's Cuba policy, human rights support, open
market economy, and improving the political, economic, and cultural
relationships with the United States, after receiving testimony from former
Senator Dennis DeConcini; R. Richard Newcomb, Director, Office of Foreign
Assets Control, Department of the Treasury; James Carragher, Coordinator of
Cuban Affairs, Department of State; Dennis K. Hayes, Cuban American National
Foundation, Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador to Suriname; John I.
Gilderbloom, University of Louisville College of Business and Public
Administration Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods, Louisville,
Kentucky, on behalf of the Cuban Research and Education Programs; Nancy Chang,
Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, New York; Marilyn Meister, Milton,
Wisconsin; Cevin Allen, Sammamish, Washington; and John Harriman, Chicago,
Illinois. 

FHA BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation,
Infrastructure, and Nuclear Safety held hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the Federal Highway
Administration, the Revenue Aligned Budget Authority (RABA) mechanism, and
budget related reauthorization issues, receiving testimony from Donna McLean,
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs and Chief Financial Officer, and
Mary E. Peters, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, both of the
Department of Transportation; Thomas E. Stephens, Nevada Department of
Transportation, Carson City, on behalf of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials; and William D. Fay, American Highway
Users Alliance, and Tom Hill, Oldcastle Materials Inc., on behalf of the
American Road and Transportation Builders Association, both of Washington,
D.C. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 12, 2002; pages D85 - D92

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from
Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army; Gordon R. England, Secretary of the
Navy; and James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force. 

ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues raised
by Enron and other public companies, including overseeing capital markets,
designing successful reforms, improving transparency of information, financial
statement auditing accuracy, and encouraging better governance of accounting
firms and corporations, after receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Jr., and
Richard C. Breeden, Richard C. Breedan and Co., both of Greenwich,
Connecticut, David S. Ruder, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago,
Illinois, Harold M. Williams, Los Angeles, California, and Roderick M. Hills,
Hills Enterprises Ltd, Washington, D.C., each a former Chairman, Securities
and Exchange Commission. 

2003 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on the State
Department's foreign policy objectives, including winning the war on terrorism
and protecting Americans at home and abroad, receiving testimony from Colin L.
Powell, Secretary of State.  

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ENRON COLLAPSE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine the collapse of the Enron Corporation, focusing on the investigation
of potentially questionable Enron's partnership transactions, receiving
testimony from Kenneth L. Lay, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick and Wolfe, Washington,
D.C., former Chairman/CEO, Enron Corporation; and William C. Powers, Jr.,
University of Texas Law School, Austin, on behalf of the Board of Directors of
Enron Corporation Special Investigative Committee. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

INTERIOR/FOREST SERVICE/ENERGY BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the
Department of the Interior, the U. S. Forest Service, and the Department of
Energy, after receiving testimony from J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary, and
P. Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, both
of the Department of the Interior; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture
for Natural Resources and Environment; and Bruce M. Carnes, Chief Financial
Officer, Department of Energy. 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CRIME

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
theft of American intellectual property at home and abroad, focusing on the
Department of State's and U.S. Trade Representative's role in policy and
enforcement, and recent trends in intellectual property protection, including
implementation of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
(TRIPS) agreement the and "Special 301" review, after receiving
testimony from
Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and
Agricultural Affairs; Peter F. Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative;
John S. Gordon, U.S. Attorney, Central District of California, Department of
Justice; Jeffrey Raikes, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; and Jack
Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, Hilary Rosen, Recording
Industry Association of America, and Douglas Lowenstein, Interactive Digital
Software Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Nancy Dorn, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of
Management and Budget, Dan Gregory Blair, of the District of Columbia, to be
Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and John L. Howard, of
Illinois, to be Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals. 

                                     [Page: D88]

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine multilateral
non-proliferation regimes, weapons of mass destruction technologies, and the
War on Terrorism, focusing on measures for enhancing the ability of these
multilateral treaties to prevent the acquisition of chemical and biological
weapons by both national and subnational groups, after receiving testimony
from Elisa D. Harris, University of Maryland Center for International and
Security Studies, and Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of
Washington, D. C.; Jim Walsh, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Dennis M. Gormley, International Institute for Strategic
Studies, London, England. 

EARLY EDUCATION

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine early education issues, focusing on quality educational
programs, parent involvement in early childhood development, and separation of
education for children with special needs, after receiving testimony from
Elisabeth Schaefer, Massachusetts Department of Education, Malden; Jack P.
Shonkoff, Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management,
Waltham, Massachusetts; Edward Zigler, Yale University Child Study Center, New
Haven, Connecticut; Dorothy S. Strickland, Rutgers University Graduate School
of Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Rob Reiner, I Am Your Child
Foundation, Hollywood, California; Susan Russell, University of North Carolina
Child Care Services Association, Chapel Hill; and Sharon E. Rhodes, Parents as
Teachers National Center, St. Louis, Missouri. 

OXYCONTIN ABUSE

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the effects of the painkiller Oxycontin, focusing on
Federal, State and local efforts to decrease abuse and misuse of this product
while assuring availability for patients who suffer daily from chronic
moderate to severe pain, after receiving testimony from John K. Jenkins,
Director, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food
and Drug Administration, and H. Westley Clark, Director, Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, both
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Richard Payne, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Art Van Zee, Lee Coalition
for Health, St. Charles, Virginia; Nancy Green, Neighbors Against Drug Abuse,
Calais, Maine; William R. Bess, Virginia State Police, Wytheville; and Paul D.
Goldenheim, Purdue Pharma L.P., Stamford, Connecticut. 

U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings to
examine issues surrounding the U.S. Refugee Program, including the effects of
recent crises in Afghanistan and Africa on the refugee populations, security
concerns in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, use of joint voluntary
organizations to relieve refugee processing burdens, family reunification, and
case backlogs, receiving testimony from Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary
of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; James W.
Ziglar, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of
Justice; Leonard S. Glickman, Refugee Council USA, New York, New York, on
behalf of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society; and Anastasia Brown, U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services, and Bill
Frelick, U.S. Committee for Refugees, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 13, 2002; pages D94 - D102

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on active and reserve military and civilian personnel
programs, after receiving testimony from David S. C. Chu, Under Secretary of
Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Reginald J. Brown, Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; William A. Navas, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Michael L. Dominguez,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; SMA
Jack L. Tilley, USA, Sergeant Major of the Army; SM Alford L. McMichael, USMC,
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps; MCPON James L. Herdt, USN, Master Chief
Petty Officer of the Navy; CMSGT Frederick J. Finch, USAF, Chief Master
Sergeant of the Air Force; Craig W. Duehring, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Russell C. Davis, ANG,
Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Craig Bambrough, USAR, Deputy
Commanding General, U.S. Army Reserve Command; VADM John B. Totushek, USNR,
Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve Force; Lt. Gen. James E. Sherrard III, USAF,
Chief, Air Force Reserve; and Lt. Gen. Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR, Commander,
Marine Forces Reserve. 

                                     [Page: D96]

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT BUDGET

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony
from Mel Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Sheila Crowley,
National Low Income Housing Coalition, Washington, D.C.; Joseph F. Reilly, JP
Morgan Chase Community Development Group, New York, New York, on behalf of the
National Association of Affordable Housing Lenders; and Thomas L. Jones,
Habitat for Humanity International, Americus, Georgia. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered unfavorably reported S.J. Res. 31,
suspending certain provisions of law pursuant to section 258(a)(2) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 

2003 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue proposals, focusing
on the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz,
Deputy Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

EPA 2003 BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill
establishing Energy Tax Incentives Act of 2002. 

SECTORAL TRADE DISPUTES

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine sectoral trade
disputes concerning lumber and steel, focusing on open and fair competition in
international markets, receiving testimony from Grant D. Aldonas, Under
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Peter Allgeier, Deputy United
States Trade Representative; Bobby Rayburn, National Association of Home
Builders, Rodger Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife, and Jon E. Jenson,
Consuming Industries Trade Action Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.; W. J.
Wood, Tolleson Lumber Company, Perry, Georgia, on behalf of the Coalition for
Fair Lumber Imports; Thomas J. Usher, United States Steel Corporation, and Leo
W. Gerard, United Steelworkers of America, both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Daniel R. DiMicco, Nucor Corporation, Charlotte, North Carolina; Gary C. Hill,
National Metalwares, Aurora, Illinois, on behalf of the Emergency Committee
for American Trade; and Joseph Cannon, Geneva Steel, Vineyard, Utah. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

HIV/AIDS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine
bilateral and multilateral responses to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, focusing
on new prevention tools including microbicides, treatment and care of people
living with HIV/AIDS, and mitigation of current and future social and economic
impacts of the epidemic, after receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson,
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Andrew Natsios, Administrator, U.S.
Agency for International Development; Paula J. Dobriansky, Under Secretary of
State for Global Affairs; Peter Piot, UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland; Princeton
Lyman, Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Center for
Strategic and International Studies Task Force on HIV/AIDS; Sunanda Ray,
Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service, Harare, Zimbabwe;
and Peter Okaalet, Medical Assistance Program International, Nairobi, Kenya. 

DIAMOND TRADE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to
examine the implementation and enforcement of the Kimberly Process Agreement
(to ban the source of income from illicit diamonds), after receiving testimony
from Senators DeWine, Feingold, and Gregg; John E. Leigh, Ambassador of Sierra
Leone to the United States; Joseph H. Melrose, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to
Sierra Leone; Loren Yager, Director, International Affairs and Trade, General
Accounting Office; Alan W. Eastham, Special Negotiator for Conflict Diamonds,
Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department of State; Timothy Skud,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Regulatory, Tariff, and
Trade Enforcement; and James Mendenhall, Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Trade
Representative. 

GENETIC DISCRIMINATION

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the existing laws and proposed legislation necessary to
protect genetic information, in order to prevent genetic discrimination that
may lead to loss of health insurance or employment discrimination, including
S. 318/S. 382, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of genetic information
with respect to health insurance, after receiving testimony from Cari M.
Dominguez, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Bobby P. Jindal,
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation;
Debra L. Ness, National Partnership for Women and Families, Joanne L. Hustead,
Georgetown University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Andrew J.
Imparato, American Association of People with Disabilities, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Ronald L. Adler, Laurden Associates, Inc., Potomac, Maryland. 

                                     [Page: D97]

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1857, to
Encourage the Negotiated Settlement of Tribal Claims. 

NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND SELF-DETERMINATION ACT

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
implementation and reauthorization of the Native American Housing Assistance
and Self-Determination Act (NAHASDA), after receiving testimony from Michael
Liu, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Office of Public
and Indian Housing; Kelsey A. Begaye, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona;
Robert Gauthier, Salish and Kootenai Housing Authority, Pablo, Montana;
Chester Carl, Coalition for Indian Housing and Development, Washington, D.C.;
and Joe Garcia, National Congress of American Indians, San Juan Pueblo, New
Mexico. 

BASEBALL ANTITRUST EXEMPTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the application
of federal antitrust laws to Major League Baseball, receiving testimony from
Senators Wellstone, Nelson, and Dayton; Florida Attorney General Bob
Butterworth, Tallahassee; Minnesota Deputy Attorney General Lori R. Swanson,
St. Paul; Robert A. DuPuy, Major League Baseball, and Donald M. Fehr, Major
League Baseball Players Association, both of New York, New York; and Stanley
M. Brand, Minor League Baseball, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

CYBER TERROR ATTACK

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts met to receive a briefing on issues surrounding potential threats of
cyber terror attacks from Richard A. Clarke, Special Advisor to the President
for Cyberspace Security, and Chairman of the President's Infrastructure Board. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider
pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 14, 2002; pages D103 - D110

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

U.S. COAST GUARD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the U.S. Coast Guard,
after receiving testimony from Admiral James M. Loy, USCG, Commandant, U.S.
Coast Guard, and Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, both of the Department of
Transportation. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the results of the Nuclear Posture Review,
after receiving testimony from Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy; John A. Gordon, USAF (Ret.), Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear
Security and Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration; and Adm.
James O. Ellis, Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, United States Strategic Command. 

                                    [Page: D105]

ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues raised by Enron
and other public companies, focusing on the relevance of the work of the
International Accounting Standards Committee and its associated bodies to the
evident problems besetting the accounting and auditing profession, after
receiving testimony from Paul A Volcker, Arthur Andersen Independent Oversight
Board, New York, New York, former Chairman, Federal Reserve, and Sir David
Tweedie, London, England, former Chairman of the United Kingdom's Accounting
Standards Board, both on behalf of the International Accounting Standards
Board.  Hearings recessed subject to call. 

2003 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue proposals, focusing
on the Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from
Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL PARKS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks
concluded hearings on S. 202 and H.R. 2440, to rename Wolf Trap Farm Park for
the Performing Arts as "Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing
Arts"; S.
1051 and H.R. 1456, to expand the boundary of the Booker T. Washington
National Monument; S. 1061 and H.R. 2238, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to acquire Fern Lake and the surrounding watershed in the States of
Kentucky and Tennessee for addition to Cumberland Gap National Historic Park;
S. 1649, to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 to
increase the authorization of appropriations for the Vancouver National
Historic Reserve and for the preservation of Vancouver Barracks; S. 1894, to
direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to
determine the national significance of the Miami Circle site in the State of
Florida as well as the suitability and feasibility of its inclusion in the
National Park System as part of Biscayne National Park; and H.R. 2234, to
revise the boundary of the Tumacacori National Historical Park in the State of
Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senator Warner; Durand Jones, Deputy
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Terrence D.
Jones, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia; and
Karla Lutz Bowling, Bell County Chamber of Commerce, Middlesboro, Kentucky. 

FEDERAL DEBT LIMIT 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and Debt Reduction
concluded hearings to examine the Administration's request to increase the
federal debt limit, after receiving testimony from Paul O'Neill, Secretary of
the Treasury; Bruce R. Bartlett, National Center for Policy Analysis, Robert
L. Bixby, The Concord Coalition, and Gene B. Sperling, Brookings Institution,
all of Washington, D.C. 

AFRICA AIDS/HIV CRISIS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
prevention and treatment of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa, after receiving
testimony from Eugene McCray, Director, Global AIDS Program, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Anne
Peterson, Assistant Administrator for Global Health, U.S. Agency for
International Development; Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard University Center for
International Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the World
Health Organization Commission on Macroeconomics and Health; Jim Yong Kim,
Harvard Medical School Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Martin J. Vorster, Mahyeno Tributary Mamelodi,
Pretoria, South Africa. 

WORKING POOR 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine needs of the working poor and helping welfare recipients
find work and balance the needs of their families, after receiving testimony
from Heather Boushey, Economic Policy Institute, and Peter Edelman, Georgetown
University Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Ellen Bravo, 9 to 5, National
Association of Working Women, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Debra A. Greenwood, New
York, New York, on behalf of the Welfare Made a Difference Campaign; Sharon
Johnson, Key Bridge Marriott, Rosslyn, Virginia, on behalf of the Welfare to
Work Partnership; and Barbara Ehrenreich, Key West, Florida. 

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IDENTITY THEFT AND PRIVACY PROTECTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and
Government Information held hearings to examine identity theft, and privacy
and protection of personal information, and the need for legislation to deter
and protect against the misuse of this information, including S. 1055, to
require the consent of an individual prior to the sale and marketing of such
individual's personally identifiable information, receiving testimony from
Senator Gregg; Richard M. Stana, Director, Justice Issues, General Accounting
Office; Susan Fisher, Doris Tate Crime Victims Bureau, Carlsbad, California;
Douglas B. Comer, Intel Corporation, and Frank Torres, Consumers Union, both
of Washington, D.C.; and Jonathan D. Avila, Walt Disney Company, Burbank,
California.

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS AFFAIRS AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for veterans'
programs, after receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Secretary,
Frances M. Murphy, Acting Under Secretary for Health, and Guy H. McMichael
III, Acting Under Secretary for Benefits, all of the Department of Veterans
Affairs; Bob Jones and Richard Jones, both of AMVETS, Lanham, Maryland;
Richard Fuller, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Rick Surratt, Disabled American
Veterans, Paul A. Hayden, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and
James R. Fischl, American Legion, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/15
Daily Digest - Friday, February 15, 2002; pages D112 - D114

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meetings 

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 

Joint Economic Committee: On Thursday, February 14, committee concluded
hearings to examine reform of the International Monetary Fund and the World
Bank, after receiving testimony from John Taylor, Under Secretary of the
Treasury for International Affairs. 



2002/02/25
Daily Digest - Monday, February 25, 2002; pages D116 - D122

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 26, 2002; pages D124 - D132

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003
for the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from John Ashcroft,
Attorney General, Department of Justice. 

APPROPRIATIONS--AID 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the United
States Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from
Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development. 

ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues, focusing on
proposals to reform financial reporting by public companies, accounting
standards, and oversight of the accounting profession, receiving testimony
from Walter P. Schuetze, Michael H. Sutton, Lynn E. Turner, all Chief
Accountants, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Dennis R. Beresford,
former Chairman, Financial Accounting Standards Board. 

                                    [Page: D126]

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 5. 

2003 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the Federal Highway
Administration, Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of Education,
after receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration, and Donna McLean, Assistant Secretary for Budget and
Programs/Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Transportation;
Michael Parker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Lt. Gen.
Robert B. Flowers, Chief of Engineers, United States Corps of Engineers;
Thomas A. Till, Executive Director, Amtrak Reform Council; Bob Chase, National
Education Association, and Larry M. King, Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation, Harrisburg, on behalf of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and approved
the issuance of a subpoena to Sherron Watkins, Enron Corporation, Houston,
Texas. 

ENRON CORPORATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to
examine certain issues contributing to the collapse of Enron Corporation,
receiving testimony from Sherron Watkins, Houston, Texas, and Jeffrey McMahon,
Washington, D.C., both of Enron Corporation; and Jeffrey Skilling, Washington,
D.C. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Raymond L. Orbach, of California, to be Director of the Office
of Science, Department of Energy, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senator Feinstein, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

WATER INVESTMENT ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
examine S. 1961, to improve financial and environmental sustainability of the
water programs of the United States, and other related measures including S.
252, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize
appropriations for State water pollution control revolving funds; S. 285, to
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of State
revolving loan funds for construction of water conservation and quality
improvements; S. 503, to amend the Safe Water Act to provide grants to small
public drinking water system; and S. 1044, to amend the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act to provide assistance for nutrient removal technologies
to States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; after receiving testimony from
Senator Kyl; Benjamin H. Grumbles, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water,
Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, Trenton, New Jersey,
on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; Joseph A. Moore, Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Nancy Stoner, Natural
Resources Defense Council, on behalf of the Clean Water Network, Paul D.
Schwartz, Clean Water Action, and Terry R. Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen,
Leifer, and Yellig, on behalf of the Building and Construction Trades
Department (AFL-CIO), all of Washington, D.C.; William Kukurin, Kukurin
Contracting, Inc., Export, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Associated Builders
and Contractors; and Jim Barron, Ronkin Construction, Arlington, Virginia, on
behalf of the National Utility Contractors Association. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Gerald Reynolds, of Missouri, to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

INDIAN TRIBAL TRUST FUNDS 

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine rulings of the
United States Supreme Court affecting tribal government powers and
authorities, focusing on trust reform and trust asset management, after
receiving testimony from Neal A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for Indian
Affairs, James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary for Indian Affairs, and
Thomas N. Slonaker, Special Trustee for American Indian Trust Funds, Office of
the Special Trustee, all of the Department of the Interior; Reid Chambers and
Douglas Endreson, both of Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, and Endreson, Washington,
D.C.; Donald T. Gray, Nixon, Peabody, LLP, San Francisco, California; Tex G.
Hall, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town,
North Dakota, on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians; Clifford
Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, California; Gary S.
Morishima, Intertribal Timber Council, Portland, Oregon; James T. Martin,
United South and Eastern Tribes, Nashville, Tennessee; Edward K. Thomas,
Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; and
Charles O. Tillman, Jr., Osage Nation, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, and Bill Martin,
Juneau, Alaska, both on behalf of the Intertribal Monitoring Association on
Indian Trust Funds. 

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Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Ralph R. Beistline, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Alaska, D. Brooks Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Third Circuit, Randy Crane, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Texas, and David C. Bury, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Arizona, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Beistline was introduced by Senators
Stevens and Murkowski, Mr. Smith was introduced by Senators Specter and
Santorum, Mr. Crane was introduced by Senator Gramm and Representative
Hinojosa, and Mr. Bury was introduced by Senator Kyl. 

U.S. PORT SECURITY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the security of U.S.
ports against terror, focusing on technology, resources, and homeland defense,
after receiving testimony from Capt. William G. Schubert, Maritime
Administrator, and Rear Adm. Kenneth T. Venuto, Director of Operations Policy,
United States Coast Guard, both of the Department of Transportation; Bonni G.
Tischler, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U. S. Customs
Service, Department of the Treasury; Richard D. Steinke, Port of Long Beach,
Long Beach, California, on behalf of the American Association of Port
Authorities; F. Amanda DeBusk, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Export Enforcement, and former Commissioner, Interagency Commission on Crime
and Security in U.S. Seaports, Washington, D.C.; Kim E. Peterson, Maritime
Security Council, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Rob Quartel, Freightdesk
Technologies, Inc., McLean, Virginia; and Charles W. Upchurch, SGS Global
Trade Solutions, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the Global Alliance
for Trade Efficiency. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/02/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 27, 2002; pages D134 - D144

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from
Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture, who was accompanied by several of
her associates. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings to
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Defense, after receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary, and
Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary/Comptroller, both of the Department of
Defense. 

APPROPRIATIONS--HIGHWAY SAFETY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department
of Transportation, focusing on highway safety programs, after receiving
testimony from Jeffrey W. Runge, Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation; Marion C. Blakey,
Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; James W. McMahon, New York
State Police, Ballston Lake, on behalf of the International Associations of
Chiefs of Police; and Millie I. Webb, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Houston,
Texas. 

FEMA TERRORISM RESPONSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to examine the role of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) concerning terrorism response, including funding for first
responder and live agent training facilities such as the Center for Domestic
Preparedness, the impact of the proposed transfer of the Office of Emergency
Preparedness from the Department of Justice to FEMA, and U.S. chemical weapons
stockpiles protection, after receiving testimony from Joe M. Allbaugh,
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings to examine the status of Iraq's current holdings of weapons
of mass destruction, after receiving testimony from Anthony H. Cordesman and
Charles A. Duelfer, both of the Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Washington, D.C.  Also, subcommittee met in closed session on the
aforementioned, after receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

DEFENSE ACQUISITION POLICY 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings to examine the Department of Defense acquisition policy,
focusing on proposals to change the military environment, reduce cycle time,
improve processes including greater use of competition, link human resources
to requirements, and monitor progress with metrics, after receiving testimony
from Michael W. Wynne, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition,
Technology and Logistics, and Deidre A. Lee, Director, Defense Procurement,
both of the Department of Defense; and Angela B. Styles, Administrator for
Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget. 

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine issues related to corporate governance raised by
Enron Corporation, focusing on abuse of stock options, auditor independence,
and compensation issues, after receiving testimony from John H. Biggs,
Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association--College Retirement Equities Fund
(TIAA-CREF), and Ira M. Millstein, Weil, Gotshal, and Manges, on behalf of the
Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit
Committees, both of New York, New York.  

BUDGET OUTLOOK

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the long-term
budgetary outlook of the United States, focusing on demographic trends, the
impact of the aging baby boom generation, and creating a balance between
current needs and wants against known long term pressures, after receiving
testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States,
General Accounting Office. 

DIGITAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 414, to amend the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization Act to
establish a digital network technology program, focusing on the digital divide
and minority serving institutions, after receiving testimony from Antonio
Flores, Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, San Antonio, Texas;
William H. Gray III, United Negro College Fund, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia;
Frederick S. Humphries, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher
Education, Silver Spring, Maryland; Gerald Monette, Turtle Mountain Community
College, Belcourt, North Dakota, on behalf of the American Indian Higher
Education Consortium; Juliet V. Garcia, University of Texas and Texas
Southmost College, Brownsville; Marie V. McDemmond, Norfolk State University,
Norfolk, Virginia; George Sandoval, Dine College, Tsaile, Arizona; and Louis
W. Sullivan, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the
Atlanta University Center Council of Presidents. 

PRIVATE PENSION SYSTEM SECURITY

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine potential
vulnerability issues of employer-sponsored defined contribution and benefits
retirement plans, otherwise known as pension plans, including the importance
of investment diversification, investor education issues, information
disclosure, fiduciary rules needed to safeguard employee pension assets, and
related issues associated with the Enron Corporation's defined benefit pension
plans, receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office; William F. Sweetnam, Jr., Benefits
Tax Counsel, Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury; Steven A.
Kandarian, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Jack L.
VanDerhei, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Employee Benefit Research Institute; R. Bradford Huss, Trucker Huss, San
Francisco, California, on behalf of the American Society of Pension Actuaries. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

FUTURE SECURITY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
development of a secure future, focusing on democratization, poverty
alleviation, and human rights, after receiving testimony from Madeleine K.
Albright, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, former
Secretary of State, and Richard N. Perle, former Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security, on behalf of the American Enterprise
Institute, both of Washington, D.C. 

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UN POPULATION FUND

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Operations and
Terrorism concluded hearings to examine U.S. contributions toward the United
Nation's Population Fund and how it affects the lives of women, after
receiving testimony from Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for
Population, Refugees, and Migration; Nicolaas H. Biegman, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, former Netherlands Ambassador to the United Nations and NATO;
Phyllis E. Oakley, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,
former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research/Population,
Refugees, and Migration, and Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Josephine Guy, America 21,
Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the Population Research Institute. 

WALL STREET'S ENRON SILENCE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
fall of the Enron Corporation and the inaccuracies and independence of Wall
Street research analysts ratings of Enron, after receiving testimony from
Richard Gross, Lehman Brothers, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey; Anatol Feygin,
J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc., Curt N. Launer, Credit Suisse First Boston,
Raymond C. Niles, Salomon Smith Barney, all of New York, New York; Howard M.
Schilit, Center for Financial Research and Analysis, Inc., Rockville,
Maryland; Robert R. Glauber, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc.,
and Frank C. Torres, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C., former Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Thomas A. Bowman, Association for
Investment Management and Research, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Charles L.
Hill, Thomson Financial/First Call, Boston, Massachusetts. 

EMPLOYMENT NONDISCRIMINATION ACT

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1284, to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of
sexual orientation, after receiving testimony from Charles K. Gifford,
FleetBoston Financial Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; Lucy Billingsley,
Billingsley Company, Dallas, Texas; Robert L. Berman, Eastman Kodak Company,
Rochester, New York; Richard G. Womack, AFL-CIO Department of Civil and Human
Rights, Washington, D.C.; Matthew Coles, American Civil Liberties Union, New
York, New York; and Lawrence Lane, Long Island, New York. 

WORKPLACE SAFETY

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on
Employment, Safety and Training concluded hearings to examine workplace safety
and health issues with respect to immigrant and low-wage workers, after
receiving testimony from Representative Gutierrez; John L. Henshaw, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health; Rosemary Sokas,
Associate Director for Science, National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Headquarters, Department of
Health and Human Services; Arturo S. Rodriguez, United Farm Workers of America
(AFL-CIO), Keene, California; Thomas Maier, Newsday Magazine, Melville, New
York; Bobby J. Jackson, National Programs for the National Safety Council,
Washington, D.C.; and Omar Henriquez, New York Committee for Occupational
Safety and Health, and You Di Liao, on behalf of the Chinese Staff and
Workers' Association, National Mobilization Against SweatShops and Workers'
Awaaz, both of New York, New York. 

INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine
how the rulings of the United States Supreme Court affect the powers and
authorities of Indian tribal governments, after receiving testimony from
William C. Canby, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
Phoenix, Arizona; Robert Yazzie, Navajo Nation Supreme Court, Window Rock,
Arizona; John St. Clair, Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribal Court of the Wind River
Reservation, Ft. Washakie, Wyoming; David H. Getches, University of Colorado
School of Law, Boulder; Robert T. Andersen, University of Washington School of
Law, Seattle; and W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington. 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact
of State sovereign immunity on the enforcement of intellectual property
rights, focusing on the meaning of related Supreme Court decisions, Florida
Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. College Savings Bank and
College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board,
and a related measure, S. 1611, to restore Federal remedies for infringements
of intellectual property by States, after receiving testimony from James E.
Rogan, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of
the Patent and Trademark Office; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights,
Library of Congress; Michael K. Kirk, American Intellectual Property Law
Association, Arlington, Virginia; Keith Schraad, National Information
Consortium, Lawrence, Kansas; William E. Thro, Christopher Newport University,
Newport News, Virginia; and Paul Bender, Arizona State University College of
Law, Tempe, on behalf of the Property Owners Remedy Alliance. 

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NOMINATION 

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Melanie Sabelhaus, of Maryland, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Small Business Administration, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Hector V. Barreto, Jr., Administrator, SBA, testified and
answered questions in her own behalf. 

SBA BUDGET 

Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded hearings
on the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 for the Small Business
Administration, focusing on the 7(a) Guaranty Loan Program, 504 Loan Program,
and the Microloan Program, after receiving testimony from Hector V. Barreto,
Jr., Administrator, Small Business Administration; Anthony R. Wilkinson,
National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater,
Oklahoma; Christopher L. Crawford, National Association of Development
Companies, McLean, Virginia; Alan Corbet, Growth Opportunity Connection,
Kansas City, Missouri; Amanda C. Zinn, Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore, Inc.,
Baltimore, Maryland; and Donald Wilson, Association of Small Business
Development Centers, Burke, Virginia. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.  

Committee recessed subject to call. 

GERIATRIC HEALTH CARE SHORTAGE 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
growing lack of medical professionals trained to treat the elderly and a
related proposal to expand medical residency training programs in geriatrics,
after receiving testimony from Daniel Perry, Alliance for Aging Research,
Washington, D.C.; Charles A. Cefalu, Louisiana State University, New Orleans,
on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society and the Louisiana Geriatrics
Society; Claudia J. Beverly, Donald W. Reynolds Center on Aging, Little Rock,
Arkansas; Michael C. Martin, Commission for Certification in Geriatric
Pharmacy, Alexandria, Virginia; and Stephen Bzdok, Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Joint Meetings 

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS/VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS 

Joint Meeting: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
recommendations of certain veteran's programs, receiving testimony from George
H. Steese, Jr., Disabled American Veterans, and James N. Goldsmith, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, both of Washington, D.C. 



2002/02/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 28, 2002; pages D145 - D152

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NATO 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing on
defending, integrating, and stabilizing the Euro-Atlantic area, after
receiving testimony from Marc I. Grossman, Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs; Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
and General Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, United States
European Command. 

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the fiscal
year 2003 for the Department of Defense, focusing on installations and
environmental programs, after receiving testimony from Raymond F. DuBois, Jr.,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment; Mario P.
Fiori, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment; H.
T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment;
and Nelson F. Gibbs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations,
Environment and Logistics. 

REMITTANCE 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine issues with respect to the sending of
remittances, or the sending of money to someone at a distance, focusing on the
constraint of money transfer charges and exchange rate differentials on Latin
American immigrants when providing financial assistance to their relatives in
their country of origin, after receiving testimony from Representative
Gutierrez; Sergio Bendixen, Bendixen and Associates, Miami, Florida; Manuel
Orozco, Inter-American Dialogue, and Susan F. Martin, Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service Institute for the Study of International Migration,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, University of California,
Los Angeles School of Public Policy, Los Angeles. 

ARGENTINIAN ECONOMY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Trade and Finance concluded hearings to examine Argentina's
current economic situation, focusing on the International Monetary Fund,
American aid, and sovereign debt restructuring, after receiving testimony from
John B. Taylor, Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs;
Michael Mussa, Institute for International Economics, and Peter Hakim,
Inter-American Dialogue, both of Washington, D.C.; and William J. Haener, CMS
Gas Transmission Company, Dearborn, Michigan. 

2003 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue proposals, focusing
on Department of Defense war, transformation, and reform issues, receiving
testimony from Josh S. Weston, Montclair, New Jersey, on behalf of the
Business Executives for National Security Tail-to-Tooth Commission; Michael E.
O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Loren B. Thompson,
Lexington Institute, Arlington, Virginia. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 6. 

DIGITAL TELEVISION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine the protection of content in a digital age, focusing on
promoting broadband and digital television transition, after receiving
testimony from Michael D. Eisner, Walt Disney Company, Burbank, California;
Peter Chernin, News Corporation, New York, New York; Leslie L. Vadasz, Intel
Corporation, Santa Clara, California; Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems
Inc., San Jose, California; James E. Meyer, Thomson multimedia, Indianapolis,
Indiana; Robert A. Perry, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc.,
Irvine, California, on behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition; and Jack
Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, Encino, California. 

WATER INVESTMENT ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries,
Wildlife, and Water concluded hearings on S. 1961, to improve financial and
environmental sustainability of the water programs of the United States, and
related measures including S. 252, to amend the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution control
revolving funds; S. 285, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to
authorize the use of State revolving loan funds for construction of water
conservation and quality improvements; S. 503, to amend the Safe Water Act to
provide grants to small public drinking water system; and S. 1044, to amend
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to provide assistance for nutrient
removal technologies to States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; after
receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; Robert M. Hirsch, Associate
Director for Water, United States Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior; Andrew M. Chapman, Elizabethtown Water Company, Elizabethtown, New
Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of Water Companies; Ed
Archuleta, El Paso Water Utilities, El Paso, Texas, on behalf of the
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies; Paul Pinault, Narragansett Bay
Commission, Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Association of
Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies; Elmer Ronnebaum, Kansas Rural Water
Association, Seneca, Kansas, on behalf of the National Rural Water
Association; Howard Neukrug, Philadelphia Water Department, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Water Works Association; Tom Morrisey,
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford, on behalf of the
Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators;
and Jay L. Rutherford, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation,
Waterbury, on behalf of the Association of State Drinking Water
Administrators. 

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NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Emmy B. Simmons, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, United States
Agency for International Development, and Robert B. Holland III, of Texas, to
be United States Alternate Executive Director of the International Bank For
Reconstruction and Development, after the nominees, testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Holland was introduced by Senator
Hutchison. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Louis Kincannon, of Virginia, to be Director of the Census,
Department of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Allen
and Representative Sawyer, testified and answered questions in their own
behalf 

MAMMOGRAPHY 

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Public
Health concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education to examine the
conflicting findings regarding mammography usage and update recommendation
guidelines, based on the most current scientific data, on the use of
mammography in breast cancer detection, after receiving testimony from Andrew
von Eschenbach, Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Donald A. Berry, University
of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, on behalf of the Physicians'
Data Query (PDQ) Screening and Prevention Editorial Board; Harmon J. Eyre,
American Cancer Society, Fran Visco, National Breast Cancer Coalition, and
LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., Howard University College of Medicine, on behalf of
the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Carolyn D. Runowicz, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology/Continuum Health Partners, Inc., New York, New York,
on behalf of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 

UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILD PROTECTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings on
S. 121, to establish an Office of Children's Services within the Department of
Justice to coordinate and implement Government actions involving unaccompanied
alien children, after receiving testimony from Michael J. Creppy, Chief
Immigration Judge, Executive Office for Immigration Review, and Stuart
Anderson, Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice;
Wendy A. Young, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Falls
Church, Virginia; Andrew D. Morton, Latham and Watkins, and Julianne Duncan,
United States Conference on Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Edwin L. Munoz, Middleville, Michigan. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/03/01
Daily Digest - Friday, March 1, 2002; pages D154 - D160

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Raymond L. Orbach, of California, to be Director of
the Office of Science, Department of Energy.

Also, committee approved their fiscal year 2003 budgetary views and estimates
on programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget. 

IRAQ 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine United States
policy in Iraq, focusing on the threat of Iraq's current weapons of mass
destruction programs and capabilities, after receiving testimony from Richard
O. Spertzel, former head of United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)
Biological Weapon Inspections, and former Deputy Commander, USAMRIID; Robert
J. Einhorn, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.;
and David A. Kay, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean,
Virginia. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/03/04
Daily Digest - Monday, March 4, 2002; pages D162 - D166

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet 

NURSING HOME ABUSE

Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine physical
and sexual abuse in nursing homes by individuals entrusted with their care,
focusing on improving coordination and oversight authorities among law
enforcement and other agencies of jurisdiction in order to protect the elderly
from such abuse, after receiving testimony from Leslie G. Aronovitz, Director,
Health Care, Program Administration and Integrity Issues, General Accounting
Office; Henry Blanco, Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phoenix, on
behalf of the National Association of Adult Protective Services
Administrators; Mark Malcolm, Pulaski County Coroner's Office, Little Rock,
Arkansas; Charles A. Fuselier, St. Martin Parish Sheriff's Office, St.
Martinville, Louisiana, on behalf of the National Sheriff's Association; Delta
Holloway, Western Health Care, Boise, Idaho, on behalf of the American Health
Care Association; Bruce Love, Mill Creek, California; Barbara Becker,
Evansville, Indiana; and Michael Peters, Orlando, Florida. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/03/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 5, 2002; pages D168 - D174

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2003, after receiving testimony on behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, both Associate
Justices, United States Supreme Court; and John G. Heyburn II, Chairman, M.
Blane Michael, and Leonidas Ralph Mecham, all of the Committee on the Budget,
Judicial Conference of the United States. 

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department
of Defense, including defense-wide, defense agencies, and Army military
construction, after receiving testimony from Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary
(Comptroller), Raymond F. DuBois, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary for
Installations and Environment, Lt. Gen. William Tangney, USA, Deputy Commander
in Chief, Special Operations Command, Maj. Gen. Leonard Randolph, USAF, Deputy
Executive Director of the TRICARE Management Activity, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Health Affairs, John M. Molino, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
D169Military Community and Family Policy, Office of Defense Education
Activity, and Frederick N. Baillie, Executive Director, Business Management
Logistics Operations, Defense Logistics Agency, all of the Department of
Defense; Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary for Installations and
Environment, Maj. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr., USA, Assistant Chief of
Staff for Installation and Management, and Brig. Gen. Michael J. Squier, USA,
Deputy Director, Army National Guard, all of the Department of the Army; and
Maj. Gen. James R. Helmly, USAR, Commander, 78th Division for Training
Support, U.S. Army Reserve. 

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on unified and regional
commanders, military strategy and operational requirements, after receiving
testimony from Adm. Dennis C. Blair, USN, Commander-in-Chief, United States
Pacific Command; Gen. Thomas. A. Schwartz, USA, Commander-in-Chief, United
Nations Command/U.S. Forces Korea/Combined Forces Command Korea; and Maj. Gen.
Gary D. Speer, USA, Acting Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on Marine Corps modernization programs, after receiving
testimony from Gen. James L. Jones, Jr., USMC, Commandant, and Lt. Gen. Robert
Magnus, USMC, Deputy Commandant, Programs and Resources, both of the United
States Marine Corps. 

ACCOUNTING/INVESTOR PROTECTION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues raised
by Enron and other public companies, focusing on full disclosure guidance,
after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office; Robert R. Glauber, National
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Joel Seligman,
Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri; and John C. Coffee,
Jr., Columbia University School of Law, New York, New York. 

TERRORIST NUCLEAR THREAT

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the potential of a terrorist nuclear threat, focusing on dirty
bombs and basement nuclear weapons, from Harry C. Vantine, Division Leader,
Counterterrorism and Incident Response, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory; Donald D. Cobb, Associate Laboratory Director for Threat
Reduction, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Richard A. Meserve, Chairman,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California; and a member of the Intelligence Community. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Jeanette J. Clark, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was introduced by
D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in her
own behalf. 

CLONING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded
hearings to examine cloning research, focusing on the clarification of how
stem cell research, or therapeutic cloning, differs from human reproductive
cloning, and the ethical and public-policy issues related to both, and related
issues of S. 1893, to ban human cloning while protecting stem cell research,
after receiving testimony from Senators Specter and Landrieu; Christopher
Reeve, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Springfield, New Jersey; Paul
Berg, Stanford University Medical Center Beckman Center for Molecular and
Genetic Medicine, Stanford, California, on behalf for the American Society for
Cell Biology/Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research; Thomas H.
Murray, Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Judy Norsigian, Boston Women's
Health Book Collective, Boston, Massachusetts; and Stuart A. Newman, New York
Medical College, Valhalla, New York. 

INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for Indian programs, focusing on
employment and training, education, housing, government, and law enforcement,
receiving testimony from David G. Dye, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Employment and Training Administration; Thomas M. Corwin, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; Tracy
A. Henke, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice
Programs, Department of Justice; and Clarence Carter, Director, Office of
Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, Department of
Health and Human Services. 

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Hearings continue on Thursday, March 7. 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mary Ann Solberg, of Michigan, to be Deputy Director, Barry D. Crane, of
Virginia, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, and Scott M. Burns, of
Utah, to be Deputy Director for State and Local Affairs, all of the Office of
National Drug Control Policy; and the nomination of J. Robert Flores, of
Virginia, to be Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Solberg was introduced by
Senators Levin, Stabenow, and Representative Levin, Mr. Crane and Mr. Flores
were introduced by Senators Warner and Allen, and Mr. Burns was introduced by
Senators Hatch and Bennett. 

No Joint hearings noted.



2002/03/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday March 6, 2002; pages D176 - D186

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, and to be Under
Secretary for Rural Development, and Nancy Southard Bryson, of the District of
Columbia, to be General Counsel, both of the Department of Agriculture; and
Grace Trujillo Daniel, of California, and Fred L. Dailey, of Ohio, each to be
a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage
Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Testimony was also received on the
nomination of Mr. Dorr from Representative Clayton; Ron Langston, National
Director, Minority Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce; Dennis
Keeney, Ames, Iowa; George Naylor, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement,
Des Moines; Leon Crump, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, East Point,
Georgia; Nancy Hier, Marcus, Iowa; Varel Bailey, Anita, Iowa; Thomas A. Fretz,
University of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College Park; and
Constantine Curris, American Association of State Colleges and Universities,
Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Army,
after receiving testimony from Thomas E. White, Secretary, and Gen. Eric K.
Shinseki, USA, Chief of Staff, both of the Department of the Army. 

APPROPRIATIONS--STATE/AID

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for
democracy and human rights programs of the Department of State and the U.S.
Agency for International Development, after receiving testimony from Lorne W.
Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor;
and Roger P. Winter, Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development. 

APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from Anthony J.
Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs. 

DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings to examine financial management reform issues of the
Department of Defense, focusing on financial management systems, operations,
and controls, after receiving testimony from Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary
of Defense (Comptroller); and David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2003 for the Department of Defense, focusing on nonproliferation programs of
the Department of Energy and the Cooperative Threat Reduction program of the
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from J.D. Crouch II,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; and Linton
F. Brooks, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National
Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.  

ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues raised by Enron
and other public companies, including oversight of the accounting profession,
audit quality and independence, and formulation of accounting principles,
after receiving testimony from Bevis Longstreth, former Commissioner of the
Securities and Exchange Commission, Lee J. Seidler, Bear Stearns and Company,
and Abraham J. Briloff, City University of New York Bernard M. Baruch College,
all of New York, New York; Shaun F. O'Malley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
former Chairman of the Public Oversight Board Panel on Audit Effectiveness
(O'Malley Commission); and Arthur R. Wyatt, Village of Golf, Florida. 

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HUD HOMELESS ASSISTANCE

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine the proposed
reauthorization of the HUD McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act programs,
after receiving testimony from Roy A. Bernardi, Assistant Secretary, Office of
Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Stanley J. Czerwinski, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues,
General Accounting Office; Nan Roman, National Alliance to End Homelessness,
Washington, D.C.; Mitchell Netburn, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
Los Angeles, California; and Mary Ann Gleason, York County Initiative to End
Homelessness, Alfred, Maine. 

2003 BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue proposals, focusing
on analysis of the Congressional Budget Office, after receiving testimony from
Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to examine wireless communications
infrastructure in the United States in light of September 11, focusing on
access to diverse markets and quality services at affordable prices, receiving
testimony from Agostino Cangemi, Department of Information Technology and
Telecommunications, Brooklyn, New York; Steve Souder, Emergency Communications
Center, Rockville, Maryland; Paul Crotty, Verizon, Inc., New York, New York;
Glen Nash, Association of Public-Safety Communications
Officials-International, Inc., Sacramento, California; Gloria Harris, AT&T
Wireless Services, Inc., Paramus, New Jersey; Larissa Herda, Time Warner
Telecom, Inc., Littleton, Colorado; and Christopher A. McLean, ComCare
Alliance, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

LAND USAGE AND BROWNFIELDS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
975, to improve environmental policy by providing assistance for State and
tribal land use planning, to promote improved quality of life, regionalism,
and sustainable economic development; and S. 1079, to amend the Public Works
and Economic Development Act of 1965 to provide assistance to communities for
the redevelopment of brownfield sites, after receiving testimony from Senator
Levin; David A. Sampson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic
Development; Elizabeth Humstone, Vermont Forum on Sprawl, Burlington, on
behalf of the American Planning Association; Deborah Anderson, Wood Partners,
Durham, North Carolina, on behalf of the National Multi Housing
Council/National Apartment Association; Don Chen, Smart Growth America,
Washington, D.C.; F. Gary Garczynski, Woodbridge, Virginia, on behalf of the
National Association of Home Builders; and Mary Lou Bentley, Western Nevada
Development District, Carson City, on behalf National Association of
Development Organizations. 

DIRTY BOMBS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
effects of potential terrorist attacks using radiological dispersal devices,
so-called dirty bombs, and the possibility of contamination if radiation
levels do exceed EPA health and toxic material guidelines, after receiving
testimony from Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
Donald D. Cobb, Associate Director for Threat Reduction, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, and Harry C. Vantine, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both
of the Department of Energy; Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena; and Henry C. Kelly, Federation of American Scientists,
Washington, D.C. 

WORKFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
monitoring of accountability and competition in the federal and service
contract workforce, focusing on the Circular A-76, cost comparisons for the
public-private competition process, after receiving testimony from Angela B.
Styles, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of
Management and Budget; Barry W. Holman, Director, Defense Capabilities and
Management, General Accounting Office; Dan Guttman, Johns Hopkins University
Washington Center for the Study of American Government, Bobby L. Harnage, Sr.,
American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), and Colleen M. Kelley,
National Treasury Employees Union, all of Washington, D.C.; and Mary Lou
Patel, Advanced Systems Development, Inc., and Stan Z. Soloway, Professional
Services Council, both of Arlington, Virginia. 

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING

Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Public
Health concluded hearings to examine the improvement of surveillance of
chronic conditions and potential links to environmental exposures, after
receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Richard J. Jackson, Director, National
Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Henry Falk, Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry, and Kenneth Olden, Director, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services; John Harris, California Birth Defects Monitoring
Program, Oakland, on behalf of the March of Dimes; F. Ed Thompson, Jr.,
Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, on behalf of the Association
of State and Territorial Health Officials; George D. Thurston, New York
University School of Medicine Institute of Environmental Medicine, New York,
New York, on behalf of the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences' Community Outreach and Education Program; Thomas A. Burke, Johns
Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and
Shelley A. Hearne, Trust for America's Health, Washington, D.C. 

CABLE AND SATELLITE COMPETITION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and
Business and Consumer Rights concluded hearings to examine cable and satellite
television competition, focusing on the proposed merger between the two
largest satellite television companies in the country, EchoStar Communications
and DirecTV, and the question of the application of antitrust laws to such
merger, after receiving testimony from Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University
Law Center, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and Gene
Kimmelman, Consumers Union, and Edward O. Fritts, National Association of
Broadcasters, all of Washington, D.C.; Missouri State Attorney General
Jeremiah W. Nixon, Jefferson City; Eddy W. Hartenstein, DirecTV, Inc., El
Segundo, California; and Charles W. Ergen, EchoStar Communication Corporation,
Littleton, Colorado. 

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee meets again on Wednesday, March 13. 

Joint Meetings

IMF AND WORLD BANK REFORM

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine reforms to
the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, focusing on efficiency and
effectiveness, after receiving testimony from Allan H. Meltzer, and Adam
Lerrick, both of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and C.
Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., all on
behalf of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission (IFIAC). 



2002/03/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 7, 2002; pages D188 - D196

Committee Meetings

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS--FCC/SEC

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2003, on behalf of funds for their respective activities, after receiving
testimony from Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission;
and Harvey L. Pitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Energy,
after receiving testimony from Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Energy. 

APPROPRIATIONS--HHS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2003 for the Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving
testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

AMTRAK

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings
to examine Amtrak performance, budget, and passenger rail service issues,
focusing on a new national policy on intercity passenger rail and the Federal
role in support of that form of transportation, after receiving testimony from
Michael P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, Allan Rutter, Administrator, Federal
Railroad Administration, and Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, all of the
Department of Transportation; George D. Warrington, President/CEO, Amtrak
(National Railroad Passenger Corporation); and Ronald Utt, Heritage
Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of
Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, USA, Chief of Staff, United States Army; Adm. Vernon E.
Clark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. James L. Jones, USMC, Commandant
of the Marine Corps; and Gen. John P. Jumper, Chief of Staff, United States
Air Force. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on the Ballistic Missile Defense Program, after receiving
testimony from E.C. Aldridge, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology, and Logistics; and Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director,
Missile Defense Agency. 

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine the Semi-Annual Report on Monetary Policy of the
Federal Reserve, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

NATIONAL TRAILS SYSTEMS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks
concluded hearings to examine S. 1069/H.R. 834, to amend the National Trails
System Act to clarify Federal authority relating to land acquisition for
willing sellers from the majority of the trails in the System, S. 213/H.R. 37,
to amend the National Trails System Act to update the feasibility and
suitability studies of 4 national historic trails and provide for possible
additions to such trails, H.R.1384, to amend the National Trails System Act to
designate the route in Arizona and New Mexico which the Navajo and Mescalero
Apache Indian tribes were forced to walk in 1863 and 1864, for study for
potential addition to the National Trails System, and S. 1946, to amend the
National Trails System Act to designate the Old Spanish Trail as a National
Historic Trail, after receiving testimony from Senators Hatch and Levin;
Katherine Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural Resources Stewardship and
Partnerships, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Kelsey
Begaye, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Shane Henry, Colorado Department
of Natural Resources, Denver; William C. Watson, Oregon-California Trails
Association, Orinda, California; Patrick Hearty, National Pony Express
Association, Inc., South Jordan, Utah; Gary Werner, Partnership for the
National Trails System, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin; and Dru Bower, Petroleum
Association of Wyoming, Casper. 

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PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for prescription drug coverage as
part of the Medicare proposal, receiving testimony from former Senator Bob
Kerrey, on behalf of the Concord Coalition; Thomas A. Scully, Administrator,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and Bobby P. Jindal, Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, both of the Department of Health and
Human Services; Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office; William
D. Novelli, American Association of Retired Persons, and Patricia Neuman,
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Medicare Policy Project, both of Washington,
D.C.  

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD PROTOCOLS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine two
optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which
were adopted at New York, May 25, 2000: (1) The Optional Protocol to the
Convention on the Rights of the Child on Involvement of Children in Armed
Conflict; and (2) The Optional Protocol to the Conventional on the Rights of
the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography,
signed on July 5, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-37), after receiving testimony from E.
Michael Southwick, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs; Marshall S. Billingslea, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Negotiations Policy; John G. Malcolm, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Jo Becker, Human Rights
Watch, New York, New York; and RAdm. Eugene J. Carroll, Jr, USN (Ret.), Center
for Defense Information, and RAdm. Timothy O. Fanning, Jr., USNR (Ret.), Navy
League of the United States, both of Washington, D.C. 

HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the trafficking of persons, focusing on
monitoring and combating this practice through the implementation of the
Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000, after receiving
testimony from Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary for Global Affairs, and Nancy
Ely-Raphel, Senior Advisor, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in
Persons, both of the Department of State; Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Nguyen Van Hanh,
Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and
Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Hae Jung Cho, Coalition to
Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, Los Angeles, California; Ann Jordan,
International Human Rights Law Group, Washington, D.C.; and Carol Smolensky,
End Child Prostitution and Trafficking-USA, New York, New York. 

PUBLIC HEALTH/NATURAL RESOURCES

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine
public health and natural resources, focusing on current implementation of
environmental laws, after receiving testimony from Senators Jeffords and
Craig; Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, Eric V. Schaeffer, former
Director, Office of Regulatory Enforcement, and E. Donald Elliot, former
General Counsel, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas O.
McGarity, University of Texas School of Law, Austin; and Gregory S. Wetstone,
National Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C. 

INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET

Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for Indian programs, focusing on
employment and training, education, housing, government, and law enforcement,
receiving testimony from Michael H. Trujillo, Director, Assistant Surgeon
General/Director, Indian Health Services, Department of Health and Human
Services; and Michael Liu, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development for Public and Indian Housing. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 14. 

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items: 

S. Res. 214, designating March 25, 2002, as "Greek Independence Day: A
National Day of Celebration