107th Congress
Unprinted Senate Hearings
January 2001 - December 2002
Unprinted as of January 19, 2007
** Hearings for 20010228
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Veterans VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: Joint Meetings: Senate
Affairs Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on Veterans'
Affairs on the legislative recommendations of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, ...
** Hearings for 20010301
Veterans VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee
Affairs on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review
the legislative recommendations of certain veterans
organizations, ...
** Hearings for 20010307
Commerce ELECTION REFORM: Committee held hearings to examine
the need for electoral process and voting technology
reform, in order to ensure accessible, accurate and
secure elections, including proposed legislation to
eliminate punch card voting, and require uniform
voting standards and quality voting equipment, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010308
Armed Services U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY: Committee concluded closed
hearings to examine current and future worldwide
threats to the national security of the United
States, ...
Veterans VETERANS PROGRAMS: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the
legislative recommendations of certain veterans
organizations, ...
** Hearings for 20010309
Veterans VETERANS PROGRAMS: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the
legislative recommendations of certain veterans
organizations, ...
** Hearings for 20010314
Appropriations INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Defense
concluded closed hearings to review intelligence
programs, ...
Appropriations WILDFIRE PROGRAM: Senate Appropriations' Subcommittee
on the Interior concluded joint hearings with the
House Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on the
Interior on issues dealing with the wildfire program,
...
Commerce INTERNET TAX MORATORIUM: Committee concluded hearings
to examine whether to extend the Internet Tax Freedom
Act's moratorium on the ability of state or local
governments to impose new sales taxes on Internet
access services, or to impose new taxes on electronic
commerce allowing states to require all remote sellers
to collect and remit sales taxes on deliveries into
that state, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Veterans VETERANS PROGRAMS: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the
legislative recommendations of the Disabled American
Veterans, ...
** Hearings for 20010315
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Richard Lee Armitage, of Virginia, to be
Deputy Secretary of State, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Warner and McCain, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.
** Hearings for 20010320
Finance SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE TRUSTEES REPORTS: Senate
Committee on Finance concluded joint hearings with the
House Committee on Ways and Means to examine the 2001
Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports, ...
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Marc Isaiah Grossman, of Virginia, to
be Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, ...
** Hearings for 20010321
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Grant S. Green, Jr., of Virginia, to
be Under Secretary of State for Management, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 3/22/01
** Hearings for 20010322
Foreign NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS: Committee met in closed
Relations session to receive a briefing on the intelligence
assessment of emerging national security threats ...
Veterans VETERANS' PROGRAMS: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the
legislative recommendations of certain veterans
organizations, ...
** Hearings for 20010327
Foreign NOMINATIONS: ... Also, committee concluded hearings
Relations on the nomination of William Howard Taft, IV, of
Virginia, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of
State, ...
** Hearings for 20010328
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010329
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security, ...
** Hearings for 20010403
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Also, on Tuesday, April 3, committee
held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 4/4/01
** Hearings for 20010404
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Argeo Paul Cellucci, of Massachusetts,
to be Ambassador to Canada, ...
** Hearings for 20010425
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Andrew S. Natsios, of Massachusetts,
to be Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development, ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Paula J. Dobriansky, of Virginia, to be
Under Secretary for Global Affairs, Lincoln P.
Bloomfield, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, and Richard
Nathan Haass, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of Service as Director, Policy
Planning Staff, all of the Department of State.
** Hearings for 20010426
Foreign BUSINESS MEETING: ... Prior to this action, committee
Relations concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr. Kelly
[James Andrew Kelly, of Hawaii, to be Assistant
Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
Department of State], ...
** Hearings for 20010508
Appropriations COUNTERTERRORISM: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings to
examine the roles and capabilities of various United
States federal government departments'
counterterrorism efforts, ...
Hearings also held on 5/9, 5/10/01
** Hearings for 20010509
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 5/10/01
** Hearings for 20010515
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 5/16, 5/17/01
Narcotics ILLEGAL DRUG TRANSIT ZONE: Caucus concluded hearings
to examine counter drug interdiction strategy and
operations in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, known
as the Transit Zone, ...
Hearings also held on 2/16/01
** Hearings for 20010516
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Stephen Brauer, of Missouri, to be
Ambassador to Belgium, and A. Elizabeth Jones, of
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
European Affairs, ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Thelma J. Askey, of Tennessee, to be
Director of the Trade and Development Agency, and
Peter S. Watson, of California, to be President of the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, ...
** Hearings for 20010517
Commerce NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Michael K. Powell, of Virginia,
Kathleen Q. Abernathy, of Maryland, Michael Joseph
Copps, of Virginia, and Kevin J. Martin, of North
Carolina, each to be a Member, all of the Federal
Communications Commission, ...
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Walter H. Kansteiner, of Virginia, to
be Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of William J. Burns, of the District of
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern
Affairs, and Christina B. Rocca, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, both of
the Department of State, ...
** Hearings for 20010522
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Lorne W. Craner, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, Donald Burnham Ensenat, of Louisiana, to be
Chief of Protocol, with the rank of Ambassador, Carl
W. Ford, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Assistant Secretary
for Intelligence and Research, Ruth A. Davis, of
Georgia, to be Director General of the Foreign
Service, and Paul Vincent Kelly, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, all of
the Department of State, ...
** Hearings for 20010523
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, to
be Ambassador to Japan, ...
** Hearings for 20010608
Governmental DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GOVERNMENT: Senate Committee on
Affairs Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring and the District
of Columbia concluded hearings with the House
Committee on Government Reform Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia to review the future direction of
the District of Columbia Government following the end
of the Control Board period, ...
** Hearings for 20010620
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010621
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of William S. Farish, of Texas, to be
Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, Howard H. Leach, of California, to
be Ambassador to France, Alexander R. Vershbow, of the
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Russian
Federation, and Anthony Horace Gioia, of New York, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Malta, ...
** Hearings for 20010626
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler, of
Alabama, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco,
C. David Welch, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Arab Republic of Egypt, Daniel C. Kurtzer, of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to Israel, Robert D.
Blackwill, of Kansas, to be Ambassador to India, and
Wendy Jean Chamberlin, of Virginia, to be Ambassador
to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, ...
** Hearings for 20010627
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Clark T. Randt, Jr., of Connecticut, to
be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China,
Douglas Alan Hartwick, of Washington, to be Ambassador
to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Charles J.
Swindells, of Oregon, to be Ambassador to New Zealand,
and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to Samoa, Pierre-Richard
Prosper, of California, to be Ambassador at Large for
War Crimes Issues, William A. Eaton, of Virginia, to
be Assistant Secretary for Administration, Francis
Xavier Taylor, of Maryland, to be Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, and Clark Kent Ervin, of Texas, to
be Inspector General, all of the Department of State,
...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010710
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Lori A. Forman, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East,
United States Agency for International Development,
...
** Hearings for 20010711
Commerce INTERNET PRIVACY: Committee held hearings to examine
existing laws protecting Internet privacy both in the
United States and abroad, focusing on the impact
privacy legislation may have on the information
market, ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Peter R. Chaveas, of Pennsylvania, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Aubrey
Hooks, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Donald J. McConnell, of Ohio,
to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea, Nancy J.
Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Ghana, and George McDade Staples, of Kentucky, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as
Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010713
Foreign NOMINATIONS: On Friday, July 13, committee concluded
Relations hearings on the nominations of Russell F. Freeman, of
North Dakota, to be Ambassador to Belize, Sue McCourt
Cobb, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, and
Roger Francisco Noriega, of Kansas, to be Permanent
Representative of the United States of America to the
Organization of American States, with the rank of
Ambassador, ...
** Hearings for 20010718
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010719
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Stuart A. Bernstein, of the District of
Columbia, to be Ambassador to Denmark, Michael E.
Guest, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Romania,
Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., of Connecticut, to be
Ambassador to Sweden, Thomas J. Miller, of Virginia,
to be Ambassador to Greece, Larry C. Napper, of Texas,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Jim
Nicholson, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Holy
See, and Mercer Reynolds, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to
Switzerland, and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to the
Principality of Liechtenstein, ...
** Hearings for 20010725
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Thomas C. Hubbard, of Tennessee, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Franklin L.
Lavin, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Singapore, Marie T. Huhtala, of California, to be
Ambassador to Malaysia, and John Thomas Schieffer, of
Texas, to be Ambassador to Australia, ...
** Hearings for 20010731
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Vincent Martin Battle, of the District
of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Lebanon, Edward William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be
Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Edmund
James Hull, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Yemen, Richard Henry Jones, of Nebraska,
to be Ambassador to the State of Kuwait, Theodore H.
Kattouf, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Syrian
Arab Republic, Maureen Quinn, of New Jersey, to be
Ambassador to the State of Qatar, R. Nicholas Burns,
of Massachusetts, to be United States Permanent
Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of
Ambassador, Daniel R. Coats, of Indiana, to be
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Craig
Roberts Stapleton, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to
the Czech Republic, Johnny Young, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, Richard J.
Egan, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to Ireland,
Nancy Goodman Brinker, of Florida, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Hungary, Robert Geers Loftis, of
Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Lesotho,
Joseph Gerard Sullivan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Zimbabwe, Christopher William Dell,
of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Angola, Carole Brookins, of Indiana, to be United
States Executive Director of the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, Ross J. Connelly,
of Maine, to be Executive Vice President of the
Overseas Private Investment Corporation, Jeanne L.
Phillips, of Texas, to be Representative of the United
States of America to the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, Randal Quarles, of Utah,
to be United States Executive Director of the
International Monetary Fund, and Patrick M. Cronin, of
the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination,
United States Agency for International Development,
...
** Hearings for 20010801
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20010803
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of J. Richard Blankenship, of Florida, to
be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Hans
H. Hertell, of Puerto Rico, to be Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic, and Martin J. Silverstein, of
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Oriental
Republic of Uruguay, ...
** Hearings for 20010913
Foreign NOMINATIONS: ... Prior to this action, committee
Relations concluded hearings on the nominations of Mr. Kennedy,
Ms. Kennedy, Mr. Neumann, and Ms. Wahba, [Patrick
Francis Kennedy, of Illinois, to be Representative of
the United States of America to the United Nations for
the U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of
Ambassador, Laura E. Kennedy, of New York, to be
Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Ronald E. Neumann, of
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the State of Bahrain,
and Marcelle M. Wahba, of California, to be Ambassador
to the United Arab Emirates] ...
** Hearings for 20010921
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Arlene Render, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, Mattie R.
Sharpless, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the
Central African Republic, R. Barrie Walkley, of
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Guinea, Jackson McDonald, of Florida, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of The Gambia, Kevin Joseph McGuire,
of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Namibia, Ralph Leo Boyce, Jr., of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, and Robert W.
Jordan, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, ...
** Hearings for 20010922
Judiciary NOMINATIONS: On Wednesday, August 22, committee
concluded hearings on the nominations of Reggie B.
Walton, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Columbia, and Richard R. Nedelkoff, of
Texas, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice
Assistance, Department of Justice, ...
** Hearings for 20010924
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Charlotte L. Beers, of Texas, to be
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy,
Patricia de Stacy Harrison, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, John Stern Wolf, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation,
Kevin E. Moley, of Arizona, to be Representative of
the United States of America to the European Office of
the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador,
Kenneth C. Brill, of Maryland, to be Representative of
the United States of America to the Vienna Office of
the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and
Michael E. Malinowski, of the District of Columbia, to
be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, ...
** Hearings for 20010925
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Dennis L. Schornack, of Michigan, to be
Commissioner on the part of the United States on the
International Joint Commission, United States and
Canada; John J. Danilovich, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica; Roy L.
Austin, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to Trinidad
and Tobago; Franklin Pierce Huddle, Jr., of
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Tajikistan; Pamela Hyde Smith, of Washington, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova; Rockwell A.
Schnabel, of California, to be Representative of the
United States of America to the European Union, with
the rank and status of Ambassador; and Clifford G.
Bond, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and
Herzegovina, ...
** Hearings for 20010926
Energy ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY: Committee concluded
closed hearings to examine critical energy
infrastructure security and the energy industry's
response to the events of September 11, 2001, ...
** Hearings for 20011009
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of J. Edward Fox, of Ohio, to be Assistant
Administrator for Legislative and Public Affairs,
Kent R. Hill, of Massachusetts, to be Assistant
Administrator for Europe and Eurasia, and E. Anne
Peterson, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator
for Global Health, all of the United States Agency for
International Development; and John F. Turner, of
Wyoming, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans
and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs, ...
** Hearings for 20011016
Armed Services DOD AMMUNITION SECURITY: Subcommittee on Readiness
and Management Support concluded closed hearings to
examine the security of the Department of Defense
ammunition shipments, ...
Commerce E-911 COMPLIANCE: Subcommittee on Communications
concluded oversight hearings to examine the
implementation of the Wireless Communications and
Public Safety Act (P.L. 106-81) and the integration of
emergency-911 technologies, ...
** Hearings for 20011017
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Brian E. Carlson, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Joseph M.
DeThomas, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Estonia, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, of North
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Finland,
John Malcolm Ordway, of California, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Armenia, John N. Palmer, of
Mississippi, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Portugal, and Clifford M. Sobel, of New Jersey, to be
Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: ... Also, held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20011023
Appropriations ANTHRAX EXPOSURE: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education concluded hearings to
assess the public health response to recent anthrax
exposures, ...
Foreign COUNTERTERRORISM TREATIES: Committee concluded
Relations hearings to examine International Convention for the
Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism adopted by
the United Nations General Assembly on December 9,
1999, and signed on behalf of the United States of
America on January 10, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-49), and
International Convention for the Suppression of
Terrorist Bombings, adopted by the United Nations
General Assembly on December 15, 1997, and signed on
behalf of the United States of America on January 12,
1998 (Treaty Doc. 106-06), ...
** Hearings for 20011024
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Cameron R. Hume, of New York, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Margaret
K. McMillion, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, Wanda L.
Nesbitt, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Madagascar, and Robert V. Royall, of South
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of
Tanzania, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 10/25/01
** Hearings for 20011031
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of George L. Argyros, Sr., of California,
to be Ambassador to Spain, and to serve concurrently
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to
Andorra, Robert M. Beecroft, of Maryland, for the rank
of Ambassador as Head of Mission, Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Lyons Brown, Jr., of Kentucky, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Stephan Michael
Minikes, of the District of Columbia, to be U.S.
Representative to the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe, with the rank of Ambassador,
William D. Montgomery, of Pennsylvania, to be
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
Melvin F. Sembler, of Florida, to be Ambassador to
Italy, and Ronald Weiser, of Michigan, to be
Ambassador to the Slovak Republic. ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: On Wednesday, October 31, committee
held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 11/1, 11/7, 11/14, 11/28/01
** Hearings for 20011106
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Raymond F. Burghardt, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Larry
Miles Dinger, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the
Federated States of Micronesia, Charles Lawrence
Greenwood, Jr., of Florida, for rank of Ambassador as
Coordinator for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC), Charles Lester Pritchard, of Virginia, for the
rank of Ambassador as Special Envoy for Negotiations
with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)
and United States Representative to the Korean
Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), and
Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador
to the Kingdom of Thailand, ...
** Hearings for 20011107
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of John Marshall, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Administrator for Management, and the
nomination of Constance Berry Newman, of Illinois, to
be Assistant Administrator for Africa, both of the
United States Agency for International Development,
Cynthia Shepard Perry, of Texas, to be United States
Director of the African Development Bank, Jose A.
Fourquet, of New Jersey, to be United States Executive
Director of the Inter-American Development Bank, and
Jorge L. Arrizurieta, of Florida, to be United States
Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American
Development Bank, ...
** Hearings for 20011108
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Eric M. Javits, of New York, for the
rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as
U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament,
Christopher Bancroft Burnham, of Connecticut, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Resource Management
and Chief Financial Officer, Sichan Siv, of Texas, to
be Representative of the United States of America on
the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations,
with the rank of Ambassador, and an Alternate
Representative of the United States of America to the
Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations
during his tenure of service as Representative of the
United States of America on the Economic and Social
Council of the United Nations, and Richard S.
Williamson, of Illinois, to be Alternate
Representative of the United States of America for
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, with
the rank of Ambassador, and to be an Alternate
Representative of the United States of America to the
Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations
during his tenure of service as Alternate
Representative of the United States of America for
Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, ...
** Hearings for 20011114
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Gaddi H. Vasquez, of California, to be
Director, and Josephine K. Olsen, of Maryland, to be
Deputy Director, both of the Peace Corps, ...
** Hearings for 20011129
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of James David McGee, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland, Kenneth P.
Moorefield, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the
Gabonese Republic, and the nomination of John Price,
of Utah, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Federal
and Islamic Republic of The Comoros and Ambassador to
the Republic of Seychelles. ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of John V. Hanford III, of Virginia, to
be Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Freedom, Arthur E. Dewey, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and
Migration, and John D. Ong, of Ohio, to be Ambassador
to Norway, ...
** Hearings for 20011204
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Adolfo A. Franco, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Administrator for Latin America and the
Caribbean, Frederick W. Schieck, of Virginia, to be
Deputy Administrator, and Roger P. Winter, of
Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Democracy,
Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance, all of the
United States Agency for International Development,
...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, Charles S.
Shapiro, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Earl Norfleet
Phillips, Jr., of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to St. Kitts and
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the
Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines, and Donna Jean Hrinak, of
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic
of Brazil, ...
Judiciary WAR CRIME COMMISSIONS: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the constitutional and legal implications
of the President's recent executive order to establish
military commissions with respect to the detention,
treatment, and trial of persons accused of terrorist
activities, ...
Narcotics "CLUB" DRUGS: Caucus concluded hearings on the
relation between rave promoters and club drug abuse,
focusing on providing current information on the
medical effects of club drugs, advancing drug
education and prevention, and enhancing parental
knowledge of club drugs, ...
** Hearings for 20011210
Judiciary NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of David L. Bunning, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky,
...
** Hearings for 20011211
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Francis Joseph Ricciardone, Jr., of New
Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the
Philippines and to serve concurrently and without
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic
of Palau, ...
** Hearings for 20020206
Intelligence WORLD THREATS: Committee concluded closed hearings to
examine issues surrounding world threats to American
national security, ...
** Hearings for 20020226
Health 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, ...
** Hearings for 20020227
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Veterans DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS/VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS:
Affairs 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, ...
** Hearings for 20020228
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations 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, ...
** Hearings for 20020306
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 3/13/02
** Hearings for 20020307
Foreign CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD PROTOCOLS:
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), ...
** Hearings for 20020313
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Robert Patrick John Finn, of New York,
to be Ambassador to Afghanistan, ...
** Hearings for 20020314
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nomination of Richard Monroe Miles, of South Carolina,
to be Ambassador to Georgia, James W. Pardew, of
Arkansas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Bulgaria, Peter Terpeluk, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be
Ambassador to Luxembourg, and Lawrence E. Butler, of
Maine, to be Ambassador to The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, ...
Veterans VETERANS PROGRAMS: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the
legislative presentations of certain veterans
organizations, ...
Hearings also held on 3/20/02
** Hearings for 20020320
Appropriations INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Defense
concluded closed hearings to examine an overview of
intelligence programs, ...
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
on intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20020410
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
on intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20020411
Narcotics DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT: Committee concluded to examine
the enforcement of the nation's drug enforcement laws,
focusing on the scope of the drug use and trafficking
problems in rural and mid-size communities and the
challenges facing local law enforcement, ...
** Hearings for 20020424
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 5/1/02
** Hearings for 20020429
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee met in closed session to
consider pending intelligence matters.
** Hearings for 20020501
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20020514
Taxation IRS BUDGET REVIEW: Committee concluded hearings to
review the strategic plans and budget of the Internal
Revenue Service, as annually required by the Internal
Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998,
...
** Hearings for 20020521
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Paula A. DeSutter, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance,
Michael Alan Guhin, of Maryland, for the rank of
Ambassador during tenure of service as U.S. Fissile
Material Negotiator, and Stephen Geoffrey Rademaker,
of Delaware, to be Assistant Secretary for Arms
Control, all of the Department of State, ...
** Hearings for 20020522
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
on intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20020604
Intelligence 9/11 INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION: Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence met in closed session
to consider events surrounding September 11, 2001.
Hearings also held on 6/5, 6, 6/11, 6/12, 6/18, 6/19,
7/16, 7/18, 7/23, 7/25, 9/12, 9/17, 9/18, 9/19, 9/20,
9/24, 9/26, 10/1, 10/3, 10/8, 10/9/02
** Hearings for 20020613
Intelligence BUSINESS MEETING: Committee met in closed session to
consider the events surrounding September 11, 2001,
and made no announcements.
** Hearings for 20020617
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee met in closed session to
consider intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 6/20/02
** Hearings for 20020620
Environment NUCLEAR SECURITY: Committee concluded closed hearings
to examine nuclear plant security, ...
** Hearings for 20020625
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of James Franklin Jeffrey, of Virginia,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Michael
Klosson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Cyprus, James Irvin Gadsden, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, and Randolph
Bell, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during
his tenure of service as Special Envoy for Holocaust
Issues, ...
** Hearings for 20020626
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Mark Sullivan, of Maryland, to be
United States Director of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development; and Paul William
Speltz, of Texas, to be United States Director of the
Asian Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador,
...
Intelligence BUSINESS MEETING: Committee met in closed session to
consider pending intelligence matters, made no
announcements, and recessed subject to call.
** Hearings for 20020709
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of John William Blaney, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, Aurelia E.
Brazeal, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Federal
Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Martin George
Brennan, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Zambia, J. Anthony Holmes, of California,
to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Vicki Huddleston, of
Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali,
Donald C. Johnson, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Cape Verde, Jimmy Kolker, of Missouri, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Gail Dennise
Thomas Mathieu, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Niger, and James Howard Yellin, of
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Burundi, ...
** Hearings for 20020710
Printing GOVERNMENT PRINTING AND PUBLIC DOCUMENT ACCESS:
Committee concluded hearings to examine the role of
the Government Printing Office in handling federal
agency printing needs and ways for ensuring open and
effective information dissemination, focusing on the
Office of Management and Budget proposal to reform how
Executive Branch agencies procure printing, ...
** Hearings for 20020724
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Kristie Anne Kenney, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Larry Leon
Palmer, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Honduras, and Barbara Calandra Moore, of Maryland,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, all of
the Department of State, ...
** Hearings for 20020730
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Nancy J. Powell, of Iowa, to be
Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and
Richard L. Baltimore III, of New York, to be
Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, ...
** Hearings for 20020904
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of John R. Dawson, of the District of
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru,
Antonio O. Garza, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to
Mexico, and Linda Ellen Watt, of Florida, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, ...
** Hearings for 20020905
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
Hearings also held on 9/10/02
** Hearings for 20020910
Veterans AMERICAN LEGION: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Veterans' Affairs to examine the
legislative presentation of the American Legion, ...
** Hearings for 20020917
Armed Services IRAQ: Committee concluded closed hearings to examine
the situation in Iraq, ...
Commerce AVIATION CARGO SECURITY: Committee concluded closed
hearings to examine aviation cargo security, ...
Narcotics ANDEAN REGION: Caucus concluded hearings to examine
U.S. policy in the Andean region, focusing on the drug
trade and its impact on democracy in Colombia and the
Andean region, ...
** Hearings for 20020919
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings to consider
Relations the nominations of C. William Swank, of Ohio, Ned L.
Siegel, of Florida, Diane M. Ruebling, of California,
and Samuel E. Ebbesen, of the Virgin Islands, each to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, Wendy Jean Chamberlin,
of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the
United States Agency for International Development,
and Nancy P. Jacklin, of New York, to be United States
Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund
...
** Hearings for 20020924
Environment 9/11 RESPONSE: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the Federal government's role and response to
September 11 recovery efforts and steps the
Environmental Protection Agency is taking to better
prepare for and respond to any tragic events that may
occur, ...
Foreign IRAQ: Committee met in closed session to receive a
Relations briefing on Iraq ...
** Hearings for 20021001
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Gene B. Christy, of Texas, to be
Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam, David L. Lyon, of
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji,
and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru,
the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu, Charles Aaron Ray,
of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Cambodia,
and Grover Joseph Rees, of Louisiana, to be Ambassador
to the Democratic Republic of East Timor, ...
** Hearings for 20021002
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from
officials of the intelligence community.
Hearings also held on 10/4/02
** Hearings for 20021003
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Maura Ann Harty, of Florida, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs; Kim
R. Holmes, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for International Organization Affairs; Francis
X. Taylor, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for Diplomatic Security, and Director for the
Office of Foreign Missions, with the rank of
Ambassador; and Ellen R. Sauerbrey, of Maryland, for
the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as
the United States Representative on the Commission on
the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council
of the United Nations, ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings to examine
Relations the nominations of Richard Allan Roth, of Michigan, to
be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau; Joseph
Huggins, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Botswana; and Robin Renee Sanders,
of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Congo, ...
Rules NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings to examine
the nomination of Bruce R. James, of Nevada, to be
Public Printer, Government Printing Office, ...
** Hearings for 20021009
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings to examine
Relations the nominations of John Randle Hamilton, of North
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Guatemala, John F. Keane, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay, and David N.
Greenlee, of Maryland to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Bolivia, ...
** Hearings for 20021016
Armed Services NOMINATION: Committee concluded closed hearings to
examine the nomination of Maj. Gen. Robert T. Clark,
USA, for appointment to the grade of lieutenant
general and to be Commanding General, Fifth United
States Army, ...
Foreign NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Collister Johnson, Jr., of Virginia,
and John L. Morrison, of Minnesota, each to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation, ...
** Hearings for 20021113
Intelligence INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, ...
** Hearings for 20021114
Foreign NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the
Relations nominations of Mary Carlin Yates, of Oregon, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana, ...
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