[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 14 (Thursday, February 1, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D90-D91]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee adopted 
its rules of procedure for the 107th Congress, and announced the 
following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators Hutchison (Chairman), Stevens, 
Burns, Lott, Snowe, Brownback, Smith (of Or.), Fitzgerald, Ensign, 
Rockefeller, Hollings, Inouye, Breaux, Dorgan, Wyden, Cleland, Edwards, 
and Carnahan.
  Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens, 
Lott, Hutchison, Snowe, Brownback, Smith (of Or.), Fitzgerald, Ensign, 
Allen, Hollings, Inouye, Kerry, Breaux, Rockefeller, Dorgan, Wyden, 
Cleland, Boxer, and Edwards.
  Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism: 
Senators Fitzgerald (Chairman), Burns, Brownback, Smith (of Or.), 
Ensign, Allen, Dorgan, Rockefeller, Wyden, Boxer, Edwards, and 
Carnahan.
  Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness: Senators Ensign 
(Chairman), Brownback, Fitzgerald, Wyden, Hollings, and Rockefeller.
  Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senators Snowe (Chairman), 
Stevens, Hutchison, Smith (of Or.), Fitzgerald, Kerry, Hollings, 
Inouye, Breaux, and Boxer.
  Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Brownback 
(Chairman), Stevens, Burns, Lott, Hutchison, Fitzgerald, Allen, Breaux, 
Rockefeller, Kerry, Dorgan, Cleland, Edwards, and Carnahan.

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  Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senators 
Smith (of Or.) (Chairman), Stevens, Burns, Lott, Hutchison, Snowe, 
Brownback, Fitzgerald, Ensign, Inouye, Rockefeller, Kerry, Breaux, 
Dorgan, Wyden, Cleland, Boxer, and Carnahan.
AIRLINES INDUSTRY CONSOLIDATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the effects of the American Airlines' proposed acquisition 
of Trans World Airlines (TWA), and part of DC Air, and other airline 
industry consolidation on competition and the consumer, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Bond and DeWine; Representative Meeks and 
Slaughter; JayEtta Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
General Accounting Office; Missouri Governor Bob Holden, Jefferson 
City; Donald Carty, American Airlines, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas; 
William F. Compton, Trans World Airlines, St. Louis, Missouri; Robert 
L. Johnson, DC Air, Washington, D.C.; Joe Leonard, AirTran Airways, 
Orlando, Florida; and Michael E. Levine, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HUMAN CAPITAL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia held 
hearings to examine the decision of the General Accounting Office to 
place strategic human capital management on GAO's ``High-Risk'' list of 
federal agencies and programs that are vulnerable to waste, fraud, 
abuse and mismanagement, including administrative and legislative 
solutions to the human capital crisis, receiving testimony from David 
M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting 
Office.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.