[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 21 (Wednesday, February 14, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D126-D127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
hearings on Department of Transportation management oversight issues, 
including transportation safety, stewardship of transportation funding, 
immediate budget issues, and aviation system performance, after 
receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, Department 
of Transportation; and John H. Anderson, Managing Director, Physical 
Infrastructure, General Accounting Office.

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EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 149, to provide authority to control exports, and 
examined issues relating to the establishment of an effective, modern 
framework for export controls, and the impacts of globalization and 
export controls on national security, after receiving testimony from 
John J. Hamre, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
Washington, D.C.; and Donald A. Hicks, Hicks and Associates, McLean, 
Virginia, on behalf of the Defense Science Board Task Force on 
Globalization and Security.
COMPETITIVE MARKET SUPERVISION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 143, to amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to reduce securities fees in excess of 
those required to fund the operations of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, to adjust compensation provisions for employees of the 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Laura S. Unger, Acting 
Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission; Marc Lackritz, Securities 
Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; James E. Burton, California 
Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Sacramento; and Leopold 
Korins, Security Traders Association, New York, New York.
INTERNET CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED NAMES AND NUMBERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications held hearings to examine the structure of the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the organization in charge 
of creating and distributing Internet domain names, and the effort 
underway to expand available domain names, receiving testimony from 
Michael M. Roberts, Marina Del Rey, California, and Karl Auerbach, 
Cisco Systems, San Jose, California, both on behalf of Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; A. Michael Froomkin, 
University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida; Roger J. 
Cochetti, VeriSign, Inc., and Kenneth M. Hansen, NeuStar, Inc., both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Brian R. Cartmell, eNIC Corporation, Seattle, 
Washington.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
EDUCATION TAX AND SAVINGS INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine proposed 
legislation that would offer education tax and saving incentives, 
including related provisions of S. 289, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to provide additional tax incentives for education, S. 
133, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the 
exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance programs, and S. 
152, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to eliminate the 60-
month limit and increase the income limitation on the student loan 
interest deduction, after receiving testimony from Senators McConnell, 
Sessions, Biden, Schumer, Allen, Hutchinson, Harkin, and Collins; 
Steven Maguire, Analyst in Public Finance, Government and Finance 
Division, Congressional Research Service; Kimberly Sheppard, University 
of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, on behalf of the American 
Dental Association; Tom Carter, West Liberty High School, West Liberty, 
Iowa; David J. Pearlman, Fidelity Investments, Westlake, Texas; and 
Janet Parker, Amsouth Bank, Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of the 
Society for Human Resource Management/Section 127 Coalition.
PRESIDENTIAL PARDONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
impact of recent pardons and commutations granted by President Clinton, 
including the pardons of Marc Rich and Pincus Green, as well as the 
pardon process, the role of the Department of Justice, and 
constitutional and legal issues that could arise from legislative 
efforts to revise the current system, after receiving testimony from 
Roger Adams, Pardon Attorney, and Eric H. Holder, Jr., former Deputy 
Attorney General, both of the Department of Justice; Jack Quinn, Quinn 
and Gillespie, Washington, D.C.; Benton Becker, University of Miami, 
Pembroke Pines, Florida; Ken Gormley, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; and Christopher H. Schroeder, Duke University, Durham, 
North Carolina.