[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 27, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D141-D143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine muscular 
dystrophy research funding levels, after receiving testimony from 
Audrey S. Penn, Acting Director, National Institute of Neurological 
Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Lee Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania 
School of Medicine Department of Physiology, Philadelphia, and Patricia 
Furlong, Middletown, Ohio,

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both on behalf of the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy; Leon Charash, 
Woodbury, New York, Christopher J. Rosa, City University of New York 
Queens College Office of Special Services for Students with 
Disabilities, New York, Jerry Lewis, Los Angeles, California, and 
Benjamin Cumbo, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, all on behalf of the Muscular 
Dystrophy Association; and Donovan Decker, Huron, South Dakota.
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings on activities of the Army Corps of 
Engineers, including the Civil Works Program, water resources planning, 
and the Upper Mississippi and Illinois navigation study, after 
receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers, USA, Commander/
Chief of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Paul D. Wolfowitz, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Warner and 
Levin, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 30), requesting $2,880,615 for operating 
expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, 
$5,112,126 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2002, and $2,187,120 for operating expenses for 
the period from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
BROWNFIELDS REVITALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Control, and Risk Assessment concluded hearings on S. 350, to 
amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 to promote the cleanup and reuse of brownfields, 
to provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, to 
enhance State response programs, after receiving testimony from 
Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Mayor J. Christian Bollwage, Elizabeth, New Jersey, on behalf of the 
United States Conference of Mayors; Mayor Myrtle Walker, East Palo 
Alto, California, on behalf of the National Association of Local 
Government Environmental Professionals; Philip J. O'Brien, New 
Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Concord; Mike Ford, 
Mike Ford Agency, Clark, New Jersey, on behalf of the National 
Association of Realtors; Alan Front, The Trust for Public Land, John G. 
Arlington, American Insurance Association, and Grant Cope, United 
States Public Interest Research Group, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert 
D. Fox, Manko, Gold and Katcher, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; and Deeohn 
Ferris, Global Environmental Resources, Inc., Finesville, New Jersey.
U.S. TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine United States 
trade policy, focusing on principal trade policy challenges and 
opportunities, the importance of maintaining America's leadership role 
in building and sustaining the international trading system, and 
rebuilding free trade consensus, receiving testimony from David L. 
Aaron, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, 
William M. Daley, former Secretary of Commerce, and Carla A. Hills, 
Hills and Company, former United States Trade Representative, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Robert D. Hormants, Goldman Sacs International, 
New York, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATO ALLIANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine issues which have bearing on the state of 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Alliance, including the 
transitions occurring in the Balkans and Southeast Europe, NATO 
enlargement, ballistic missile defense, and the European Union Rapid 
Reaction Force, after receiving testimony from Gen. Wesley K. Clark, 
USA (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Jeffrey Gedmin, 
American Enterprise Institute/New Atlantic Initiative, and Ronald D. 
Asmus, Council on Foreign Relations, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Sean O'Keefe, of New York, to be Deputy Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who was introduced 
by Senator Stevens and Representative Walsh, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup of an original 
bill to amend title 11, United States Code, relating to bankruptcy 
reform, but did not complete action thereon and will continue tomorrow.

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ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution requesting $1,240,422 for operating expenses for 
the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, $2,199,621 
for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 through 
September 30, 2002, and $940,522 for operating expenses for the period 
from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 107th 
Congress.