[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D149-D152]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 31) requesting 
$1,794,378 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2001, $3,181,922 for operating expenses for the 
period from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002, and $1,360,530 
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, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Production and Price Competitiveness: Senators 
Roberts (Chairman), Helms, Cochran, Fitzgerald, McConnell, Conrad 
(Ranking Member), Daschle, Baucus, Lincoln, and Miller.
  Subcommittee on Marketing, Inspection, and Product Promotion: 
Senators Fitzgerald (Chairman), Helms, Cochran, Roberts, Thomas, Baucus 
(Ranking Member), Leahy, Conrad, Nelson, and Dayton.
  Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization: 
Senators Crapo (Chairman), McConnell, Thomas, Allard, Hutchinson, 
Lincoln (Ranking Member), Leahy, Daschle, Stabenow, and Dayton.
  Subcommittee on Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation: 
Senators McConnell (Chairman), Allard, Hutchinson, Crapo, Helms, Leahy 
(Ranking Member), Conrad, Miller, Stabenow, and Benjamin Nelson.
FARM BILL CONSERVATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings to examine statutes of conservation programs in the current 
farm bill, including Conservation Reserve Program, Emergency 
Conservation Program, Pasture Recovery Program, and Debt for Nature, 
receiving testimony from Katherine R. Smith, Director, Resource 
Economics Division, Economic Research Service, Thomas A. Weber, Deputy 
Chief for Programs, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Robert 
Stephenson, Director, Conservation and Environmental Programs Division, 
Farm Service Agency, all of the Department of Agriculture; and Jeffrey 
A. Zinn, Senior Analyst in Natural Resources Policy, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE MEDICAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for certain 
Department of Defense medical programs, after receiving testimony in 
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lt. Gen. James B. 
Peake, Surgeon General, and Brig. Gen. William T. Bester, Chief, Army 
Nurse Corps, both of the United States Army; Vice Adm. Richard A. 
Nelson, Medical Corps, Surgeon General, and Rear Adm. Kathleen L. 
Martin, Director, Navy Nurse Corps, both of the United States Navy; Lt. 
Gen. Paul K. Carlton, Surgeon General, and Brig. Gen. Barbara C. 
Brannon, Director of Nursing Services, Office of the Surgeon General, 
both of the Department of the Air Force.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 38) requesting $3,301,692 for operating 
expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, 
$5,859,150 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2002, and $2,506,642 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, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:

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  Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Santorum (Chairman), Inhofe, 
Roberts, Hutchinson, Sessions, Bunning, Lieberman (Ranking Member), 
Cleland, Bill Nelson, Benjamin Nelson, Carnahan, and Dayton.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Roberts 
(Chairman), Bob Smith, Santorum, Allard, Hutchinson, Collins, Landrieu 
(Ranking Member), Kennedy, Byrd, Lieberman, Bill Nelson, and Dayton.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Hutchinson (Chairman), Thurmond, 
McCain, Allard, Collins, Cleland (Ranking Member), Kennedy, Reed, 
Akaka, and Carnahan.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Inhofe 
(Chairman), Thurmond, McCain, Santorum, Roberts, Bunning, Akaka 
(Ranking Member), Byrd, Cleland, Landrieu, Benjamin Nelson, and Dayton.
  Subcommittee on SeaPower: Senators Sessions (Chairman), McCain, Bob 
Smith, Collins, Bunning, Kennedy (Ranking Member), Lieberman, Landrieu, 
Reed, and Carnahan.
  Subcommittee on Strategic: Senators Allard (Chairman), Thurmond, Bob 
Smith, Inhofe, Sessions, Reed (Ranking Member), Byrd, Akaka, Bill 
Nelson, and Benjamin Nelson.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Paul D. Wolfowitz, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, and 2,916 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, 
and Marine Corps.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Thursday, 
February 1, committee approved an original resolution (S. Res.36) 
requesting $2,968,783 for operating expenses for the period from March 
1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, $5,265,771 for operating expenses 
for the period from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002, and 
$2,251,960 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2002 
through February 28, 2003.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res.34) requesting $2,318,050 for 
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 
30, 2001, $4,108,958 for operating expenses for the period from October 
1, 2001 through September 30, 2002, and $1,756,412 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, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Inhofe 
(Chairman), Warner, Bond, Voinovich, Chafee, Baucus (Ranking Member), 
Graham, Lieberman, Boxer, and Wyden.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear 
Safety: Senators Voinovich (Chairman), Inhofe, Crapo, Campbell, 
Lieberman (Ranking Member), Carper, Clinton, and Corzine.
  Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water: Senators Crapo 
(Chairman), Bond, Warner, Chafee, Campbell, Graham (Ranking Member), 
Baucus, Wyden, Clinton, and Corzine.
  Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk Assessment: 
Senators Chafee (Chairman), Warner, Inhofe, Crapo, Specter, Boxer 
(Ranking Member), Wyden, Carper, Clinton, and Corzine.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution (S. Res. 37) requesting $3,230,940 for operating expenses 
for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, 
$5,729,572 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2002, and $2,449,931 for operating expenses for 
the period from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
  Committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 107th Congress, and 
announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight: Senators Nickles 
(Chairman), Lott, Hatch, Thompson, Snowe, Murkowski, Conrad (Ranking 
Member), Torricelli, Breaux, Bingaman, Lincoln, and Baucus.
  Subcommittee on International Trade: Senators Hatch (Chairman), 
Grassley, Thompson, Murkowski, Gramm, Lott, Jeffords, Snowe, Baucus 
(Ranking Member), Rockefeller, Daschle, Conrad, Kerry, Lincoln, Graham, 
and Torricelli.
  Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Kyl 
(Chairman), Nickles, Lott, Jeffords, Gramm, Breaux (Ranking Member), 
Rockefeller, Bingaman, Daschle, and Kerry.
  Subcommittee on Health Care: Senators Snowe (Chairwoman), Gramm, 
Jeffords, Grassley, Kyl, Hatch, Nickles, Thompson, Rockefeller (Ranking 
Member), Daschle, Bingaman, Kerry, Torricelli, Lincoln, Breaux, and 
Graham.
  Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and Debt Reduction: Senators 
Murkowski (Chairman), Grassley, Kyl, Graham (Ranking Member), Baucus, 
and Conrad.
  Also, Committee appointed the following members to both the Joint 
Committee on Taxation, and the Congressional Trade Advisors on Trade 
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and Negotiations: Senators Grassley, Hatch, Murkowski, Baucus, and 
Rockefeller.
BUDGET REVENUE PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
revenue proposals and tax cuts within the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2002, receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Mark A. Weinberger, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and John M. Duncan, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the 
aforementioned nominations, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 32) requesting $2,495,457 for operating 
expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, 
$4,427,295 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2002, and $1,893,716 for operating expenses for 
the period from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
STATE DEPARTMENT REFORM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the report of the Independent Task Force cosponsored by the Council on 
Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic and International 
Studies on State Department Reform, after receiving testimony from 
Frank C. Carlucci, former Secretary of Defense/National Security 
Adviser, and Thomas E. Donilon, former Assistant Secretary of State for 
Public Affairs/State Department Chief of Staff, both on behalf of the 
Independent Task Force on State Department Reform.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill to amend title 11, United States Code, relating to 
bankruptcy reform.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 35) requesting 
$3,895,623 for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2001, $6,910,215 for operating expenses for the 
period from October 1, 2001 through September 30, 2002, and $2,955,379 
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, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Aging: Senators Hutchinson (Chairman), Jeffords, 
Warner, Bond, Roberts, Mikulski (Ranking Member), Dodd, Murray, 
Edwards, and Clinton.
  Subcommittee on Children and Families: Senators Gregg (Chairman), 
Frist, Warner, Bond, Collins, Dodd (Ranking Member), Bingaman, 
Wellstone, Murray, and Reed.
  Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training: Senators Enzi 
(Chairman), Jeffords, Gregg, Sessions, Wellstone (Ranking Member), 
Kennedy, Dodd, and Harkin.
  Subcommittee on Public Health: Senators Frist (Chairman), Gregg, 
Enzi, Hutchinson, Roberts, Collins, Sessions, Kennedy (Ranking Member), 
Harkin, Mikulski, Bingaman, Reed, Edwards, and Clinton.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 39) requesting $1,183,041 for 
operating expenses for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 
30, 2001, $2,099,802 for operating expenses for the period from October 
1, 2001 through September 30, 2002, and $898,454 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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original resolution requesting $1,119,973 for operating expenses 
for the period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, 
$1,985,266 for operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 
through September 30, 2002, and $848,624 for operating expenses for the 
period from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
  S. 174, to amend the Small Business Act with respect to the microloan 
program;
  S. 295, to provide emergency relief to small businesses affected by 
significant increases in the prices of heating oil, natural gas, 
propane, and kerosene, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 395, to ensure the independence and nonpartisan operation of the 
Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration; and

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  S. 396, to provide for national quadrennial summits on small business 
and State summits on small business, to establish the White House 
Quadrennial Commission on Small Business.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 107th 
Congress.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution requesting $970,754 for operating expenses for the 
period from March 1, 2001 through September 30, 2001, $1,718,989 for 
operating expenses for the period from October 1, 2001 through 
September 30, 2002, and $734,239 for operating expenses for the period 
from October 1, 2002 through February 28, 2003.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
receive the views of the Department of the Interior on issues and 
matters related to Indian Affairs, after receiving testimony from Gale 
A. Norton, Secretary of the Interior.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again Wednesday, March 7.
PLAN COLOMBIA
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded hearings to examine the current drug situation in Colombia, 
focusing on United States efforts to support the implementation of the 
government of Colombia's plan to deal more effectively with violence, 
drug trafficking, and general crime and corruption that exists in 
Colombia, after receiving testimony from Rand Beers, Assistant 
Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs; Donnie R. Marshall, Administrator, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, Department of Justice; Gen. Peter Pace, United States 
Marine Corps, Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command; and Robert J. 
Newberry, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special 
Operations and Low Intensity Conflict.