[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 14, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D210-D211]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded closed 
hearings to review intelligence programs, after receiving testimony 
from George J. Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Keith 
Hall, Director, National Reconnaissance Office; and Gen. Michael 
Hayden, Director, National Security Agency, and Vice Adm. Thomas 
Wilson, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, both of the Department 
of Defense.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2002, after 
receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
INTERNET TAX MORATORIUM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: 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, after 
receiving testimony from Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer, Cheyenne, on 
behalf of the National Governors Association; Massachusetts Lt. 
Governor Jane Swift, Boston; Elizabeth Harchenko, Oregon Department of 
Revenue, Salem, on behalf of the Multistate Tax Commission; Frank G. 
Julian, Federated Department Stores, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf 
of the Internet Tax Fairness Coalition; Peter Lowy, Westfield America, 
Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the e-Fairness Coalition; Robert 
D. Comfort, Amazon.com, Seattle, Washington; and Jeff Dircksen, 
National Taxpayers Union, Alexandria, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee approved their 
fiscal year 2002 budgetary views and estimates on programs which fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee and agreed on recommendations 
it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
CHARITABLE GIVING TAX RELIEF
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the President's tax 
proposals to provide tax relief to working families, focusing on 
proposals to expand federal tax incentives for charitable giving, 
including S. 35, to provide relief to America's working families and to 
promote continued economic growth by returning a portion of the tax 
surplus to those who created it, S. 37, to provide for a charitable 
deduction for contributions of food inventory, S. 205, to waive the 
income inclusion on a distribution from an individual retirement 
account to the extent that the distribution is contributed for 
charitable purposes, S. 298, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 
to allow non-itemizers a deduction for a portion of their charitable 
contributions, S. 312, to provide tax relief for farmers and fishermen, 
and S. 393, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage 
charitable contributions to public charities for use in medical 
research, receiving testimony from Senator Lugar; Rev. Floyd H. Flake, 
Allen Episcopal Methodist Church, Jamaica, New York; Douglas O'Brien, 
America's Second Harvest, Chicago, Illinois; Mary Sue Coleman, 
University of Iowa, Iowa City; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, 
John P. Walters, Philanthropy Roundtable, and Donald C.

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Alexander, former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner, all of 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DRUG TREATMENT, EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposed 
legislation to reduce illegal drug use and trafficking and to help 
provide appropriate drug education, prevention, and treatment programs, 
receiving testimony from Donnie R. Marshall, Administrator, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, and Paul M. Warner, United States Attorney 
for the District Court of Utah, Salt Lake City, both of the Department 
of Justice; Alan I. Leshner, Director, National Institute on Drug 
Abuse, Department of Health and Human Services; Robert DuPont, 
Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., Washington, D.C., former White 
House Drug Czar; A. James Walton, Jr., Vermont State Department of 
Public Safety, Waterbury; Edyie Hewitt, East Wallingford, Vermont, on 
behalf of the Vermont Federation of Families for Children's Mental 
Health; Carroll O'Connor, Los Angeles, California; and Debra Walcott, 
Lake Ronkonkoma, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ELECTION REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on 
election reform issues, including voter registration, ballot casting, 
voting equipment, election administration, and issues related to the 
2000 election, receiving testimony from James Gashel, National 
Federation for the Blind, Baltimore, Maryland; R. Doug Lewis, The 
Election Center, Houston, Texas; Todd F. Gaziano, Heritage Foundation, 
Hillary O. Shelton, National Association for the Advancement of Colored 
People, John Samples, Cato Institute, Robert R. Williams, United 
Cerebral Palsy Associations, Inc., and Richard Trumka, AFL-CIO, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Juan A. Figueroa, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and 
Education Fund, Inc., New York, New York; Deborah M. Phillips, Voting 
Integrity Project, Arlington, Virginia; and Stephen Knack, Bethesda, 
Maryland.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved their fiscal year 2002 
budgetary views and estimates on programs which fall within the 
jurisdiction of the committee and agreed on recommendations it will 
make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
NATIVE AMERICAN EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 211, to 
amend the Education Amendments of 1978 and the Tribally Controlled 
Schools Act of 1988 to improve education for Indians, Native Hawaiians, 
and Alaskan Natives, after receiving testimony from William Mehojah, 
Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, Department of the 
Interior; Roger Bordeaux, Tiospa Zina Tribal School, Agency Village, 
South Dakota, on behalf of the Association of Community Tribal Schools; 
Angela Barney Nez, Navajo Area School Board Association, and Lorena Zah 
Bahe, Association of Navajo Community Controlled School Boards, both of 
Window Rock, Arizona; and John W. Cheek, National Indian Education 
Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
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 21.