[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 39 (Thursday, March 22, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D252-D253]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FOOD SAFETY AND INSPECTION SERVICE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to review activities of the Food Safety and 
Inspection Service, focusing on allegations of corruption in the meat 
inspection program in the New York City metropolitan area, after 
receiving testimony from Roger C. Viadero, Inspector General, and 
Thomas J. Billy, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, 
both of the Department of Agriculture.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION--MILITARY STRATEGY AND OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2002 
for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on military strategy and operational requirements, after 
receiving testimony from Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, United States European Command; and Gen. Tommy R. Franks, USA, 
Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 149, to provide authority to control exports, 
with amendments.
DEBT MANAGEMENT
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
management activities of the Department of the Treasury with respect to 
paying off the publicly held debt by the year 2011, and related 
international economic and financial implications, after receiving 
testimony from Gary Gensler, former Under Secretary of the Treasury for 
Domestic Finance, and Edwin M. Truman, Institute for International 
Economics, both of Chevy Chase, Maryland; F. Ward McCarthy, Jr., Stone 
& McCarthy Research Associates, Princeton, New Jersey; and Albert M. 
Wojnilower, Craig Drill Capital, New York, New York.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation,

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and Recreation concluded oversight hearings to review the National Park 
Service's implementation of management policies and procedures to 
comply with the provisions of Title IV of the National Parks Omnibus 
Management Act (P.L. 105-391), relating to concession reform, after 
receiving testimony from Richard G. Ring, Associate Director, Park 
Operations and Education, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; Joseph K. Fassler, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the 
National Park Hospitality Association; Philip H. Voorhees, National 
Parks Conservation Association, and William P. Horn, Birch, Horton, 
Bittner and Cherot, on behalf of America Outdoors, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Curt Cornelssen, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS AND MEDICARE FINANCING
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine issues related 
to the projections of future Medicare spending and growth, as well as 
restructuring of the program, focusing on designing and funding 
prescription drug benefits for Medicare beneficiaries, receiving 
testimony from Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office; 
David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General 
Accounting Office; Richard S. Foster, Chief Actuary, Health Care 
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; and 
Patricia Neuman, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public 
Health Department of Health Policy and Management, Baltimore, Maryland, 
on behalf of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the intelligence assessment of emerging national 
security threats from George J. Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence 
Agency.
DC METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to assess the District of Columbia Metropolitan 
Police Department's year 2000 performance, after receiving testimony 
from City Administrator John A. Koskinen, Deputy Mayor for Public 
Safety and Justice Margret Nedelkoff Kellums, and Chief of Police 
Charles H. Ramsey, all of the District of Columbia.
HEALTH CARE SERVICES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the United States health 
care safety net system and the challenges facing providers who care for 
the uninsured and medically underserved, focusing on the authorization 
of several programs including the Consolidated Health Centers Program, 
the National Health Service Corps, and the Healthy Communities Access 
Program, after receiving testimony from Claude Earl Fox, Administrator, 
Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Dennis S. Freeman, Cherokee Health Systems, Talbot, 
Tennessee, on behalf of the American Psychological Association and the 
Tennessee Primary Care Association; Velma Lopez Hendershott, InterCare 
Community Health Network, Bangor, Maine, on behalf of the National 
Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.; Robert P. Moser Jr., 
Greeley Family Practice, Tribune, Kansas; and John G. O'Brien, 
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the 
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.
MEMBER TRIBES OBJECTIVES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the 
legislative priorities and objectives of national, regional, and inter-
tribal organizations that represent tribal governments, receiving 
testimony from Susan Masten, Yurok Tribe, Eureka, California, and 
Thomas R. Ranfranz, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, Flandreau, South 
Dakota, both on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians; 
and Jefferson Keel, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, Oklahoma.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
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 28.