[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 43 (Wednesday, March 28, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D278-D279]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INDIAN TRUST MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the status of Department of the Interior 
efforts and commitments made to resolve trust fund management issues 
for both Tribal and individual Indian account holders, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas N. Slonaker, Special Trustee for American 
Indians, M. Sharon Blackwell, Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, and Robert J. Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget and 
Finance, all of the Department of the Interior.
ASIA-PACIFIC SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
to examine issues related to the forward-stationed, forward-deployed 
forces of the U.S. Pacific Command and its influence on Asia-Pacific 
region security, after receiving testimony from Adm. Dennis C. Blair, 
USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command.
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded 
hearings to examine the report of the Commission to Assess United 
States National Security Space Management and Organization, which 
focused on Department of Defense and Intelligence Community space 
activities, as well as civil and commercial activities relationship to, 
and effect on, national security space, after receiving testimony from 
former Senator Malcolm Wallop, Robert V. Davis, Gen. Robert R. 
Fogleman, USAF (Ret.), William R. Graham, and Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, 
Jr., USAF (Ret.), all Commissioners, Commission to Assess United States 
National Security Space Management and Organization.
2000 DECENNIAL CENSUS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the Commerce Department's decision to release 
unadjusted Census data, and not utilize the Accuracy and Coverage 
Evaluation, which is believed to evaluate accuracy and compensate for 
people missed by the census, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Clay, Gonzalez, Carolyn Maloney, and Dan Miller; Donald 
Evans, Secretary, and David W. Murray, Director, Statistical Assessment 
Service, Bureau of the Census, on behalf of the U.S. Census Monitoring 
Board, both of the Department of Commerce; Eugene Ericksen, Temple 
University Department of Sociology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Arturo 
Vargas, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, 
Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth W. Wachter, University of California 
Department of Demography, Berkeley.
SMALL BUSINESS AND AGRICULTURE TAXATION REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine issues 
relating to the Federal income taxation of small business and 
agriculture, focusing on expensing and accounting methods, differing 
income tax treatment for various business choices made by small 
business and agriculture, and certain legislative proposals to address 
tax problems facing small business and farmers, receiving testimony 
from Robert E. Berney, Chief Economist, Office of Advocacy, Small 
Business Administration; Donald C. Alexander, Akin, Gump, Strauss, 
Hauer & Feld, Washington, D.C., former Internal Revenue Service 
Commissioner; John Bright, Keokuk Savings Bank & Trust Co., Keokuk, 
Iowa; Bob Stallman, Columbus, Texas, on behalf of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation; and Joy J. Turner, Jeffers Business Services, 
Piscataway, New Jersey, on behalf of the White House Conference on 
Small Business.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DOE RUSSIAN NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the Russian nonproliferation programs of the Department of Energy, 
focusing on certain recommendations to eliminate the danger of

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inadequate controls over weapons of mass destruction and weapons usable 
materials, after receiving testimony from former Senator Howard Baker, 
Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell, and former White House Counsel 
Lloyd N. Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, both of Washington, D.C., 
and Graham T. Allison, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, all on behalf of the Russia Task Force, 
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board; and Ronald F. Lehman, Claremont 
McKenna College Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, 
Claremont, California, former Director of the U.S. Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency.
CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine issues related to health information for 
consumers, and proposed legislation that would provide assistance to 
the states that wish to establish, or strengthen their existing, health 
care consumer assistance, or ombudsman, programs after receiving 
testimony from Donna Sutton Fay, Vermont State Health Care Ombudsman, 
Burlington; Ronald F. Pollack, Families USA, Mary Jane England, 
Washington Business Group on Health, and Charles N. Kahn, III, Health 
Insurance Association of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
Bernadette Warren, Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.