[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 2, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D382-D383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2002 for the Department of Labor, after receiving testimony from 
Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002, after receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from 
Representative Saxton, Vice-Chairman, Joint Economic Committee; 
Representative Thomas, Chairman, Joint Committee on Taxation; and James H. 
Billington, Librarian of Congress, and Daniel P. Mulhollan, Director, 
Congressional Research Service, both of the Library of Congress.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2002 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving testimony from 
Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, who was accompanied by 
several of his associates.
INDIVIDUAL FISHING QUOTA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans 
and Fisheries concluded hearings on S. 637, to amend the Magnuson-Stevens

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Fishery Conservation and Management Act to authorize the establishment of 
individual fishery quota systems, after receiving testimony from Patten D. 
White, Maine Lobstermen's Association, Inc., York; Joseph T. Plesha, Trident 
Seafoods Corporation, and Don Giles, Icicle Seafoods, Inc., both of Seattle, 
Washington; Harlan Kay Williams, Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, 
Tampa, Florida; Linda Behnken, Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association, 
Sitka; Lee R. Crockett, Marine Fish Conservation Network, Washington, D.C.; 
Jon Sutinen, University of Rhode Island Department of Environmental and 
Natural Resource Economics, Kingston; and Michael K. Orbach, Duke University 
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Beaufort, North 
Carolina.
HUMAN CLONING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, 
Technology, and Space held hearings to examine the scientific, ethical, 
moral, and social concerns of human cloning, including a proposal to 
prohibit the cloning of human embryos, receiving testimony from 
Representative Weldon; Clarke D. Forsythe, Americans United for Life, and 
Leon R. Kass, University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought, both of 
Chicago, Illinois; Rudolf Jaenisch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, on behalf of the American Society For Cell 
Biology; and Margaret Colin, Feminists for Life, William Kristol, The 
Bioethics Project, Robert A. Best, Culture of Life Foundation, Richard M. 
Doerflinger, National Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee for Pro-Life 
Activities, Carl B. Feldbaum, Biotechnology Industry Organization, and 
Jaydee Hanson, United Methodist Church, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the science of global climate change and issues related to the 
timing, options and obstacles of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions, 
after receiving testimony from Kevin E. Trenberth, Head, Climate Analysis 
Section, National Center for Atmospheric Research, National Science 
Foundation; Marilyn A. Brown, Director, Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Jamee Edmonds, Senior 
Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, both of the 
Department of Energy; Richard S. Lindzen, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge; John R. Christy, University of Alabama Earth System 
Science Center, Huntsville; Rattan Lal, Ohio State University Carbon 
Management and Sequestration Program, Columbus; and James E. Rogers, Cinergy 
Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Charles A. James, Jr. and Daniel J. Bryant, both of Virginia, each to be 
an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the nominees, 
who were introduced by Senators Warner, Allen, and Biden, and 
Representatives Hyde and Conyers, testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and 
Competition concluded hearings on the state of local telephone competition 
five years after the implementation of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, and 
the potential need for additional legislation to provide a different balance 
between the incumbent and competitive providers of local telephone service, 
after receiving testimony from Patrick Henry Wood III, Public Utility 
Commission of Texas, Austin; Reed E. Hundt, McKinsey and Company, Inc., 
Washington, D.C.; David Dorman, AT&T Corporation, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; 
James O. Robbins, Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Larissa Herda, 
Time Warner Telecom, Inc., Littleton, Colorado; and James D. Ellis, SBC 
Telecommunications, Inc., San Antonio, Texas.
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