[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 59 (Thursday, May 3, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D390-D392]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[D03MY1-B18]D390 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
[D03MY1-B19]D390 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2002 for the Department of Agriculture, focusing on assistance 
to producers and the farm economy, after receiving testimony from Thomas 
Hunt Shipman, Acting Deputy Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
Services, and Keith J. Collins, Chief Economist, Office of the Deputy 
Secretary, both of the Department of Agriculture.
[D03MY1-B20]D390 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
[D03MY1-B21]D390 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and 
the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2002 for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Colin 
L. Powell, Secretary of State.
[D03MY1-B22]D390 AMISH YOUT
AMISH YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
[D03MY1-B23]D390 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine the employment needs 
of Amish youth, focusing on the statutory and regulatory requirements of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act as they apply to the employment of Amish youth in 
the sawmill and woodworking industries, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Pitts and Souder; Thomas M. Markey, Acting Administrator, 
Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, Department of 
Labor; Christ K. Blank, Old Order Amish Steering Committee-National, 
Kinzers, Pennsylvania; Herman Bontrager, National Committee for Amish 
Religious Freedom, New Holland, Pennsylvania; and William Burkholder, 
Centerville, Pennsylvania.
[D03MY1-B24]D390 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
[D03MY1-B25]D390 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy, after receiving testimony from 
Edward H. Jurith, Acting Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy.
[D03MY1-B26]D390 U.S.S. COL
U.S.S. COLE
[D03MY1-B27]D390 Committee
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to 
examine the lessons learned from the attack on U.S.S. Cole, the report of 
the Crouch/Gehman Commission, and the Navy's Judge Advocate General Manual 
Investigation into the attack, including a review of appropriate standards 
of accountability for United States military services, after receiving 
testimony from Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; 
Adm. Vernon E. Clark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Charles T. 
Robertson, Jr., USAF, Commander-in-Chief, United States Transportation 
Command; and Adm. Lowell Jacoby, USN, Director, Joint Chiefs of Staff J-2.
[D03MY1-B28]D390 BUSINESS M
BUSINESS MEETING
[D03MY1-B29]D390 Committee
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
[D03MY1-B30]D390 S. 127, to
  S. 127, to give American companies, American workers, and American ports 
the opportunity to compete in the United States cruise market;
[D03MY1-B31]D391 H.R. 1098,

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  H.R. 1098, to improve the recording and discharging of maritime liens and 
expand the American Merchant Marine Memorial Wall of Honor;
[D03MY1-B32]D391 S. 718, to
  S. 718, to direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to 
establish a program to support research and training in methods of detecting 
the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes, with amendments; and
[D03MY1-B33]D391 The nomina
  The nominations of Michael P. Jackson, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary 
of Transportation, Brenda L. Becker, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce, Theodore William Kassinger, of Maryland, to be 
General Counsel of the Department of Commerce, and certain nominations for 
promotion in the United States Coast Guard.
[D03MY1-B34]D391 NUCLEAR EN
NUCLEAR ENERGY STRATEGY
[D03MY1-B35]D391 Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded joint 
oversight hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on 
Energy and Water Development on the state of the nuclear power industry and 
the future of the industry in a comprehensive energy strategy, after 
receiving testimony from Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission; Corbin A. McNeill, Exelon Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; James 
K. Asselstine, Lehman Brothers, Inc., New York, New York; John F. Ahearne, 
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Heather J. MacLean, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology Nuclear Engineering Department, Cambridge; and 
Richard Rhodes, Madison, Connecticut.
[D03MY1-B36]D391 WHOLESALE
WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY PRICES
[D03MY1-B37]D391 Committee
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to review the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's order 
addressing wholesale electricity prices in California and the Western United 
States, after receiving testimony from Curt L. Hebert, Jr., Chairman, 
William L. Massey, Commissioner, and Linda K. Breathitt, Commissioner, all 
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy.
[D03MY1-B38]D391 FEDERAL EL
FEDERAL ELECTION REFORM
[D03MY1-B39]D391 Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
examine issues related to reform of federal election practices and 
procedures, receiving testimony from Senator Bond; Representative Clay; 
Washington State Elections Director Gary McIntosh, Olympia; Maryland 
Secretary of State John T. Willis, Annapolis; Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins, 
League of Women Voters of the United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
Ralph G. Neas, People for the American Way, Washington, D.C.; Deborah M. 
Phillips, Voting Integrity Project, Arlington, Virginia; Larry J. Sabato, 
University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies, Charlottesville; R. 
Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology Division of Humanities 
and Social Sciences, Pasadena, on behalf of the Caltech/MIT Voting 
Technology Project; and Daniel B. Perrin, Committee for Honest Politics, 
Inc., Mary Esther, Florida.
[D03MY1-B40]D391 Hearings c
  Hearings continue Wednesday, May 9.
[D03MY1-B41]D391 BUSINESS M
BUSINESS MEETING
[D03MY1-B42]D391 Committee
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee met to discuss pending committee 
business.
[D03MY1-B43]D391 ASYLUM POL
ASYLUM POLICY
[D03MY1-B44]D391 Committee
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings 
to examine certain aspects of United States immigration policy, focusing on 
asylum issues, including detention practices, expedition removal, asylum 
claim filing deadline, and refugee resettlement and protection, after 
receiving testimony from Karen Musalo, University of California Hastings 
College of the Law, San Francisco; Wendy A. Young, Women's Commission for 
Refugee Women and Children, and Dan Stein, Federation for American 
Immigration Reform, both of Washington, D.C.; Eleanor Acer, Lawyers 
Committee for Human Rights, and Leonard S. Glickman, Hebrew Immigrant Aid 
Society, both of New York, New York; Donald Hammond, World Relief, Congers, 
New York; and certain asylees.
[D03MY1-B45]D391 PRESCRIPTI
PRESCRIPTION DRUG TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY
[D03MY1-B46]D391 Special Co
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine new 
technologies that could be used to ensure the safe and efficient 
distribution of prescription drugs, after receiving testimony from Janet M. 
Corrigan, Director, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine; 
Harold H. Allen, Loudoun Hospital Center, Leesburg, Virginia; Peter A. 
Klein, En-Vision America, Normal, Illinois; Neil Reed, Eastern Idaho 
Regional Medical Center, Idaho Falls; David W. Bates, Brigham and Women's 
Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Medical 
Informatics Association; and Marty R. McKay, Pearson Drugs, LeCompte, 
Louisiana, on behalf of the Louisiana Pharmacists Association.
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                        House of Representatives

[D03MY1-B48]D392 Chamber Ac
Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 48 public bills, H.R.1693-1708, H.R. 1710-1741; 1 private 
bill, H.R. 1709; and H. Con. Res. 123-127, and H. Res. 132 were introduced. 
                                                              Pages H1922-25
Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows:
[D03MY1-B49]D392 Conference
  Conference report on H. Con. Res. 83, establishing the congressional 
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2002, revising the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2001, 
and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2003 
through 2011 (H. Rept. 107-55); and
[D03MY1-B50]D392 H. Res. 13
  H. Res. 131, waiving a requirement of clause 6(a) of rule XIII with 
respect to the consideration of certain resolutions reported from the 
Committee on Rules (H. Rept. 107-56).
Pages H1864-H1911, H1913
Guest Chaplain: The prayer was offered by the Guest Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John 
Ogilvie, Chaplain, United States Senate.
  Page H1863
Journal: Agreed to the Speaker's approval of the Journal of Wednesday, May 2 
by a yea-and-nay vote of 299 yeas to 107 nays, Roll No. 99. 
                                                          Pages H1864, H1912
Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the Bonior motion to adjourn by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 157 yeas to 250 nays, Roll No. 97.
  Pages H1863-64
Recess: The House recessed at 10:30 a.m. and reconvened at 11:33 p.m. 
                                                                  Page H1864
Motion to Adjourn: Rejected the Capuano motion to adjourn by a yea-and-nay 
vote of 171 yeas to 239 nays, Roll No. 98.
  Pages H1911-12
Recess: The House recessed at 12:08 a.m. on Friday, May 4 and reconvened at 
1:56 a.m. on Friday, May 4.
  Page H1912
Meeting Hour--Monday, May 7: Agreed that when the House adjourns today, it 
adjourn to meet at 2 p.m. on Monday, May 7.
  Pages H1913-15
Meeting Hour--Tuesday, May 8: Agreed that when the House adjourns on Monday, 
May 7, it adjourn to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 8 for morning-hour 
debate.
  Pages H1915-16
Calendar Wednesday: Agreed to dispense with the Calendar Wednesday business 
of Wednesday, May 9.
  Page H1916
Vietnam Education Foundation: The Chair announced the Speaker's appointment, 
upon the recommendation of the Minority Leader, of Representative George 
Miller of California to the Vietnam Education Foundation.
  Page H1916
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appear on pages H1863-64, H1911-12, and 
H1912. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 2:21 a.m. on Friday, 
May 4.
[D03MY1-B51]D392 Committee