[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 71 (Tuesday, May 22, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Lorne W. Craner, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Donald Burnham Ensenat, of 
Louisiana, to be Chief of Protocol, with the rank of Ambassador, Carl 
W. Ford, Jr., of Arkansas, to be Assistant Secretary for Intelligence 
and Research, Ruth A. Davis, of Georgia, to be Director General of the 
Foreign Service, and Paul Vincent Kelly, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Legislative Affairs, all of the Department of State, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Craner was introduced by Senator McCain, Mr. Ensenat was 
introduced by Senator Breaux, and Mr. Ford was introduced by former 
Senator Glenn.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Erik Patrick Christian and Maurice A. Ross, each to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
after the nominees, who were introduced by Delegate Eleanor Holmes 
Norton, testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RURAL AND URBAN HEALTH CARE NEEDS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings 
to examine United States immigration policy regarding the immigration 
of nurses, physicians and other health care professionals to the United 
States, focusing on rural and urban nursing shortages and the 
immigration of foreign-trained nurses, receiving testimony from Ruth E. 
Levine, Senior Health Economist, World Bank; Susan Page, Pratt Regional 
Medical Center, Pratt, Kansas, on behalf of the Kansas Hospital 
Association; Carl Shusterman, Law Offices of Carl Shusterman, Los 
Angeles, California; Bradley D. LeBaron, Uintah Basin Medical Center, 
Roosevelt, Utah, on behalf of the American Hospital Association; Martha 
Hegarty, Country Care Nursing Facility, Easton, Kansas, on behalf of 
the American Health Care Association; and Diane Sosne, on behalf of the 
Service Employees International Union Nurse Alliance (AFL-CIO), and 
Douglas M. Wear, Wear and Associates, on behalf of the American 
Psychological Association, both of Seattle, Washington.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.