[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 72 (Wednesday, May 23, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D501-D503]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the Department of 
Defense and related programs, after receiving testimony from certain 
public witnesses.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2002 for the National Institutes of Health, after 
receiving testimony from Ruth L. Kirschstein, Acting Director, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, who was 
accompanied by several of her associates.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Alphonso R. Jackson, of Texas, to 
be Deputy Secretary, Richard A. Hauser, of Maryland, to be General 
Counsel, John Charles Weicher, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary and serve as Federal Housing Commissioner, and 
Romolo A. Bernardi, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
BOXING INDUSTRY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the impact of past legislation on the professional 
boxing industry, and whether additional federal, state, and private 
sector reforms, including the establishment of a centralized 
association or league, a boxers union, a promoters and managers 
collective, and consistent state regulations among the state athletic 
commissioners, are needed to further improve the sport, after receiving 
testimony from Roy Jones, Jr., Pensacola, Florida, on behalf of the 
Jones House; Edwin Homansky, Valley Hospital Medical Center, Dan 
Goossen, America Presents Boxing, and Kirk D. Hendrick, Jones Vargas, 
all of Las Vegas, Nevada; Greg Sirb, Association of Boxing Commissions, 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Patrick C. English, Dimes and English, 
Clifton, New Jersey.
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues 
relating to the capture, separation and storage or reuse of excess 
carbon, known as carbon sequestration, in order to stabilize and 
ultimately reduce concentrations of carbon emissions in the atmosphere, 
including soil carbon measurement processes, methods used to measure 
soil carbon changes, and the research related to such measurements, 
after receiving testimony from John M. Kimble, Research Soil Scientist, 
Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Dale 
E. Heydlauff, American Electric Power Company, Columbus, Ohio; John 
Kadyszewski, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas; Michael J. 
Coda, Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia; and Robert Bonnie, 
Environmental Defense, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 507, to implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving 
the covenant to establish a commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands in Political Union with the United States of America; and
  The nominations of Patrick Henry Wood III, of Texas, and Nora Mead 
Brownell, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Member of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, of Virginia, to be 
General Counsel, and Jessie Hill Roberson, of Alabama, to be an 
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for Environmental Management, all of the Department of Energy, and J. 
Steven Griles, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  H.R. 581, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to use funds appropriated for wildland fire 
management in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2001, to reimburse the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to 
facilitate the interagency cooperation required under the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 in connection with wildland fire management;
  S. 468, to designate the Federal building located at 6230 Van Nuys 
Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, as the ``James C. Corman Federal 
Building'';
  S. 774, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 121 West Spring Street in New Albany, Indiana, as 
the ``Lee H. Hamilton Federal Building and United States Courthouse'';
  S. 757, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 504 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``Edward N. Cahn Federal Building and United 
States Courthouse'';
  S. 378, to redesignate the Federal building located at 3348 South 
Kedzie Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Paul Simon Chicago Job 
Corps Center''; and
  The nominations of Linda J. Fisher, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Deputy Administrator, and Stephen L. Johnson, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, and James Laurence Connaughton, of the District of 
Columbia, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to 
Japan, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Dole, 
Thompson, Frist, and Byrd, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
U.S./NORTH KOREA POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
future policy between the United States and North Korea, after 
receiving testimony from Norbert Vollertsen, German Emergency Doctors, 
Dusseldorf; Chuck Downs, Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Director, 
ISA/East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of Defense and former 
Senior Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to the House Policy 
Committee; James T. Laney, Council for Foreign Relations Korea Task 
Force, Atlanta, Georgia; and Robert L. Gallucci, Georgetown University 
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of John D. Graham, of Massachusetts, to be 
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Stephen A. Perry, of Ohio, to be 
Administrator of General Services, Angela B. Styles, of Virginia, to be 
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, and Erik Patrick 
Christian and Maurice A. Ross, each to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Deborah L. Cook and Jeffrey S. Sutton, both of Ohio, 
each to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, John G. 
Roberts, Jr., of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
District of Columbia Circuit, and Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., of Massachusetts, 
and Robert D. McCallum, Jr., of Georgia, each to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, both of the Department of Justice, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Boyd was 
introduced by Senator Kennedy.
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