[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 76 (Tuesday, June 5, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D528]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on Douglas Jay 
Feith, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary for Policy, Jack Dyer Crouch II, 
of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, 
and Peter W. Rodman, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for International Security Affairs, all of the Department of Defense, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Feith 
was introduced by Senators Santorum and Specter, and Mr. Crouch was 
introduced by Senators Carnahan and Bond.
DEFENSE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded hearings to examine the ``leap ahead'' technologies 
and transformation initiatives within the Defense Science and Technology 
program, after receiving testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Under Secretary 
for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, and Delores M. Etter, Acting 
Director, Defense Research and Engineering, and Deputy Under Secretary for 
Science and Technology, both of the Department of Defense; A. Michael 
Andrews II, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and 
Technology and Chief Scientist; Donald C. Daniel, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Air Force for Science, Technology, and Engineering; Rear Adm. Jay M. 
Cohen, USN, Chief of Naval Research; Jane A. Alexander, Acting Director, 
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Peter M.A. Sherwood, Kansas State 
University Department of Chemistry, Manhattan; Kaigham J. Gabriel, Carnegie 
Mellon University The Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and 
Cynthia A. Kuper, Versilant Nanotechnologies, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
recommendations of the United States Commission on International Religious 
Freedom on ways to promote religious freedom abroad, after receiving 
testimony from Firuz Kazemzadeh, National Spiritual Assembly, Alta Loma, 
California, and Nina Shea, Freedom House, Michael Young, George Washington 
University School of Law, and Rabbi David Sapperstein, Religious Action 
Center of Reform Judaism, all of Washington, D.C., all on behalf of the U.S. 
Commission on International Religious Freedom.