[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 77 (Wednesday, June 6, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D538]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the Air Force, 
after receiving testimony from James G. Roche, Secretary, and Gen. 
Michael E. Ryan, USAF, Chief of Staff, both of the United States Air 
Force.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2002 for the National Science Foundation, after receiving 
testimony from Rita R. Colwell, Director, Christine C. Boesz, Inspector 
General, Eamon M. Kelly, Chairman, National Science Board, and Robert 
A. Eisenstein, Assistant Director, Mathematical and Physics Sciences, 
all of the National Science Foundation.
FAITH BASED SOLUTIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 304, to 
reduce illegal drug use and trafficking and to help provide appropriate 
drug education, prevention, and treatment programs, and certain related 
issues surrounding faith based solutions that would enable sectarian 
groups to compete on the merits for funding to administer secular 
social services to the American public, if they can demonstrate that 
they meet the requirements provided in the program, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Santorum; Representative Scott; Carl H. Esbeck, 
Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Reverend W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Amachi Program, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Faith Based Initiatives for Public/
Private Ventures; Charles Adams, Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, 
Detroit, Michigan; Rabbi David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of America, and 
Edward Morgan, Christian Herald Association, both of New York, New 
York; Reverend Eliezer Valentin Castanon, United Methodist Church 
General Board of Church and Society, Wade Henderson, Leadership 
Conference on Civil Rights, Nathan J. Diament, Union of Orthodox Jewish 
Congregations of America, and Richard T. Foltin, American Jewish 
Committee, all of Washington, D.C.; John L. Avery, National Association 
of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, Alexandria, Virginia; and 
Douglas Laycock, University of Texas Law School, Austin.