[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 26, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D633-D634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--CAPITOL ARCHITECT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 
for the Architect of the Capitol, after receiving testimony from Alan 
M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2002 
for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental 
Management, after receiving testimony from Carolyn L. Huntoon, 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Donald E. Powell, of Texas, to be a 
Member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Hutchison and Representatives Combest and Thornberry, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Samuel W. Bodman, of Massachusetts, to 
be Deputy Secretary of Commerce, and Allan Rutter, of Texas, to be 
Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, Kirk Van Tine, of 
Virginia, to be General Counsel, and Ellen G. Engleman, of Indiana, to 
be Administrator of the Research and Special Programs Administration, 
all of the Department of Transportation, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIONAL ENERGY SECURITY AND NUCLEAR ENERGY PRODUCTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine certain provisions relating to the renewal of the Price-
Anderson Act to provide liability coverage for Department of Energy 
nuclear activities, and nuclear energy production and efficiency 
incentives as contained in S. 472, to ensure that nuclear energy 
continues to contribute to the supply of electricity in the United 
States, S. 597, to provide for a comprehensive and balanced national 
energy policy, and S. 388, to protect the energy and security of the 
United States and decrease America's dependency on foreign oil sources 
to 50% by the year 2011 by enhancing the use of renewable energy 
resources conserving energy resources, improving energy efficiencies, 
and increasing domestic energy supplies; improve environmental quality 
by reducing emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases; mitigate 
the effect of increases in energy prices on the American consumer, 
including the poor and the elderly, after receiving testimony from Eric 
J. Fygi, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Energy; Joseph R. Gray, 
Associate General Counsel For Licensing and Regulation, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission; John Bradburne, Fluor Fernald, Inc., Cincinnati, 
Ohio, on behalf of Energy Contractors Price-Anderson Group; Marvin S. 
Fertel, Nuclear Energy Institute, and Erich Pica, Friends of the Earth, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and John L. Quattrocchi, American Nuclear 
Insurers, West Hartford, Connecticut.
U.S./VIETNAM BILATERAL TRADE AGREEMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the 
thoroughness of the United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement in 
order to normalize relations between the two countries, provide a guide 
to commercial relations, and pave the way for an eventual WTO-based 
relationship, receiving testimony from Peter B. Davidson, General 
Counsel, Office of the United States Trade Representative; Ralph L. 
Boyce, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs; Virginia B. Foote, U.S.-Vietnam Trade Council, and Lionel C. 
Johnson, Citigroup, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; and Mark Levinson, 
Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, New York, New 
York.
  Hearings recesses subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler, of Alabama, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, C. David Welch,

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of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt, Daniel C. 
Kurtzer, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Israel, Robert D. Blackwill, 
of Kansas, to be Ambassador to India, and Wendy Jean Chamberlin, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Blackwill was introduced by Senator Brownback.
DIABETES RESEARCH FUNDING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine the adequacy of federal 
funding allocated to fight diabetes, the impact of the disease on 
society, and current research opportunities to find a cure, after 
receiving testimony from Allen M. Spiegel, Director, National Institute 
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Captain James Lovell, 
Lake Forest, Illinois, Mary Tyler Moore and Kevin Kline, both of New 
York, New York, Jonathon Lipnicki, Tessa Wick, and Katie Zucker, all of 
Los Angeles, California, Hugh Auchincloss, Jr., Massachusetts General 
Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, James Robbins, Cox 
Communications, Atlanta, Georgia, Greg Brenneman, The Woodlands, Texas, 
Rachel Dudley, Southfield, Michigan, Andrew Webber, Steep Falls, Maine, 
Michelle and Eliza Jayne Kiley, Tarentum, Pennsylvania, Daniel and 
Jessica Thaller, Burlington, North Carolina, and Caroline Rowley, 
Houston, Texas, all on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes Research 
Foundation International.
GREAT PLAINS TRIBES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the goals and priorities of the Great Plains Tribes for the 
107th Congress, after receiving testimony from Gregg Bourland, Cheyenne 
River Sioux Tribe, Eagle Butte, South Dakota; Tex G. Hall, Three 
Affiliated Tribes, New Town, North Dakota; Thomas Ranfranz, Flandreau 
Santee Sioux Tribe, Flandreau, South Dakota; Mike Jandreau, Lower Brule 
Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota; William Kindle, Rosebud Sioux 
Tribe, Rosebud, South Dakota; Phillip Longie, Spirit Lake Dakota 
Nation, Fort Totten, North Dakota; Richard Monnette, Turtle Mountain 
Chippewa Tribe, Belcourt, North Dakota; Roger Trudell, Santee Sioux 
Tribe, Niobrara, Nebraska; and John Steele, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine 
Ridge, South Dakota.
JUDICIAL NOMINATION PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts held hearings to examine the role that ideology should 
play in the selection and confirmation of Federal judges, receiving 
testimony from Lloyd N. Cutler, Constitution Project, and C. Boyden 
Gray, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, both former White House Counsels, 
Marcia D. Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, and Clint Bolick, 
Institute for Justice, all of Washington, D.C.; Laurence H. Tribe, 
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Stephen B. Presser, 
Northwestern University School of Law, and Cass R. Sunstein, University 
of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science, both of 
Chicago, Illinois; and Eugene Volokh, University of California School 
of Law, Los Angeles.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.