[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 100 (Wednesday, July 18, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D722-D725]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine Federal funding 
for embryonic stem cell research issues, focusing on the National 
Institute of Health report entitled ``Stem Cells: Scientific Progress 
and Future Research Directions'', after receiving testimony from 
Senators Hatch, Gordon Smith, and Brownback; Lana Skirboll, Director, 
Office of Science Policy, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Diane Krause, Yale University School of 
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of the American Society of 
Hematology; Mary J.C. Hendrix, University of Iowa College of Medicine 
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Iowa City, on behalf of the 
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; Richard M. 
Doerflinger, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C.; 
Michael D. West, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc., Worcester, 
Massachusetts; and William E. Gibbons and Susan E. Lanzendorf, both of 
the Eastern Virginia Medical School Department of Obstetrics and 
Gynecology, Norfolk.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE PERSONNEL PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2002 
for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on active and reserve military and civilian personnel 
programs, after receiving testimony from former Representative G.V. 
Montgomery; David S.C. Chu, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel 
and Readiness; Lt. Gen. Tomothy J. Maude, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff 
for Personnel, United States Army; Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan,

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Jr., USN, Chief of Naval Personnel/Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for 
Manpower and Personnel, United States Navy; Lt. Gen. Garry L. Parks, 
USMC, Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs, United States 
Marine Corps; Lt. Gen. Donald L. Peterson, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff 
for Personnel, United States Air Force; and MCPO Joe Barnes, USN 
(Ret.), Fleet Reserve Association, CM Sgt. Mark H. Olanoff, USAF 
(Ret.), Retired Enlisted Association, Joyce Wessel Raezer, National 
Military Family Association, and Sue Schwartz, Retired Officers 
Association, all on behalf of the Military Coalition, Alexandria, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An original bill to reauthorize funds for the U.S. Export-Import 
Bank;
  An original bill to extend the authorities of the Iran and Libya 
Sanctions Act of 1996 until 2006; and
  The nominations of Mark B. McClellan, of California, to be a Member 
of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to 
be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
President's amended budget request for fiscal year 2002 for the 
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Paul D. 
Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine Federal efforts to improve motor carrier safety at 
the United States-Mexico border relative to the North American Free 
Trade Agreement requirement that all countries in North America be open 
to commercial vehicle traffic, focusing on current safety conditions at 
the southern border, and Department of Transportation actions to 
implement a comprehensive safety strategy regarding Mexico's truck and 
bus access, receiving testimony from Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary, and 
Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Transportation; Steve Vaughn, California Highway Patrol, Sacramento, on 
behalf of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance; James P. Hoffa, 
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, 
and Peter J. Pantuso, American Bus Association, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Duane W. Acklie, American Trucking Associations, Alexandria, 
Virginia; and Edward M. Emmett, National Industrial Transportation 
League, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Dan R. Brouillette, of Louisiana, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Landrieu and 
Representative Tauzin, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings 
on proposals related to energy and scientific research, development, 
technology deployment, education, and training, including Sections 107, 
114, 115, 607, Title II, and Subtitle B of Title IV of S. 388, the 
National Energy Security Act of 2001, Titles VIII, XI, and Division E 
of S. 597, the Comprehensive and Balanced Energy Policy Act of 2001, 
Sections 111, 121, 122, 123, 125, 127, 204, 205, Title IV and Title V 
of S. 472, the Nuclear Energy Electricity Supply Assurance Act of 2001, 
S. 90, the Department of Energy Nanoscale Science and Engineering 
Research Act, S. 193, the Department of Energy Advanced Scientific 
Computing Act, S. 242, the Department of Energy University Nuclear 
Science and Engineering Act, S. 259, the National Laboratories 
Partnership Improvement Act of 2001, S. 636, a bill to direct the 
Secretary of Energy to establish a decommissioning pilot program to 
decommission and decontaminate the Sodium-cooled fast breeder 
experimental test-site reactor located in northwest Arkansas, S. 1130, 
the Fusion Energy Sciences Act of 2001, and S. 1166, to establish the 
Next Generation Lighting Initiative at the Department of Energy, 
receiving testimony from Francis S. Blake, Deputy Secretary of Energy; 
Robert Fri, Director, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian 
Institution, on behalf of the National Research Council Committee on 
Benefits of Department of Energy Research and Development on Energy 
Efficiency and Fossil Energy John P. Holdren, Harvard University 
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Ernest J. Moniz, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, former Under Secretary of 
Energy, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert C. Richardson, Cornell 
University, Ithaca, New York; H.M. Hubbard, Pacific International 
Center for High Technology Research, Lee's Summit, Missouri; Michael L. 
Corradini, University of Wisconsin Department of Engineering Physics, 
Madison, on behalf of the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee; 
Thomas B. Cochran, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; 
Jacques Bouchard,

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French Atomic Energy Commission, Paris; and Gregory R. Choppin, Florida 
State University Department of Chemistry, Tallahassee.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
RUSSIAN/NON-RUSSIAN REGIONS POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
Putin administration policies toward the non-Russian regions of the 
Russian Federation, receiving testimony from Steven L. Solnick, 
Columbia University Department of Political Science, New York, New 
York; John B. Dunlop, Stanford University, Stanford, California, on 
behalf of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; 
Marjorie M. Balzer, Georgetown University Center for Eurasian, Russian, 
and East European Studies, and Paul A. Goble, Radio Free Europe/Radio 
Liberty, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
1008, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to develop the United 
States Climate Change Response Strategy with the goal of stabilization 
of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that 
would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate 
system, while minimizing adverse short-term and long-term economic and 
social impacts, aligning the Strategy with United States energy policy, 
and promoting a sound national environmental policy, to establish a 
research and development program that focuses on bold technological 
breakthroughs that make significant progress toward the goal of 
stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations, and to establish the 
National Office of Climate Change Response within the Executive Office 
of the President, after receiving testimony from Senator Byrd; James E. 
Hansen, Head, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration; Thomas R. Karl, Director, National Climatic 
Data Center, National Environmental Satellite Data and Information 
Services, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department 
of Commerce; Eileen Claussen, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, 
Arlington, Virginia; Dale E. Heydlauff, American Electric Power 
Company, Columbus, Ohio; and James A. Edmonds, Battelle Memorial 
Institute, Jonathan Lash, World Resources Institute, and Margo 
Thorning, American Council for Capital Formation, all of Washington, 
D.C.
OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine past and current U.S. 
efforts to convince offshore tax havens to cooperate with U.S. efforts 
to stop tax evasion, the role of the Organization for Economic 
Cooperation and Development tax haven project in light of U.S. 
objectives, and the current status of U.S. support for the project, in 
particular for the core element requiring information exchange, after 
receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury; 
Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice; Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan District 
Attorney, New York, New York; and Donald C. Alexander and Sheldon S. 
Cohen, both of Washington, D.C., both former Commissioners, Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
ERGONOMIC HAZARDS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment, Safety and Training concluded hearings to examine the 
scope, cost, subjective requirements, potential violation of State 
workers' compensation laws, and the process of Occupational Safety and 
Health Administration's ergonomics standards, the protection of workers 
from ergonomic hazards in the workplace, including the legitimacy of 
ergonomics science, after receiving testimony from Chris Spear, 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy; Jeremiah A. Barondess, New 
York Academy of Medicine, on behalf of the National Research Council 
Panel on Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Workplace, and Kenneth J. 
Harwood, Columbia University Program in Physical Therapy, on behalf of 
the American Physical Therapy Association, both of New York, New York; 
Donald L. Morelli, Ergonomics Consulting Service, San Carlos, 
California; Carmen Hacht, IBP, Inc., Dakota City, Nebraska, on behalf 
of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 222; Franklin E. Mirer, 
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural 
Implement Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan; David C. Alexander, 
Auburn Engineers, Inc., Auburn, Alabama; Connie M. Verhagen, Muskegon, 
Michigan, on behalf of the American Dental Association; and Nancy 
Foley, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
TRIBAL GOVERNANCE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the relationship between Indian tribal good governance practices and 
economic development, after receiving testimony from Neal McCaleb, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Susan Masten, 
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; M. Brian 
Cladoosby, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, Anacortes, Washington; 
Ardith Chambers, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, 
Peshabestown, Michigan; Andrew J. Lee, Harvard

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University John F. Kennedy School of Government Project on American 
Indian Economic Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jerry 
Reynolds, First Nations Development Institute, Fredericksburg, 
Virginia.
FBI MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine Federal 
Bureau of Investigation management reform issues, including agency 
structure organization, span of control, and internal employee 
investigations, receiving testimony from Bob E. Dies, Assistant 
Director, and Kenneth Senser, Deputy Assistant Director, both of the 
Information Resources Division, John E. Roberts, Unit Chief, Office of 
Professional Responsibility, Frank L. Perry, Supervisory Senior 
Resident Agent, Raleigh, North Carolina Office, and Patrick J. Kiernan, 
Supervisory Special Agent, Law Enforcement Ethics Unit, FBI Academy, 
all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
Raymond W. Kelly, Bear Sterns, New York, New York, former Under 
Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement/Commissioner of U.S. Customs; 
and John Werner, Blue Sky Enterprises, Cary, North Carolina, former 
Supervising Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of James W. Ziglar, of Mississippi, to be Commissioner of 
Immigration and Naturalization, Department of Justice, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Daschle, Lott, and Cochran, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
LONG TERM CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held to examine long term care 
issues, focusing on costs and demands including state initiatives to 
shift Medicaid services away from institutional care and toward 
community based services, receiving testimony from Vermont Governor 
Howard Dean, Montpelier; David W. Hood, Louisiana Department of Health 
and Hospitals, Baton Rouge; Ray Scheppach, National Governors 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Richard Browdie, Pennsylvania 
Department of Aging, Harrisburg, on behalf of the National Association 
of State Units on Aging.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.