[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 103 (Monday, July 23, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HEALTH CARE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the use of 
technology in the health care system, focusing on opportunities and 
obstacles regarding the use of Internet technology to empower patients 
to improve their health care, including processing medical claims and 
payments through secure Internet technologies, health web site 
information monitoring, web site sharing between hospitals and 
physicians, and addressing health work force shortages, after receiving 
testimony from Tom Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Willie E. 
May, Chief, Analytical Chemistry Division, Chemical Science and 
Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Department of Commerce; Sherrilynne S. Fuller, University of Washington 
School of Medicine Department of Medical Education Division of 
Biomedical Informatics, Seattle; John W. Kenagy, Harvard University 
Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Albert Patterson, Premier, 
Inc., Oak Brook, Illinois.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure held oversight hearings to examine 
the role of the federal government in meeting infrastructure needs, 
focusing on historical infrastructure investment analysis, estimated 
infrastructure needs of various agencies, and certain methods of 
developing these estimates, receiving testimony from Peter F. Guerrero, 
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; 
Mayor Marc H. Morial, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the United 
States Conference of Mayors; Mayor Bill Campbell, Atlanta, Georgia; 
Mayor Oscar Goodman, Las Vegas, Nevada; Mayor Anthony Williams, 
Washington, D.C.; and Robert W. Portiss, Tulsa Port of Catoosa, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
FEMA BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in managing 
a bioterrorist attack and the impact of public health concerns on 
bioterrorism preparedness, after receiving testimony from Bruce P. 
Baughman, Director, Planning and Readiness Division, Readiness, 
Response, and Recovery Directorate, Federal Emergency Management 
Agency; Scott R. Lillibridge, Special Assistant to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for National Security and Emergency 
Management; Tara J. O'Toole, Johns Hopkins University Center for 
Civilian Biodefense Studies, Baltimore, Maryland, former Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environment Safety and Health; and Dan 
Hanfling, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.