[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 24, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D758-D760]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings to examine certain provisions of, and receive policy 
recommendations for, the proposed Federal farm bill, focusing on its 
impact on the livestock industry, receiving testimony from Jon Caspers, 
Swaledale, Iowa, on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council; Eric 
Davis, Bruneau, Idaho, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef 
Association; Dennis McDonald, Melville, Montana, on behalf of the 
United Stockgrowers of America; Frank Moore, Douglas, Wyoming, on 
behalf of the American Sheep Industry Association; William P. Roenigk, 
National Chicken Council, Washington, D.C.; Pete Hermanson, Story City, 
Iowa, on behalf of the National Turkey Federation; and Maria Vakulskas 
Rosmann, Harlan, Iowa, on behalf of the Sustainable Agriculture 
Coalition.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Harvey Pitt, of North Carolina, to 
be a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
FHA MORTGAGE INSURANCE
Committee Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing 
and Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine the Federal 
Housing Administration Multifamily Housing Mortgage Insurance Program, 
focusing on the impending increase in mortgage insurance premiums, 
program credit subsidy rates, and the Administration's proposed 
increase in the per-unit mortgage loan limits, after receiving 
testimony from John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal 
Housing Administration Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban 
Development; Michael F. Petrie, P/R Mortgage and Investment 
Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers 
Association of America; Patton H. Roark, Jr., AFL-CIO Housing 
Investment Trust, Ijamsville, Maryland; Kevin Kelly, Leon N. Weiner and 
Associates, Inc, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the National 
Association of Home Builders; and Carl A. S. Coan, Jr., National 
Housing Conference, Washington, D.C.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Semi-Annual Report on Monetary Policy 
of the Federal Reserve, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, 
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
SEAPORT SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine crime and security issues involving United States 
seaports, including a report by the Interagency Commission on Crime and 
Security in U.S. Seaports citing the presence of weaknesses in physical 
security jeopardizing the fight against drug smuggling, exposure to 
internal conspiracies, trade fraud, cargo theft, and illicit export of 
stolen vehicles, receiving testimony from Senator Graham; Charles 
Winwood, Acting Commissioner of Customs, Department of the Treasury; 
Adm. James M. Loy, USCG, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Bruce 
J. Carlton, Acting Deputy Maritime Administrator, and Rear Adm. James 
W. Underwood, USCG, Director, Office of Intelligence and Security/
National Security Advisor to the Secretary, all of the Department of 
Transportation; Michael Leone, Massachusetts Port Authority, East 
Boston, on behalf of the American Association of Port Authorities; 
Basil Maher, Maher Terminals, Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey, on behalf 
of the National Association of Waterfront Employers and the United 
States Maritime Alliance; John L. Miller, International Transportation 
Services, Inc., Long Beach, California; James M. Craig, American 
Institute of Marine Underwriters, New York, New York; and Kim E. 
Petersen, Maritime Security Council, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DIRECT TO CONSUMER ADVERTISING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings to 
examine the effects of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of 
prescription drugs and the scope of the Food and Drug Administration's 
authority to regulate this practice, after receiving testimony from 
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Deputy Director, Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and 
Communications, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Nancy 
Chockley, National Institute for Health Care Management, Sidney M. 
Wolfe, Public Citizen Health Research Group, Gregory J. Glover, Ropes 
and Gray, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of 
America, and John E. Calfee, American Enterprise Institute, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Mark Cloutier, RxHealth Value, Berkeley, California; 
Michael S. Shaw, Shaw Science Partners, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, on 
behalf of EthicAd; and Richard Dolinar, Endocrinologists Associates, 
Phoenix, Arizona.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings 
on proposed energy policy legislation, focusing on issues related to 
global climate change and measures to mitigate greenhouse gas 
emissions, including S. 597, the Comprehensive and Balanced Energy 
Policy Act of 2001, S. 388, the National Energy Security Act of 2001, 
S. 820, the Forest Resources for the Environment and the Economy Act, 
and related provisions contained in S. 882 and S. 1776 of the 106th 
Congress, receiving testimony from Francis Blake, Deputy Secretary of 
Energy; Christopher Risbrudt, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, Programs 
and Legislations, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; John 
Campbell, Ag Processing, Inc., Omaha, Nebraska; Gardiner Hill, British 
Petroleum, Washington, D.C.; James Lyons, Yale University School of 
Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut; Frank 
Cassidy, Public Service Enterprise Group Power, Newark, New Jersey; and 
Gene J. Gebolys, World Energy Alternatives, Chelsea, Massachusetts.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, July 26.
MISSILE DEFENSE PROGRAM/ABM TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
Administration's missile defense program and the Anti-Ballistic Missile 
Treaty, focusing on the legal and technical issues associated with 
missile defense, and the means of addressing ballistic missile and 
weapons proliferation threats, receiving testimony from Douglas Feith, 
Under Secretary for Policy, and Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, 
Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, both of the 
Department of Defense; John R. Bolton, Under Secretary of State for 
Arms Control and International Security; William J. Perry, Stanford 
University Institute for International Studies, Stanford, California; 
Lloyd N. Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, R. James Woolsey, Shea 
and Gardner, David J. Smith, Global Horizons, Inc., former Chief 
Negotiator for the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks, John B. 
Rhinelander, Shaw Pittman, and William Schneider, Jr., Hudson 
Institute, former Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, 
Science and Technology, all of Washington, D.C.; John M. Cornwall, 
University of California Department of Physics/RAND Corporation 
Graduate School, Los Angeles; and Robert F. Turner, University of 
Virginia School of Law Center for National Security Law, 
Charlottesville.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY REDESIGNATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
159, to elevate the Environmental Protection Agency to a cabinet level 
department, and to redesignate the Environmental Protection Agency as 
the Department of Environmental Protection Affairs, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Boxer; Representative Boehlert; Christine Todd 
Whitman, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Carole M. 
Browner, Albright Group, Washington, D.C., and William K. Reilly, Aqua 
International Partners, San Francisco, California, each a former 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and E. Donald Elliott, 
Yale University Law School/Georgetown University Law School, 
Washington, D.C., former Assistant Administrator and General Counsel, 
Environmental Protection Agency.
QUALITY CARE FOR THE DISABLED
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the role of health insurance in promoting 
quality care for seniors, children and individuals with disabilities, 
after receiving testimony from Jane A. Hayward, Rhode Island Department 
of Human Services, Cranston; Suzanne Mintz, National Family Caregivers 
Association, Kensington, Maryland; James Stearns, United Cerebral Palsy 
Associations, Washington, D.C.; Yolanda Sims, Hope School for the 
Developmentally Disabled, Springfield, Illinois, on behalf of the 
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFL-
CIO); D.J. Chapman, Bureau for Children with Medical Handicaps/Ohio 
Department of Health, Columbus, on behalf of the National Association 
for Home Care; and Mardell Bell, Dolton, Illinois, on behalf of the 
Service Employees International Union (AFL-CIO).
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:

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  S. 87, to amend the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act to 
revise and extend such Act, with an amendment;
  S. 91, to amend the Native American Languages Act to provide for the 
support of Native American Language Survival Schools; and
  S. 746, to express the policy of the United States regarding the 
United States relationship with Native Hawaiians and to provide a 
process for the recognition by the United States of the Native Hawaiian 
governing entity.
WARM SPRINGS RESERVATION LAND
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 266, 
regarding the use of the trust land and resources of the Confederated 
Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, receiving testimony 
from Senators Wyden and Gordon Smith; M. Sharon Blackwell, Deputy 
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Olney Patt, 
Jr., Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, 
Warm Springs; and Robin Tompkins, Portland General Electric Company, 
and Doug Goe, Ater Wynne Public Finance Group, both of Portland, 
Oregon.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of William J. Riley, of Nebraska, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and Deborah J. Daniels, of 
Indiana, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice 
Programs, and Sarah V. Hart, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the 
National Institute of Justice, both of the Department of Justice, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Riley was introduced by Senators Hagel and Nelson, Ms. Daniels was 
introduced by Senator Lugar, and Ms. Hart was introduced by Senator 
Specter.
VA PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the Department of Veterans Affairs management and oversight of the cost 
and utilization of pharmaceuticals within the VA community, after 
receiving testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Secretary, Thomas L. 
Garthwaite, Under Secretary for Health, Richard J. Griffin, Inspector 
General, and John E. Ogden, Chief Consultant, Pharmacy Benefits 
Management Strategic Health Group, all of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs; Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Health Care, Veterans' Health 
Care and Benefits Issues, General Accounting Office; Roger C. Herdman, 
Director, National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine; and 
Michael D. Miller, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical 
Research and Manufacturers Association.