[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 107 (Friday, July 27, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D791-D792]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, July 13, committee announced the 
following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Airland: Senators Lieberman (Chairman), Cleland, Akaka, 
Bill Nelson, Benjamin Nelson, Carnahan, Dayton, Santorum (Ranking Member), 
Inhofe, Roberts, Hutchinson, Sessions, and Bunning.
  Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Senators Landrieu 
(Chairman), Kennedy, Byrd, Lieberman, Bill Nelson, Carnahan, Dayton, 
Bingaman, Roberts (Ranking Member), Bob Smith, Santorum, Allard, Hutchinson, 
Collins, and Bunning.
  Subcommittee on Personnel: Senators Cleland (Chairman), Kennedy, Reed, 
Akaka, Benjamin Nelson, Carnahan, Hutchinson (Ranking Member), Thurmond, 
McCain, Allard, and Collins.
  Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support: Senators Akaka 
(Chairman), Byrd, Cleland, Landrieu, Benjamin Nelson, Dayton, Bingaman, 
Inhofe (Ranking Member), Thurmond, McCain, Santorum, Roberts, and Bunning.
  Subcommittee on SeaPower: Senators Kennedy (Chairman), Lieberman, Cleland, 
Landrieu, Reed, Carnahan, Sessions (Ranking Member), McCain, Bob Smith, 
Collins, and Bunning.
  Subcommittee on Strategic: Senators Reed (Chairman), Byrd, Akaka, Bill 
Nelson, Benjamin Nelson, Bingaman, Allard (Ranking Member), Thurmond, Bob 
Smith, Inhofe, and Sessions.
PREDATORY MORTGAGE PRACTICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the problem, impact, and responses of predatory mortgage 
lending practices, after receiving testimony from Wade Henderson, Leadership 
Conference on Civil Rights, Judith A. Kennedy, National Association of 
Affordable Housing Lenders, David Berenbaum, National Community Reinvestment 
Coalition, George J. Wallace, American Financial Services Association, all 
of Washington, D.C.; Esther Canja, Port Charlotte, Florida, on behalf of the 
American Association of Retired Persons; John A. Courson, Central Pacific 
Mortgage Company, Folsom, California, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers 
Association of America; Irv Ackelsberg, Community Legal Services, Inc., 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Consumer Law Center; 
Neill A. Fendly, National Association of Mortgage Brokers, McLean, Virginia; 
Lee Williams, Aviation Associates Credit Union, Wichita, Kansas, on behalf 
of the Credit Union National Association, Inc.; and Mike Shea, ACORN Housing 
Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri.
GUAM RESTITUTION AND TAXES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
H.R. 308, to establish the Guam War Claims Review Commission, and H.R. 309, 
to provide for the determination of withholding tax rates under the Guam 
income tax, after receiving testimony from Guam Delegate Underwood; 
Christopher Kearney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy 
and International Affairs; Hannah Gutierrez, Office of the Governor of Guam, 
and Thomas P. Michels, Bank of Hawaii, on behalf of the Guam Chamber of 
Commerce, both of Hagatna; and Ben G. Blaz, Fairfax, Virginia, former 
Delegate from Guam.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
the nomination of Theresa

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Alvillar-Speake, of California, to be Director of the Office of Minority 
Economic Impact, Department of Energy, after the nominee testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Stuart A. Bernstein, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to Denmark, Sue McCourt Cobb, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
Jamaica, Russell F. Freeman, of North Dakota, to be Ambassador to Belize, 
Michael E. Guest, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Romania, Charles A. 
Heimbold, Jr., of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Sweden, Thomas C. 
Hubbard, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Marie T. 
Huhtala, of California, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, Franklin L. Lavin, of 
Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, Thomas J. Miller, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Greece, Larry C. Napper, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan, Roger Francisco Noriega, of 
Kansas, to be Permanent Representative of the United States of America to 
the Organization of American States, with the rank of Ambassador, Jim 
Nicholson, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Holy See, Mercer Reynolds, 
of Ohio, to be Ambassador to Switzerland, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of 
Liechtenstein, and John Thomas Schieffer, of Texas, to be Ambassador to 
Australia.
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