[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 111 (Thursday, August 2, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D836-D839]
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 continued 
hearings on the conservation provisions of the proposed Federal farm 
bill, focusing on rural economic issues, receiving testimony from David 
Kolsrud, CORN-er Stone Farmers Cooperative, Luverne, Minnesota, on 
behalf of the National Cooperative Business Association; Ronald L. 
Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine; Chuck 
Hassebrook, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska; Karen 
Dearlove, Indiana 15 Regional Planning Commission and Indiana 
Association of Regional Councils, Jasper, Indiana, on behalf of the 
National Association of Development Organizations; Curtis Wynn, Roanoke 
Electric Cooperative, Rich Square, North Carolina; Deborah M. Markley, 
Rural Policy Research Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Steve 
Lane, Security Savings Bank, Gowrie, Iowa, on behalf of the Iowa 
Independent Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers 
of America; and Jack Cassidy, CoBank, Greenwoodville, Colorado.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of John P. Stenbit, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Command, Control, Communication and Intelligence, and Ronald M. 
Sega, of Colorado, to be Director of Defense Research and Engineering, 
both of the Department of Defense, Michael L. Dominguez, of Virginia, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, and Nelson 
F. Gibbs, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for Installations 
and Environment, both of the Department of the Air Force, Michael 
Parker, of Mississippi, to be Assistant Secretary for Civil Works, and 
Mario P. Fiori, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary for Installations 
and Environment, both of the Department of the Army, and H.T. Johnson, 
of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations 
and Environment, Gen. John P. Jumper, USAF, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and to be Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, and 
1147 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine 
Corps.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE INSTALLATIONS/CONSTRUCTION/HOUSING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for fiscal year 2002 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years 
Defense Program, focusing on installation programs, military 
construction programs, and family housing programs, after receiving 
testimony from Raymond F. DuBois, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of 
Defense for Installations and Environment; Maj. Gen. Robert L. Van 
Antwerp, Jr., USA, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation 
Management, Department of the Army; Rear Adm. Michael Johnson, USN, 
Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Maj. Gen. Earnest O. 
Robbins II, USAF, The Civil Engineer, Headquarters, United States Air 
Force; and Lt. Gen. Gary S. McKissock, USMC, Deputy Commandant for 
Installations and Logistics, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps.
DEPOSIT INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions concluded hearings to examine financial 
institution recommendations to strengthen and improve the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation's deposit insurance fund system, focusing 
on preserving the value of FDIC protection and coverage for the future, 
establishing a pricing structure, smoothing out premiums to avoid wild 
swings caused by the hard target reserve ratio, and providing 
appropriate rebates of excess fund reserves, after receiving testimony 
from Robert I. Gulledge, Citizens Bank, Robertsdale, Alabama, on behalf 
of the Independent Community Bankers of America; Jeff L. Plagge, First 
National Bank of Waverly, Iowa, on behalf of the American Bankers 
Association; and Curtis L. Hage, Home Federal Bank, Sioux Falls, South 
Dakota, on behalf of the America's Community Bankers.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine Social 
Security reform issues, focusing on budgetary tradeoffs and transition 
costs, after receiving testimony from Peter R. Orszag, Sebago

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Associates, Inc., Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy 
Priorities, and Sylvester J. Scheiber, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, all of 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 633, to provide for the review and management of airport 
congestion, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 951, to authorize appropriations for the Coast Guard, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 980, to provide for the improvement of the safety of child 
restraints in passenger motor vehicles, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 1214, to amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, to establish a 
program to ensure greater security for United States seaports; and
  The nominations of John Arthur Hammerschmidt, of Arkansas, to be a 
Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, Jeffrey William 
Runge, of North Carolina, to be Administrator, National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration, and Kirk Van Tine, of Virginia, to be General 
Counsel, both of the Department of Transportation, and Nancy Victory, 
of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Communications and 
Information, and Otto Wolff, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary 
and Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of Commerce.
  Also, committee failed to report the nomination of Mary Sheila Gall, 
of Virginia, to be Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
CAFE STANDARDS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation/Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources: Committees concluded joint hearings to examine 
the National Academy of Sciences report on fuel economy, focusing on 
the effectiveness and impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy 
Standards, after receiving testimony from David L. Greene, Corporate 
Research Fellow, National Transportation Research Center, Oak Ridge 
National Laboratory, Paul R. Portney, Resources for the Future, 
Washington, D.C., Adrian Lund, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, 
Arlington, Virginia, Philip R. Sharp, Harvard University John F. 
Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and John J. 
Wise, Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Princeton, New 
Jersey, all on behalf of the Committee on the Effectiveness and Impact 
of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards of the National 
Research Council.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  H.R. 146, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the Great Falls Historic 
District in Paterson, New Jersey, as a unit of the National Park 
System;
  H.R. 182, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a 
segment of the Eight Mile River in the State of Connecticut for study 
for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  H.R. 1000, to adjust the boundary of the William Howard Taft National 
Historic Site in the State of Ohio, and to authorize an exchange of 
land in connection with the historic site;
  H.R. 1668, to authorize the Adams Memorial Foundation to establish a 
commemorative work on Federal land in the District of Columbia and its 
environs to honor former President John Adams and his legacy;
  S. 423, to amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
establishment of Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of 
Oregon'', with amendments;
  S. 941, to revise the boundaries of the Golden Gate National 
Recreation Area in the State of California, and to extend the term of 
the advisory commission for the recreation area, with amendments;
  S. 1057, to authorize the addition of lands to Pu'uhonua o Honaunau 
National Historical Park in the State of Hawaii;
  S. 1097, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue right-
of-way permits for natural gas pipelines within the boundary of the 
Great Smoky Mountains National Park;
  S. 1105, to provide for the expeditious completion of the acquisition 
of State of Wyoming lands within the boundaries of Grand Teton National 
Park, with amendments; and
  The nomination of Theresa Alvillar-Speake, of California, to be 
Director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Department of 
Energy.
  Also, committee continued markup of S. 597, to provide for a 
comprehensive and balanced national energy policy, but did not complete 
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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

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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, to establish 
the National Office of Climate Change Response within the Executive 
Office of the President, with amendments;
  S. 1202, to amend the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.) to extend the authorization of appropriations for the Office of 
Government Ethics through fiscal year 2006;
  S. 1198, to reauthorize Franchise Fund Pilot Programs;
  S. 1144, to amend title III of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11331 et seq.) to reauthorize the Federal 
Emergency Management Food and Shelter Program;
  S. 271, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the 
mandatory separation age for Federal firefighters be made the same as 
the age that applies with respect to Federal law enforcement officers;
  H.R. 93, to amend title 5, United States Code, to provide that the 
mandatory separation age for Federal firefighters be made the same as 
the age that applies with respect to Federal law enforcement officers;
  H.R. 1042, to prevent the elimination of certain reports;
  S. 737, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 811 South Main Street in Yerington, Nevada, as the ``Joseph 
E. Dini, Jr. Post Office'';
  S. 970, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 39 Tremont Street, Paris Hill, Maine, as the ``Horatio King 
Post Office Building'';
  S. 985, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 113 South Main Street in Sylvania, Georgia, as the ``G. 
Elliot Hagan Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1183, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 113 South Main Street in Sylvania, Georgia, as the 
``G. Elliot Hagan Post Office Building'';
  S. 1026, to designate the United States Post Office located at 60 
Third Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey, as the ``Pat King Post Office 
Building'';
  S. 1181, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2719 South Webster Street in Kokomo, Indiana, as the 
``Elwood Haynes `Bud' Hillis Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2043, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2719 South Webster Street in Kokomo, Indiana, as the 
``Elwood Haynes `Bud' Hillis Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 364, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 5927 Southwest 70th Street in Miami, Florida, as the 
``Marjory Williams Scrivens Post Office'';
  H.R. 821, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 1030 South Church Street in Asheboro, North 
Carolina, as the ``W. Joe Trogdon Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1753, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 419 Rutherford Avenue, N.E., in Roanoke, Virginia, 
as the ``M. Caldwell Butler Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Lynn Leibovitz, of the District of Columbia, to be 
an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
and Daniel R. Levinson, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, General 
Services Administration.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of John Lester Henshaw, of 
Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety 
and Health, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 356, to establish a National Commission on the Bicentennial of the 
Louisiana Purchase, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1046, to establish a Commission to commemorate the 50th 
anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of 
Education, with amendments;
  H.R. 2133, to establish a Commission to commemorate the 50th 
anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of 
Education, with amendments;
  S. Res. 143, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 
development of educational programs on veterans' contributions to the 
country and the designation of the week of November 11 through November 
17, 2001, as ``National Veterans Awareness Week'';
  S. Res. 145, recognizing the 4,500,000 immigrants helped by the 
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society;

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  S. Res. 138, designating the month of September as ``National 
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month'', with amendments;
  S. Res. 146, designating August 4, 2001, as ``Louis Armstrong Day''; 
and
  The nominations of William J. Riley, of Nebraska, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, and Sarah V. Hart, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Director of the National Institute of Justice, and 
Robert S. Mueller III, of California, to be Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 565, to establish the Commission on Voting Rights and Procedures 
to study and make recommendations regarding election technology, 
voting, and election administration, to establish a grant program under 
which the Office of Justice Programs and the Civil Rights Division of 
the Department of Justice shall provide assistance to States and 
localities in improving election technology and the administration of 
Federal elections, to require States to meet uniform and 
nondiscriminatory election technology and administration requirements 
for the 2004 Federal elections;
  S.J. Res. 19, providing for the reappointment of Anne d'Harnoncourt 
as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution; and
  S.J. Res. 20, providing for the appointment of Roger W. Sant as a 
citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 739, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve programs 
for homeless veterans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1088, to amend title 38, United States Code, to facilitate the use 
of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill for education 
leading to employment in high technology industry, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1090, to increase, effective as of December 1, 2001, the rates of 
compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the 
rates dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of 
certain disabled veterans;
  S. 1188, to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance the 
authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to recruit and retain 
qualified nurses for the Veterans Health Administration, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of John A. Gauss, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Information and Technology, and 
Claude M. Kicklighter, of Georgia, to be Assistant Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs for Policy and Planning.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Messrs. Gauss and Kicklighter (listed above), after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kicklighter 
was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Akaka.