[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 116 (Monday, September 10, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D878-D879]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, September 7, committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  An original bill entitled ``National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2002'';
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2002'';
  An original bill entitled ``Military Construction Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2002''; and
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Energy Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2002.''
  Also, on Thursday, September 6, committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Michael Parker, of Mississippi, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Army.
INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the implementation of the Intelligent Transportation Systems 
program and to receive a status report on the development and 
deployment of ITS technologies as year number four of TEA-21 is 
completed, after receiving testimony from Christine Johnson, Program 
Manager, Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations, and 
Director, Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, 
Department of Transportation; Elwyn Tinklenberg, Minnesota Department 
of Transportation, St. Paul, on behalf of the American Association of 
State Highway and Transportation Officials; Lawrence Yermack, 
Intelligent Transportation Society of America, Washington, D.C.; James 
Beall, Jr., San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation 
Commission, San Jose, California; Martin Manning, Clark County 
Department of Public Works, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the 
American Public Works Association; and Stephen Albert, Montana State 
University Western Transportation Institute, Bozeman.
CONTRACEPTIVE INSURANCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on S. 104, to require equitable coverage of 
prescription contraceptive drugs and devices, and contraceptive 
services under health plans, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Snowe and Reid; Jennifer Erickson, Bartell Drug Company, Bellevue, 
Washington; Anita L. Nelson, University of California in Los Angeles, 
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Torrance, on behalf of the 
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; and Kate Sullivan, 
Director, Health Care Policy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Marcia D. 
Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.
TEEN SUICIDE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: On Friday, 
September 7, Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded hearings 
to examine the national health crisis regarding teen and young adult 
suicide issues, after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; 
Representative Underwood; David Satcher, Surgeon General, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Stan Collins, Yellow Ribbon Suicide 
Prevention Program, San Diego, California; David A. Jobes, Catholic 
University of America Department of Psychology, Washington, D.C.; Grace 
Eaton, Farmington, Maine; and Patricia Stebbins, Bristol, Connecticut.
U.S./MEXICO MIGRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, September 7, committee concluded 
hearings to examine U.S.-Mexico migration and immigration reform 
issues, including amnesty for currently illegal aliens, guest worker 
programs, and the enactment of various ``earned adjustment'', or 
benefits based on a personal accomplishment that benefits society as a 
whole, provisions, after receiving testimony from Demetrios 
Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute, John J. Sweeney, American 
Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 
Thomas J. Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Raul Yzaguirre, National 
Council of La Raza, Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, and 
Stephen Moore, Cato Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Rafael 
Fernandez de Castro, Instituto Technologico Autonomo de Mexico 
Department of International Studies, Mexico City; and Ralston H. 
Deffenbaugh,

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Jr., Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Baltimore, Maryland.
HEALTH PRODUCTS FOR SENIORS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine companies that fraudulently mislead the elderly with regard to 
anti-aging products, including dietary, nutritional and specialty 
supplements, after receiving testimony from Janet Heinrich, Director, 
Health Care--Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human 
Services Division, General Accounting Office; John Taylor, Director, 
Office of Enforcement, Food and Drug Administration, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Howard Beales, Director, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Dennis M. Lormel, Chief, 
Financial Crimes Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department 
of Justice; Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Baltimore; 
E. Vernon F. Glenn, Law Offices of E. Vernon F. Glenn, Mt. Pleasant, 
South Carolina; Joyce C. Lashof, University of California School of 
Public Health, Berkeley; Robert S. Baratz, International Medical 
Consultation Services, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts; Timothy N. Gorski, 
University of North Texas Health Science Center, Arlington; and Mike 
O'Neil, O'Neals, California.