[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 125 (Monday, September 24, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Charlotte L. Beers, of Texas, to be Under Secretary of State 
for Public Diplomacy, Patricia de Stacy Harrison, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, John 
Stern Wolf, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Non-
proliferation, Kevin E. Moley, of Arizona, to be Representative of the 
United States of America to the European Office of the United Nations, with 
the rank of Ambassador, Kenneth C. Brill, of Maryland, to be Representative 
of the United States of America to the Vienna Office of the United Nations, 
with the rank of Ambassador, and Michael E. Malinowski, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal, after the nominees, 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COUNTERTERRORISM
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
legislative proposals to respond to terrorism, including S. 1448, to enhance 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, receiving testimony from Vicki Divoll, General Counsel, and 
Steve Cash, Counsel, both of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 
David S. Kris, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Larry Parkinson, 
General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of 
Justice; Robert McNamara, Jr., General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency; 
Jeffrey H. Smith, Arnold and Porter, former General Counsel to the Senate 
Armed Services Committee and the Central Intelligence Agency, Jerry Berman, 
Center for Democracy and Technology, and Kate Martin, Center for National 
Security Studies, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AGING AND DISABILITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine long-
term care challenges and solutions relating to the aging and disability 
communities, focusing on the relationships between public-private and local-
state-federal relationships for new service models, after receiving 
testimony from Kathryn G. Allen, Director, Health Care--Medicaid and Private 
Health Insurance Issues, General Accounting Office; Sara Rosenbaum, George 
Washington University Medical Center School of Public Health and Health 
Services, and Jane Isaacs Lowe, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Laura Brackin, Louisiana Governor's Office of 
Disability Affairs, Baton Rouge.