[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 130 (Tuesday, October 2, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D961-D962]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the annual report of the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee, focusing on efforts to generate a unified trade 
program for the United States government, after receiving testimony 
from Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce; John E. Robson, Chairman 
and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Hector V. 
Barreto, Administrator, Small Business Administration; Peter S. Watson, 
President and Chief Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment 
Corporation; and Thelma J. Askey, Director, U. S. Trade and Development 
Agency.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
U.S. economic situation prior to and after the recent terrorist 
attacks, focusing on the need for security and confidence, finding the 
right economic response to the crisis, and minimization of collateral 
damage to the United States and the global economy, after receiving 
testimony from R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, Council of Economic 
Advisers; Martin Neil Baily, Institute for International Economics, 
Washington, D.C.; Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University, Princeton, New 
Jersey.
RAILROAD AND MARITIME SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings to 
examine passenger and

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cargo security issues in the railroad and maritime industries, after 
receiving testimony from Adm. James W. Underwood, USCG, Director, 
Office of Intelligence and Security, Department of Transportation; 
George D. Warrington, President and Chief Executive Officer, National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); Edward R. Hamberger, 
Association of American Railroads, and Joseph J. Cox, Chamber of 
Shipping of America, both of Washington, D.C.; and J. Michael Crye, 
International Council of Cruise Lines, Arlington, Virginia.
ALASKA NATURAL GAS PIPELINE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the status of proposals for the transportation of natural 
gas from Alaska to markets in the lower forty-eight states and on 
proposed legislation to expedite the construction of a pipeline from 
Alaska, after receiving testimony from Robert S. Kripowicz, Acting 
Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, and Patrick Wood III, Chairman, 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, both of the Department of Energy; 
Drue Pearce, Senior Advisor for Alaska Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; Alaska Governor Tony Knowles, Juneau; Alaska State Senator 
John Torgerson, Soldotna; Scott Heyworth, Municipality of Anchorage, on 
behalf of the Citizens Initiative for the All-Alaskan, All-American 
Gasline, Joseph P. Marushack, Phillips Petroleum Company, Richard 
Glenn, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, and Mark Aron, CSX, Inc., all 
of Anchorage, Alaska; K. Terry Koonce, ExxonMobil Production Company, 
William D. Sullivan, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, and Forrest 
Hoglund, Arctic Resources Company, all of Houston, Texas; Robert A. 
Malone, BP America, Inc., Los Angeles, California; Patricio Silva, 
Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; Keith Bailey, 
Williams, Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Dennis McConaghy and Michael Stewart, 
Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd., Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on behalf of the 
Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company.
FOREST PROTECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Land 
and Forests concluded hearings to examine the interaction of old-growth 
forest protection initiatives and national forest policy, after 
receiving testimony from Representative DeFazio; Henri Bisson, 
Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; Sally Collins, Associate Chief, 
U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Alaska State Senator 
John Torgerson, Kasilof, on behalf of the Alaska Forest Association; 
Jerry F. Franklin, University of Washington College of Forest 
Resources, Seattle; Thomas M. Bonnicksen, Texas A&M University 
Department of Forest Science, College Station; Eric S. Palola, 
Northeast Natural Resource Center/National Wildlife Federation, 
Montpelier, Vermont; James Johnston, Cascadia Wildlands Project, 
Eugene, Oregon; and Bruce Daucsavage, Ochoco Lumber Company, 
Prineville, Oregon.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Eugene Scalia, of Virginia, to 
be Solicitor of the Department of Labor, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.