[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 139 (Tuesday, October 16, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1022-D1024]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DOD AMMUNITION SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded closed hearings to examine the security of the 
Department of Defense ammunition shipments, after receiving testimony 
from Diane K. Morales, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics 
and Materiel Readiness; Gen. John G. Coburn, USA, Commanding General, 
U.S. Army Materiel Command; Lt. Gen.

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Daniel G. Brown, USAF, Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Transportation 
Command; Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, USA, Commander, Military 
Traffic Management Command; and Gregory D. Kutz, Director, Financial 
Management and Assurance, and John Ryan, Assistant Director, Office of 
Special Investigations, both of the General Accounting Office.
SUPERIOR BANK, HINSDALE, ILLINOIS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the failure and implications of Superior Bank, FSB, 
Hinsdale, Illinois, focusing on the need for continued regulatory 
vigilance, more stringent accounting, and capital standards for 
retained assets, after receiving testimony from Ellen Seidman, 
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury; 
John Reich, Director, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Bert Ely, 
Ely and Company, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; George G. Kaufman, Loyola 
University School of Business Administration, Chicago, Illinois; and 
Karen Shaw Petrou, Federal Financial Analytics, Inc., Washington, D.C.
E-911 COMPLIANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
implementation of the Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act 
(P.L. 106-81) and the integration of emergency-911 technologies, after 
receiving testimony from Thomas J. Sugrue, Chief, Wireless 
Telecommunications Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Michael 
Amarosa, TruePosition, Inc., New York, New York; Jenny Hansen, Montana 
State E 9-1-1 Program, Helena; John Melcher, National Emergency Number 
Association, Houston, Texas; Brett Sewell, SnapTrack, Inc., Campbell, 
California; and Thomas E. Wheeler, Cellular Telecommunications and 
Internet Association, Washington, D.C.
FEMA ATTACK RESPONSE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to review the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to the 
September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center 
in coordinating the rescue and recovery effort, and the continuing 
efforts at both locations to coordinate federal relief efforts and to 
administer federal assistance programs, after receiving testimony from 
Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); 
Edward P. Plaugher, Arlington County Fire Department, Arlington, 
Virginia; Jeffrey L. Metzinger, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, 
Sacramento, California, on behalf of FEMA's California Task Force 7; 
and Robert Hessinger and Michael Kenney, both of FEMA's Ohio Task Force 
One, Kettering.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1379, to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish an 
Office of Rare Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 727, to provide grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) 
training in public schools;
  H.R. 717, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for 
research and services with respect to Duchenne muscular dystrophy, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  An original bill to provide assistance with respect to the mental 
health needs of individuals affected by the terrorist attacks of 
September 11, 2001; and
  The nomination of Eugene Scalia, of Virginia, to be Solicitor for the 
Department of Labor.
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence held 
hearings to examine the defense of America's surface transportation 
infrastructure, focusing on analysis to evaluate terrorist threats and 
increased security measures for public transportation, receiving 
testimony from Mike Parker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil 
Works; Brian M. Jenkins, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California; 
Donald E. Brown, University of Virginia School of Engineering and 
Applied Science, Charlottesville; Jeffrey K. Beatty, Total Security 
Services, International, Marrietta, Georgia; and Tony Chrestman, Ruan 
Transportation Management Systems, Des Moines, Iowa.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Thomas M. Sullivan, of Massachusetts, to be Chief Counsel 
for Advocacy, Small Business Administration, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, Small Business 
Administration, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
CARE FOR VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the Department of Veterans Affairs' Fourth Mission, which is to 
preserve the VA's ability to accept military casualties while 
continuing to care for veterans, servicemembers, and the public

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following conflicts and crises, after receiving testimony from Anthony 
J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; Fran Murphy, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health; Claude A. Allen, Deputy 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; David S. C. Chu, Under 
Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; and Bruce P. 
Baughman, Director, Planning and Readiness Division, Readiness, 
Response and Recovery Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency.