[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 140 (Wednesday, October 17, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1030-D1032]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Susan Schmidt Bies, of Tennessee, and 
Mark W. Olson, of Minnesota, each to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System,

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after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items: S. 1550, to provide 
for rail safety and security assistance; and The nominations of Phillip 
Bond, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, 
John H. Marburger, III, of New York, to be Director of the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy; and certain pending nominations in the 
U.S. Coast Guard.
  Also, committee approved committee's rules of procedure for the 107th 
Congress.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of William Baxter, of Tennessee, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Kimberly 
Terese Nelson, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Administrator of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, and Steven A. Williams, of Kansas, to 
be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Baxter was introduced by Senator Thompson, and 
Mr. Williams was introduced by Senator Roberts.
ANTI-TERRORIST CAMPAIGN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the international campaign against terrorism from 
Marc Grossman, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and William 
Joseph Burns, Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, both of the 
Department of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Brian E. Carlson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Latvia, Joseph M. DeThomas, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Estonia, Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, of North 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Finland, John Malcolm 
Ordway, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia, 
John N. Palmer, of Mississippi, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Portugal, and Clifford M. Sobel, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of the Netherlands, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Ms. McElveen-Hunter was introduced by 
Senator Helms, Mr. Palmer was introduced by Senators Lott and Cochran, 
and Mr. Sobel was introduced by Senators Torricelli and Smith (OR).
BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine Federal efforts to coordinate and prepare the United States for 
bioterrorism, after receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Michael D. Brown, Acting Deputy 
Director and General Counsel, Federal Emergency Management Agency; 
Deborah J. Daniels, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice 
Programs, Department of Justice; Henry L. Hinton, Jr., Managing 
Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, General Accounting 
Office; Anna Johnson-Winegar, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of 
Defense for Chemical and Biological Defense; Maureen E. Dempsey, 
Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Jefferson City; 
Margaret A. Hamburg, Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Amy E. Smithson, 
Henry L. Stimson Center Chemical and Biological Weapons 
Nonproliferation Project, both of Washington, D.C.; and Gary W. 
McConnell, Georgia Emergency Management Agency, Atlanta, on behalf of 
the National Emergency Management Association.
IMMIGRATION CONTROLS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings to examine effective immigration controls to deter terrorism, 
focusing on strengthening border security, screening foreign nationals, 
monitoring foreign students, operation of a comprehensive data sharing 
system between allies and other countries, implementation of an 
automated exit/entry system, and the use of biometric identification 
technology, after receiving testimony from Mary A. Ryan, Assistant 
Secretary for Consular Affairs, and Lino Gutierrez, Acting Assistant 
Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, both of the Department of 
State; James W. Ziglar, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization 
Service, Department of Justice; Jeanne A. Butterfield, American 
Immigration Lawyers Association, and Demetrios G. Papademetriou, 
Migration Policy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Richard E. 
Norton, International Biometric Industry Association, Fairfax, 
Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Thomas M. Sullivan, of Massachusetts, to be Chief Counsel 
for Advocacy, Small Business Administration.

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INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Also, held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving 
testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.