[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 23, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1042-D1043]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ANTHRAX EXPOSURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to assess the public health 
response to recent anthrax exposures, after receiving testimony from 
James Caruso, Deputy Assistant Director for Counter Terrorism, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Jeffrey P. Koplan, 
Director, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Bob Kramer, BioPort Corporation, Lansing, Michigan; Thomas 
Monath, Acambis, Cambridge, England; Mary Kuhn, Bayer Corporation, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Hillary Koproski, Thomas Jefferson 
University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mary Gilchrest, University of 
Iowa Hygienic Lab, Ames; and Barbara Hunt, Washoe County District 
Health Department, Reno, Nevada.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Joseph E. Schmitz, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Defense and Sandra L. Pack, of Maryland, to be an

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Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and 
Comptroller, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of James Gilleran, of California, to be 
Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the 
Treasury, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
COUNTERTERRORISM TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of 
Terrorism adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 
1999, and signed on behalf of the United States of America on January 
10, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-49), and International Convention for the 
Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, adopted by the United Nations 
General Assembly on December 15, 1997, and signed on behalf of the 
United States of America on January 12, 1998 (Treaty Doc. 106-06), 
after receiving testimony from Francis X. Taylor, Coordinator for 
Counterterrorism, and William H. Taft IV, Legal Adviser, both of the 
Department of State; and Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, 
Criminal Division, Department of Justice.