[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 24, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1050]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TERRORISM INSURANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to 
examine how the insurance industry should respond to risks posed by 
potential terrorist attacks and the extent to which the government should 
play a role alongside the industry to address these risks, in light of the 
events of September 11, 2001, and how these decisions will effect insurance 
coverage and premiums on property and casualty reinsurance contracts as they 
come up for renewal, receiving testimony from Senator Bill Nelson; Paul H. 
O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury; Robert Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, Council 
of Economic Advisers; Thomas J. McCool, Managing Director, Financial Markets 
and Community Investment, General Accounting Office; Kathleen Sebelius, 
Kansas Insurance Department, Topeka, on behalf of the National Association 
of Insurance Commissioners; J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of 
America, Arlington, Virginia; and Kenneth A. Froot, Harvard University 
School of Business, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Hearings will continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Cameron R. Hume, of New York, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of South Africa, Margaret K. McMillion, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, Wanda L. Nesbitt, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Madagascar, and Robert V. 
Royall, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the United Republic of 
Tanzania, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
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