[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 6, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1103-D1104]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NEW FEDERAL FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee met and 
approved Titles VIII (Forestry) and IX (Energy) of S. 1628, to 
strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance 
resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm 
credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, and to 
ensure consumers abundant food and fiber.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Raymond F. Burghardt, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Larry Miles Dinger, of Iowa, to be 
Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, Charles Lawrence 
Greenwood, Jr., of Florida, for rank of Ambassador as Coordinator for 
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Charles Lester Pritchard, of 
Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador as Special Envoy for Negotiations 
with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and United States 
Representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization 
(KEDO), and Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to 
the Kingdom of Thailand, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Odessa F. Vincent, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, 
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the potential 
threat to America posed by the use of certain biological agents and 
toxins, focusing on federal, state, and local law enforcement efforts 
to combat acts of biological terror, including research and public 
health responders, after receiving testimony from James T. Caruso, 
Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and James S. Reynolds, Chief, Terrorism and Violent 
Crime Section, Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice; 
Mayor Steven L. Abrams, Boca Raton,

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Florida; John Parachini, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Michael V. 
Drake, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine 
Department of Ophthalmology; andRonald M. Atlas, University of 
Louisville Center for Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism, 
Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the American Society for 
Microbiology Task Force on Biological Weapons.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Thomas L. Sansonetti, of Wyoming, to be Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senators Thomas and Enzi, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.