[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 161 (Tuesday, November 27, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1166-D1167]
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 ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Mark W. Olson, of Minnesota, and Susan 
Schmidt Bies, of Tennessee, each to be a Member of the Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve System, James Gilleran, of California, to be Director of 
the Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury, Allan I. 
Mendelowitz, of Connecticut, Franz S. Leichter, of New York, and John Thomas 
Korsmo, of North Dakota, each to be a Director of the Federal Housing 
Finance Board, and Randall S. Kroszner, of Illinois, to be a Member of the 
Council of Economic Advisers.
LAND CONVEYANCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and 
Forests concluded hearings on S. 691, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture 
to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to 
the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of 
Nevada and California, H.R. 223, to amend the Clear Creek County, Colorado, 
Public Lands Transfer Act of 1993 to provide additional time for Clear Creek 
County to dispose of certain lands transferred to the county under the Act, 
S. 1028, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain parcels 
of land acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal Features of the 
initial stage of the Oahe Unit, James Division, South Dakota, to the 
Commission of Schools and Public Lands and the Department of Game, Fish, and 
Parks of the State of South Dakota for the purpose of mitigating lost 
wildlife habitat, on the condition that the current preferential 
leaseholders shall have an option to purchase the parcels from the 
Commission, S. 1451, to provide for the conveyance of certain public land in 
Clark County, Nevada, for use as a shooting range, and S. 1240, to provide 
for the acquisition of land and construction of an interagency 
administrative and visitor facility at the entrance to American Fork Canyon, 
Utah, after receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Bennett; 
Representative Udall; Tom Fulton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and 
Minerals Management, and Larry Todd, Director of Operations, Bureau of 
Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior; and Abigail Kimbell, 
Acting Associate Deputy Chief for the National Forest System, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded 
hearings on the National Immunization Program, focusing on the importance of 
strengthening the public health system to detect and respond to bioterrorist 
attacks, produce an adequate

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supply of vaccinations, and improve the developments of counter-measures 
against other types of bioterrorist attacks, after receiving testimony from 
Walter A. Orenstein, Director, National Immunization Program, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, and Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; F. E. Thompson, Jr., 
Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, on behalf of the 
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; and Betty Bumpers, on 
behalf of Every Child By Two, and John Calfee, American Enterprise 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
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