[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 162 (Wednesday, November 28, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1172]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ANTHRAX DECONTAMINATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on anthrax decontamination, focusing on 
efforts of both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of 
Science and Technology Policy to irradiate contaminated sites and 
facilities, evaluate options for ensuring mail security, and secure 
premises for mail distribution and maximum workplace safety, after 
receiving testimony from John H. Marburger III, Director, Office of 
Science and Technology Policy; and Christine Todd Whitman, 
Administrator, and Richard Rupert, Federal On Scene Coordinator, both 
of the Environmental Protection Agency.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
Department of Justice's response to the September 11 attacks and 
implementation of the USA Patriot Act (P.L. 107-56), and certain 
Administration actions and proposals, including chartering military 
tribunals and permitting attorney-client communications monitoring, 
receiving testimony from Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, 
Criminal Division, Department of Justice; William P. Barr, former 
Attorney General of the United States, Griffin B. Bell, King and 
Spalding, former Attorney General of the United States, Kate Martin, 
Center for National Security Studies, and Neal Katyal, Yale University 
Law School/Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; 
Philip B. Heymann, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, former 
Deputy Attorney General of the United States; and Scott L. Silliman, 
Duke University School of Law Center on Law, Ethics and National 
Security, Durham, North Carolina.
  Hearings will resume Tuesday, December 4, 2001.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.