[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 162 (Wednesday, November 28, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1174-D1175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
CONSUMER RENTAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT ACT
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions 
and Consumer Credit approved for full Committee action, as amended, 
H.R. 1701, Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on International Relations: Ordered reported, as amended, the 
following bills S. 494, Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 
2001; and H.R. 2739, to amend Public Law 107-10 to require a United 
States plan to endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the 
annual summit of the World Health Assembly in May 2002 in Geneva, 
Switzerland.
  The Committee also favorably considered the following measures and 
adopted a motion urging the Chairman to request that they be considered 
on the Suspension Calendar: H.R. 3348, to designate the National 
Foreign Affairs Training Center as the George P. Shultz National 
Foreign Affairs Training Center; and S. Con. Res. 58, expressing 
support for the tenth annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Parliamentary 
Forum.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 38, 
amended, Homestead National Monument of America Additions Act; H.R. 
1925, amended, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the Waco Mammoth Site Area 
in Waco, Texas, as a unit of the National Park System; H.R. 1963, to 
amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route taken by 
American soldier and frontiersman George Rogers Clark and his men 
during the Revolutionary War to capture the British forts at Kaskaskia 
and Cahokia, Illinois, and Vincennes, Indiana, for study for potential 
addition to the National Trails System; H.R. 2234, amended, Tumacacori 
National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2001; H.R. 2238, 
amended, Fern Lake Conservation and Recreation Act of 2001; H.R. 2440, 
amended, to rename Wolf Trap Farm Park as ``Wolf Trap National Park for 
the Performing Arts;'' H.R. 2742, to authorize the construction of a 
Native American Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; 
H.R. 3322, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct an 
education and administrative center at the Bear River Migratory Bird 
Refuge in Box Elder County, Utah; and H.R. 3334, to designate the 
Richard J. Guadagno Headquarters and Visitors Center at Humboldt Bay 
National Wildlife Refuge, California.
TERRORISM RISK PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a record vote of 8 to 0, with 3 voting 
present, a modified closed rule providing 1 hour of debate in the House 
on H.R. 3210, Terrorism Risk Protection Act. The rule provides that, in 
lieu of the amendments recommended by the Committee on Financial 
Services and the Committee on Ways and Means, an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute consisting of the text of H.R. 3357 shall be 
considered as adopted. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill as amended. The rule provides for 
consideration of the amendment in the nature of a substitute printed in 
the Rules Committee report accompanying the resolution, if offered by 
Representative LaFalce or his designee, which shall be considered as 
read and shall be separately debatable for one hour equally divided and 
controlled by the proponent and an opponent. The rule waives all points 
of order against consideration of the amendment printed in the report. 
Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. Testimony was heard

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from Chairman Oxley and Representatives Baker, LaFalce, Kanjorski, 
Bentsen, Sandlin, Crowley and Pomeroy.

Joint Meetings
U.S. ECONOMY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues related to the economic outlook of the nation, including a 
national energy policy, the tax code, and the impact of the slowing 
economy, after receiving testimony from R. Glenn Hubbard, Chairman, 
Council of Economic Advisers; Allen Sinai, Decision Economics, Inc., 
Boston, Massachusetts; Margo Thorning, American Council for Capital 
Formation, Washington, D.C.; Janet L. Yellen, University of California 
Department of Economics, Berkeley; and Alan S. Blinder, Princeton 
University Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey.