[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 163 (Thursday, November 29, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1179-D1181]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held hearings to examine funding for 
bioterrorism preparedness, focusing on increased surveillance and 
epidemiological capacity, coordination of community disaster response 
plans, and improvement of decontamination and treatment facilities, 
receiving testimony from Jeffrey P. Koplan, Director, 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;

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Kenneth Alibek, Advanced Biosystems, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Joseph 
A. Barbera, George Washington University Institute for Crisis, 
Disaster, and Risk Management, Washington, D.C.; and Joseph LeValley, 
Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 350 
nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine housing and community development needs, focusing 
on the fiscal year 2003 housing and urban development budget, after 
receiving testimony from Raymond A. Skinner, Maryland Department of 
Housing and Community Development, Crownsville, on behalf of the 
National Council of State Housing Agencies; Barbara Sard, Center on 
Budget and Policy Priorities, and Kurt Creager, National Association of 
Housing and Redevelopment Officials, both of Washington, D.C.; Edgar O. 
Olsen, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; David W. Curtis, Leon 
N. Weiner and Associates, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the 
National Association of Home Builders; and F. Barton Harvey, Enterprise 
Foundation, Columbia, Maryland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Arden Bement, Jr., of Indiana, to 
be Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
Conrad Lautenbacher, Jr., of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Oceans 
and Atmosphere, both of the Department of Commerce, R. David Paulison, 
of Florida, to be Administrator of the United States Fire 
Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, William Schubert, 
of Texas, to be Administrator of the Maritime Administration, 
Department of Transportation, and certain Coast Guard nominations.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 525, to 
expand trade benefits to certain Andean countries, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John V. Hanford III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at 
Large for International Religious Freedom, Arthur E. Dewey, of 
Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, 
and Migration, and John D. Ong, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to Norway, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Dewey was introduced by Representative Tony Hall.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of James David McGee, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Swaziland, Kenneth P. Moorefield, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic, and the nomination of John Price, 
of Utah, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Federal and Islamic Republic of The Comoros and Ambassador to the 
Republic of Seychelles. Mr. Price was introduced by Senators Hatch and 
Bennett.
WMD PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine combating proliferation of weapons of mass destruction with 
non-proliferation assistance programs and coordination, and a related 
measure, S. 673, to establish within the executive branch of the 
Government an interagency committee to review and coordinate United 
States nonproliferation efforts in the independent states of the former 
Soviet Union, after receiving testimony from Vann H. Van Diepen, Acting 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation; Marshall S. 
Billingslea, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiation 
Policy; Kenneth E. Baker, Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for 
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; and Matthew S. Borman, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 986, to allow media coverage of court proceedings;
  S. 304, to reduce illegal drug use and trafficking and to help 
provide appropriate drug education, prevention, and treatment programs, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 140, designating the week beginning September 15, 2002, as 
``National Civic Participation Week'';
  H. Con. Res. 88, expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
President should issue a proclamation

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recognizing a National Lao-Hmong Recognition Day; and
  The nominations of Harris L. Hartz, of New Mexico, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, John D. Bates, of Maryland, 
to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Kurt 
D. Engelhardt, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, Joe L. Heaton, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, William P. Johnson, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico, Clay D. 
Land, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Georgia, Frederick J. Martone, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Arizona, Danny C. Reeves, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Julie A. Robinson, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Kansas; James 
Edward Rogan, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office; and Thomas L. Sansonetti, of Wyoming, to be Assistant 
Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
David R. Dugas, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of 
Louisiana, Edward Hachiro Kubo, Jr., to be United States Attorney for 
the District of Hawaii, James A. McDevitt, to be United States Attorney 
for the Eastern District of Washington, David E. O'Meilia, to be United 
States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Sheldon J. 
Sperling, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, and Johnny Keane Sutton, to be United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Texas, Richard S. Thompson, to be United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, all of the Department of 
Justice.
  Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts: Senators 
Schumer (Chairman), Leahy, Kennedy, Feingold, Durbin, Sessions (Ranking 
Member), Thurmond, Grassley, and Specter.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition and Business and Consumer 
Rights: Senators Kohl (Chairman), Leahy, Feingold, Schumer, Cantwell, 
Edwards, DeWine (Ranking Member), Hatch, Thurmond, Specter, and 
Brownback.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Feingold (Chairman), 
Leahy, Kennedy, Schumer, Durbin, Thurmond (Ranking Member), Hatch, Kyl, 
and McConnell.
  Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs: Senators Biden (Chairman), Leahy, 
Feinstein, Kohl, Durbin, Cantwell, Edwards, Grassley (Ranking Member), 
Hatch, DeWine, Sessions, Brownback, and McConnell.
  Subcommittee on Immigration: Senators Kennedy (Chairman), Feinstein, 
Schumer, Durbin, Cantwell, Edwards, Brownback (Ranking Member), 
Specter, Grassley, Kyl, and DeWine.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information: 
Senators Feinstein (Chairman), Biden, Kohl, Cantwell, Edwards, Kyl 
(Ranking Member), DeWine, Sessions, and McConnell.