[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 166 (Tuesday, December 4, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1197-D1198]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 
3338, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full 
committee consideration H.R. 3338, making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.
CLONING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held hearings to examine the differences 
between human reproductive cloning and regenerative medicine, or 
therapeutic cloning, the ethical implications of cloning research, and 
the implications of cloning legislation on potential cell-based 
therapies, receiving testimony from Senator Brownback; Michael D. West, 
Advanced Cell Technology, Worcester, Massachusetts; Ronald M. Green, 
Dartmouth College Ethics Institute, Hanover, New Hampshire, on behalf 
of the Advanced Cell Technology Ethics Advisory Board; Bert Vogelstein, 
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 
Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National Research Council 
Committee on the Biological and Biomedical Applications of Stem Cell 
Research; and Phyllis E. Greenberger, Society for Women's Health 
Research, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Claude M. Bolton, Jr., of Florida, to be Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
  Also, committee met in closed session to consider certain pending 
nominations, but made no announcements and recessed subject to call.
REMEDIATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the remediation process of biologically contaminated 
buildings, focusing on federal, state, local, and private efforts to 
provide effective treatment techniques to address the threat of anthrax 
contamination, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman, 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Patrick J. Meehan, 
Director, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, 
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; James M. 
Grosser, Technical Director, Program Manager, Nuclear, Biological, and 
Chemical Defense Systems, Marine Corps Systems Command (Quantico, 
Virginia); Ivan C. A. Walks, District of Columbia Department of Health, 
Washington, D.C.; and Les C. Vinney, Steris Corporation, Mentor, Ohio.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1209, to 
amend the Trade Act of 1974

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to consolidate and improve the trade adjustment assistance programs, to 
provide community-based economic development assistance for trade-
affected communities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Adolfo A. Franco, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Frederick W. 
Schieck, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator, and Roger P. Winter, 
of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict, and 
Humanitarian Assistance, all of the United States Agency for 
International Development, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Franco was introduced by Senator 
McCain and Representative Hyde; Mr. Schieck was introduced by Senators 
Allen and Warner; and Mr. Winter was introduced by Senator Brownback, 
and Representatives Payne and Wolf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Chile, Charles S. Shapiro, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to 
the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Earl Norfleet Phillips, Jr., of 
North Carolina, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve concurrently 
and without additional compensation as Ambassador to St. Kitts and 
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, 
Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Donna Jean Hrinak, 
of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Phillips was introduced by Senator Helms.
WAR CRIME COMMISSIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
constitutional and legal implications of the President's recent 
executive order to establish military commissions with respect to the 
detention, treatment, and trial of persons accused of terrorist 
activities, after receiving testimony from Pierre-Richard Prosper, 
Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, Department of State; George 
J. Terwilliger III, White and Case, former Deputy Attorney General, 
Maj. Gen. Michael J. Nardotti, Jr., USA (Ret.), Patton Boggs, former 
Army Judge Advocate General, and Timothy Lynch, Cato Institute, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School 
and Department of Political Science, Chicago, Illinois.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the response of the Department of Justice to terrorist attacks 
of September 11, 2001, focusing on current U.S. immigration policy and 
practices related to the detention of certain individuals, after 
receiving testimony from Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney General, 
Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Michael Boyle, North 
Haven, Connecticut, on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers 
Association; Steven Emerson, The Investigative Project, and Victoria 
Toensing, diGenova and Toensing, both of Washington, D.C.; Gerald H. 
Goldstein, Goldstein, Goldstein and Hilley, San Antonio, Texas, on 
behalf of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; and 
Nadine Strossen, New York Law School, New York, New York, on behalf of 
the American Civil Liberties Union; and Ali Al-Maqtari, New Haven, 
Connecticut.
``CLUB'' DRUGS
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded hearings on the relation between rave promoters and club drug 
abuse, focusing on providing current information on the medical effects 
of club drugs, advancing drug education and prevention, and enhancing 
parental knowledge of club drugs, after receiving testimony from Asa 
Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department 
of Justice; Glen R. Hanson, Acting Director, National Institute on Drug 
Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Eladio M. Paez, City of Miami Police Department, Miami, 
Florida; Harry P. Mendoza, New Orleans Police Department, New Orleans, 
Louisiana; Sean McCullough, Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, Des 
Moines; and Kate Patton, Kelley McEnery Baker Foundation for the 
Prevention, Education, and Awareness of Ecstasy, Rolling Meadows, 
Illinois.