[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 29, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D40]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL WAR ON TERRORISM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Administration's implementation of 
the anti-money laundering provisions (title III) of the USA PATRIOT Act 
(Public Law 107-56), and its efforts to disrupt terrorist financing 
activities, after receiving testimony from Senators Levin and Grassley; 
Representatives Oxley and LaFalce; Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy Secretary of 
the Treasury; Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Department of Justice; Richard Spillenkothen, Director, 
Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Board of Governors of 
the Federal Reserve System; and Annette L. Nazareth, Director, Division 
of Market Regulation, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
U.S. ECONOMY
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues 
surrounding the United States economy and the federal budget, including 
economic and budgetary effects of certain tax cuts contained in the 
Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, after 
receiving testimony from Robert D. Reischauer, Urban Institute, and 
Peter R. Orszag, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Brian S. Wesbury, Griffin, Kubik, Stephens and Thompson, Inc., Chicago, 
Illinois.
ENRON CORPORATION COLLAPSE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the implications for consumers and energy markets of the 
Enron bankruptcy, focusing on maintaining the needed investment and 
competition in natural gas and electricity production and transmission, 
after receiving testimony from Patrick Wood, III, Chairman, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; James E. Newsome, 
Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, William M. Nugent, 
Maine Public Utilities Commission, Augusta, on behalf of the National 
Association of Regulatory and Utility Commissioners; Vincent Viola, New 
York Mercantile Exchange, New York, New York; Robert McCullough, 
McCullough Research, Portland, Oregon; and Lawrence J. Makovich, 
Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 
behalf of the North American Energy Group.
ELECTRIC POWER GENERATORS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held hearings on S. 556, 
to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric 
powerplants, focusing on technologies to limit the emissions of carbon 
and mercury from power plants and other compliant alternatives, 
receiving testimony from Robert S. Kripowicz, Acting Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; Edward C. Lowe, General Electric 
Power Systems, Schenectady, New York; Phil Amick, Global Energy, Inc., 
Cincinnati, Ohio; Richard L. Sandor, Environmental Financial Products 
LLC, Chicago, Illinois; Michael D. Durham, ADA Environmental Solutions, 
Littleton, Colorado; Richard L. Miller, Hamon Research-Cottrell, Inc., 
Somerville, New Jersey; Frank Alix, Powerspan Corporation, New Durham, 
New Hampshire; and George R. Offen, Electric Power Research Institute, 
Palo Alto, California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.