[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 7 (Tuesday, February 5, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D53-D55]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FIREFIGHTING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings to examine firefighting issues, focusing on 
urban search and rescue task forces response requirements, and funding 
needs for firefighting training, equipment, apparatus, communications, 
safety and health issues, and staffing, receiving testimony from 
Stephen D. Paulsell, Boone County Fire Protection District/Missouri 
Task Force 1, Columbia; Carlos P. Olaguer, Baltimore City Fire 
Department, Baltimore, Maryland; Peter H. Morris, CNN, Chevy Chase, 
Maryland, on behalf of the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad; Philip C. 
Stittleburg, LaFarge, Wisconsin, on behalf of the National Volunteer 
Fire Council; Harold A. Schaitberger, International Association of Fire 
Fighters, Washington, D.C.; and John M. Buckman III, German Township 
Volunteer Fire Department, Evansville, Indiana, on behalf of the 
International Association of Fire Chiefs.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department 
of Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving 
testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary, and Dov S. Zakheim, Under 
Secretary, (Comptroller), both of the Department of Defense; and 
General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the Canadian 
Senate Committee on National Security Defense.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings to examine the need to improve financial literacy and learning 
for American consumers, focusing on Federal efforts to increase 
familiarity with new technological and financial tools to promote 
economic prosperity, receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, 
Secretary, and Sheila C. Bair, Assistant Secretary for Financial 
Institutions, both of the Department of the Treasury; Alan Greenspan, 
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Harvey 
L. Pitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on the cost of 
the recession, homeland security, and economic stimulus, receiving 
testimony from Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Director, Office of Management 
and Budget.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and 
approved the issuance of a subpoena to compel testimony from Kenneth 
Lay, former CEO and current board member of the Enron Corporation.
AVIATION AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the implementation of the Aviation and 
Transportation Security (TSA) Act (P.L. 107-71), focusing on the hiring 
of tens of thousands of new employees, additional employee background 
screening tools, airport security operations studies, test TSA 
deployment techniques and technology, and begin senior management 
training, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, Deputy 
Secretary, John W. Magaw, Under Secretary, and Kenneth M. Mead, 
Inspector General, all of the Department of Transportation.
BIOTERRORISM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues 
concerning bioterrorism, focusing on harnessing American scientific and 
entrepreneurial expertise to develop effective defense capabilities to 
protect our forces and nation, after receiving testimony from Anna 
Johnson-Winegar, Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Defense for Chemical 
and Biological Defense; Lisa A. Simpson, Deputy Director, Agency for 
Healthcare Research and Quality, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Richard Klausner, Special Advisor for Counterterrorism, 
National Academy of Sciences; Georges C. Benjamin, Maryland Department 
of Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore; John G. Edwards, Photonic 
Sensor, Atlanta, Georgia; Richard J. Hatchett, Memorial Hospital/Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, on behalf of the Civilian 
Medical Reserve Working Group; Una Ryan, AVANT Immunotherapeutics, 
Inc., Neeham, Massachusetts; and Bruno W. S. Sobral, Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute and State University/Bioinformatics Institute, 
Blacksburg.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET REQUEST
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain 
revenue proposals within the President's proposed budget request for 
fiscal year 2003, after receiving testimony from Paul O'Neill, 
Secretary of the Treasury.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
United States foreign policy and the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2003 for foreign affairs, after receiving 
testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
RETIREMENT INSECURITY/ENRON COLLAPSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the impact of the Enron Corporation collapse on the company's 
401(k) retirement investors, after receiving testimony from William D. 
Miller, Jr., International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Portland, 
Oregon; Catheryn Graham, Hewitt Associates, The Woodlands, Texas; Cindy 
Olson and Mikie Rath, both of Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas; Joseph 
P. Szathmary, Northern Trust Retirement Consulting, Atlanta,

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Georgia; Karen W. Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, James A. Klein, 
American Benefits Council, Erik Olsen, American Association of Retired 
Persons, and Stephen M. Saxon, Groom Law Group, on behalf of the 
Society of Professional Administrators and Record Keepers (SPARK 
Institute), all of Washington, D.C.; Susan J. Stabile, St. John's 
University School of Law, New York, New York; and Deborah G. Perrotta, 
Kingwood, Texas.
HUMAN CLONING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine issues 
surrounding scientific and medical aspects of human reproductive 
cloning, including the protection of human subjects, and to clarify how 
human reproductive cloning differs from stem cell research, receiving 
testimony from Representatives Weldon and Greenwood; Irving L. 
Weissman, Stanford Medical School, on behalf of the National Academies 
Panel on Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Cloning, and Henry T. 
Greely, Stanford University Center for Law and the Biosciences, on 
behalf of the California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning, both of 
Stanford, California; R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin Law 
School, Madison; and Kris Gulden, on behalf of the Coalition of the 
Advancement of Medical Research, Andrew Kimbrell, International Center 
for Technology Assessment, and Father Kevin T. FitzGerald, Georgetown 
University Medical Center, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.