[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 9 (Thursday, February 7, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D69-D70]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Department of Transportation, focusing on the Transportation Security 
Administration, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, 
Deputy Secretary, and John W. Magaw, Under Secretary for Security, both 
of the Department of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the United 
Kingdom's House of Commons Defence Committee.
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine the conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom, focusing 
on the role of the U.S. Central Command in America's global war on 
terrorism, after receiving testimony from General Tommy R. Franks, USA, 
Commander in Chief, United States Central Command.
SUPERIOR BANK, HINSDALE, ILLINOIS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the analysis of the failure and implications of 
Superior Bank, FSB, Hinsdale, Illinois, focusing on causes of the 
failure, external audit findings, and the effectiveness of federal 
supervision, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey Rush, Jr., 
Inspector General, Department of the Treasury; Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., 
Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Thomas J. 
McCool, Managing Director for Financial Markets and Community 
Investment, General Accounting Office.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on 
tax relief and fiscal discipline provisions, receiving testimony from 
Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 12.
WAR ON TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the future of the War on Terrorism, focusing on accomplishments to 
date, continuing terrorist threats, weapons of mass destruction, the 
U.S. role in the world, world alliances, peacekeeping, and 
globalization, after receiving testimony from Samuel R. Berger, 
Stonebridge International, Washington, D.C., former National Security 
Advisor; Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA (Ret.), General Dynamics, 
Arlington, Virginia, former NATO Allied Commander; and William Kristol, 
Weekly Standard, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Project for the New 
American Century.
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings S. 
1867, to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon 
the United States, after receiving testimony from former Representative 
Dave McCurdy, Electronic Industries Alliance, McLean, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal 
Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction 
(WMD Commission); Norman R. Augustine, United States Commission on 
National Security, Bethesda, Maryland; and Richard K. Betts, Columbia 
University Institute of War and Peace Studies, and Maurice Sonnenberg, 
Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc., both of New York, New York, both on behalf 
of the National Commission on Terrorism.
PENSION PLAN REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the impact of the collapse of Enron 
Corporation on its 401(k) pension plan investors and the Department of

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Labor's role in enforcement and regulation under the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), focusing on related pension 
plan reform proposals, after receiving testimony from Senators Boxer 
and Corzine; Representative Bentsen; Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of 
Labor; Steven E. Lacey, Portland General Electric, Salem, Oregon; 
Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College Carroll School of Management, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; James Prentice, Administrative Committee 
of the Enron Corporation Savings Plan, Houston, Texas; Jan Fleetham, 
Bloomington, Minnesota; and Karl V. Farmer, New Hampshire.
TRIBAL TRUST FUND
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
certain legislative proposals relating to the statute of limitations on 
claims against the United States related to the management of Indian 
tribal trust fund accounts, including S. 1857, to encourage the 
negotiated settlement of tribal claims, after receiving testimony from 
McCoy Williams, Acting Director, Financial Management and Assurance, 
General Accounting Office; Philip Hogen, Associate Solicitor, Division 
of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; and Charles Tillman, 
Intertribal Monitoring Association, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Michael J. Melloy, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Robert E. Blackburn, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Colorado, David L. Bunning, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky; 
James E. Gritzner, to be United States District Judge for the Southern 
District of Iowa, Cindy K. Jorgenson, to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Arizona, Richard J. Leon, of Maryland, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Jay C. 
Zainey, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Louisiana, Thomas P. Colantuono, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of New Hampshire, James K. Vines, to be United States Attorney 
for the Middle District of Tennessee, James Duane Dawson, to be United 
States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, Brian 
Michael Ennis, to be United States Marshal for the District of 
Nebraska; Nehemiah Flowers, to be United States Marshal for the 
Southern District of Mississippi; Arthur Jeffrey Hedden, to be United 
States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Johnny Lewis 
Hughes, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maryland, 
William Carey Jenkins, to be United States Marshal for the Middle 
District of Louisiana, Randy Merlin Johnson, to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Alaska, David Glenn Jolley, to be United 
States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, Chester Martin 
Keely, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of 
Alabama, John William Loyd, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern 
District of Oklahoma, Ronald Richard McCubbin, Jr., to be United States 
Marshal for the Western District of Kentucky, David Reid Murtaugh, to 
be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Indiana, Michael 
Wade Roach, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of 
Oklahoma, Eric Eugene Robertson, to be United States Marshal for the 
Western District of Washington, David Donald Viles, to be United States 
Marshal for the District of Maine, and Larry Wade Wagster, to be United 
States Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, after the nominee, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and 
recessed subject to call.