[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 17 (Tuesday, February 26, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D125-D127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Justice, after receiving 
testimony from John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
APPROPRIATIONS--AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 
for the United States Agency for International Development, after 
receiving testimony from Andrew S. Natsios, Administrator, U.S. Agency 
for International Development.
ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed 
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection 
issues, focusing on proposals to reform financial reporting by public 
companies, accounting standards, and oversight of

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the accounting profession, receiving testimony from Walter P. Schuetze, 
Michael H. Sutton, Lynn E. Turner, all Chief Accountants, Securities 
and Exchange Commission; and Dennis R. Beresford, former Chairman, 
Financial Accounting Standards Board.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 5.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Federal Highway Administration, Army Corps of Engineers, and the 
Department of Education, after receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, 
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, and Donna McLean, 
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs/Chief Financial Officer, 
both of the Department of Transportation; Michael Parker, Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers, 
Chief of Engineers, United States Corps of Engineers; Thomas A. Till, 
Executive Director, Amtrak Reform Council; Bob Chase, National 
Education Association, and Larry M. King, Pennsylvania Department of 
Transportation, Harrisburg, on behalf of the American Association of 
State Highway and Transportation Officials.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and 
approved the issuance of a subpoena to Sherron Watkins, Enron 
Corporation, Houston, Texas.
ENRON CORPORATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine certain issues contributing to the collapse of 
Enron Corporation, receiving testimony from Sherron Watkins, Houston, 
Texas, and Jeffrey McMahon, Washington, D.C., both of Enron 
Corporation; and Jeffrey Skilling, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Raymond L. Orbach, of California, to be Director 
of the Office of Science, Department of Energy, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Senator Feinstein, testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
WATER INVESTMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine S. 1961, to improve financial and environmental 
sustainability of the water programs of the United States, and other 
related measures including S. 252, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to authorize appropriations for State water pollution 
control revolving funds; S. 285, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to authorize the use of State revolving loan funds for 
construction of water conservation and quality improvements; S. 503, to 
amend the Safe Water Act to provide grants to small public drinking 
water system; and S. 1044, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act to provide assistance for nutrient removal technologies to States 
in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; after receiving testimony from Senator 
Kyl; Benjamin H. Grumbles, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor Douglas H. Palmer, Trenton, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the United States Conference of Mayors; Joseph A. 
Moore, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National League of Cities; 
Nancy Stoner, Natural Resources Defense Council, on behalf of the Clean 
Water Network, Paul D. Schwartz, Clean Water Action, and Terry R. 
Yellig, Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer, and Yellig, on behalf of the 
Building and Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO), all of 
Washington, D.C.; William Kukurin, Kukurin Contracting, Inc., Export, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Associated Builders and Contractors; and 
Jim Barron, Ronkin Construction, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the 
National Utility Contractors Association.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Gerald Reynolds, of Missouri, 
to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INDIAN TRIBAL TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine rulings 
of the United States Supreme Court affecting tribal government powers 
and authorities, focusing on trust reform and trust asset management, 
after receiving testimony from Neal A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for 
Indian Affairs, James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary for Indian 
Affairs, and Thomas N. Slonaker, Special Trustee for American Indian 
Trust Funds, Office of the Special Trustee, all of the Department of 
the Interior; Reid Chambers and Douglas Endreson, both of Sonosky, 
Chambers, Sachse, and Endreson, Washington, D.C.; Donald T. Gray, 
Nixon, Peabody, LLP, San Francisco, California; Tex G. Hall, Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North 
Dakota, on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians; 
Clifford Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribal Council, Hoopa, California; 
Gary S.

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Morishima, Intertribal Timber Council, Portland, Oregon; James T. 
Martin, United South and Eastern Tribes, Nashville, Tennessee; Edward 
K. Thomas, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of 
Alaska, Juneau; and Charles O. Tillman, Jr., Osage Nation, Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma, and Bill Martin, Juneau, Alaska, both on behalf of the 
Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Ralph R. Beistline, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Alaska, D. Brooks Smith, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Randy Crane, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, and 
David C. Bury, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Arizona, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Beistline was introduced by Senators Stevens and 
Murkowski, Mr. Smith was introduced by Senators Specter and Santorum, 
Mr. Crane was introduced by Senator Gramm and Representative Hinojosa, 
and Mr. Bury was introduced by Senator Kyl.
U.S. PORT SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the security of 
U.S. ports against terror, focusing on technology, resources, and 
homeland defense, after receiving testimony from Capt. William G. 
Schubert, Maritime Administrator, and Rear Adm. Kenneth T. Venuto, 
Director of Operations Policy, United States Coast Guard, both of the 
Department of Transportation; Bonni G. Tischler, Assistant 
Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, U. S. Customs Service, 
Department of the Treasury; Richard D. Steinke, Port of Long Beach, 
Long Beach, California, on behalf of the American Association of Port 
Authorities; F. Amanda DeBusk, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce 
for Export Enforcement, and former Commissioner, Interagency Commission 
on Crime and Security in U.S. Seaports, Washington, D.C.; Kim E. 
Peterson, Maritime Security Council, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Rob 
Quartel, Freightdesk Technologies, Inc., McLean, Virginia; and Charles 
W. Upchurch, SGS Global Trade Solutions, Inc., New York, New York, on 
behalf of the Global Alliance for Trade Efficiency.