[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 18 (Wednesday, February 27, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D135-D138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of 
Agriculture, receiving testimony from Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of 
Agriculture, who was accompanied by several of her associates.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 13.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz, 
Deputy Secretary, and Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary/Comptroller, both 
of the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS--HIGHWAY SAFETY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for 
the Department of Transportation, focusing on highway safety programs, 
after receiving testimony from Jeffrey W. Runge, Administrator, 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Marion C. Blakey, Chairman, National Transportation 
Safety Board; James W. McMahon, New York State Police, Ballston Lake, 
on behalf of the International Associations of Chiefs of Police; and 
Millie I. Webb, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Houston, Texas.
FEMA TERRORISM RESPONSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings to examine the role of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) concerning terrorism response, 
including funding for first responder and live agent training 
facilities such as the Center for Domestic Preparedness, the impact of 
the proposed transfer of the Office of Emergency Preparedness from the 
Department of Justice to FEMA, and U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles 
protection, after receiving testimony from Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded hearings to examine the status of Iraq's current 
holdings of weapons of mass destruction, after receiving testimony from 
Anthony H. Cordesman and Charles A. Duelfer, both of the Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
  Also, subcommittee met in closed session on the aforementioned, after 
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings to examine the Department of Defense 
acquisition policy, focusing on proposals to change the military 
environment, reduce cycle time, improve processes including greater use 
of competition, link human resources to requirements, and monitor 
progress with metrics, after receiving testimony from Michael W. Wynne, 
Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and 
Logistics, and Deidre A. Lee, Director, Defense Procurement, both of 
the Department of Defense; and Angela B. Styles, Administrator for 
Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine issues related to corporate governance 
raised by Enron Corporation, focusing on abuse of stock options, 
auditor independence, and compensation issues, after receiving 
testimony from John H. Biggs, Teachers' Insurance and Annuity 
Association--College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), and Ira M. 
Millstein, Weil, Gotshal, and Manges, on behalf of the Blue Ribbon 
Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees, 
both of New York, New York.
BUDGET OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
long-term budgetary outlook of the United States, focusing on 
demographic trends, the impact of the aging baby boom generation, and 
creating a balance between current needs and wants against known long 
term pressures, after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office.
DIGITAL NETWORK TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 414, to amend 
the National Telecommunications and Information Administration 
Organization Act to establish a digital network technology program, 
focusing on the digital divide and minority serving institutions, after 
receiving testimony from Antonio Flores, Hispanic Association of 
Colleges and Universities, San Antonio, Texas; William H. Gray III, 
United Negro College Fund, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; Frederick S. 
Humphries, National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher 
Education, Silver Spring, Maryland; Gerald Monette, Turtle Mountain 
Community College, Belcourt, North Dakota, on behalf of the American 
Indian Higher Education Consortium; Juliet V. Garcia, University of 
Texas and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville; Marie V. McDemmond, 
Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia; George Sandoval, Dine 
College, Tsaile, Arizona; and Louis W. Sullivan, Morehouse School of 
Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Atlanta University Center 
Council of Presidents.
PRIVATE PENSION SYSTEM SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine potential 
vulnerability issues of employer-sponsored defined contribution and 
benefits retirement plans, otherwise known as pension plans, including 
the importance of investment diversification, investor education 
issues, information disclosure, fiduciary rules needed to safeguard 
employee pension assets, and related issues associated with the Enron 
Corporation's defined benefit pension plans, receiving testimony from 
David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General 
Accounting Office; William F. Sweetnam, Jr., Benefits Tax Counsel, 
Office of Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury; Steven A. Kandarian, 
Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Jack L. 
VanDerhei, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of 
the Employee Benefit Research Institute; R. Bradford Huss, Trucker 
Huss, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the American Society of 
Pension Actuaries.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
FUTURE SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the development of a secure future, focusing on democratization, 
poverty alleviation, and human rights, after receiving testimony from 
Madeleine K. Albright, National Democratic Institute for International 
Affairs, former Secretary of State, and Richard N. Perle, former 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security, on behalf of 
the American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.

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UN POPULATION FUND
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine U.S. 
contributions toward the United Nation's Population Fund and how it 
affects the lives of women, after receiving testimony from Arthur E. 
Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and 
Migration; Nicolaas H. Biegman, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, former 
Netherlands Ambassador to the United Nations and NATO; Phyllis E. 
Oakley, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, former 
Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research/Population, 
Refugees, and Migration, and Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Josephine Guy, America 21, 
Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the Population Research Institute.
WALL STREET'S ENRON SILENCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the fall of the Enron Corporation and the inaccuracies and 
independence of Wall Street research analysts ratings of Enron, after 
receiving testimony from Richard Gross, Lehman Brothers, Inc., Jersey 
City, New Jersey; Anatol Feygin, J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc., Curt N. 
Launer, Credit Suisse First Boston, Raymond C. Niles, Salomon Smith 
Barney, all of New York, New York; Howard M. Schilit, Center for 
Financial Research and Analysis, Inc., Rockville, Maryland; Robert R. 
Glauber, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., and Frank C. 
Torres, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C., former Under 
Secretary of the Treasury for Finance; Thomas A. Bowman, Association 
for Investment Management and Research, Charlottesville, Virginia; and 
Charles L. Hill, Thomson Financial/First Call, Boston, Massachusetts.
EMPLOYMENT NONDISCRIMINATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on S. 1284, to prohibit employment discrimination on 
the basis of sexual orientation, after receiving testimony from Charles 
K. Gifford, FleetBoston Financial Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts; 
Lucy Billingsley, Billingsley Company, Dallas, Texas; Robert L. Berman, 
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York; Richard G. Womack, AFL-CIO 
Department of Civil and Human Rights, Washington, D.C.; Matthew Coles, 
American Civil Liberties Union, New York, New York; and Lawrence Lane, 
Long Island, New York.
WORKPLACE SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment, Safety and Training concluded hearings to examine workplace 
safety and health issues with respect to immigrant and low-wage 
workers, after receiving testimony from Representative Gutierrez; John 
L. Henshaw, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and 
Health; Rosemary Sokas, Associate Director for Science, National 
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention Headquarters, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Arturo S. Rodriguez, United Farm Workers of America (AFL-
CIO), Keene, California; Thomas Maier, Newsday Magazine, Melville, New 
York; Bobby J. Jackson, National Programs for the National Safety 
Council, Washington, D.C.; and Omar Henriquez, New York Committee for 
Occupational Safety and Health, and You Di Liao, on behalf of the 
Chinese Staff and Workers' Association, National Mobilization Against 
SweatShops and Workers' Awaaz, both of New York, New York.
INDIAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine how the rulings of the United States Supreme Court affect the 
powers and authorities of Indian tribal governments, after receiving 
testimony from William C. Canby, Jr., United States Court of Appeals 
for the Ninth Circuit, Phoenix, Arizona; Robert Yazzie, Navajo Nation 
Supreme Court, Window Rock, Arizona; John St. Clair, Shoshone and 
Arapahoe Tribal Court of the Wind River Reservation, Ft. Washakie, 
Wyoming; David H. Getches, University of Colorado School of Law, 
Boulder; Robert T. Andersen, University of Washington School of Law, 
Seattle; and W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, 
Washington.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
impact of State sovereign immunity on the enforcement of intellectual 
property rights, focusing on the meaning of related Supreme Court 
decisions, Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board v. 
College Savings Bank and College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid 
Postsecondary Education Expense Board, and a related measure, S. 1611, 
to restore Federal remedies for infringements of intellectual property 
by States, after receiving testimony from James E. Rogan, Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the 
Patent and Trademark Office; Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, 
Library of Congress; Michael K. Kirk, American Intellectual Property 
Law Association, Arlington, Virginia; Keith Schraad, National

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Information Consortium, Lawrence, Kansas; William E. Thro, Christopher 
Newport University, Newport News, Virginia; and Paul Bender, Arizona 
State University College of Law, Tempe, on behalf of the Property 
Owners Remedy Alliance.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Melanie Sabelhaus, of Maryland, to be 
Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Hector V. Barreto, Jr., Administrator, 
SBA, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded 
hearings on the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2003 for 
the Small Business Administration, focusing on the 7(a) Guaranty Loan 
Program, 504 Loan Program, and the Microloan Program, after receiving 
testimony from Hector V. Barreto, Jr., Administrator, Small Business 
Administration; Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of 
Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma; Christopher 
L. Crawford, National Association of Development Companies, McLean, 
Virginia; Alan Corbet, Growth Opportunity Connection, Kansas City, 
Missouri; Amanda C. Zinn, Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore, Inc., 
Baltimore, Maryland; and Donald Wilson, Association of Small Business 
Development Centers, Burke, Virginia.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
GERIATRIC HEALTH CARE SHORTAGE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
growing lack of medical professionals trained to treat the elderly and 
a related proposal to expand medical residency training programs in 
geriatrics, after receiving testimony from Daniel Perry, Alliance for 
Aging Research, Washington, D.C.; Charles A. Cefalu, Louisiana State 
University, New Orleans, on behalf of the American Geriatrics Society 
and the Louisiana Geriatrics Society; Claudia J. Beverly, Donald W. 
Reynolds Center on Aging, Little Rock, Arkansas; Michael C. Martin, 
Commission for Certification in Geriatric Pharmacy, Alexandria, 
Virginia; and Stephen Bzdok, Las Vegas, Nevada.