[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 19 (Thursday, February 28, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D145-D147]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATO
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), focusing 
on defending, integrating, and stabilizing the Euro-Atlantic area, 
after receiving testimony from Marc I. Grossman, Under Secretary of 
State for Political Affairs; Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy; and General Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, United States European Command.

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DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for the fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
installations and environmental programs, after receiving testimony 
from Raymond F. DuBois, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for 
Installations and Environment; Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary of 
the Army for Installations and Environment; H. T. Johnson, Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment; and Nelson F. 
Gibbs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, 
Environment and Logistics.
REMITTANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine issues with respect to the sending of 
remittances, or the sending of money to someone at a distance, focusing 
on the constraint of money transfer charges and exchange rate 
differentials on Latin American immigrants when providing financial 
assistance to their relatives in their country of origin, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Gutierrez; Sergio Bendixen, 
Bendixen and Associates, Miami, Florida; Manuel Orozco, Inter-American 
Dialogue, and Susan F. Martin, Georgetown University School of Foreign 
Service Institute for the Study of International Migration, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, University of California, 
Los Angeles School of Public Policy, Los Angeles.
ARGENTINIAN ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance concluded hearings to examine 
Argentina's current economic situation, focusing on the International 
Monetary Fund, American aid, and sovereign debt restructuring, after 
receiving testimony from John B. Taylor, Under Secretary of the 
Treasury for International Affairs; Michael Mussa, Institute for 
International Economics, and Peter Hakim, Inter-American Dialogue, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and William J. Haener, CMS Gas Transmission 
Company, Dearborn, Michigan.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue proposals, 
focusing on Department of Defense war, transformation, and reform 
issues, receiving testimony from Josh S. Weston, Montclair, New Jersey, 
on behalf of the Business Executives for National Security Tail-to-
Tooth Commission; Michael E. O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, 
Washington, D.C.; and Loren B. Thompson, Lexington Institute, 
Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 6.
DIGITAL TELEVISION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the protection of content in a digital age, 
focusing on promoting broadband and digital television transition, 
after receiving testimony from Michael D. Eisner, Walt Disney Company, 
Burbank, California; Peter Chernin, News Corporation, New York, New 
York; Leslie L. Vadasz, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California; 
Andreas Bechtolsheim, Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, California; James 
E. Meyer, Thomson multimedia, Indianapolis, Indiana; Robert A. Perry, 
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., Irvine, California, on 
behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition; and Jack Valenti, Motion 
Picture Association of America, Encino, California.
WATER INVESTMENT ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Water concluded hearings on S. 1961, to improve financial 
and environmental sustainability of the water programs of the United 
States, and 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 Sarbanes; Robert M. Hirsch, Associate Director 
for Water, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; 
Andrew M. Chapman, Elizabethtown Water Company, Elizabethtown, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of Water Companies; Ed 
Archuleta, El Paso Water Utilities, El Paso, Texas, on behalf of the 
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies; Paul Pinault, Narragansett 
Bay Commission, Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Association 
of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies; Elmer Ronnebaum, Kansas Rural Water 
Association, Seneca, Kansas, on behalf of the National Rural Water 
Association; Howard Neukrug, Philadelphia Water Department, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Water Works 
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Tom Morrisey, Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, 
Hartford, on behalf of the Association of State and Interstate Water 
Pollution Control Administrators; and Jay L. Rutherford, Vermont 
Department of Environmental Conservation, Waterbury, on behalf of the 
Association of State Drinking Water Administrators.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Emmy B. Simmons, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade, 
United States Agency for International Development, and Robert B. 
Holland III, of Texas, to be United States Alternate Executive Director 
of the International Bank For Reconstruction and Development, after the 
nominees, testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Holland was introduced by Senator Hutchison.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Louis Kincannon, of Virginia, to be Director of the 
Census, Department of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced 
by Senator Allen and Representative Sawyer, testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf
MAMMOGRAPHY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded joint hearings with the Committee on 
Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and 
Education to examine the conflicting findings regarding mammography 
usage and update recommendation guidelines, based on the most current 
scientific data, on the use of mammography in breast cancer detection, 
after receiving testimony from Andrew von Eschenbach, Director, 
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Donald A. Berry, University of Texas M.D. 
Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, on behalf of the Physicians' Data 
Query (PDQ) Screening and Prevention Editorial Board; Harmon J. Eyre, 
American Cancer Society, Fran Visco, National Breast Cancer Coalition, 
and LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., Howard University College of Medicine, on 
behalf of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Carolyn D. Runowicz, St. Luke's-Roosevelt 
Hospital Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology/Continuum 
Health Partners, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the American 
College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
UNACCOMPANIED ALIEN CHILD PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings on S. 121, to establish an Office of Children's Services 
within the Department of Justice to coordinate and implement Government 
actions involving unaccompanied alien children, after receiving 
testimony from Michael J. Creppy, Chief Immigration Judge, Executive 
Office for Immigration Review, and Stuart Anderson, Executive Associate 
Commissioner for Policy and Planning, Immigration and Naturalization 
Service, both of the Department of Justice; Wendy A. Young, Women's 
Commission for Refugee Women and Children, Falls Church, Virginia; 
Andrew D. Morton, Latham and Watkins, and Julianne Duncan, United 
States Conference on Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and Edwin L. Munoz, Middleville, Michigan.