[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 20 (Friday, March 1, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 (Committees not listed did not meet)
 BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:  Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Raymond L. Orbach, of California, 
to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of Energy.
   Also, committee approved their fiscal year 2003 budgetary views and 
estimates on programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee and agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to 
the Committee on the Budget.
 IRAQ
  Committee on Governmental Affairs:  Subcommittee on International 
Security Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine United States policy in Iraq, focusing on the threat of Iraq's 
current weapons of mass destruction programs and capabilities, after 
receiving testimony from Richard O. Spertzel, former head of United 
Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) Biological Weapon Inspections, and 
former Deputy Commander, USAMRIID; Robert J. Einhorn, Center for 
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and David A. 
Kay, Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia.