[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 22 (Tuesday, March 5, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D168-D170]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2003, after receiving testimony on behalf of funds for 
their respective activities from Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence 
Thomas, both Associate Justices, United States Supreme Court; and John 
G. Heyburn II, Chairman, M. Blane Michael, and Leonidas Ralph Mecham, 
all of the Committee on the Budget, Judicial Conference of the United 
States.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 
for the Department of Defense, including defense-wide, defense 
agencies, and Army military construction, after receiving testimony 
from Dov S. Zakheim, Under Secretary (Comptroller), Raymond F. DuBois, 
Jr., Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and Environment, Lt. Gen. 
William Tangney, USA, Deputy Commander in Chief, Special Operations 
Command, Maj. Gen. Leonard Randolph, USAF, Deputy Executive Director of 
the TRICARE Management Activity, Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Health Affairs, John M. Molino, Deputy Assistant Secretary for

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Military Community and Family Policy, Office of Defense Education 
Activity, and Frederick N. Baillie, Executive Director, Business 
Management Logistics Operations, Defense Logistics Agency, all of the 
Department of Defense; Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary for 
Installations and Environment, Maj. Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr., 
USA, Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation and Management, and 
Brig. Gen. Michael J. Squier, USA, Deputy Director, Army National 
Guard, all of the Department of the Army; and Maj. Gen. James R. 
Helmly, USAR, Commander, 78th Division for Training Support, U.S. Army 
Reserve.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department 
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on unified 
and regional commanders, military strategy and operational 
requirements, after receiving testimony from Adm. Dennis C. Blair, USN, 
Commander-in-Chief, United States Pacific Command; Gen. Thomas. A. 
Schwartz, USA, Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command/U.S. Forces 
Korea/Combined Forces Command Korea; and Maj. Gen. Gary D. Speer, USA, 
Acting Commander-in-Chief, United States Southern Command.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 
for the Department of Defense, focusing on Marine Corps modernization 
programs, after receiving testimony from Gen. James L. Jones, Jr., 
USMC, Commandant, and Lt. Gen. Robert Magnus, USMC, Deputy Commandant, 
Programs and Resources, both of the United States Marine Corps.
ACCOUNTING/INVESTOR PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues 
raised by Enron and other public companies, focusing on full disclosure 
guidance, after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; Robert R. 
Glauber, National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., Washington, 
D.C.; Joel Seligman, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, 
Missouri; and John C. Coffee, Jr., Columbia University School of Law, 
New York, New York.
TERRORIST NUCLEAR THREAT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the potential of a terrorist nuclear threat, 
focusing on dirty bombs and basement nuclear weapons, from Harry C. 
Vantine, Division Leader, Counterterrorism and Incident Response, 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Donald D. Cobb, Associate 
Laboratory Director for Threat Reduction, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory; Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission; Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of Technology, 
Pasadena, California; and a member of the Intelligence Community.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Jeanette J. Clark, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and 
answered questions in her own behalf.
CLONING AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine cloning research, focusing on the 
clarification of how stem cell research, or therapeutic cloning, 
differs from human reproductive cloning, and the ethical and public-
policy issues related to both, and related issues of S. 1893, to ban 
human cloning while protecting stem cell research, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Specter and Landrieu; Christopher Reeve, 
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Springfield, New Jersey; Paul 
Berg, Stanford University Medical Center Beckman Center for Molecular 
and Genetic Medicine, Stanford, California, on behalf for the American 
Society for Cell Biology/Coalition for the Advancement of Medical 
Research; Thomas H. Murray, Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Judy 
Norsigian, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Stuart A. Newman, New York Medical College, 
Valhalla, New York.
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for Indian programs, 
focusing on employment and training, education, housing, government, 
and law enforcement, receiving testimony from David G. Dye, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training 
Administration; Thomas M. Corwin, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Education for Elementary and Secondary Education; Tracy A. Henke, 
Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice 
Programs, Department of Justice; and Clarence Carter, Director, Office 
of Community Services, Administration for

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Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Mary Ann Solberg, of Michigan, to be Deputy Director, 
Barry D. Crane, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director for Supply 
Reduction, and Scott M. Burns, of Utah, to be Deputy Director for State 
and Local Affairs, all of the Office of National Drug Control Policy; 
and the nomination of J. Robert Flores, of Virginia, to be 
Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention, Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Solberg was introduced by 
Senators Levin, Stabenow, and Representative Levin, Mr. Crane and Mr. 
Flores were introduced by Senators Warner and Allen, and Mr. Burns was 
introduced by Senators Hatch and Bennett.