[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 23 (Wednesday, March 6, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D177-D179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, to be a Member 
of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, and to 
be Under Secretary for Rural Development, and Nancy Southard Bryson, of 
the District of Columbia, to be General Counsel, both of the Department 
of Agriculture; and Grace Trujillo Daniel, of California, and Fred L. 
Dailey, of Ohio, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Dorr from 
Representative Clayton; Ron Langston, National Director, Minority 
Business Development Agency, Department of Commerce; Dennis Keeney, 
Ames, Iowa; George Naylor, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Des 
Moines; Leon Crump, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, East Point, 
Georgia; Nancy Hier, Marcus, Iowa; Varel Bailey, Anita, Iowa; Thomas A. 
Fretz, University of Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, College 
Park; and Constantine Curris, American Association of State Colleges 
and Universities, Chevy Chase, Maryland.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of 
Army, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. White, Secretary, and 
Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, USA, Chief of Staff, both of the Department of 
the Army.
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE/AID
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2003 for democracy and human rights programs of the Department of State 
and the U.S. Agency for International Development, after receiving 
testimony from Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary of State for 
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; and Roger P. Winter, Assistant 
Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. 
Agency for International Development.
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Department of Veterans Affairs, after receiving 
testimony from Anthony J. Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings to examine financial management reform 
issues of the Department of Defense, focusing on financial management 
systems, operations, and controls, after receiving testimony from Dov 
S. Zakheim, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); and David M. 
Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting 
Office.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
nonproliferation programs of the Department of Energy and the 
Cooperative Threat Reduction program of the Department of Defense, 
after receiving testimony from J.D. Crouch II, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for International Security Policy; and Linton F. Brooks, Deputy 
Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear 
Security Administration, Department of Energy.
ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed 
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues 
raised by Enron and other public companies, including oversight of the 
accounting profession, audit quality and independence, and formulation 
of accounting principles, after receiving testimony from Bevis 
Longstreth, former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, Lee J. Seidler, Bear

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Stearns and Company, and Abraham J. Briloff, City University of New 
York Bernard M. Baruch College, all of New York, New York; Shaun F. 
O'Malley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, former Chairman of the Public 
Oversight Board Panel on Audit Effectiveness (O'Malley Commission); and 
Arthur R. Wyatt, Village of Golf, Florida.
HUD HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
proposed reauthorization of the HUD McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act programs, after receiving testimony from Roy A. Bernardi, Assistant 
Secretary, Office of Community Planning and Development, Department of 
Housing and Urban Development; Stanley J. Czerwinski, Director, 
Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; Nan Roman, 
National Alliance to End Homelessness, Washington, D.C.; Mitchell 
Netburn, Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, Los Angeles, 
California; and Mary Ann Gleason, York County Initiative to End 
Homelessness, Alfred, Maine.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 and revenue 
proposals, focusing on analysis of the Congressional Budget Office, 
after receiving testimony from Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional 
Budget Office.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings to examine wireless communications 
infrastructure in the United States in light of September 11, focusing 
on access to diverse markets and quality services at affordable prices, 
receiving testimony from Agostino Cangemi, Department of Information 
Technology and Telecommunications, Brooklyn, New York; Steve Souder, 
Emergency Communications Center, Rockville, Maryland; Paul Crotty, 
Verizon, Inc., New York, New York; Glen Nash, Association of Public-
Safety Communications Officials-International, Inc., Sacramento, 
California; Gloria Harris, AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., Paramus, New 
Jersey; Larissa Herda, Time Warner Telecom, Inc., Littleton, Colorado; 
and Christopher A. McLean, ComCare Alliance, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
LAND USAGE AND BROWNFIELDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 975, to improve environmental policy by providing assistance for 
State and tribal land use planning, to promote improved quality of 
life, regionalism, and sustainable economic development; and S. 1079, 
to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 to 
provide assistance to communities for the redevelopment of brownfield 
sites, after receiving testimony from Senator Levin; David A. Sampson, 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development; Elizabeth 
Humstone, Vermont Forum on Sprawl, Burlington, on behalf of the 
American Planning Association; Deborah Anderson, Wood Partners, Durham, 
North Carolina, on behalf of the National Multi Housing Council/
National Apartment Association; Don Chen, Smart Growth America, 
Washington, D.C.; F. Gary Garczynski, Woodbridge, Virginia, on behalf 
of the National Association of Home Builders; and Mary Lou Bentley, 
Western Nevada Development District, Carson City, on behalf National 
Association of Development Organizations.
DIRTY BOMBS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the effects of potential terrorist attacks using radiological dispersal 
devices, so-called dirty bombs, and the possibility of contamination if 
radiation levels do exceed EPA health and toxic material guidelines, 
after receiving testimony from Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission; Donald D. Cobb, Associate Director for Threat 
Reduction, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Harry C. Vantine, 
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, both of the Department of 
Energy; Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; 
and Henry C. Kelly, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C.
WORKFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the monitoring of accountability and competition in the federal 
and service contract workforce, focusing on the Circular A-76, cost 
comparisons for the public-private competition process, after receiving 
testimony from Angela B. Styles, Administrator, Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Barry W. Holman, 
Director, Defense Capabilities and Management, General Accounting 
Office; Dan Guttman, Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for the 
Study of American Government, Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., American 
Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), and Colleen M. Kelley, 
National Treasury Employees Union, all of Washington, D.C.; and Mary 
Lou Patel, Advanced Systems Development, Inc., and Stan Z. Soloway, 
Professional Services Council, both of Arlington, Virginia.

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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TRACKING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the improvement of 
surveillance of chronic conditions and potential links to environmental 
exposures, after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Richard J. 
Jackson, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, Henry Falk, Assistant 
Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and 
Kenneth Olden, Director, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences, National Institutes of Health, all of the Department of 
Health and Human Services; John Harris, California Birth Defects 
Monitoring Program, Oakland, on behalf of the March of Dimes; F. Ed 
Thompson, Jr., Mississippi State Department of Health, Jackson, on 
behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; 
George D. Thurston, New York University School of Medicine Institute of 
Environmental Medicine, New York, New York, on behalf of the National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Community Outreach and 
Education Program; Thomas A. Burke, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg 
School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and Shelley A. Hearne, 
Trust for America's Health, Washington, D.C.
CABLE AND SATELLITE COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and 
Business and Consumer Rights concluded hearings to examine cable and 
satellite television competition, focusing on the proposed merger 
between the two largest satellite television companies in the country, 
EchoStar Communications and DirecTV, and the question of the 
application of antitrust laws to such merger, after receiving testimony 
from Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University Law Center, former Chairman 
of the Federal Trade Commission, and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, 
and Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Missouri State Attorney General Jeremiah W. Nixon, 
Jefferson City; Eddy W. Hartenstein, DirecTV, Inc., El Segundo, 
California; and Charles W. Ergen, EchoStar Communication Corporation, 
Littleton, Colorado.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee meets again on Wednesday, March 13.