[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 27 (Tuesday, March 12, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D211-D212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2003 for the Department of State, after receiving testimony 
from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
CLONING AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine cloning research, 
focusing on the clarification of how stem cell research, or therapeutic 
cloning, differs from human reproductive cloning, the ethical and 
public-policy issues related to both, and how best to achieve a balance 
in cloning legislation, after receiving testimony from former Senator 
Mack, on behalf of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research 
Institute; and Silviu Itescu, Columbia University Presbyterian Medical 
Center/New-York Presbyterian Hospital, Gerald D. Fischbach, Columbia 
University Departments of Health Sciences and Medicine, and Kevin 
Kline, all of New York, New York.
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on current military operations from officials of the Joint 
Staff.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
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 and the Future 
Years Defense Program, focusing on special operations military 
capabilities, operational requirements, and technology acquisition, 
after receiving testimony from Gen. Charles R. Holland, USAF, 
Commander-in-Chief, and Harry E. Schulte, Acquisition Executive, 
Special Operations Acquisition and Logistics Center, both of the U.S. 
Special Operations Command.
U.S. ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the economic outlook of the United States, 
focusing on foreign economic policy, energy policy, and social 
security, after receiving testimony from Robert M. Solow, Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia 
University, and David R. Malpass, Bear, Stearns and Company, both of 
New York, New York; and Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University, 
Princeton, New Jersey.
FIRST RESPONDER INITIATIVE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 
for the First Responder Initiative, which would provide the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency with funding for State and local police, 
firefighters, and emergency medical professionals planning, equipment, 
training, and exercise programs, to enhance homeland security, after 
receiving testimony from Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Federal Emergency 
Management Agency; Woodbury P. Fogg, Belmont, New Hampshire, on behalf 
of the National Emergency Management Association; Ed Wilson, City of 
Portland Bureau of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services, Portland, 
Oregon; Michael E. O'Neil, South Burlington Fire Department, South 
Burlington, Vermont; and Kenneth E. Zirkle, University of Findlay, 
Findlay, Ohio.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Toxics, Risks, and Waste Management concluded hearings to examine the 
status of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) environmental 
enforcement program, including inspections and investigations, 
enforcement personnel, and an overview of the Office of Enforcement and 
Compliance Assurance, after receiving testimony from Eric Schaeffer, 
Rockefeller Family Fund, New York, New York, former Director, EPA's 
Office of Regulatory Enforcement; Scott H. Segal, Bracewell and 
Patterson, Washington, D.C.; and Barry L. Johnson, Emory University 
Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the 
Physicians for Social Responsibility Environment and Health Program.

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WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the 
reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 
program, created by the Welfare Reform Law of 1996, focusing on child 
care funding, welfare to work transitional Medicaid coverage, child 
support payment taxation, marriage promotion, and TANF waivers, 
receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services; Robin Arnold-Williams, Utah Department of Human 
Services, Salt Lake City, on behalf of the American Public Human 
Services Association; Rodney J. Carroll, Welfare to Work Partnership, 
Washington, D.C.; and Gordon L. Berlin, Manpower Demonstration Research 
Corporation, New York, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of Jeanette J. Clark, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and Louis Kincannon, of 
Virginia, to be Director of the Census, Department of Commerce.
HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on S. 
1800, to strengthen and improve the management of national security, 
encourage Government service in areas of critical national security, 
and to assist government agencies in addressing deficiencies in 
personnel possessing specialized skills important to national security 
and incorporating the goals and strategies for recruitment and 
retention for such skilled personnel into the strategic and performance 
management systems of Federal agencies, after receiving testimony from 
former Representative Hamilton, on behalf of the Woodrow Wilson Center 
for International Studies; Donald J. Winstead, Assistant Director for 
Compensation Administration, Office of Personnel Management; Sheri A. 
Farrar, Assistant Director, Administrative Services Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Ruth A. Whiteside, 
Acting Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human 
Resources, Department of State; Ginger Groeber, Acting Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, and Harvey A. 
Davis, Associate Director, Human Resources Services, National Security 
Agency, both of the Department of Defense; Susan S. Westin, Managing 
Director for International Affairs and Trade, General Accounting 
Office; and Ray T. Clifford, Defense Language Institute, Monterey, 
California.
HEALTH CARE AND THE UNINSURED
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health held hearings to examine solutions to the problem of 
uninsured Americans, including proposed legislation that would amend 
titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to provide for FamilyCare 
coverage for parents of enrolled children, allow parents of disabled 
children to purchase Medicaid coverage, and allow for insurance 
coverage subsidies, and building upon existing public programs, such as 
the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and Medicaid programs, 
receiving testimony from Mark B. McClellan, Member, White House Council 
of Economic Advisors; Alan R. Weil, Urban Institute, Karen Pollitz, 
Georgetown University Institute for Health Care, Research and Policy, 
Cindy Mann, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, and Ronald 
F. Pollack, Families USA, all of Washington, D.C.; and Vip Patel, 
eHealthInsurance, Inc., Sunnyvale, California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Melanie R. Sabelhaus, of Maryland, 
to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration.