[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 28 (Wednesday, March 13, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D221-D223]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
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 Commerce, after receiving 
testimony from Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce.
APPROPRIATIONS--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/CRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities

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from James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress, Donald L. Scott, 
Deputy Librarian of Congress, and Daniel P. Mulhollan, Director, 
Congressional Research Service, all of the Library of Congress.
APPROPRIATIONS--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after 
receiving testimony from Mel Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 
for the Department of Defense Health Program, after receiving testimony 
from William Winkenwerder, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs 
and Thomas F. Carrato, Executive Director, TRICARE Management Activity, 
both of the Department of Defense; Rear Adm. (Lower Half) Richard A. 
Mayo, USN, Command Surgeon for the United States Pacific Command; Brig. 
Gen. Charles B. Green, USAF, Command Surgeon for the United States 
Transportation Command; Col. Ronald A. Maul, USA, Command Surgeon for 
the United States Central Command; Capt. Richard B. Hall II, USN, 
Command Surgeon for the United States European Command; and Col. 
Stephen L. Jones, USA, Command Surgeon for the United States Southern 
Command.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded 
hearings hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense 
Program, focusing on Ballistic Missile Defense acquisition policy and 
oversight, after receiving testimony from E. C. Aldridge, Under 
Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, Thomas P. 
Christie, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, and Lt. Gen. 
Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director, Missile Defense Agency, all of the 
Department of Defense.
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the implementation and reauthorization of the 
public transportation provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for 
the 21st Century (TEA-21) (105-178), after receiving testimony from 
Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation; John Inglish, Utah 
Transit Authority, Salt Lake City; and William W. Millar, American 
Public Transportation Association, and Dale J. Marsico, Community 
Transportation Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Robert Watson Cobb, of Maryland, to be 
Inspector General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the economic and environmental risks associated with 
increasing greenhouse gas emissions, focusing on the potential impact 
of growing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases into the 
atmosphere, after receiving testimony from F. Sherwood Rowland, 
University of California, Irvine Department of Chemistry, Irvine; Roger 
A. Pielke, Jr., University of Colorado Center for Science and 
Technology Policy Research, Boulder; David R. Legates, University of 
Delaware Center for Climatic Research, Newark; Sallie Baliunas, 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts; 
Martin Whittaker, Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., Ontario, 
Canada; and Jack D. Cogen, Natsource, New York, New York.
WAR ON TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the war on terrorism from Richard L. Armitage, 
Deputy Secretary of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Robert Patrick John Finn, of New York, to be Ambassador 
to Afghanistan, after the nominee testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.
PUBLIC HEALTH/NATURAL RESOURCES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Federal implementation of environmental laws as they apply 
to public health and natural resources, after receiving testimony from 
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Hartford; Richard J. 
Dove, Waterkeeper Alliance, New Bern, North Carolina; Kenneth Green, 
Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles, California; Donald 
Newhouse, Guardians of the Rural Environment, Yarnell, Arizona; Hope 
Sieck, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Bozeman, Montana; and Stephen C. 
Torbit, National Wildlife Federation Rocky Mountain Natural Resource 
Center, Boulder,

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Colorado, on behalf of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and Biodiversity 
Associates.
DRUGS AND TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the worldwide 
connection between drugs and terrorism, focusing on identification and 
investigation of criminal and terrorist groups, after receiving 
testimony from Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, Department of Justice; Richard Newcomb, Director, 
Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of the Treasury; R. Rand 
Beers, Assistant Secretary, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, and Francis X. Taylor, Coordinator for Counter 
Terrorism, both of the Department of State; Curtis W. Kamman, former 
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia; and R. Grant Smith, Johns Hopkins 
University School of Advanced International Studies/Central Asia 
Caucasus Institute, Washington, D.C., former U. S. Ambassador to 
Tajikistan, Michael Shifter, Georgetown University School of Foreign 
Service Center for Latin American Studies, and Martha Brill Olcott, 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, all of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.