[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 31 (Monday, March 18, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D249-D250]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security 
Administration, nuclear reactors, and nuclear proliferation, after 
receiving testimony from John A. Gordon, Administrator/Under Secretary 
for Nuclear Security, Adm. Frank L. Bowman, USN, Director, Naval 
Nuclear Propulsion Program, Everet H. Beckner, Deputy Administrator, 
Defense Programs, and Linton F. Brooks, Deputy Administrator, Defense 
Nuclear Nonproliferation, all of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy.
FEDERAL WORKFORCE REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services held hearings to examine 
proposed legislation to give federal agencies new management tools to 
handle recruitment and retention of skilled federal employees, in order 
to avoid a human capital crisis which may be brought by large-scale 
retirements expected in the near future, including S. 1603, to provide 
for reform relating to Federal employment, and S. 1612, to provide 
Federal managers with tools and flexibility in areas such as personnel, 
budgeting,

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property management and disposal, receiving testimony from Kay Coles 
James, Director, Office of Personnel Management; David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; 
Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, Jerry G. Shaw, 
Jr., Senior Executives Association, and Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., American 
Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; 
and John Priolo, Federal Managers Association, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.