[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 32 (Tuesday, March 19, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D255-D257]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and 
the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere/Administrator, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration; and Timothy J. Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade 
Commission.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
international affairs programs of the Department of the Treasury, after 
receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for Navy and Air 
Force military construction programs, after receiving testimony in behalf of 
funds for their respective activities from H.T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary 
of the Navy for Installation and Environment; Rear Adm. David D. Pruett, 
Civil Engineer Corps, USN, Director, Civil Engineering Readiness Division, 
Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Adm. Noel G. Preston, USNR, Deputy Director 
of Naval Reserve; Brig. Gen. (Select) Ronald S. Coleman, USMC, Deputy 
Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps for Installation and Logistics 
Facilities; Nelson F. Gibbs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for 
Installation, Environment and Logistics; Maj. Gen. Earnest O. Robbins II, 
USAF, The Air Force Civil Engineer, Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations and 
Logistics; Brig. Gen. David A. Brubaker, USANG, Deputy Director, Air 
National Guard; and Brig. Gen. Robert E. Duignan, USAFR, Deputy to the Chief 
of the Air Force Reserve.
U.S. INTERESTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to 
examine the worldwide threat to United States interests, after receiving 
testimony from George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence; and Vice 
Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
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 maximizing fleet presence capability and 
ship procurement and research and development, after receiving testimony 
from Rear Adm. Miles B. Wachendorf, USN, Director, Strategy and Policy 
Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; John J. Young, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; 
and Vice Adm. Michael G. Mullen, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for 
Resources, Requirements and Assessments.
ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed 
oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues 
raised by the fall of the Enron Corporation and by other public companies, 
focusing on oversight and regulation of the accounting profession, corporate 
governance, and stock analyst conflicts of interests, receiving testimony 
from Charles A. Bowsher, former Comptroller General of the United States, 
General Accounting Office, Aulana L. Peters, and Alan B. Levenson, former 
Director, Division of Corporation Finance, Securities and Exchange 
Commission, all of the Public Oversight Board, Stamford, Connecticut; L. 
William Seidman, Washington, D.C., former Chairman, Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation; and John C. Whitehead, former Deputy Secretary of 
State, and Michael Mayo, Prudential Securities, Inc., both of New York, New 
York.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.

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NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Vice Admiral Thomas Collins to be Commandant 
of the United States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Stevens, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
COAST GUARD BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, 
Atmosphere, and Fisheries concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 of the United 
States Coast Guard, after receiving testimony from Adm. James M. Loy, 
Commandant, United States Coast Guard; Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, 
Department of Transportation; and JayEtta Z. Hecker, Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office.
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine ideas for transportation demand, access, mobility, congestion, and 
program flexibility, in preparation for reauthorization of Transportation 
Equity Act for the Twenty First Century (TEA 21), after receiving testimony 
from Tim Lomax, Texas A&M University Texas Transportation Institute, College 
Station; Ron Sims, Offices of the King County Executive, Seattle, 
Washington; Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.; C. 
Kenneth Orski, Urban Mobility Corporation, Potomac, Maryland; Frederick P. 
Salvucci, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Alan E. 
Pisarski, Falls Church, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
CHILD CARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy held 
joint hearings with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
Subcommittee on Children and Families to examine affordable child care and 
improving links between the welfare work requirements and child care for low 
income, working families, receiving testimony from Wade F. Horn, Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families; Ann S. 
Williamson, Louisiana Department of Social Services, Baton Rouge; Mark H. 
Greenberg, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D.C.; and Vicky 
Flamand, Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. Res. 213, condemning human rights violations in Chechnya and urging a 
political solution to the conflict, with amendments;
  H.R. 2739, to amend Public Law 107-10 to require a United States plan to 
endorse and obtain observer status for Taiwan at the annual summit of the 
World Health Assembly in May 2002 in Geneva, Switzerland;
  S. Res. 205, urging the Government of Ukraine to ensure a democratic, 
transparent, and fair election process leading up to the March 31, 2002, 
parliamentary elections; and
  The nominations of Emmy B. Simmons, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade of the 
United States Agency for International Development, Robert B. Holland III, 
of Texas, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the 
International Bank For Reconstruction and Development, Robert Patrick John 
Finn, of New York, to be Ambassador to Afghanistan, Richard Monroe Miles, of 
South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Georgia, James W. Pardew, of Arkansas, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria, Peter Terpeluk, Jr., of 
Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to Luxembourg, Lawrence E. Butler, of Maine, 
to be Ambassador to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and two 
Foreign Service Officer promotions lists.
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
scope of the threat facing the United States from potential military or 
terrorist attack with chemical and biological weapons, and actions necessary 
to address and reduce this threat, after receiving testimony from Carl W. 
Ford, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Alan P. 
Zelicoff, Senior Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories Center for National 
Security and Arms Control; Michael Moodie, Chemical and Biological Arms 
Control Institute, Washington, D.C., former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency; and Amy Sands, Monterey Institute of 
International Studies Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, 
California, former Assistant Director, Intelligence, Verification, and 
Information Management Bureau, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
FEDERAL WORKFORCE REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, 
Proliferation and Federal Services continued 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, property 
management and disposal, receiving testimony from Paul C. Light, Brookings 
Institution, on behalf of the National Commission on the Public

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Service, and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Carolyn Ban, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and 
International Affairs, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National 
Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration; and Steven J. 
Kelman, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Terrence L. O'Brian, of Wyoming, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Tenth Circuit, Lance M. Africk, to be United States District Judge for 
the Eastern District of Louisiana, Paul G. Cassell, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Utah, and Legrome D. Davis, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. O'Brian 
was introduced by Senators Thomas and Enzi, Mr. Africk was introduced by 
Senator Breaux and Representative Tauzin, Mr. Cassell was introduced by 
Senators Hatch and Bennett, and Mr. Davis was introduced by Senators Specter 
and Santorum.
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