[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 37 (Tuesday, April 9, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D301-D302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, held a hearing on NIH Panel: Collaborations in 
Research. Testimony was heard from the following officials Department 
of Health and Human Services: Kerry Weems, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Budget; Ruth L. Kirschstein, M.D., Acting Director, NIH; Stephen Katz, 
M.D., Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and 
Skin Diseases; Stephen Straus, M.D., Director, National Center for 
Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Duane Alexander, M.D, Director, 
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Donna Dean, 
M.D., Acting Director, National Institute of Bioimaging and 
Bioengineering; John Ruffin, M.D., Director, National Center on 
Minority Health and Health Disparities; and Gerald Keusch, M.D., 
Director, Fogarty International Center.
WELFARE REFORM--PROPOSED REVISIONS
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Held a hearing on ``Working 
Toward Independence: The Administration's Plan to Build upon the 
Successes of Welfare Reform.'' Testimony was heard from Tommy G. 
Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services; and public witnesses.
CORPORATE AND AUDITING ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY 
ACT
Committee on Financial Services: Concluded hearings on H.R. 3763, 
Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency 
Act of 2002. Testimony was heard from David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General, GAO; Richard Breeden, former Chairman, SEC; and public 
witnesses.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, 
Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations held a hearing on 
``The Federal Government's Consolidated Financial Statements: Are They 
Reliable?'' Testimony was heard from David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General, GAO; Donald V. Hammond, Fiscal Assistant Secretary, Department 
of the Treasury; and Mark W. Everson, Controller, Office of Federal 
Financial Management, OMB.
INS RESTRUCTURING
Committee on the Judiciary: Held an oversight hearing on 
``Restructuring the INS--How the Agency's Dysfunctional Structure 
Impedes the Performance of its Dual Mission.'' Testimony was heard from 
James W. Ziglar, Commissioner, INS, Department of Justice; and public 
witnesses.
DIGITAL TECH CORPS ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of debate on H.R. 3925, Digital Tech Corps Act of 2002. The rule 
waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule 
provides that it shall be in order to consider as an original bill for 
the purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on Government Reform now printed in the 
bill, modified by the amendments recommended by the Committee on the 
Judiciary also printed in the bill. The rule allows the Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole to accord priority in recognition to those 
Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional 
Record. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. Testimony was heard from Representative Tom Davis 
of Virginia.
PAYROLL INDUSTRY AT RISK
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Tax, Finance and Exports 
held a hearing on Payroll Industry at Risk Due to ACH System Used for 
Direct Deposit. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--TAX RETURN FILING SEASON AND THE IRS BUDGET
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing 
on the 2002 Tax Return Filing Season and the IRS Budget for Fiscal Year 
2003. Testimony was heard from Charles O. Rossotti, Commissioner, IRS, 
Department of the Treasury; James R. White, Director, Tax Policy and 
Administration Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
ROMANI HUMAN RIGHTS
  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe(Helsinki 
Commission): Commission concluded hearings to examine Romani human 
rights issues, focusing on OSCE activities and recent Bulgaria 
activities, including barriers to Romani education in the region, after 
receiving testimony from Nicolae Gheorghe, Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human 
Rights, Warsaw, Poland; H. E. Elena Borislavova Poptodorova, Ambassador 
of Bulgaria to the United States, Sofia, Bulgaria; and Dimitrina

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Petrova, European Roma Rights Center, and Rumyan Russinov, Roma 
Participation Project, both of Budapest, Hungary.
FARM BILL
  Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate and House 
passed versions of H.R. 2646, to provide for the continuation of 
agricultural programs through fiscal year 2011, but did not complete 
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.