[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 42 (Tuesday, April 16, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D337-D338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Federal Aviation Administration, focusing on aviation safety and 
capacity issues, after receiving testimony from Jane F. Garvey, 
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of 
Transportation.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the authorization and reform of Technology 
Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
programs, focusing on the Advanced Technology Program, after receiving 
testimony from Samuel Bodman, Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Anne A. 
Armstrong, Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, Herndon; Lewis 
M. Branscomb, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Scott Donnelly, General Electric Company, 
Niskayuna, New York.
U.S./MEXICO RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded hearings to examine U.S./
Mexican relations issues, including migration, drugs, economic trade, 
the North American Development Bank (NADBank), the Border Environment 
Cooperation Commission (BECC), and border issues, after receiving 
testimony Representative Reyes; Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of 
State for Economics, Business and Agricultural Affairs; John B. Taylor, 
Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs; James W. Ziglar, 
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of 
Justice; and Barbara

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Shailor, AFL-CIO, Steven M. Ladik, American Immigration Lawyers 
Association, Gregori Lebedev, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and M. Delal 
Baer, Center for Strategic and International Studies, all of 
Washington, D.C.
DRIVER'S LICENSE INTEGRITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine problems relating to the availability and 
use of fake or fraudulently issued driver's licenses, focusing on what 
state and federal governments can do to improve the system, after 
receiving testimony from Kansas State Senator Barbara P. Allen, 
Overland Park; Richard J. Varn, Iowa State Information Technology 
Department, Des Moines, on behalf of the National Association of State 
Chief Information Officers and National Governor's Association; Betty 
L. Serian, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Harrisburg, on 
behalf of the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; 
Mary Ann Viverette, Gaithersburg Police Department, Gaithersburg, 
Maryland, on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of 
Police; Barry J. Goleman, American Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, 
Virginia; J. Bradley Jansen, Free Congress Foundation Center for 
Technology Policy, Washington, D.C.; and Theodore W. Wern, Chicago, 
Illinois.
MEDICAL PRIVACY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded oversight hearings to examine medical privacy issues, 
focusing on the Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable 
Health Information (Privacy Rule), and the proposed modification to 
those standards, published by the Department of Health and Human 
Services, after receiving testimony from Claude A. Allen, Deputy 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Janlori Goldman, Georgetown 
University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy Health Privacy 
Project, Washington, D.C.; Sam Karp, California HealthCare Foundation, 
Oakland; Richard Harding, University of South Carolina School of 
Medicine, Columbia, on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association; 
John D. Clough, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OFFICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded 
oversight hearings on activities of the Violence Against Women Office 
of the Department of Justice, including coordination, collaboration, 
and multi-disciplinary partnership in addressing domestic violence 
prevention and intervention issues, after receiving testimony from 
Diane Stuart, Director, Violence Against Women Office, Office of 
Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Laurie E. Ekstrand, Director, 
Justice Issues, General Accounting Office; Georgia Attorney General 
Thurbert E. Baker, Atlanta; Vincent J. Poppiti, Family Court for the 
State of Delaware, Wilmington; Lynn Rosenthal, National Network to End 
Domestic Violence, Washington, D.C.; and Casey Gwinn, San Diego City 
Attorney, San Diego, California.