[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 42 (Tuesday, April 16, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D339-D340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR, HHS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held a hearing on NIH Panel: Disease Prevention 
and Health Promotion. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the Department of Health and Human Services: Claude Lenfant, M.D., 
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; Francis Collins, 
M.D., Director, National Human Genome Research Institute; Kenneth 
Olden, M.D., Director, National Institute of Environmental Health 
Sciences; Paul Sieving, M.D., Director, National Eye Institute; 
Lawrence Tabak, M.D., Director, National Institute of Dental and 
Craniofacial Research; Patricia Grady, M.D., Director, National 
Institute of Nursing Research; Donald Lindberg, M.D., Director, 
National Library of Medicine; Raynard Kington, M.D., Acting Director, 
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; and Kerry Weems, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget.
VA, HUD AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent 
Agencies continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from 
public witnesses.
EQUAL EDUCATIONAL CHANCES FOR PARENTS
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Held a hearing on Equal 
Educational Choices for Parents. Testimony was heard from public 
witnesses.
CORPORATE AND AUDITING ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND TRANSPARENCY 
ACT
Committee on Financial Services: Ordered reported, as amended, H.R. 
3763, Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and 
Transparency Act of 2002.
COMBATING TERRORISM
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on National Security, 
Veterans' Affairs and International Relations held a hearing on 
Combating Terrorism: Axis of Evil, Multilateral Containment or 
Unilateral Confrontation? Testimony was heard from Jeanne J.

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Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations, Department of 
State; Brent Scowcroft, former National Security Adviser; Richard 
Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense; and a public witness.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and 
Public Lands held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1906, to amend 
the Act that established the Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historical 
Park to expand the boundaries of that park; H.R. 2717, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain public land within the Sand 
Mountain Wilderness Study Area in the State of Idaho to resolve an 
occupancy encroachment dating back to 1971; and H.R. 3936, to designate 
and provide for the management of the Shoshone National Recreation 
Trail. Testimony was heard from Representative Mink of Hawaii; the 
following officials of the Department of the Interior: Larry Finfer, 
Assistant Director, Communications, Bureau of Land Management; and Dan 
Smith, Special Assistant to the Director, National Park Service; Gloria 
Manning, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest 
Service, USDA; Dave Morrow, Deputy Director, Division of Parks and 
Recreation, Department of Natural Resources, State of Utah; and public 
witnesses.
CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing 2 
hours of debate on H.R. 476, Child Custody Protection Act. The rule 
waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. Finally, 
the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 
Testimony was heard from Chairman Sensenbrenner.
MEDICARE--PROMOTING DISEASE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on 
Promoting Disease Management in Medicare. Testimony was heard from 
Ruben King Shaw, Deputy Administrator, Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; and public 
witnesses.
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Human 
Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence met in executive session 
to hold a hearing on Human Intelligence. Testimony was heard from 
departmental witnesses.