[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 43 (Wednesday, April 17, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the missile 
defense program budget, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Ronald 
T. Kadish, USAF, Director, Missile Defense Agency, Department of 
Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRETARY OF THE SENATE/ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Jeri Thomson, Secretary of the Senate; and Alan M. 
Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
APPROPRIATIONS--CNCS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Corporation for National and Community Service, after 
receiving testimony from Leslie Lenkowsky, Chief Executive Officer, 
Corporation for National and Community Service.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities, from Jimmy Gurule, Under Secretary for 
Enforcement, Brian L. Stafford, Director, U.S. Secret Service, Bradley 
A. Buckles, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, James 
F. Sloan, Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Paul A. 
Hackenberry, Acting Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 
all of the Department of the Treasury.
HOMELAND SECURITY AND INFORMATION SHARING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the 
Courts concluded hearings to examine the effective use and necessary 
upgrades of information technology to provide a tool for collaboration among 
federal agencies and federal, state, and local law enforcement to share 
information in order to ensure homeland defense, after receiving testimony 
from Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, Justice Management Division, 
Robert J. Jordan, Director, Information Sharing Task Force, Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, and Scott O. Hastings, Associate Commissioner, Office of 
Information Resources Management, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
all of the Department of Justice; Leon E. Panetta, Panetta Institute, 
Monterey Bay, California, former White House Chief of Staff; and George J. 
Terwilliger III, White and Case, former Deputy Attorney General, Department 
of Justice, Philip Anderson, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
and Paul C. Light, Brookings Institution, all of Washington, D.C.
WAR POWERS RESOLUTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and 
Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the balance of war powers 
authority under the Constitution as it relates to our fight against 
terrorism, the cooperation between the White House and Congress in 
exercising shared war powers authority, and the application of the use-of-
force resolution, after receiving testimony from John C. Yoo, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; 
Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; Douglas Kmiec, Catholic University of America School of Law, Alton 
Frye, Council on Foreign Relations, and Jane Stromseth, Georgetown 
University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; Ruth Wedgwood, Yale Law 
School, New Haven, Connecticut; and Michael J. Glennon, University of 
California Law School, Davis, California, on behalf of the Woodrow Wilson 
International Center for Scholars.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of John Leonard Helgerson, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
  Also, the committee also concluded closed hearings on intelligence 
matters, after receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.