[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 44 (Thursday, April 18, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D354-D356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings 
(Committees not listed did not meet) 
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for energy and water development programs, after receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from 
Jessie H. Roberson, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, 
and David Garman, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, both of the Department of Energy.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for Department of the Treasury, focusing on the United States 
Customs Service, after receiving testimony from Robert C. Bonner, 
Commissioner, United States Customs Service, and Jimmy Gurule, Under 
Secretary for Enforcement, both of the Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1991, to establish a national rail passenger transportation 
system, reauthorize Amtrak, improve security and service on Amtrak, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2039, to expand aviation capacity in the Chicago area, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1220, to authorize the Secretary of Transportation to establish a 
grant program for the rehabilitation, preservation, or improvement of 
railroad track, with amendments;
  S. 1739, to authorize grants to improve security on over-the-road 
buses;
  S. 1750, to make technical corrections to the HAZMAT provisions of 
the USA PATRIOT Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1871, to direct the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a rail 
transportation security risk assessment, with amendments;
  H.R. 2546, to amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit States 
from requiring a license or fee on account of the fact that a motor 
vehicle is providing interstate pre-arranged ground transportation 
service, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Vice Admiral Thad W. Allen, to be Chief of Staff, 
Rear Admiral Thomas J. Barrett, to be Vice Admiral, Vice Commandant, 
Rear Admiral James D. Hull, to be Vice Admiral, Commander, Atlantic 
Area, and Rear Admiral Terry M. Cross, to be Vice Admiral, Commander, 
Pacific Area, all of the United States Coast Guard, Department of 
Transportation.
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded hearings on S. 1441/H.R. 695, to establish the Oil 
Region National Heritage Area, S. 1526, to establish the Arabia 
Mountain National Heritage Area in the State of Georgia, S. 1638, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating the French Colonial Heritage Are in the 
State of Missouri as a unit of the National Park System, S. 1809/H.R. 
1776, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou National 
Heritage Area in west Houston, Texas, S. 1939, to establish the Great 
Basin National Heritage Area, Nevada and Utah, and S. 2033, to 
authorize appropriations for the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley 
National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Reid, Cleland, Santorum, and Chafee; 
Brenda Barrett, National Coordinator for Heritage Areas, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior; James Baker, Missouri Department 
of Natural Resources, St. Genevieve; Denys M. Koyle, Great Basin 
Heritage Area Partnership, Baker, Nevada; Ronald E. Shoup, Oil City 
Area Chamber of Commerce, Oil City, Pennsylvania; and Kelly Jordan, 
Arabia Mountain Heritage Area Alliance, Lithonia, Georgia.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine corporate 
governance and executive compensation, focusing on non-qualified 
deferred compensation, split dollar life insurance, and stock based 
compensation, receiving testimony from Senators Levin and Enzi; Carolyn 
Kay Brancato, The Conference Board, Ira T. Kay, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, 
and John H. Biggs, TIAA-CREF, all of New York, New York; Sarah Teslik, 
Council of Institutional Investors, Washington, D.C.; Robert C. Pozen, 
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kathryn J. Kennedy, John 
Marshall Law School Center for Tax Law and Employee Benefits, Chicago, 
Illinois; and Mark G. Heesen, National Venture Capital Association, 
Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

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TERRORIST THREAT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on issues relating to the threat of nuclear or 
radiological terrorism from representatives of the intelligence 
community.
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS FOR TERRORISM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the state of public health preparedness for terrorism involving 
weapons of mass destruction, including federal efforts to coordinate 
and communicate with public health and law enforcement agencies in the 
event of a terrorist attack with public health implications, and 
certain budgetary requirements to implement homeland security measures, 
after receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health 
and Human Services; Margaret A. Hamburg, Nuclear Threat Initiative, and 
Thomas L. Milne, National Association of County and City Health 
Officials, both of Washington, D.C.; and Thomas V. Inglesby, Johns 
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf 
of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies.
WORKPLACE INJURY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine workplace injury issues, focusing on 
musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and ergonomics, after receiving 
testimony from Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor; Jacqueline Nowell, 
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, Washington, 
D.C.; Paul A. Fontana, Fontana Center for Work Rehabilitation, Inc., 
Lafayette, Louisiana; and Melody Purvis, Indianapolis, Indiana.
ALASKA NATIVE SUBSISTENCE AND FISHING RIGHTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: On Wednesday, April 17, committee 
concluded oversight hearings to examine the implementation of Title 
VIII of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) 
and the status of the exercise of subsistence hunting and fishing 
rights by Alaska Natives in Alaska, after receiving testimony from 
Rosita Worl, Sealaska Heritage Institute, on behalf of the Alaska 
Federation of Natives, and Gordon Jackson, Southeast Alaska Intertribal 
Fish and Wildlife Commission, both of Juneau, Alaska; Robert T. 
Anderson, University of Washington Native American Law Center, Seattle; 
Andy Golia, Bristol Bay Native Association, Dillingham, Alaska; Arthur 
Lake, Association of Village Council Presidents, Bethel, Alaska; George 
Yaska, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska; Charles Johnson, 
Alaska Nanuuq Commission, Nome; Mike Williams, Alaska Inter-Tribal 
Council, and Jeanine Kennedy, Rural Alaska Community Action Program, 
Inc., both of Anchorage; Mary Pete, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 
Washington, D.C.; and Mitch Demientieff, Federal Subsistence Board, 
Nenanna, Alaska.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H. Con. Res. 243, expressing the sense of the Congress that the 
Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to the public 
safety officers who have perished and select other public safety 
officers who deserve special recognition for outstanding valor above 
and beyond the call of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks 
in the United States on September 11, 2001;
  S. Con. Res. 66, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public 
Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be awarded to public safety 
officers killed in the line of duty in the aftermath of the terrorist 
attacks of September 11, 2001;
  S. Con. Res. 75, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public 
Safety Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to public safety 
officers killed or seriously injured as a result of the terrorist 
attacks perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001, 
and to those who participated in the search, rescue and recovery 
efforts in the aftermath of those attacks;
  S. 864, to express the sense of the Congress that the Public Safety 
Officer Medal of Valor should be presented to public safety officers 
killed or seriously injured as a result of the terrorist attacks 
perpetrated against the United States on September 11, 2001, and to 
those who participated in the search, rescue and recovery efforts in 
the aftermath of those attacks, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of Jeffrey R. Howard, of New Hampshire, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit, Percy Anderson, to be 
United States District Judge for the Central District of California, 
Michael M. Baylson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Pennsylvania, William C. Griesbach, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Joan E. 
Lancaster, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Minnesota, Cynthia M. Rufe, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, John F. Walter, to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California,

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Mary Ann Solberg, of Michigan, to be Deputy Director, and Barry D. 
Crane, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, both of 
the National Drug Control Policy, and Frank DeArmon Whitney, to be 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and 
Debra W. Yang, to be United States Attorney for the Central District of 
California, both of the Department of Justice.