[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 47 (Wednesday, April 24, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D380-D382]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003, after receiving 
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lt. 
Gen. Russell C. Davis, USAF, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Lt. Gen. 
Roger C. Schultz, USA, Director, and Brig. Gen. David A. Brubaker, 
Deputy Director, USAF, both of the Air National Guard; VAdm. John B. 
Totushek, USNR, Chief of Naval Reserve; Lt. Gen. Dennis M. McCarthy, 
USMC, Commander, Marine Forces Reserve; Lt. Gen. James E. Sherrard III, 
USAF, Chief of Air Force Reserve; and Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Plewes, USA, 
Chief of Army Reserve.

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D.C. FAMILY COURT REFORM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine reformation efforts of the District of 
Columbia Family Court, focusing on the transition from the Family 
Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the 
Family Court of the Superior Court, recruiting trained and experienced 
judges, and promoting consistency and efficiency in the assignment of 
judges and actions and proceedings in the Family Court, after receiving 
testimony from Cornelia M. Ashby, Director, Education, Workforce, and 
Income Security Issues, General Accounting Office; Rufus King III, 
Chief Judge, and Lee Satterfield, Presiding Judge, Family Court, both 
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia; Matthew I. Fraidin, 
Children's Law Center, and Deborah Luxenberg, on behalf of the Council 
for Court Excellence, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jacqueline Dolan, 
Pasadena, California, on behalf of the California Partnership for 
Children.
APPROPRIATIONS--STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 
for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Colin L. 
Powell, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, after 
receiving testimony from John P. Walters, Director, Office of National 
Drug Control Policy.
APPROPRIATIONS--LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2003, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Ellen W. Lazar, Executive Director, 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and Tony T. Brown, Director, 
Community Development Financial Institutions, Department of the 
Treasury.
HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 2037, to 
mobilize technology and science experts to respond quickly to the 
threats posed by terrorist attacks and other emergencies, by providing 
for the establishment of a national emergency technology guard, a 
technology reliability advisory board, and a center for evaluating 
antiterrorism and disaster response technology within the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology; and S. 2182, to authorize 
funding for computer and network security research and development and 
research fellowship programs, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Boehlert; George Strawn, Acting Assistant Director, 
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 
National Science Foundation; Ronil Hira, Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers-USA, and Lance J. Hoffman, George Washington 
University Department of Computer Science, on behalf of the Association 
for Computing Machinery, both of Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey M. Logan, M/
A-COM Wireless Systems, Inc., Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; W. Wyatt 
Starnes, Tripwire, Inc., Portland, Oregon.
T'UF SHUR BIEN PRESERVATION TRUST AREA ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources/Committee on Indian Affairs: 
Committees concluded joint hearings on S. 2018, to establish the T'uf 
Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area within the Cibola National Forest in 
the State of New Mexico to resolve a land claim involving the Sandia 
Mountain Wilderness, after receiving testimony from William G. Myers 
III, Solicitor, Department of the Interior; Thomas L. Sansonetti, 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice; Nancy Bryson, General Counsel, Department of 
Agriculture; Stanley M. Hordes, HMS Associates, Inc., Santa Fe, New 
Mexico; John D. Leshy, University of California Hastings College of 
Law, San Francisco, former Solicitor, Department of the Interior; 
Stuwart Paisano, Sandia Tribal Council, Bernalillo, New Mexico; and E. 
Tim Cummins, Bernalillo County Commission, Walter E. Stern, Modrall, 
Sperling, Roehl, Harris, and Sisk, on behalf of the Sandia Peak Tram 
and Ski Company, Guy Riordan, Piedra Lisa Tract, Anita P. Miller, 
Sandia Mountain Coalition, and Edward Sullivan, New Mexico Wilderness, 
all of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
U.S.-COLOMBIA POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded hearings to examine future 
relations between the United States and Colombia, focusing on economic 
stabilization, drug and arms trafficking, and respect for human rights, 
after receiving testimony from Marc Grossman, Under Secretary of State 
for Political Affairs; Peter W. Rodman, Assistant

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Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; Maj. Gen. Gary 
D. Speer, USA, Acting Commander in Chief, U. S. Southern Command; and 
Mark L. Schneider, International Crisis Group, and Jose Miguel Vivanco, 
Human Rights Watch, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1284, to prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual 
orientation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Evelyn Dee Potter Rose, of Texas, to be a Member 
of the National Council on the Arts, and James R. Stoner, Jr., of 
Louisiana, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities, 
both of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, and 
Kathleen M. Harrington, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor.
INDIAN FINANCING ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2017, 
to amend the Indian Financing Act of 1974 to improve the effectiveness 
of the Indian loan guarantee and insurance program, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Bono; Les Minthorn, Confederated Tribes 
of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon; Marcia Warren 
Edelman, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; and 
Kevin McGuire, Palm Desert National Bank, Palm Desert, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, May 1.