[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 47 (Wednesday, April 24, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D383-D386]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State 
and Judiciary held a hearing on Public Diplomacy. Testimony was heard 
from Charlotte Beers, Under Secretary, Department of State; the 
following officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors: Marc 
Nathanson, Chairman; and Norman Pattiz, member of the Board; and public 
witnesses.
FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing and Related Programs held a hearing on Secretary of the 
Treasury. Testimony was heard from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of 
Treasury.
LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held a hearing on Department of Education 
Panel: Teacher Recruitment, Preparation and Development. Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Department of Education: 
Thomas P. Skelly, Director, Budget Service; Susan B. Neuman, Assistant 
Secretary, Elementary and Secondary Education; Robert H. Pasternack, 
Assistant Secretary, Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; 
Sally Stroup, Assistant Secretary, Postsecondary Education; Grover J. 
Whitehurst, Assistant Secretary, Educational Research and Improvement; 
and Maria Hernandez Ferrier, Director, Office of English Language 
Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited 
English Proficient Students.
  The Subcommittee also continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was 
heard from public witnesses.
LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative held a hearing 
on House of Representatives, Library of Congress, GPO; and on GAO. 
Testimony was heard from the following Officers of the House of 
Representatives: Jeff Trandahl, Clerk; Wilson Livingood, Sergeant at 
Arms; and James M. Eagen III, Chief Administrative Officer; James H. 
Billington, Librarian of Congress; the following officials of GPO: 
Robert T. Mansker, Deputy Public Printer; Francis J. Buckley, Jr., 
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Documents; Charles C. Cook, Superintendent, Congressional Printing 
Management Division; William M. Guy, Budget Officer; and Andrew M. 
Sherman, Director, Office of Congressional, Legislative, and Public 
Affairs; the following officials of the GAO: David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General; Gene L. Dodaro, Chief Operating Officer; Sallyanne 
Harper, Chief Mission Support and Chief Financial Officer; Anthony 
Gamboa, General Counsel; and Richard L. Brown, Controller.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Armed Services: Special Oversight Panel on the Merchant 
Marine approved for full Committee action recommendations to H.R. 4546, 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Armed Services: Special Oversight Panel on Morale, Welfare 
and Recreation approved for full Committee action recommendations to 
H.R. 4546, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported the following: a 
measure to amend title V of the Social Security Act to extend 
abstinence education funding under maternal and child health program 
through fiscal year 2007; a measure to amend title XIX of the Social 
Security Act to extend the authorization of transitional medical 
assistance for one year; a concurrent resolution expressing the sense 
of the Congress that there should be established a National Minority 
Health and Health Disparities Month; H. Con. Res. 271, expressing the 
sense of the Congress that public awareness and education about the 
importance of health care coverage is of the utmost priority and that a 
National Importance of Health Care Coverage Month should be established 
to promote these goals; H. Con. Res. 358, supporting the goals and 
ideals of National Better Hearing and Speech Month; H. Con. Res. 165, 
expressing the sense of the Congress that continual research and 
education into the cause and cure for fibroid cancer be addressed; and 
H. Con. Res. 309, recognizing the importance of good cervical health 
and of detecting cervical cancer during its earliest stages.
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY FOR AMERICA ACT
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Housing and Community 
Opportunity continued hearings on H.R. 3995, Housing Affordability for 
America Act of 2002. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development: John Weicher, 
Assistant Secretary, Housing, and Commissioner, Federal Housing 
Administration; Roy Bernardi, Assistant Secretary, Community, Planning 
and Development; and Michael Liu, Assistant Secretary, Public and 
Indian Housing; Thomas J. McCool, Managing Director, Financial Markets 
and Community Investment, GAO; and public witnesses.
PRESIDENTIAL RECORDS ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, 
Financial Management, and Intergovernmental Relations held a hearing on 
H.R. 4187, Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2002. Testimony was 
heard from Morton Rosenberg, Specialist, American Public Law, 
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and public 
witnesses.
INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL TERRORISM
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on International 
Global Terrorism: Its Links with Illicit Drugs as Illustrated by the 
IRA and Other Groups in Colombia. Testimony was heard from Asa 
Hutchinson, Administrator, DEA, Department of Justice; Mark Wong, 
Deputy Coordinator, Counterterrorism, Department of State; and public 
witnesses.
U.N. AND THE SEX SLAVE TRADE IN BOSNIA
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights held a hearing on the U.N. and the Sex 
Slave Trade in Bosnia: Isolated Case or Larger Problem in U.N. System? 
Testimony was heard from Nancy Ely-Raphel, Director, Office of Monitor 
and Combat Trafficking, Department of State; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 
1577, amended, Federal Prison Industries Competition in Contracting Act 
of 2001; H.R. 1877, amended, Child Sex Wiretapping Act of 2001; H.R. 
2624, Law Enforcement Tribute Act; H.R. 3375, Embassy Employee 
Compensation Act; and H.R. 3892, amended, Judicial Improvements Act of 
2002.
  The Committee also approved private relief bills.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Ordered reported the following bills: S. 506, 
Huna Totem Corporation Land Exchange Act; H.R. 1370, amended, to amend 
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1966 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide for 
maintenance and repair of buildings and properties located on lands in 
the National Wildlife Refuge System by lessees of such facilities; H.R. 
1462, amended, Harmful Nonnative Weed Control Act of 2001; H.R. 1906, 
amended, to amend the Act that established the Pu'uhonua O Honaunau 
National Historical Park to expand the boundaries of that park; H.R. 
2643, amended, Fort Clatsop National Memorial Expansion Act of 2001; 
H.R. 2818, 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; H.R. 
3908, amended, North American Wetlands Conservation Reauthorization 
Act; H.R. 3954, amended, Caribbean National Forest Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act of 2002; and H.R. 4044, amended, to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to provide assistance to the State of Maryland for 
implementation of a program to eradicate nutria and restore marshland 
damaged by nutria.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power held a hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 1946, Rock Boys'/North Central Montana 
Regional Water System Act of 2001; and H.R. 4129, to amend the Central 
Utah Project Completion Act to clarify the responsibilities of the 
Secretary of the Interior with respect to the Central Utah Project, to 
redirect unexpended budget authority for the Central Utah Project for 
wastewater treatment and reuse and other purposes, to provide for 
prepayment of repayment contracts for municipal and industrial water 
delivery facilities, and to eliminate a deadline for such prepayment. 
Testimony was heard from Bennett Raley, Assistant Secretary, Water and 
Science, Department of the Interior; John E. Tubbs, Bureau Chief, 
Resource Development Bureau, Conservation and Resource Development 
Division, Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, State of 
Montana; and public witnesses.
BARBARA JORDAN IMMIGRATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule providing 
1 hour of debate on H.R. 3231, Barbara Jordan Immigration and 
Accountability Act of 2001. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule provides that the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary 
now printed in the bill shall be considered as an original bill for the 
purpose of amendment and shall be considered as read. The rule waives 
all points of order against the bill, as amended. The rule makes in 
order only those amendments printed in the report of the Committee on 
Rules accompanying the resolution. The rule provides that the 
amendments printed in the report shall be considered only in the order 
printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in 
the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the 
time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the 
proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall 
not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or 
in the Committee of the Whole. The rule waives all points of order 
against the amendments printed in the report. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony 
was heard from Chairman Sensenbrenner; Representatives Cannon, 
Bilirakis, Kolbe, Conyers, Lofgren, Jackson-Lee of Texas, Hastings of 
Florida, Gutierrez and Roybal-Allard.
WHY ADD AN INTEREST RATE HIKE ON OUR STRUGGLING SMALL MANUFACTURERS
Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on Why Add an Interest Rate 
Hike on Our Struggling Small Manufacturers. Testimony was heard from 
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal 
Reserve System; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Ordered reported the 
following bills: H.R. 1979, amended, to amend title 49, United States 
Code, to provide assistance for the construction of certain air traffic 
control towers; H.R. 4006, to designate the United States courthouse 
located at 100 Federal Plaza in Central Islip, New York, as the 
``Alfonse M. D'Amato United States Courthouse;'' H.R. 4028, to 
designate the United States courthouse located at 600 West Capitol 
Avenue in Little Rock, Arkansas, as the ``Richard S. Arnold United 
States Courthouse;'' H.R. 4466, amended, to amend title 49, United 
States Code, to authorize appropriations for the National 
Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 2003, 2004, and 2005; H.R. 
4481, amended, Airport Streamling Approval Process Act of 2002.
  The Committee also approved pending Committee business.
VETERANS' MAJOR MEDICAL FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION ACT
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Health held a hearing 
on H.R. 4514, Veterans' Major Medical Facilities Construction Act of 
2002. Testimony was heard from D. Mark Catlett, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, Management, Department of Veterans Affairs; Col. 
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Gilbreath, USAF, Commander, Elmendorf Air Force Base Hospital, 
Department of the Air Force; and representatives of veterans 
organizations.
DISAPPROVAL RESOLUTION--STEEL SAFEGUARD ACTION
Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered adversely reported H.J. Res. 84, 
disapproving the action taken by the President under section 203 of the 
Trade Act of 1974 transmitted to the Congress on March 5, 2002.
NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM BUDGET--CIA PROGRAM BUDGET
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on Budget for the National Reconnaissance Program. 
Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.
  The Committee also met in executive session to hold a hearing on the 
Budget for the Central Intelligence Agency Program. Testimony was heard 
from departmental witnesses.