[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 30, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D413-D414]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOMELAND SECURITY SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings to examine 
homeland security funding issues and proposed legislation making 
supplemental appropriations for homeland security and the war on 
terrorism for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, receiving 
testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury; Colin 
Powell, Secretary of State; and Ann M. Veneman, Secretary of 
Agriculture.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, May 2.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine issues 
surrounding Alzheimer's disease, including the efforts to increase 
funding for research and services in order to better understand, treat, 
and prevent the disease, after receiving testimony from Richard J. 
Hodes, Director, National Institute of Aging, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; and Marilyn Albert, 
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, Orien Reid, Laverock, 
Pennsylvania, David Hyde Pierce, Los Angeles, California, and Carol and 
Gene Gratz, New Hampton, Iowa, all on behalf of the Alzheimer's 
Association.
GASOLINES PRICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine how gasoline prices are set in 
the United States, focusing on price volatility, mergers and 
acquisitions, cost of crude oil, and gasoline production and delivery, 
receiving testimony from James S. Carter, ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing 
Company, Fairfax, Virginia; Gary R. Heminger, Marathon Ashland 
Petroleum LLC, Findlay, Ohio; Ross J. Pillari, British Petroleum, 
Warrenville, Illinois; David C. Reeves, ChevronTexaco Corporation, San 
Ramon, California; and Rob Routs, Shell Oil Products U.S., Houston, 
Texas.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, May 2.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Elias A. Zerhouni, Maryland, to 
be Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health 
and Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
Mikulski and Sarbanes, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
HOSPITAL GROUP PURCHASING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and 
Business and Consumer Rights held hearings to examine the competitive 
effects of hospital group purchasing on smaller and competitive medical 
equipment manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies seeking to sell 
their devices, equipment, drugs and supplies to hospitals, and the 
subsequent cost effects passed on to the consumer, receiving testimony 
from Trisha Barrett, University of California, San Francisco Medical 
Center, San Francisco; Lynn R. Detlor, GPO Concepts, Inc., and Richard 
A. Norling, Premier, Inc., both of San Diego, California; Mitchell 
Goldstein, Citrus Valley Medical Center, West Covina, California; Joe 
E. Kiani, Masimo Corporation, Irvine, California; Mark McKenna, 
Novation, Irving, Texas; and Elizabeth A. Weatherman, Warburg Pincus, 
New York, New York, on behalf of the National Venture Capital 
Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIVE AMERICAN SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Committee on Indian 
Affairs: Committees concluded joint hearings on S. 2335, to establish 
the Office of Native American Affairs within the Small Business 
Administration, and to create the Native American Small Business 
Development Program; and H.R. 2538, to amend the Small Business Act to 
expand and improve the assistance provided by Small Business 
Development Centers to Indian tribe members, Alaska Natives, and Native 
Hawaiians, after receiving testimony from Senator Johnson; 
Representative Udall; Kaaren Johnson Street, Associate Deputy 
Administrator for Entrepreneurial Development, Small Business 
Administration; Gerald Danforth, Oneida

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Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, Oneida; Pete Homer, Jr., National Indian 
Business Association, Washington, D.C.; Derek J. Dorr, DECO, Inc., 
Onimia, Minnesota; Monica Drapeaux, The Lakota Fund, Kyle, South 
Dakota; and Tom Hampson, ONABEN: A Native American Business Network, 
Tigard, Oregon.