[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 30, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D415-D416]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was 
heard from public witnesses.
  Hearings continue May 2.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Procurement 
approved for full Committee action, as amended, H.R. 4546, National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Research and 
Development approved for full Committee action H.R. 4546, National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003.
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule on H.R. 
2871, Export-Import Bank Reauthorization Act of 2001, providing one 
hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial Services. 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 Financial Services 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

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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. The rule provides one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. The rule provides that after passage of H.R. 2871, it 
shall be in order to take from the Speaker's table S. 1372, consider it 
in the House, and move to strike all after the enacting clause and 
insert the text of H.R. 2871 as passed by the House. The rule waives 
all points of order against consideration of the Senate bill and the 
motion to strike and insert. Finally, the rule provides that if the 
motion is adopted and the Senate bill, as amended, is passed, then it 
shall be in order to move that the House insist on its amendment and 
request a conference. Testimony was heard from Chairman Oxley and 
Representatives Bereuter and Sanders.
TAX INCENTIVES--LAND USE, CONSERVATION, AND PRESERVATION
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures 
held a hearing on Tax Incentives for Land Use, Conservation, and 
Preservation. Testimony was heard from Representatives Johnson of 
Connecticut, Dunn, Portman, Weller, Blumenauer and Isakson; Pam Olson, 
Acting Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy, Department of the Treasury; and 
public witnesses.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS; COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on Special Programs. Testimony was heard from 
departmental witnesses.
  The Committee also met in executive session to consider pending 
Committee business.

Joint Meetings
FEDERAL SCHOOL LUNCH SAFETY
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on 
Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of 
Columbia concluded oversight hearings with the House Committee on 
Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Financial 
Management and Intergovernmental Relations to examine the adequacy and 
efficiency of the National School Program and how managerial and 
organization deficiencies at the Federal level may be affecting the 
health of school children, after receiving testimony from 
Representative DeLauro; Lawrence J. Dyckman, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, General Accounting Office; Lester M. 
Crawford, Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Elsa Murano, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Food Safety; Caroline Smith DeWaal, Center for Science 
in the Public Interest, and John Bode, National Food Processors 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Susan Doneth, Marshall, 
Michigan, and Cheryl Roberts, Comer, Georgia, both on behalf of Safe 
Tables Our Priority; and Mary Klatko, Howard County Public School 
System, Ellicott City, Maryland, on behalf of the American School Food 
Service Association.