[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 53 (Thursday, May 2, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D430-D431]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HOMELAND SECURITY/SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
homeland security funding issues and proposed legislation making 
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2002, receiving testimony on behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Norma Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation; Tommy G. 
Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services; John Ashcroft, 
Attorney General of the United States; and Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, 
Federal Emergency Management Agency.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 7.
FINANCIAL SERVICES ACCESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine accessibility of basic financial services 
to lower income households and bringing more Americans into the 
financial mainstream, after receiving testimony from Sheila C. Bair, 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions; Michael 
S. Barr, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, former Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Community Development Policy; 
Fran Grossman, Shorebank Advisory Services, and Marva E. Williams, 
Woodstock Institute, both of Chicago, Illinois; Jaye Morgan Williams, 
Bank One Corporation, Washington, D.C.; and Rufino Carbajal, Jr., West 
Texas Credit Union, El Paso, on behalf of the Credit Union National 
Association.
CITIZEN PROTECTION ABROAD
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine Federal efforts 
to protect U. S. citizens from terrorism abroad, including Embassy 
personnel, journalists, and private citizens, after receiving testimony 
from Peter E. Bergin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Diplomatic Security and Director of the Diplomatic Security Service, 
and Dianne M. Andruch, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Overseas Citizens 
Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs, both of the Department of State; 
Frank Smyth, Committee to Protect Journalists, Thomas P. Ondeck, 
GlobalOptions, Inc, and Sheryl E. Spivack, George Washington 
University, all of Washington, D.C.; and Vernon Penner, Crisis 
Management Worldwide, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for 
Overseas Citizens Services, Annapolis, Maryland.
GASOLINE PRICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded 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, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Wyden; Connecticut Attorney 
General Richard Blumenthal, Hartford; Michigan Attorney General 
Jennifer M. Granholm, Lansing; Tom Green, California Department of 
Justice, Sacramento; Peter K. Ashton, Innovation and Information 
Consultants, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts; Justine S. Hastings,

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Dartmouth College Department of Economics, Hanover, New Hampshire; R. 
Preston McAfee, University of Texas Department of Economics, Austin; 
and Philip K. Verleger, Jr., PKVerleger, Newport Beach, California.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination Elias Adam Zerhouni, of Maryland, to 
be Director of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health 
and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary:  Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1644, to further the protection and recognition of veterans' 
memorials;
  S. 2431, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to ensure that chaplains killed in the line of duty receive public 
safety officer death benefits, with an amendment;
  S. Res. 255, to designate the week beginning May 5, 2002, as 
``National Correctional Officers and Employees Week''; and
  The nominations of Julia Smith Gibbons, of Tennessee, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Leonard E. Davis, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Andrew 
S. Hanen, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of Texas, Samuel H. Mays, Jr., to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Tennessee, Thomas M. Rose, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, Paul G. Cassell, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of Utah, and Steven M. 
Biskupic, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Wisconsin, James E. McMahon, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of South Dakota, Jan Paul Miller, to be United States Attorney 
for the Central District of Illinois, Walter Robert Bradley, to be 
United States Marshal for the District of Kansas, Randy Paul Ely, to be 
United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas, William P. 
Kruziki, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of 
Wisconsin, Stephen Robert Monier, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of New Hampshire, and Gary Edward Shovlin, to be United States 
Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, all of the Department 
of Justice.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
proposed legislation to restructure the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service, Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Mazzoli; Paul W. Virtue, Hogan and Hartson, Washington, 
D.C., former General Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
Department of Justice; and Stephen Yale-Loehr, Cornell Law School, 
Ithaca, New York, on behalf American Immigration Lawyers Association.
VETERANS AFFAIRS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on 
miscellaneous Veterans Affairs legislation (S. 984, S. 1113, S. 1408, 
S. 1517, S. 1561, S. 1576, S. 1680, S. 1905, S. 2003, S. 2025, S. 2043, 
S. 2044, S. 2060, S. 2073, S. 2074, S. 2079, S. 2132, S. 2186, S. 2187, 
S. 2205, S. 2209, S. 2227, S. 2228, S. 2229, S. 2230, S. 2231, S. 
2237), after receiving testimony from Tim McClain, General Counsel, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, who was accompanied by several of his 
associates; and James R. Fischl, American Legion National Veterans 
Affairs and Rehabilitation Commission, Joseph A. Violante, Disabled 
American Veterans, David M. Tucker, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and 
Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, all 
of Washington, D.C.