[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 56 (Tuesday, May 7, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D447-D448]
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 concluded hearings to examine 
homeland security funding issues and proposed legislation making 
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2002, after receiving testimony from Senator Sam Nunn, on behalf of the 
Nuclear Threat Initiative; and Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of 
Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed 
legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed 
legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of 
the subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing appropriations 
for fiscal year 2003 for military activities of the Department of 
Defense.
WILDLAND FIRE PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine this year's wildlife fire season, as well as to assess the 
Federal land management agencies' state of readiness and preparedness 
for the wildland fire season, after receiving testimony from Timothy 
Hartzell, Director of the Office of Wildland Fire Coordination, 
Department of the Interior; and Joel Holtrup, Deputy Chief for State 
and Private Forestry, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of John Peter Suarez, of New Jersey, to be Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, 
Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced 
by Senator Corzine, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone 
Layer (the ``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Beijing on December 3, 
1999, by the Eleventh Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol 
(the ``Beijing Amendment'') (Treaty Doc. 106-32), Amendment to the 
Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (the 
``Montreal Protocol''), adopted at Montreal on September 15-17, 1997, 
by the Ninth Meeting to the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (Treaty 
Doc. 106-10), Protocol Concerning

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Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife to the Convention for the 
Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider 
Caribbean Region, done at Kingston on January 18, 1990, (Treaty Doc. 
103-05), Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Regional Environment 
Programme, done at Apia on June 16, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 105-32), Treaty 
Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Niue on the Delimitation of a Maritime Boundary, signed 
in Wellington, May 13, 1997 (Treaty Doc. 105-53), and a Protocol to 
Amend the 1949 Convention on the Establishment of an Inter-American 
Tropical Tuna Commission, done at Guayaquil, June 11, 1999, and signed 
by the United States, subject to ratification, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 
on the same date (Treaty Doc. 107-02), after receiving testimony from 
John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and 
Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Thomas V. Grasso, World Wildlife 
Fund Marine Conservation Program, Washington, D.C.; and David Read 
Barker, Monitor International, Annapolis, Maryland.
ENRON COLLAPSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the role of the Board of 
Directors in the collapse of the Enron Corporation, focusing on the 
Board's oversight efforts, interactions with Enron management and 
Arthur Andersen, and adequate response to warning signs of Enron's 
impending collapse, as well as the actions of the Board's Finance, 
Audit, and Compensation Committees, receiving testimony from Michael H. 
Sutton, Williamsburg, Virginia, former Chief Accountant, Securities and 
Exchange Commission; John H. Duncan, Houston, Texas, Herbert S. 
Winokur, Jr., Greenwich, Connecticut, Robert K. Jaedicke, Bozeman, 
Montana, Charles A. LeMaistre, San Antonio, Texas, and Norman P. Blake, 
Rosemont, Illinois, all on behalf on the Enron Corporation; Charles M. 
Elson, University of Delaware Center for Corporate Governance, Newark; 
and Robert H. Campbell, Coronado, California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT PROGRAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Aging concluded hearings to examine the implementation of the 
Administration on Aging's National Family Caregiver Support Program, 
after receiving testimony from Josefina G. Carbonell, Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging; Sue F. Ward, Maryland 
Department of Aging, Baltimore; John N. Skirven, Senior Services of 
Southeastern Virginia, Norfolk; and Barbara McSweeney, Washington, D.C.