[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 61 (Tuesday, May 14, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D480-D482]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL EXPORT STRATEGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Annual National Export Strategy 
Report of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, focusing on the 
ability to foster development in, and trade with, South- and South-East 
Asia and Africa, in order to promote international stability, after 
receiving testimony from Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, 
Eduardo Aguirre, Vice Chairman and First Vice President, Export-Import 
Bank of the United States, Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, Small 
Business Administration, Thelma J. Askey, Director, U.S. Trade and 
Development Agency, and Ross J. Connelly, Executive Vice President and 
Chief Operating Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, all 
on behalf of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.

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TRIBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation/Committee on Indian 
Affairs: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings to examine 
telecommunications issues in Indian country, focusing on telecom 
carriers, tribal governments, and the siting of communications towers, 
after receiving testimony from K. Dane Snowden, Chief, Consumer and 
Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Susan 
Masten, Yurok Tribe, Eureka, California; Marcia Warren Edelman, S. M. 
E. LLC, Arlington, Virginia, former Senior Policy Advisor for Native 
American Affairs, Department of Commerce; Michael Strand, Montana 
Independent Telecommunications Systems, Helena; John Stanton, Western 
Wireless Corporation, Bellevue, Washington; and William Day, United 
South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Pineville, Louisiana.
PACIFIC SALMON MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Atmosphere, and Fisheries concluded hearings on S. 1825, to 
authorize the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to 
the States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho and 
tribes in the region for salmon habitat restoration projects in coastal 
waters and upland drainages, and related pacific salmon management 
issues, after receiving testimony from Senators Crapo and Thompson; 
Donald R. Knowles, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Dirk Brazil, California 
Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento; Geoffrey M. Huntington, Oregon 
Watershed Enhancement Board, Salem; Laura E. Johnson, Washington State 
Salmon Recovery Funding Board/Interagency Committee for Outdoor 
Recreation, Olympia; James L. Caswell, Idaho Governor's Office of 
Species Conservation, Boise; Robert Thorstenson, United Fishermen of 
Alaska, Juneau; Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's 
Associations, Eugene, Oregon; and Harold Blackwolf, Sr., Confederated 
Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon Fish and Wildlife 
Committee, Madras, on behalf of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish 
Commission.
PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2118, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal 
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to implement the Stockholm 
Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Protocol on 
Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-Range 
Transboundary Air Pollution, and S. 2507, to amend the Toxic Substances 
Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 
to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 
the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on 
Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and the Rotterdam Convention on 
the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals 
and Pesticides in International Trade, after receiving testimony from 
Jeffry M. Burnam, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, 
Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific 
Affairs; Stephen L. Johnson, Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Warren Muir, National Academy of Sciences National Research 
Council, Brooks B. Yeager, World Wildlife Fund, and Karen L. Perry, 
Physicians for Social Responsibility, all of Washington, D.C.; John 
Buccini, United Nations Environment Programme Intergovernmental 
Negotiating Committee, Ontario, Canada; and Michael Walls, American 
Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia.
TOBACCO MARKETING ON WOMEN
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the impact of tobacco marketing on women 
and girls, focusing on promotional targeting techniques and women's 
health, after receiving testimony from Cristina Beato, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Elizabeth M. Whelan, 
American Council on Science and Health, and Diane E. Stover, Memorial 
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, on behalf of the American College of 
Chest Physicians and the CHEST Foundation, both of New York, New York; 
Charles King III, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts; 
Matthew L. Myers, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C.; and 
Cassandra Coleman, Chicago, Illinois.
DNA EVIDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded 
hearings to examine seeking justice for sexual assault victims, 
focusing on Department of Justice efforts to promote the use of DNA 
evidence to combat crime and impact of the Debbie Smith Act on crime 
laboratories throughout the United States, after receiving testimony 
from Sarah V. Hart, Director, National Institute of Justice, and Dwight 
E. Adams, Assistant Director, Laboratory Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of

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the Department of Justice; Linda A. Fairstein, former Chief of the New 
York County District Attorney's Office Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, New 
York, New York; Debra S. Holbrook, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, 
Seaford, Delaware; Susan Narveson, Phoenix Police Department Laboratory 
Services Bureau, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the American Society of 
Crime Laboratory Directors; J. Tom Morgan, Stone Mountain Judicial 
District Attorney, De Kalb County, Georgia, on behalf of the National 
District Attorneys Association; and Debbie Smith, Williamsburg, 
Virginia.