[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 22, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D534-D535]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 23, 2002

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Special Committee on Aging: to hold hearings to examine challenges 
women face concerning retirement and security, 9:30 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: to hold 
hearings to examine disaster assistance issues, 3 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions, to hold oversight hearings to examine 
banking and financial holding company engagement in real estate 
brokerage and property management, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to continue hearings on 
S.J. Res. 34, approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the 
development of a repository for the disposal of high-level 
radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear 
Waste Policy Act of 1982, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider two 
optional protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 
both of which were adopted at New York, May 25, 2000: (1) The 
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on 
Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict; and (2) The Optional 
Protocol to the Conventional on the Rights of the Child on the Sale 
of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, signed on 
July 5, 2000 (Treaty Doc. 106-37); S. 2487, to provide for global 
pathogen surveillance and response; S. Res. 182, expressing the 
sense of the Senate that the United States should allocate 
significantly more resources to combat global poverty; S. Res. 252, 
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding human rights violations 
in Tibet, the Panchen Lama, and the need for dialogue between the 
Chinese leadership and the Dalai Lama or his representatives; S. 
Res. 263, congratulating the Republic of Croatia on the 10th 
anniversary of its recognition by the United States; S. Con. Res. 
109, commemorating the independence of East Timor and expressing the 
sense of Congress that the President should establish diplomatic 
relations with East Timor; the nomination of David A. Gross, of 
Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Communications 
and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business 
Affairs and U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and 
Information Policy; the nomination of Jack C. Chow, of Pennsylvania, 
for the

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rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special 
Representative of the Secretary of State for HIV/AIDS; and a foreign 
service officer promotion list, 2:15 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
voting representation in Congress for the citizens of the District 
of Columbia, 2:30 p.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine equal opportunity in American schools, 9:30 
a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 1868, 
to establish a national center on volunteer and provider screening 
to reduce sexual and other abuse of children, the elderly, and 
individuals with disabilities; S. 1956, to combat terrorism and 
defend the Nation against terrorist attacks; S. 1989, to authorize 
the establishment of a National Cyber Security Defense Team for 
purposes of protecting the infrastructure of the Internet from 
terrorist attack; the nomination of D. Brooks Smith, of 
Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third 
Circuit; the nomination of Roslynn R. Mauskopf, to be United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York; the nomination of 
Steven D. Deatherage, to be United States Marshal for the Central 
District of Illinois; the nomination of Thomas M. Fitzgerald, to be 
United States Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylvania; the 
nomination of G. Wayne Pike, to be United States Marshal for the 
Western District of Virginia; and the nomination of David William 
Thomas, to be United States Marshal for the District of Delaware, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine pending judicial 
nominations, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism, 
hearing on assessing support for terrorism in the Middle East, 9:15 
a.m., 2212 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing on H.R. 3321, American Travel 
Promotion Act of 2001, 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Assessing America's Health Risks: How Well Are Medicare's Clinical 
Preventive Benefits Serving America's Seniors? How Will the Next 
Generation of Preventive Medical Treatments be Incorporated and 
Promoted in the Health Care System?'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``One Broker Gone Bad: Punishing 
the Criminal, Making Victims Whole,'' 9:30 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, to mark up H.R. 4749, Magnuson-Stevens 
Amendments of 2002; followed by an oversight hearing on the use of 
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a fisheries management tool, 10 
a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Human 
Intelligence, Analysis and Counterintelligence and the Subcommittee 
on Technical and Tactical Intelligence, executive, joint hearing on 
J-2 Issues, 10 a.m., H-405 Capitol.