[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 71 (Tuesday, June 4, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D556-D558]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CANCER RESEARCH AND PREVENTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held hearings to examine cancer research and 
prevention issues, focusing on service delivery programs, approaches, 
and technologies, receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary 
of Health and Human Services; Elmer E. Huerta, Washington Hospital 
Center Cancer Preventorium, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the One 
Voice Against Cancer; Ronald B. Herberman, University of Pittsburgh 
Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Academic 
Health Centers Clinical Research Forum; Susie Novis, International 
Myeloma Foundation, North Hollywood, California; Steve Case, AOL Time 
Warner, McLean, Virginia; and Michael Bruene, Des Moines, Iowa.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Kyle E. McSlarrow, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Energy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
Warner and Allen, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 1917, to provide for highway infrastructure investment at 
the guaranteed funding level contained in the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
KENNEDY CENTER PLAZA PROJECT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the proposed John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 
plaza project, focusing on planning, environmental work, and 
preliminary engineering of highway, pedestrian, vehicular, and bicycle 
access in order to improve access, mobility, and safety to and around 
the Center in the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from 
Mary Peters, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department 
of Transportation; Dan Tangherlini, District of Columbia Department of 
Transportation, and Michael Kaiser, John F. Kennedy Center for the 
Performing Arts, both of Washington, D.C.
SMALL BUSINESS AND RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine issues 
relating to present law and proposed legislation regarding Federal 
income taxation and economic development of small business and 
agriculture, including out-migration of people and businesses from 
rural areas, a proposed increase in the minimum wage, and the proposed 
repeal of the special occupational tax on alcohol, receiving testimony 
from Senators Dorgan and Hagel; Lawrence B.

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Gibbs, Miller and Chevalier Chartered, former Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, and Patrick Von Bargen, 
National Commission on Entrepreneurship, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Stephen D. Visocan, Pop Inn, Helena, Montana; Peter K. Froelich, 
Dickinson State University Great Plains Population Symposium Project, 
Dickinson, North Dakota; Lynn Cornwell, Glasgow, Montana, on behalf of 
the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; Jeffrey D. Seidel, Parkway 
Muni Resources, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Jan I. Fox, Marshall 
University, Huntington, West Virginia; and Steven Dodd Hughes, 
Livingston, Montana.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S. FOOD AID PROGRAMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the structure, scope, and effectiveness 
of U.S. food aid programs, including the role of surplus commodities, 
and the impact of changes under consideration, after receiving 
testimony from Representative McGovern; former Senator George McGovern; 
Loren Yager, Director, International Affairs and Trade, General 
Accounting Office; A. Ellen Terpstra, Administrator, Foreign 
Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; Roger Winter, 
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and 
Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for International Development; 
Ellen S. Levinson, Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, Washington, D.C., 
on behalf of the Coalition for Food Aid; and Jason Phillips, 
International Rescue Committee, New York, New York.
SACRED SITES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
examine the protection of Native American sacred sites as they are 
affected by the undertakings and activities of certain Federal 
agencies, focusing on the military services of the Department of 
Defense, receiving testimony from George S. Dunlop, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works (Policy and Legislation); Philip 
W. Grone, Principal Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for 
Installations and Environment; Tex G. Hall, National Congress of 
American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Rachel A. Joseph, Lone Pine Paiute-
Shoshone Tribe, Lone Pine, California; Pemina D. Yellow Bird, Ft. 
Berthold, North Dakota; Scott Jones, Lower Brule Sioux Tribal Council, 
Lower Brule, South Dakota; Jimmy Arterberry, Commanche Nation, Medicine 
Park, Oklahoma; Caleen Sisk-Franco and Mark Franco, Winnemem Wintu 
Tribe, Redding, California; Leonard A. Selestewa and Elliot Selestewa, 
Village of Lower Moencopi, and Gilbert Naseyowma, all of Tuba City, 
Arizona; Colette Y. Machado, Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, 
Wailuku, Hawaii; and Noa Emmett Aluli, Kaunakakai, Hawaii.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.