[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 77 (Wednesday, June 12, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D600-D601]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the Department of 
Defense and related programs, after receiving testimony from certain 
public witnesses.
MEDICARE MEDICAL SUPPLIES PAYMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine fraud, waste and 
abuse related to Medicare reimbursement for medical equipment and 
supplies, and ways to improve the process, including creating supplier 
standards, centralizing claims processing, reducing oxygen 
reimbursement, and introducing a more competitive bidding process, 
after receiving testimony from Janet Rehnquist, Inspector General, and 
Thomas A. Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Leslie 
G. Aronovitz, Director, Health Care-Program Administration and 
Integrity Issues, General Accounting Office; and David T. Williams, 
Invacare Corporation, Elyria, Ohio.
INTERNET MANAGEMENT: ICANN GOVERNANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine reform and 
privatization issues of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and 
Numbers (ICANN), focusing on clarifying the mission and 
responsibilities, ensuring accountability, and developing an effective 
advisory role for governments, after receiving testimony from Nancy J. 
Victory, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information; Peter Guerrero, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
General Accounting Office; M. Stuart Lynn, Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers, Marina del Rey, California; Karl Auerbach, 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board of Directors, 
San Jose, California; Roger J. Cochetti, VeriSign, Inc., and Alan B. 
Davidson, Center for Democracy and Technology, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Cameron Powell, SnapNames, Portland, Oregon.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded hearings on S. 1257/H.R. 107, to require the Secretary 
of the Interior to conduct a theme study to identify sites and 
resources to commemorate and interpret the Cold War, S. 1312/H.R. 2109, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study of Virginia Key Beach, Florida, for possible inclusion 
in the National Park System, S. 1944, to revise the boundary of the 
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National 
Conservation Area in the State of Colorado, H.R. 38, to provide for 
additional lands to be included within the boundaries of the Homestead 
National Monument of America in the State of Nebraska, H.R. 980, to 
establish the Moccasin Bend National Historic Site in the State of 
Tennessee as a unit of the National Park System, and H.R. 1712, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make adjustments to the 
boundary of the National Park of American Samoa to include certain 
portions of the islands of Ofu and Olosega within the park, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Bill Nelson; Representatives 
Faleomavaega, Meek, and Wamp; P. Daniel Smith, Special Assistant to the 
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Steve 
Ririe, Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial Committee, Las 
Vegas, Nevada; and James O. Mills, Friends of Moccasin Bend National 
Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CLEAN POWER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 556, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric 
power plants, after receiving testimony from Representative Kucinich; 
Ronald C. Methier, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, 
on behalf of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program 
Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control 
Officials; Robert Page, TransAlta Corporation, Calgary, Canada; William 
F. Tyndall, Cinergy Services, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the 
Edison Electric Institute; David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense 
Council, Washington, D.C.; Lee P. Hughes, Bayer Corporation, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Chemistry Council; 
Don Barger, National Parks Conservation Association, Knoxville, 
Tennessee; and J. Thomas Mullen, Catholic Charities Health and Human 
Services, Cleveland, Ohio.
CHILDHOOD VACCINE SHORTAGE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the causes and extent of the current shortage of childhood 
vaccines, their expected duration and impact, and the Federal 
government's role in maintaining the supply, after receiving testimony 
from Lester M. Crawford, Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug 
Administration, and Walter Orenstein, Director, National Immunization 
Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the 
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Services; Timothy F. Doran, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 
Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; 
Mary Anne Jackson, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, 
Missouri; and Wayne Pisano, Aventis Pasteur North America, Asbury, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of 
America.
DEATH PENALTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution concluded 
hearings to examine issues with respect to reducing the risk of 
executing the innocent, focusing on the Report of the Illinois 
Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, after receiving testimony 
from Illinois Governor George H. Ryan, and Matthew R. Bettenhausen, 
Illinois Deputy Governor for Criminal Justice and Public Safety, and 
Executive Director, Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital 
Punishment, both of Springfield; Druanne D. White, Solicitor, Tenth 
Judicial Circuit, Anderson, South Carolina; Donald Hubert, Hubert, 
Fowler, and Quinn, and Scott Turow, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, 
both of Chicago, Illinois, both members of the Illinois Governor's 
Commission on Capital Punishment; John J. Kinsella, First Assistant 
State's Attorney, DuPage County, Illinois; Lawrence C. Marshall, 
Northwestern University Law School Center on Wrongful Convictions, 
Chicago, Illinois; and Kent Scheidegger, Criminal Justice Legal 
Foundation, Sacramento, California.