[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 78 (Thursday, June 13, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D608-D610]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 (Committees not listed did not meet)
 APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
  Committee on Appropriations:  Subcommittee on Interior concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Gale A. 
Norton, Secretary of the Department of the Interior.

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 BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Armed Services:  Senate met in closed session to discuss 
the Crusader artillery system program.
 TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:  Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation held oversight hearings on the 
implementation and reauthorization of the public transportation 
provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-
21) (105-178), receiving testimony from Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, 
Detroit, Michigan; Mayor H. Brent Coles, Boise, Idaho; and Kenneth 
Mayfield, Dallas County Commissioners Court, Dallas, Texas, on behalf 
of the National Association of Counties.
   Hearings recessed subject to call.
 BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Finance:  Committee began markup of H.R. 7, to provide 
incentives for charitable contributions by individuals and businesses, 
to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of government program 
delivery to individuals and families in need, and to enhance the 
ability of low-income Americans to gain financial security by building 
assets, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to 
call.
 BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on Foreign Relations:  Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
   S. 2525, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase 
assistance for foreign countries seriously affected by HIV/AIDS, 
tuberculosis, and malaria;
   S. Con. Res. 114, expressing the sense of Congress regarding North 
Korean refugees who are detained in China and returned to North Korea 
where they face torture, imprisonment, and execution, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
   S. Res. 283, recognizing the successful completion of democratic 
elections in the Republic of Colombia; and
   The nomination of Tony P. Hall, of Ohio, for the rank of Ambassador 
during his tenure of service as U.S. Representative, to the United 
Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, Department of State.
 DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN TREATY
  Committee on Foreign Relations:  Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against 
Women, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 
1979, and signed on behalf of the United States of America on July 17, 
1980 (Treaty Doc. 96-53), after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Maloney, Millender-McDonald, Morella, Woolsey, and Jo 
Anne Davis; Harold Hongju Koh, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 
former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights; Juliette Clagett 
McLennan, Easton, Maryland, former U.S. Representative to the United 
Nations Commission on the Status of Women; Jane E. Smith, Business and 
Professional Women/USA, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise 
Institute, former Permanent Representative to the United Nations, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Kathryn O. Balmforth, Wood Crapo, Salt Lake City, 
Utah; and Christina Hoff Sommers, American Enterprise Institute, Chevy 
Chase, Maryland.
 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:  Committee 
concluded oversight hearings to examine the implementation of the No 
Child Left Behind Act (P.L. 107-110), focusing on the Reading First and 
other literacy-related programs and strategies, receiving testimony 
from Eugene W. Hickok, Under Secretary of Education; Trisha Rhodes, 
Hancock County Consortium, Bar Harbor, Maine; Ruth Nathan, Rancho 
Romero Elementary, Alamo, California; and Elizabeth V. Primas, Anthony 
Bowen Elementary School, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
International Reading Association's Urban Diversity Initiatives 
Commission.
 BUSINESS MEETING
  Committee on the Judiciary:  Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
   S. 1956, to combat terrorism and defend the Nation against terrorist 
attacks, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
   S. Con. Res. 104, recognizing the American Society of Civil 
Engineers on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its founding and 
for the many vital contributions of civil engineers to the quality of 
life of the people of the United States, including the research and 
development projects that have led to the physical infrastructure of 
modern America;
   H. Con. Res. 387, recognizing the American Society of Civil 
Engineers for reaching its 150th Anniversary and for the many vital 
contributions of civil engineers to the quality of life of our Nation's 
people including the research and development projects that have led to 
the physical infrastructure of modern America; and
   The nominations of Henry E. Autrey, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, Richard E. Dorr, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Missouri, 
David C. Godbey, to be United States District Judge

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for the Northern District of Texas, Henry E. Hudson, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, Timothy J. 
Savage, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, Amy J. St. Eve, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois; and Gregory Robert Miller, to be 
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Kevin 
Vincent Ryan, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of 
California, Randall Dean Anderson, to be United States Marshal for the 
District of Utah, Ray Elmer Carnahan, to be United States Marshal for 
the Eastern District of Arkansas, David Scott Carpenter, to be United 
States Marshal for the District of North Dakota, Theresa A. Merrow, to 
be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Georgia, Ruben 
Monzon, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas, 
and James Michael Wahlrab, to be United States Marshal for the Southern 
District of Ohio, all of the Department of Justice.
 NOMINATIONS
 Committee on the Judiciary:  Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John M. Rogers, of Kentucky, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, David S. Cercone, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Morrison C. 
England, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of California, Kenneth A. Marra, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Florida, and Lawrence A. Greenfeld, 
of Maryland, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 
Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Rogers was introduced by Senators 
McConnell and Bunning, Mr. Cercone was introduced by Senators Specter 
and Santorum, Mr. England was introduced by Senator Feinstein, and Mr. 
Greenfeld was introduced by Representative Bartlett.
 BUSINESS MEETING
 Select Committee on Intelligence:  Committee met in closed session to 
consider the events surrounding September 11, 2001, and made no 
announcements.