[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 82 (Wednesday, June 19, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D641-D642]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL YOUTH ANTI-DRUG MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of the 
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, focusing on evaluations, 
comparisons with other social marketing campaigns, and planned 
modifications in response to findings, after receiving testimony from 
John P. Walters, Director, National Drug Control Policy; James E. 
Burke, Partnership for a Drug-Free America, New York, New York; Lloyd 
D. Johnston, University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann 
Harbor; and Robert C. Hornik, University of Pennsylvania Annenberg 
School for Communication, Philadelphia.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearing to examine future sufficiency and 
stability of the Universal Service Fund, which ensures that consumers 
living in rural, insular and high cost areas have access to 
telecommunications services, after receiving testimony from Dorothy T. 
Attwood, Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, Federal Communications 
Commission; G. Nanette Thompson, Regulatory Commission of Alaska, 
Anchorage, on behalf of the Federal-State Universal Service Joint 
Board; Billy Jack Gregg, Public Service Commission of West Virginia, 
Charleston, on behalf of the National Association of State Consumer 
Advocates; Lila A. Jaber, Florida Public Service Commission, 
Tallahassee; Don Bond, Public Service Telephone Company, Reynolds, 
Georgia, on behalf of the National Rural Telecom Association; Margaret 
H. Greene, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; Victoria D. Harker, 
MCI Group, Arlington, Virginia; and Michael F. Altschul, Cellular 
Telecommunications and Internet Association, Washington, D.C.
NASA EDUCATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine certain 
provisions of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
2003 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focusing on 
the Education Program, Minority University Research and Education 
Program, and human capital proposals, after receiving testimony from 
Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, who was accompanied by several of his associates.
RECREATION FEES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2473, to enhance the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program for 
the National Park Service; and S. 2607, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to collect recreation 
fees on Federal lands, after receiving testimony from P. Lynn Scarlett, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management, and Budget; 
and Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and 
Environment.
U.S./CUBA POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded hearings on S. 1017/H.R. 
2138, to provide the people of Cuba with access to food and medicines 
from the United States, to ease restrictions on travel to Cuba, to 
provide scholarships for certain Cuban nationals, focusing on 
provisions relating to recent medical advances in Cuba which could 
potentially have widespread application in the U.S. and existing travel 
restrictions on U.S. citizens permitted to visit Cuba, after receiving 
testimony from Bernard

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W. Aronson, ACON Investments/Council on Foreign Relations Independent 
Task Force on Cuba, former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-
American Affairs, and Alan I. Leshner, American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, both of Washington, D.C.; Donald L. Morton, 
John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California; Kenneth R. 
Bridges, Brigham and Women's Hospital Joint Center for Sickle Cell and 
Thalassemic Disorders, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark M. Rasenick, 
University of Illinois College of Medicine Biomedical Neuroscience 
Training Program, Chicago; Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional 
Rights, New York, New York; and Ramon Humberto Colas, Cuban Independent 
Libraries Movement, Miami, Florida.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Michael D. Brown, of Colorado, to be Deputy Director of 
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Allard and Campbell, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2184, to provide for the reissuance of a rule relating to 
ergonomics, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2558, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the 
collection of data on benign brain-related tumors through the national 
program of cancer registries, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1115, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
making progress toward the goal of eliminating tuberculosis, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Thomas Mallon, of Connecticut, and Wilfred M. 
McClay, of Tennessee, each to be a Member of the National Council on 
the Humanities, W. Roy Grizzard, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Labor, Patricia Pound, of Texas, Lex Frieden, of Texas, 
Carol Hughes Novak, of Georgia, Kathleen Martinez, of California, and 
Young Woo Kang, of Indiana, each to be a Member of the National Council 
On Disability, J. Russell George, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Corporation for National and Community Service, and Jeffrey D. Wallin, 
of California, to be a Member of the National Council on the 
Humanities.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
National Science Foundation, focusing on math and science research, 
development, and education, after receiving testimony from former 
Senator John Glenn, John Glenn Institute for Public Service and Public 
Policy, Columbus, Ohio; Rita R. Colwell, Director, National Science 
Foundation; and Keith Verner, Pennsylvania State University College of 
Medicine/Center for Science and Health Education, Hershey.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs held 
hearings on S. 2010, to provide for criminal prosecution of persons who 
alter or destroy evidence in certain Federal investigations or defraud 
investors of publicly traded securities, to disallow debts incurred in 
violation of securities fraud laws from being discharged in bankruptcy, 
to protect whistleblowers against retaliation by their employers, 
receiving testimony from James B. Comey, Jr., United States Attorney 
for the Southern District of New York; West Virginia State Auditor Glen 
B. Gainer III, Morgantown, on behalf of the National White Collar Crime 
Center; Indiana Securities Commissioner Bradley W. Skolnik, on behalf 
of the North American Securities and Administrators Association, Inc., 
and Frank O. Bowman III, Indiana University School of Law, both of 
Indianapolis; Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; 
Charles Prestwood, Conroe, Texas; Janice Farmer, Orlando, Florida; and 
Howard Deputy, Smyrna, Delaware.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.