[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 86 (Tuesday, June 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D673-D674]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Phyllis K. Fong, of Maryland, to be 
Inspector General, Department of Agriculture, Walter Lukken, of 
Indiana, and Sharon Brown-Hruska, of Virginia, each to be a 
Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Douglas 
L. Flory, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration 
Board, Farm Credit Administration, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Flory was introduced by 
Senator Allen.
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National 
Transportation Safety Board, after receiving testimony from Marion C. 
Blakey, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board.
OFFICE OF OMBUDSMAN (EPA)
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency 
Inspector General's actions with respect to the Ombudsman, and S. 606, 
to provide additional authority to the Office of Ombudsman of the 
Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Allard; Representative Nadler; Nikki L. Tinsley, Inspector General, 
Environmental Protection Agency; David G. Wood, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, General Accounting Office; Robert J. Martin, 
Ashburn, Virginia, former National Ombudsman, Hazardous and Solid 
Waste, Environmental Protection Agency; Danielle Brian, Project on 
Government Oversight, Washington, D.C.; Kathy J. Zanetti, Shoshone 
Natural Resources Coalition, Wallace, Idaho; and Susan Shortz, Halt 
Environmental Lead Pollution, Throop, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of James Franklin Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Albania, Michael Klosson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Cyprus, James Irvin

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Gadsden, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, and 
Randolph Bell, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
PEACE CORPS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded hearings on S. 2667, to 
amend the Peace Corps Act to promote global acceptance of the 
principles of international peace and nonviolent coexistence among 
peoples of diverse cultures and systems of government, after receiving 
testimony from Gaddi H. Vasquez, Director, Peace Corps; Mark Schneider, 
International Crisis Group, former Director, Peace Corps, Dane Smith, 
National Peace Corps Association, and Barbara Anne Ferris, Peace Corps 
Fund, all of Washington, D.C.; and John Coyne, Pelham, New York.
OFFICE OF EDUCATION RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
Office of Education Research and Improvement, Department of Education, 
focusing on organizational structure, budget, and technical assistance 
systems, after receiving testimony from Grover J. Whitehurst, Assistant 
Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement; Faye Taylor, 
Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville, on behalf of the 
Education Leaders Council; Michael Nettles, University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, on behalf of the National Assessment Governing Board; and LaMar 
P. Miller, New York University Steinhardt School of Education Metro 
Center for Urban Education and Region II Comprehensive Center, New 
York.
CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the crisis in children's 
dental health, focusing on creating an effective oral health 
infrastructure, increase access to dental care, and related provisions 
of S. 1626, to provide disadvantaged children with access to dental 
services, after receiving testimony from Lynn Douglas Mouden, Arkansas 
Department of Health, Little Rock, on behalf of the Association of 
State and Territorial Dental Directors; David Satcher, Henry J. Kaiser 
Family Foundation, and National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse 
School of Medicine, former Surgeon General, Department of Health and 
Human Services, Timothy Shriver, Special Olympics, Inc., and Gregory 
Chadwick, American Dental Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Burton 
L. Edelstein, Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery 
Division of Community Health, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
Children's Dental Health Project, American Academy of Pediatric 
Dentistry, and the American Dental Education Association; and Ed 
Martinez, San Ysidro Health Center, San Diego, California, on behalf of 
the National Association of Community Health Centers, Inc.
HOMELAND SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the President's 
proposal for reorganizing our homeland defense infrastructure, after 
receiving testimony from former Senator Warren Rudman, United States 
Commission on National Security/21st Century; David Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; former 
Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore III, Advisory Panel to Assess 
Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass 
Destruction, Richmond, Virginia; and Paul C. Light and Ivo H. Daalder, 
both of the Brookings Institution, and Ivan Eland, Cato Institute, all 
of Washington, D.C.