[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 86 (Tuesday, June 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D676-D677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior approved for full 
Committee action the Interior appropriations for fiscal year 2003.
FIRST TEE: BUILDING CHARACTER EDUCATION
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Held a hearing on the First 
Tee: Building Character Education. Testimony was heard from Duane 
Dedelow, Jr., Mayor, Hammond, Indiana; Jack Nicklaus, Professional 
Golfer; Joe Louis Barrow, Jr., Senior Vice President-Executive 
Director, The First Tee; and public witnesses.
FTC's FRANCHISE RULE
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and 
Consumer Protection held a hearing on the FTC's Franchise Rule: Twenty-
Three Years After Its Promulgation. Testimony was heard from Howard 
Beales III, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC; and public 
witnesses.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on Creating the Department of Homeland 
Security: Consideration of the Administration's Proposal, with emphasis 
on chemical, biological and radiological response activities proposed 
for transfer to the Department of Homeland Security. Testimony was 
heard from Tom Ridge, Assistant to the President, Office of Homeland 
Security Adviser; Claude Allen, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health 
and Human Services; John A. Gordon, Administrator, National Nuclear 
Security Administration, Department of Energy; Jan Heinrich, Director, 
Health Care and Public Health Issues, GAO; Harry C. Vantine, Program 
Leader, Counterterrorism and Incident Response, Lawrence Livermore 
National Laboratory; David Nokes, Director, Systems Assessment and 
Research Center, Sandia National Laboratories; Donald D. Cobb, 
Associate Director, Threat Reduction, Los Alamos National Laboratory; 
Lew Stringer, Medical Director, Division of Emergency Management, 
Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, State of North Carolina; 
and public witnesses.
FAIR HOUSING ENFORCEMENT; FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST DISABLED AND 
MINORITIES
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigation and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity 
held a joint hearing on Fighting Discrimination against the Disabled 
and Minorities through Fair Housing Enforcement. Testimony was heard 
from Kenneth Marcus, General Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fair Housing 
and Equal Opportunity, Department of Housing and Urban Development; and 
public witnesses.
DO WE NEED AN ANTI-DRUG MEDIA CAMPAIGN?
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug 
Policy, and Human Resources held a hearing on De We Need an Anti-Drug 
Media Campaign? Testimony was heard from Representative Portman; and 
public witnesses.

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DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on National Security, 
Veterans Affairs and International Relations held a hearing on DoD 
Financial Management: Following One Item Through the Maze. Testimony 
was heard from Gregory Kutz, Director, Financial Management and 
Assurance Team, GAO; the following officials of the Department of 
Defense: JoAnn Boutelle, Director, Commercial Pay Service, Defense 
Finance and Accounting Service; Douglas Bryce, Program Manager, Joint 
Service Lightweight Technology Suit; and Bruce E. Sullivan, Director, 
Joint Purchase Card Program Management Office; and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held an 
oversight hearing on the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department 
of Justice. Testimony was heard from Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice.
OVERSIGHT--RISK TO HOMELAND SECURITY FROM IDENTITY FRAUD AND THEFT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border 
Security, and Claims and the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security held a joint oversight hearing on ``The Risk to 
Homeland Security From Identity Fraud and Identity Theft.'' Testimony 
was heard from Paul J. McNulty, U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of 
Virginia; James G. Huse, Jr., Inspector General, SSA; Richard M. Stana, 
Director, Administration of Justice Issues, GAO; and a public witness.
HOMELAND SECURITY INFORMATION SHARING ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule on H.R. 4598, 
to provide for the sharing of homeland security information by Federal 
intelligence and law enforcement agencies with State and local entities 
providing one hour of general debate, with 40 minutes equally divided 
and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and 20 minutes equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule waives all points of order 
against consideration of the bill. The rule provides that it shall be 
in order to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment 
the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by the 
Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. The rule waives all 
points of order against the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. The rule provides that the bill shall be open for amendment 
by section. The rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole 
to accord priority in recognition to those Members who have pre-printed 
their amendments in the Congressional Record. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony 
was heard from Representative Chambliss.
GREAT LAKES LEGACY ACT
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Water 
Resources and Environment approved for full Committee action, as 
amended, H.R. 1070, Great Lakes Legacy Act of 2001.
CORPORATE INVERSIONS
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures 
held a hearing on Corporate Inversions. Testimony was heard from 
Representatives Johnson of Connecticut, McInnis, Neal and Maloney of 
Connecticut; Richard Blumenthal, Attorney General, State of 
Connecticut; and a public witness.

Joint Meetings
COMBATING TERRORISM
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded 
joint hearings with the House Committee on Science to examine the role 
of science and technology in combating terrorism, focusing on the 
National Academies' National Research Council's report, ``Making the 
Nation Safer: The Role of Science and Technology in Countering 
Terrorism'' in preparation for drafting legislation to set up a 
Department of Homeland Security, after receiving testimony from Lewis 
M. Branscomb, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government 
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, and Richard Klausner, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 
Seattle, Washington, both on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences 
Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism.