[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 87 (Wednesday, June 26, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D686-D687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing 
and Transportation concluded hearings to examine the Transportation Equity 
Act for the 21st Century, focusing on funding issues and investing in 
economic development and the environment, after receiving testimony from 
Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, San Jose, California; 
Herschel Abbot, BellSouth, Hank Dittmar, Great American Station Foundation, 
on behalf of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and Michael A. 
Replogle, Environmental Defense, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert 
Broadbent, Las Vegas Monorail Company, Las Vegas, Nevada.
ENFORCING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer 
Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings to examine issues 
and perspectives in enforcing corporate governance in order to assure 
individual investors that their interests are protected and that the 
information received is truthful as a part of an overall investment banking 
reform, focusing on the experience of the State of New York, after receiving 
testimony from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 4737, to 
reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary 
assistance for needy families, and improve access to quality child care, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
current situation in Afghanistan, focusing on conducting the war on 
terrorism, fostering internal governance, and providing humanitarian and 
development assistance, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Armitage, 
Deputy Secretary of State; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; 
Brig. Gen. David L. Grange, USA (Ret.), Chicago, Illinois; and Peter Tomsen, 
Ambassador in Residence, University of Nebraska, Omaha, former Ambassador to 
Armenia, and former Special Envoy to Afghanistan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Mark Sullivan, of Maryland, to be United States Director of 
the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and Paul William 
Speltz, of Texas, to be United States Director of the Asian Development 
Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominees, testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the 
relationship between a future Department of Homeland Security and the 
current federal, state, and local intelligence communities, receiving 
testimony from William B. Berger, North Miami Beach Police Department, 
Miami, Florida, on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of 
Police; Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of 
Government Preventive Defense Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts, former 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Lt. Gen. 
Patrick M. Hughes, USA (Ret.), former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; 
Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), former Director, National Security 
Agency; and Jeffrey H. Smith, Arnold and Porter, Washington, D.C., former 
General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of James E. Boasberg, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee met and began 
consideration of S. 710, to require coverage for colorectal cancer 
screenings, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to 
call.
TRIBAL TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the status 
of the dialogue between the U.S. Department of the Interior and American 
Indian and Alaska Native leaders on various alternatives for the 
reorganization of the Department of the Interior to improve the management 
of tribal trust funds, receiving testimony from J. Steven Griles, Deputy 
Secretary, and Neal A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, both 
of the Department of the Interior; and Tex G. Hall, Three Affiliated Tribes 
of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota, and Susan Masten, 
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Tribe of Indians of California, Eureka, both on behalf of the Tribal Leader/
Department of the Interior Trust Reform Task Force.
  Hearings will continue on Tuesday, July 30.
HOMELAND SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
President's proposal for reorganizing our homeland defense infrastructure 
and establishing a Department of Homeland Security, receiving testimony from 
Tom Ridge, Director of the Transition Planning Office for the Department of 
Homeland Security.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION REFORM AND HOMELAND DEFENSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings to 
examine immigration reform and the reorganization of homeland defense, 
focusing on the inclusion of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 
the new Department of Homeland Security, and the impact this would have on 
immigration law and policy, and the adjudication of immigration services and 
benefits, receiving testimony from Kathleen Campbell Walker, El Paso, Texas, 
on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; Bill Ong Hing, 
University of California School of Law, Davis, on behalf of the National 
Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; David A. Martin, University of 
Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, former General Counsel, Immigration 
and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; and Judge Dana Marks 
Keener, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the National Association of 
Immigration Judges.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and recessed 
subject to call.
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