[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 89 (Friday, June 28, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine how the proposed Department of Homeland Security should address 
the threat of weapons of mass destruction, launching, managing, and 
sustaining an ambitious science and technology research program for new 
countermeasures, and relevant science and technology, research and 
development, and public health issues, after receiving testimony from 
Janet Heinrich, Director, Health Care-Public Health Issues, General 
Accounting Office; William J. Madia, Director, Oak Ridge National 
Laboratory, Department of Energy; Lewis M. Branscomb, Harvard 
University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Research Council Committee on 
Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism; Margaret A. Hamburg, 
Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, D.C., former Assistant Secretary 
of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; and J. 
Leighton Read, Alloy Ventures, Palo Alto, California.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on S. 2246, to improve access to printed 
instructional materials used by blind or other persons with print 
disabilities in elementary and secondary schools, after receiving 
testimony from Patricia Schroeder, Association of American Publishers, 
Washington, D.C.; Marc Maurer, National Federation of the Blind, 
Baltimore, Maryland; Barbara N. McCarthy, Department for the Blind and 
Vision Impaired, Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of the Association of 
Instructional Resource Centers for the Visually Impaired; and Jesse 
Kirchner, Guilford, Connecticut.