[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 91 (Tuesday, July 9, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D720-D721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
2506, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for intelligence 
and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, 
the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System, with an amendment.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on sections 2015, 2016, 2017(a) and (b), 2018 and 2019 of S. 2225, the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, after 
receiving testimony from Adm. William J. Fallon, USN, Vice-Chief of 
Naval Operations; Gen. Robert H. Foglesong, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, 
United States Air Force; Gen. John M. Keane, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, 
United States Army; Gen. Michael J. Williams, USMC, Assistant 
Commandant, United States Marine Corps; William Hurd, Virginia Office 
of the Attorney General, Richmond; Daniel S. Miller, Colorado 
Department of Law, Denver; Stanley Phillippe, California Department of 
Toxic Substances Control, Sacramento, behalf of the Association of 
State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials; Jamie Rappaport 
Clark, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., former Director, 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; and Bonner 
Cohen, Lexington Institute, Arlington, Virginia; David Henkin, 
Earthjustice, Honolulu, Hawaii.
TREATY ON STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE REDUCTIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the Treaty 
between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on 
Strategic Offensive Reductions, signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002 
(Treaty Doc. 107-8), receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, 
Secretary of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John William Blaney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Liberia, Aurelia E. Brazeal, of Georgia, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Martin 
George Brennan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Zambia, J. Anthony Holmes, of California, to be Ambassador to Burkina 
Faso, Vicki Huddleston, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Mali, Donald C. Johnson, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Cape Verde, Jimmy Kolker, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Uganda, Gail Dennise Thomas Mathieu, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Niger, and James Howard Yellin, of Pennsylvania, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.

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NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard H. Carmona, of Arizona, 
to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health 
Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators McCain and Kyl, testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
EXCELLENCE IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine recommendations of the President's 
Commission on Excellence in Special Education regarding the Individuals 
with Disabilities Act of 1997 (IDEA), after receiving testimony from 
Terry E. Branstad, Chairman, Douglas H. Gill, Chairman, Finance Task 
Force, and Douglas C. Huntt, Chairman, Transition Task Force, all of 
the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education.
IDENTITY THEFT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information held hearings on S. 2541, to amend title 18, 
United States Code, to establish penalties for aggravated identity 
theft, receiving testimony from Daniel P. Collins, Associate Deputy 
Attorney General and Chief Privacy Officer, and Dennis M. Lormel, 
Chief, Terrorist Financial Review Group, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Howard Beales, 
Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
COUNTERFEIT MEDICINE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
public health concerns of counterfeit medicine, focusing on the 
purchasing of pharmaceuticals, both brand name and generic, from 
outside the nation's borders and without the series of checks in place 
for drugs sold domestically, after receiving testimony from William K. 
Hubbard, Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning, and 
Legislation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services; Elizabeth G. Durant, Executive Director of Trade 
Programs, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; John 
Theriault, Pfizer, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Rick C. Roberts, San 
Francisco, California.