[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 97 (Wednesday, July 17, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D768-D769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service and the 
Plum Island Research Center, with respect to border security and 
scientific goals of the President's proposed Department of Homeland 
Security, after receiving testimony from Tom Ridge, Director, Homeland 
Security Transition Office, Office of Management and Budget; Ann M. 
Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture; and Alfonso Torres, Cornell 
University College of Veterinary Medicine/New York State Animal Health 
Diagnostic Laboratory, Ithaca, New York.
MASS TRANSIT PROGRAMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine 
public mass transit systems, focusing on the reauthorization of certain 
programs within the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA 
21), including the Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program after 
receiving testimony from John D. Porcari, Maryland Department of 
Transportation, BWI Airport; Gloria McKenzie, Capital District 
Transportation Authority, Albany, New York; Lavada E. DeSalles, 
Sacramento, California, on behalf of the American Association of 
Retired Persons; Andrew J. Imparato, American Association of People 
with Disabilities, Washington, D.C.; Jessie Tehranchi, Birmingham, 
Alabama, on behalf of the Transportation Equity Network; and Faye 
Thompson, Fort Gay, West Virginia, on behalf of the Wayne County 
Community Service Organization, Inc.
FTC REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Trade 
Commission, after receiving testimony from Timothy Muris, Chairman, and 
Sheila F. Anthony, Mozelle W. Thompson, Orson Swindle, and Thomas B. 
Leary, each a Commissioner, all of the Federal Trade Commission; 
Charlie Mendoza, Association of American Retired Persons, Lawrence 
Sarjeant, United States Telecom Association, H. Robert Wientzen, Direct 
Marketing Association, Ari Schwartz, Center for Democracy and 
Technology, and Lou Cannon,

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Fraternal Order of Police, all of Washington, D.C.; and Dennis H. 
Alldridge, Wisconsin Special Olympics, Madison.
FUEL TAX FRAUD
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine different 
strategies used to perpetuate schemes, scams, and cons regarding fuel 
tax fraud, and how this fraud affects the Highways, Airport, and Airway 
Trust Funds, receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, Administrator, 
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Joseph R. 
Brimacombe, Deputy Director of Compliance, Small Business and Self 
Employed Operating Division, Internal Revenue Service, Department of 
the Treasury; Ray Barnhart, Center for Balanced Public Policy, 
Washington, D.C., former Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, 
Department of Transportation; Wayne Rhoads, Mississippi Department of 
Transportation, Jackson; and David L. Skinner, Florida Department of 
Revenue, Tallahassee.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE REDUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued 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 Donald L. Rumsfeld, 
Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Richard B. Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs 
of Staff.
  Hearings will continue on Tuesday, July 23.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Mark W. Everson, of Texas, to be Deputy Director for 
Management, Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported 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.
SACRED SITES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee continued oversight hearings to 
examine the protection of Native American sacred sites as they are 
affected by the undertakings and activities of certain Federal 
agencies, focusing on land management activities of the Department of 
the Interior and the impact of those activities on the federal policy 
which supports the protection of Native American sacred places, 
receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; Christopher Kearney, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy and International 
Affairs, who was accompanied by several of his associates; Mike 
Jackson, Sr. and Lorey Cachora, both of the Quechan Indian Tribe, Yuma, 
Arizona; Malcolm B. Bowekaty, Pueblo of Zuni, Zuni, New Mexico; Suzan 
Shown Harjo, Morning Star Institute, Washington, D.C.; Vernon 
Masayesva, Black Mesa Trust, Kykotsmovi, Arizona; and Robert W. Trepp, 
Inter-Tribal Sacred Land Trust, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
VICTIMS' RIGHTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held 
hearings on S.J. Res. 35, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States to protect the rights of crime victims, receiving 
testimony from John Gillis, Director, Office for Victims of Crime, 
Department of Justice; Arwen Bird, Survivors Advocating For an 
Effective System, Portland, Oregon; Julie Goldscheid, Safe Horizon, and 
James Orenstein, Baker and Hostetler, former Assistant United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, both of New York, New 
York; Roger Pilon, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies, 
Washington, D.C.; and Roberta Roper, Stephanie Roper Committee and 
Foundation, Inc., Upper Marlboro, Maryland, and Steven J. Twist, 
Scottsdale, Arizona, both on behalf of the National Victims' 
Constitutional Amendment Network.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.