[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 102 (Wednesday, July 24, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D815-D817]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING--ENERGY AND WATER APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 2784) making appropriations for energy and water 
development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003.
BUSINESS MEETING--TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation approved 
for full committee consideration an original bill making appropriations 
for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2003.
HUD MANAGEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation held oversight hearings to examine 
management challenges of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development (HUD), focusing on staffing, acquisition management, 
information systems, assessing HUD's management environment, and 
formulating viable strategies and plans to address the major management 
challenges, receiving testimony from Alphonso Jackson, Chief Operating 
Officer/Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Stanley J. 
Czerwinski, Director, Physical Infrastructure, General Accounting 
Office; and Carolyn Federoff, American Federation of Government 
Employees Council of HUD Locals, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine barriers 
to the involvement and advancement of women in math, science and 
technology, including under representation of women at the college 
level and above, and what can be done to lower these barriers and 
encourage more girls and women in the area science, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Boxer; Kristina M. Johnson, Duke University 
Pratt School of Engineering, Durham, North Carolina; Kay Koplovitz, 
Koplovitz and Company, New York, New York; Nancy Stueber, Oregon Museum 
of Science and Industry, Portland; and Ana Maria Boitel, Women in 
Technology, Alexandria, Virginia.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine issues surrounding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
focusing on electric and natural gas infrastructure generation and 
transmission and the demand the power in the future, after receiving 
testimony from Pat Wood III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Department of Energy; Stephen Ward, Maine Public Advocate, 
Augusta, on behalf of the National Association of State Utility 
Consumer Advocates; M. Carol Coale, Prudential Financial, Houston, 
Texas; Lawrence J. Makovich, Cambridge Energy Research

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Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Pete Landrieu, Public Service 
Enterprise Group, Newark, New Jersey; and David R. Nevius, North 
American Electric Reliability Council, Princeton, New Jersey.
ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded joint 
hearings with the Committee on Foreign Relations to examine 
implementation of certain environmental treaties to which the United 
States is a party, and the United States' international environmental 
agreements and commitments, after receiving testimony from John F. 
Turner, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International 
Environmental and Scientific Affairs; James L. Connaughton, Chairman, 
White House Council on Environmental Quality; Maurice F. Strong, Earth 
Council Institute Canada, Toronto, Ontario; John C. Dernbach, Widener 
University Law School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Christopher C. 
Horner, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Kristie Anne Kenney, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Ecuador, Larry Leon Palmer, of Georgia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and Barbara Calandra Moore, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, all of the 
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nominations of James E. Boasberg, to be an Associate Judge of the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Michael D. Brown, of 
Colorado, to be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, and Mark W. Everson, of Texas, to be Deputy Director for 
Management, Office of Management and Budget.
  Also, Committee met and reconsidered their action of May 22, 2002, 
when the committee ordered favorably reported, with amendments, S. 
2452, to establish the Department of National Homeland Security and the 
National Office for Combating Terrorism (pending on Senate calendar), 
but did not take any final action thereon, and will meet again 
tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee met and 
discussed certain committee matters, but did not take any action 
thereon, and recessed subject to the call.
NATIVE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL DRIVING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1344, 
to provide training and technical assistance to Native Americans who 
are interested in commercial vehicle driving careers, after receiving 
testimony from James E. Shanley, Fort Peck Community College, Poplar, 
Montana, on behalf of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium; 
David Fluke, Fed Ex Freight West, Citris Heights, California, on behalf 
of the American Trucking Associations, Inc.; and Andra Rush, Rush 
Trucking, Wayne, Michigan.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs resumed 
hearings to examine whether the use of criminal sanctions will help 
deter corporate wrong doing and ensure responsibility, receiving 
testimony from G. William Miller, G. William Miller and Company, former 
Secretary of the Treasury and former Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, 
Roderick M. Hills, Hills Enterprises, former Chairman, Securities and 
Exchange Commission, and James R. Doty, Baker Botts, former General 
Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 2335, to establish the Office of Native American Affairs within 
the Small Business Administration, and to create the Native American 
Small Business Development Program, with an amendment;
  S. 2483, to amend the Small Business Act to direct the Administrator 
of the Small Business Administration to establish a pilot program to 
provide regulatory compliance assistance to small business concerns;
  S. 2466, to modify the contract consolidation requirements in the 
Small Business Act;
  S. 2734, to provide emergency assistance to non-farm small business 
concerns that have suffered substantial economic harm from the 
devastating effects of drought, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1994, to establish a priority preference among certain small 
business concerns for purposes of Federal contracts, with an amendment;
  S. 2753, to provide for a Small and Disadvantaged Business Ombudsman 
for Procurement in the Small Business Administration, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and

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  H.R. 2666, to amend the Small Business Act to direct the 
Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish a 
vocational and technical entrepreneurship development program.
VA MENTAL HEALTH CARE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
Veterans Administration mental health care issues, including clinical 
care services, special emphasis programs, Mental Health Intensive Case 
Management program, homeless veterans, post-traumatic stress disorder, 
and substance abuse, after receiving testimony from Robert H. Roswell, 
Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health; Miklos Losonczy, Robert 
Wood Johnson School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry/New Jersey 
Health Care System, Piscataway, on behalf of the Committee on Care of 
Veterans with Serious Mental Illness; Ralph Ibson, National Mental 
Health Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Renato D. Alarcon, Emory 
University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Atlanta, 
Georgia, on behalf of the American Psychiatric Association; Colleen 
Evans, VA Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 
behalf of the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO; and 
Frederick Frese, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, 
Akron, and Moe Armstrong, Vinfen Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
both on behalf of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.