[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 103 (Thursday, July 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D827-D829]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 2797) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003;
  An original bill (S. 2801) making appropriations for Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003;
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2003; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in 
part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2003.
STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE REDUCTION TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the 
national security implications of the Strategic Offensive Reductions 
Treaty, also known as the Moscow Treaty (Treaty Doc. 107-8), receiving

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testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. 
Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
  Hearings will resume on Thursday, August 1.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Paul S. Atkins, of Virginia, 
Harvey Jerome Goldschmid, of New York, Cynthia A. Glassman, of 
Virginia, and Roel C. Campos, of Texas, each to be a Member of the 
Securities and Exchange Commission.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine the Transportation Security Administration and 
aviation security transition, focusing on the deployment of baggage 
screening equipment, cockpit security, and air cargo security, 
receiving testimony from Senators Bob Smith and Murkowski; Norman Y. 
Mineta, Secretary of Transportation, who was accompanied by several of 
his associates; Gerald Dillingham, Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, General Accounting Office; Richard D. Stephens, Boeing Company, 
Seal Beach, California; Craig Coy, Massachusetts Port Authority, East 
Boston; Stephen Luckey, National Flight Security Committee, Washington, 
D.C.; and Ed Davidson, Northwest Airlines, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEMS RESTORATION PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2672, to provide opportunities for 
collaborative restoration projects on National Forest System and other 
public domain lands, after receiving testimony from Jim Hughes, Deputy 
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Thomas 
J. Mills, Deputy Chief, Business Operations, Forest Service, Department 
of Agriculture; Joyce Dearstyne, Framing Our Community, Elk City, 
Idaho; Maia Enzer, Sustainable Northwest, Portland, Oregon; and Steve 
Holmer, American Lands Alliance, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1602, to help protect the public against the threat of chemical 
attack, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1746, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy 
Reorganization Act of 1974 to strengthen security at sensitive nuclear 
facilities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1850, to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to bring underground 
storage tanks into compliance with subtitle I of that Act, to promote 
cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks, and to provide sufficient 
resources for such compliance and cleanup, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2771, to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize the 
Secretary of Transportation to carry out a project for construction of 
a plaza adjacent to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; 
and
  The nominations of John S. Bresland, of New Jersey, to be a Member, 
and Carolyn W. Merritt, of Illinois, to be Chairperson and Member, each 
of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, and John Peter 
Suarez, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Administrator for Enforcement 
and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  Agreement Establishing the South Pacific Regional Environment 
Programme, done at Apia on June 16, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 105-32), with one 
declaration;
  Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the 
Government of Niue on the Delimitation of a Maritime Boundary, signed 
in Wellington, May 13, 1997 (Treaty Doc. 105-53);
  S. Res. 300, encouraging the peace process in Sri Lanka, with an 
amendment; and
  The nominations of Randolph Bell, of Virginia, for the rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Envoy for Holocaust 
Issues, James Irvin Gadsden, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Iceland, James Franklin Jeffrey, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Michael Klosson, of Maryland, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, Norman J. Pattiz, of 
California, to be a Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Paul 
William Speltz, of Texas, to be United States Director of the Asian 
Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, Mark Sullivan, of 
Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development, and Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, of Virginia, 
to be a Member and Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
  Also, committee began consideration of the Convention on the 
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted by 
the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 1979, and signed on 
behalf of the United States of America

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on July 17, 1980 (Treaty Doc. 96-53), but did not complete action 
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, July 30.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved the motion to 
authorize the Chairman to withdraw the committee amendments to S. 2452, 
to establish the Department of National Homeland Security and the 
National Office for Combating Terrorism, as approved by the committee 
on May 22, 2002, when the committee ordered the bill favorably 
reported, and today, approved a floor amendment in the nature of a 
substitute to S. 2452 (pending on Senate calendar).
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE WORKPLACE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine violence against women in the workplace, 
focusing on coordinated community response partnerships with employers, 
to educate them about the dangers of domestic violence, sexual assault, 
and stalking, and assist them in establishing effective policies and 
programs; after receiving testimony from Diane Stuart, Director, 
Violence Against Women Office, Office of Justice Programs, Department 
of Justice; Kathy Evsich, Women Against Domestic Violence, Swannanoa, 
North Carolina; Sidney Harman, Harman International Industries, Inc., 
Washington, D.C.; and Kathy Rodgers, NOW-Legal Defense and Education 
Fund, New York, New York.
INDIAN MONEY ACCOUNTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the July 2, 2002 Report of the Department of the Interior to Congress 
on historical accounting of Individual Indian Money Accounts, after 
receiving testimony, after receiving testimony from McCoy Williams, 
Director, Financial Management and Assurance, General Accounting 
Office; James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary, Bert Edwards, 
Executive Director, Office of Historical Trust Accounting, and Tom 
Slonaker, Special Trustee for American Indians, all of the Department 
of the Interior; and William F. Causey, Nixon Peabody, LLP, Washington, 
D.C.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine Department of Justice issues, including its ability to mobilize 
law enforcement resources and the justice system in order to prevent 
future terrorist attacks on the United States and its citizens, the 
nation's murder and crime rate, counter-terrorism efforts and budget 
requests, background checks, visa requirements, and Civil Rights 
interests, receiving testimony from John D. Ashcroft, Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.