[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 106 (Tuesday, July 30, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D852-D854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION AND SMUGGLING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded hearings to examine the report of the General 
Accounting Office on nuclear proliferation and efforts to help other 
countries combat nuclear smuggling, after receiving testimony from Gary 
L. Jones, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, General 
Accounting Office; John M. Caravelli, Assistant Deputy Administrator 
for International Materials Protection and Emergency Cooperation, 
National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; Lisa 
Bronson, Deputy Under Secretary for Technology Security Policy and 
Counter-Proliferation, and Director, Defense Technology Security 
Administration, Department of Defense; Norman A. Wulf, Special 
Representative to the President for Nonproliferation, Department of 
State; and Jayson P. Ahern, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field 
Operations, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, and 
Donald L. Kohn, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY FINANCIAL TROUBLE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine recent financial troubles in the telecommunications 
marketplace, including the events that led up to WorldCom's recent 
filing under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, and focusing on 
maintaining the operations of essential communications facilities, 
receiving testimony from Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal 
Communications Commission; John W. Sidgmore, WorldCom, Inc., Ashburn, 
Virginia; John Legere, Global Crossing, Madison, New Jersey; and Afshin 
Mohebbi, Qwest Communications International, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR RIGHTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings to 
examine improvement in consumer choice with regard to automobile repair 
shops, and related provisions of S. 2617, to protect the rights of 
American consumers to diagnose, service, and repair motor vehicles 
purchased in the United States, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Wellstone; Bill Haas, Automotive Service Association, Bedford, Texas; 
John M. Cabaniss, Jr., Association of International Automobile 
Manufacturers, Arlington, Virginia; Dale Feste, Dale Feste Automotive, 
Hopkins, Minnesota; Gregory Dana, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturer, 
and John Nielsen, Automotive Services and Repair Network, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and John Vallely, McLean Marathon Service, Elgin, 
Illinois.
PUBLIC LANDS AND FORESTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded hearings on S. 2016, to authorize the exchange of 
lands between an Alaska Native Village Corporation and the Department 
of the Interior, S. 2565, to enhance ecosystem protection and the range 
of outdoor opportunities protected by statute in the Skykomish River 
Valley of the State of Washington by designating certain lower-
elevation Federal lands as wilderness, S. 2587, to establish the Joint 
Federal and State Navigable Waters Commission for Alaska, S. 2612, to 
establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, 
and provide for high quality development in Clark County, Nevada, S. 
2652, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange 
certain land in the State of Florida, and S. Con. Res. 107, expressing 
the sense of Congress that Federal land management agencies should 
fully support the Western Governors Association ``Collaborative 10-year 
Strategy for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the 
Environment'', as signed August 2001, to reduce the overabundance of 
forest fuels that place national resources at high risk of catastrophic 
wildfire, and prepare a National prescribed Fire Strategy that 
minimizes risks of escape, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Reid, Murray, and Ensign; Robert Abbey, Acting Assistant Director for 
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Bureau of Land Management, and Drue Pearce, Senior Advisor to the 
Secretary of the Interior for Alaska Affairs, both of the Department of 
the Interior; Abigail Kimbell, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 
System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Kem Hunter, 
Index, Washington; Clint Bentley, Nevada Land Users Coalition, and John 
Wallin, Nevada Wilderness Project, on behalf of the Nevada Wilderness 
Coalition, both of Las Vegas.
TRANSPORTATION AND AIR QUALITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on 
the reauthorization and implementation of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century (Public Law 105-178), focusing on Transportation 
and Air Quality issues, including the effectiveness of the current 
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) program, conformity, and 
the role of new technologies, receiving testimony from Mary E. Peters, 
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Jeffrey Holmstead, Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Scott Johnstone, 
Vermont Agency of Natural Resources, Waterbury; Lynn M. Terry, 
California Environmental Protection Agency, Sacramento; James E. 
Stephenson, Yancey Brothers Company, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the 
American Road and Transportation Builders Association; Judge Ron 
Harris, Collin County Commissioners' Court, McKinney, Texas, on behalf 
of the North Central Texas Council of Governments Metropolitan Planning 
Organization; and Michael Replogle, Environmental Defense, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the Surface Transportation Policy Project.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
EXTRATERRITORIAL INCOME EXCLUSION ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of 
the proposed repeal of the Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act (P.L. 
106-519) on the international competitiveness of U.S. companies, 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative; 
Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Pierre A. Chao, 
Credit Suisse First Boston, New York, New York; F. Lynn McPheeters, 
Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Illinois; Daniel Kostenbauder, Hewlett-
Packard Company, Palo Alto, California, on behalf of the AeA; Dwight 
Messinger, Power Curbers, Inc., Salisbury, North Carolina, on behalf of 
the National Association of Manufacturers; David Bullington, Wal-Mart 
Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas, on behalf of the International 
Mass Retail Association; and James H. Zrust, Boeing Company, Chicago, 
Illinois.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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 on July 17, 
1980 (Treaty Doc. 96-53), with four reservations, five understandings, 
and two declarations;
  Protocol Concerning Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife to the 
Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment 
of the Wider Caribbean Region, done at Kingston on January 18, 1990, 
with accompanying papers (Treaty Doc. 103-5), with three reservations, 
one understanding, and one declaration;
  Protocol to Amend the 1949 Convention on the Establishment of an 
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, done at Guayaquil, June 11, 
1999, and signed by the United States, subject to ratification, in 
Guayaquil, Ecuador, on the same date (Treaty Doc. 107-2);
  S. 1777, to authorize assistance for individuals with disabilities in 
foreign countries, including victims of landmines and other victims of 
civil strife and warfare, with amendments; and
  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, Kristie Anne Kenney, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Ecuador, 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, Barbara Calandra Moore, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Larry Leon 
Palmer, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, and 
James Howard Yellin, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Burundi.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Nancy J. Powell, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the 
Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and Richard L. Baltimore III, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman,

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after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
ENRON COLLAPSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations resumed hearings to examine the role of financial 
institutions in the collapse of Enron Corporation, focusing on Merrill 
Lynch's knowledge and involvement and Department of Justice's 
investigation, receiving testimony from G. Kelly Martin, New York, New 
York, and Schuyler Tilney, Houston, Texas, both of Merrill Lynch and 
Company; and Robert Furst, Dallas, Texas.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
TRIBAL TRUST FUND REFORM TASK FORCE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
examine recommendations of the Department of the Interior/Tribal Trust 
Reform Task Force as they relate to the reorganization of the 
Department to improve the management of funds held in trust by the 
United States for the benefit of Indian tribes and individual Indians, 
receiving testimony from J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary, and Neal 
A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, both of the 
Department of the Interior; Tex G. Hall, Three Affiliated Tribes of the 
Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; and Susan Masten, 
Yurok Tribe of Indians of California, Eureka.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
INDIAN TRUST ASSET AND TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S.2212, to 
establish a direct line of authority for the Office of Trust Reform 
Implementations and Oversight to oversee the management and reform of 
Indian trust funds and assets under the jurisdiction of the Department 
of the Interior, and to advance tribal management of such funds and 
assets, pursuant to the Indian Self-Determinations Act, receiving 
testimony from Neal McCaleb, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Indian Affairs; Geraldine Small, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Lame Deer, 
Montana; Michael Jandreau, on behalf of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, 
and Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association, Lower Brule, South 
Dakota; Edward D. Manuel, Tohono O'odham Nation, Sells, Arizona; and 
James T. Martin, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, 
Tennessee.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs held 
hearings to examine criminal and civil enforcement of federal 
environmental laws, focusing on partnership initiatives of U.S. 
Attorney's Offices, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other federal 
state and local agencies, and compliance programs, receiving testimony 
from Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Environment 
Division, Department of Justice; Timothy M. Burgess, United States 
Attorney for the District of Alaska; Leo D'Amico, Director, Office of 
Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, Office of Enforcement and 
Compliance Assistance, Environmental Protection Agency; Eric V. 
Schaeffer, Environmental Integrity Project, former Director of the 
Office of Regulatory Enforcement, Michael J. Penders, Environmental 
Protection International, former Director of Legal Counsel, Office of 
Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training, both of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, and Judson W. Starr, Venable LLP, former Chief, 
Environmental Crimes Section, Department of Justice, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Ronald A. Sarachan, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews, and Ingersoll, LLP, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, former Chief, Environmental Crimes Section, 
Department of Justice; and Nicholas A. DiPasquale, Delaware Department 
of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Dover.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.