[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 110 (Wednesday, September 4, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D889-D890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John R. Dawson, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, Antonio O. Garza, Jr., of Texas, to 
be Ambassador to Mexico, and Linda Ellen Watt, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Dawson was introduced by 
former Senator Dole, and Mr. Garza was introduced by Senator Hutchison.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 2758, entitled ``The Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Amendments Act'', with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
CLEAN AIR STANDARDS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: On Tuesday, 
September 3, Subcommittee on Public Health held hearings on proposed 
improvements to the New Source Review (NSR) program under the

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Clean Air Act, which would change the requirements of companies to 
install state-of-the-art pollution control equipment, and related 
provisions of S. 556, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions 
from electric powerplants, and S. 2815, to amend the Clean Air Act to 
reduce air pollution through expansion of cap and trade programs, and 
to provide an alternative regulatory classification for units subject 
to the cap and trade programs, receiving testimony from Jeffrey 
Holmstead, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Kenneth Olden, Director, National 
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Carol M. Browner, 
Albright Group, Washington, D.C., former Administrator, Environmental 
Protection Agency; George D. Thurston, New York University School of 
Medicine/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, New York, 
New York; and Clay Ballantine, Asheville, North Carolina.
AMBER ALERT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine S. 2896, to 
enhance the operation of the AMBER Alert communications network in 
order to facilitate the recovery of abducted children, to provide for 
enhanced notification on highways of alerts and information on such 
children, after receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison; Joseph 
Farrow, California Highway Patrol, Sacramento; Robbie Callaway, 
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, 
Washington, D.C.; Sharon Timmons, Riverside, California; and Marc 
Klaas, Sausalito, California.
AGEISM IN MEDIA
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
images of aging and ageism in the media, advertising, entertainment, 
and marketing and its impact on the self-esteem of older adults, after 
receiving testimony from Robert N. Butler, Mount Sinai School of 
Medicine, International Longevity Center--USA, New York, New York; 
Robert Snyder, Mature Market Group, Dallas, Texas; Paul Kleyman, Aging 
Today, San Francisco, California; Becca R. Levy, Yale University 
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut; 
and Doris Roberts, Los Angeles, California.