[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 111 (Thursday, September 5, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D898-D899]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OAK TREE MORTALITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization concluded hearings to 
examine the decline of oak tree populations in southern states caused 
by prolonged drought and red oak borer insect infestation, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Carnahan; Tom Thompson, Deputy Chief, 
National Forest System, and Charles Richmond, Forest Supervisor, Ozark-
St. Francis National Forest, both of the Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; John T. Shannon, Arkansas Forestry Commission, Little 
Rock, and Robert L. Krepps, Missouri Department of Conservation, 
Jefferson City, both of the National Association of State Foresters; 
Scott Simon, Nature Conservancy, Little Rock, Arkansas; James R. 
Crouch, Russellville, Arkansas, on behalf of the Ouachita Timber 
Purchasers Group, Ozark St. Francis Renewable Resource Council, Mark 
Twain Timber Purchasers Group, and the American Forest and Paper 
Association.
COLLEGIATE FINANCIAL LITERACY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine consumer debt among college students and the lack 
of financial literacy/education programs for America's youth, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Slaughter; Jonathan Miller, 
Kentucky Office of State Treasurer, Frankfort; Robert D. Manning, 
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; Ellen 
Frishberg, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Natala K. 
Hart, Ohio State University, Columbus; and Michael E. Staten, 
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of David McQueen Laney, of Texas, to be a 
Member of the Reform Board (Amtrak), and Roger P. Nober, of Maryland, 
to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board, Department of 
Transportation, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Laney was introduced by Senator Hutchison, and 
Mr. Nober was introduced by

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Senators Baucus and Warner, and Representative Petri.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 2328, to amend the Public Health Service Act and the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ensure a safe pregnancy for all women in the 
United States, to reduce the rate of maternal morbidity and mortality, 
to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes, 
to reduce pre-term, labor, to examine the impact of pregnancy on the 
short and long term health of women, to expand knowledge about the 
safety and dosing of drugs to treat pregnant women with chronic 
conditions and women who become sick during pregnancy, to expand public 
health prevention, education and outreach, and to develop improved and 
more accurate data collection related to maternal morbidity and 
mortality, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2817, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2003, 2004, 
2005, 2006, and 2007 for the National Science Foundation, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2127, for the relief of the Pottawatomi Nation in Canada for 
settlement of certain claims against the United States;
  H.R. 809, to make technical corrections to various antitrust laws and 
to references to such laws, with an amendment;
  H.R. 3838, to amend the charter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of 
the United States organization to make members of the armed forces who 
receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger 
eligible for membership in the organization;
  S. 1972, to amend the charter of the AMVETS organization;
  H.R. 3214, to amend the charter of the AMVETS organization;
  S. Res. 316, designating the year beginning February 1, 2003, as the 
``Year of the Blues'';
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1615, to provide for the sharing of certain foreign intelligence 
information with local law enforcement personnel, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Reena Raggi, of New York, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, James Knoll Gardner, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and 
Denny Wade King, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of 
Tennessee.
  Also, committee failed to approve the reporting of the nomination of 
Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States Circuit Judge for 
the Fifth Circuit.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.