[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 17, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D939-D940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
2002 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearing to examine the implementation of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act (P.L. 107-171), after receiving testimony from Ann M. 
Veneman, Secretary of Agriculture, who was accompanied by several of 
her associates.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 4,409 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings to 
examine the situation in Iraq, after receiving testimony from George J. 
Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and Rear Adm. Lowell E. 
Jacoby, USN, Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department 
of Defense.
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine corporate responsibility, financial disclosure, and 
oversight at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), including the TVA's 
implementation of related provisions of H.R. 3763, to protect investors 
by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made 
pursuant to the securities laws (P.L. 107-204), after receiving 
testimony from Skila Harris, Director, Tennessee Valley Authority; Alan 
L. Beller, Director, Division of Corporate Finance, Securities and 
Exchange Commission; Craven Crowell, GCW Consulting, Arlington, 
Virginia, former Chairman, Tennessee Valley Authority; Allan G. 
Pulsipher, Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies, Baton 
Rouge, former Chief Economist, Tennessee Valley Authority; and Daniel 
T. Gates, Moody's Investors Service, Washington, D.C.
AVIATION CARGO SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
closed hearings to examine aviation cargo security, after receiving 
testimony from Adm. James M. Loy, USCG (Ret.), Acting Under Secretary 
of Transportation for Security; and Alexis M. Stefani, Assistant 
Inspector General for Auditing, Office of Inspector General, Department 
of Transportation.
NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine 
nanotechnology research and development issues, including the status of 
the National Nanotechnology Initiative, after receiving testimony from 
Richard M. Russell, Associate Director for Technology, Office of 
Science and Technology Policy; F. Mark Modzelewski, NanoBusiness 
Alliance, New York, New York; Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University, 
Institute for Bioengineering and Nanoscience in Advanced Medicine, 
Evanston, Illinois, on behalf of National Research Council Committee 
for the Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative; R. Stanley 
Williams, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California; and 
Nathan Swami, Initiative for Nanotechnology in Virginia/University of 
Virginia Microelectronics Program, Charlottesville.
FERC NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight 
hearings to examine the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Standard 
Market Design Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), and on such related 
issues as the capacity of load serving entities to reserve sufficient 
transmission to meet their contractual and statutory obligations to 
serve, transmission pricing and other matters dealt within the NOPR, 
receiving testimony from Patrick Wood III, Chairman, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; Kentucky Governor Paul E. 
Patton, Lexington; Marilyn Showalter, Washington Utilities and 
Transportation Commission, Olympia; Sandra L. Hochstetter, Arkansas 
Public Service Commission, Little Rock; Terry S. Harvill, Illinois 
Commerce Commission, Chicago; Sonny Popowsky, Pennsylvania Office of 
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Advocate, Harrisburg; Jeffry E. Sterba, PNM Resources, Inc., 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute; 
Roy Thilly, Wisconsin Public Power, Sun Prairie, on behalf of the 
Transmission Access Policy Study Group; John Tiencken, Jr., South 
Carolina Public Service Authority, Columbia, on behalf of the Large 
Public Power Council; and Elizabeth A. Moler, Exelon Corporation, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Electric Power Supply Association.
  Hearings subject to the call.
CHILDHOOD VACCINE SUPPLIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the adequacy of childhood 
vaccine supplies, focusing on the extent that recent shortages have 
affected immunization policy and programs, what factors have 
contributed to recent shortages, and what strategies are federal 
agencies considering to help mitigate the disruptions in supply, after 
receiving testimony from Janet Heinrich, Director, Health Care-Public 
Health Issues, General Accounting Office; Tim Doran, Greater Baltimore 
Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the American Academy 
of Pediatrics; and Wayne Pisano, Aventis Pasteur North America, 
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania.
TRIBAL RECOGNITION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1392, 
to establish procedures for the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the 
Department of the Interior with respect to tribal recognition, and S. 
1393, to provide grants to ensure full and fair participation in 
certain decision making processes at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Dodd and Lieberman; Aurene M. 
Martin, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; 
Barry T. Hill, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, General 
Accounting Office; Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, 
Hartford; Nicholas H. Mullane II, Town of North Stonington, and Marcia 
Flowers, Eastern Pequot Indians of Connecticut, both of North 
Stonington; and Cecile Maxwell-Hansen, Duwamish Tribe, Burien, 
Washington.
ANDEAN REGION
Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus concluded 
hearings to examine U.S. policy in the Andean region, focusing on the 
drug trade and its impact on democracy in Colombia and the Andean 
region, after receiving testimony from Asa Hutchinson, Administrator, 
Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Richard 
Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State; and Brig. Gen. Galen B. Jackman, 
USA, Director of Operations, U.S. Southern Command.