[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 117 (Tuesday, September 17, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D941-D943]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT--TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND CAPACITY 
BUILDING PROGRAMS
Committee on Financial Services: Subcommittee on Housing and Community 
Opportunity held a hearing on technical assistance and capacity 
building

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programs to promote housing and economic development. Testimony was 
heard from Representative Jones of Ohio; Thomas McCool, Managing 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, GAO; and public 
witnesses.
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND STATISTICAL EFFICIENCY ACT; 
HUMAN RIGHTS INFORMATION ACT
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, 
Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations approved for full 
Committee action, as amended, the following bills: H.R. 5215, 
Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act of 
2002; and H.R. 1152, Human Rights Information Act.
  Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 5215. 
Testimony was heard from Representative Sawyer; Randall S. Kroszner, 
member, Council of Economic Advisers; Kathleen B. Cooper, Under 
Secretary, Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce; Kathleen P. 
Utgoff, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; 
and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--SUPREME COURT'S SCHOOL CHOICE DECISION--CONGRESS' AUTHORITY 
TO ENACT CHOICE PROGRAMS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held an 
oversight hearing on the Supreme Court's School Choice Decision and 
Congress' Authority to Enact Choice Programs.
  Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing on Upcoming Issues at the 
Twelfth Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP12) to the 
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna 
and Flora (CITES). Testimony was heard from Craig Manson, Assistant 
Secretary, Fish and Wildlife Parks, Department of the Interior; and 
William T. Hogarth, Assistant Administrator, Fisheries, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, NOAA, Department of Commerce.
CONSUMER RENTAL PURCHASE AGREEMENT ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule on H.R. 
1701, Consumer Rental Purchase Agreement Act providing one hour of 
general debate, with 50 minutes equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Financial 
Services and 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule 
provides that the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended 
by the Committee on Financial Services, as amended by the amendment 
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary, now printed in the bill 
shall be considered as an original bill for the purpose of amendment 
and shall be considered as read. The rule makes in order only those 
amendments printed in the Rules Committee report accompanying the 
resolution. The rule provides that the amendments printed in the report 
shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be 
offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 
as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall 
not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
The rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed in 
the report. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or 
without instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives Bachus, 
Jones, and Waters.
SENSE OF HOUSE RESOLUTIONS--COMPLETE ACTION ON PERMANENT DEATH TAX 
REPEAL ACT AND COMPLETE ACTION ON PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, WORK, AND 
FAMILY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule providing 
that H. Res. 524, expressing the sense of the House that Congress 
should compete action on the Permanent Death Tax Repeal of 2002, shall 
be debatable in the House for one hour equally divided and controlled 
by the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Ways 
and Means and that the resolution shall be considered as read for 
amendment. The rule provides that H. Res. 525, expressing the Sense of 
the House that Congress should complete action on the Personal 
Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act of 2002, shall be 
debatable in the House for one hour equally divided among and 
controlled by the Chairmen and ranking minority members of the 
Committee on Ways and Means and Education and the Workforce and that 
the resolution. shall be considered as read for amendment. Testimony 
was heard from Representative Dunn.

Joint Meetings
9/11 INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held joint 
closed hearings with the House

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Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to examine events 
surrounding September 11, 2001.
  Joint hearings will continue tomorrow.