[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 18, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D947-D948]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on House 
and Transportation concluded hearings to examine transportation 
security one year after September 11, 2001, focusing on mass

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transit safety and security and passenger transportation security 
initiatives, after receiving testimony from Jennifer L. Dorn, 
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of 
Transportation; and Peter Guerrero, Director, Physical Infrastructure 
Issues, General Accounting Office.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the effectiveness and sustainability of U.S. technology 
transfer programs for energy efficiency, nuclear, fossil and renewable 
energy, and to identify necessary changes to those programs to support 
U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace, after receiving 
testimony from Carl Smith, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, 
Robert K. Dixon, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Power Technologies, 
George L. Person, Jr., International Relations Specialist, Office of 
American and African Affairs, William A. Trapmann, Economist (Lead), 
Natural Gas Division, and Jeffrey Logan, Senior Research Scientist, 
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, all of the Department of Energy; 
Sylvia V. Baca, British Petroleum America, Inc., Washington, D.C., 
former Assistant Secretary of the Interior; and Daniel N. Schochet, 
Ormat Technologies, Inc., Sparks, Nevada.
FIVE NATIONS CITIZENS LAND REFORM ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2880, 
to amend laws relating to the lands of the enrollees and lineal 
descendants of enrollees whose names appear on the final Indian rolls 
of the Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw 
Nations (historically referred to as the Five Civilized Tribes), after 
receiving testimony from Aurene M. Martin, Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Lindsay G. Robertson, Office 
of the Governor, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Chadwick Smith, Cherokee 
Nation, and Dallas Proctor, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians 
In Oklahoma, both of Tahlequah, Oklahoma; R. Perry Beaver, Muscogee 
(Creek) Nation, Okmulgee, Oklahoma; Gregory Pyle, Choctaw Nation of 
Oklahoma, Durant; and Dee Ketchum, Delaware Tribe of Indians, 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Michael W. McConnell, of Utah, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Kent A. Jordan, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Delaware, Alia M. Ludlum, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, 
William J. Martini, to be United States District Judge for the District 
of New Jersey, Thomas W. Phillips, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Jeffrey S. White, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in there own 
behalf. Mr. McConnell was introduced by Senators Hatch and Bennett, Mr. 
Jordan was introduced by Senators Biden and Carper, Ms. Ludlum was 
introduced by Senators Gramm and Hutchison, Mr. Martini was introduced 
by Senator Corzine, and Mr. Phillips was introduced by Senators Frist 
and Thompson.