[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 120 (Friday, September 20, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D964]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RETIREMENT PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENTS; NATION'S 
CAPITAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on the District of 
Columbia approved for full Committee action H.R. 5205, to amend the 
District of Columbia Retirement Protection Act of 1997 to permit the 
Secretary of the Treasury to use estimated amounts in determining the 
service longevity component of the Federal benefit payment required to 
be paid under such Act to certain retirees of the Metropolitan Police 
Department of the District of Columbia.
  The Subcommittee also held a hearing on Emergency Preparedness in the 
Nation's Capital. Testimony was heard from John E. D'Araujo, Jr., 
Assistant Director, Response and Recovery Directorate, FEMA; Scott 
Hatch, Director, Communications, OPM; John V. Cogbill III, Chairman, 
National Capital Planning Commission; Terrance W. Gainer, Chief, U.S. 
Capitol Police; the following officials of the District of Columbia: 
Peter G. Laporte, Director, Emergency Management Agency; and Richard A. 
White, CEO, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; Donald L. 
Keldsen, Acting Director, Emergency Management Agency, State of 
Maryland; George Foresman, Deputy Assistant to the Governor, 
Commonwealth Preparedness, State of Virginia; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
9/11 INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Intelligence continued joint 
hearings with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to 
examine activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection 
with the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, 
after receiving testimony from Eleanor Hill, Staff Director, Joint 
Inquiry Staff; Michael Rolince, Special Agent in Charge, Washington 
Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
Chris Kojm, Deputy for Intelligence Policy and Coordination, Bureau of 
Intelligence and Research, Department of State; and members of the 
intelligence community.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.