[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 122 (Tuesday, September 24, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D976-D977]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
9/11 RESPONSE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the Federal government's role and response to September 11 
recovery efforts and steps the Environmental Protection Agency is 
taking to better prepare for and respond to any tragic events that may 
occur, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman, 
Administrator, Marianne Horinko, Assistant Administrator, Office of 
Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and Jane Kenny, Regional 
Administrator, Region 2, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; 
Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Kerry 
Kelly, New York City Fire Department, Madelyn Wils, Community Board #1, 
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and Daniel L. Greenberg, Legal 
Aid Society, all of New York, New York; and Jack Reall, Ohio Task Force 
1 Urban Search and Rescue Team, Sunbury.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on Iraq from George J. Tenet, Director, Central 
Intelligence Agency; Carl W. Ford, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State 
for Intelligence and Research; Rear Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, Acting 
Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense; and Rhys 
Williams, Director, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Division, Office of 
Intelligence, Department of Energy.
WEST NILE VIRUS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions to examine the emerging threat of the West Nile Virus, 
focusing on the adequacy of federal and state response to increasing 
disease incidence, and future challenges to respond to health threats 
posed by naturally occurring infectious diseases, also considering the 
safety of the nation's blood supply, and efforts to accelerate the 
development of a West Nile virus vaccine, after receiving testimony 
from Jesse Goodman, Deputy Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation 
and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, 
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 
Institutes of Health, and Julie L. Gerberding, Director, Centers for 
Disease Control

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and Prevention, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Fay 
W. Boozman, Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock; John R. 
Lumpkin, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield; Sidney A. 
Houff, Loyola University Medical Center, Neuroscience and Aging 
Institute, Maywood, Illinois; and Nickie Monica, St. John the Baptist 
Parish, LaPlace, Louisiana.
SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the role of the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians 
with respect to American Indian Trust Fund Management Program reform, 
after receiving testimony from James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary 
of the Interior; and Paul M. Homan, Washington, D.C., and Thomas N. 
Slonaker, Potomac, Maryland, both former Special Trustees for American 
Indians, Department of the Interior.
DC JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Court concluded hearings to examine the U.S. Court of Appeals 
of the District of Columbia, focusing on issues of ideological balance 
and judicial nominations and confirmations, after receiving testimony 
from Abner J. Mikva, University of Chicago Law School, Illinois; Fred 
F. Fielding, Wiley, Rein, and Fielding, Bradford R. Clark, George 
Washington University Law School, and Michael H. Gottesman, Georgetown 
University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; and Christopher H. 
Schroeder, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.