[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 25, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D987-D989]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine the status of the 
implementation of the Federal stem cell research policy, and related 
provisions of S. 2349, to prohibit human cloning while preserving 
important areas of medical research, including stem cell research, and 
S. 1899, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit human 
cloning, after receiving testimony from Elias Zerhouni, Director, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
California State Senator Deborah Ortiz, Sacramento; Curt I. Civin, 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; 
George Q. Daley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitehead 
Institute, Cambridge; Roger Pedersen, University of Cambridge 
Department of Surgery, United Kingdom; and Gerald P. Schatten, 
Pittsburgh Development Center/Magee-Women's Research Institute, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
U.S.-IRAQ POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
U.S. policy on Iraq, after receiving testimony from James R. 
Schlesinger, MITRE Corporation, Arlington, Virginia, former Secretary 
of Defense, former Secretary of Energy, and former Director of Central 
Intelligence; Samuel R. Berger, Stonebridge International, Washington, 
D.C., former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRODUCTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation resumed hearings to examine the challenges 
of meeting the supply of affordable housing for working families, and 
related proposals including S. 652, to promote the development of 
affordable, quality rental housing in rural areas for low-income 
households, and S. 2967, to promote the production of affordable low-
income housing, after receiving testimony from Senators Bond and 
Edwards; Mayor Thomas M. Menino, of Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of 
the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Richard H. Godfrey, Jr., Rhode Island 
Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation, Providence, on behalf of 
National Council of State Housing Agencies; and William Picotte, Oti 
Kaga, Inc., on behalf of the Housing Assistance Council, Eagle Butte, 
South Dakota.

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TOURISM INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings to 
examine the state of the tourism industry one year after September 11, 
2001, after receiving testimony from John K. Durst, South Carolina 
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia,; Ann McDowell, 
Branson/Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, and Noel I. Hentschel, American 
Tours International, Inc., both of Branson, Missouri; Hal F. 
Rosenbluth, Rosenbluth International, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 
Jonathan Tisch, Loews Hotels, on behalf of the Travel Business 
Roundtable, and Fred Lounsberry, Universal Parks and Resorts, on behalf 
of the Travel Industry Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.
HIGHWAY TRUST FUND
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded joint hearings with the 
Committee on Environment and Public Works to examine alternatives for 
financing the U.S. surface transportation system, the next highway 
bill, the Highway Trust Fund, and reauthorization of TEA-21, after 
receiving testimony from Phyllis F. Scheinberg, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Transportation for Budget and Programs; JayEtta Z. Hecker, 
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; 
Janice Hahn, Governing Board of the Alameda Corridor Transportation 
Authority, Los Angeles, California; Pete K. Rahn, New Mexico Department 
of Transportation, Santa Fe; John C. Horsley, American Association of 
State Highway and Transportation Officials, Washington, D.C.; Jeffrey 
Carey, Merrill Lynch, New York, New York; and David Seltzer, Mercator 
Advisors, LLC, University of Southern California National Center for 
Innovations in Public Finance, Los Angeles.
U.S.-IRAQ POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to examine 
U.S. policy on Iraq, receiving testimony from Richard C. Holbrooke, 
Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, former U.S. 
Ambassador to the United Nations; and Robert C. McFarlane, Energy and 
Communications Solutions, Washington, D.C., former National Security 
Advisor.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2969, to provide for improvement of Federal education research, 
statistics, evaluation, information, and dissemination, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2998, to reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, 
the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, the Child Abuse 
Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, and the 
Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988;
  S. 2499, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to 
establish labeling requirements regarding allergenic substances in 
food, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2980, to revise and extend the Birth Defects Prevention Act, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1806, to amend the Public Health Service Act with respect to 
health professions programs regarding the practice of pharmacy, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of David Wenzel, of Pennsylvania, Marco A. Rodriguez, 
of California, Milton Aponte, of Florida, Glenn Bernard Anderson, of 
Arkansas, Barbara Gillcrist, of New Mexico, and Graham Hill, of 
Virginia, each to be a Member of the National Council on Disability, 
and Michelle Guillermin, of Maryland, to be Chief Financial Officer, 
Corporation for National and Community Service.
ASBESTOS LITIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
current state of asbestos litigation, including claims for relief by 
certain corporations and insurance companies, and a system for 
compensating asbestos victims, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Baucus and Ben Nelson; David T. Austern, Claims Resolution Management 
Corporation, Fairfax, Virginia; Frederick M. Baron, Baron and Budd, 
Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of 
America; Walter E. Dellinger, O'Melveny and Myers, and Jonathan P. 
Hiatt, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.; and Steven Kazan, Kazan, 
McClain, Edises, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons, and Farrise, Oakland, 
California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 958, to provide for the use and distribution of the funds awarded 
to the Western Shoshone identifiable group under Indian Claims 
Commission Docket Numbers 326-A-1, 326-A-3, 326-K, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute; and
  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,

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and Choctaw Nations (historically referred to as the Five Civilized 
Tribes).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Philip N. Hogen, of South Dakota, to be Chairman of the 
National Indian Gaming Commission, and Quanah Crossland Stamps, of 
Virginia, to be Commissioner of the Administration for Native 
Americans, Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Hogen was 
introduced by Senator Johnson and Representative Thune.