[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 124 (Thursday, September 26, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1000-D1001]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
REVIEW TOBACCO BUYOUT PROPOSALS
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign 
Agriculture held a hearing to Review Tobacco Buyout Proposals. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Fletcher, Goode, Hill and 
McIntyre; and public witnesses.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the District of Columbia 
appropriations for fiscal year 2003.
  The Committee also began markup of the Transportation appropriations 
for fiscal year 2003.
  Will continue October 1.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on U.S. Policy toward 
Iraq. Testimony was heard from the following former officials of the 
Department of Defense: Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary, 
International Security Policy; and Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA (Ret.).
  Hearings continue October 2.
EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR LAW--EMERGING TRENDS
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Employer-
Employee Relations held a hearing on ``Emerging Trends in Employment 
and Labor Law: Examining the Need for Greater Workplace Security and 
the Control of Workplace Violence.'' Testimony was heard from Eugene 
Rugala, Supervisory Special Agent, Critical Incident Response Group, 
FBI Academy, Department of Justice; and public witnesses.
E-COMMERCE--STATE IMPEDIMENTS
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and 
Consumer Protection held a hearing entitled ``State Impediments to E-
Commerce: Consumer Protection or Veiled Protectionism?'' Testimony was 
heard from Ted Cruz, Director, Office of Policy Planning, FTC; and 
public witnesses.
U.S. AND MEXICO AGREEMENT AMENDMENTS--BORDER ENVIRONMENT COOPERATION 
COMMISSION AND NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
Committee on Financial Services: Ordered reported, as amended, H.R. 
5400, to authorize the President of the United States of America to 
agree to certain amendments to the Agreement between the Government of 
the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican 
States concerning the establishment of a Border Environment Cooperation 
Commission and a North American Development Bank.
ATTENTION DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDERS--ARE CHILDREN BEING 
OVERMEDICATED?
Committee on Government Reform: Held a hearing on ``Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorders--Are Children Being Overmedicated?'' Testimony 
was heard from Richard K. Nakamura, Acting Director, National Institute 
of Mental Health, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services; and 
public witnesses.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PIRACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and 
Intellectual Property held an oversight hearing on ``Piracy of 
Intellectual Property on Peer-to-Peer Networks.'' Testimony was heard 
from public witnesses.
SENSE OF CONGRESS RESOLUTION--ATLANTIC MARLIN--CONSERVATION AND 
MANAGEMENT MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans held a hearing on

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H. Con. Res. 427, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the 
imposition of sanctions on nations that are undermining the 
effectiveness of conservation and management measures for Atlantic 
marlin adopted by the International Commission for the Conservation of 
Atlantic Tunas and that are threatening the continued viability of 
United States commercial and recreational fisheries. Testimony was 
heard from William Hogarth, Assistant Administrator, Fisheries, 
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA, Department of Commerce and 
Federal Government Commissioner, International Commission for the 
Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT); and public witnesses.
NATION'S HIGHWAY AND TRANSIT SYSTEMS STATUS
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on 
Highways and Transit held a hearing on the Status of the Nation's 
Highway and Transit Systems: Capital and Maintenance Needs. Testimony 
was heard from the following officials of the Department of 
Transportation: Mary E. Peters, Administrator, Federal Highway 
Administration; and Robert Jamison, Deputy Administrator, Federal 
Transit Administration; and Kate Siggerud, Acting Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Issues, GAO.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS--INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs 
Information Technology (IT) program. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Richard J. 
Griffin, Inspector General; and John A. Gauss, Assistant Secretary, 
Information Technology; and Joel C. Willemssen, Managing Director, 
Information Technology Issues, GAO.
SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY PROGRAMS' CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security continued 
hearings on Social Security Disability Programs Challenges and 
Opportunities, with emphasis on the implementation of the Ticket to 
Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the SSA: Martin Gerry, Deputy Commissioner, 
Disability and Income Security Programs; and Sarah Wiggins Mitchell, 
Chair, Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Advisory Panel; Charlene 
Dwyer, Administrator, Vocational Rehabilitation, Department of 
Workforce Development, State of Wisconsin; Dan O'Brien, Program 
Manager, Ticket to Work and Community Rehabilitation, Department of 
Rehabilitation Services, State of Oklahoma; 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 Dale L. Watson, Executive Assistant 
Director, Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation; and Cofer Black, former Director for Counterterrorist 
Center, Central Intelligence Agency.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, October 1.
SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE ENERGY ACT
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate and House 
passed versions of H.R. 4, to enhance energy conservation, research and 
development and to provide for security and diversity in the energy 
supply for the American people, but did not complete action thereon, 
and will meet again on Tuesday, October 1.