[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 127 (Wednesday, October 2, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AIRLINE VIABILITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine airlines viability in the current economic climate, 
and the financial condition of commercial aviation, industry responses 
and the affect of competition, after receiving testimony from JayEtta 
Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting 
Office; Leo Mullin, Delta Air Lines, and Edward Wytkind, Transportation 
Trades Department (AFL-CIO), both of Washington, D.C.; and Susan 
Donofrio, Deutsch Bank Securities Inc., New York, New York.
POWER PLANT EMISSIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the status and studies of the health impacts of fine 
particles which result from fuel combustion from motor vehicles, power 
generation, and industrial facilities, as well as from residential 
fireplaces and wood stoves, known as PM-2.5, focusing on those effects 
associated with power plant emissions, after receiving testimony from 
Jonathan M. Samet, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public 
Health, Baltimore, Maryland; Robert M. O'Keefe, Health Effects 
Institute, Boston, Massaschusetts; Ronald E. Wyzga, Electric Power 
Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; Ben Rose, Green Mountain 
Club, Inc., Waterbury Center, Vermont; and Jonathan Levy, Harvard 
University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
STOPPING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2520, to 
amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the sexual 
exploitation of children, S. 2511/H.R. 4623, to prevent trafficking in 
child pornography and obscenity, to proscribe pandering and 
solicitation relating to visual depictions of minors engaging in 
sexually explicit conduct, and to prevent the use of child pornography 
and obscenity to facilitate crimes against children, and related 
provisions of the Supreme Court's ``Free Speech'' decision which struck 
down portions of the 1996 Child Pornography Protection Act for 
violating the First Amendment, receiving testimony from Senator 
Carnahan; Representative Pomeroy; Daniel P. Collins, Associate Deputy 
Attorney General/Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Justice; 
Frederick Schauer, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Anne M. Coughlin, University of Virginia 
School of Law, Charlottesville; and Daniel S. Armagh, National Center 
for Missing and Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.