[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 128 (Thursday, October 3, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1031-D1034]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Nancy Carol Pellett, of Iowa, to be a 
Board Member of the Farm Credit Administration. Ms. Pellett was 
introduced by Senator Grassley.
MONEY LAUNDERING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues related to money laundering, including the 
2002 National Money Laundering Strategy, progress on the financial 
front of the ongoing war on terrorism, and the implementation of the 
USA Patriot Act (P. L. 107-56), after receiving testimony from Senator 
Grassley; Kenneth W. Dam, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Larry D. 
Thompson, Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Justice; and 
Alvin C. James, Jr., Ernst and Young, Stuart Eizenstat, Covington and 
Burling, and Elisse B. Walter, National Association of Securities 
Dealers, all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the nominations of Armando J. Bucelo, Jr., of 
Florida, to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection 
Corporation, Alberto Faustino Trevino, of California, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Diana E. 
Furchtgott-Roth, of Maryland, to be a Director of the Federal Housing 
Finance Board, Carolyn Y. Peoples, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Deborah Doyle McWhinney, of 
California, to be a Director of the Securities Investor Protection 
Corporation, John M. Reich, of Virginia, to be Vice Chairperson of the 
Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and 
Rafael Cuellar, of New Jersey, and Michael Scott, of North Carolina, 
each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer 
Cooperative Bank, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf.
NATIONAL PARK OVERFLIGHTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine park aircraft overflight regulations, 
park visitor safety, restoration of natural park quiet, and air tour 
management, after receiving testimony from Paul Hoffman, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; 
Margaret Gilligan, Deputy Associate Administrator for Regulations and 
Certification, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Alan R. Stephen, Grand Canyon Airlines, North Las 
Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of United States Air Tour Association; Tom 
Robinson, Grand Canyon Trust, Flagstaff, Arizona; Steven Bosak, 
National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.; and James D. 
Santini, Alexandria, Virginia.

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EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine Title IX 
of the Education Amendments of 1972, the equal treatment of women in 
education, focusing on opportunities for women in science, mathematics, 
and engineering, after receiving testimony from former Senator Birch 
Bayh, Venable, Baetjer, and Howard, and Marcia D. Greenberger, National 
Women's Law Center, both of Washington, D.C.; C. Todd Jones, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Education for Enforcement, Office for Civil 
Rights; Margaret Murphy, Brown University Women's Hockey Team, 
Providence, Rhode Island; April Brown, Duke University Department of 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Durham, North Carolina; and 
Geraldine L. Richmond, University of Oregon Department of Chemistry, 
Eugene.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S.J. Res. 44, to consent to amendments to the Hawaii Homes Commission 
Act, 1920, with an amendment;
  S. 1451, to provide for the conveyance of certain public land in 
Clark County, Nevada, for use as a shooting range, with an 
amendment;
  S. 1959, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study 
of the Former Eagledale Ferry Dock in the State of Washington for 
potential inclusion in the National Park System, with an amendment;
  S. 1988, to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to 
establish in the State of Louisiana a memorial to honor the Buffalo 
Soldiers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2016, to authorize the exchange of lands between an Alaska Native 
Village Corporation and the Department of the Interior, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2475, to amend the Central Utah Project Completion Act to clarify 
the responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to 
the Central Utah Project, to redirect unexpended budget authority for 
the Central Utah Project for wastewater treatment and reuse and other 
purposes, to provide for prepayment of repayment contracts for 
municipal and industrial water delivery facilities, and to eliminate a 
deadline for such prepayment, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 2556, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
facilities to the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District in the State of 
Idaho, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2587, to establish the Joint Federal and State Navigable Waters 
Commission of Alaska, with an amendment;
  S. 2612, to establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve 
public land, and provide for high quality development in Clark County, 
Nevada, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2623, to designate the Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove 
Plantation National Historical Park as a unit of the National Park 
System, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2652, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or 
exchange certain land in the State of Florida, with amendments;
  S. 2672, to provide opportunities for collaborative restoration 
projects on National Forest System and other public domain lands, with 
an amendment;
  S. 2696, to clear title to certain real property in New Mexico 
associated with the Middle Rio Grande Project, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 2727, to provide for the protection of paleontological resources 
on Federal lands, with amendments;
  S. 2731, to establish the Crossroads of the American Revolution 
National Heritage Area in the State of New Jersey, with an amendment;
  S. 2744, to establish the National Aviation Heritage Area, with 
amendments;
  S. 2756, to establish the Champlain Valley National Heritage 
Partnership in the States of Vermont and New York, with an amendment;
  S. 2773, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with 
the High Plains Aquifer States in conducting a hydrogeologic 
characterization, mapping, modeling and monitoring program for the High 
Plains Aquifer, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2776, to provide for the protection of archaeological sites in the 
Galisteo Basin in New Mexico, with an amendment;
  S. 2788, to revise the boundary of the Wind Cave National Park in the 
State of South Dakota;
  S. 2823, to amend the Organic Act of Guam for the purposes of 
clarifying the local judicial structure of Guam;
  S. 2872, to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of 
construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Illinois;
  S. 2880, to designate Fort Bayard Historic District in the State of 
New Mexico as a National Historic Landmark;
  S. 2893, to provide that certain Bureau of Land Management land shall 
be held in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara and the Pueblo of San 
Ildefonso in the State of New Mexico;

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  S. 2899, to establish the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, 
Louisiana, with an amendment;
  S. 2927, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project in the State of Oregon;
  S. 2937, to establish the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area in the 
State of North Carolina, with an amendment;
  S. 2952, to amend the National Trails System Act to extend the Lewis 
and Clark National Historic Trail;
  H.R. 5125, to amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish a battlefield 
acquisition grant program;
  S. 3005, to revise the boundary of the Kaloko-Honokohau National 
Historical Park in the State of Hawaii, with amendments;
  H.R. 980, to establish the Moccasin Bend National Historic Site in 
the State of Tennessee as a unit of the National Park System, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title;
  H.R. 2628, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study 
of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Muscle Shoals 
National Heritage Area in Alabama;
  H.R. 2990, to amend the Lower Rio Grande Valley Water Resources 
Conservation and Improvement Act of 2000 to authorize additional 
projects under that Act;
  H.R. 3401, to provide for the conveyance of Forest Service facilities 
and lands comprising the Five Mile Regional Learning Center in the 
State of California to the Clovis Unified School District, to authorize 
a new special use permit regarding the continued use of unconveyed 
lands comprising the Center;
  H.R. 3421, to provide adequate school facilities within Yosemite 
National Park, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3786, to revise the boundary of the Glen Canyon National 
Recreation Area in the States of Utah and Arizona, with amendments;
  H.R. 3858, to modify the boundaries of the New River Gorge National 
River, West Virginia;
  H.R. 3909, to designate certain Federal lands in the State of Utah as 
the Gunn McKay Nature Preserve;
  H.R. 3928, to assist in the preservation of archaeological, 
paleontological, zoological, geological, and botanical artifacts 
through construction of a new facility for the University of Utah 
Museum of Natural History, Salt Lake City, Utah;
  H.R. 3954, to designate certain waterways in the Caribbean National 
Forest in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as components of the National 
Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
  H.R. 4682, to revise the boundary of the Allegheny Portage Railroad 
National Historic Site;
  S. 2585, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to disclaim any 
Federal interest in lands adjacent to Spirit Lake and Twin Lakes in the 
State of Idaho resulting from possible omission of lands from an 1880 
survey;
  S. 2670, to establish Institutes to conduct research on the 
prevention of, and restoration from, wildfires in forest and woodland 
ecosystems, with an amendment;
  H.R. 451, to make certain adjustments to the boundaries of the Mount 
Nebo Wilderness Area;
  H.R. 2818, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain public land within the Sand Mountain Wilderness Study Area in 
the State of Idaho to resolve an occupancy encroachment dating back to 
1971;
  S. 2565, to enhance ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor 
opportunities protected by statute in the Skykomish River valley of the 
State of Washington by designating certain lower-elevation Federal 
lands as wilderness;
  S. 1816, to provide for the continuation of higher education through 
the conveyance of certain public lands in the State of Alaska to the 
University of Alaska;
  S. 3003, to authorize a land conveyance between the United States and 
the City of Craig, Alaska;
  H.R. 5099, to extend the periods of authorization for the Secretary 
of the Interior to implement capital construction projects associated 
with the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper 
Colorado and San Juan River Basins.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the 
recommendations of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social 
Security, after receiving testimony from Olivia S. Mitchell, University 
of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Philadelphia, on behalf of the 
President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security; and Peter R. 
Orszag, Brookings Institution, Andrew G. Biggs, Cato Institute, Robert 
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Esther Canja, AARP, 
Barbara B. Kennelly, National Committee to Preserve Social Security and 
Medicare, Robert L. Bixby, Concord Coalition, and Marty Ford, Arc of 
the United States, on behalf of the Consortium for Citizens with 
Disabilities, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the nominations of Richard Allan Roth, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Senegal, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau; 
Joseph Huggins, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Botswana; and Robin Renee Sanders, of New York, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Maura Ann Harty, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary 
of State for Consular Affairs; Kim R. Holmes, of Maryland, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs; 
Francis X. Taylor, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for 
Diplomatic Security, and Director for the Office of Foreign Missions, 
with the rank of Ambassador; and Ellen R. Sauerbrey, of Maryland, for 
the rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the United 
States Representative on the Commission on the Status of Women of the 
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Holmes and 
Ms. Sauerbrey were introduced by Senator Allen.
NOMINATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the nomination of Bruce R. James, of Nevada, to be Public 
Printer, Government Printing Office, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Ensign, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination from Benjamin 
Y. Cooper, Printing Industries of America, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; 
and Joan F. Cheverie, Georgetown University, on behalf of the American 
Library Association and the Special Libraries Association, and Robert 
S. Willard, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, 
both of Washington, D.C.