[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 132 (Wednesday, October 9, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1064-D1066]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing 
and Transportation held oversight hearings on the need to preserve 
affordable housing, focusing on the existing privately-owned affordable 
housing stock currently supported with public funds under a variety of 
federal housing insurance, subsidy and assistance programs, receiving 
testimony from John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Housing/Federal 
Housing Commissioner, and Robert Kension, Associate General Counsel, Office 
of Assisted Housing and Community Development, both of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development; Katherine G. Hadley, Minnesota Housing 
Finance Agency, St. Paul, on behalf of the National Council of State Housing 
Agencies; James R. Grow, National Housing Law Project, Oakland, California; 
Thomas Slemmer, National Church Residences, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the 
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging; and Louise 
Sanchez, National Alliance of HUD Tenants, New York, New York.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
FINANCIAL WAR ON TERRORISM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the financial war on 
terrorism, focusing on certain Federal agency measures to identify, disrupt, 
and dismantle terrorist financial networks, after receiving testimony from 
James Gurule, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement; Michael 
Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of 
Justice; and Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business 
and Agricultural Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
nominations of John Randle Hamilton, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Guatemala, John F. Keane, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Paraguay, and David N. Greenlee, of Maryland to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the G8 
global partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass 
destruction (10+10 Over 10), and nonproliferation and threat reduction 
cooperation programs with Russia and other Republics of the Former Soviet 
Union, after receiving testimony from John R. Bolton,

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Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and John S. 
Wolf, Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation, both of the Department of 
State; Lisa Bronson, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Technology 
Security and Counter-Proliferation; Linton Brooks, Acting Administrator, 
National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy; Kenneth N. 
Luongo, Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council, Princeton, New 
Jersey; and Laura S. H. Holgate, Nuclear Threat Initiative, Washington, DC.
  Recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1651, to establish the United States Consensus Council to provide for a 
consensus building process in addressing national public policy issues, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 3054, to provide for full voting representation in Congress for the 
citizens of the District of Columbia;
  S. 2936, to amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to provide 
that certain Federal annuity computations are adjusted by 1 percent relating 
to periods of receiving disability payments, with an amendment;
  S. 2527, to provide for health benefits coverage under chapter 89 of title 
5, United States Code, for individuals enrolled in a plan administered by 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation;
  S. 3070, to authorize appropriations for the Merit Systems Protection 
Board and the Office of Special Counsel;
  S. 3044, to authorize the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency 
of the District of Columbia to provide for the interstate supervision of 
offenders on parole, probation, and supervised release;
  H.R. 4878, to provide for estimates and reports of improper payments by 
Federal agencies, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2644, to amend chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code, to expand 
the types of Federal agencies that are required to prepare audited financial 
statements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2829, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 6910 South Yorktown Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the ``Robert 
Wayne Jenkins Station'';
  S. 2840/H.R. 4102, bills to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 120 North Main Street in Fallon, Nevada, as the 
``Rollan D. Melton Post Office Building'';
  S. 2918/H.R. 5336, bills to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 380 Main Street in Farmingdale, New York, as the 
``Peter J. Ganci, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  S. 2929/H.R. 4797, bills to designate the facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 265 South Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California 
as the ``Nat King Cole Post Office'';
  S. 2931, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 5805 White Oak Avenue in Encino, California, as the ``Francis 
Dayle `Chick' Hearn Post Office'';
  H.R. 3034, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 89 River Street in Hoboken, New Jersey, as the ``Frank Sinatra 
Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3738, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1299 North 7th Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Herbert Arlene Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3739, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 6150 North Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 
``Rev. Leon Sullivan Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3740, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 925 Dickinson Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 
``William A Cibotti Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4717, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1199 Pasadena Boulevard in Pasadena, Texas, as the ``Jim Fonteno 
Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4755, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 204 South Broad Street in Lancaster, Ohio as the ``Clarence 
Miller Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4794, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1895 Avenida Del Oro in Oceanside, California, as the ``Ronald C. 
Packard Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 5308, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 301 South Howes Street in Fort Collins, Colorado, as the ``Barney 
Apodaca Post Office'';
  H.R. 5333, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 4 East Central Street in Worcester, Massachusetts, as the 
``Joseph D. Early Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Ruth Y. Goldway, of California, and Tony Hammond, of 
Virginia, each to be a Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Mark B. McClellan, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
THOMASINA E. JORDAN INDIAN TRIBES OF VIRGINIA FEDERAL RECOGNITION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2694, to 
extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Tribe, the Chickahominy 
Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi

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Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Tribe, and the Nansemond 
Tribe, after receiving testimony from Senators Allen and Warner; Michael R. 
Smith, Director, Office of Tribal Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and 
Lee Fleming, Chief, Branch of Acknowledgement Recognition, both of 
Department of the Interior; Kenneth Adams, Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe, 
King William, Virginia; Stephen R. Adkins, Chickahominy Indian Tribe, 
Providence Forge, Virginia; Jonathan M. Barton, Virginia Council of 
Churches, Richmond; Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, College of William and Mary 
American Indian Resource Center, Williamsburg, Virginia; and Helen 
Roundtree, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the nomination of Scott W. Muller, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the 
Central Intelligence Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Bond, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
COUNTERTERRORISM PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
counterterrorism program, and the implementation of the USA Patriot Act 
(Public Law 107-56), and the Enhanced Border Security and visa Entry Reform 
Act (Public Law 107-173), after receiving testimony from Glenn A. Fine, 
Inspector General, Alice Fisher, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Dennis Lormel, Chief, Terrorist Financing Operations Section, 
Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Scott 
Hastings, Associate Commissioner for Information Resources Management and 
Deputy Chief Information Officer, and Michael Crolnin, Assistant 
Commissioner for Inspections, both of the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service, all of the Department of Justice; Stephen A. Edson, Acting Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Visa Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs; 
and Ben Wu, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology.
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