[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 3 (Thursday, January 9, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D17]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Wednesday, 
January 8, committee concluded hearings to examine climate change and 
greenhouse gas reductions and the trading systems, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Lieberman; Representative Inslee; James R. 
Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, and 
Director, U.S. Climate Change Science Program; Eileen Claussen, Pew 
Center on Global Climate Change, Arlington, Virginia; Jack Cogen, 
Natsource LLC, and Fred Krupp, Environmental Defense, both of New York, 
New York; and Randy Overbey, ALCOA Power Generating, Inc., Knoxville, 
Tennessee.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on the future of the airline industry, including the state of 
aviation security, receiving testimony from Jeffrey N. Shane, Associate 
Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Donald J. Carty, American Airlines, 
Dallas, Texas; Richard H. Anderson, Northwest Airlines, Egan, 
Minnesota; Duane E. Woerth, Air Line Pilots Association, International, 
Washington, D.C.; Kevin Mitchell, Business Travel Coalition, Radnor, 
Pennsylvania; and Alfred Kahn, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
OIL TANKERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the phase out of single hull oil tankers and the 
impact of such action on commerce, including marine oil spill 
prevention, preparedness, response and restoration, after receiving 
testimony from R. Adm. Paul J. Pluta, Assistant Commandant for Marine 
Safety, Security and Environmental Protection, U.S. Coast Guard, 
Department of Transportation; Timothy R. E. Keeney, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; Elaine F. Davies, 
Deputy Director of the Office of Emergency and Remedial Response, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas A. Allegretti, American 
Waterways Operators, and Dragos Rauta, International Association of 
Independent Tanker Owners, both of Arlington, Virginia; Joseph J. Cox, 
Chamber of Shipping of America, David Sandalow, World Wildlife Fund, 
and G. William Frick, American Petroleum Institute, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Tom Godfrey, Colonna's Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of 
the Shipbuilders Council of America; and Robert N. Cowen, Overseas 
Shipholding Group, Inc., New York, New York.