[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 17 (Thursday, January 30, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D74-D75]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
                  (Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICARE REIMBURSEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine Medicare 
reimbursement for physicians and hospitals, after receiving testimony 
from Thomas A. Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 
Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Loren H. Roth, 
University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of Medical Services 
UPMC Health System; Jitendra M. Desai and Denis Olmstead, both of the 
Pennsylvania Medical Society, Harrisburg; Richard A. Anderson, St. 
Luke's Hospital and Health Network, Inc., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Eric 
W. Blomain, Northeastern Pennsylvania Plastic Surgical Society, 
Dunmore; Richard E. D'Alberto, J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital, 
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania; Jay Kleiman, Northwestern University Medical 
School, Evanston, Illinois, on behalf of the American College of 
Cardiology and the Alliance of Specialty Medicine; J. Kirk Norris, Iowa 
Hospital Association, Des Moines; and Richard F. Pops, Alkermes, Inc., 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Biotechnology Industry 
Organization.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Paul McHale, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security, and Christopher Ryan Henry, 
of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
McHale was introduced by Senator Specter, and Mr. Henry was introduced 
by Senator Reid.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee met and 
adopted its rules of procedure for the 108th Congress, and ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 35) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee.
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
budget and current economic outlook for fiscal years 2003 through 2013, 
after receiving testimony from Barry B. Anderson, Acting Director, 
Congressional Budget Office.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee met and 
ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 37) 
authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
MEDIA OWNERSHIP
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine media ownership, focusing on the current state of 
and consolidation in the radio industry, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Feingold; Representative Berman; L. Lowry Mays, Clear Channel 
Communications, Inc., San Antonio, Texas; Edward O. Fritts, National 
Association of Broadcasters, and Jenny Toomey, Future of Music 
Coalition, both of Washington, D.C.; Don Henley, Santa Monica, 
California, on behalf of the Recording Artists' Coalition; and Robert 
Short, Jr., Short Broadcasting Co., Inc., Jamesville, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 36) authorizing expenditures 
by the Committee.
BORDER SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the status of 
United States border security focusing on weaknesses in screening 
entrants into the country, and efforts to combat terrorism, receiving 
testimony from Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of Special 
Investigations, General Accounting Office; Johnny N. Williams, 
Executive Associate Commissioner for Field Operations, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Robert W. Jacksta, 
Executive Director, Border Security and Facilitation, Customs Service, 
Department of the Treasury; Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General, and 
Donald W. Murphy, Deputy Director, National Park Service, both of the 
Department of the Interior; and Daniel Wirth, Federal Law Enforcement 
Officers Association, Tucson, Arizona.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of John W. Snow, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the 
Treasury.
UNITED NATIONS INSPECTIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the January 27 United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection 
Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 
Reports to the United Nations Security Council on inspections in Iraq, 
after receiving testimony Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of 
State; and John D. Negroponte, United States Permanent Representative 
to the United Nations.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 39) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee.
SMALLPOX VACCINATION PLAN
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee held 
hearings to examine the Federal role and its implementation of a 
national smallpox vaccination program, focusing on prevention and 
preparedness strategies, receiving testimony from Julie L. Gerberding, 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Anthony S. 
Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 
National Institutes of Health, both of the Department of Health and 
Human Services; William J. Bicknell, Boston University School of Public 
Health, Boston, Massachusetts; William Schuler, Portsmouth Regional 
Hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on behalf of the Federation of 
American Hospitals; Jon Abramson, Brenner Children's Hospital, Wake 
Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the 
American Academy of Pediatrics; Martha Baker, Jackson Memorial 
Hospital, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the Service Employees 
International Union, AFL-CIO; and Kim C. Bush, Baxter BioScience 
Vaccines, Columbia, Maryland, on behalf of the Baxter Healthcare 
Corporation.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nomination of Miguel A. Estrada, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit;
  S. 151, to amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the 
sexual exploitation of children, with amendments;
  S. 153, to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish penalties 
for aggravated identity theft; and
  S. 205, to authorize the issuance of immigrant visas to, and the 
admission to the United States for permanent residence of, certain 
scientists, engineers, and technicians who have worked in Iraqi weapons 
of mass destruction programs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee adopted its rules of procedure 
for the 108th Congress, and ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution (S. Res. 38) authorizing expenditures by the Committee.