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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D686-D687 on June 26, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation concluded hearings to examine the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, focusing on funding issues and investing in economic development and the environment, after receiving testimony from Carl Guardino, Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, San Jose, California; Herschel Abbot, BellSouth, Hank Dittmar, Great American Station Foundation, on behalf of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and Michael A. Replogle, Environmental Defense, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert Broadbent, Las Vegas Monorail Company, Las Vegas, Nevada.
ENFORCING CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings to examine issues and perspectives in enforcing corporate governance in order to assure individual investors that their interests are protected and that the information received is truthful as a part of an overall investment banking reform, focusing on the experience of the State of New York, after receiving testimony from New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 4737, to reauthorize and improve the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, and improve access to quality child care, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the current situation in Afghanistan, focusing on conducting the war on terrorism, fostering internal governance, and providing humanitarian and development assistance, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Brig. Gen. David L. Grange, USA (Ret.), Chicago, Illinois; and Peter Tomsen, Ambassador in Residence, University of Nebraska, Omaha, former Ambassador to Armenia, and former Special Envoy to Afghanistan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Mark Sullivan, of Maryland, to be United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; and Paul William Speltz, of Texas, to be United States Director of the Asian Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominees, testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine the relationship between a future Department of Homeland Security and the current federal, state, and local intelligence communities, receiving testimony from William B. Berger, North Miami Beach Police Department, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs of Police; Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Preventive Defense Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Lt. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, USA (Ret.), former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, USA (Ret.), former Director, National Security Agency; and Jeffrey H. Smith, Arnold and Porter, Washington, D.C., former General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of James E. Boasberg, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee met and began consideration of S. 710, to require coverage for colorectal cancer screenings, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
TRIBAL TRUST FUNDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the status of the dialogue between the U.S. Department of the Interior and American Indian and Alaska Native leaders on various alternatives for the reorganization of the Department of the Interior to improve the management of tribal trust funds, receiving testimony from J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary, and Neal A. McCaleb, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, both of the Department of the Interior; and Tex G. Hall, Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota, and Susan Masten, Yurok Tribe of Indians of California, Eureka, both on behalf of the Tribal Leader/
Department of the Interior Trust Reform Task Force.
Hearings will continue on Tuesday, July 30.
HOMELAND SECURITY INFRASTRUCTURE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the President's proposal for reorganizing our homeland defense infrastructure and establishing a Department of Homeland Security, receiving testimony from Tom Ridge, Director of the Transition Planning Office for the Department of Homeland Security.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
IMMIGRATION REFORM AND HOMELAND DEFENSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings to examine immigration reform and the reorganization of homeland defense, focusing on the inclusion of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the new Department of Homeland Security, and the impact this would have on immigration law and policy, and the adjudication of immigration services and benefits, receiving testimony from Kathleen Campbell Walker, El Paso, Texas, on behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; Bill Ong Hing, University of California School of Law, Davis, on behalf of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; David A. Martin, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, former General Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; and Judge Dana Marks Keener, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and recessed subject to call.
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