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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D69-D70 on Feb. 7, 2002.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Transportation, focusing on the Transportation Security Administration, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Jackson, Deputy Secretary, and John W. Magaw, Under Secretary for Security, both of the Department of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met with Members of the United Kingdom's House of Commons Defence Committee.
OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to examine the conduct of Operation Enduring Freedom, focusing on the role of the U.S. Central Command in America's global war on terrorism, after receiving testimony from General Tommy R. Franks, USA, Commander in Chief, United States Central Command.
SUPERIOR BANK, HINSDALE, ILLINOIS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the analysis of the failure and implications of Superior Bank, FSB, Hinsdale, Illinois, focusing on causes of the failure, external audit findings, and the effectiveness of federal supervision, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey Rush, Jr., Inspector General, Department of the Treasury; Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Thomas J. McCool, Managing Director for Financial Markets and Community Investment, General Accounting Office.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on tax relief and fiscal discipline provisions, receiving testimony from Paul H. O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 12.
WAR ON TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the future of the War on Terrorism, focusing on accomplishments to date, continuing terrorist threats, weapons of mass destruction, the U.S. role in the world, world alliances, peacekeeping, and globalization, after receiving testimony from Samuel R. Berger, Stonebridge International, Washington, D.C., former National Security Advisor; Gen. George A. Joulwan, USA (Ret.), General Dynamics, Arlington, Virginia, former NATO Allied Commander; and William Kristol, Weekly Standard, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Project for the New American Century.
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON TERRORIST ATTACKS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings S. 1867, to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, after receiving testimony from former Representative Dave McCurdy, Electronic Industries Alliance, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
(WMD Commission); Norman R. Augustine, United States Commission on National Security, Bethesda, Maryland; and Richard K. Betts, Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, and Maurice Sonnenberg, Bear, Stearns and Co., Inc., both of New York, New York, both on behalf of the National Commission on Terrorism.
PENSION PLAN REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of the collapse of Enron Corporation on its 401(k) pension plan investors and the Department of Labor's role in enforcement and regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), focusing on related pension plan reform proposals, after receiving testimony from Senators Boxer and Corzine; Representative Bentsen; Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor; Steven E. Lacey, Portland General Electric, Salem, Oregon; Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College Carroll School of Management, Boston, Massachusetts; Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, D.C.; James Prentice, Administrative Committee of the Enron Corporation Savings Plan, Houston, Texas; Jan Fleetham, Bloomington, Minnesota; and Karl V. Farmer, New Hampshire.
TRIBAL TRUST FUND
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on certain legislative proposals relating to the statute of limitations on claims against the United States related to the management of Indian tribal trust fund accounts, including S. 1857, to encourage the negotiated settlement of tribal claims, after receiving testimony from McCoy Williams, Acting Director, Financial Management and Assurance, General Accounting Office; Philip Hogen, Associate Solicitor, Division of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; and Charles Tillman, Intertribal Monitoring Association, Pawhuska, Oklahoma.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Michael J. Melloy, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Robert E. Blackburn, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, David L. Bunning, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky; James E. Gritzner, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa, Cindy K. Jorgenson, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, Richard J. Leon, of Maryland, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, Jay C. Zainey, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Thomas P. Colantuono, to be United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, James K. Vines, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, James Duane Dawson, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of West Virginia, Brian Michael Ennis, to be United States Marshal for the District of Nebraska; Nehemiah Flowers, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Mississippi; Arthur Jeffrey Hedden, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Johnny Lewis Hughes, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maryland, William Carey Jenkins, to be United States Marshal for the Middle District of Louisiana, Randy Merlin Johnson, to be United States Marshal for the District of Alaska, David Glenn Jolley, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee, Chester Martin Keely, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Alabama, John William Loyd, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Ronald Richard McCubbin, Jr., to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Kentucky, David Reid Murtaugh, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Indiana, Michael Wade Roach, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Oklahoma, Eric Eugene Robertson, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Washington, David Donald Viles, to be United States Marshal for the District of Maine, and Larry Wade Wagster, to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Mississippi.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Charles W. Pickering, Sr., of Mississippi, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, after the nominee, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider pending intelligence matters, made no announcements, and recessed subject to call.
