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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D87-D88 on Feb. 12, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army; Gordon R. England, Secretary of the Navy; and James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force.
ACCOUNTING AND INVESTOR PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine accounting and investor protection issues raised by Enron and other public companies, including overseeing capital markets, designing successful reforms, improving transparency of information, financial statement auditing accuracy, and encouraging better governance of accounting firms and corporations, after receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Jr., and Richard C. Breeden, Richard C. Breedan and Co., both of Greenwich, Connecticut, David S. Ruder, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, Harold M. Williams, Los Angeles, California, and Roderick M. Hills, Hills Enterprises Ltd, Washington, D.C., each a former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission.
2003 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003, focusing on the State Department's foreign policy objectives, including winning the war on terrorism and protecting Americans at home and abroad, receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ENRON COLLAPSE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings to examine the collapse of the Enron Corporation, focusing on the investigation of potentially questionable Enron's partnership transactions, receiving testimony from Kenneth L. Lay, Piper, Marbury, Rudnick and Wolfe, Washington, D.C., former Chairman/CEO, Enron Corporation; and William C. Powers, Jr., University of Texas Law School, Austin, on behalf of the Board of Directors of Enron Corporation Special Investigative Committee.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
INTERIOR/FOREST SERVICE/ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of the Interior, the U. S. Forest Service, and the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from J. Steven Griles, Deputy Secretary, and P. Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget, both of the Department of the Interior; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; and Bruce M. Carnes, Chief Financial Officer, Department of Energy.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CRIME
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the theft of American intellectual property at home and abroad, focusing on the Department of State's and U.S. Trade Representative's role in policy and enforcement, and recent trends in intellectual property protection, including implementation of the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement the and
``Special 301'' review, after receiving testimony from Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; Peter F. Allgeier, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; John S. Gordon, U.S. Attorney, Central District of California, Department of Justice; Jeffrey Raikes, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; and Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, Hilary Rosen, Recording Industry Association of America, and Douglas Lowenstein, Interactive Digital Software Association, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Nancy Dorn, of Texas, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Dan Gregory Blair, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management, and John L. Howard, of Illinois, to be Chairman of the Special Panel on Appeals.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine multilateral non-proliferation regimes, weapons of mass destruction technologies, and the War on Terrorism, focusing on measures for enhancing the ability of these multilateral treaties to prevent the acquisition of chemical and biological weapons by both national and subnational groups, after receiving testimony from Elisa D. Harris, University of Maryland Center for International and Security Studies, and Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of Washington, D. C.; Jim Walsh, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Dennis M. Gormley, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, England.
EARLY EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine early education issues, focusing on quality educational programs, parent involvement in early childhood development, and separation of education for children with special needs, after receiving testimony from Elisabeth Schaefer, Massachusetts Department of Education, Malden; Jack P. Shonkoff, Brandeis University Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Waltham, Massachusetts; Edward Zigler, Yale University Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut; Dorothy S. Strickland, Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Rob Reiner, I Am Your Child Foundation, Hollywood, California; Susan Russell, University of North Carolina Child Care Services Association, Chapel Hill; and Sharon E. Rhodes, Parents as Teachers National Center, St. Louis, Missouri.
OXYCONTIN ABUSE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine the effects of the painkiller Oxycontin, focusing on Federal, State and local efforts to decrease abuse and misuse of this product while assuring availability for patients who suffer daily from chronic moderate to severe pain, after receiving testimony from John K. Jenkins, Director, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, and H. Westley Clark, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Richard Payne, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Art Van Zee, Lee Coalition for Health, St. Charles, Virginia; Nancy Green, Neighbors Against Drug Abuse, Calais, Maine; William R. Bess, Virginia State Police, Wytheville; and Paul D. Goldenheim, Purdue Pharma L.P., Stamford, Connecticut.
U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings to examine issues surrounding the U.S. Refugee Program, including the effects of recent crises in Afghanistan and Africa on the refugee populations, security concerns in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, use of joint voluntary organizations to relieve refugee processing burdens, family reunification, and case backlogs, receiving testimony from Arthur E. Dewey, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; James W. Ziglar, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Leonard S. Glickman, Refugee Council USA, New York, New York, on behalf of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society; and Anastasia Brown, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services, and Bill Frelick, U.S. Committee for Refugees, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
