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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D600-D601 on June 12, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the Department of Defense and related programs, after receiving testimony from certain public witnesses.
MEDICARE MEDICAL SUPPLIES PAYMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine fraud, waste and abuse related to Medicare reimbursement for medical equipment and supplies, and ways to improve the process, including creating supplier standards, centralizing claims processing, reducing oxygen reimbursement, and introducing a more competitive bidding process, after receiving testimony from Janet Rehnquist, Inspector General, and Thomas A. Scully, Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Leslie G. Aronovitz, Director, Health Care-Program Administration and Integrity Issues, General Accounting Office; and David T. Williams, Invacare Corporation, Elyria, Ohio.
INTERNET MANAGEMENT: ICANN GOVERNANCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine reform and privatization issues of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), focusing on clarifying the mission and responsibilities, ensuring accountability, and developing an effective advisory role for governments, after receiving testimony from Nancy J. Victory, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Peter Guerrero, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; M. Stuart Lynn, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Marina del Rey, California; Karl Auerbach, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Board of Directors, San Jose, California; Roger J. Cochetti, VeriSign, Inc., and Alan B. Davidson, Center for Democracy and Technology, both of Washington, D.C.; and Cameron Powell, SnapNames, Portland, Oregon.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded hearings on S. 1257/H.R. 107, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme study to identify sites and resources to commemorate and interpret the Cold War, S. 1312/H.R. 2109, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Virginia Key Beach, Florida, for possible inclusion in the National Park System, S. 1944, to revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the State of Colorado, H.R. 38, to provide for additional lands to be included within the boundaries of the Homestead National Monument of America in the State of Nebraska, H.R. 980, to establish the Moccasin Bend National Historic Site in the State of Tennessee as a unit of the National Park System, and H.R. 1712, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make adjustments to the boundary of the National Park of American Samoa to include certain portions of the islands of Ofu and Olosega within the park, after receiving testimony from Senator Bill Nelson; Representatives Faleomavaega, Meek, and Wamp; P. Daniel Smith, Special Assistant to the Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Steve Ririe, Silent Heroes of the Cold War National Memorial Committee, Las Vegas, Nevada; and James O. Mills, Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
CLEAN POWER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S. 556, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce emissions from electric power plants, after receiving testimony from Representative Kucinich; Ronald C. Methier, Georgia Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, on behalf of the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators and the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials; Robert Page, TransAlta Corporation, Calgary, Canada; William F. Tyndall, Cinergy Services, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute; David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; Lee P. Hughes, Bayer Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Chemistry Council; Don Barger, National Parks Conservation Association, Knoxville, Tennessee; and J. Thomas Mullen, Catholic Charities Health and Human Services, Cleveland, Ohio.
CHILDHOOD VACCINE SHORTAGE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the causes and extent of the current shortage of childhood vaccines, their expected duration and impact, and the Federal government's role in maintaining the supply, after receiving testimony from Lester M. Crawford, Deputy Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, and Walter Orenstein, Director, National Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Timothy F. Doran, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Mary Anne Jackson, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri; and Wayne Pisano, Aventis Pasteur North America, Asbury, New Jersey, on behalf of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
DEATH PENALTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution concluded hearings to examine issues with respect to reducing the risk of executing the innocent, focusing on the Report of the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, after receiving testimony from Illinois Governor George H. Ryan, and Matthew R. Bettenhausen, Illinois Deputy Governor for Criminal Justice and Public Safety, and Executive Director, Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment, both of Springfield; Druanne D. White, Solicitor, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Anderson, South Carolina; Donald Hubert, Hubert, Fowler, and Quinn, and Scott Turow, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, both of Chicago, Illinois, both members of the Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment; John J. Kinsella, First Assistant State's Attorney, DuPage County, Illinois; Lawrence C. Marshall, Northwestern University Law School Center on Wrongful Convictions, Chicago, Illinois; and Kent Scheidegger, Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, Sacramento, California.
