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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D501-D503 on May 23, 2001.
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.
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2002 for the National Institutes of Health, after receiving testimony from Ruth L. Kirschstein, Acting Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, who was accompanied by several of her associates.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Alphonso R. Jackson, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary, Richard A. Hauser, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, John Charles Weicher, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary and serve as Federal Housing Commissioner, and Romolo A. Bernardi, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
BOXING INDUSTRY REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of past legislation on the professional boxing industry, and whether additional federal, state, and private sector reforms, including the establishment of a centralized association or league, a boxers union, a promoters and managers collective, and consistent state regulations among the state athletic commissioners, are needed to further improve the sport, after receiving testimony from Roy Jones, Jr., Pensacola, Florida, on behalf of the Jones House; Edwin Homansky, Valley Hospital Medical Center, Dan Goossen, America Presents Boxing, and Kirk D. Hendrick, Jones Vargas, all of Las Vegas, Nevada; Greg Sirb, Association of Boxing Commissions, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Patrick C. English, Dimes and English, Clifton, New Jersey.
CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues relating to the capture, separation and storage or reuse of excess carbon, known as carbon sequestration, in order to stabilize and ultimately reduce concentrations of carbon emissions in the atmosphere, including soil carbon measurement processes, methods used to measure soil carbon changes, and the research related to such measurements, after receiving testimony from John M. Kimble, Research Soil Scientist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Dale E. Heydlauff, American Electric Power Company, Columbus, Ohio; John Kadyszewski, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas; Michael J. Coda, Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia; and Robert Bonnie, Environmental Defense, Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 507, to implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving the covenant to establish a commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America; and
The nominations of Patrick Henry Wood III, of Texas, and Nora Mead Brownell, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, and Jessie Hill Roberson, of Alabama, to be an Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, all of the Department of Energy, and J. Steven Griles, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
H.R. 581, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to use funds appropriated for wildland fire management in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, to reimburse the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service to facilitate the interagency cooperation required under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 in connection with wildland fire management;
S. 468, to designate the Federal building located at 6230 Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, California, as the ``James C. Corman Federal Building'';
S. 774, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 121 West Spring Street in New Albany, Indiana, as the ``Lee H. Hamilton Federal Building and United States Courthouse'';
S. 757, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 504 West Hamilton Street in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as the ``Edward N. Cahn Federal Building and United States Courthouse'';
S. 378, to redesignate the Federal building located at 3348 South Kedzie Avenue, in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Paul Simon Chicago Job Corps Center''; and
The nominations of Linda J. Fisher, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Administrator, and Stephen L. Johnson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, and James Laurence Connaughton, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to Japan, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Dole, Thompson, Frist, and Byrd, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S./NORTH KOREA POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine future policy between the United States and North Korea, after receiving testimony from Norbert Vollertsen, German Emergency Doctors, Dusseldorf; Chuck Downs, Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Director, ISA/East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of Defense and former Senior Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to the House Policy Committee; James T. Laney, Council for Foreign Relations Korea Task Force, Atlanta, Georgia; and Robert L. Gallucci, Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of John D. Graham, of Massachusetts, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, Stephen A. Perry, of Ohio, to be Administrator of General Services, Angela B. Styles, of Virginia, to be Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, and Erik Patrick Christian and Maurice A. Ross, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Deborah L. Cook and Jeffrey S. Sutton, both of Ohio, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, John G. Roberts, Jr., of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., of Massachusetts, and Robert D. McCallum, Jr., of Georgia, each to be an Assistant Attorney General, both of the Department of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Boyd was introduced by Senator Kennedy.
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