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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D720-D721 on July 9, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 2506, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, with an amendment.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on sections 2015, 2016, 2017(a) and (b), 2018 and 2019 of S. 2225, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003, after receiving testimony from Adm. William J. Fallon, USN, Vice-Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Robert H. Foglesong, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, United States Air Force; Gen. John M. Keane, USA, Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army; Gen. Michael J. Williams, USMC, Assistant Commandant, United States Marine Corps; William Hurd, Virginia Office of the Attorney General, Richmond; Daniel S. Miller, Colorado Department of Law, Denver; Stanley Phillippe, California Department of Toxic Substances Control, Sacramento, behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials; Jamie Rappaport Clark, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C., former Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; and Bonner Cohen, Lexington Institute, Arlington, Virginia; David Henkin, Earthjustice, Honolulu, Hawaii.
TREATY ON STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE REDUCTIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions, signed at Moscow on May 24, 2002
(Treaty Doc. 107-8), receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of John William Blaney, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, Aurelia E. Brazeal, of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Martin George Brennan, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, J. Anthony Holmes, of California, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Vicki Huddleston, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, Donald C. Johnson, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Jimmy Kolker, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Gail Dennise Thomas Mathieu, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, and James Howard Yellin, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard H. Carmona, of Arizona, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators McCain and Kyl, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
EXCELLENCE IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine recommendations of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education regarding the Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1997 (IDEA), after receiving testimony from Terry E. Branstad, Chairman, Douglas H. Gill, Chairman, Finance Task Force, and Douglas C. Huntt, Chairman, Transition Task Force, all of the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education.
IDENTITY THEFT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information held hearings on S. 2541, to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish penalties for aggravated identity theft, receiving testimony from Daniel P. Collins, Associate Deputy Attorney General and Chief Privacy Officer, and Dennis M. Lormel, Chief, Terrorist Financial Review Group, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Howard Beales, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
COUNTERFEIT MEDICINE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine public health concerns of counterfeit medicine, focusing on the purchasing of pharmaceuticals, both brand name and generic, from outside the nation's borders and without the series of checks in place for drugs sold domestically, after receiving testimony from William K. Hubbard, Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning, and Legislation, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Elizabeth G. Durant, Executive Director of Trade Programs, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; John Theriault, Pfizer, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Rick C. Roberts, San Francisco, California.
