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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1103-D1104 on Nov. 6, 2001.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NEW FEDERAL FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee met and approved Titles VIII (Forestry) and IX (Energy) of S. 1628, to strengthen the safety net for agricultural producers, to enhance resource conservation and rural development, to provide for farm credit, agricultural research, nutrition, and related programs, and to ensure consumers abundant food and fiber.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Raymond F. Burghardt, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Larry Miles Dinger, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, Charles Lawrence Greenwood, Jr., of Florida, for rank of Ambassador as Coordinator for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Charles Lester Pritchard, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador as Special Envoy for Negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and United States Representative to the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
(KEDO), and Darryl Norman Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Odessa F. Vincent, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominee, who was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
BIOTERRORISM PREPAREDNESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information concluded hearings to examine the potential threat to America posed by the use of certain biological agents and toxins, focusing on federal, state, and local law enforcement efforts to combat acts of biological terror, including research and public health responders, after receiving testimony from James T. Caruso, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and James S. Reynolds, Chief, Terrorism and Violent Crime Section, Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice; Mayor Steven L. Abrams, Boca Raton, Florida; John Parachini, RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Michael V. Drake, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology; andRonald M. Atlas, University of Louisville Center for Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism, Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the American Society for Microbiology Task Force on Biological Weapons.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Thomas L. Sansonetti, of Wyoming, to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Thomas and Enzi, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
