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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D976-D977 on Sept. 24, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
9/11 RESPONSE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Federal government's role and response to September 11 recovery efforts and steps the Environmental Protection Agency is taking to better prepare for and respond to any tragic events that may occur, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman, Administrator, Marianne Horinko, Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and Jane Kenny, Regional Administrator, Region 2, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Kerry Kelly, New York City Fire Department, Madelyn Wils, Community Board #1, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, and Daniel L. Greenberg, Legal Aid Society, all of New York, New York; and Jack Reall, Ohio Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team, Sunbury.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on Iraq from George J. Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Carl W. Ford, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Rear Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby, Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense; and Rhys Williams, Director, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Division, Office of Intelligence, Department of Energy.
WEST NILE VIRUS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to examine the emerging threat of the West Nile Virus, focusing on the adequacy of federal and state response to increasing disease incidence, and future challenges to respond to health threats posed by naturally occurring infectious diseases, also considering the safety of the nation's blood supply, and efforts to accelerate the development of a West Nile virus vaccine, after receiving testimony from Jesse Goodman, Deputy Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and Julie L. Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Fay W. Boozman, Arkansas Department of Health, Little Rock; John R. Lumpkin, Illinois Department of Public Health, Springfield; Sidney A. Houff, Loyola University Medical Center, Neuroscience and Aging Institute, Maywood, Illinois; and Nickie Monica, St. John the Baptist Parish, LaPlace, Louisiana.
SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the role of the Office of Special Trustee for American Indians with respect to American Indian Trust Fund Management Program reform, after receiving testimony from James Cason, Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior; and Paul M. Homan, Washington, D.C., and Thomas N. Slonaker, Potomac, Maryland, both former Special Trustees for American Indians, Department of the Interior.
DC JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Court concluded hearings to examine the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, focusing on issues of ideological balance and judicial nominations and confirmations, after receiving testimony from Abner J. Mikva, University of Chicago Law School, Illinois; Fred F. Fielding, Wiley, Rein, and Fielding, Bradford R. Clark, George Washington University Law School, and Michael H. Gottesman, Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; and Christopher H. Schroeder, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina.
