House Appropriations Committee-Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services and Education
Oct. 9, 2002
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH OVERSIGHT (Chairman Regula, R-Ohio)
Oct. 9, 10:15 a.m., 2358 Rayburn Bldg.
Witnesses Scheduled:
Elias Zerhouni - director, National Institutes of Health
House Education and the Workforce Committee-
Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness
Oct. 9, 2002
TEACHER TRAINING (Chairman McKeon, R-Calif.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
Cornelia Ashby - director, Education, Workforce and Income
Security Issues, General Accounting Office;
Kurt Landgraf - president and CEO, Educational
Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.;
Wendell Cave - Division of Testing, Research and Internship, Education Professional Standards Board, Frankfort, Ky.;
Allen Mori - dean, Charter College of Education,
California State University, Los Angeles, Calif.;
Steven Brandick - director, Career Ladder Office,
Los Angeles Unified School District
House Energy and Commerce Committee-Subcommittee on Commerce,
Trade and Consumer Protection
Oct. 9, 2002
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE PACTS (Chairman Stearns, R-Fla.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
Florizelle Liser - assistant U.S. trade representative
for industry and telecommunications;
J. Gregory Sidak - American Enterprise Institute;
Scott Blake Harris - managing partner, Harris, Wiltshire and Grannis, LLP;
Larry Darby - owner, Darby Associates;
Leonard Waverman - professor of economics, London Business School
House Energy and Commerce Committee-Subcommittee on Health
Oct. 9, 2002
ACCESS TO GENERIC DRUGS (Chairman Bilirakis, R-Fla.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
PANEL:
Lester Crawford - acting commissioner, Food and Drug Administration;
Timothy J. Muris - chairman, Federal Trade Commission
PANEL:
Kathleen Jaeger - president and CEO, Generic Pharmaceutical Association;
Gregory J. Glover - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association;
Sharon Levine - associate executive director, Permanente Medical Group, representing RxHealth Value, Oakland, Calif.;
Mark Barondess - attorney Annapolis, Md.
House International Relations Committee-Subcommittee on
International Operations and Human Rights
Oct. 9, 2002
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT (Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
PANEL:
Felice Gaer - chairwoman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
PANEL:
Ghayret Sidik - Uyghur victim of religious persecution;
Udit Raj - national chairman, Lord Buddha Club;
M. L. Shahani - Christian victim of religious persecution
House Judiciary Committee-Subcommittee on Immigration,
Border Security and Claims
Oct. 9, 2002
INS INVESTIGATION OF L.A. AIRPORT SHOOTER (Chairman Gekas, R-Pa.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
William R. Yates - deputy executive associate commissioner, Office of Field Operations, Immigration Services Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS);
Daniel Pipes - Middle East Forum;
Steven A. Camarota - Center for Immigration Studies;
Paul Virtue - former general counsel, INS
House Select Intelligence Committee
Senate Select Intelligence Committee
Oct. 9, 2002
INVESTIGATION OF SEPT. 11. INTELLIGENCE FAILURES Updated
Joint Hearing
House Select Intelligence Committee (Chairman Goss, R-Fla.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
George J. Tenet - director of central intelligence;
Robert S. Mueller III - director, FBI;
Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden - director, National Security Agency
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee-Subcommittee
on Highways and Transit
Oct. 9, 2002
FEDERAL LANDS HIGHWAY PROGRAM Updated
Subcommittee Hearing
Highways and Transit Subcommittee (Chairman Petri, R-Wis.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
PANEL:
Neal A. McCaleb - assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian affairs;
Von Stokes - director of engineering, National Forest Systems,
U.S. Forest Service
PANEL:
Timothy A. Tubby - planner, Tribal Planning Office,
Mississippi Band of Choctaw;
Andrew Simpson - Navajo Nation Council Delegate,
Transportation and Community Development Committee, Bloomfield, N.M.;
Brian Doxtator - business committee member,
Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin;
Loretta Bullard - president, Kawerak, Inc.;
James Garrigan - director of tribal roads program,
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
House Veterans' Affairs Committee-Subcommittee on Health
Oct. 9, 2002
SAILORS' EXPOSURE TO CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS (Chairman Moran, R-Kan.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
William Winkenwerder Jr. - assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs;
Michael E. Kilpatrick - director of deployment health support, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and director, TRICARE Management Activity (which advises the undersecretary of Defense); Anna
Johnson-Winegar - deputy assistant to the secretary of Defense,
Chemical and Biological Defense;
Jonathan B. Perlin - deputy undersecretary of Veterans Affairs for health;
Robert J. Epley - associate deputy undersecretary of Veterans
Affairs for policy and program management, Veterans Benefits Administration
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee-
Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
Oct. 9, 2002
AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRESERVATION (Chairman Reed, D-R.I.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
Barbara J. Thompson - executive director, National Council of State Housing Agencies;
Louise Sanchez - president, National Alliance of HUD Tenants
Senate Finance Committee
Oct. 9, 2002
FINANCIAL WAR ON TERRORISM (Chairman Baucus, D-Mont.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
James Gurule - undersecretary of the Treasury for enforcement;
Alan Larson - undersecretary of State for economic,
business and agricultural affairs;
Michael Chertoff - assistant attorney general,
Criminal Division, Justice Department
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oct. 9, 2002
FOREIGN RELATIONS NOMINATIONS (Chairman Biden, D-Del.)
Nominations:
John R. Hamilton to be ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala
John F. Keane to be ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay
David N. Greenlee to be ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oct. 9, 2002
REDUCING NUCLEAR THREAT FROM RUSSIA (Chairman Biden, D-Del.)
Witnesses Scheduled:
PANEL:
John R. Bolton - undersecretary of State for arms control and international security
PANEL:
Representatives of State, Defense, Energy and Treasury departments
PANEL:
Kenneth Luongo - executive director, Russian-American Nuclear
Security Advisory Council, Princeton, N.J.