Bob Graham

Mr. GRAHAM

Mr. GRAHAM. I appreciate the remarks our colleague from Nevada, Senator Reid, has made regarding the contribution the Nevada Test Site has made to our development of weapons that were so critical to our success in the cold war and its potential for serving a role in the new war against terrorism. I appreciate the Senator's interest in increasing our capabilities to wage and win this war. I assure him our committee will give full attention to this opportunity. I very much appreciate the Senator having brought this to our attention. As the Senator from Nevada mentioned at the beginning of his remarks, this will be a period of some fundamental questions about the future of the intelligence community and how it can be best organized to deal with the new world in which we will be living, as opposed to the world in which it has spent most of its life to date, which was the world of a single enemy that we knew a lot about and that we had considerable experience in attempting to understand and respond to.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent reading of the amendment be dispensed with.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I send an amendment to the desk and ask for its immediate consideration. The amendment is in the nature of a second-degree amendment to the amendment of the Senator from New Hampshire.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I move to reconsider the vote on the Smith amendment.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I ask now for a vote on the underlying Smith amendment, as amended.

Mr. GRAHAM. The fact is, even with the sophisticated technology that our now-Presiding Officer just described, there is still a tremendous burden on intelligence. I visited some time ago in the course of my interest in seaport security what is the largest port in the world at Rotterdam, which uses a very advanced level of technology. But they can only inspect a relatively small percentage of all the containers that come into that port. So they must depend upon intelligence information to allow them to identify which of those thousands of containers that are arriving every day at Rotterdam are the ones that are the most suspicious and, therefore, need to have this advanced technology applied. While part of the Sea Port Security Act is going to give, hopefully as quickly as possible, to all of our ports significantly better technology, we are still going to be relying on intelligence to focus on which of those containers to which that technology would need to be applied. The legislation before us is a significant step in increasing our capability to provide that intelligence to seaports as well as to thousands of other American vulnerabilities.

Mr. GRAHAM. I think what we need to do is, yes, we need to pass the Seaport Protection Act and others. But our mentality needs to be one of anticipation and prevention, not one of waiting to be hit and then respond. The adoption of the Seaport Protection Act would be an example that we have not lapsed into a defensive mode but that we are on the offensive; that we are preparing to protect the American people before they are subject to attack.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, with my friend and colleague, Senator Shelby, I bring to the Senate S. 1428, the Intelligence Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2002. The tragic events of the past months and the reality that our Nation is engaged in a war against global terrorism make this year's intelligence authorization bill especially important. We all realize that good and timely intelligence is our first and sometimes our only line of defense against terrorism. It is not enough for us to attempt to determine who was the culprit and to bring that culprit to justice. What the American people want most is the capability to prevent acts of terrorism, which necessitates the best intelligence information on a timely basis so that actions to interrupt terrorist activities can take place before more Americans are attacked. To accomplish this prevention of terrorism strategy, we must provide our intelligence community with the resources and the authorities it needs to meet the expectations of the American people. Many of those authorities were contained in the antiterrorism act which the President signed the last Friday of October. Today we are going to be talking about the resources that will give life to those authorities and to the ongoing activities of the intelligence community. Our Select Committee on Intelligence marked up this bill on September 6, submitted it to the Armed Services Committee, and the Armed Services Committee has now reported the bill as submitted. Even though we took legislative action before September 11, we noted at the time that international terrorism was not a crisis--with it, the connotation that it is a short-term passing phenomenon--rather, international terrorism is a condition with which we will have to deal on a long-term basis. The committee strongly encouraged the intelligence community to orient itself accordingly by implementing policies under the control of the Director of Central Intelligence for regulating the various roles of the elements of the intelligence community that participate in the fight against terrorism. To that end, our legislation authorizes activities that will rebuild the foundation of our intelligence community so we can meet our long-term challenges. In the process of preparing this year's intelligence authorization bill, the committee spent considerable time reviewing the current status of the intelligence community. At this point, I recognize our vice chairman, Senator Shelby. He, of course, had been the chairman of this committee for a considerable period of time and started much of this process of in-depth review of the intelligence community which then put us in a position to take advantage of that work to provide what today will be some of the prescriptions based on the diagnosis of the problems. I particularly recognize Senator Shelby and the work in which he led the committee and our staff for many months. As a result of this review, we concluded that the intelligence community has been underfunded over the past decade--basically, the decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall--and its ability to conduct certain core missions had deteriorated. In order to correct these deficiencies, the committee identified four priorities to receive special emphasis in this year's bill: One, revitalization of the National Security Agency; two, correcting deficiencies in human intelligence; three, addressing the imbalance between collection and analysis; and four, providing sufficient funding for a robust research and development series of initiatives. These four priorities underpin the work of the intelligence committee in all areas, including counterterrorism. The committee believes that providing additional resources in these priorities is critical to assuring that the intelligence community is capable of providing our political and military decisionmakers with the accurate and timely intelligence they require to make the best decisions in the interest of the American people. By providing proper resources and attention to these four priorities, we will be able to support effectively the requirements placed on the intelligence community, including fighting global terrorism, but also a list of other challenging responsibilities: countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery system; stopping the flow of illicit narcotics; and understanding the capabilities, potential, and intentions of potential adversaries and foreign powers. It is important to note that the committee recognizes that a consistent and predictable funding stream is necessary to rebuild and maintain these priority areas. In preparing this year's legislation, the committee outlined a 5-year plan for each of these priorities. We believe this plan is consistent with the capacity of the various agencies within the intelligence community to absorb these additional funds and use them effectively, and that will result in a substantial new foundation under our intelligence community over the next 5 years in order to meet the challenges of the next decades. We know that our commitment to rebuild our intelligence community must be sustained over the long-term or our efforts this year will be wasted. Let me briefly explain what we are doing in each of these four priority areas. First, we are continuing the revitalization of the National Security Agency, or the NSA. The committee, under the leadership of Senator Shelby, has been pressing for this revitalization over the past 3 years. The NSA is the agency of our intelligence community that is responsible for assuring the security of United States communications, as well as collecting foreign electronic signals. In the parlance of intelligence, this is the signals agency. Five years from now, the NSA must have the ability to collect and exploit electronic signals in a vastly different communications environment than that in which we spent most of the second half of the 20th century. Along with significant investment in technology, this means closer collaboration with clandestine human collectors. If I could explain briefly, during the Cold War, the United States became extremely adept at intercepting electronic communications. Our system was largely based on communications that would move over the airwaves. We would put a listening device between the sender and receiver and could absorb massive amounts of information with relative impunity. Today, the computer and telecommunication systems that NSA employees will be attempting to intercept are much more difficult because they do not use the old over-the-airwaves system. To have the same level of electronic surveillance today that we did even 10 years ago is going to require a significant investment in new technology. I mentioned, also, the linkage to human intelligence. It was relatively easy to eavesdrop on the old communication technology. The new communication technologies will frequently require a human being to first gain access to the machine that you are trying to surveil, and then have that person who has gained access have sufficient technical capacity to be able to install the devices that are necessary to gain the information. So we are going to have to have a new generation of human intelligence that has a significantly higher component of technical expertise, especially in the communications area. The analysts--the ones who take this information that is collected-- must have sophisticated software tools to allow them to fully exploit the amount of data that will be available in the future. So our first objective is a continuation of the 3-year effort to revitalize the National Security Agency. Second, we must correct deficiencies in our human intelligence capabilities. In 5 years, our human intelligence collection efforts must be designed to meet the increasingly complex and growing set of human intelligence collection requirements. Most of the history of our intelligence community is since the Second World War. During World War II, we established America's first professional intelligence agency under the direction of the military. As soon as the war was over, it was disbanded. Two years later, President Truman, recognizing the rise of the Soviet Union, asked the Congress to establish a civilian agency and designate a director of central intelligence. Under that director, there were a number of agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency. For the next 40 years, we focused on one big target: the Soviet Union and its Warsaw pact allies. As I indicated, in the area of signals intelligence, we became very adept at listening to that big target. People were speaking basically in Russian. It was a culture that we understood and with which we had a long association since John Quincy Adams was our Ambassador to the czarist court in St. Petersburg. Now, in the post-Berlin Wall period, we are dealing with a wide diversity of targets, not just one. Many of these are targets with which we have not had a great deal of national history, and they speak many languages. In Afghanistan, for instance, in addition to English and Arabic, there are at least six major domestic languages. We are very deficient in our capabilities as a nation in many of these languages. We must increase the diversity of our human intelligence, our spies. We must recruit more effectively to operate in many places around the world where U.S. interests are threatened. The human intelligence system must be integrated into our other collection systems, particularly, as I indicated, with our National Security Agency, in order to gain effective access to new communications technology. In addition, the Director of Central Intelligence must conduct a rigorous analytical review of human intelligence collection requirements in the future so that we can be proactive with the resources necessary to meet those requirements. The Director of Central Intelligence must implement a performance measurement system to assure that our collection efforts are meeting the highest priority needs of our ultimate customers for intelligence--the President and military decisionmakers. Our third priority is addressing the growing imbalance between collection and analysis. Even with the deficiencies that I have mentioned in signals intelligence and human intelligence, we are still collecting a massive amount of information on an hourly basis. But the percentage of this collected information to that which is analyzed and converted into effective intelligence has been steadily declining since 1990. Collection systems are becoming more and more capable as our investment in analysis erodes. This disparity threatens to overwhelm our ability to analyze and use the information collected. The nightmare of the review of the events of September 11 would be if we find that there was a wiretap, for instance, on a foreign resident whom we had reason to suspect might be involved in some potential terrorist plot against the United States but that wiretap had not been listened to, translated from its foreign language--frequently it is an encrypted foreign language--into English and then analyzed in terms of what did it mean in terms of American security, and then that analysis is transferred to an effective law enforcement agency which could do something about the threat to American security. That nightmare underscores the importance of having the adequate capacity to analyze and convert information into intelligence. To address this problem, the committee has added funds for the Assistant Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for Analysis and Production to finance promising new analytical initiatives that will be beneficial across the intelligence community. The amount authorized is a downpayment on a 5-year spending profile to rebuild the community's all-source analytical capability. The words ``all-source'' refer to the fact that today there is a growing volume of information which is not clandestine, which is available through the newspapers, through other forms of public information, through the Internet. The challenge for the analysts of today is to take that open- source information and add to it the clandestine information gathered by our variety of sources and then produce a final intelligence document which will add to the ability of the ultimate decisionmaker, whether it is a military officer planning a combat action or whether it is the President of the United States attempting to set a strategic direction for American foreign policy. That decisionmaker will be in a better position to make an informed judgment to benefit the people of America. The committee has also included funding to implement the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, known as NIMA, which is the agency that collects imagery for intelligence purposes. We will fund internal modernization plans to support this imagery analysis associated with the future imagery architecture of our satellite system. The fourth and final priority for the intelligence community is providing additional funding for a robust research and development initiative. Over history, one of the hallmarks of American intelligence has been its leadership role in world technology. The U-2, which was groundbreaking in terms of aviation technology, was built by the CIA in just a matter of weeks when it was recognized that we needed to have an overhead capacity to observe the Soviet Union, particularly during the period that the Soviet Union was accelerating its nuclear program. Many of the telecommunications advances we now utilize and take for granted were first developed by the National Security Agency as part of our intelligence effort. Over the decade since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it has been stated that the intelligence community has often used its research and development budget as a bill payer for funding shortfalls in other programs and that we have sacrificed the modernization and the innovation of technology in the process. The committee has outlined a plan to reverse the intelligence community's declining investment in advanced research and development. The committee's classified annex includes a requirement for a review of several emerging technologies to determine what will provide the best long-term return on our investment. The committee also encourages a symbiotic relationship between the intelligence community and the private sector using innovative approaches, such as the CIA's In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is a venture capital fund, largely funded by the U.S. intelligence community, to stimulate new technologies through private sector entrepreneurs. It shows great promise. I should also mention that there is a fifth priority we have identified but to which we have not yet given the specific emphasis in this year's legislation as we will in the next. This area is referred to as MASINT. It is the newest form of intelligence collection; that is, the collection of measurements and signatures intelligence. MASINT encompasses a variety of technical and intelligence disciplines that are particularly important in countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery system. While the committee recognizes the importance of this vital area of intelligence, we are awaiting the completion of a community-wide review of our MASINT capabilities which was required by the fiscal year 2000 intelligence authorization bill. This study will include recommendations for building a robust MASINT capability that will meet the challenges of the 21st century. Admiral Wilson, the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, is leading this effort and has assured the committee this review will be completed and forwarded to the Congress in time to be considered as we prepare next year's authorization bill. We expect that rebuilding our MASINT capability will be a priority item in next year's legislation. I am confident we have outlined a 5-year plan that will rebuild and reenergize our intelligence community so that it can meet the challenges before it. The events of September 11 have increased the complexity as well as the quantity of those challenges to our intelligence community. I urge my colleagues to support this legislation and help it move to the President's desk as expeditiously as possible so that the resources we are authorizing can get to the community which needs them. I conclude by thanking some of those who have helped in the production of this important legislation. First, as I have indicated, much of this legislation is built on the foundation of the work that has been done over the past several years by our vice chairman, Senator Richard Shelby. He has been a valued partner and a good friend as we have worked through this legislation, as well as some of the other challenges the committee has faced this year. The members of the committee have played an active and constructive role in the development of this legislation. Our staff director, Al Cumming, our deputy director, Bob Filippone, and chief counsel, Vicki Divoll, have led the effort to put this bill together, as have our budget director, Melvin Dubee, chief clerk, Kathleen McGhee, and security director, Jim Wolfe. I might say, our security director has been especially challenged in the last few weeks as our offices are in the hot zone of the Hart Building, and we have been evacuated for the past 3 weeks while still maintaining security over a large volume of very sensitive documents. I also thank Senator Shelby's staff director, Bill Duhnke, for his work and assistance in putting this legislation together. This committee has had a long history of bipartisanship. We do not have a Democratic staff or Republican staff; we have ``a staff,'' and they work together effectively to serve the Senate and the American people. We have faced some unique challenges this year. The shift of control in the Senate was handled professionally and smoothly by our members as well as our staff. I again thank Senator Shelby for his great contribution to that effort. The comprehensive review of the defense and intelligence budgets caused us to receive the administration's budget request later than normal. This required our staff to work through the August recess and over the Labor Day weekend to prepare for our September 6 markup. The anthrax contamination in the Hart Building has forced us out of our offices for an extended period of time. Again, our staff has met the challenge and continues to fulfill its obligations under these challenging circumstances. I thank Mike DeSilvestro and his staff in the Office of Senate Security who have handed over some of their space and have shared their offices with our committee. I also thank Congressman Porter Goss, the chairman of our House counterpart committee, and his staff who have been equally accommodating. I am deeply indebted to all of these individuals and to our entire committee staff for their dedication, professionalism, and commitment to public service. I commend to our colleagues in the Senate the legislation which is the Intelligence Authorization Act for this fiscal year and urge its adoption.

Mr. GRAHAM. I appreciate those kind remarks. We do have a major challenge to see that the architecture of our intelligence agencies encourages innovative thinking, that the Senator's idea which he brings forward today will stimulate. I, too, was impressed with the article that appeared in today's Washington Post about the recommendations being made to the President by a man for whom I have great respect, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, which, as reported, will call for a closer collaboration among the intelligence agencies. That is something that has long been recommended but difficult to achieve because we are asking agencies that have a piece of current intelligence jurisdiction to release their hold. However, if we are to do things as suggested by the Senator from Nevada, new ways of thinking, of training for a new and continuous war--not only a war being fought over there but a war that is being fought right here on the homeland of the United States--we are going to need to have new organizational relationships. Eventually it will be the responsibility of the Congress, since it was the Congress which created the old architecture, to be the principal architect if we are to rebuild our intelligence capabilities to deal with the new challenges we face. I look forward to working with Senator Reid, Senator Shelby, and our colleagues in doing that in the most effective way and to be willing to put aside old ideas--not because old necessarily means they are bad ideas but be willing to challenge those ideas with new thinking to prepare to deal with new challenges.

Mr. GRAHAM. I yield.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, I am not aware of any other amendments to be offered to the bill. I have a managers' amendment I offer at this time.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, could the request be restated?

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.

Mr. GRAHAM. Madam President, the purpose of this amendment, which has been suggested by Senator Kyl, is to assure that if, in light of the rapidly changing world in which we are living, there are other proposals that need to be considered during the course of the conference, the conference committee will have the liberty to do so. I urge adoption of the amendment.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, obviously I am very touched by those kind remarks by my friend, colleague, and fellow Floridian, Senator Nelson. To speak to the broader point he made, using the example of seaport security, one of the things we as a nation cannot allow ourselves to lapse into is a practice of waiting until one of our infinite number of vulnerabilities has actually been attacked before we start the process of attempting to make it more secure. We have been attacked in the last 2 months basically in two areas: The conversion of commercial aircraft into weapons of mass destruction, and the use of the Postal Service to distribute anthrax. We don't know yet what the origin of that second attack was. We are now responding. We have passed massive economic assistance to the airline industry. We have now in conference legislation passed by both Houses in the area of airline and airport security. We will soon have a major bioterrorism bill before us, largely in response to the anthrax issue. Our Postal Service is now moving at the fastest possible pace to install technologies to check our mail to see that it is safe. While we are doing that, and that is certainly appropriate, we cannot forget all these other vulnerabilities. If you had asked me 5 years ago what I thought was the more likely to be the target of a terrorist, a commercial airline or a container delivered at an American seaport, I would have said the container. Why would I have said that? Because the security standards in our seaports are substantially less rigorous than at airports and airlines, even before September 11. Just a few statistics. We have 361 seaports, as Senator Nelson has outlined. Into those 361 seaports today and every day are delivered an average of 16,000 containers from noncontiguous nations; that is, not from Mexico or Canada but from the rest of the noncontiguous world. Of those 16,000, less than 3 percent are subject to close inspection. If a terrorist wanted to use one of those containers as a weapon of mass destruction, as 757s were used as weapons of mass destruction on September 11, frankly his chances of detection would be minimal. I have gotten some criticism making that same statement, suggesting that I am disclosing some confidential information of which the terrorists might rush to take advantage. I am certain the terrorists are well aware of those statistics because they have been widely reported. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record an article which appeared in yesterday's New York Times, based on their analysis of one relatively moderate-size port in America, the one at Portland, ME, and its vulnerabilities.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, if I could just conclude with, again, my appreciation for the very generous remarks of my friend and colleague, and also to relate what he has just said to the subject that is before us, which is the intelligence authorization bill.

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Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the following list of staff members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence be granted the privilege of the floor during consideration of S. 1428: Jim Barnett, Randy Bookout, Steven Cash, Thomas Corcoran, Paula DeSutter, Vicki Divoll, F.F., Peter Dorn, Melvin Dubee, Christopher Ford, Lorenzo Goco, Christopher Jackson, Ken Johnson, Mary Pat Lawrence, Mark Magee, Kathleen McGhee, Don Mitchell, Ken Myers, Don Stone, Linda Taylor, Tracye Winfrey, James Wolfe, and Amanda Krohn.

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Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Finance be authorized to meet in open executive session during the session of the Senate on Thursday, November 8, 2001.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, November 8, 2001. The purpose of this hearing will be to continue markup on the next Federal farm bill.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the full Committee on Environment and Public Works be authorized to meet on Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 2 p.m., to conduct a business meeting in SD-406 on the following items: 1. Nomination of William W. Baxter to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority; 2. Nomination of Kimberly Terese Nelson to be an Assistant Administrator of the Office of Environmental Information, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; and 3. Nomination of Steven A. Williams to be Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. 4. S. 835--Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge Establishment Act; 5. S. 990--American Wildlife Enhancement Act of 2001; 6. S. 1459--a bill to designate the Federal building and United States Courthouse located at 550 West Front Street in Boise, Idaho, as the ``James A. McClure Federal Building and United States Courthouse''; 7. S. 1593--Water Infrastructure Security and Research Development Act; 8. S. 1608--a bill to establish a program to provide grants to drinking water and wastewater facilities to meet immediate security needs; 9. S. 1621--a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency; Assistance Act to authorize the President to carry out a program for the protection of the health and safety of community members, volunteers, and workers in a disaster area; 10. S. 1622--a bill to extend the period of availability of unemployment assistance under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act in the case of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; 11. S. 1623--a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the President to appoint Children's Coordinating Officers for disaster areas in which children have lost 1 or more custodial parents; 12. S. 1624--a bill to establish the Office of World Trade Center Attack Claims to pay claims of injury to businesses and property suffered as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City that occurred on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes; 13. S. 1631--a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Response Assistance Act to Study of Emergency Communications Response System; 14. S. 1632--a bill to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to extend the deadline for submission of State recommendations of local governments to receive assistance for predisaster hazard mitigation and to authorize the President to provide additional repair assistance to individuals and households. 15. S. 1637--a bill to waive certain limitations on the use of the emergency fund for repair or reconstruction of highways, roads, and trails that suffered serious damage as a result of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center; 16. H.R. 643--African Elephant Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2001; 17. H.R. 645--Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2001; 18. H.R. 700--Asian Elephant Conservation Reauthorization Act of 2001; 19. S. Con. Res. 80--Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the 30th Anniversary of the Enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; 20. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Study Resolution for Tybee Island, Georgia; and 21. Several GSA Building and Lease Committee Resolutions.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a markup on Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 10 a.m., in Dirksen Room 226. Tentative Agenda 1. Nominations: Terry L. Wooten to be U.S. District Court Judge for the District of South Carolina and John P. Walters to be Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. II. Bills: S. 1630, a bill to extend for 6 additional months the period for which chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code, is reenacted [Carnahan/Grassley/Leahy/Bond/Harkin/Sessions/Brownback] and S. 986, a bill to allow media coverage of court proceedings [Grassley/ Schumer/Leahy/Smith/Allard/Feingold/Specter]. III. Resolution: S. Res. 23, A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the President should award the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays in honor of his distinguished career as an educator, civil and human rights leader, and public theologian [Cleland/Miller/Hollings].

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 10 a.m., to hold a nomination hearing. Agenda Nominees: Eric Javits, of New York, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as U.S. Representative to the Conference on Disarmament; Christopher Burnham, of Connecticut, to be Chief Financial Officer and an Assistant Secretary of State (Resource Management); Sichan Siv, of Texas, to be Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and an Alternate Representative to the Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations during his tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; and Richard Williamson, of Illinois, to be Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 9:30 a.m., in open session to consider the nominations of R.L. Brownlee to be under Secretary of the Army, Dale Klein to be Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs, and Peter B. Teets to be Under Secretary of the Air Force.

Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be authorized to meet on Thursday, November 8, 2001, at 2:30 p.m., on the nomination of Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., to be Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Mr. GRAHAM. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.