[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 131 (Tuesday, October 8, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1060-D1061]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 9, 2002

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation, to hold oversight hearings to examine 
affordable housing preservation, 2:30 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the financial 
war on terrorism focusing on new money trails, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of John Randle Hamilton, of North Carolina, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala; John F. Keane, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay; and David N. Greenlee, 
of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, 9 a.m., S-
116, Capitol.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the G8 global 
partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass 
destruction (10 + 10 Over 10), 10:15 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: business meeting to consider 
the nominations of Ruth Y. Goldway, of California, and Tony Hammond, 
of Virginia, each to be a Commissioner of the Postal Rate 
Commission, and other pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider the nomination of Mark B. McClellan, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Time to be announced, SC-
216, Capitol.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 2694, 
to extend Federal recognition to the Chickahominy Tribe, the 
Chickahominy Indian Tribe--Eastern Division, the Upper Mattaponi 
Tribe, the Rappahannock Tribe, Inc., the Monacan Tribe, and the 
Nansemond Tribe, 10 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Scott W. Muller, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of 
the Central Intelligence Agency, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, 
and Government Information, to hold hearings to examine new laws 
implemented by the Administration in the fight against terrorism, 10 
a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, 
to hold oversight hearings to examine the implementation of the USA 
Patriot Act (Public Law 107-56), and the Enhanced Border Security 
and Visa Entry Reform Act (Public Law 107-173), 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, to mark up the VA, HUD and 
Independent Agencies appropriations for fiscal year 2003, 2 p.m., 
2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, 
oversight hearing on the National Institutes of Health, 10:15 a.m., 
2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 21st 
Century Competitiveness, hearing on Training Tomorrow's Teachers: 
Ensuring a Quality Postsecondary Education, 2 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Telecommunications and 
Trade Promotion Authority: Meaningful Market Access Goals for 
Telecommunications Services in International Trade Agreements,'' 10 
a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Health, hearing titled ``Examining Issues Related 
to Competition in the Pharmaceutical Marketplace: A Review of the 
FTC Report, `Generic Drug

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Entry Prior to Patent Expiration','' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, to consider the following bills: 
H.R. 5205, to amend the District of Columbia Retirement Protection 
Act of 1997 to permit the Secretary of the Treasury to use estimated 
amounts in determining the service longevity component of the 
Federal benefit payment required to be paid under such Act to 
certain retirees of the Metropolitan Police Department of the 
District of Columbia; H.R. 5215, Confidential Information Protection 
and Statistical Efficiency Act of 2002; H.R. 4187, Presidential 
Records Act Amendments of 2002; and H.R. 2458, E-Government Act of 
2002; and to consider the following Committee Reports entitled: 
``Making Federal Computers Secure: Overseeing Effective Information 
Security Management;'' ``How Can The Federal Government Better 
Assist State and Local Governments Prepare for a Biological, 
Chemical, or Nuclear Attack?;'' ``The Federal Government's 
Continuing Efforts to Improve Financial Management;'' ``Defense 
Security Service: The Personnel Security Investigations (PSI) 
Backlog Poses a Threat to National Security;'' ``Federal Law 
Enforcement at the Borders and Ports of Entry: Challenges and 
Solutions;'' and ``Problems With the Presidential Gifts System,'' 11 
a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on 
International Operations and Human Rights, hearing on An Evaluation 
of the International Religious Freedom Report, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 
2155, to amend title 18, United States Code, to make it illegal to 
operate a motor vehicle with a drug or alcohol in the body of the 
driver at a land border port of entry; S. 1339, Persian Gulf War 
POW/MIA Accountability Act of 2002; H.R. 4967, Border Commuter 
Student Act of 2002; and H.R. 5334, to ensure that a public safety 
officer who suffers a fatal heart attack or stroke while on duty 
shall be presumed to have died in the line of duty for purposes of 
public safety officer survivor benefits, 11 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, to 
consider a private relief bill, time to be announced; and to hold an 
oversight hearing on ``The Immigration and Naturalization Services's 
(INS's) Interactions with Hesham Mohamed Al Hedayet,'' 3 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Highways and Transit, oversight hearing on Federal Lands Highway 
Program, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), Regarding Secret 
Chemical and Biological Tests Conducted on American Servicemembers, 
10:45 a.m., 334 Cannon.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: closed meeting of conferees on H.R. 5010, making 
appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2003, 10:30 a.m., HC-5, Capitol.
  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 5011, making 
appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base 
realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2003, 12:30 p.m., S-128, Capitol.