[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 5, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D186-D188]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ARMY CIVIL WORKS PROGRAM/BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings to examine the proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2004 for the Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of 
Reclamation energy and water development programs, after receiving 
testimony from Les Brownlee, Under Secretary of the Army and Acting 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Lieutenant General 
Robert B. Flowers, Chief of Engineers, and Major General Robert H. 
Griffin, Director of Civil Works, both of the United States Army Corps 
of Engineers; and Bennett W. Raley, Assistant Secretary for Water and 
Science, and John W. Keys, III, Commissioner, United States Bureau of 
Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Appropriations: On Tuesday, March 4, Committee announced 
the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies: 
Senators Bennett (Chairman), Cochran, Specter, Bond, McConnell, Burns, 
Craig, Brownback, Kohl, Harkin, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, and 
Landrieu.
  Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary: Senators 
Gregg (Chairman), Stevens, Domenici, McConnell, Hutchison, Campbell, 
Brownback, Hollings, Inouye, Mikulski, Leahy, Kohl, and Murray.
  Subcommittee on Defense: Senators Stevens (Chairman), Cochran, 
Specter, Domenici, Bond, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg, Hutchison, Burns, 
Inouye, Hollings, Byrd, Leahy, Harkin, Dorgan, Durbin, Reid, and 
Feinstein.
  Subcommittee on District of Columbia: Senators DeWine (Chairman), 
Hutchison, Brownback, Landrieu, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Domenici 
(Chairman), Cochran, McConnell, Bennett, Burns, Craig, Bond, Reid, 
Byrd, Hollings, Murray, Dorgan, and Feinstein.

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  Subcommittee on Foreign Operations: McConnell (Chairman), Specter, 
Gregg, Shelby, Bennett, Campbell, Bond, DeWine, Leahy, Inouye, Harkin, 
Mikulski, Durbin, Johnson, and Landrieu.
  Subcommittee on Homeland Security: Senators Cochran (Chairman), 
Stevens, Specter, Domenici, McConnell, Shelby, Gregg, Campbell, Craig, 
Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Kohl, and Murray.
  Subcommittee on Interior: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens, 
Cochran, Domenici, Bennett, Gregg, Campbell, Brownback, Dorgan, Byrd, 
Leahy, Hollings, Reid, Feinstein, and Mikulski.
  Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education: 
Senators Specter (Chairman) Cochran, Gregg, Hutchison, Craig, Stevens, 
DeWine, Shelby, Harkin, Hollings, Inouye, Reid, Kohl, Murray, and 
Landrieu.
  Subcommittee on Legislative Branch: Senators Campbell (Chairman), 
Bennett, Stevens, Durbin, and Johnson.
  Subcommittee on Military Construction: Senators Hutchison (Chairman), 
Burns, Craig, DeWine, Brownback, Feinstein, Inouye, Johnson, and 
Landrieu.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and General Government: 
Senators Shelby (Chairman), Specter, Bond, Bennett, Campbell, 
Hutchison, DeWine, Brownback, Murray, Byrd, Mikulski, Reid, Kohl, 
Durbin, and Dorgan.
  Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies: Senators Bond 
(Chairman), Burns, Shelby, Craig, Domenici, DeWine, Hutchison, 
Mikulski, Leahy, Harkin, Byrd, Johnson, and Reid.
  Senators Stevens and Byrd are Ex Officio Members of all the 
Subcommittees.
E-911 IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings to examine the implementation of 
enhanced 911 (E-911) services for wireless telephones and technology, 
public safety communications, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Clinton; Representatives Shimkus and Eshoo; Kathleen Q. Abernathy, and 
Jonathan S. Adelstein, each a Commissioner, Federal Communications 
Commission; New York State Assemblyman David Koon, Albany; Jenny 
Hansen, State of Montana Public Safety Services Office, Helena; John 
Melcher, Greater Harris County 911 Emergency Network, Houston, Texas, 
on behalf of the National Emergency Number Association; Thera Bradshaw, 
City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency, California, on 
behalf of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials 
International; Michael Amarosa, TruePosition, Inc., New York, New York; 
S. Mark Tuller, Verizon Wireless, Bedminster, New Jersey.
TRADE AGENDA
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the 
Administration's Trade Agenda, focusing on a strategy to promote global 
economic growth through an open and free world trading system, 
including issues relating to Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), the World 
Trade Organization (WTO), and free trade agreements, receiving 
testimony from Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Daniel Pearson, of Minnesota, and Charlotte A. Lane, of 
West Virginia, both to be Members of the United States International 
Trade Commission.
TURKISH AID
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on Turkish aid negotiations and developments in 
northern Iraq from Beth Jones, Assistant Secretary for European 
Affairs, Earl Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary for Economic and 
Business Affairs, and Ryan C. Crocker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Near Eastern Affairs, all of the Department of State.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the Convention Between the Government of the United States Of America 
and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital Gains 
(Treaty Doc. 107-19), the Protocol Amending the Convention Between the 
Government of the United States Of America and the Government of 
Australia for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of 
Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income (Treaty Doc. 107-20), 
and the Second Additional Protocol that Modifies the Convention Between 
the Government of the United States of America and the Government of 
the United Mexican States for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the 
Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Income (Treaty 
Doc. 108-3), after receiving testimony from David Noren, Legislation 
Counsel, Joint Committee on Taxation; Barbara M. Angus, International 
Tax Counsel, Department of

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the Treasury; and William A. Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 380, to amend chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, to reform 
the funding of benefits under the Civil Service Retirement System for 
employees of the United States Postal Service, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Janet Hale, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of 
Homeland Security for Management, and Linda M. Springer, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, 
Office of Management and Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Ross Owen Swimmer, of Oklahoma, to be Special Trustee, 
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the 
Interior.
2004 BUDGET: INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2004 for Indian 
programs, after receiving testimony from Charles Louis Kincannon, 
Director, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Aurene 
Martin, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; 
William Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for Public and Indian Housing; Victoria Vasques, Director 
of the Office of Indian Education, Department of Education; and Charles 
W. Grim, Interim Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health 
and Human Services.
ASBESTOS LITIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
asbestos litigation crisis, and its economic issues including the costs 
of settlements and judgments, possible reforms, and the need to 
compensate victims of asbestos-related disease, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Baucus and Voinovich; David Austern, Manville 
Personal Injury Settlement Trust, Fairfax, Virginia, Dennis Archer, 
American Bar Association, and Jonathan Hiatt, American Federation of 
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), both of 
Washington, D.C.; Steven Kazan, Kazan, McClain, Edises, Abrams, 
Fernandez, Lyons, and Farrise, Oakland, California; Melvin McCandless, 
Williamston, North Carolina; and Brian Harvey, Vashon, Washington.