[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 44 (Wednesday, March 19, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D260-D261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of 
Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from Tommy G. 
Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
ARMY POSTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
to examine the Posture of the United States Army, focusing on the power 
of new technologies, different organizations, and revitalized leader 
development initiatives, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. 
White, Secretary of the Army, and Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of Staff 
of the Army, both of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
acquisition policy and outsourcing issues, after receiving testimony 
from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Under Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; Angela B. 
Styles, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Office of 
Management and Budget; Stan Z. Soloway, Professional Services Council, 
Arlington, VA; and Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., American Federation of 
Government Employees (AFL-CIO), Washington, D.C.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal 
year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the National Guard 
and Reserve military and civilian personnel programs, after receiving 
testimony from Thomas F. Hall, Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Reserve Affairs, Bob Hollingsworth, Executive Director, National 
Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Office of the 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Major General 
Raymond F. Rees, ARNG, Acting Chief, National Guard Bureau; Lieutenant 
General Roger C. Schultz, ARNG, Director, Army National Guard; 
Lieutenant General Daniel James III, ANG, Director, Air National Guard; 
Lieutenant General James R. Helmly, USAR, Chief, Army Reserve; Vice 
Admiral John B. Totushek, USNR, Chief, Naval Reserve; Lieutenant 
General Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR, Commander, Marine Forces Reserve; 
and Major General John J. Batbie, Jr., USAFR, Vice Chief of Air Force 
Reserve.
NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
nonproliferation policies and programs of the Department of State, 
focusing on curbing the supply of material, equipment, and technology 
for weapons of mass destruction and missiles to proliferators or 
terrorists, persuading states seeking to acquire weapons of mass 
destruction and missiles to cease those efforts, maintaining and 
strengthening the international system of nonproliferation treaties and 
regimes, promoting international nuclear cooperation under the highest 
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safety standards, and containing the transfer of advanced conventional 
arms to states of concern, and terrorists, after receiving testimony 
from John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of Nonproliferation, and Richard 
J.K. Stratford, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy Affairs, Bureau of 
Nonproliferation, both of the Department of State; and Rose E. 
Gottemoeller, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Charles B. 
Curtis, Nuclear Threat Initiative, and Amy E. Smithson, Henry L. 
Stimson Center, all of Washington, D.C.
CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the effects and consequences of 
the economic emergence of China and presence in U.S. capital markets, 
focusing on its role as a strategic power in East Asia, the World Trade 
Organization (WTO), the Korean peninsula, free trade and national 
security, after receiving testimony from Randall G. Schriver, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; 
Charles Freeman, Deputy Assistant, U.S. Trade Representative; Robert A. 
Kapp, United States-China Business Council, Hilary Rosen, Recording 
Industry Association of America, Larry M. Wortzel, Heritage Foundation, 
and David M. Lampton, Nixon Center, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An original bill, to amend the Public Health Service Act to establish 
a program to assist family caregivers in accessing affordable and high-
quality respite care;
  An original bill, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
to authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require certain 
research into drugs used in pediatric patients;
  S. 15, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the 
payment of compensation for certain individuals with injuries resulting 
from the administration of smallpox countermeasures, to provide 
protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or 
nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the 
United States, and to improve immunization rates by increasing the 
distribution of vaccines and improving and clarifying the vaccine 
injury compensation program, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of Karen Lias Wolff, of Michigan, Mary Costa, of 
Tennessee, and Jerry Pinkney and Makoto Fujimura, both of New York, 
each to be a Member of the National Council on the Arts.
ENERGY RESOURCES ON INDIAN LANDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine S. 
424, to establish, reauthorize, and improve energy programs relating to 
Indian tribes, and S. 522, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to 
assist Indian tribes in developing energy resources, after receiving 
testimony from Theresa Rosier, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Indian Affairs; Vicky Bailey, Assistant Secretary of 
Energy for Policy and International Affairs; Arvin Trujillo, Navajo 
Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; Vernon Hill, Eastern Shoshone Business 
Council, Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Sam Maynes, Southern Ute Tribal 
Council, Ignacio, Colorado; A. David Lester and Victor Roubidoux, both 
of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado; and Robert 
P. Gough, Intertribal Council on Utility Policy, Rosebud, South Dakota.
REPRODUCTIVE CLONING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
ethical issues of human cloning, focusing on both reproductive cloning 
and the use of nuclear transplantation in research with human stem 
cells, after receiving testimony from Senator Brownback; Representative 
Langevin; Leon Kass, American Enterprise Institute, Chicago, Illinois; 
Thomas H. Murray, The Hastings Center, Garrison, New York; Harold 
Varmus, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; 
Anton-Lewis Usala, East Carolina University, Greenville, North 
Carolina; Micheline M. Mathews-Roth, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Paul Berg, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; 
Greg Wasson, Cotati, California, on behalf of the Coalition for the 
Advancement of Medical Research; and James Kelly, Granbury, Texas.
SECRETARY OF THE SENATE/ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to examine the operations of the offices of the Secretary of 
the Senate and the Architect of the Capitol, after receiving testimony 
from Emily J. Reynolds, Secretary of the Senate; and Alan M. Hantman, 
Architect of the Capitol, who were both accompanied by several of their 
associates.