[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 50 (Thursday, March 27, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D309-D311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to 
examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the 
Department of Education, after receiving testimony from Roderick Paige, 
Secretary of Education.
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
proposed legislation making wartime supplemental appropriations, for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003, after receiving testimony 
from Tom Ridge, Secretary of Homeland Security; and Donald Rumsfeld, 
Secretary of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS: GAO/GPO/CBO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2004 for the General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, and 
Congressional Budget Office, after receiving testimony from David 
Walker, Comptroller, General Accounting Office; Bruce James, Public 
Printer, Government Printing Office; and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office.
NATO
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), after 
receiving testimony from Marc I. Grossman, Under Secretary of State for 
Political Affairs; and Douglas J. Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for 
Policy.
DISABLED MILITARY RETIREES
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 compensation for 
disabled military retirees, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Reid; Charles S. Abell, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness; Daniel L. Cooper, Under Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs for Benefits; Sarah T. Jennings, Principal Analyst, Defense 
Cost Estimate Unit, Congressional Budget Office; Carolyn L. Merck, 
former Specialist in Social Legislation, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Education, 
Work, and Income Security Issues, General Accounting Office; Colonel 
Steve Strobridge, USAF (Ret.), Military Officers Association of 
America, Alexandria, Virginia; Master Gunnery Sergeant Benjamin H. 
Butler, USMC (Ret.), National Association for the Uniformed Services, 
Springfield, Virginia; and G. Michael Schlee, American Legion National 
Headquarters, Indianapolis, Indiana.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: WARFIGHTERS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
closed hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
intelligence support to warfighters, after receiving testimony from 
Stephen A. Cambone, Under Secretary

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of Defense for Intelligence; Joan A. Dempsey, Deputy Director of 
Central Intelligence for Community Management; Lieutenant General 
Robert W. Noonan, Jr., USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, 
Department of the Army; Rear Admiral Richard B. Porterfield, USN, 
Director of Naval Intelligence, Department of the Navy; Major General 
Ronald F. Sams, USAF, Director of Intelligence, Surveillance and 
Reconnaissance, Department of the Air Force; and Brigadier General 
Michael E. Ennis, USMC, Director of Intelligence, Headquarters, Marine 
Corps.
HUMAN CLONING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine 
implications of cloning on women's health, focusing on reproductive 
technology, experimentation, and egg donations, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Landrieu; R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin 
Law and Medical Schools, Madison; Andrew Kimbrell, International Center 
for Technology Assessment, and Richard Doerflinger, United States 
Conference of Catholic Bishops, both of Washington, D.C.; Maria del 
Carmen Bustillo, South Florida Institute for Reproductive Medicine, 
Miami; Lynne Millican, Boston, Massachusetts; and John T. Bruchalski, 
Fairfax, Virginia.
ELECTRIC INDUSTRY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine various electricity proposals including S.475, to reform the 
nation's outdated laws relating to the electric industry, improve the 
operation of our transmission system, enhance reliability of our 
electric grid, increase consumer benefits from whole electric 
competition, and restore investor confidence in the electric industry, 
after receiving testimony Pat Wood III, Chairman, Nora Mead Brownell, 
Commissioner, William Massey, Commissioner, all of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission; P.G. Para, Jacksonville Electric Authority, 
Jacksonville, Florida; Ray Gifford, Progress and Freedom Foundation, 
David S. Svanda, National Association of Regulatory and Utility 
Commissioners, John Anderson, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, 
H. Allen Franklin, Southern Company, Alan H. Richardson, American 
Public Power Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Gerald Norlander, 
National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates, Silver 
Spring, Maryland; Phillip G. Harris, PJM Interconnection, LLC, 
Norristown, Pennsylvania; James P. Torgerson, Midwest Independent 
Transmission System Operator, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana; Glenn 
English, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, 
Virginia; Elizabeth A. Moler, Exelon Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, on 
behalf of the Electric Power Supply Association; and Phil Tollefson, 
Colorado Springs Utilities, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement, focusing on 
qualifications and contributions, accession protocols, and the NATO 
Response Force, receiving testimony from Ian Brzezinski, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs; Heather 
A. Conley, Janet L. Bogue, and Robert A. Bradtke, each a Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 1.
HIV/AIDS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the Federal role in combating the global 
transmission of AIDS in Africa, focusing on issues relating to 
research, prevention, care and treatment, HIV transmission through 
unsafe medical practices, and global control of tuberculosis and 
malaria, after receiving testimony from Claude A. Allen, Deputy 
Secretary of Health and Human Services; Maria J. Wawer, Columbia 
University Mailman School of Public Health, Rakai District, Uganda; and 
David Gisselquist, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Priscilla Richman Owen, of Texas, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Mary Ellen Coster Williams, of 
Maryland, and Victor J. Wolski, of Virginia, each to be a Judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims, Ricardo H. Hinojosa, of Texas, 
and Michael E. Horowitz, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the United 
States Sentencing Commission, and McGregor William Scott, to be United 
States Attorney for the Eastern District of California, Department of 
Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Edward C. Prado, of Texas, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Fifth Circuit, who was introduced by Senator Cornyn, 
Richard D. Bennett, to be United States District Judge for the District 
of Maryland, who was introduced by Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski, Dee 
D. Drell, to be United States District Judge for the Western District 
of Louisiana, who was introduced by Senator Landrieu and Representative 
Tauzin, J. Leon Holmes, to be United States District Judge for

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the Eastern District of Arkansas, who was introduced by Senators 
Lincoln and Pryor, and Susan G. Braden, of the District of Columbia, 
and Charles F. Lettow, of Virginia, each to be a Judge of the United 
States Court of Federal Claims, who were both introduced by Senator 
Bingaman.