[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 56 (Tuesday, April 8, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D364-D366]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HIV/AIDS/SARS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to 
examine the global AIDS crisis and the recent emergence of Severe Acute 
Respiratory Syndrome, after receiving testimony from Julie Gerberding, 
Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Elias Zerhouni, 
Director, National Institutes of Health, and Anthony S. Fauci, 
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, all of 
the Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: NIH
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 National 
Institutes of Health, after receiving testimony from Elias Zerhouni, 
Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services.
APPROPRIATIONS: SEC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the U.S. Securities 
and Exchange Commission, after receiving testimony from William H. 
Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
BUDGET: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded hearings to examine the proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2004 for Emergency Preparedness and Response, focusing on 
America's disaster response capabilities, pharmaceutical and vaccine 
stockpiles, assisting all levels of government, first responses, 
volunteer groups, and the public in meeting emergency challenges, and 
maintaining public information programs, after receiving testimony from 
Michael Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for the Emergency 
Preparedness and Response Directorate.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: HOMELAND DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 for the 
Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on 
homeland defense, after receiving testimony from Paul McHale, Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense; General Ralph E. Eberhart, 
USAF, Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command, and United 
States Northern Command; and Admiral James O. Ellis, USN, Commander, 
United States Strategic Command.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: STRATEGIC FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded 
open and closed hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on 
strategic forces and policy, after receiving testimony from Linton F. 
Brooks, Acting Administrator, and Everet H. Beckner, Deputy 
Administrator, Defense Programs, both of the National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr., USN, 
Commander, United States Strategic Command; Rear Admiral Charles B. 
Young, USN, Director, Strategic Systems Programs, Department of the 
Navy; and Brigadier General Robert L. Smolen, USAF, Director, Nuclear 
and Counterproliferation, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air 
and Space Operations.
REAL ESTATE SETTLEMENT PROCEDURES ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the impact of the proposed Real Estate Settlement 
Procedures Act Rule on small business and consumers to simplify and 
improve the process of obtaining home mortgages, and to reduce 
settlement costs for consumers, focusing on clarifying difficult rules 
and regulations that pose unnecessary legal risks and serve to trump 
operational efficiencies that could streamline the mortgage process, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Manzullo; Charles J. 
Kovaleski, American Land Title Association, Margot Saunders, National 
Consumer Law Center, on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America, 
Consumers Union, and U.S. Public Interest Research Group, and Ira 
Rheingold, National Association of Consumer Advocates, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Gary E. Acosta, SDF Realty, San Diego, California, on 
behalf of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate 
Professionals; Catherine Whatley, National Association of Realtors, 
Chicago, Illinois; John Courson, Central

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Pacific Mortgage Company, Folsom, California, on behalf of the Mortgage 
Bankers Association of America; Neill Fendly, National Association of 
Mortgage Brokers, McLean, Virginia.
TAXATION OF DIVIDENDS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs and Product Safety concluded hearings to examine the 
President's proposal to eliminate the double taxation of dividends, 
focusing on its impact on corporate governance, investment efficiency, 
productivity, job creation, and economic growth, after receiving 
testimony from Peter R. Fisher, Under Secretary of the Treasury for 
Domestic Finance; Charles Elson, University of Delaware, Newark; 
Elizabeth W. Bull, Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas; John W. Rowe, Exelon 
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; and Jeremy Siegel, University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
BUSINESS MEETING: COMPREHENSIVE ENERGY LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met to consider 
comprehensive energy legislation, focusing on provisions relating to 
hydrogen, personnel and training, State energy programs, energy 
efficiency, and renewable energy, but did not complete action thereon, 
and will meet again on Wednesday, April 9.
CLEAR SKIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine S. 
485, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through 
expansion of cap and trade programs, to provide an alternative 
regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade 
program, after receiving testimony from Christine Todd Whitman, 
Administrator, and Jeffrey Holmstead, Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Air and Radiation, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; 
Glenn L. McCullough, Jr., Tennessee Valley Authority; James E. Rogers, 
Cinergy Corp, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the Edison Electric 
Institute; David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council, 
Washington, D.C.; Eugene Trisko, United Mine Workers of America, 
Fairfax, Virginia; Bernard Melewski, The Adirondack Council, 
Elizabethtown, New York; and Bob Colburn, Northeast States for 
Coordinated Air Use Management, Boston, Massachusetts.
ENRON
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Joint 
Committee on Taxation Investigative Report on executive compensation 
and company-owned life insurance arrangements of Enron Corporation and 
related entities, after receiving testimony from Mary M. Schmitt, 
Acting Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Pamela F. Olson, 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Charles E. Essick, 
Towers Perrin, Houston, Texas; Kathryn J. Kennedy, John Marshall Law 
School, Chicago, Illinois; and Bruce J. McNeil, Dorsey and Whitney LLP, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement, after receiving 
testimony from Marc I. Grossman, Under Secretary of State for Political 
Affairs; General Wesley K. Clark, USA (Ret.), Wesley Clark and 
Associates, Little Rock, Arkansas; and William Kristol, The Weekly 
Standard, Washington, D.C.
GLOBAL ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings to examine global 
energy security issues, focusing on petroleum trends, the Western 
Hemisphere, Russia, the Caspian region, Africa, domestic energy 
supplies, and oil market dynamics, after receiving testimony from Kyle 
E. McSlarrow, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Alan P. Larson, Under 
Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; 
Daniel Yergin, Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Vahan Zanoyan, PFC Energy, and Martha Brill Olcott, 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington, D.C.
HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of 
Columbia concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on 
Government Reform's Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency 
Organization to examine the federal government's strategic human 
capital management and related proposals to facilitate the General 
Accounting Office's efforts to recruit and retain top talent, develop a 
more performance-based compensation system, help realign the federal 
workforce, and facilitate succession planning and knowledge transfer 
efforts, after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office; Dan G. Blair, 
Deputy Director, Office of Personnel Management; Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., 
American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, Colleen M. 
Kelley, National Treasury Employees Union, Carol A. Bonosaro, Senior 
Executives Association, Hannah S. Sistare, National Commission on the 
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Partnership for Public Service, and Major General Robert A. McIntosh, 
USAF (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association of the United States, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Karen Heiser, Federal Managers Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Steven J. Kelman, Harvard University John F. 
Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jeff 
Taylor, Monster, Maynard, Massachusetts.
MAMMOGRAPHY QUALITY STANDARDS ACT AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the Mammography Standards Act of 1992, to 
amend the Public Health Service Act to establish the authority for the 
regulation of mammography services and radiological equipment, after 
receiving testimony from D. David Dershaw, Cornell University Medical 
College, Ithaca, New York, on behalf of the Society for Breast Imaging; 
Diana Rowden, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Susan G. Komen Breast 
Cancer Foundation; and Leonard Berlin, Rush Medical College, Chicago, 
Illinois.
CRIME VICTIMS' RIGHTS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
S.J. Res. 1, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States to protect the rights of crime victims, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Royce; Viet D. Dinh, Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Legal Policy, Department of Justice; Collene 
Thompson Campbell, California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and 
Training, San Juan Capistrano; Steven J. Twist, National Victims 
Constitutional Amendment Project, Phoenix, Arizona; James Orenstein, 
Fordham University and New York University, New York; Earlene Eason, 
Gary, Indiana; Duane Lynn, Peoria, Arizona; and Patricia Perry, 
Seaford, New York.
SERGEANT AT ARMS/LOC/CRS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to examine the operations of the offices of the Sergeant at 
Arms, Library of Congress, and Congressional Research Service, after 
receiving testimony from William Pickle, Sergeant at Arms of the 
Senate, and Alfonso E. Lenhardt, former Sergeant at Arms of the Senate; 
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; and Daniel P. Mulholland, 
Director, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, each 
were accompanied by several of their associates.