[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 7, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D485-D486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for National 
Guard and Reserve programs, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. H. 
Steven Blum, ARNG, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Lt. Gen. Roger C. 
Schultz, ARNG, Director, Army National Guard; Lt. Gen. Daniel James 
III, ANG, Director, Air National Guard; Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, USAR, 
Chief of Army Reserve; VADM John B. Totushek, USNR, Chief of Naval 
Reserve; Lt. Gen. Dennis M. McCarthy, USMCR, Commander of Marine Forces 
Reserve; Lt. Gen. James E. Sherrard III, USAFR, Chief of Air Force 
Reserve.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland met in closed 
session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed 
legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support met in closed session and approved for full committee 
consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of 
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subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for 
fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces met in 
closed session and approved for full committee consideration, those 
provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of 
proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2004 
for military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to mark up 
proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2004 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will meet again on tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 709, to award a congressional gold medal to Prime 
Minister Tony Blair.
GLOBAL SETTLEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the effects of, and compliance with, the terms of 
the global research analyst settlement among the U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange, National Association 
of Securities Dealers (NASD), the New York Attorney General, other 
state regulators and ten Wall Street firms, after receiving testimony 
from William H. Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Richard A. 
Grasso, New York Stock Exchange, Inc., and Robert Glauber, National 
Association of Securities Dealers, all of New York, New York; and 
Christine A. Bruenn, Augusta, Maine, on behalf of the North American 
Securities Administrators Association, Inc.
INDIAN LANDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine S. 
550, to amend the Indian Land Consolidation Act to improve provisions 
relating to probate of trust and restricted land, after receiving 
testimony from Wayne Nordwall, Director, Western Region, Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; John Berrey, Quapaw Tribal 
Business Committee, Quapaw, Oklahoma; Ben O'Neal, Eastern Shoshone 
Tribe Business Council, Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Sally Willit, New 
Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the Indian Land Working Group; and 
Cris E. Stainbrook, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Little Canada, 
Minnesota.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
nominations of Consuelo Maria Callahan, of California, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by 
Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Michael Chertoff, of New Jersey, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, who was introduced 
by Senators Corzine and Lautenberg, and L. Scott Coogler, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, who was 
introduced by Senators Shelby and Sessions, after each nominee 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.