[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 75 (Tuesday, May 20, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D552-D554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, 
and General Government concluded hearings to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of the Treasury, 
after receiving testimony from John Snow, Secretary of the Treasury.
CREDIT REPORTING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine

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the implementation and role of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and issues 
presented by the Re-authorization of the Expiring Preemption 
Provisions, including the consumer right to opt out of prescreening, 
reporting accuracy, consumer right to know, consumer dispute rights, 
and Federal Trade Commission interpretive guidance and enforcement, 
after receiving testimony from Howard Beales, Director, Bureau of 
Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Nicholas Gregory Mankiw, of 
Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, 
Steven B. Nesmith, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, and Jose Teran, of Florida, James 
Broaddus, of Texas, Lane Carson, of Louisiana, and Morgan Edwards, of 
North Carolina, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
National Institute of Building Sciences.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine CEO compensation in the post-Enron Era, focusing on 
top priorities for executive compensation reform, the free market and 
the market value of CEO's, after receiving testimony from Peter C. 
Clapman, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association College Retirement 
Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF), and Joseph E. Bachelder, The Bachelder Firm, 
both of New York, New York; Damon A. Silvers, American Federation of 
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, 
D.C.; Sean Harrigan, California Public Employees' Retirement System, 
Sacramento; and Brian J. Hall, Harvard Business School, Boston, 
Massachusetts.
CRAB RATIONALIZATION PLAN
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues relating to the Bering Sea and Aleutian 
Island Crab Rationalization Plan, focusing on processor quotas, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Murray; Kevin Duffy, Alaska Department 
of Fish and Game, Juneau; David Fraser, CRAB Rationalization and 
Buyback Group, Sitka, Alaska; Arni Thomson, Alaska Crab Coalition, 
Seattle, Washington; and Linda Freed, Kodiak, and Frank Kelty, 
Unalaska, both of Alaska.
SAFETEA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure held hearings to examine S. 1072, to 
authorize funds for Federal-aid highways, highway safety programs, and 
transit programs, (also known as SAFETEA (Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 
and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003)), receiving testimony 
from Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NORTH KOREAN NARCOTICS THREAT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial 
Management, the Budget, and International Security concluded hearings 
to examine drugs, counterfeiting, and weapons proliferation, focusing 
on North Korea and methamphetamine trafficking to Japan and heroin 
trafficking to Taiwan, smuggling and trade in counterfeit goods and 
endangered species, and organized crime, after receiving testimony from 
Andre D. Hollis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Counternarcotics; William Bach, Director, Office of African, Asian and 
European Affairs, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, Department of State; Nicholas Eberstadt, American 
Enterprise Institute, Robert L. Gallucci, Georgetown University Walsh 
School of Foreign Service, and Larry M. Wortzel, Heritage Foundation, 
all of Washington, D.C.; and certain protected witnesses.
NARCO-TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
scope and impact of international drug trafficking and its relationship 
to terrorism, after receiving testimony from Steven W. Casteel, 
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, and Steven C. McCraw, Assistant Director, Office of 
Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department 
of Justice; Deborah A. McCarthy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 
for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; John P. Clark, 
Interim Director, Office of Investigations, Bureau of Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security; Raphael Perl, 
Specialist in International Affairs, Congressional Research Service, 
Library of Congress; Rensselaer W. Lee III, Global Advisory Services, 
McLean, Virginia; and Larry C. Johnson, Berg Associates, LLC, 
Washington, D.C.
KENNEDY CENTER/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to examine operations of the John F. Kennedy Center for the 
Performing Arts, and the Smithsonian Institution, after receiving 
testimony from Michael M. Kaiser, President, John F. Kennedy Center for 
the Performing Arts, and

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Lawrence M. Small, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, both of 
Washington, D.C.
AGING BABY BOOM GENERATION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
certain innovative services and technologies to promote healthy and 
independent aging, focusing on opportunities for scientific, 
engineering, government and commercial organizations to collaborate on 
large-scale efforts that meet the needs of individuals, families, 
caregivers, and social and medical institutions that provide services 
to older adults, after receiving testimony from Josefina G. Carbonell, 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Aging; Maria 
Greene, Georgia Department of Human Resources Division of Aging 
Services, and Gregory D. Abowd, Georgia Institute of Technology College 
of Computing, both of Atlanta; Kevin J. Mahoney, Boston College 
Graduate School of Work, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on behalf of 
Cash and Counseling Demonstration and Evaluation; and Ronald H. Aday, 
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro.