[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 75 (Tuesday, May 20, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D557-D559]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                              MAY 21, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Glen Klippenstein, of 
Missouri, Julia Bartling, of South Dakota, and Lowell Junkins, of 
Iowa, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal 
Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, and 
Thomas C. Dorr, of Iowa, to Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural 
Development, and to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation, 9:30 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the national export strategy, 10 a.m., 
SD-538.

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  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine issues related to computer spam, 9:30 a.m., SR-
253.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Transportation Equity Act for 
the 21st Century (TEA-21), 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider an 
original bill to authorize foreign assistance for fiscal year 2004, 
to make technical and administrative changes to the Foreign 
Assistance and Arms Export Control Acts and to authorize a 
Millennium Challenge Account, S. Con. Res. 7, expressing the sense 
of Congress that the sharp escalation of anti-Semitic violence 
within many participating States of the Organization for Security 
and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is of profound concern and efforts 
should be undertaken to prevent future occurrences, H.R. 192, to 
amend the Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 and the 
Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for the 
poorest people in developing countries under microenterprise 
assistance programs under those Acts, and the nominations of Ephraim 
Batambuze, of Illinois, and John W. Leslie, Jr., of Connecticut, 
both to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the African 
Development Foundation, Cynthia Costa, of South Carolina, and Ralph 
Martinez, of Florida, both to be an Alternate Representative of the 
United States of America to the Fifty-seventh Session of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations, Michael B. Enzi, of Wyoming, Paul 
Sarbanes, of Maryland, and James Shinn, of New Jersey, each to be a 
Representative of the United States of America to the Fifty-seventh 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nation, James B. 
Foley, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, 
Richard W. Erdman, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the People's 
Democratic Republic of Algeria, Jeffrey Lunstead, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of 
Sri Lanka, and to serve concurrently and without additional 
compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Maldives, Harry K. 
Thomas, Jr., of New York, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic 
of Bangladesh, Foreign Service Promotion List: 5 nominees beginning 
with Charles A. Ford, and Foreign Service Promotion List: 25 
nominees beginning with Toni Christiansen-Wagner, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations, to hold hearings to examine the scope of the SARS 
outbreak, focusing on the coordination of response to individual 
outbreaks among local, state, and Federal officials, as well as 
between government officials and the private sector, and what state 
and local officials are doing to anticipate and respond to the 
disease, 9 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine proposed legislation entitled ``Genetics Non-
Discrimination Act'', 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold oversight hearings to examine 
the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 10 
a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary; to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of R. Hewitt Pate, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, hearing to review the status of the 
World Trade Organization Negotiations on Agriculture, 10 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing and Related Programs, on Millennium Challenge 
Corporation, 2 p.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Legislative, on Architect of the Capitol (Not 
Capitol Visitor's Center), 10:30 a.m., H-140 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and Independent Agencies, 
on Benefits and Costs of Transportation Options, 10 a.m., 2358 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider the following bills: 
H.R. 23, Tornado Shelters Act; H.R. 1276, American Dream Downpayment 
Act; H.R. 1614, HOPE VI Program Reauthorization and Small Community 
Main Street Rejuvenation and Housing Act of 2003; and H.R. 2120, 
Financial Contracts Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on the Future of 
Kosovo, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following measures: 
H.J. Res. 4, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical 
desecration of the flag of the United States; H.R. 361, Sports Agent 
Responsibility and Trust Act; H.R. 1115, Class Action Fairness Act 
of 2003; and H. Res. 193, reaffirming support of the Convention on 
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and 
anticipating the 15th anniversary of the enactment of the Genocide 
Convention Implementation Act of 1987 (the Proxmire Act) on November 
4, 2003, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: S. 703, to designate the regional headquarters building 
for the National Park Service under construction in Omaha, Nebraska, 
as the ``Carl T. Curtis National Park Service Midwest Regional 
Headquarters Building''; H.R. 1082, to designate the Federal 
building and United States courthouse located at 46 East Ohio Street 
in Indianapolis, Indiana, as the ``Birch Bayh Federal Building and 
United States Courthouse''; H.R. 2115, Flight 100--Century of 
Aviation Reauthorization Act; the Aviation Security Technical 
Corrections and Improvement Act of 2003; several 11(b) Project 
Building Survey Resolutions; several U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 
Survey Resolutions; and other pending business, 11 a.m., 2167 
Rayburn.

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  Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines, to continue 
overview hearings on the Administration's Proposed Reauthorization 
bill (SAFETEA), (Part 111), 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on 
Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and Development, oversight 
hearing on ``Homeland Security Science and Technology: Preparing for 
the Future,'' 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine the economy, 
9:30 a.m., SH-216.