[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D564-D566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported 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.
NATIONAL EXPORT STRATEGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the national export strategy, focusing on 
the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC), activity in post-
crisis regions including the Afghanistan Reconstruction and frontline 
States in Central Asia, and transportation security and safety 
initiatives, after receiving testimony from Donald L. Evans, Secretary 
of Commerce; Grant D. Aldonas, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
International Trade; Philip Merrill, President and Chairman, Export-
Import Bank of the United States; Peter S. Watson, President and Chief 
Executive Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Hector V. 
Barreto, Jr., Administrator, Small Business Administration; and Barbara 
R. Bradford, Deputy Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency.
COMPUTER SPAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues concerning the extent and effects of 
receiving unsolicited commercial e-mail (computer spam), focusing on 
Federal efforts to combat its growing threat to web-based services, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Schumer and Dayton; Orson 
Swindle and Mozelle W. Thompson, both Commissioners of the Federal 
Trade Commission; Ted Leonsis, America Online Incorporated, Dulles, 
Virginia; Enrique Salem, Brightmail, Incorporated, San Francisco, 
California; J. Trevor Hughes, Network Advertising Initiative, York, 
Maine; Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), 
Washington, D.C.; and Ronald Scelson, Scelson Online Marketing, 
Slidell, Louisiana.
SAFETEA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
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, Jeffery Runge, Administrator, National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Annette M. Sandberg, Deputy 
Administrator, Federal Motor Carrier Administration, all of the 
Department of Transportation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 246, to provide that certain Bureau of Land Management land shall 
be held in trust for the Pueblo of Santa Clara and the Pueblo of San 
Ildefonso in the State of New Mexico, with amendments;
  S. 500, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study certain 
sites in the historic district of Beaufort, South Carolina, relating to 
the Reconstruction Era, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;

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  S. 520, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
facilities to the Fremont-Madison Irrigation District in the State of 
Idaho;
  S. 625, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to conduct certain 
feasibility studies in the Tualatin River Basin in Oregon, with an 
amendment;
  S. 635, to amend the National Trails System Act to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to update the feasibility and suitability 
studies of four national historic trails, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 519, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
study of the San Gabriel River Watershed;
  H.R. 733, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the 
McLoughlin House National Historic Site in Oregon City, Oregon, and to 
administer the site as a unit of the National Park System, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title; 
and
  H.R. 788, to revise the boundary of the Glen Canyon National 
Recreation Area in the States of Utah and Arizona.
ASIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: on Tuesday, May 20, 2003, Committee met 
in closed session to receive a briefing on North Korea and Indonesia 
from James A. Kelly, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs.
TRADE IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Committee on Foreign Relations: on Tuesday, May 20, 2003, Subcommittee 
on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded 
hearings to examine the future of U.S. economic relations in the 
Western Hemisphere, the success of the North American Free Trade 
Agreement (NAFTA), the U.S. trade agenda, the U.S.-Chile Free Trade 
Agreement, agriculture in the World Trade Organization (WTO), and 
additional actions on intellectual property, trade, and soybean rust, 
after receiving testimony from J.B. Penn, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Allen F. 
Johnson, Chief Agriculture Negotiator, Office of U.S. Trade 
Representative; Bart Ruth, Rising City, Nebraska, on behalf of the 
American Soybean Association; Carl Casale, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, 
Missouri; Robert W. Greene, Courtland, Alabama, on behalf of the 
National Cotton Council of America; Doug Boisen, National Corn Growers 
Association, Minden, Nebraska; Jim McDonald, Grangeville, Idaho, on 
behalf of U.S. Wheat Associates and National Association of Wheat 
Growers; Jim Quackenbush, Chokio, Minnesota, on behalf of the National 
Pork Producers Council; Andrew W. LaVigne, Florida Citrus Mutual, 
Lakeland, Florida; Jack Roney, American Sugar Alliance, and Thomas M. 
Suber, U.S. Dairy Export Council, both of Arlington, Virginia; and 
Gregg Doud, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, and David J. 
Frederickson, National Farmers Union, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  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;
  An original bill to establish a Millennium Challenge Corporation;
  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 Nations, 
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, Steven 
A. Browning, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, and 
two Foreign Service Officer promotion lists.
SARS: STATE AND LOCAL RESPONSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine the scope of the SARS 
outbreak, focusing

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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, after receiving testimony from 
Julie L. Gerberding, Director, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, and Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of 
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, both of 
the Department of Health and Hums Services; Michael T. Osterholm, 
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; Rodney N. Huebbers, Loudoun 
Healthcare, Incorporated, Leesburg, Virginia; Thomas R. Frieden, New 
York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York; Mary C. 
Selecky, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, on behalf of 
the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; Lawrence O. 
Gostin, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; Bruce R. 
Cords, Ecolab Incorporated, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Vicki Grunseth, 
Metropolitan Airports Commission, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 1053, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of 
genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the proposed reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
and the Office of Special Trustee, focusing on tribal economic 
development, self-determination and self governance policies and 
projects, accountability by the addition of Regional Trust 
Administrators and Trust Officers to serve as an additional resource 
for fiduciary trust transactions, and consolidated beneficiary 
services, after receiving testimony from Ross O. Swimmer, Special 
Trustee for American Indians, and Aurene M. Martin, Acting Assistant 
Secretary, Bureau of Indian Affairs, both of the Department of the 
Interior; Tex G. Hall, National Congress of American Indians, 
Washington, D.C.; John Berry, Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma, Quapaw, and 
Richard Sangrey, Albuquerque, New Mexico, both on behalf of the Inter-
Tribal Monitoring Service; Clifford Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribe, 
California, on behalf of the Tribal Trust Reform Consortium; and Keller 
George, Oneida Indian Nation, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the 
United South and Eastern Tribes (USET).
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of R. Hewitt Pate, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced 
by Senator Allen, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.