[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 76 (Wednesday, May 21, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D570-D571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              MAY 22, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine federal 
funding for stem cell research, 9:30 a.m., SR-418.
  Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related 
Agencies, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Agriculture and the Food and 
Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, 9:30 
a.m., SD-192.
  Subcommittee on Interior, to hold hearings to examine proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Energy, 
9:30 a.m., SD-124.
  Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and General Government, 
to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2004 for highway safety initiatives, 10:30 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the economy, focusing on increasing 
investment in the equity markets, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to continue 
hearings to examine media ownership, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Full Committee, to hold closed hearings to examine proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, 2:30 
p.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Communications, to hold hearings to examine 
wireless broadband in rural areas, 2:30 p.m., SD-562.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine Iraq 
stabilization and reconstruction, focusing on U.S. policy and plans, 
2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold oversight hearings to examine 
the status of telecommunications in Indian Country, 10 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 554, 
to allow media coverage of court proceedings, S. 1023, to increase 
the annual salaries of justices and judges of the United States, S. 
858, to extend the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, S. Res. 
136, recognizing the 140th anniversary of the founding of the 
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and congratulating members and 
officers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for the union's 
many achievements, S. Res. 92, designating September 17, 2003 as 
``Constitution Day'', S. Res. 145, designating June 2003, as 
``National Safety Month'', S. Res. 133, condemning bigotry and 
violence against Arab Americans, Muslim, Americans, South-Asian 
Americans, and Sikh Americans, and the nominations of Michael 
Chertoff, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Third Circuit, David G. Campbell, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Arizona, Robert D. McCallum, Jr., of Georgia, to 
be Associate Attorney General, Peter D. Keisler, of Maryland, and R. 
Hewitt Pate, of Virginia, both to be an Assistant Attorney General, 
and David B. Rivkin, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Foreign 
Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, 9:30 a.m., SD-
226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Richard C. Wesley, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the Second Circuit, J. Ronnie Greer, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Thomas M. 
Hardiman, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Pennsylvania, Mark R. Kravitz, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Connecticut, and John A. 
Woodcock, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the District 
of Maine, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities 
and Risk Management, hearing to review the financial status of the 
Crop Insurance industry, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.

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  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, 
State, Judiciary and Related Agencies, on Impact of Chinese Imports 
on U.S. Companies, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on Screener Background 
Investigations, 3 p.m., 2358 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``National Institutes of Health: Decoding our Federal 
Investment in Genomic Research,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled 
``The Long and Short of Hedge Funds: Effects of Strategies for 
Managing Market Risk,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, hearing 
entitled ``The Section 8 Housing Assistance Program: Promoting 
Decent Affordable Housing for Families and Individuals who Rent,'' 2 
p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing and markup of H.R. 2086, 
Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2003, 
and to mark up the following measures: H.R. 2122, Project BioShield 
Act of 2003; H.R. 2087, Bob Hope American Patriot Award Act of 2003; 
H. Con. Res. 162, honoring the city of Dayton, Ohio, and its many 
partners, for hosting ``Inventing Flight: The Centennial 
Celebration,'' a celebration of the centennial of Wilbur and Orville 
Wright's first flight; H.R. 1465, to designate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 4832 East Highway 27 in Iron 
Station, North Carolina, as the ``General Charles Gabriel Post 
Office;'' H.R. 1610, to redesignate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 120 East Ritchie Avenue in 
Marceline, Missouri, as the ``Walt Disney Post Office Building''; H. 
Res. 159, expressing profound sorrow on the occasion of the death of 
Irma Rangel; H. Res. 195, congratulating Sammy Sosa of the Chicago 
Cubs for hitting 500 major league home runs; and H.R. 2030, to 
designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
at 120 Baldwin Avenue in Paia, Maui, Hawaii, as the ``Patsy Takemoto 
Mink Post Office Building,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, hearing on H.R. 1428, Bankruptcy Judgeship Act 
of 2003; followed by a markup of H.R. 49, Internet Tax 
Nondiscrimination Act, 11 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property, to 
mark up H.R. 1561, United States Patent and Trademark Fee 
Modernization Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, hearing on the following measures: H.R. 2048, 
International Fisheries Reauthorization Act of 2003; and H. Res. 30, 
concerning the San Diego long-range sportfishing fleet and rights to 
fish the waters near the Revillagigedo Islands of Mexico, 10 a.m., 
1334 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following bills: 
H.R. 1598, Irvine Basin Surface and Groundwater Improvement Act of 
2003; and H.R. 1732, Williamson County Water Recycling Act of 2003, 
10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, to mark up H.R. 923, Premier 
Certified Lenders Program Improvement Act, 9:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, hearing on the Coast Guard 
and Maritime Transportation Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, hearing on Water: 
Is it the ``Oil'' of the 2lst Century? 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Health, hearing on 
long-term care programs in the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1:30 
p.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on 
the FBI National Security Programs Budget, 1 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy and National Security, 
executive, briefing on Global Intelligence Update, 9 a.m., H-405 
Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, to continue hearings 
entitled ``How is America Safer? A Progress Report on the Department 
of Homeland Security,'' 9 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on S. 342, to amend the Child 
Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to make improvements to and 
reauthorize programs under that Act, 11 a.m., SD-430.