[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 4, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D613]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                              JUNE 5, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, 
to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2004 for foreign operations, 2 p.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine reauthorization of the Defense Production Act, 10 a.m., 
SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine Title XI, 2:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to 
hold hearings to examine financing AMTRAK, 10 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean 
Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety, to hold hearings to examine 
S. 485, to amend the Clean Air Act to reduce air pollution through 
expansion of cap and trade programs, to provide an alternative 
regulatory classification for units subject to the cap and trade 
program, focusing on emissions-control technologies and utility-
sector investment issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine S. 824, to 
reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, Time to be 
announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs, to hold hearings to examine life inside North 
Korea, 1:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of C. Stewart Verdery, Jr., of Virginia, and Michael J. 
Garcia, of New York, both to be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
Security, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. Res. 
116, commemorating the life, achievements, and contributions of Al 
Lerner, and the nominations of R. Hewitt Pate, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, David B. Rivkin, Jr., of Virginia, to be 
a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United 
States, 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, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: to hold hearings to examine 
Senate Rule XXII relative to the cloture rule and proposals to amend 
this rule, 2 p.m., SR-301.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities 
and Risk Management, hearing on the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Consumer Directed Services: Improving Medicaid 
Beneficiaries' Access to Quality Care,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing on H.R. 
2179, Securities Fraud Deterrence and Investor Restitution Act of 
2003, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing on ``Wasted Space, Wasted 
Dollars: Reforming Federal Real Property to Meet 21st Century 
Needs;'' followed by a markup of H.R. 2086, Office of National Drug 
Control Policy Reauthorization Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing entitled ``The 
United States Department of Justice,'' 9 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and 
Standards, to mark up H.R. 1856, Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia 
Research Amendments Act of 2003; followed by a hearing on 
Manufacturing R&D: How Can the Federal Government Help? 10 a.m., 
2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, oversight hearing on The Aircraft Cabin Environment, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Intelligence Policy and National Security, executive, briefing on 
Global Intelligence Update, 9 a.m., H-405 Capital.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emergency 
Preparedness and Response and the Subcommittee on Intelligence and 
Counterterrorism, joint hearing entitled ``Does the Homeland 
Security Act of 2002 give the Department the tools it needs to 
Determine Which Bio-Warfare Threats are Most Serious?'' 2 p.m., 2318 
Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: to hold hearings 
to examine arming rogue regimes, focusing the role of OSCE 
Participating States, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon Building.