[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 92 (Friday, June 20, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D703-D707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                      CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of June 23 through June 28, 2003

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, at 2 p.m., Senate will resume consideration of S. 1, to 
amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to make improvements in 
the Medicare program, to provide prescription drug coverage under the 
Medicare program.
  During the balance of the week, Senate will continue consideration of 
S. 1, Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act, and may consider 
any other cleared legislative and executive business, including S. 925, 
State Department Authorization, S. 15, Project BioShield, S. 1053, 
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, and certain appropriation 
bills and nominations, if available.


                           Senate Committees

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: June 26, to 
hold hearings to examine H.R. 1904, to improve the capacity of the 
Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to plan 
and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest 
System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting 
communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from 
catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and 
address threats to forest and rangeland health, including 
catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape, 9 a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Appropriations: June 25, Subcommittee on Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, business meeting to 
consider proposed legislation making appropriations for the 
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, 9:30 
a.m., SD-124.

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  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting to consider proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and proposed legislation 
making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and 
base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, 2 p.m., S-128, Capitol.
  Committee on Armed Services: June 24, Subcommittee on Personnel, 
with the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, 
Subcommittee on Children and Families, to hold joint hearings to 
examine support for military families, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: June 24, to hold 
hearings to examine bus rapid transit and other bus service 
innovations, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Economic Policy, to hold oversight 
hearings to examine certain measures to strengthen the economic 
situation in rural America, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  June 26, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine affiliate 
sharing practices in relation to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 10 
a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: June 24, to 
hold hearings to examine proposals to reform the United States 
Olympic Committee, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Pamela Harbour, of New York, to be a Federal Trade 
Commissioner, and Nicole R. Nason, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Transportation; to be followed by a hearing on Radio 
Ownership, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1218, to 
provide for Presidential support and coordination of interagency 
ocean science programs and development and coordination of a 
comprehensive and integrated United States research and monitoring 
program, proposed legislation authorizing funds for National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for recreational boating 
safety programs, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: June 24, to hold 
hearings to examine changes over time in the relationship between 
the Department of Energy and its predecessors and contractors 
operating DOE laboratories and sites to determine if these changes 
have affected the ability of scientists and engineers to respond to 
national missions, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 25, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine grazing programs of the Bureau of Land 
Management and the Forest Service, focusing on grazing permit 
renewal, BLM's potential changes to grazing regulations, range 
monitoring, drought, and other grazing issues, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: June 24, Subcommittee 
on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, to hold hearings to examine 
implementation of the National Marine Fisheries Service's 2000 
Biological Opinion for listed anadromous fish regarding operation of 
the Federal Columbia River Power System, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water, to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the consulting process required by 
Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: June 26, to hold hearings on pending 
nominations, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: June 24, Subcommittee on European 
Affairs, to hold hearings to examine U.S. relations with respect to 
a changing Europe, focusing on differing views on technology issues, 
2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  June 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (P.L. 106-
200), 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 
with the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitution, 
Civil Rights and Property Rights, to hold joint hearings to examine 
constitutionalism, human rights, and the Rule of Law in Iraq, 2 
p.m., SD-226.
  June 25, Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to 
examine the progress and challenges to the successor states to Pre-
1991 Yugoslavia, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  June 26, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. Res. 90, 
expressing the sense of the Senate that the Senate strongly supports 
the nonproliferation programs of the United States, and the 
nominations of Marsha E. Barnes, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Suriname, Robert W. Fitts, of New Hampshire, to be 
Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve concurrently and 
without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Solomon Islands 
and Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, John E. Herbst, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Ukraine, Tracey Ann Jacobson, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Turkmenistan, George A. 
Krol, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus, 
John F. Maisto, of Pennsylvania, to be Permanent Representative of 
the United States to the Organization of American States, with the 
rank of Ambassador, Greta N. Morris, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Roger Francisco Noriega, of 
Kansas, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Western Hemisphere 
Affairs), and William B. Wood, of New York, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Colombia, 9:15 a.m., SD-419.
  June 26, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
Department of State's Office of Children's Issues, focusing on 
responding to international parental abduction, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: June 24, to hold hearings to 
examine controlling the cost of Federal Health Programs by curing 
diabetes, focusing on a case study, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  June 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Joshua B. Bolten, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.

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  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: June 24, 
Subcommittee on Children and Families, with the Committee on Armed 
Services, Subcommittee on Personnel, to hold joint hearings to 
examine support for military families, 2:30 p.m., SD-106.
  June 25, Full Committee, business meeting to consider S. 1248, to 
reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and 
pending nominations, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: June 26, business meeting to consider 
pending calendar business, 11 a.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: June 24, business meeting to resume 
markup of S. 1125, to create a fair and efficient system to resolve 
claims of victims for bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, and 
other pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-G50.
  June 25, Full Committee, to hold oversight hearings to examine the 
Department of Justice Inspector General's Report on the 9/11 
detainees, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Property 
Rights, with the Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on 
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to hold joint hearings to 
examine constitutionalism, human rights, and the Rule of Law in 
Iraq, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  June 25, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Louise W. Flanagan, to be United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Allyson K. Duncan, 
of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit, Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Illinois, Lonny R. Suko, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington, Earl 
Leroy Yeakel III, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Texas, and Karen P. Tandy, of Virginia, to be 
Administrator of Drug Enforcement, and Christopher A. Wray, of 
Georgia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, both of the Department 
of Justice, and Robert C. Brack, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of New Mexico, 2 p.m., SD-215.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland 
Security, to hold hearings to examine the growing Wahhabi influence 
of terrorism in the United States, 2 p.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: June 24, business meeting 
to consider to consider pending legislative and administrative 
business, 9:30 a.m., SR-301.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: June 24, to hold hearings on 
proposed legislation relating to VA-provided health care services, 
including S. 613, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
construct, lease, or modify major medical facilities at the site of 
the former Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, S. 615, 
to name the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in 
Horsham, Pennsylvania, as the ``Victor J. Saracini Department of 
Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic'', S. 1144, to name the health 
care facility of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 820 
South Damen Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Jesse Brown 
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center'', S. 1153, to amend 
title 38, United States Code, to permit Medicare-eligible veterans 
to receive an out-patient medication benefit, to provide that 
certain veterans who receive such benefit are not otherwise eligible 
for medical care and services from the Department of Veterans 
Affairs, S. 1156, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve 
and enhance the provision of long-term health care for veterans by 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, to enhance and improve 
authorities relating to the administration of personnel of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, and S. 1213, to amend title 38, 
United States Code, to enhance the ability of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs to improve benefits for Filipino veterans of World 
War II and survivors of such veterans, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: June 26, to hold closed hearings 
to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                             House Chamber

  To be announced.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, June 25, hearing to review the USDA 
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, 10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  June 26, hearing to review the mandatory country-of-origin 
labeling law, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, June 25, to consider the following 
appropriation bills for fiscal year 2004: Labor, Health and Human 
Service, Education and Related Agencies; Interior; and Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related 
Agencies, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, June 24, Subcommittee on Projection 
Forces, hearing on the KC-767 tanker lease initiative, 2 p.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, June 24, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on ``Union Democracy Reforms to 
the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act: H.R. 992, Union 
Members' Right-to-Know Act; H.R. 993, Labor-Management 
Accountability Act; and H.R. 994, Union Member Information 
Enforcement Act,'' 2 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, June 24, Subcommittee on Energy 
and Air Quality, hearing on ``Future Options for Generation of 
Electricity from Coal,'' 2 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  June 24, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, hearing on 
``A System Overwhelmed: The Avalanche of Imported, Counterfeit, and 
Unapproved Drugs into U.S.,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, June 24, Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, hearing entitled 
``Fighting Identity Theft--The Role of FCRA,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and 
Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled ``GSE Oversight: 
The Need for Reform and Modernization,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.

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  June 25, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing 
entitled ``Saving Taxpayer Money Through Sound Financial 
Management,'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer 
Credit, hearing entitled ``Serving the Underserved: Initiatives to 
Broaden Access to the Financial Mainstream,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, June 24, hearing on ``School 
Choice in the District of Columbia: Opening Doors for Parents and 
Students,'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 24, Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and 
International Relations, hearing on ``Emerging Threats: Assessing 
Nuclear Weapons Complex Facility Security,'' 9 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 24, Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, 
Intergovernmental Relations and the Census, hearing on ``Cyber 
Security: The Status of Information Security and the Effects of the 
Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) at Federal 
Agencies,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial 
Management, oversight hearing on ``Winning the War on Financial 
Management--Status of the Department of Defense Reform,'' 2:30 p.m., 
2154 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, hearing on 
``The Practical and Economical Aspects of Canadian Drug 
Importation,'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  June 26, full Committee, hearing titled ``New Century, New 
Process: A Preview of Competitive Sourcing for the 21st Century,'' 
10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, June 24, Subcommittee on 
Africa, hearing on Boosting Africa's Agricultural Trade, 2 p.m., 
2172 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hearing on U.S. 
Trade Policy and Commercial Policy in Southeast Asia and Oceania, 
10:15 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation 
and Human Rights, hearing on ``Global Trends in Trafficking and the 
Trafficking in Persons Report,'' 2:30 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Middle East and Central Asia, hearing on 
Enforcement of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act and Increasing Security 
Threats from Iran (Part 1), 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, hearing on 
U.S. Security Policy in Asia and the Pacific: Restructuring 
America's Forward Deployment, 12 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, June 24, Subcommittee on Courts, the 
Internet, and Intellectual Property, oversight hearing on ``The 
Federal Judiciary: Is There a Need for Additional Federal Judges?,'' 
2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 24, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, 
oversight hearing on ``The Deadly Consequences of Illegal Alien 
Smuggling,'' 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, 
hearing on H.R. 919, Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits, 9 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, 
oversight hearing on ``The Federal Government's Response to the 
Issuance and Acceptance in the U.S. of Consular Identification 
Cards,'' 11 a.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, June 24, Subcommittee on Energy and 
Mineral Resources, oversight hearing on ``The Ability of Federal 
Lands to Meet our Energy Needs,'' 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  June 24, Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public 
Lands, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1521, Johnstown Flood 
National Memorial Boundary Adjustment Act of 2003; H.R. 1658, 
Railroad Right-of-Way Conveyance Validation Act of 2003; and H.R. 
2055, to amend Public Law 89-366 to allow for an adjustment in the 
number of free roaming horses permitted in Cape Lookout National 
Seashore, 2 p.m., 1334 Longworth.
  June 24, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following 
bills: H.R. 1794, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
construct and rehabilitate Federal water supply lines associated 
with Folsom Dam in California; and H.R. 2040, to amend the 
Irrigation Project Extension Act of 1998 to extend certain contracts 
between the Bureau of Reclamation and certain irrigation water 
contractors in the State of Wyoming and Nebraska, 2 p.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife and 
Oceans, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1204, to amend the 
National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to 
establish requirements for the award of concessions in the National 
Wildlife Refuge System, to provide for maintenance and repair of 
properties located in the System by concessionaires authorized to 
use such properties; and H.R. 2408, National Wildlife Refuge 
Volunteer Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 1334 Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, June 23, to consider the Department of 
Homeland Security Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2004, 7 p.m., H-313 
Capitol.
  June 23, Subcommittee on Technology and the House, hearing on 
Extending Suspension Days on Wednesday Through the End of the 108th 
Congress, 4:30 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  June 24, to consider H.R. 2417, Intelligence Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2004, 2 p.m., H-3113 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, June 26, Subcommittee on Space and 
Aeronautics, to mark up H.R. 1085, NASA Flexibility Act of 2003, 10 
a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, June 25, hearing on the Effect of 
Foreign Currency Manipulation on Small Manufacturers and Exporters, 
2 p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight, hearing 
entitled: ``CRS Regulations and Small Business in the Travel 
Industry'' 10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, June 25, to mark 
up the following: H.R. 1572, to designate the historic Federal 
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North Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida, as the ``Winston E. 
Arnow Federal Building;'' H.R. 1668, to designate the United States 
courthouse located at 101 North Fifth Street in Muskogee, Oklahoma, 
as the ``Ed Edmondson United States Courthouse,'' H.R. 2144, 
Aviation Security Technical Corrections and Improvements Act of 
2003; H.R 2443, Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2003; 
H.R. 2535, Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act 
of 2003; the Amtrak Reauthorization Act of 2003; the Rail 
Infrastructure Development and Expansion Act for the 21st Century; 
the Water Resources Development Act; and other pending business, 11 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  June 26, Subcommittee on Railroads, oversight hearing on National 
Rail Infrastructure Financing Proposals, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, June 24, Subcommittee on Health, 
to mark up pending business, 11 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Benefits, to mark up pending business, 
10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  June 26, full Committee, to mark up pending business, 10 a.m., 334 
Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, June 23, executive, 
meeting with Members of the British Intelligence and Security 
Committees, 5:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  June 24, Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, 
executive, hearing on Terrorist Financing, 2 p.m., H-404 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security. July 25, hearing entitled 
``Assessment of DHS Initiatives to Secure America's Borders,'' 2 
p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 25, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science, and Research and 
Development, hearing entitled ``Overview of the Cyber Problem: A 
Nation Dependent and Dealing with Risk,'' 11:30 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  June 26, full Committee, to mark up H.R. 2122, Project BioShield 
Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.