Congressional Record, Volume 149 Issue 93 (Monday, June 23, 2003)

[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 93 (Monday, June 23, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1329-E1330]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees,
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules committee--of the time, place,
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or
changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, June 24, 2003 may be found in the
Daily Digest of today'sRecord.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JUNE 25
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Lieutenant
General John P. Abizaid, USA, for appointment to the
grade of general and to be Commander, United States
Central Command.
SH-216
Environment and Public Works
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee
To hold oversight hearings to examine the consulting
process required by Section 7 of the Endangered Species
Act.
SD-406
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the implementation of the
African Growth and Opportunity Act (P.L. 106-200).
SD-419
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
Subcommittee
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.
SD-124
10 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-366
Governmental Affairs
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.
SD-342
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Business meeting to consider S. 1248, to reauthorize the
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and
pending nominations.
SD-106
Judiciary
To hold oversight hearings to examine the Department of
Justice Inspector General's Report on the 9/11
detainees.
SD-226
2 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Economic Policy Subcommittee
To hold oversight hearings to examine certain measures to
strengthen the economic situation in rural America.
SD-538
Judiciary
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.
SD-215
Foreign Relations
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Subcommittee
Judiciary Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights
Subcommittee
To hold joint hearings to examine constitutionalism,
human rights, and the Rule of Law in Iraq.
SD-226
2:30 p.m.
Foreign Relations
European Affairs Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the progress and challenges
to the successor states to Pre-1991 Yugoslavia.
SD-419
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
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.
SD-366

JUNE 26
Time to be announced
Governmental Affairs
Business meeting to consider the nominations of Judith
Nan Macaluso, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia, Fern Flanagan
Saddler, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, and Joshua B. Bolten, of
the District of Columbia, to be Director of the Office
of Management and Budget.
Room to be announced
9 a.m.
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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.
SR-328A
9:15 a.m.
Foreign Relations
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.
SD-419
9:30 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Business meeting to consider S. 1264, to reauthorize the
Federal Communications Commission, 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, H.R. 1320, to
amend the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration Organization Act to facilitate the
reallocation of spectrum from governmental to
commercial users, S. 1262, to authorize appropriations
for fiscal years 2004, 2005, and 2006 for certain
maritime programs of the Department of Transportation,
and S. 1106, to establish National Standards for
Fishing Quota Systems, an original bill authorizing
funds for TEA-21 programs, and pending nominations.
SR-253
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-226
10 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine affiliate sharing practices
in relation to the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
SD-538
Finance
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Josette
Sheeran Shiner, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United
States Trade Representative, with the rank of
Ambassador, and James J. Jochum, of Virginia, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Commerce.
SD-215
11 a.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SR-485

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2 p.m.
Appropriations
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.
SD-192
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine the Department of State's
Office of Children's Issues, focusing on responding to
international parental abduction.
SD-106
Judiciary
Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the growing Wahhabi influence
of terrorism in the United States.
SD-226
2:30 p.m.
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence
matters.
SH-219

JULY 9
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold oversight hearings to examine the Indian Gaming
Regulatory Act.
SD-106

JULY 16
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 556, to amend the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that
Act.
SR-485

JULY 23
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 556, to amend the Indian
Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that
Act.
SR-485
Judiciary
To hold oversight hearings to examine certain pending
matters.
SD-226

JULY 30
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 578, to amend the Homeland
Security Act of 2002 to include Indian tribes among the
entities consulted with respect to activities carried
out by the Secretary of Homeland Security.
SR-485

POSTPONEMENTS

JUNE 25
9:30 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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.
SR-253