[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 94 (Tuesday, June 24, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D720-D722]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUPPORTING OUR MILITARY FAMILIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded joint hearings with the Committee on 
Armed Services' Subcommittee on Personnel to examine challenges facing 
military families, focusing on the Reserve component family readiness 
and support programs, employer support, and reunion and readjustment 
policies, after receiving testimony from John M. Molino, Deputy Under 
Secretary for Military Community and Family Policy, Joseph D. Tafoya, 
Director, Education Activity, Colonel James L. Scott II, Director, 
Individual and Family Support Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Reserve Affairs (Manpower and Personnel), and M.A. Lucas, Director, 
Army Child and Youth Services, all of the Department of Defense; 
Michael J. Petrilli, Associate Deputy Under Secretary of Education for 
Innovation and Improvement; Shelley M. MacDermid, Purdue University 
Military Family Research Institute, West Lafayette, Indiana; and Joyce 
Wessel Raezer, National Military Family Association, Alexandria, 
Virginia.
RAPID TRANSIT: BUS SERVICE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine bus rapid

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transit and other bus service innovations, focusing on funding sources, 
flexible mass transit options, capital and operating costs, after 
receiving testimony from Jennifer L. Dorn, Administrator, Federal 
Transit Administration, Department of Transportation; JayEtta Hecker, 
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; 
Kenneth P. Hamm, Lane Transit District, Eugene, Oregon; Gary L. Brosch, 
University of South Florida National Bus Rapid Transit Institute, 
Tampa; Oscar Edmundo Diaz, New York University Center for Latin 
American and Caribbean Studies, New York; and Anne Canby, Surface 
Transportation Policy Project, Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on reform of the United States Olympic Committee, after 
receiving testimony from Donald Fehr, Major League Baseball Players 
Association, Dick Ebersol, NBC Sports and Olympics, Harvey W. Schiller, 
Assante U.S., all of New York, New York, Roberta Cooper Ramo, Modrall 
Sperling, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Donna de Varona, Greenwich, 
Connecticut, all on behalf of the U.S. Olympic Committee Independent 
Commission; Robert Balk, Long Beach, California, and Rachel Mayer 
Godino, Needham, Massachusetts, both on behalf of the USOC Athletes' 
Advisory Council; Robert Marbut, USOC National Governing Bodies' 
Council, San Antonio, Texas; Jim Scherr, United States Olympic 
Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Bill Stapleton, Capital 
Sports and Entertainment, Austin, Texas.
LABORATORY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began hearings on 
improved understanding of the governance of the Department of Energy 
laboratories and approaches to optimize the capability of those 
laboratories to respond to national needs, receiving testimony from 
John Peoples, Jr., Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, 
Illinois; Siegfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los 
Alamos, New Mexico; Martha Krebs, Science Strategies, Los Angeles, 
California; and Herman Postma, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN POWER SYSTEM
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 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 Basin Power System, after receiving 
testimony from D. Robert Lohn, Regional Administrator, Northwest 
Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Stephen J. Wright, 
Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy; 
J. William McDonald, Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Colonel Dale 
Knieriemen, Deputy Commander, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; Michael L. Bogert, Counsel to Governor of Idaho, Boise; Judi 
Danielson, Northwest Power Planning Council, and Steven Huffaker, 
Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Authority, both of Portland, Oregon; 
Anthony D. Johnson, Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, Idaho; and Nancy Murillo, 
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho.
TECHNOLOGY ISSUES WITH EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine U.S. relations with respect to a changing 
Europe, focusing on differing views on technology issues, the highly-
integrated United States-European Union marketplace, and U.S./EU 
regulatory coordination, after receiving testimony from Gary Litman, 
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Fred Yoder, National Corn Growers 
Association, Karen Myers, United States Council on International 
Business, and Jean Halloran, Consumers Union, all of Washington, D.C.; 
and Harris N. Miller, Information Technology Association of America, 
Arlington, Virginia.
JUVENILE DIABETES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine issues relative to controlling juvenile diabetes, focusing on 
the personal toll on families, financial costs to the Federal Health 
Care System, and research progress toward a cure, and related 
provisions of S. 518, to increase the supply of pancreatic islet cells 
for research, to provide better coordination of Federal efforts and 
information on islet cell transplantation, and to collect the data 
necessary to move islet cell transplantation from an experimental 
procedure to a standard therapy, after receiving testimony from Allen 
M. Spiegel, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and 
Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Bernhard J. Hering, University of Minnesota, 
Minneapolis; Mary Tyler Moore, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International; Colleen Rea, 
Stamford, Connecticut; Sophia Cygnarowicz, Columbia, Illinois; Katie 
Halasz, Wells, Maine; Eric Bonness and Alex Bonness, both of Omaha, 
Nebraska; LaNiece Evans-Scott, Backlick, Ohio; and Anne Seidel, Dallas, 
Texas.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed markup of S. 1125, to 
create a fair and efficient system to resolve claims of victims for 
bodily injury caused by asbestos exposure, but did not complete action 
thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, June 26.
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 148, to provide for the Secretary of Homeland Security to be 
included in the line of Presidential succession;
  S. Res. 178, to prohibit Members of the Senate and other persons from 
removing art and historic objects from the Senate wing of the Capitol 
and Senate office buildings for personal use; and
  S. Res. 138, to amend rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate 
relating to the consideration of nominations requiring the advice and 
consent of the Senate.