[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 25, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D734-D736]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS LABOR--HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education approved for full Committee consideration an 
original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded 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, after the nominee testified and answered questions in 
his own behalf.
RURAL ECONOMY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded oversight hearings to examine the problems 
and challenges facing rural America, focusing on certain job and 
economic development measurers, including the Land Grant mission, after 
receiving testimony from Hilda Gay Legg, Administrator, Rural Utilities 
Service, Rural Development Mission Area, Department of Agriculture; M. 
Scott Smith, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Lexington; 
and Mark Haney, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Nancy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 470, to extend the authority for the construction of a memorial to 
Martin Luther King, Jr., with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 490, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land 
in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of 
the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and 
California, with an amendment;
  S. 499, to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to 
establish in the State of Louisiana a memorial to honor the Buffalo 
Soldiers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 546, to provide for the protection of paleontological resources on 
Federal lands, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 643, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation 
with the University of New Mexico, to construct and occupy a portion of 
the Hibben Center for Archaeological Research at the University of New 
Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 651, to amend the National Trails System Act to clarify Federal 
authority relating to land acquisition from willing sellers for the 
majority of the trails in the System, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 677, to revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison 
National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the 
State of Colorado, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 924, to authorize the exchange of lands between an Alaska Native 
Village Corporation and the Department of the Interior, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1076, to authorize construction of an education center at or near 
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 255, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant an 
easement to facilitate access to the Lewis and Clark Interpretative 
Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska; and
  H.R. 1577, to designate the visitor center in Organ Pipe National 
Monument in Arizona as the ``Kris Eggle Visitor Center''.
GRAZING MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded 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, after receiving 
testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural 
Resources and Environment; and Rebecca Watson, Assistant Secretary of 
the Interior for Land and Minerals Management.
ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Water concluded hearings to examine the consulting 
process required by section 7 of the Endangered Species Act, including 
improvement efforts in the Pacific Northwest, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Domenici; Barry T. Hill, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, General Accounting Office; Alan Glen, Smith, Robertson, 
Elliott, and Glen, Austin, Texas; John F. Kostyack, National Wildlife 
Federation, Reston, Virginia; Patricia D. Horn, Enogex Inc., Oklahoma 
City, Oklahoma; Jim Chilton, Arivaca, Arizona, on behalf of the 
National Cattlemen's Beef Association and the Public Lands Council; and 
William J. Snape III, Defenders of Wildlife, Washington, D.C.
AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the implementation of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (P.L. 106-
200), focusing on short-term and long-term measures to integrate Africa 
into the global community, and issues relative to the free market and 
fair trade, African civil society, and debt relief, after receiving 
testimony from Florizelle B. Liser, Assistant United States Trade 
Representative for Africa; Walter H. Kansteiner III, Assistant 
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Stephen Hayes, Corporate 
Council on Africa, and Leon P. Spencer, Washington Office on Africa, 
both of Washington, D.C.; and James A. Harmon, Commission on Capital 
Flows to Africa, New York, New York.
YUGOSLAVIA SUCCESSOR STATES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine the progress and challenges relative to 
the transformations taking place in the successor states to the former 
Yugoslavia, including Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Croatia, 
Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, after receiving testimony from Paul 
W. Jones, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and 
Eurasia; Mira Ricardel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Daniel 
Serwer, Director, U.S. Institute of Peace; and James O'Brien, Albright 
Group, and Major General William L. Nash USA, (Ret.), Council on 
Foreign Relations, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the nomination of Joshua B. Bolten, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after 
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Corzine, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1248, to reauthorize the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of David Hall, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the

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Legal Services Corporation, Lillian R. BeVier, of Virginia, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation, and 
certain nominations in the Public Health Service Corps.
9/11 DETAINEES REPORT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
treatment of aliens held on immigration charges in connection with the 
investigation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as outlined 
in the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General's report, 
after receiving testimony from Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, Harley 
G. Lappin, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Michael E. Rolince, 
Acting Assistant Director in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Washington Field Office, and David Nahmias, Counsel to the Assistant 
Attorney General, Criminal Division, all of the Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Louise W. Flanagan, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and Allyson K. Duncan, of 
North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit, who were both introduced by Senators Dole and Edwards; Samuel 
Der-Yeghiayan, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Illinois, who was introduced by Senators Fitzgerald and 
Durbin; Lonny R. Suko, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Washington, who was introduced by Senator Murray, 
and Representatives Hastings and Nethercutt; Earl Leroy Yeakel III, to 
be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas, who 
was introduced by Senators Hutchison and Cornyn; Karen P. Tandy, of 
Virginia, to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement, who was introduced 
by Senator Hutchison, and Christopher A. Wray, of Georgia, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, who was introduced by Senators Chambliss 
and Miller, both of the Department of Justice; and Robert C. Brack, to 
be United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico, who was 
introduced by Senators Domenici and Bingaman.
IRAQ
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded 
joint hearings with the Committee on Foreign Relations' Subcommittee on 
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs to examine constitutionalism, 
human rights, and the Rule of Law in Iraq, focusing on the monopoly of 
power and influence, public participation and ownership, democratic 
representation, ratification, and the role of the international 
community, after receiving testimony from Neil J. Kritz, Director, Rule 
of Law Program, U.S. Institute of Peace; Sermid Al-Sarraf, Iraqi 
Jurists Association, and Khaled Abou El Fadl, University of California 
at Los Angeles School of Law, both of Los Angeles, California; Bernard 
Haykel, New York University, New York, New York; Donald P. Kommers, 
University of Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana; Kenneth M. 
Pollack, Brookings Institution, Zainab Salbi, Women for Women 
International, and Naoyuki Agawa, Embassy of Japan, all of Washington, 
D.C. and John Yoo, University of California Boalt School of Law, 
Berkeley; and A.E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia School of Law, 
Charlottesville.