[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 99 (Tuesday, July 8, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D769-D770]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full 
Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for the 
Department of

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Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004.
LIBERIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the situation in Africa, with a focus on Liberia, from 
Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence 
Agency; Major General Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Vice Director, 
Operations Directorate, J-3, The Joint Staff; and Theresa Whelan, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the nominations of Nicole R. Nason, of Virginia, to 
be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs, and 
Pamela Jones Harbour, of New York, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, 
after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
RADIO OWNERSHIP
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine radio ownership, focusing on the impact of industry 
consolidation, and Federal Communications Commission's new radio market 
definition, after receiving testimony from Representative Menendez; 
Lewis W. Dickey, Jr., Cumulus Media Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Jon Mandel, 
MediaCom, Grey Global Group, Inc., New York, New York; Simon Renshaw, 
The Firm, Beverly Hills, California, on behalf of the Recording 
Artists' Coalition; and Alex Kolobieski, First Media Radio, Easton, 
Maryland.
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded oversight hearings on the maintenance backlog within 
the national park system, including the impact of new park unit 
designations, land acquisitions, and personnel vacancies, after 
receiving testimony from Donald Murphy, Deputy Director, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior; Barry T. Hill, Director, Natural 
Resources and Environment, General Accounting Office; Eric Dillinger, 
Carter and Burgess, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas; Thomas C. Kiernan, 
National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.; and Curtis 
E. Cornelssen, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Boston, Massachusetts.
CLIMATE CHANGE: AGRICULTURAL SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine the 
potential of agricultural sequestration to address climate change 
through affecting atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, after receiving 
testimony from Bruce I. Knight, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Cynthia Rosenzweig, Research 
Scientist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Columbia University, 
New York, New York), National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Bob 
Stallman, Columbus, Texas, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation; Rattan Lal, Ohio State University Carbon Management and 
Sequestration Center, Columbus; Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute, 
Chicago, Illinois; and Debbie A. Reed, National Environmental Trust, 
Washington, D.C.
U.S. TAX POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine U.S. tax 
policy and its effects on the domestic and international 
competitiveness of U.S.-based operations, after receiving testimony 
from Robert Hall, Stanford University Hoover Institution, Stanford, 
California; William C. Barrett, Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, 
California; James G. Berges, Emerson, St. Louis, Missouri; Mark 
Russell, Electrolux North America, Cleveland, Ohio; Alexander Spitzer, 
Nestle USA, Norwalk, Connecticut; and Kathryn Kobe, Joel Popkin and 
Company, and Thea M. Lea, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
nominations of Michael J. Garcia, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Homeland Security, and Jack Landman Goldsmith III, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, 
Department of Justice, who was introduced by Senator Allen, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.