[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 104 (Tuesday, July 15, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D820-D821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                        WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development, business meeting to mark up proposed legislation making 
appropriations for energy and water development programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, 11 a.m., SD-138.
  Committee on Armed Services: business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Thomas W. O'Connell, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense, and Paul Morgan Longsworth, of Virginia, to be 
Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National 
Nuclear Security Administration, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold 
oversight hearings to examine the semi-annual monetary policy report 
of the Federal Reserve System, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine proposed legislation to make permanent the 
moratorium on taxes on Internet access, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries and Coast Guard, to hold 
hearings to examine the Marine Mammal Protection Act, 9:30 a.m., SR-
428A.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of 
Columbia, to hold hearings to examine the recent General Accounting 
Office report entitled: ``An Overall Strategy and Indicators for 
Measuring Progress Are Needed to Better Achieve Restoration Goals'', 
focusing on the ramifications of an uncoordinated Great Lakes 
restoration strategy, current management of various environmental 
programs, and possible next steps to improve the management of Great 
Lakes programs, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting, to consider pending 
calendar business; to be followed by joint hearings with the House 
Committee on Resources to examine S. 556, to amend the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that Act, 10 a.m., SD-106.

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  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition 
Policy and Consumer Rights, to hold hearings to examine competition 
in the marketplace in relation to hospital group purchasing, 11 
a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to 
examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                 House

  Committee on Appropriations, to consider the following 
appropriations for fiscal year 2004: Commerce, Justice, State, 
Judiciary and Related Agencies; and Foreign Operations, Export 
Financing and Related Programs, 10 a.m., 2359 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on Mid-Session Review Budget of 
the United States Government, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Education Reform, hearing on ``Food for Thought: How to Improve 
Child Nutrition Programs,'' 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Legislative Efforts to 
Reform the U.S. Olympic Committee,'' 10 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Financial 
Institutions and Consumer Credit, to consider the following bills: 
H.R. 2043, United States Financial Policy Committee For Fair Capital 
Standards Act; and H.R. 2622, Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions 
Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Cutting Out 
Waste, Fraud, Mismanagement, Overlap and Duplication: Exploring 
Ideas for Improving Federal Reorganization, Management and 
Spending,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization, hearing on 
``GAO Human Capital Reform: Leading By Example.'' followed by 
consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1231, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal civilian and military 
retirees to pay health insurance premiums on a pretax basis and to 
allow a deduction for TRICARE supplemental premiums; and H.R. 1151, 
to provide that transit pass transportation fringe benefits be made 
available to all qualified Federal employees in the National Capital 
Region; to allow passenger carriers which are owned or leased by the 
Government to be used to transport Government employees between 
their place of employment and mass transit facilities, 2 p.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Intellectual 
Property Crimes: Are Proceeds From Counterfeited Goods Funding 
Terrorism? 9:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: the U.S.--
Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act; the U.S.--Singapore 
Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act; H.R. 49, Internet Tax 
Nondiscrimination Act; H.R. 1829, Federal Prison Industries 
Competition in Contracting Act of 2003; and H.R. 1303, to amend the 
E-Government Act of 2002 with respect to rule-making authority of 
the Judicial Conference, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Rules, Subcommittee on Technology and the House, 
oversight hearing on the 1996 Unfunded Mandates Reform Act--``An 
Overview of Effectiveness and Opportunities for Enhancement,'' 10:30 
a.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, hearing on Supercomputing: Is the U.S. on 
the Right Path? 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management, to 
mark up the following: General Services Administration's Fiscal Year 
2004 Capital Investment and Leasing Program resolutions; and other 
pending business, 10:30 a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Benefits, hearing 
on the Department of Veterans Affairs' Fiduciary and Field 
Examination Activity, 10:30 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Intelligence Policy and National Security, executive, briefing on 
Hunt for al-Qaeda, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, to mark up H. Res. 286, 
directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to transmit to the 
House of Representatives not later than 14 days after the date of 
the adoption of this resolution all physical and electronic records 
and documents in his possession related to any use of Federal agency 
resources in any task or action involving or relating to Members of 
the Texas Legislature in the period beginning May 11, 2003, and 
ending May 16, 2003, except information the disclosure of which 
would harm the national security interests of the United States, 1 
p.m., 2118 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, business 
meeting, to consider pending Calendar business; to be followed by 
joint hearings with the House Committee on Resources to examine S. 
556, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and 
extend that Act, 10 a.m., SD-106.