[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 22, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D864-D865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Mark C. Brickell, of New York, to be 
Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Alicia R. Castaneda, of 
the District of Columbia, to be a Director of the Federal Housing 
Finance Board, and Thomas J. Curry, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
NATIONAL FOREST RESTORATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine S. 1314, to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels 
reduction activities on National Forest System lands established from 
the public domain and other public lands administered by the Bureau of 
Land Management, to improve the health of National Forest System lands 
established from the public domain and other public lands administered 
by the Bureau of Land Management, and 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, S. 1352, to expedite 
procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities and restoration in 
wildland fire prone National Forests, to examine the impacts of 
insects, disease, weather-related damage, and fires on public and 
private forest lands, processes for implementing forest health and 
hazardous fuels reduction projects on public and private lands, and 
processes for implementing forest health and hazardous fuels reduction 
projects, after receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Rebecca Watson, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; 
Montana Governor Judy Martz, Helena, and Arizona Governor Janet 
Napolitano, Phoenix, both on behalf of the Western Governors' 
Association; Sara Duncan, Denver Water Board, Denver, Colorado; Michael 
Nivison, Otero County Commissioner, Otero, New Mexico; Laura McCarthy, 
Forest Trust, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tom Robinson, Grand Canyon Trust, 
and W. Wallace Covington, Northern Arizona University Ecological 
Restoration Institute, both of Flagstaff, Arizona; and Bruce Vincent, 
Communities for a Great Northwest, Libby Montana.
HEAD START AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for Head Start, focusing on programs to prepare children to succeed in 
school and life, after receiving testimony from Windy M. Hill, 
Associate Commissioner of the Head Start Bureau, Administration on 
Children, Youth and Families, and G. Reid Lyon, Chief of the Child 
Development and Behavior Branch, National Institute of Child Health and 
Human Development, National Institutes of Health, both of the 
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Health and Human Services; Grover J. Whitehurst, Director of Institute 
of Education Sciences, Department of Education; Marnie S. Shaul, 
Director of Education, Workforce and Income Security Issues, General 
Accounting Office; Amy Wilkins, Trust for Early Education, Washington, 
D.C.; and Janis Santos, Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start, Inc., 
Springfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Head Start 
Association.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Steven M. Colloton, of Iowa, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eighth Circuit, who was introduced by Senators Grassley 
and Harkin, and Representative Leach; P. Kevin Castel, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, Sandra J. 
Feuerstein, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of New York, Richard J. Holwell, to be United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of New York, and Stephen C. Robinson, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, all 
introduced by Senator Schumer; H. Brent McKnight, to be United States 
District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina, who was 
introduced by Representative Myrick; and R. David Proctor, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, who was 
introduced by Senators Shelby and Sessions, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
WORLDCOM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
bankruptcy and competition issues in relation to the WorldCom Case, 
focusing on MCI's Chapter 11 filing, after receiving testimony from 
Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, LLP, William P. Barr, 
Verizon Communications, former U.S. Attorney General, and Morton Bahr, 
Communications Workers of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Nicholas 
DeB. Katzenbach, MCI Telecommunications, Ashburn, Virginia, former U.S. 
Attorney General; Mark A. Neporent, Cerberus Capital Management, LP, 
and Marcia L. Goldstein, Weil, Gotshal and Manges, LLP, both of New 
York, New York; and Douglas G. Baird, University of Chicago Law School, 
Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National Bankruptcy Conference.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ADVERTISING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
consequences of direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs, 
focusing on the value to patients, the impact on the physician-patient 
relationship, health care costs and utilization, and consumer and 
physician surveys, after receiving testimony from Janet Woodcock, 
Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Majorie E. 
Powell, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and Nancy 
H. Nielsen, American Medical Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Meredith B. Rosenthal, Harvard School of Public Health Department of 
Health Policy and Management, and Arnold S. Relman, Harvard Medical 
School, both of Boston, Massachusetts.
NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT
  Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences 
between the Senate and House passed versions of H.R. 1588, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2004 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces.