[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 29, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D912-D913]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                             JULY 30, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine space 
exploration, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 1279, to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act to authorize the President to carry out 
a program for the protection of the health and safety of residents, 
workers, volunteers, and others in a disaster area, H.R. 274, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the property in 
Cecil County, Maryland, known as Garrett Island for inclusion in the 
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, S. 930, to amend the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to establish a 
program to provide assistance to enhance the ability of first 
responders to prepare for and respond to all hazards, S. 269, to 
amend the Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 to further the conservation 
of certain wildlife species, S. 551, to provide for the 
implementation of air quality programs developed in accordance with 
an Intergovernmental Agreement between the Southern Ute Indian Tribe 
and the State of Colorado concerning Air Quality Control on the 
Southern Ute Indian Reservation, S. 793, to provide for increased 
energy savings and environmental benefits through the increased use 
of recovered mineral component in federally funded projects 
involving procurement of cement or concrete, H.R. 1018, to designate 
the building located at 1 Federal Plaza in New York, New York, as 
the ``James L. Watson United States Court of International Trade 
Building'', H.R. 281, to designate the Federal building and United 
States courthouse located at 200 West 2nd Street in Dayton, Ohio, as 
the ``Tony Hall Federal Building and United States Courthouse'', S. 
1210, to assist in the conservation of marine turtles and the 
nesting habitats of marine turtles in foreign countries, S. 1425, to 
amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to reauthorize the New York City 
Watershed Protection Program, proposed legislation to amend the 
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability 
Act of 1980 to modify requirements relating to the recycled oil, and 
proposed legislation to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act and 
the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to implement 
the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the 
Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-
Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and the Rotterdam Convention on 
the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals 
and Pesticides in International Trade, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the nominations 
of Robert Stanley Nichols, of Washington, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Public Affairs, and Teresa M. Ressel, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Management, both of the Department of 
Treasury; to be immediately followed by a business meeting to 
consider the nominations of Glen L. Bower, of Illinois, to be a 
Judge of the United States Tax Court, James J. Jochum, of Virginia, 
to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Josette Sheeran 
Shiner, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United States Trade 
Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Jeffrey A. Marcus, of Texas, to be Ambassador to 
Belgium, Constance Albanese Morella, of Maryland, to be 
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization 
for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of 
Ambassador, George H. Walker, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to 
Hungary, and Jackie Wolcott Sanders, for the rank of Ambassador 
during her tenure of service as United States Representative to the 
Conference on Disarmament and the Special Representative of the 
President of the United States for Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
Weapons, 9 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: business meeting to consider 
the nominations of Joe D. Whitley, of Georgia, to be General 
Counsel, and Penrose C. Albright, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary, both of the Department of Homeland Security, and Joel 
David Kaplan, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy Director of the Office 
of Management and Budget, Time to be announced, Room to be 
announced.
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, to hold hearings to 
examine practices for identifying and caring for new cases of SARS, 
9 a.m., SD-342.

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  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider the nominations of Howard Radzely, of Maryland, 
to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor, and Michael Young, of 
Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Review Commission, Time to be announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, to be followed by oversight hearing on potential 
settlement mechanisms of the Cobell v. Norton lawsuit, 10 a.m., SH-
216.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 578, to amend the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 to include Indian tribes among the 
entities consulted with respect to activities carried out by the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, 2 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine S.J. 
Res.15, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States to make eligible for the Office of President a person who has 
been a United States citizen for 20 years, 10 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine S. 1194, to foster 
local collaborations which will ensure that resources are 
effectively and efficiently used within the criminal and juvenile 
justice systems, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  No committee meetings are scheduled.