[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 119 (Wednesday, September 3, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D944-D945]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
``BLACKOUT 2003: HOW DID IT HAPPEN AND WHY?''
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Held a hearing entitled ``Blackout 2003: 
How Did It Happen and Why?'' Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the Department of Energy: Spencer Abraham, Secretary; and 
Patrick Wood, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; the following 
officials of the State of Ohio: Bob Taft, Governor; and Alan R. Schriber, 
Chairman, Public Utilities Commission; the following officials of the State 
of Michigan: Jennifer M. Granholm, Governor; Kwame Kilpatrick, Mayor, 
Detroit; and J.Peter Lark, Chairman, Public Service Commission; William M. 
Flynn, Chairman, Public Service Commission, State of New York; and public 
witnesses.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 hour of 
general debate on H.R. 2989, Transportation, Treasury, and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004. The rule waives all points of order 
against consideration of the bill. Under the rules of the House the bill 
shall be read for amendment by paragraph. The rule waives points of order 
against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with clause 2 of rule 
XXI (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations or legislative provisions in an 
appropriations bill), except as specified in the resolution. The rule 
authorizes the Chair to accord priority in recognition to Members who have 
pre-printed their amendments in the Congressional Record. Finally, the rule 
provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Istook, Flake, Olver, Hastings of Florida, 
Delahunt, Hooley of Oregon, Davis of Florida and Ruppersberger.
Joint Meetings
DUTCH LEADERSHIP OF OSCE
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): 
Commission concluded hearings to examine and review Dutch leadership of the 
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), focusing on 
multilateralism and regional matters, after receiving testimony from Jaap de 
Hoop Scheffer, Foreign Minister of The Netherlands, Amsterdam.

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                         COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR

                       THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2003

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: business meeting to mark up proposed 
legislation making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004, proposed legislation making 
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2004, proposed legislation making appropriations for the 
government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in 
whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004, making appropriations for the Department 
of Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2004, and proposed legislation making appropriations for 
the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive 
Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004, 2 p.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the proposed 
lease of 100 KC-767 aerial refueling tanker aircraft by the U.S. Air 
Force, to be followed by a closed hearing in Room SH-219, 9:30 a.m., SH-
216.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine A New Kind of 
Science, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold hearings to examine 
the Department of Energy polygraph program, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine the economic 
relations between the United States and Cuba, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights, to hold 
hearings to examine what is needed to defend the bipartisan Defense of 
Marriage Act of 1996, 2 p.m., SD-226.


                                  House

  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, on 
Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, 10 a.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Budget, hearing on Update of the Budget and Economic 
Outlook, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, hearing on ``Strengthening 
Pension Security and Defined Benefit Plans: Examining the Financial 
Health of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,'' 10:30 a.m., 2175 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to continue hearings entitled 
``Blackout 2003: How Did It Happen and Why?'' 9:30 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Government 
Accountability: Efforts to Identify and Eliminate Waste and 
Mismanagement, 10:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, oversight hearing on ``Competition in 
College Athletic Conferences and Antitrust Aspects of the Bowl 
Championship Series,'' 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, 
oversight hearing on ``Internet Domain Name Fraud--the U.S. Government's 
Role in Ensuring Public Access to Accurate Whois Data,'' 2 p.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up H.J. Res. 63, Compact of Free 
Association Amendments Act of 2003, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Science, hearing on ``The Columbia Accident Investigation 
Board Report,'' 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Small Business, hearing to discuss attracting economic 
growth for the rural economy and whether the federal government is 
adequately supporting a policy of growth in the rural portions of the 
country, 9:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, to consider 
pending business, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy and National Security, executive, 
briefing on Global Intelligence Update, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, executive, briefing on 
Recent Counterterrorism Success: Hambali, 10:15 a.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, 
Science, and Research and Development and the Subcommittee on 
Infrastructure and Border Security, joint hearing entitled ``Implications 
of Power Blackouts for the Nation's Cybersecurity and Critical 
Infrastructure Protection: The Electric Grid, Critical Interdependencies, 
Vulnerabilities, and Readiness,'' 1 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.