[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 120 (Thursday, September 4, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D948-D949]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004;
  An original bill 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;
  An original bill (S. 1583) 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; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies, Department of the Treasury, the 
United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, 
and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2004.
TANKER AIRCRAFT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the proposed lease of 100
KC-767 aerial refueling tanker aircraft by the U.S. Air Force, after 
receiving testimony from James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force; 
Michael W. Wynne, Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
Technology, and Logistics; Joel Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office of 
Management and Budget; Neal P. Curtin, Director, Defense Capabilities 
and Management, General Accounting Office; Robert

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Sunshine, Assistant Director for Budget Analysis, Congressional Budget 
Office; and J. Richard Nelson, Assistant Director, Cost Analysis and 
Research Division, Institute for Defense Analyses.
NEW KIND OF SCIENCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology and Space concluded hearings to examine certain 
scientific and technical implications of a new kind of science relative 
to the exploration of the computational world, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research Inc., Champaign, 
Illinois, author of A New Kind of Science.
DOE POLYGRAPH PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the Department of Energy's current efforts and intentions 
regarding a new polygraph examination policy, after receiving testimony 
from Kyle E. McSlarrow, Deputy Secretary of Energy; and Stephen E. 
Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 
behalf of the National Research Council Committee to Review the 
Scientific Evidence on the Polygraph.
U.S-CUBAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine economic 
relations between the United States and Cuba, focusing on the embargo, 
travel, trade and investment, agricultural sales, communications, small 
enterprise, terrorism, and human rights, after receiving testimony from 
Alan P. Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and 
Agricultural Affairs; Grant D. Aldonas, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
International Trade; Dennis K. Hays, Cuban American National 
Foundation, Wayne S. Smith, Center for International Policy, Mark 
Falcoff, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Tom 
Malinowski, Human Rights Watch, and William A. Reinsch, on behalf of 
the National Foreign Trade Council and USA*Engage, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Richard Owen, Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives, Geraldine, 
Montana; William A. Messina, Jr., University of Florida Department of 
Food and Resource Economics, Gainesville; and Philip Peters, Lexington 
Institute, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.J. Res. 1, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States to protect the rights of crime victims; and
  The nominations of Larry Alan Burns, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of California, Glen E. Conrad, to be 
United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 
Henry F. Floyd, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
South Carolina, Kim R. Gibson, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Pennsylvania, Michael W. Mosman, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Oregon, and Dana Makoto 
Sabraw, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
California.
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights, and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine what is 
needed to defend the bipartisan Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 (DOMA), 
focusing on marriage issues including family structure, legal trends 
and direct challenges to the constitutionality of DOMA, the 
Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause, and federalism, after 
receiving testimony from Reverend Ray Hammond, Bethel African Methodist 
Episcopal Church, Boston, Massachusetts; Maggie Gallagher, Institute 
for Marriage and Public Policy, New York, New York; Gregory S. Coleman, 
Weil, Gotshal, and Manges, Austin, Texas, former Texas State Solicitor 
General; Michael P. Farris, Patrick Henry College, Purcellville, 
Virginia; Dale Carpenter, University of Minnesota Law School, 
Minneapolis; and Keith A. Bradkowski, San Francisco, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.