[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 9, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D968-D970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY OPERATIONS ABROAD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
U.S. military commitments and ongoing military operations abroad, 
focusing on the war on terrorism, Afghanistan, Iraq, weapons of mass 
destruction, and Korea, after receiving testimony from Paul D. 
Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Marc I. Grossman, Under 
Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and General Richard B. Myers, 
USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SARBANES-OXLEY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing on the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Public Law 
107-204), focusing on the dramatic change across the corporate 
landscape to re-establish investor confidence in the integrity of 
corporate disclosures and financial reporting, after receiving 
testimony from William H. Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission.

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FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions concluded a hearing on the operations of the 
Federal Home Loan Bank system, focusing on the responsibility that 
Congress has placed with the Federal Home Loan Banks to enhance the 
liquidity of financial institutions, particularly as the Federal Home 
Loan Bank members meet such community needs as promoting home 
ownership, after receiving testimony from Wayne A. Abernathy, Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Institutions; John T. Korsmo, 
Chairman, Federal Housing Finance Board; Norman B. Rice, Federal Home 
Loan Bank of Seattle, Seattle, Washington; Terry C. Smith, Federal Home 
Loan Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas; Shelia C. Bair, Isenberg School of 
Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; David W. Hemingway, 
Zions First National Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the 
Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle; and Michael Middleton, Community 
Bank of Tri-County, Waldorf, Maryland, on behalf of the Federal Home 
Loan Bank of Atlanta.
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the state of transportation security, 
focusing on the effects on commerce, ``beyond the border'' initiatives, 
advance information and technology, and federal action needed to 
enhance security efforts, after receiving testimony from Jeffery N. 
Shane, Under Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy; 
Admiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Robert C. 
Bonner, Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Admiral 
James M. Loy, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, 
all of the Department of Homeland Security; and Peter Guerrero, 
Director, Physical Infrastructure, General Accounting Office.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing on the nominations of Suedeen G. Kelly, of New Mexico, to be a 
Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, who was introduced 
by Senator Bingaman; and Rick A. Dearborn, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
who was introduced by Senator Sessions, after each nominee testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 808, to provide for expansion 
of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, S. 1107, to enhance the 
Recreational Fee Demonstration Program for the National Park Service, 
and H.R. 620, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide 
supplemental funding and other services that are necessary to assist 
the State of California or local educational agencies in California in 
providing educational services for students attending schools located 
within the Park, after receiving testimony from Senator Levin; 
Representative Radanovich; P. Lynn Scarlett, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; Richard G. Ring, Associate 
Director for Administration, Business Practices, and Workforce 
Development, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Jim 
Maddy, National Park Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Robert Funkhouser, 
Western Slope No-Fee Coalition, Norwood, Colorado; and Ken Olson, 
Friends of Acadia, Bar Harbor, Maine.
DOCUMENT FRAUD
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
homeland security and terrorism threat from document fraud, identity 
theft and social security number misuse, focusing on security breaches, 
and firearm purchases, after receiving testimony from Asa Hutchinson, 
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation 
Security; Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of Special 
Investigations, U.S. General Accounting Office; James Lockhart, Deputy 
Commissioner, and Patrick P. O'Carroll, Assistant Inspector General for 
Investigations, both of the Social Security Administration; John S. 
Pistole, Acting Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigations, and Richard Convertino, Assistant U.S. 
Attorney, Eastern District of Michigan, both of the Department of 
Justice; Linda R. Lewis, American Association of Motor Vehicle 
Administrators, Arlington, Virginia; Robert Douglas, American Privacy 
Consultants, Oak Creek, Colorado; and Youssel Hmimssa, Rabat, Morocco.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the situation in North Korea from Colin L. 
Powell, Secretary of State.
CONTINUITY OF CONGRESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing on a proposed 
constitutional amendment to allow the appointment of Representatives 
following a national crisis, focusing on the Constitution, Presidential 
succession acts, House rules, and other procedures relating to 
continuity, after receiving testimony from Representatives Dreier and 
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Doug Lewis, The Election Center, Houston, Texas; Samuel F. Wright, 
National Defense Committee, Arlington, Virginia; and Thad Hall, The 
Century Foundation, and Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
problems and solutions on peer-to-peer networks regarding pornography, 
technology, and process, focusing on the risk of inadvertent exposure 
of juvenile users of peer-to-peer networks to pornography, including 
child pornography, and the extent of federal law enforcement resources 
available for combating child pornography on peer-to-peer networks, 
after receiving testimony from Linda D. Koontz, Director, Information 
Management Issues, General Accounting Office; John Malcolm, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; 
Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, U.S. Copyright Office, Library 
of Congress; Thomas J. Spota, Suffolk County District Attorney, 
Hauppauge, New York; Robbie Callaway, National Center for Missing and 
Exploited Children, Alexandria, Virginia; Stephen Hess, Office of 
Information Technology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Douglas W. 
Jacobson, Palisade Systems, Ames, Iowa; and Alan Morris, Sharman 
Networks Limited, William Barr, Verizon Communications, and Cary 
Sherman, Recording Industry Association of America, all of Washington, 
D.C.
SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing on protecting 
seniors from representative payee fraud in relation to social security 
programs, focusing on the current program's deficiencies and the way 
legislation can improve safeguards in the Representative Payee Program, 
after receiving testimony from James G. Huse, Jr., Inspector General, 
and Fritz Streckewald, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Program 
Policy, both of the Social Security Administration; Shirley J. Shears, 
Legal Aid of West Virginia, Martinsburg; and Jason E. Wills, Community 
Action Partnership, Lewiston, Idaho.