[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 131 (Tuesday, September 23, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1032-D1033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 24, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: to hold hearings to examine the 
President's fiscal year 2004 supplemental request for Iraq and 
Afghanistan, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
report of the Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the 
United States Air Force Academy, 9:45 a.m., SR-325.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean 
Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety, to hold hearings to examine 
the findings of the GAO concerning the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency's financial allocations and activities after the terrorist 
attacks on September 11th, and to conduct oversight on the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency's effectiveness since becoming part of 
the Department of Homeland Security, 9 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine a five 
year plan for the current situation in Iraq, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings regarding democratic institutions 
in Iraq and the Middle East, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine 
discrimination against employees and retirees relating to social 
security government pension offset and windfall elimination 
provisions, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine intellectual diversity, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 1601, 
to amend the Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention 
Act to provide for the reporting and reduction of child abuse and 
family violence incidences on Indian reservations, 2 p.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Corrections and 
Victims' Rights, to hold hearings to examine elder abuse, neglect, 
and exploitation, 2:30 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities 
and Risk Management, hearing to review crop insurance for program 
crops, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, 
Export Financing and Related Programs, on the Administration's 
Fiscal Year 2004 Supplemental Request for Iraq, 2 p.m., 2359 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Task Force, hearing 
on the final report of the Panel to Review Sexual Misconduct 
Allegations at the U.S. Air Force Academy, 2 p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, to mark up the following: Fairness to 
Contact Lens Consumers Act; the International Consumer Protection 
Act of 2003; and the United States Olympic Committee Reform Act, 10 
a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, hearing 
entitled ``The Future of Universal Service,'' 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``The Hamas Asset Freeze and Other 
Government Efforts to Stop Terrorist Financing,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.

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  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government 
Efficiency and Financial Management, oversight hearing entitled 
``Improving USAID Financial Management;'' followed by markup of H.R. 
2886, Department of Homeland Security Financial Accountability Act, 
2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, hearing entitled ``A 
Medicare Prescription Drug Safety Net: Creating a Target Benefit for 
Low-Income Seniors,'' 12 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, hearing on H.R. 2844, 
Continuity in Representation Act of 2003, 2 p.m., 1310 Longworth.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, to 
mark up the following bills: H.R. 2264, Congo Basin Forest 
Partnership Act of 2003; and H.R. 2760, Resolution of the Ethiopia-
Eritrea Border Dispute Act of 2003, 2 p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to consider the following bills: H.R. 
1417, Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2003; H.R. 
2359, Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003; H.R. 2620, Trafficking 
Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003; and H.R. 2685, to 
amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to 
reauthorize the Matching Grant Program for School Security, 10 a.m., 
2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following measures: H. Con. 
Res. 268, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the 
imposition of sanctions on nations that are undermining the 
effectiveness of conservation and management measures for Atlantic 
highly migratory species, including marlin, adopted by the 
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas and 
that are threatening the continued viability of United States 
commercial and recreational fisheries; H.R. 135, Twenty-First 
Century Water Commission Act of 2003; H.R. 313, Coal Accountability 
and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century; H.R. 408, to provide 
for expansion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore; H.R. 542, 
to repeal the reservation of mineral rights made by the United 
States when certain lands in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, were 
conveyed by Public Law 102-562; H.R. 708, to require the conveyance 
of certain National Forest System lands in Mendocino National 
Forest, California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such 
conveyance for National Forest purposes; H.R. 884, Western Shoshone 
Claims Distribution Act; H.R. 982, to clarify the tax treatment of 
bonds and other obligations issued by the Government of American 
Samoa; H.R. 1092, Nevada National Forest Land Disposal Act of 2003; 
H.R. 1204, to amend the National Wildlife Refuge System 
Administration Act of 1966 to establish requirements for the award 
of concessions in the National Wildlife Refuge System, to provide 
for maintenance and repair of properties located in the System by 
concessionaires authorized to use such properties; H.R. 1442, 
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center Act; H.R. 1521, Johnstown 
Flood National Memorial Boundary Adjustment Act of 2003; H.R. 1598, 
Irvine Basin Surface and Groundwater Improvement Act of 2003; H.R. 
1899, Cape Fox Land Entitlement Adjustment Act of 2003; H.R. 2048, 
International Fisheries Reauthorization Act of 2003; H.R. 2055, to 
amend Public Law 89-366 to allow for an adjustment in the number of 
free roaming horses permitted in Cape Lookout National Seashore; 
H.R. 2696, Southwest Forest Health and Wildlife Prevention Act of 
2003; H.R. 2766, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests Land 
Exchange Act of 2003; and H.R. 3062, to amend the Mineral Leasing 
Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue separately 
for the same area, a lease for tar sand and a lease for oil and gas, 
10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Workforce, 
Empowerment, and Government Programs and the Subcommittee on Tax, 
Finance, and Exports, joint hearing on Federal Prison Industry's 
Effects on the U.S. Economy and the Small Business Environment, 
10:30 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, oversight hearing on the DOT Inspector General's September 
4th Report on the Safety of the FAA's Contract Tower Program, 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and 
Emergency Management, oversight hearing on Emergency Preparedness 
Issues; followed by a markup of the following: a measure 
Reauthorizing the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; 
the Stafford Act Amendments of 2003; and other pending business, 10 
a.m., 2253 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, to consider 
Committee business, 3 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Human Intelligence, Analysis and 
Counterintelligence, executive, hearing on Global HUMINT Strategies, 
4 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy and National Security and the 
Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, executive, joint 
hearing on Joint Inquiry Recommendations, 1:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emergency 
Preparedness and Response, hearing entitled ``Disease Surveillance 
Systems: How Can They Help the Nation Prepare for Bioterrorism?'' 
2:30 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.