[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 136 (Tuesday, September 30, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1064-D1065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 1689) making emergency supplemental appropriations 
for Iraq and Afghanistan security and reconstruction for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2004.
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing regarding 
investigations into allegations of sexual assault at the United States 
Air Force Academy, after receiving testimony from James G. Roche, 
Secretary of the Air Force; Mary L. Walker, General Counsel, Department 
of the Air Force; and General John P. Jumper, USAF, Chief of Staff, 
U.S. Air Force.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine recent initiatives to enhance investor protections 
in our securities markets, focusing on fund advertising, proxy voting, 
Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements, future mutual fund activity, the hedge 
fund report, and the Canary investigation, after receiving testimony 
from William H. Donaldson, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission.
DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the status of the National Do-Not-Call Registry, 
focusing on the rules and regulations implementing the Registry 
pursuant to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, after 
receiving testimony from Timothy J. Muris, Chairman, Federal Trade 
Commission; Michael K. Powell, Chairman, Federal Communications 
Commission; Dean Rodney Smolla, University of Richmond School of Law, 
Richmond, Virginia; Jerry Cerasale, Direct Marketing Association, Inc., 
and Lee Hammond, American Association of Retired Persons, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Tim Searcy, American Teleservices Association, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; and James Guest, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New 
York.
AMERICAN DIET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Consumer Affairs and Product Safety concluded hearings to examine 
American dietary guidelines in relation to obesity, focusing on the 
Food Guide Pyramid, and risk factors and actual measures of disease, 
after receiving testimony from Eric Hentges, Executive Director, Center 
for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Food, Nutrition, and Consumer 
Services, Department of Agriculture; Arthur Lawrence, Assistant Surgeon 
General and Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and 
Human Services for Health; John D. Graham, Administrator, Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; 
Dean Ornish, University of California at San Francisco; Walter Willett, 
Harvard School of Public Health Department of Nutrition, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Stuart Trager, Atkins Nutritionals, Inc., New York, New 
York; Michael F. Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest, 
Washington, D.C.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing on the 
nominations of Randall L. Tobias, of Indiana, to be Coordinator of 
United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally, with 
the rank of Ambassador, W. Robert Pearson, of Tennessee, to be Director 
General of the Foreign Service, and William Cabaniss, of Alabama, to be 
Ambassador to the Czech Republic, who was introduced by Senator 
Sessions, all of the Department of State, after each nominee testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing on the 
nominations of Dale Cabaniss, of Virginia, to be a Member of the 
Federal Labor Relations Authority, who was introduced by Senator 
Stevens; and Craig S. Iscoe and Brian F. Holeman, both to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, who 
were introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Norton, after each 
nominee testified and answered question in their own behalf.
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded a hearing to examine illegal file sharing on 
peer-to-peer networks and the impact of technology on the entertainment 
industry, focusing on the music industry's initial salvo of copyright 
infringement lawsuits and its amnesty program, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Boxer; Mitch Bainwol, Recording Industry 
Association of America, Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of 
America, and James V. DeLong, Center for the Study of Digital Property, 
all of Washington, D.C.; Mike Negra, Mike's Video, Inc., State College, 
Pennsylvania; Alan Morris, Sharman Networks Limited, Sydney, Australia; 
Derek S. Broes, Brilliant Digit Entertainment, Woodland Hills, 
California; Chris Gladwin, FullAudio, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Jonathan 
D. Moreno, University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics, 
Charlottesville; James Todd Smith (LL Cool J), and Lorraine Sullivan, 
both of New York, New York; and Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D), Los 
Angeles, California.
UNDERAGE DRINKING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Mental Health and Substance Abuse concluded a hearing on underage 
drinking, focusing on reducing and preventing underage drinking through 
a wide variety of government and private programs for the purpose of 
developing a national strategy, after receiving testimony from Richard 
J. Bonnie, University of Virginia, Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and 
Public Policy, Charlottesville, on behalf of the Committee on 
Developing a Strategy to Reduce and Prevent Underage Drinking, National 
Research Council and Institute of Medicine; Patricia J. Kempthorne, 
First Lady of Idaho, Boise, on behalf of the Leadership to Keep 
Children Alcohol Free; Jeffrey G. Becker, Beer Institute, Washington, 
D.C.; Wendy J. Hamilton, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Middletown, 
Virginia; and David DeAngelis, North Haven High School, North Haven, 
Connecticut.
VISAS AND HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Border 
Security concluded a hearing on visa issuance in relation to homeland 
security, focusing on the relationship between the Department of 
Homeland Security and Department of State to work cooperatively to 
create and maintain an effective, efficient visa process that secures 
America's borders from external threats while ensuring that doors 
remain open to legitimate travel, after receiving testimony from Asa 
Hutchinson, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and 
Transportation Security Directorate; and Maura Harty, Assistant 
Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 1131, to increase, effective December 1, 2003, the rates of 
compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the 
rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of 
certain disabled veterans;
  S. 1132, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and 
enhance certain benefits for survivors of veterans, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1156, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and 
enhance the provision of long-term health care for veterans by the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, to enhance and improve authorities 
relating to the administration of personnel of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1136, to restate, clarify, and revise the Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Civil Relief Act of 1940, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  H.R. 1516, to provide for the establishment by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs of five additional cemeteries in the National Cemetery 
System, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.