[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 136 (Tuesday, September 30, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1068-D1069]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                            OCTOBER 1, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine climate change, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 1643, to exempt certain coastal barrier property from 
financial assistance and flood insurance limitations under the 
Coastal Barriers Resources Act and the National Flood Act of 1968, 
S. 1066, to correct a technical error from Unit T-07 of the John H. 
Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System, S. 1663, to replace certain 
Coastal Barrier Resources System maps, S. 994, to protect human 
health and the environment from the release of hazardous substances 
by acts of terrorism, proposed legislation providing for the 
reauthorization of the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act, 
and the nomination of Michael O. Leavitt, of Utah, to be 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 9:30 a.m., SD-
406.
  Committee on Finance: business meeting to consider an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute to S. 1637, to amend the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 to comply with the World Trade Organization rulings on 
the FSC/ETI benefit in a manner that preserves jobs and production 
activities in the United States, to reform and simplify the 
international taxation rules of the United States, 10 a.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Robert B. Charles, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State (International Narcotics and Law Enforcement 
Affairs), and H. Douglas Barclay, of New York, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of El Salvador, 2:30 p.m., SD-430.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the 
need for federal real property reform, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Dora L. Irizarry to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of New York, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock and 
Horticulture, hearing to review mandatory country of origin 
labeling, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, to mark up H.R. 3030, 
Improving the Community Services Block Grant Act of 2003, 10:30 
a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, to mark up the following: a 
resolution authorizing the issuance of subpoenas in connection with 
the Committee's investigation of the financial collapse of 
HealthSouth and related matters; H.R. 2898, E-911 Implementation Act 
of 2003; H.R. 3140, Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act; and H.R. 
3143, International Consumer Protection Act of 2003, 11:15 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``Remittances: 
Reducing Costs, Increasing Competition, and Broadening Access to the 
Market,'' 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, 
and Technology, hearing entitled ``China's Exchange Rate Regime and 
its Effects on the U.S. Economy,'' 2 p.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Civil Service and 
Agency Organization, oversight hearing entitled ``Human Capital 
Succession Planning: How the Federal Government Can Get a Workforce 
to Achieve Results,'' 2 p.m., 2203 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, 
hearing entitled ``Strengthening the Long Arm of the Law: How Are 
Fugitives Avoiding Extradition, and How Can We Bring Them to 
Justice?'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, hearing entitled 
``Dying for Help: Are Patients Needlessly Suffering Due to the High 
Cost of Medical Liability Insurance?'' 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental 
Relations and the Census, executive,

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oversight hearing entitled ``Security of Industrial Control Systems 
in Our Nation's Critical Infrastructure,'' 1 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Europe, 
hearing on Turkey's Future Direction and U.S.-Turkey Relations, 1:30 
p.m., 2200 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and 
Human Rights, and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, joint 
hearing on Human Rights in Burma: Fifteen Years Post Military Coup, 
Part I, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law, oversight hearing on ``The Streamlined Sales Tax 
Agreement: States' Efforts to Facilitate Sales Tax Collection from 
Remote Vendors,'' 2 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims, hearing 
on H.R. 2671, Clear Law Enforcement for Criminal Alien Removal Act 
of 2003, 4 p.m., 2237 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 313, 
Coal Accountability and Retired Employee Act for the 21st Century; 
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. 1899, Cape Fox Land 
Entitlement Adjustment Act of 2003; and H.R. 2766, Arapaho and 
Roosevelt National Forests Land Exchange Act of 2003; and to hold a 
hearing on the following bills: H.R. 151, to elevate the position of 
Director of the Indian Health Service within the Department of 
Health and Human Services to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health; 
and H.R. 2440, Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendments of 
2003, 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, 2 
p.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to mark up the 
following: H.R. 587, to amend title 40, United States Code, to add 
Ashtabula, Mahoning, and Trumbull Counties, Ohio, to the Appalachian 
region; H.R. 1274, to direct the Administrator of General Services 
to convey to Fresno County, California, the existing Federal 
courthouse in that county; H.R. 1702, to designate the Federal 
building which is to be constructed at 799 First Avenue in New York, 
New York, as the ``Ronald H. Brown United States Mission to the 
United Nations Building;'' H.R. 3118, to designate the Orville 
Wright Federal Building and the Wilbur Wright Federal Building in 
Washington, District of Columbia; H.R. 3181, Predisaster Mitigation 
Program Reauthorization Act of 2003; and a measure reauthorizing the 
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; and other pending 
business, 11 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, oversight hearing 
on Cleaning Up the Waste at EPA: Phase II, 2 p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on 
Terrorism and Homeland Security, executive, hearing on Afghanistan/
Pakistan Issues, 2 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, hearing entitled 
``Identification Documents Fraud and the Implications for Homeland 
Security,'' 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.