[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 137 (Wednesday, October 1, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1077-D1078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                             OCTOBER 2, 2003

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to resume hearings to 
examine the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Public Law 107-204) 
and restoring investor confidence, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold hearings to 
examine media ownership, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine Amtrak, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 524, to expand the boundaries of 
the Fort Donelson National Battlefield to authorize the acquisition and 
interpretation of lands associated with the campaign that resulted in the 
capture of the fort in 1862, S. 1313, to establish the Congaree Swamp 
National Park in the State of South Carolina, S. 1472, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to provide a grant for the construction of a 
statue of Harry S Truman at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, and 
S. 1576, to revise the boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historical 
Park, 10 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: business meeting to consider S. Con. 
Res. 66, commending the National Endowment for Democracy for its 
contributions to democratic development around the world on the occasion 
of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the National Endowment 
for Democracy, S. Res. 230, calling on the People's Republic of China 
immediately and unconditionally to release Rebiya Kadeer, S. Res. 231, 
commending the Government and people of Kenya, and the nominations of 
Richard Eugene Hoagland, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Tajikistan, Pamela P. Willeford, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to Switzerland, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of 
Liechtenstein, James Casey Kenny, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to 
Ireland, 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

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General of the Foreign Service, William Cabaniss, of Alabama, to be 
Ambassador to the Czech Republic, David L. Lyon, of California, to serve 
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Republic of Kiribati, Roderick R. Paige, of Texas, to be a Representative 
of the United States of America to the Thirty-second Session of the 
General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and 
Cultural Organization, and a Foreign Service Service Officer promotion 
list received in the Senate on February 25, 2003, Time to be announced, 
S-116, Capitol.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine challenges for U.S. policy 
to Cuba, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: business meeting to consider the 
nomination of C. Suzanne Mencer, of Colorado, to be the Director of the 
Office for Domestic Preparedness, Department of Homeland Security, Time 
to be announced, Room to be announced.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold joint 
hearings with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to examine 
National Institutes of Health management of biomedical research to 
prevent and cure disease in the 21st Century, 10 a.m., SD-106.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: to hold hearings to examine S. 1438, to 
provide for equitable compensation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians of the 
Spokane Reservation in settlement of claims of the Tribe concerning the 
contribution of the Tribe to the production of hydropower by the Grand 
Coulee Dam, 2 p.m., SR-485.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: to hold closed hearings to examine 
certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.


                                  House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and 
Risk Management, hearing to review crop insurance for specialty crop 
producers, 9:30 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Military Construction, on 
the Administration's Fiscal Year Supplemental Request for Iraq and 
Afghanistan, 3 p.m., B-300 Rayburn.
  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the U.S. Joint Forces Command 
on operational lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom, 9 a.m., 2118 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on Employer-
Employee Relations, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 992, Union 
Members Right-to-Know Act; H.R. 993, Labor Management Accountability Act; 
and H.R. 994, Union Member Information Act, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government, to consider the following: H. Con. Res. 264, 
authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation to 
commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Constantino Brumidi; 
and H.J. Res. 70, recognizing Inspectors General over the last 25 years 
in their efforts to prevent and detect waste, fraud, abuse, and 
mismanagement, and to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in 
the Federal Government; followed by a hearing on ``Entrepreneurial 
Government Run Amok? A Review of FTS/FSS Organizational and Management 
Challenges,'' 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, hearing 
on U.S. Policy Toward Liberia, 2 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human 
Rights, and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, to continue joint 
hearings on Human Rights in Burma: Fifteen Years Post Military Coup, Part 
II, 8:30 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and 
Intellectual Property, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 2517, Piracy 
Deterrence and Education Act of 2003; and H.R. 2824, Internet Tobacco 
Sales Enforcement Act, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 885, Arizona Water Settlements Act; and H.R. 1753, 
Spokane Tribe of Indians of the Spokane Reservation Grand Coulee Dam 
Equitable Compensation Settlement Act, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing on the impact of the nursing shortage on the 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, hearing on Iraq 
Weapons of Mass Destruction Update, 9 a.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Meetings: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions, to hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Energy and 
Commerce to examine National Institutes of Health management of 
biomedical research to prevent and cure disease in the 21st Century, 10 
a.m., SD-106.