[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 138 (Thursday, October 2, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1086-D1087]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
REVIEW CROP INSURANCE--SPECIALTY CROP PRODUCERS
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and 
Risk Management held a hearing to review crop insurance for specialty 
crop producers. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST--IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held 
a hearing on the Administration's Fiscal Year Supplemental Request for 
Iraq and Afghanistan. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the Department of Defense: Ray DuBois, Deputy Under Secretary, 
Installations and Environment; Gen. Larry Lust, USA, Assistant Chief of 
Staff, Installation Management; Gen. Dean Fox, USAF, Air Force Civil 
Engineer; and Lawrence Lanzillotta, Principal Deputy and Deputy Under 
Secretary, Management Reform.
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM--OPERATIONAL LESSONS
Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing on the U.S. Joint Forces 
Command on operational lessons from Operation Iraqi Freedom. Testimony 
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: 
Adm. E.P. Giambastiani, U.S. Navy Command, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces 
Command; and Brig. Gen. Bob Cone, USA, Director, Joint Lessons Learned 
Team.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Employer-
Employee Relations approved for full Committee action 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.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; ENTREPRENEURIAL GOVERNMENT RUN AMOK?
Committee on Government: Ordered reported the following measures: 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.
  The Committee also held a hearing on ``Entrepreneurial Government Run 
Amok? A Review of FTS/FTS Organizational and Management Challenges.'' 
Testimony was heard from Stephen Perry, Administrator, GSA; William T. 
Woods, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, GAO; and public 
witnesses.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD LIBERIA
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on Africa held a 
hearing on U.S. Policy Toward Liberia, Testimony was heard from Walter 
H. Kansteiner III, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, 
Department of State; Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office 
of African Affairs, Department of Defense; and public witnesses.

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HUMAN RIGHTS IN BURMA
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights, and the Subcommittee on 
Asia and the Pacific concluded joint hearings on Human Rights in Burma: 
Fifteen Years Post Military Coup, Part II. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of State: Lorne W. Craner, 
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor; and 
Matthew Daley, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs.
INTERNET TOBACCO SALES ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and 
Intellectual Property approved for full Committee action, as amended, 
H.R. 2824, Internet Tobacco Sales Enforcement Act.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power held a 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. Testimony was heard 
from Senator Kyl; Representative Nethercutt; Bennett W. Raley, 
Assistant Secretary, Water and Science, Department of the Interior; 
Steven Hickok, Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, 
Department of Energy; and public witnesses.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS--IMPACT OF NURSING SHORTAGE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations held a hearing on the impact of the nursing shortage on 
the Department of Veterans Affairs. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Cathy J. 
Rick, R.N., Chief Nursing Officer; Sandra K. Janzen, R.N., Associate 
Chief of Staff/Nursing, James A. Haley Veteran's Hospital; and Mary 
Raymer, R.N., Nursing Education Program Manager, Health Care Staff 
Development and Retention Office; representatives of nursing 
associations; and public witnesses.
IRAQ WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION UPDATE
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction Update. Testimony 
was heard from departmental witnesses.

Joint Meetings
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
Pensions concluded a joint hearing 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, 
focusing on the doubling of the NIH budget that is fueling scientific 
advances and the complexity of these new biological discoveries that 
create scientific and management challenges, after receiving testimony 
from Elias A. Zerhouni, Director, National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Harold Varmus, Memorial Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, former Director, NIH; and 
Harold Shapiro, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, on behalf 
of the National Research Council Committee on the Organizational 
Structure of NIH.