[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 143 (Tuesday, October 14, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1110-D1111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of 
Massachusetts, to be Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System, and Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be a 
Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and 
Paul S. Atkins, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
U.N. CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Annexes, done at 
Montego Bay, December 10, 1982 (the ``Convention''), and the Agreement 
Relating to the Implementation

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of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 
December 1982, with Annex, adopted at New York, July 28, 1994 (``the 
Agreement''), and signed by the United States, subject to ratification, 
on July 29, 1994 (Treaty Doc. 103-39), receiving testimony from Senator 
Stevens; Admiral James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.), Chairman, U.S. 
Commission on Ocean Policy; John Norton Moore, University of Virginia 
School of Law Center for Oceans, Law, and Policy; Rear Admiral William 
L. Schachte, Jr., USN (Ret.), Charleston, South Carolina; and Admiral 
Joseph Prueher, USN (Ret.), Virginia Beach, Virginia.
  Hearing will resume on Tuesday, October 21.
TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information held a hearing to examine issues relative to 
terrorism and the radical Islamic influence of Chaplaincy of the U.S. 
military and prisons, focusing on Guantanamo Bay issues, institutional 
safeguards including security clearances and monitoring, receiving 
testimony from John S. Pistole, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Harley G. Lappin, 
Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, both of the Department of Justice; 
Charles S. Abell, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for 
Personnel and Readiness; J. Michael Waller, Institute of World 
Politics, Washington, D.C.; Paul E. Rogers, Wisconsin Department of 
Correction, Waupun, and Imam A.J. Sabree, Georgia Department of 
Corrections, Atlanta, both on behalf of the American Correctional 
Chaplains Association.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
PENSIONS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the long-term financing risks to single-employer insurance programs, 
highlighting the need for comprehensive pension reform, focusing on the 
Administration's proposals and activities to improve the retirement 
security of defined benefit pension participants, after receiving 
testimony from Mark J. Warshawsky, Acting Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury for Economic Policy; Barbara D. Bovbjerg, Director, Education, 
Workforce, and Income Security, General Accounting Office; Steven A. 
Kandarian, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; 
Scott Macey, Aon Consulting, Somerset, New Jersey; on behalf of several 
groups including Business Roundtable, National Association of 
Manufacturers, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce; David John, Heritage 
Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Melvin Schmeiser, Baltimore, 
Maryland.