[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 148 (Tuesday, October 21, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1149-D1150]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding ongoing military operations and areas of key 
concern around the world from Lieutenant General Norton A. Schwartz, 
USAF, Director for Operations, J-3, Major General Ronald L. Burgess, 
Jr., USA, Director for Intelligence, J-2, both of The Joint Staff; and 
Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security 
Affairs.

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TAX SHELTERS
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the current 
situation on tax shelters, and the role of the Federal Government 
relative to the buying and selling of tax shelters, receiving testimony 
from Senator Levin; Michael Brostek, Director, Tax Issues, General 
Accounting Office; Pamela F. Olson, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, 
and Mark W. Everson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, both of 
the Department of the Treasury; Eileen O'Connor, Assistant Attorney 
General, Tax Division, Department of Justice; William J. McDonough, 
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and B. John Williams, Jr., 
Shearman and Sterling LLP, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert V. Lally, 
Federman, Lally and Remis LLC, Farmington, Connecticut; Philip C. Cook, 
Alston and Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael Hamersley, Fair Oaks, 
California; Robert Schmidt, and Thomas Walsh, both of San Jose, 
California; Henry Camferdam, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana; and an 
anonymous witness.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
U.N. CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine 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 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), after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral John 
E. Crowley, Jr., Chief Counsel and Judge Advocate General, U.S. Coast 
Guard, Department of Homeland Security; Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Vice 
Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy; William H. Taft IV, Legal 
Adviser, and John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Oceans 
and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, both of the 
Department of State; Mark T. Esper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Negotiations Policy; Paul L. Kelly, Rowan Companies, Inc., 
Houston, Texas; and Randi Thomas, U.S. Tuna Foundation, Joseph J. Cox, 
Chamber of Shipping of America, and Vice Admiral Roger T. Rufe, Jr., 
U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), The Ocean Conservancy, all of Washington, D.C.
U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded a hearing to examine U.S. 
energy security policy relating to West Africa and Latin America, 
focusing on prospects for increasing energy production in Latin America 
and West Africa, promoting a good investment climate, and oil imports, 
after receiving testimony from John R. Brodman, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for International Energy Policy, Office of Policy 
and International Affairs; Matthew T. McManus, Acting Director of 
International Energy and Commodity Policy Office, Economic and Business 
Affairs Bureau, Department of State; and J. Robinson West, PFC Energy, 
David L. Goldwyn, Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC, and Marina 
Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, all of Washington, 
D.C.
TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Department of Justice efforts in the investigation and prosecution 
of terrorists, focusing on how anti-terrorism tools have been crucial 
to those efforts, and how they have helped prosecutors and agents in 
fighting the war on terrorism, after receiving testimony from 
Christopher A. Wray, AssistantAttorney General, Criminal Division, 
Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District 
of Illinois (Chicago), and Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for 
the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria), all of the Department of 
Justice.