[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 149 (Wednesday, October 22, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                            OCTOBER 23, 2003

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Armed Services: business meeting to consider pending 
military nominations, 10:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to resume 
hearings to examine proposals for improving the regulation of the 
Housing GSEs; and to hold a business meeting to consider the 
nominations of Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be 
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, 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, 
10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: to hold 
hearings to examine Boeing, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine, to 
hold hearings to examine railroad shipper issues and S. 919, to 
amend title 49, United States Code, to enhance competition among and 
between rail carriers in order to ensure efficient rail service and 
reasonable rail rates, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: business meeting to 
consider S. 994, to protect human health and the environment from 
the release of hazardous substances by acts of terrorism, and 
S.1757, to amend the John F. Kennedy Center Act to authorize 
appropriations for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts, 9:30 a.m., SD-406.
  Committee on Finance: to hold hearings to examine company owned 
life insurance, 2 p.m., SD-215.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Terrorism, to hold hearings to examine how to achieve 
the necessary security improvements in a global environment relating 
to the post-9/11 visa reforms and new technology, 9:30 a.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine federal and state role in pharmacy compounding 
and reconstitution, 10 a.m., SD-430.
  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 Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Open for 
Business: Ensuring Employee and Customer Safety at the Former 
Brentwood Postal Facility,'' 1:30 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.