[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 159 (Wednesday, November 5, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1233-D1234]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held open 
and closed hearings to examine aviation security, focusing on efforts 
to measure effectiveness and address challenges, after receiving 
testimony from Stephen McHale, Deputy Administrator, Transportation 
Security Administration, Penrose A. Albright, Assistant Secretary, 
Plans Programs, Budgets, Science and Technology Directorate, William 
Parrish, Acting Assistant Secretary, Information Analysis, Information 
Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, all of the Department of 
Homeland Security; and Cathleen A. Berrick, Director, Homeland Security 
and Justice Issues, General Accounting Office.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Marguerita Dianne Ragsdale, of Virginia, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Edward B. O'Donnell, Jr., of 
Tennessee, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as 
Special Envoy for Holocaust

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Issues, Jon R. Purnell, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Uzbekistan, and Stuart W. Holliday, of Texas, to be 
Alternate Representative of the United States of America for Special 
Political Affairs in the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, 
after the nominees, who were introduced by Senator Lugar, testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Mary Kramer, of Iowa, to be Ambassador to 
Barbados and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, 
the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the 
Grenadines, Timothy John Dunn, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador 
during his tenure of service as Deputy Permanent Representative to the 
Organization of American States, James Curtis Struble, of California, 
to be Ambassador to Peru, and Hector E. Morales, of Texas, to be United 
States Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-American Development 
Bank, who was introduced by Senator Hutchison, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
U.S. POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the report of the Presidential Commission on the U.S. Postal 
Service, focusing on legislative reform relating to the long-term 
ability of the U.S. Postal Service to provide affordable, universal 
mail service, after receiving testimony from John E. Potter, Postmaster 
General, United States Postal Service; and David M. Walker Comptroller 
General of the United States, General Accounting Office.