[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 160 (Thursday, November 6, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1244-D1245]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Floyd Hall, of New Jersey, who 
was introduced by Senator Lautenberg, Louis S. Thompson, of Maryland, 
and Robert L. Crandall, of Texas, each to be a Member of the Reform 
Board (Amtrak), after each nominee testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
LUNAR EXPLORATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science. Technology, and Space concluded a hearing to examine the 
future of the U.S. Space Program, including the possibility of a return 
mission to the Moon, after receiving testimony from former Senator 
Harrison H. Schmitt, InterLune-Intermars Initiative, Inc., Albuquerque, 
New Mexico; J. Roger P. Angel, University of Arizona Center for 
Astronomical Adaptive Optics, Tucson; and David R. Criswell, University 
of Houston Institute for Space Systems Operations, and Paul D. Spudis, 
Lunar and Planetary Institute, both of Houston, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. Res. 237, welcoming the public apologies issued by the President 
of Serbia and Montenegro and the President of the Republic of Croatia 
and urging other leaders in the region to perform similar concrete acts 
of reconciliation;
  S. Res. 256, observing the 50th anniversary of the Mutual Defense 
Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea, affirming 
the deep cooperation and friendship between the people of the United 
States and the people of the Republic of Korea, and thanking the 
Republic of Korea for it's contributions to the global war on terrorism 
and to the stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan and Iraq;
  S. Res. 258, expressing the sense of the Senate on the arrest of 
Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky by the Russian Federation;
  S. 950, to allow travel between the United States and Cuba, with 
amendments;
  S. 1317, to amend the American Servicemember's Protection Act of 2002 
to provide clarification with respect to the eligibility of certain 
countries for United States military assistance;
  S. 1824, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize 
the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; and
  The nominations of Margaret DeBardeleben Tutwiler, of Alabama, to be 
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Zalmay Khalilzad, of 
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Transitional Islamic State of 
Afghanistan, Louise V. Oliver, of the District of Columbia, for the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as the United States 
Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, 
and Cultural Organization, William J. Hudson, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, Margaret Scobey, of Tennessee, 
to be Ambassador to Syria, Thomas Thomas Riley, of California, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco, Jackie Wolcott Sanders, for the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service as United States 
Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and the Special 
Representative of the President of the United States for Non-
Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 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, Hector E. Morales, of 
Texas, to be United States Alternate Executive Director of the Inter-
American Development Bank, 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 Issues, Jon R. Purnell, of Massachusetts, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uzbekistan, 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, and certain Foreign Service Officer promotion lists 
received in the Senate on October 3, 2003.
DOD AIRLINE TRAVEL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense's 
improper use of first and business class airline travel, focusing on 
the extent of DOD premium class travel, the effectiveness of key 
internal control activities and examples

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of improper premium class travel resulting from internal control 
breakdowns, and DOD's control environment over premium class travel, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; Representative 
Schakowsky; Gregory D. Kutz, Director, and John V. Kelly, Assistant 
Director, both of the Financial Management and Assurance Team, and John 
J. Ryan, Assistant Director, Office of Special Investigations, all of 
the General Accounting Office; and Lawrence J. Lanzillotta, Principal 
Deputy Under Secretary (Comptroller), and Charles S. Abell, Assistant 
Secretary for Force Management Policy, both of the Department of 
Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 710, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that 
aliens who commit acts of torture, extrajudicial killings, or other 
specified atrocities abroad are inadmissible and removable and to 
establish within the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice an 
Office of Special Investigations having responsibilities under that Act 
with respect to all alien participants in war crimes, genocide, and the 
commission of acts of torture and extrajudicial killings abroad, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 1086, to encourage the development and promulgation of voluntary 
consensus standards by providing relief under the antitrust laws to 
standards development organizations with respect to conduct engaged in 
for the purpose of developing voluntary consensus standards, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1685, to extend and expand the basic pilot program for employment 
eligiblity verification, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. Con. Res. 77, expressing the sense of Congress supporting vigorous 
enforcement of the Federal obscenity laws; and
  The nominations of Janice R. Brown, of California, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, D. Michael 
Fisher, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
Third Circuit, and Mark R. Filip, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Illinois.