[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 170 (Friday, November 21, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1320-D1321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings 
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 230 
nominations in the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1531, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
commemoration of Chief Justice John Marshall; and
  The nominations of Alicia R. Castaneda, of the District of Columbia, 
to be a Director of the Federal Housing Finance Board, and Thomas J. 
Curry, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the Department of Energy's implementation 
of the Energy Employees Occupation Illness Compensation Program Act of 
2000, focusing on providing assistance to DOE contract workers in their 
efforts to obtain State workers' compensation benefits, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Grassley; Robert G. Card, Under Secretary of 
Energy; Robert E. Robertson, Director, Education, Workforce, and Income 
Security Issues, General Accounting Office; John F. Burton, Jr., 
Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey; Leon Owens, Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical 
and Energy Workers International Union, Paducah, Kentucky; and David 
Michaels, George Washington University School of Public Health and 
Health Services, former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, 
Safety, and Health, Richard Miller, Government Accountability Project, 
and Donald Elisburg, on behalf of the AFL-CIO and the Building and 
Construction Trades Department, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Arnold I. Havens, of Virginia, to be General Counsel for 
the Department of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Nominations: of James C. Oberwetter, of Texas, who was 
introduced by Senators Hutchison and Cornyn, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and David C. Mulford, of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to India, after each nominee testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the Nominations: of James M. Loy, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary 
of Homeland Security, and Scott J. Bloch, of Kansas, to be Special 
Counsel, Office of Special Counsel.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Steven J. Law, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee approved 
for reporting the following business items:
  S. 1879, to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend 
provisions relating to mammography quality standards;
  S. 741, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with regard 
to new animal drugs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 573, to amend the Public Health Service Act to promote organ 
donation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1881, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to make 
technical corrections relating to the amendments by the Medical Device 
User Fee and Modernization Act of 2002, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and

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  The nominations of Jose Antonio Aponte, of Colorado, Sandra Frances 
Ashworth, of Idaho, Edward Louis Bertorelli, of Massachusetts, Carol L. 
Diehl, of Wisconsin, Allison Druin, of Maryland, Beth Fitzsimmons, of 
Michigan, Patricia M. Hines, of South Carolina, Colleen Ellen Huebner, 
of Washington, Stephen M. Kennedy, of New Hampshire, Bridget L. Lamont, 
of Illinois, Mary H. Perdue, of Maryland, Herman Lavon Totten, of 
Texas, each to be a Member of the National Commission on Libraries and 
Information Science, David Eisner, of Maryland, and Carol Kinsley, of 
Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service, Raymond Simon, of 
Arkansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and 
Secondary Education, Read Van de Water, of North Carolina, to be a 
Member of the National Mediation Board, Drew R. McCoy, of 
Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James 
Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, James McBride, of New York, to 
be a Member of the National Council on the Arts, Laurie Susan Fulton, 
of Virginia, and J . Robinson West, of the District of Columbia, each 
to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute 
of Peace, Susan K. Sclafani, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education, 
and Steven J. Law, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary 
of Labor, and a list of Public Health Service nominations.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Cynthia R. Church, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Public and Intergovernmental Affairs), 
Lawrence B. Hagel, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States 
Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, Alan G. Lance, Sr., of Idaho, to 
be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 
Gordon H. Mansfield, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs, and Robert N. McFarland, of Texas, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs (Information and Technology).