[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 176 (Tuesday, December 9, 2003)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1355-D1356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of April H. Foley, of New York, to 
be First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 
and Joseph Max Cleland, of Georgia, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the

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Export-Import Bank of the United States, who was introduced by Senator 
Daschle, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
U.S. TRADE LAWS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of 
Columbia concluded a hearing to examine the impact of shifting global 
economic forces on the federal government's ability to negotiate, 
monitor and enforce trade agreements, focusing on new programs that 
require greater attention to human capital strategies to ensure that 
they achieve their goals of facilitating trade while preventing 
terrorist acts, after receiving testimony from Loren Yager, Director, 
International Affairs and Trade, General Accounting Office; James J. 
Jochum, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration; 
Charles W. Freeman III, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative; 
Franklin J. Vargo, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, 
D.C.; Thomas J. Duesterberg, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Tim Hawk, Superior Metal Products/American Trim LLC, 
Birmingham, Alabama.