[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 28, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D32-D33]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WMD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
efforts to determine the status of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction 
and related programs, after receiving testimony from David Kay, former 
Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence on Strategy 
Regarding Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 4,763 
nominations in the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Francis J. Harvey, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, and 
Lawrence T. Di Rita, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense 
for Public Affairs; and William A. Chatfield, of Texas, to be Director 
of Selective Service, after each nominee testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the future space mission of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), focusing on exploration 
activities in low Earth orbit, the space shuttle, the International 
Space Station, the Moon, Mars and other destinations, space 
transportation capabilities supporting exploration, and international 
and commercial participation, after receiving testimony from Sean 
O'Keefe, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; 
Louis D. Friedman, Planetary Society, Pasadena, California; Neal Lane, 
Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy, Houston, Texas; 
Howard E. McCurdy, American University Department of Public 
Administration School of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C.; and Richard 
Tumlinson, Space Frontier Foundation, Nyack, New York.
PAKISTAN AND INDIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing regarding steps toward rapprochement in relation to 
Pakistan and India from members of the intelligence community.
PAKISTAN AND INDIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine steps toward rapprochement, focusing on the aversion of nuclear 
war, the status of Kashmir, prospects for detente, and controls against 
arms proliferation, after receiving testimony from Frank Wisner, 
American International Group, New York, New York; Stephen P. Cohen, 
Brookings Institution, and Michael Krepon, Henry L. Stimson Center, 
both of Washington, D.C.
HEALTH CARE COSTS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine health issues relating to health care 
costs and the uninsured, focusing on inefficiencies in America's health 
care delivery systems, after receiving testimony from Douglas Holtz-
Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Arnold Milstein, Pacific 
Business Group on Health, San Francisco, California; Karen Davis, The 
Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York; Christopher J. Conover, Duke 
University, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Durham, North 
Carolina; and Gail R. Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1721, to amend the Indian Land Consolidation Act to improve provisions 
relating to

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probate of trust and restricted land, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Franklin S. Van Antwerpen, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senators Specter and Santorum, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.