[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 18 (Thursday, February 12, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D92-D93]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the first monetary policy report to Congress for 
2004, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2005 for the 
Department of Health and Human Services, after receiving testimony from 
Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed fiscal year 2005 budget for 
the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Gale A. 
Norton, Secretary of the Interior.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 1466, to facilitate the 
transfer of land in the State of Alaska, S. 1421, to authorize the 
subdivision and dedication of restricted land owned by Alaska Natives, 
S. 1649, to designate the Ojito Wilderness Study Area as wilderness, to 
take certain land into trust for the Pueblo of Zia, and S. 1910, to 
direct the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out an inventory and 
management program for forests derived from public domain land, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; Kathleen Clarke, Director, 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Peter M. Pino, 
Pueblo of Zia, Zia Pueblo, New Mexico; Martin Heinrich, Albuquerque, 
New Mexico; Marty Rutherford, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, 
and Jack Hession, Sierra Club, both of Anchorage, Alaska; James Mery, 
Doyon, Limited, Fairbanks, Alaska; Russell Heath, Southeast Alaska 
Conservation Council, and Edward K. Thomas, Central Council Tlingit and 
Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, both of Juneau, Alaska.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request

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for fiscal year 2005 for the Department of the Treasury, after 
receiving testimony from John W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Samuel W. Bodman, of Massachusetts, to be Deputy 
Secretary of the Treasury.
STATE DEPARTMENT BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the President's proposed fiscal year 2005 International Affairs 
budget for the Department of State, focusing on foreign policy and 
programs in winning the war on terrorism, global economic growth, and 
AIDS relief, after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary 
of State.
U.S.-VIETNAMESE RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asia and Pacific 
Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the future of U.S.-Vietnamese 
relations, focusing on trade and human rights issues, after receiving 
testimony from John V. Hanford III, Ambassador at Large, Office of 
International Religious Freedom, and Matthew Daley, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, both of the 
Department of State; Michael Young, Chair, United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom; Bob Seiple, Institute for Global 
Management, St. Davids, Pennsylvania; Virginia Foote, U.S.-Vietnam 
Trade Council, and Viet D. Dinh, Georgetown University Law Center, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Nguyen Dinh Thang, Boat People S.O.S., Inc., Falls 
Church, Virginia; and Rmahy Eban, Montagnard Refugee.
DOD CONTRACTORS AND TAX SYSTEM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded a hearing to examine Department of Defense 
contractors abuse of the federal tax system, focusing on the need to 
strengthen government financial management procedures and assure that 
Department of Defense contractors meet their federal tax obligations, 
after receiving testimony from Gregory D. Kutz and Steven J. Sebastian, 
both Directors of Financial Management and Assurance, and John J. Ryan, 
Assistant Director, Office of Special Investigations, all of the 
General Accounting Office; Mark W. Everson, Commissioner, Internal 
Revenue Service, and Richard L. Gregg, Commissioner, Financial 
Management Service, both of the Department of the Treasury; and 
Lawrence J. Lanzillotta, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense 
(Comptroller) and Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Management 
Reform.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee met to discuss certain committee 
business, made no announcements, and recessed subject to the call.
GUEST WORKER PROPOSAL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration Border Security 
concluded a hearing to examine the President's proposal to create a new 
temporary worker program, focusing on immigration reform issues, 
enforcement of labor laws, labor demographics, and the Mexican Labor 
Program, after receiving testimony from Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary 
for Border and Transportation Security, and Eduardo, Aguirre, Director, 
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, both of the Department of 
Homeland Ssecurity; Steven J. Law, Deputy Secretary of Labor; Richard 
R. Birkman, Texas Roofing Company of Austin, Austin, Texas, on behalf 
of the National Roofing Contractors Association; Demetrios G. 
Papademetriou, Migration Policy Institute, and Charles Cervantes, 
United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal 
year 2005 for the Small Business Administration, after receiving 
testimony from Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, U.S. Small Business 
Administration; Anthony R. Wilkinson, National Association of 
Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc., Stillwater, Oklahoma; David M. 
Coit, North Atlantic Capital, Portland, Maine, on behalf of the 
National Association of Small Business Investment Companies; Mary 
Mathews, Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, Inc., Virginia, Minnesota, on 
behalf of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity; and Ellen Golden, 
Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine, on behalf of the 
Association of Women's Business Centers.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.