[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 26 (Wednesday, March 3, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D171-D173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2005 for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, 
Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, and Office of Energy 
Efficiency and Renewable Energy, after receiving testimony from David 
Garman, Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 
Raymond L. Orbach, Director, Office of Science, and William D. Magwood, 
IV, Director, Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, all of 
the Department of Energy.
APPROPRIATIONS: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for the government of the District of Columbia, focusing on 
Court Services, Offender Supervision Agency, and the Public Defender 
Service, after receiving testimony from Paul A. Quander, Jr., Director, 
Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of 
Columbia; Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Director, Public Defender Service 
for the District of Columbia; and Rev. Donald Isaac, East of the River 
Clergy-Police-Community Partnership, Washington, D.C.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2005 for 
the Department of the Army, after receiving testimony from R. Les 
Brownlee, Acting Secretary of the Army; and General Peter T. 
Schoomaker, Chief of Staff, Department of the Army.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the role of defense science 
and technology in the global war on terrorism and in preparing for 
emerging threats in review of the defense authorization request for 
fiscal year 2005, after receiving testimony from Dale G. Uhler, 
Acquisition Executive and Senior Procurement Executive, Special 
Operations Acquisition and Logistics Center, United States Special 
Operations Command; Brigadier General Thomas D. Waldhauser, USMC, 
Commanding General, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Vice Chief, 
Office of Naval Research; Brigadier General Charles A. Cartwright, USA, 
Deputy Commanding General for Systems of Systems Integration, United 
States Army Research, Development and Engineering Command; Ronald M. 
Sega, Director, Defense Research and Engineering; Thomas H. Killion, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and 
Technology, Chief Scientist; Rear Admiral Jay M. Cohen, USN, Chief of 
Naval Research; and James B. Engle, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Air Force for Science, Technology and Engineering.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded a 
hearing to examine future Navy and Marine Corps capabilities and 
requirements in review of the defense authorization request for fiscal 
year 2005 and the future years defense program, after receiving 
testimony from John J. Young, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Admiral John B. Nathman, 
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfare Requirements and 
Programs; Vice Admiral J. Cutler Dawson, Jr., USN, Deputy Chief of 
Naval Operations for Resources, Requirements and Assessments; 
Lieutenant General Robert Magnus, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Programs 
and Resources, Headquarters, United States Marine Corps; and Lieutenant 
General Edward Hanlon, Jr., USMC, Commanding General, Combat 
Development Command, United States Marine Corps.
2005: BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to mark up a proposed concurrent 
resolution setting forth the fiscal year 2005 budget for the Federal 
Government, but did not complete consideration thereon, and will meet 
again tomorrow.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the impact and consequences of climate change, 
focusing on its implications for society, effects of burning of fossil 
fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), and climate variability and changes 
across the Arctic region, including issues relative to UV radiation, 
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testimony from Senator Lieberman; Marvin A. Geller, Stony Brook 
University Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, 
Stonybrook, New York; Jerry Mahlman, National Center for Atmospheric 
Research, Boulder, Colorado; Robert W. Corell, Arctic Climate Impact 
Assessment, Lee Hannah, Climate Change Biology, and Lara Hansen, World 
Wildlife Fund Climate Change Program, all of Washington, D.C.
IMPACT OF ABORTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology and Space concluded a hearing to examine the impact 
of abortion on women, after receiving testimony from Georgette Forney, 
National Organization of Episcopalians for Life (NOEL), Sewickley, 
Pennsylvania; Michaelene Jenkins, Life Resource Network, San Diego, 
California; Roselyn Smith-Withers, The Pavilion of God, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the Clergy Advisory Committee of the Religious 
Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC); Elizabeth Shadigian, 
University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ann 
Arbor; and Nada L. Stotland, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois.
OUTFITTER POLICY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 1420, to establish terms 
and conditions for use of certain Federal land by outfitters and to 
facilitate public opportunities for the recreational use and enjoyment 
of such land, after receiving testimony from David Tenny, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Jim 
Hughes, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
Interior; Todd Davidson, Oregon Tourism Commission, Salem, on behalf of 
the Western States Tourism Policy Council; David L. Brown, America 
Outdoors, Knoxville, Tennessee; and Dave Simon, Sierra Club, San 
Francisco, California.
EPA GRANTS MANAGEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine grants management within the Environmental 
Protection Agency, focusing on a comprehensive system of management 
controls and initiatives to address grants management challenges, after 
receiving testimony from David J. O'Connor, Acting Assistant 
Administrator for the Office of Administration and Resources 
Management, and Melissa Heist, Assistant Inspector General for Audit, 
both of the Environmental Protection Agency; John B. Stephenson, 
Director, Natural Resources and the Environment, General Accounting 
Office; and Steve Ellis, Taxpayers for Common Sense, Washington, D.C.
HEALTH INSURANCE CHALLENGES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine health 
insurance challenges, focusing on insurance scams, and their effect on 
workers and their families, and business owners who wish to provide 
health benefits, after receiving testimony from Ann L. Combs, Assistant 
Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits Security; Kathryn G. Allen, 
Director, Health Care--Medicaid and Private Health Insurance Issues, 
and Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of Special 
Investigations, both of the General Accounting Office; Fred Nepple, 
Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance, Madison, on behalf 
of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ERISA Working 
Group; and Jose Montemayor, Texas Department of Insurance, Austin; Mila 
Kofman, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, Washington, 
D.C.; Marie Almond, Albemarle, North Carolina; and Joan Piantadosi, 
Deerfield Beach, Florida.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine S. 2127, to build operational readiness in civilian agencies, 
focusing on post conflict stabilization and reconstruction requiring a 
broadly-based government response, including Federal efforts to fulfill 
ongoing objectives in Iraq and Afghanistan, after receiving testimony 
from James Dobbins, RAND International Security and Defense Policy 
Center, John J. Hamre, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
and Hans Binnendijk, National Defense University, all of Washington, 
D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee met and approved the committee's 
views and estimates with respect to the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 2005 for Indian programs.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the status of the completion of the Smithsonian 
Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, after receiving 
testimony from W. Richard West, Jr., Director, National Museum of the 
American Indian; and Jacqueline Johnson, National Congress of American 
Indians, of Washington, D.C.

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JUDICIAL ACTIVISM VS. DEMOCRACY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Property Rights concluded a hearing to examine national 
implications of the Massachusetts Goodridge decision and the judicial 
invalidation of traditional marriage laws, after receiving testimony 
from Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, Lincoln; Richard 
Richardson, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, Boston, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater 
Boston; Daniel de Leon, Sr., Templo Calvario, Santa Ana, California, on 
behalf of Associacion Evangelica de Ministerios Nacionales (AMEN); 
Hilary Shelton, National Association for the Advancement of Colored 
People, and Chuck Muth, Citizen Outreach, both of Washington D.C.; R. 
Lea Brilmayer, Yale University School of Law, New Haven, Connecticut; 
and Maggie Gallagher, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, New 
York, New York.