[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 29 (Tuesday, March 9, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D199-D201]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: BORDER AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for border and transportation security, after receiving 
testimony from Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for 
Border and Transportation Security.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury 
and General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2005 for Department of Transportation, after 
receiving testimony from Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation.
WORLDWIDE THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing in open and 
closed sessions to examine current and future worldwide threats to the 
national security of the United States, after receiving testimony

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from George J. Tenet, Director, Cental Intelligence Agency; and Vice 
Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the Defense Authorization 
Request for Fiscal Year 2005, focusing on military readiness programs, 
after receiving testimony from General George W. Casey, Jr., USA, Vice 
Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN, Vice Chief 
of Naval Operations, United States Navy; General T. Michael Moseley, 
USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force; and Lieutenant General Jan 
C. Huly, USMC, Deputy Commandant of the Marine Corps, Plans, Policies, 
and Operations, U.S. Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2056, to increase the penalties for violations by television and 
radio broadcasters of the prohibitions against transmission of obscene, 
indecent, and profane language, with amendments;
  S. 1164, to provide for the development and coordination of a 
comprehensive and integrated United States research program that 
assists the people of the United States and the world to understand, 
assess, and predict human-induced and natural processes of abrupt 
climate change; and
  The nominations of Francis Mulvey, of Maryland, and W. Douglas 
Buttrey, of Tennessee, both to be a Member of the Surface 
Transportation Board, Department of Transportation, Linda Morrison 
Combs, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of 
Transportation, Rhonda Keenum, of Mississippi, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce and Director General of the United States and 
Foreign Commercial Services, and sundry nominations in the Coast Guard.
WESTERN WATER SUPPLY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Power and 
Water concluded a hearing to examine water supply issues in the arid 
West, focusing on the role of the Federal Government in managing and 
enhancing water resources, after receiving testimony from Bennett W. 
Raley, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science; Floyd 
Gaibler, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign 
Agriculture Services; Brigadier General William T. Grisoli, USA, 
Commander, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Louis 
Uccellini, Director, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of 
Commerce; Craig Bell, Western States Water Council, Midvale, Utah; and 
Tex G. Hall, New Town, North Dakota, on behalf of the National Congress 
of American Indians.
HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 1306 and H.R. 1446, bills to 
introduce the efforts of the California Missions Foundation to restore 
and repair the Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in the State 
of California and to preserve the artworks and artifacts of these 
missions, H.R. 1521, to provide for additional lands to be included 
within the boundary of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the 
State of Pennsylvania, S. 1430, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to conduct a study of the Baranov Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, for 
potential inclusion in the National Park System, and S.1687, to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the preservation 
and interpretation of the historic sites of the Manhattan Project for 
potential inclusion in the National Park System, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Boxer; Representative Farr; P. Daniel Smith, 
Special Assistant, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
Mayor Carolyn Floyd, City of Kodiak, Alaska; Walter Costlow, South Fork 
Fishing and Hunting Club Historical Preservation Society, St. Michael, 
Pennsylvania; Barry W. Lynn, Americans United for Separation of Church 
and State, and Cynthia C. Kelly, Atomic Heritage Foundation, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Stephen T. Hearst, Board of the California 
Missions Foundation, San Francisco.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGENDA
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
Administration's international trade agenda, after receiving testimony 
from Robert B. Zoellick, United States Trade Representative.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Mark B. McClellan, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 
Department of Health and Human Services, Brian Carlton Roseboro, of New 
Jersey, to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Mark J. 
Warshawsky, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the transition

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to sovereignty relating to Iraq from Marc I. Grossman, Under Secretary 
for Political Affairs, Francis J. Ricciardone, Ambassador to the 
Phillippines, Coordinator for Iraq Transition, and Major General 
Charles E. Williams, USA (Ret.), Director, Overseas Buildings 
Operations, all of the Department of State; and Lieutenant General 
Claude Kicklighter, U.S. Army (Ret.), CPA Transition Chief, Baghdad, 
Iraq.
POSTAL REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine U.S. Postal Service reform issues, focusing on sustaining the 9 
million jobs in the $900 billion mailing industry, after receiving 
testimony from Ann S. Moore, Time, Inc., New York, New York; Mark 
Angelson, RR Donnelley, Chicago, Illinois; Christopher W. Bradley, 
Cuddledown, Inc., Portland, Maine; Max Heath, Landmark Community 
Papers, Shelbyville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Newspaper 
Association; William J. Ihle, Bear Creek Corporation, Medford, Oregon, 
on behalf of Harry and David and Jackson and Perkins; and Shelley 
Dreifuss, Postal Rate Commission, Washington, D.C.
YEAR ROUND COLLEGE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine advantages and impediments in relation 
to a year round college calendar, focusing on the costs of higher 
education, financial aid, Pell Grants, and Stafford Loans, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, George Washington 
University, Washington, D.C.; India McKinney, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tennessee; Michael L. Lomas, Dillard University, New 
Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of the United Negro College Fund; 
Virginia S. Hazen, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and 
Margaret Heisel, University of California, Berkeley.
ERIC AND BRIAN SIMON ACT
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1509, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a gratuity 
to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS as a 
result of a blood transfusion relating to a service-connected 
disability, after receiving testimony Douglas B. Simon and Eric M. 
Simon, both of Veseli, Minnesota.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE DRUG DISCOUNT CARD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the new Medicare drug discount card, focusing on consumer savings, 
beneficiary education, implementation and outreach to low-income 
seniors, and how the new cards will work with existing discount 
programs, after receiving testimony from Dennis Smith, Acting 
Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Craig L. Fuller, National Association of 
Chain Drug Stores, Alexandria, Virginia; Forest Harper, Pfizer, Inc., 
New York, New York; and James Firman, National Council on Aging, Karen 
Ignagni, American Association of Health Plans, and Mark Merritt, 
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, all of Washington, D.C.