[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 30 (Wednesday, March 10, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D208-D210]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2005 for 
the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, after receiving testimony from 
Gordon R. England, Secretary of the Navy; Admiral Vern Clark, U.S. 
Navy, Chief of Naval Operations; and General Michael W. Hagee, 
Commandant of the Marine Corps, U.S. Marine Corps.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded open and closed hearings to examine the Defense 
Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2005, focusing on the defense 
nuclear nonproliferation programs of the Department of Energy and the 
Cooperative Threat Reduction programs of the Department of Defense, 
after receiving testimony from Paul M. Longsworth, Deputy Administrator 
for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security 
Administration, Department of Energy; and Lisa Bronson, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Technology Security Policy and 
Counterproliferation.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded a 
hearing to examine the proposed Department of Defense authorization 
request for fiscal year 2005 and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on the posture of the U.S. Transportation Command, after 
receiving testimony from General John W. Handy, USAF, Commander, U.S. 
Transportation Command, U.S. Air Force; Major General Ann E. Dunwoody, 
USA, Commanding General, Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, 
U.S. Army; and Vice Admiral David L. Brewer III, USN, Commander, 
Military Sealift Command, U.S. Navy.
MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings to examine current investigations and regulatory actions 
regarding the mutual fund industry, receiving testimony from David M. 
Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting 
Office; Lori A. Richards, Director, Office of Compliance Inspections 
and Examinations, and Paul F. Roye, Director, Division of Investment 
Management, both of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; and 
Mary L. Schapiro, NASD, Washington, D.C.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call of the chair.
ARGENTINA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance concluded a hearing to examine 
Argentina's current economic and political situation, focusing on the 
bilateral relationship between the United States and Argentina, after 
receiving testimony from Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary of State 
for Western Hemisphere Affairs; Randal K. Quarles, Assistant Secretary 
of Treasury for International Affairs; Adam Lerrick, Carnegie Mellon 
University Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania; and Michael Mussa, Institute of International Economics, 
Washington, D.C.
STEROIDS AND SPORTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the scope of steroid use in professional and 
amateur sports, focusing on certain drug treatment and prevention 
programs, after receiving testimony from Senator Biden; Representative 
Sweeney; Allan H. Selig, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee, Wisconsin;

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Donald M. Fehr, Major League Baseball Players Association, and Paul J. 
Tagliabue, National Football League, both of New York, New York; Eugene 
Upshaw, National Football League Players Association, Washington, D.C.; 
and Terrance P. Madden, United States Anti-Doping Agency, Colorado 
Springs, Colorado.
MARS EXPLORATION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology and Space concluded a hearing to examine NASA/Mars 
exploration program, focusing on the information learned from the 
recent landings of twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and 
Opportunity, after receiving testimony from Edward J. Weiler, Associate 
Administrator for Space Science, Orlando Figueroa, Director of Solar 
System Exploration, and James Garvin, Lead Scientist for Mars and Lunar 
Exploration Programs, all of National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1307, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
the Bureau of Reclamation, to assist in the implementation of fish 
passage and screening facilities at non-Federal water projects, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1355, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the 
rehabilitation of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1421, to authorize the subdivision and dedication of restricted 
land owned by Alaska Natives, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 2696, to establish Institutes to demonstrate and promote the use 
of adaptive ecosystem management to reduce the risk of wildfires, and 
restore the health of fire-adapted forest and woodland ecosystems of 
the interior West; and
  The nomination of Susan Johnson Grant, of Virginia, to be Chief 
Financial Officer, Department of Energy.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests to examine S. 1354, to resolve certain conveyances and 
provide for alternative land selections under the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act related to Cape Fox Corporation and Sealaska 
Corporation, S. 1575 and H.R. 1092, bills to direct the Secretary of 
Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and 
Douglas County, Nevada, S. 1778, to authorize a land conveyance between 
the United States and the City of Craig, Alaska, S. 1819 and H.R. 272, 
bills to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land to 
Lander County, Nevada, and the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain land to Eureka County, Nevada, for continued use as cemeteries, 
and H.R. 3249, to extend the term of the Forest Counties Payments 
Committee, after receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Tom Lonnie, 
Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Bureau of 
Land Management, Department of the Interior; Mayor Dennis Watson, 
Craig, Alaska; Marilyn Blair, Cape Fox Corporation, Ketchikan, Alaska; 
Buck Lindekugel, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Juneau; and 
Dennis E. Wheeler, Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation, Coeur d'Alene, 
Idaho.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1904, to designate the United States courthouse located at 400 
North Miami Avenue in Miami, Florida, as the ``Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. 
United States Courthouse'';
  S. 2022, to designate the Federal building located at 250 West Cherry 
Street in Carbondale, Illinois the ``Senator Paul Simon Federal 
Building''; and
  S. 2043, to designate a Federal building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 
as the ``Ronald Reagan Federal Building.
EPA BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the President's proposed fiscal year 2005 budget 
request for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving 
testimony from Michael O. Leavitt, Administrator, Environmental 
Protection Agency.
U.S.-MIDDLE EAST ECONOMIC POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine United 
States economic and trade policy in the Middle East, focusing on the 
impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTA), commercial diplomacy, private 
sector development and trade promotion, information technology for 
business development, financial reform and the development of capital 
markets, the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), and promotion of 
good business practices and improving the investment climate, after 
receiving testimony from Senator McCain; Grant D. Aldonas, Under 
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Alan P. Larson, Under 
Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; 
David L. Mack, Middle East Institute, and William A.

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Maxwell, Hewlett-Packard Company, both of Washington, D.C.; and Doug 
Boisen, National Corn Growers Association, Minden, Nebraska.
NONPROLIFERATION AND ARMS CONTROL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine nonproliferation and arms control issues, focusing on strategic 
choices, weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and the Nuclear 
Nonproliferation Treaty, after receiving testimony from William J. 
Perry, Stanford University Center for International Security and 
Cooperation, Stanford, California, former Secretary of Defense; Arnold 
Kanter, Scowcroft Group, Washington, D.C.; and Ashton B. Carter, 
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
HAITI
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, and Narcotics Affairs concluded a hearing to examine the 
future of U.S.-Haitian relations, focusing on exit strategies and troop 
departure deadlines, free elections, and economic reforms, after 
receiving testimony from Senators DeWine and Graham (FL); 
Representatives Cummings, and Waters; Roger Noriega, Assistant 
Secretary of State, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; Adolfo 
Franco, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the 
Caribbean, U.S. Agency for International Development; James Dobbins, 
RAND Corporation, Lawrence Pezzullo, former U.S. Special Envoy to 
Haiti, Robert Maguire, Trinity College, and Michael Heinl, all of 
Washington, D.C.
INDIAN TRUST REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine the proposed reorganization of major agencies and functions 
related to Indian trust reform matters within the Department of the 
Interior, after receiving testimony from Senator Daschle; Dave 
Anderson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and 
Ross O. Swimmer, Special Trustee for American Indians, both of the 
Department of the Interior; Tex G. Hall, National Congress of American 
Indians, Washington, D.C.; Joe Shirley, Jr., Navajo Nation, Window 
Rock, Arizona; Edward K. Thomas, Central Council of the Tlingit and 
Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; Harold Frazier, Cheyenne River 
Sioux Tribe, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, on behalf of the Great Plains 
Tribal Chairman's Association; and Clifford Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley 
Tribal Council, Hoopa, California.
FLAG DESECRATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S.J. Res. 4, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the 
flag of the United States, after receiving testimony from Daniel J. 
Bryant, Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy, Department of 
Justice; Major General Patrick H. Brady, USA (Ret.), Citizens Flag 
Alliance, Inc., Sumner, Washington; Lawrence J. Korb, Center for 
American Progress, Washington, D.C., former Assistant Secretary of 
Defense; John Andretti, NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, Mooresville, North 
Carolina; Gary E. May, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville; and 
Richard D. Parker, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Peter W. Hall, of Vermont, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, who was introduced by Senators 
Leahy and Jeffords; Jane J. Boyle, to be United States District Judge 
for the Northern District of Texas, who was introduced by Senators 
Hutchison and Cornyn; Marcia G. Cooke, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Florida, who was introduced by 
Senator Bill Nelson; and Walter D. Kelley, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, who was introduced 
by Senators Warner and Allen, after each nominee testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
SECTION 527 ORGANIZATIONS AND CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the scope and operation of certain tax-exempt organizations 
registered under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, focusing on 
their impact on campaign finance laws and federal elections, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Feingold and Senator McCain; Lawrence 
Noble, Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.; and Edward B. 
Foley, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Columbus.