[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 31 (Thursday, March 11, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D224-D225]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2005 for the Forest Service of the Department of 
Agriculture, after receiving testimony from Dale N. Bosworth, Chief, 
Forest Service, and Mark E. Rey, Under Secretary for Natural Resources 
and Environment, both of the Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS: NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2005 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA), after receiving testimony from Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
APPROPRIATIONS: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for the Library of Congress, after receiving testimony from 
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; and Donald L. Scott, Deputy 
Librarian of Congress.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2005, focusing on 
missile defense after receiving testimony from Michael W. Wynne, Acting 
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; 
Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr., USN, Commander, United States Strategic 
Command; Thomas P. Christie, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation; 
Lieutenant General Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director, Missile Defense 
Agency; and Lieutenant General Larry J. Dodgen, USA, Commander, Space 
and Missile Defense Command.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine the defense authorization request for fiscal year 
2005 and the future years defense program, focusing on Army 
Transformation, after receiving testimony from Claude M. Bolton, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and 
Technology; General George W. Casey, Jr., USA, Vice Chief of Staff, 
United States Army; and Major General John M. Curran, USA, Director, 
Future Centers, Headquarters, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG IMPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine prescription drug importation and related matters, 
focusing on reducing drug costs, safety concerns relating to 
importation, recent action by the States, drug counterfeiting, and the 
Medicare importation study and task force, after receiving testimony 
from Representatives Burton and Sanders; and Mark B. McClellan, 
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and 
Human Services.
ABANDONED MINE LANDS PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine S. 2086, to amend the Surface Mining Control and 
Reclamation Act of 1977 to improve the reclamation of abandoned mines, 
and S.2049, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 
1977 to reauthorize collection of reclamation fees, revise the 
abandoned

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mine reclamation program, promote remining, authorize the Office of 
Surface Mining to collect the black lung excise tax, and make sundry 
other changes, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey D. Jarrett, 
Director, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior; Steve 
Hohmann, Director, Kentucky Department for Surface Mining and 
Enforcement, Frankfort, on behalf of the Interstate Mining Compact 
Commission and the National Association of Abandoned Mine Land 
Programs; Evan J. Green, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, 
Cheyenne; Joe Shirley, Jr., Navajo Nation, Washington, D.C.; Charles 
Gauvin, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia; and Micheal Buckner, 
United Mine Workers of America, Fairfax, Virginia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Sue Ellen Wooldridge, of Virginia, 
to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
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 Frederick W. Smith, FedEx Corporation, Memphis, 
Tennessee; Michael L. Eskew, United Parcel Service, Atlanta, Georgia; 
Gary M. Mulloy, ADVO, Inc., Windsor, Connecticut; Gary B. Pruitt, 
McClatchy Company, Sacramento, California, on behalf of the Newspaper 
Association of America; and H. Robert Wientzen, Direct Marketing 
Association, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of William James Haynes II, of Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, Diane S. Sykes, of 
Wisconsin, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, 
James L. Robart, to be United States District Judge for the Western 
District of Washington, and Juan R. Sanchez and Lawrence F. Stengel, 
both to be a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania.
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.