[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 30, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D313-D315]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DC YOUTH ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine the deficiencies at the District of 
Columbia's Youth Services Administration, after receiving testimony 
from Austin A. Andersen, Interim Inspector General; Ronald S. Sullivan, 
Jr., Director, Public Defender Service; Robert C. Bobb, City 
Administrator and Deputy Mayor; and Eugene N. Hamilton, Chair, Blue 
Ribbon Commission on Youth Safety and Juvenile Justice Reform, all of 
the government of the District of Columbia.
APPROPRIATIONS: MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for Defense-wide and Air Force military construction 
programs, after receiving testimony from Raymond F. Dubois, Jr., Deputy 
Under Secretary of Defense, Installations and Environment; Nelson F. 
Gibbs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, Installations, 
Environment, and Logistics; Major General L. Dean Fox, USAF, Air Force 
Civil Engineer, U.S. Air Force; Brigadier General David A. Brubaker, 
USAF, Deputy Director, Air National Guard, U.S. Air Force; Brigadier 
General William M. Rajczak, USAF, Deputy to the Chief of Air Force 
Reserve, U.S. Air Force.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Homeland Security 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for border security and enforcement and immigration services, 
after receiving testimony from Robert C. Bonner, Commissioner, Bureau 
of Customs and Border Protection; Michael J. Garcia, Assistant 
Secretary, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and Eduardo 
Aguirre, Jr., Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, all 
of the Department of Homeland Security.
IRAQ SURVEY GROUP
  Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a closed hearing to 
examine the second interim report of the Iraq Survey Group, after 
receiving testimony from Charles A. Duelfer, Special Advisor to the 
Director of Central Intelligence for Strategy Regarding Iraqi Weapons 
of Mass Destruction Programs; and Major General Keith W. Dayton, USA, 
Commander, Iraq Survey Group.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
  Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded a 
hearing to examine the proposed Defense Authorization Request for 
fiscal year 2005 and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on Army 
aviation programs, after receiving testimony from Lieutenant General 
Richard A. Cody, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, 
U.S. Army; Major General Joseph L. Bergantz, USA, Program Executive 
Officer for Aviation, U.S. Army; and Brigadier General Edward J. 
Sinclair, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Aviation Center and Fort 
Rucker.
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on operations and intelligence from Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy 
Secretary of Defense; and General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2238, to amend the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to reduce 
loses to properties for which

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repetitive flood insurance claim payments have been made; and
  The nomination of Alphonso R. Jackson, of Texas, to be Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation concluded a closed hearing to examine aviation security 
issues, after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral David Stone, USN, 
(Ret.), Acting Administrator, Transportation Security Administration, 
and Clark Kent Ervin, Inspector General, both of the Department of 
Homeland Security; and Norman J. Rabkin, Managing Director, Homeland 
Security and Justice, General Accounting Office.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Theodore William Kassinger, of 
Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Deborah A.P. Hersman, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
Department of Transportation, who was introduced by Senator Hollings; 
Thomas Hill Moore, of Florida, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer 
Product Safety Commission, who was introduced by Senator Breaux; Alan 
Paul Anderson, of Florida, who was introduced by Senator Nelson (FL) 
and Representative Mica, and Joseph E. Brennan, of Maine, both to be a 
Federal Maritime Commissioner; and Jack Edwin McGregor, of Connecticut, 
to be a Member of the Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway 
Development Corporation, who was introduced by Representative Shays, 
after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the implementation of the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, focusing on 
improvements in processing claims for compensation, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Grassley; Robert G. Card, Under Secretary of 
Energy; Shelby Hallmark, Director, Office of Workers' Compensation 
Programs, Department of Labor; Robert E. Robertson, Director, 
Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, General Accounting 
Office; and John Howard, Director, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded an oversight hearing to examine National Heritage 
Areas, including findings and recommendations of the General Accounting 
Office, the definition of a National Heritage Area, the definition of 
national significance as it relates to National Heritage Areas, 
recommendations for establishing National Heritage Areas as units of 
the National Park System, recommendations for prioritizing proposed 
studies and designations, and options for developing a National 
Heritage Area Program within the National Park Service, after receiving 
testimony from A. Durand Jones, Deputy Director, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; Barry T. Hill, Director, Natural Resources 
and Environment, General Accounting Office; August R. Carlino, Rivers 
of Steel National Heritage Area/Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, 
Homestead, Pennsylvania; Edward F. Sanderson, Rhode Island Historical 
Preservation and Heritage Commission, Providence, on behalf of the 
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; Lisa 
Benton-Short, George Washington University Center for Urban 
Environmental Research, Washington, D.C.; Carol W. LaGrasse, Property 
Rights Foundation of America, Inc., Stony Creek, New York; and Dennis 
Frenchman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Urban 
Studies and Planning, Cambridge.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Donald Korb, of Ohio, to be Chief Counsel for the 
Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel, Department 
of the Treasury.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of John J. Danilovich, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Brazil, and Craig A. Kelly, of California, to be 
Ambassador to Chile, after each nominee testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
FINANCIAL LITERACY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial 
Management, the Budget, and International Security concluded a hearing 
to examine the Federal government's role in empowering Americans to 
make informed financial decisions, focusing on financial education 
programs that help Americans obtain the knowledge to make informed 
financial choices throughout their lives, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Sarbanes, Enzi, and Stabenow;

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Brian C. Roseboro, Acting Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic 
Finance; Nina S. Rees, Deputy Under Secretary of Education for 
Innovation and Improvement; Susan Ferris Wyderko, Director, Office of 
Investor Education and Assistance, U.S. Securities and Exchange 
Commission; Don M. Blandin, American Savings Education Council, and 
Dara Duguay, Jump Start Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Robert F. Duvall, National Council on Economic 
Education, New York, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee approved 
for reporting the nominations of Edward R. McPherson, of Texas, to be 
Under Secretary of Education, Lisa Kruska, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of Labor, David Wesley Fleming of California, Jay 
Phillip Greene, of Florida, and John Richard Petrocik, of Missouri, 
each to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James Madison 
Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Juanita Alicia Vasquez-Gardner, of 
Texas, and Patrick Lloyd McCrory, of North Carolina, each to be a 
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S Truman Scholarship 
Foundation, and Gerald Lee, of Pennsylvania, and Robert C. Granger, of 
New Jersey, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
National Board for Education Sciences, Department of Education.
INDIAN FOREST MANAGEMENT REPORT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded an oversight hearing 
to examine Inter-Tribal Timber Council's Indian Forest Management 
Assessment Team report, focusing on its recommendations providing the 
Department of the Interior with feedback to improve the delivery and 
management of forestry services provided to federally recognized tribes 
and individual Indian owners, after receiving testimony from Aurene M. 
Martin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Nolan C. Colegrove, Sr., Intertribal Timber Council, Portland, 
Oregon; and John C. Gordon, Interforest, LLC, Branford, Connecticut, on 
behalf of the Second Indian Forest Management Assessment Team.
INDIAN LAND RESTORATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 868, to amend the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Restoration Act to 
provide for the cultural restoration and economic self-sufficiency of 
the Confederation Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians of 
Oregon, after receiving testimony from Mark Rey, Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Cheryl Hoile, 
Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians, 
Coos Bay, Oregon; Peter M. Wakeland, Confederated Tribes of the Grand 
Ronde, Grand Ronde, Oregon; and Jay Ward, Oregon Natural Resources 
Council, Portland.
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.