[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 51 (Tuesday, April 20, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D377-D378]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury 
and General Government concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2005 for the Department of the

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Treasury, after receiving testimony from John W. Snow, Secretary of the 
Treasury.
APPROPRIATIONS: BUREAU OF RECLAMATION/ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2005 for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Army Corps 
of Engineers, after receiving testimony from John W. Keys III, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation; John P. Woodley, Jr., Assistant 
Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); and Lieutenant General Robert B. 
Flowers, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine United States policy and military operations in 
Iraq and Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Paul D. Wolfowitz, 
Deputy Secretary of Defense; General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Mark I. Grossman, Under Secretary of State 
for Political Affairs.
BANKING AND CREDIT UNION INDUSTRIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine current conditions of the banking and credit union 
industries, focusing on improved risk-management practices of banks, 
the current status and direction of regulatory efforts to revise 
capital standards for internationally active banks, deposit insurance, 
and consolidation within the domestic banking industry, after receiving 
testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the 
Federal Reserve System; John D. Hawke, Jr., Comptroller of the 
Currency, and James E. Gilleran, Director, Office of Thrift 
Supervision, both of the Department of the Treasury; Donald E. Powell, 
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Dennis Dollar, 
National Credit Union Administration, Alexandria, Virginia; and Kevin 
P. Lavender, Tennessee State Bank Commissioner, Nashville, on behalf of 
the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
IRAQ TRANSITION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the current state of society in Iraq, focusing on moving the 
Iraqi people toward a secure, independent state, after receiving 
testimony from James R. Schlesinger, Lehman Brothers, Samuel R. Berger, 
Stonebridge International, LLC, and Richard N. Perle, American 
Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Benjamin T. Dodge, 
International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom; 
and Juan Cole, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
BLACK MARKET
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of 
Columbia concluded a hearing to examine the effectiveness of the 
federal government's current efforts to enforce existing intellectual 
property rights and how current U.S. intellectual property enforcement 
policies relate to the loss of manufacturing jobs, after receiving 
testimony from Jon W. Dudas, ActingUnder Secretary of Commerce for 
Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and 
Trademark Office; Francis Gary White, Unit Chief, Commercial Fraud 
Division, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland 
Security; Jeff Gorman, Gorman-Rupp Company, Mansfield, Ohio; Phillip A. 
Rotman II, Dana Corporation, Toledo, Ohio; and Daniel C.K. Chow, The 
Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus.
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.