[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 67 (Thursday, May 13, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D498-D500]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION REGULATORY ISSUES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulatory 
issues, focusing on how the markets have evolved in response to the 
Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, after receiving testimony 
from James E. Newsome, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CONTINGENCY RESERVE FUND
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the contingency reserve fund request for fiscal year 2005, after 
receiving testimony from Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary, and Larry 
Lanzillotta, Acting Under Secretary (Comptroller), both of the 
Department of Defense; General Peter Pace, USMC, Vice Chairman of the 
Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Joel D. Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office of 
Management and Budget.
CONTRACTING IN IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine acquisition policy issues in 
review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2005, after 
receiving testimony from Michael W. Wynne, Acting Under Secretary of 
Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Tina Ballard, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Policy and Procurement; Major 
General Carl Strock, USA, Director of Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; and Major General Wade H. McManus, Jr., USA, Commanding 
General, U.S. Army Field Support Command.
DOD TASK FORCE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on 
Care for Victims of Sexual Assault from Ellen P. Embrey, Deputy 
Assistant for Force Health Protection and Readiness, and David S.C. 
Chu, Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, both of the 
Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Major General David H. Petraeus, USA, to be lieutenant 
general and Chief, Office of Security Transition--Iraq.
IMPACT OF MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded a hearing to examine social 
science data on the impact of marriage and divorce on children, 
focusing on marital education, trends in cohabitation, and out-of-
wedlock births, after receiving testimony from Gordon Berlin, MDRC, 
Inc., New York, New York; Steven L. Nock, University of Virginia 
Department of Sociology, Charlottesville; Nicholas Zill,

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Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland; Gerald L. Campbell, Impact Group, 
Inc., Oakton, Virginia; and Patrick F. Fagan, Heritage Foundation, and 
Margy Waller, Brookings Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK CORRUPTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine combating corruption in the multilateral development banks, 
focusing on improving governance, increasing transparency and combating 
corruption, after receiving testimony from Carole Brookins, The World 
Bank, Hector Morales, Inter-American Development Bank, Manish Bapna, 
Bank Information Center, Nancy Zucker Boswell, Transparency 
International--USA, and Jerome I. Levinson, American University 
Washington College of Law, all of Washington, D.C.; and Jeffrey A. 
Winters, Northwestern University Department of Politics, Evanston, 
Illinois.
TRADE AND TOURISM IN A TIME OF TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded a hearing to examine challenges and accomplishments as the 
European Union and the United States promote trade and tourism in a 
terrorism environment, after receiving testimony from Stewart Verdery, 
Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation 
Security; Jonathan Faull, Director General, European Commission, 
Brussels, Belgium; Bill Connors, National Business Travel Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Christopher L. Koch, World Shipping Council, 
Washington, D.C.
RAISING PREMATURE BABIES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded a hearing to examine causes, research 
and prevention of premature births, after receiving testimony from 
Duane F. Alexander, Director, National Institute of Child Health and 
Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Peter C. Van Dyck, 
Associate Administrator for Child and Maternal Health, Health Resources 
and Services Administration, and Eve Lackritz, Chief, Maternal and 
Infant Health Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, National Center 
for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention, all of the Department of Health and 
Human Services; Jennifer L. Howse, March of Dimes, White Plains, New 
York; Charles J. Lockwood, Yale University Medical School Department of 
Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, New Haven, 
Connecticut; and Kelly Bolton Jordon, Memphis, Tennessee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights, and Property Rights ordered favorably reported to the full 
Committee, S.J. Res. 23, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of 
the United States providing for the event that one-fourth of the 
members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate are killed 
or incapacitated, with an amendment.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1609, to make aliens ineligible to receive visas and exclude 
aliens from admission into the United States for nonpayment of child 
support, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 331, designating June 2004 as ``National Safety Month''.
  Also, Committee began consideration of S. 1735, to increase and 
enhance law enforcement resources committed to investigation and 
prosecution of violent gangs, to deter and punish violent gang crime, 
to protect law abiding citizens and communities from violent criminals, 
to revise and enhance criminal penalties for violent crimes, to reform 
and facilitate prosecution of juvenile gang members who commit violent 
crimes, to expand and improve gang prevention programs, but did not 
complete action thereon.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
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