[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 70 (Tuesday, May 18, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D520-D521]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: HIV/AIDS FUNDING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for foreign assistance, focusing on HIV/AIDS, after receiving 
testimony from Randall L. Tobias, Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator, 
Department of State; and Bono, DATA, Washington, D.C.
TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program, 
which established a temporary Federal program of shared public and 
private compensation for insured commercial property and casualty 
losses resulting from acts of terrorism covered by the Terrorism Risk 
Insurance Act, after receiving testimony from Brian C. Roseboro, Under 
Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Richard J. Hillman, 
Director, Financial Markets and Community Investment, General 
Accounting Office; Donna Lee Williams, Delaware Department of 
Insurance, Dover, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance 
Commissioners; J. Robert Hunter, Consumer Federation of America, 
Washington, D.C.; John J. Degnan, Chubb Corporation, Warren, New 
Jersey, on behalf of sundry organizations; Christopher Nassetta, Host 
Marriott Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland, on behalf of the Coalition to 
Insure Against Terrorism; and Jacques E. Dubois, Swiss Re America 
Holding Corporation, Armonk, New York.
FAA OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine the Federal Aviation Administration, 
focusing on airline flight operations, congestion caused by regional 
jets, low-cost carrier expansion, and new airport security screening 
procedures, the aviation trust fund, and establishing a new air traffic 
organization, after receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector 
General, and Marion Blakey, Administrator, Federal Aviation 
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; and JayEtta 
Z. Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting 
Office.
DOE CONTRACTING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine implications of a 1999 change in reporting of small 
business contracts by the Department of Energy (DOE), focusing on

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the potential benefits and risks of the change, and the efforts of the 
Office of Small Disadvantaged Utilization to reach out to small 
businesses and encourage them to do business with DOE, after receiving 
testimony from Kyle E. McSlarrow, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Robin M. 
Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, General 
Accounting Office; Ann Sullivan, Women Impacting Public Policy, 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Joan B. Woodard, Sandia National Laboratories, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Robert Thompson, Energy Communities Alliance, 
Richland, Washington.
IRAQ'S TRANSITION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
way ahead in Iraq, focusing on the transition to sovereignty and 
democracy and securing a stable, peaceful, and economically vital 
region, receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, and Lieutenant General Walter L. Sharp, Director, Strategic 
Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff, both of the Department of 
Defense; and Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of William R. Brownfield, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to Venezuela, and John D. Rood, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
to the Bahamas, after each nominee testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf.
ANIMAL RIGHTS TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the threat of animal rights extremism and eco-terrorism, focusing on 
law enforcement needs to pursue and prosecute those who commit violent 
acts against institutions that conduct animal research, after receiving 
testimony from McGregor W. Scott, U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of 
California; John E. Lewis, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
William Green, Chiron Corporation, Emeryville, California; Jonathan 
Blum, Yum! Brands Inc., Louisville, Kentucky and Stuart M. Zola, Emory 
University Yerkes National Primate Research Laboratory, Atlanta, 
Georgia, on behalf of the National Association for Biomedical Research.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
social security reform issues, and comparing the U.S. social security 
system with other nations', focusing on pension systems in Japan, 
Germany, the United Kingdom, and Chile, demographic factors, taxes, 
scheduled benefits, and investment returns, after receiving testimony 
from James B. Lockhart III, Deputy Commissioner, Social Security 
Administration; Yoshinori Ohno, Member, Japan's House of 
Representatives, Tokyo; Vincent J. Truglia, Moody's Investors Service, 
New York, New York; Axel Boersch-Supan, University of Mannheim Research 
Institute for the Economics of Aging, Mannheim, Germany; David O. 
Harris, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, London, England; and L. Jacobo 
Rodriguez, CATO Institute, Washington, D.C.