[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 71 (Wednesday, May 19, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D531-D533]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to amend the Richard B. Russell 
National School Lunch Act and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 to 
provide children with increased access to food and nutrition 
assistance, to simplify program operations and improve program 
management, and to reauthorize child nutrition programs.

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APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2005 for the government of the District of Columbia, after 
receiving testimony from Mayor Anthony A. Williams, Linda W. Cropp, 
Chair, City Council, and Natwar M. Gandhi, Chief Financial Officer, all 
of Washington, D.C.
IRAQI PRISONER ABUSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed open and closed hearings 
to examine allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, receiving 
testimony from General John P. Abizaid, USA, Commander, United States 
Central Command; and Lieutenant General Ricardo S. Sanchez, USA, 
Commander, and Major General Geoffrey D. Miller, USA, Deputy Commander 
for Detainee Operations, both of Multi-National Force-Iraq.
  Hearings recessed subject to the Call.
IMF AND WORLD BANK
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
an oversight hearing to examine proposals to reform the International 
Monetary Fund and World Bank, including the costs and budgetary 
treatment of multilateral financial institutions' activities, after 
receiving testimony from John B. Taylor, Under Secretary of the 
Treasury for International Affairs; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office; Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon 
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of American Enterprise 
Institute; and C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, 
Washington, D.C.
WATER AND POWER PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 900, to convey the Lower 
Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan 
Missouri Basin Program, and the Intake Irrigation Project to the 
pertinent irrigation districts; S. 1876, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain lands and facilities of the Provo River 
Project; S. 1957, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
cooperate with the States on the border with Mexico and other 
appropriate entities in conducting a hydrogeologic characterization, 
mapping, and modeling program for priority transboundary aquifers; S. 
2304 and H.R. 3209, bills to amend the Reclamation Project 
Authorization Act of 1972 to clarify the acreage for which the North 
Loup division is authorized to provide irrigation water under the 
Missouri River Basin project; S. 2243, to extend the deadline for 
commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of 
Alaska; H.R. 1648, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain water distribution systems of the Cachuma Project, California, 
to the Carpinteria Valley Water District and the Montecito Water 
District; and H.R. 1732, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to participate in the Williamson County, Texas, Water 
Recycling and Reuse Project, after receiving testimony from John W. 
Keys III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, and Charles G. Groat, 
Director, U.S. Geological Survey, both of the Department of the 
Interior; Jerry Nypen, Lower Yellowstone Irrigation Project, Sidney, 
Montana; Andrew B. Core, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer, Santa 
Fe; John Robert Carman, Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake and 
Sandy, Sandy, Utah; Thomas P. Graves, Mid-West Electric Consumers 
Association, Wheat Ridge, Colorado; and C. Allan Jones, Texas Water 
Resources Institute, College Station.
TERRORISM FINANCING
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine terrorism 
financing, focusing on efforts to build domestic and international 
policies and systems to combat money-laundering and terrorist 
financing, charities as a means of raising and moving funds and 
logistical support for terrorists, compliance from Saudi Arabia, and 
the designation of major foreign financial institutions and businesses 
as terrorist financiers, receiving testimony from Joseph M. Myers, 
Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman, former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of the Treasury for Enforcement, and Jonathan M. Winer, Alston and 
Bird, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Law 
Enforcement, both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Juan Carlos Zarate, of California, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Terrorist Financing, and Stuart Levey, of Maryland, to be 
Under Secretary for Enforcement, both of the Department of the 
Treasury, and John O. Colvin, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United 
States Tax Court, after each nominee testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nominations of 
Mr. Zarate and Mr. Levey from Joseph M. Myers, Katten Muchin Zavis 
Rosenman, former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for 
Enforcement, and Jonathan M. Winer, Alston and Bird, former Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for International Law Enforcement, both of 
Washington, D.C.

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IRAQ'S TRANSITION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the way ahead in Iraq, focusing on the Administration's plans for the 
transition to Iraqi sovereignty, after receiving testimony from Anthony 
H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Phebe 
Marr, National Defense University, both of Washington, D.C.; General 
Joseph P. Hoar, USMC (Ret.), former Commander in Chief, United States 
Central Command, Del Mar, California; and Larry Diamond, Stanford 
University Hoover Institution, Stanford, California.
TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE AMENDMENTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 1696, to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act to provide further self-governance by Indian tribes, 
after receiving testimony from Don Kashevaroff, Seldovia Village Tribe, 
Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of the Alaska Native Tribal Health 
Consortium; Alvin Windy Boy, Sr., Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's 
Reservation, Box Elder, Montana, on behalf of the Indian Health 
Service's Tribal Self-Governance Advisory Committee; W. Ron Allen, 
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington, on behalf of the Title 
VI Study Team; and Mickey Peercy, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant.
HEALTH SAVINGS ACCOUNT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the benefits and risks of Health Savings Accounts as provided for in 
the Medicare Law, focusing on the future of health care, reducing 
insurance costs, and enabling more employers to begin or retain health 
insurance benefits for employees, after receiving testimony from John 
W. Snow, Secretary of the Treasury; John C. Goodman, National Center 
for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; Ronald A. Williams, Aetna, 
Hartford, Connecticut; Kate Sullivan, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and 
Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Edward L. Langston, Lafayette, Indiana, on behalf 
of the American Medical Association.