[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 75 (Wednesday, June 2, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D562-D564]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN)
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded a 
hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2005 for 
the Iraq and Afghanistan Contingent Emergency Reserve Fund, after 
receiving testimony from Joel D. Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office of 
Management and Budget; Larry J. Lanzillotta, Acting Under Secretary of 
Defense (Comptroller); and General Peter Pace, USMC, Vice Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on certain national security issues from Condoleezza Rice, 
National Security Advisor.
SECURITIES INVESTMENT PROTECTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the role of State securities regulators in 
protecting investors, focusing on efforts to enforce securities laws, 
investment adviser registration and licensing, State investigations 
into mutual fund industry abuses, and investor education programs, 
after receiving testimony from New Jersey Attorney General Peter C. 
Harvey, Trenton; Ralph A. Lambiase, Connecticut Department of Banking, 
Hartford, and Joseph P. Borg, Alabama Securities Commission, 
Montgomery, both on behalf of the North American Securities 
Administrators Association; Charles Leven, AARP, Washington, D.C.; and 
Juanita Periman, Butte, Montana.
FIREFIGHTING AIRCRAFT SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the status of fire fighting aircraft, focusing on 
the respective roles the Federal Aviation Administration, the Forest 
Service, and the Department of the Interior play in the safety 
oversight of firefighting operations conducted on behalf of the Forest 
Service and the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony 
from Ellen Engleman Conners, Chairman, National Transportation Safety 
Board; Nicholas A. Sabatini, Associate Administrator, Regulation and 
Certification, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Mark E. Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural 
Resources and Environment; Mark Timmons, Neptune Aviation Services, 
Missoula International Airport, Missoula, Montana; and William W. 
Grantham, International Air Response Inc., Chandler, Arizona.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Jon D. Leibowitz, of Maryland, 
who was introduced by Senators Kohl and DeWine, and Deborah P. Majoras, 
of Virginia, who was introduced by Senator DeWine, each to be a Federal 
Trade Commissioner, Brett T. Palmer, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, 
Benjamin H. Wu, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Technology Policy, who was introduced by Representative Boehlert, 
Enrique J. Sosa, of Florida, to be a Member of the Reform Board 
(Amtrak), and Scott Kevin Walker, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the 
Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 
who was introduced by Representative Paul Ryan, after each nominee 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the Administration's proposed Greater Middle East Initiative, 
focusing on economic, social and political reform in the G8 Broader 
Middle East and North Africa, after receiving testimony from Alan P. 
Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and 
Agricultural Affairs; His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of 
the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; Patrick M. Cronin, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and 
Alan R. Richards, University of California, Santa Cruz.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 2468, to reform the postal laws of the United States, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 346, to amend the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to 
establish a governmentwide policy requiring competition in certain 
executive agency procurements, with an amendment;

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  S. 1292, to establish a servitude and emancipation archival research 
clearinghouse in the National Archives, with an amendment;
  S. 2249, to amend the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to 
provide for emergency food and shelter;
  S. 2322, to amend chapter 90 of title 5, United States Code, to 
include employees of the District of Columbia courts as participants in 
long term care insurance for Federal employees;
  S. 2351, to establish a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency 
Medical Services and a Federal Interagency Committee on Emergency 
Medical Services Advisory Council;
  S. 2479, to amend chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code, to 
provide for Federal employees to make elections to make, modify, and 
terminate contributions to the Thrift Savings Fund at any time;
  H.R. 1303, to amend the E-Government Act of 2002 with respect to 
rulemaking authority of the Judicial Conference;
  S. 2017 and H.R. 3742, bills to designate the United States 
courthouse and post office building located at 93 Atocha Street in 
Ponce, Puerto Rico, as the ``Luis A. Ferre United States Courthouse and 
Post Office Building'';
  S. 2214, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3150 Great Northern Avenue in Missoula, Montana, as 
the ``Mike Mansfield Post Office'';
  S. 2415, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 4141 Postmark Drive, Anchorage, Alaska, as the 
``Robert J. Opinsky Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 1822, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 3751 West 6th Street in Los Angeles, California, as 
the ``Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Post Office'';
  H.R. 2130, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 121 Kinderkamack Road in River Edge, New Jersey, as 
the ``New Bridge Landing Post Office'';
  H.R. 2438, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 115 West Pine Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as 
the ``Major Henry A. Commiskey, Sr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3029 and S. 1596, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 255 North Main Street in Jonesboro, 
Georgia, as the ``S. Truett Cathy Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3059, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 304 West Michigan Street in Stuttgart, Arkansas, as 
the ``Lloyd L. Burke Post Office'';
  H.R. 3068, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 2055 Siesta Drive in Sarasota, Florida, as the 
``Brigadier General (AUS-Ret.) John H. McLain Post Office'';
  H.R. 3234 and S. 1763, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 14 Chestnut Street in Liberty, New 
York, as the ``Ben R. Gerow Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3300, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 15500 Pearl Road in Strongsville, Ohio, as the 
``Walter F. Ehrnfelt, Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3353, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 525 Main Street in Tarboro, North Carolina, as the 
``George Henry White Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3536, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 210 Main Street in Malden, Illinois, as the ``Army 
Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden Post Office'';
  H.R. 3537, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 185 State Street in Manhattan, Illinois, as the 
``Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke Manhattan Post Office'';
  H.R. 3538, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 201 South Chicago Avenue in Saint Anne, Illinois, as 
the ``Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre Saint Anne Post Office'';
  H.R. 3690 and S. 2104, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 2 West Main Street in Batavia, New 
York, as the ``Barber Conable Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3733, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 410 Huston Street in Altamont, Kansas, as the 
``Myron V. George Post Office'';
  H.R. 3740 and S. 2153, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 223 South Main Street in Roxboro, 
North Carolina, as the ``Oscar Scott Woody Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3769, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 137 East Young High Pike in Knoxville, Tennessee, as 
the ``Ben Atchley Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3855 and S. 2441, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 607 Pershing Drive in Laclede, 
Missouri, as the ``General John J. Pershing Post Office'';
  H.R. 3917 and S. 2255, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 695 Marconi Boulevard in Copiague, New 
York, as the ``Maxine S. Postal United States Post Office'';
  H.R. 3939 and S. 2291, bills to redesignate the facility of the 
United States Postal Service located at 14-24 Abbott Road in Fair Lawn, 
New Jersey, as the ``Mary Ann Collura Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3942, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 7 Commercial

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Boulevard in Middletown, Rhode Island, as the ``Rhode Island Veterans 
Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4037 and S. 2442, bills to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service located at 475 Kell Farm Drive in Cape Girardeau, 
Missouri, as the ``Richard G. Wilson Processing and Distribution 
Facility'';
  H.R. 4176, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 122 West Elwood Avenue in Raeford, North Carolina, 
as the ``Bobby Marshall Gentry Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 4299, to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 410 South Jackson Road in Edinburg, Texas, as the 
``Dr. Miguel A. Nevarez Post Office Building''; and
  The nominations of Albert Casey, of Texas, and James C. Miller III, 
of Virginia, each to be a Governor of the United States Postal Service, 
David Safavian, of Michigan, to be Administrator for Federal 
Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, and Dawn A. 
Tisdale, of Texas, to be a Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Property Rights approved for full Committee consideration 
S.J. Res. 4, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United 
States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the 
flag of the United States.