[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 76 (Thursday, June 3, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D570-D571]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANK SECRECY ACT ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine efforts to ensure compliance and enforcement of the 
Bank Secrecy Act, enacted in 1970, which authorizes the Secretary of 
the Treasury to issue regulations requiring that financial institutions 
keep records and file reports on certain financial transactions, 
focusing on anti-money laundering and issues concerning depository 
institution regulatory oversight, after receiving testimony from Susan 
S. Bies, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; John 
D. Hawke, Jr., Comptroller of the Currency, James E. Gilleran, 
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, William J. Fox, Director, 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, all of the Department of the 
Treasury; Donald E. Powell, Chairman, and Gaston L. Gianni, Jr., 
Inspector General, both of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; 
Davi M. D'Agostino, Director, Financial Markets and Community 
Investment, General Accounting Office; and JoAnn M. Johnson, Chairman, 
National Credit Union Administration.

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TREAD ACT: MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the National Highway Safety Administration's 
implementation of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, 
Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act and various motor vehicle 
safety issues, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey W. Runge, 
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 
Department of Transportation; Oregon State Senator Bruce Starr, 
Hillsboro; and Robert Strassburger, Alliance of Automobile 
Manufacturers, Donald B. Shea, Rubber Manufacturers Association, and 
Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, former Administrator, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1129, to provide for the protection of unaccompanied alien 
children, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1887, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to lift the patient 
limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical 
practitioners in group practices;
  S. 2363, to revise and extend the Boys and Girls Clubs of America; 
and
  S. Con. Res. 5, expressing support for the celebration in 2004 of the 
150th anniversary of the Grand Excursion of 1854.
CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
851, to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors 
across State lines in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement 
of parents in abortion decisions, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Ensign; John C. Harrison, University of Virginia School of Law, 
Charlottesville; Peter J. Rubin, Georgetown University Law Center, 
Washington, D.C.; Teresa Stanton Collett, University of St. Thomas 
School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Reverend Katherine Hancock 
Ragsdale, St. David's Episcopal Church, Pepperell, Massachusetts, on 
behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America and the Religious Coalition for 
Reproductive Choice; and Joyce Farley and Crystal Lane, both of 
Dushore, Pennsylvania.