[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 8, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D588-D590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Suedeen G. Kelly, of New Mexico, 
to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Bingaman, testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 931, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to undertake a program to reduce the risks from and 
mitigate the effects of avalanches on visitors to

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units of the National Park System and on other recreational users of 
public land, S. 1678, to provide for the establishment of the Uintah 
Research and Curatorial Center for Dinosaur National Monument in the 
States of Colorado and Utah, S. 2140, to expand the boundary of the 
Mount Rainier National Park, S. 2287, to adjust the boundary of the 
Barataria Preserve Unit of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and 
Preserve in the State of Louisiana, and S. 2469, to amend the National 
Historic Preservation Act to provide appropriation authorization and 
improve the operations of the Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation, after receiving testimony from Senators Stevens and 
Bennett; Tom L. Thompson, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Janet Snyder Matthews, Associate 
Director, Cultural Resources, National Park Service, Department of the 
Interior; John L. Nau III, Chairman, Advisory Council on Historic 
Preservation; Karen Krieger, Utah Division of Parks and Recreation, 
Salt Lake City; and David Hamre, Alaska Railroad Corporation, 
Anchorage.
MEDICARE DRUG CARD
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the 
implementation of the Medicare-Approved Drug Discount Card and the 
Transitional Assistance Program, enacted into law as part of the 
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003, 
focusing on how to deliver savings to participating beneficiaries, 
including mail order services, price shopping and negotiating power, 
card monitoring, and prescription drug cost comparisons, receiving 
testimony from Mark B. McClellan, Administrator, Centers for Medicare 
and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas 
Snedden, Pennsylvania Department of Aging, Harrisburg; Kris Gross, Iowa 
Senior Health Insurance Information Program, Des Moines; Robert M. 
Hayes, Medicare Rights Center, New York, New York; and Mark Merritt, 
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, and James B. Firman, 
National Council on Aging, both of Washington, D.C.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
DIETARY SUPPLEMENT SAFETY ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded a hearing to examine the challenges and successes the U.S. 
Food and Drug Administration has experienced since the passage of the 
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, after receiving 
testimony from Robert E. Brackett, Director, Center for Food Safety and 
Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Alice M. Clark, University of Mississippi, 
University, Mississippi; Ronald M. Davis, Henry Ford Health System 
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Detroit, Michigan, 
on behalf of the American Medical Association; Charles W.F. Bell, 
Consumers Union, Bruce Silverglade, Center for Science in the Public 
Interest, and Annette Dickinson, Council for Responsible Nutrition, all 
of Washington, D.C.; and Anthony L. Young, Kleinfeld, Kaplan, and 
Becker, LLP, Silver Spring, Maryland, on behalf of the American Herbal 
Products Association.
ARTHRITIS EPIDEMIC
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Aging concluded a hearing to examine the current and future impact of 
arthritis, focusing on preventing, controlling and curing arthritis and 
the opportunities public health has to make a difference in reducing 
the pain and disability associated with arthritis, including S. 2338, 
to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for arthritis 
research and public health, after receiving testimony from Joe Sniezek, 
Director, Arthritis Program, Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, and Susana Serrate-Sztein, Chief, Rheumatic Diseases 
Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin 
Diseases, National Institutes of Health, both of the Department of 
Health and Human Services; Deborah Rothman, Shriners Hospital for 
Children, Springfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American College 
of Rheumatology; John H. Klippel, Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta, 
Georgia; KaLea Kunkel, Oregon, Missouri, and Virg Jones, Kansas City, 
Kansas.
NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS ACT AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
S. 2436, to reauthorize the Native American Programs Act of 1974, after 
receiving testimony from Quanah Crossland Stamps, Commissioner, 
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human 
Services; John E. Echohawk, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, 
Colorado; and Leonard J. Smith, Jr., A & S. Tribal Industries, Poplar, 
Montana.
DOJ TERRORISM OVERSIGHT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to 
examine activities of the Department of Justice, relating to the 
department's strategic plan and its ongoing implementation to prevent 
terrorism, after receiving testimony from John Ashcroft, Attorney 
General, Department of Justice.

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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights and Property Rights concluded a hearing to examine the place of 
religion in civil society, and the protections the U.S. Constitution 
guarantees to religious expression in the public square, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Shelby and Landrieu, and 
Representative Edwards; William ``Barney'' Clark, Balch Springs Senior 
Center, Balch Springs, Texas; J. Brent Walker, Baptist Joint Committee 
on Public Affairs, and Vincent Phillip Munoz, American Enterprise 
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Roy S. Moore, former Chief 
Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, Birmingham; Kelly Shackelford, 
Liberty Legal Institute, Plano, Texas; Richard W. Garnett, Notre Dame 
Law School, South Bend, Indiana; Melissa Rogers, Wake Forest University 
Divinity School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Nashala Hearn, 
Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Steven Rosenauer, Bradenton, Florida.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.