[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 82 (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D614-D616]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nomination of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be 
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
PIPELINE SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine long term prospects for improved safety and 
reliability of the Nation's pipeline infrastructure, focusing on responses 
to mandates set forth in the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act of 2002 
including specific implementation and results, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Murray; Samuel G. Bonasso, Deputy Administrator, Research and 
Special Programs Administration, Stacey Gerard, Associate Administrator, 
Office of Pipeline Safety, and Kenneth Mead, Inspector General, all of the 
Department of Transportation; Katherine Siggerud, Director, Physical 
Infrastructure Issues, General Accounting Office; James L. Connaughton, 
Council on Environmental Quality, Washington, D.C.; Marc Spitzer, Arizona 
Corporation Commission, Phoenix; Lois N. Epstein, Cook Inlet Keeper, 
Anchorage, Alaska; Barry Pearl, TEPPCO Partners, L.P., Houston, Texas, on 
behalf of the Association Oil Pipe Lines and the American Petroleum 
Institute; Earl Fischer, Atmos Energy Corporation, Dallas, Texas, on behalf 
of the American Gas Association and the American Public Gas Association; and 
Robert T. Howard, Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation, Portland, Oregon, 
on behalf of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
ENERGY SUPPLY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine crude oil supply, gasoline demands and the effects on prices, 
focusing on the causes and solution to the current fuel situation, including 
concerns over ability of petroleum markets to rebalance, boutique diesel 
fuels, proposed renewable fuel mandate, refinery capacity, after receiving 
testimony from Guy F. Caruso, Administrator, Energy Information 
Administration, Department of Energy; Red Cavaney, American Petroleum 
Institute, and Dave Berry, Swift Transportation Company, on behalf of the 
American Trucking Associations, both of Washington, D.C.; and John P. 
Kilduff, Fimat USA Inc., New York, New York.
FREE TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine U.S.-
Australia and U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreements, focusing on economic, 
social, and political challenges facing the region and U.S. interests in the 
Middle East, after receiving testimony from Peter F. Allgeier, and Josette 
Sheeran Shiner, each a Deputy United States Trade Representative; Allen 
Johnson, Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade 
Representative; Harold McGraw III, The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, New 
York, on behalf of the Business Roundtable; Jon Kneen, Al-Jon, Inc., 
Ottumwa, Iowa, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers; Lynn 
Cornwell, Montana Stockgrowers Association, Glasgow; Jeffrey W. Ruffner, MSE 
Technology Applications, Inc., Butte, Montana; John Schulman, Warner 
Brothers Entertainment, Burbank, California, on behalf of the Entertainment 
Industry Coalition for Free Trade; David G. Mengebier, CMS Energy 
Corporation, Jackson, Michigan, on behalf of the U.S.- Morocco FTA 
Coalition; Ron Heck, Perry, Iowa, on behalf of the American Soybean 
Association; and Lochiel Edwards, Montana Grain Growers Association, Big 
Sandy, on behalf of the Wheat Export Trade Education Committee, the National 
Association of Wheat Growers, and U.S. Wheat Associates.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 39, 
approving the renewal of import restrictions contained in the Burmese 
Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
current situation in Sudan, focusing on genocide, violence and ethnic 
cleansing in Darfur, Sudan, humanitarian assistance and development of the 
infrastructure in southern Sudan, and the potential for famine, after 
receiving testimony from Charles R. Snyder, Acting Assistant Secretary

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of State for African Affairs; Roger P. Winter, Assistant Administrator for 
Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Agency for 
International Development; John Prendergast, Special Advisor to the 
President, International Crisis Group; and Julie Flint, Human Rights Watch, 
London, United Kingdom.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Joseph D. Stafford III, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of The Gambia, Lewis W. Lucke, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Swaziland, who was introduced by Senators Hutchison and Cornyn, 
and R. Niels Marquardt, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Cameroon, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as 
Ambassador to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, after each nominee 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TERRORISM FINANCING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
current efforts to combat terrorism financing, focusing on U.S.-Saudi 
relations, including the Saudi regime strengthening its efforts to reduce 
the flow of funds from within Saudi Arabia to terrorists, after receiving 
testimony from Lee S. Wolosky, Boies, Schiller, and Flexner, LLP, 
Washington, D.C., and Mallory Factor, Mallory Factor, Inc., New York, New 
York, both on behalf of the Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing, 
Council on Foreign Relations; and David D. Aufhauser, Williams and Connolly, 
LLP, Washington, D.C., former General Counsel, Department of the Treasury.
ADOLESCENT TREATMENT SERVICES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Substance Abuse, and Mental Health Services concluded a hearing to examine 
substance abuse prevention and treatment services for adolescents, focusing 
on the effects of binge drinking, and monthly cigarette, beer, and marijuana 
usage, and the development of the Juvenile Treatment Network, after 
receiving testimony from Charles G. Curie, Administrator, Substance Abuse 
and Mental Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Sandra A. Brown, University of California Department of 
Psychology, San Diego; Roger P. Weissberg, University of Illinois at 
Chicago; Rhonda Ramsey-Molina, Coalition for a Drug Free Greater Cincinnati, 
Cincinnati, Ohio; Ronald P. Anton, Day One, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on behalf 
of the Maine Association of Substance Abuse Programs, and the State 
Associations of Addiction Services; and Kris Shipley, Pasadena, Maryland, on 
behalf of the Therapeutic Communities of America.
TRIBAL PARITY ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
1530, to provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes 
of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects 
along the Missouri River, after receiving testimony from Senator Daschle; 
Ross Mooney, Acting Deputy Director of Trust Services, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Michael J. Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux 
Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota; Duane Big Eagle, Sr., Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribe, Fort Thompson, South Dakota; and Michael L. Lawson, Morgan, Angel and 
Associates, Washington, D.C.
BIOMETRIC PASSPORTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine S. 
2324, to extend the deadline on the use of technology standards for the 
passports of visa waiver participants, focusing on appropriate security 
checks, freezing the identity of travelers, matching traveler identities and 
documents, documenting arrivals and departures, and determining overstays, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Cantwell; Asa Hutchinson, Under 
Secretary of Homeland Secretary for Border and Transportation Security; and 
Maura Harty, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine certain 
measures to strengthen social security, focusing on what personal retirement 
accounts do for low-income workers, including reform proposals that could 
have a variety of effects on the distribution of benefits and payroll taxes, 
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receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United 
States, General Accounting Office; Jeffrey R. Brown, University of Illinois 
at Urbana-Champaign College of Business, Champaign; Peter J. Ferrara, 
Institute for Policy Innovation, and the Club for Growth, Jeff Lemieux, 
Centrists.Org, and Christian E. Weller, Center for American Progress, all of 
Washington, D.C.
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