[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 84 (Thursday, June 17, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D637-D639]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 2537) making appropriations for the Department of 
Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005.
BOND MARKETS REGULATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the regulation of the bond markets, focusing on 
fixed-income market transparency, Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine 
(TRACE) enabling investors to access current price information for U.S. 
corporate bonds, and State, local, and Internal Revenue Service 
regulation of municipal issuers, after receiving testimony from Annette 
L. Nazareth, Director, Division of Market Regulation, U.S. Securities 
and Exchange Commission; Doug Shulman, National Association of 
Securities Dealers, New York, New York; Christopher A. Taylor, 
Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, Alexandria, Virginia; Micah S. 
Green, Bond Market Association, Washington, D.C.; Christopher M. Ryon, 
Vanguard Group, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; Arthur Warga, University of 
Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business, Houston, Texas.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 894, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in 
commemoration of the 230th Anniversary of the United States Marine 
Corps, and to support construction of the Marine Corps Heritage Center;
  S. 976, to provide for the issuance of a coin to commemorate the 
400th anniversary of the Jamestown settlement; and
  The nomination of Alan Greenspan, of New York, to be Chairman of the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
BORDER SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine federal efforts to enhance border security, 
focusing on technological advancements and national border control and 
cross-agency law enforcement initiatives, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Kyl; Representative Kolbe; Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary 
for Border and Transportation Security, Charles E. McQueary, Under 
Secretary for Science and Technology, and Mary Delaquis, Port Director, 
Customs and Border Protection, all of the Department of Homeland 
Security; Roger Di Rosa, Refuge Manager, Cabeza Prieta National 
Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the 
Interior; George Happ, Alaska EPSCoR, University of Alaska-Fairbanks; 
and Ned Norris, Jr., Tohono O'Odham Nation, Sells, Arizona.

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U.S. SPACE EXPLORATION POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the final report of the President's Commission on 
Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, focusing on a 
transformation of NASA, building an international space industry, a 
discovery-based science agenda, and educational initiatives to support 
youth and teachers inspired by space exploration, after receiving 
testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Chairman, President's 
Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy; 
Paul D. Spudis, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 
Laurel, Maryland; Marie T. Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Department of Earth Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge; 
Laurie A. Leshin, Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and 
Sciences, Tempe; and Lester L. Lyles, Columbus, Ohio.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Environmental Management Program of the 
Department of Energy and issues associated with accelerated cleanup, 
focusing on concerns over activities at the Hanford Site involving 
occupational medical services and potential exposures to tank farm 
vapors, development of risk-based end states, and waste incidental to 
reprocessing, after receiving testimony from Jessie H. Roberson, 
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Glenn S. Podonsky, 
Director, Office of Security and Safety Performance Assurance, and 
Gregory H. Friedman, Inspector General, all of the Department of 
Energy.
WATER MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 1211, to further the purposes 
of title XVI of the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment 
Act of 1992, the ``Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
Facilities Act'', by directing the Secretary of the Interior to 
undertake a demonstration program for water reclamation in the Tularosa 
Basin of New Mexico; S. 2460, to provide assistance to the State of New 
Mexico for the development of comprehensive State water plans; S. 2508, 
to redesignate the Ridges Basin Reservoir, Colorado, as Lake 
Nighthorse; S. 2511, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct 
a feasibility study of a Chimayo water supply system, to provide for 
the planning, design, and construction of a water supply, reclamation, 
and filtration facility for Espanola, New Mexico; and S. 2513, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance 
to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, 
design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, 
after receiving testimony from John W. Keys III, Commissioner, Bureau 
of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Mayor David M. Lansford, 
Clovis, New Mexico; and John R. D'Antonio, Jr., New Mexico State 
Engineer, Santa Fe.
LAW ENFORCEMENT TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime (the ``Cybercrime 
Convention'' or the ``Convention''), which was signed by the United 
States on November 23, 2001 (Treaty Doc. 108-11), United Nations 
Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (the ``Convention''), 
as well as two supplementary protocols: (1) the Protocol to Prevent, 
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and 
Children, and (2) the Protocol Against Smuggling of Migrants by Land, 
Sea and Air, which were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly 
on November 15, 2000. The Convention and Protocols were signed by the 
United States on December 13, 2000, at Palermo, Italy (Treaty Doc. 108-
16), Inter-American Convention Against Terrorism (``Convention'') 
adopted at the Thirty-second Regular Session of the General Assembly of 
the Organization of American States (``OAS'') Meeting in Bridgetown, 
Barbados, and signed by thirty countries, including the United States, 
on June 3, 2002 (Treaty Doc. 107-18), and Protocol of Amendment to the 
International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of 
Customs Procedures done at Brussels on June 26, 1999 (Treaty Doc. 108-
6), after receiving testimony from Michael T. Schmitz, Acting Assistant 
Commissioner for International Affairs, U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Bruce Swartz, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; 
and Samuel M. Witten, Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State.
INTERNET PHARMACIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held a hearing to examine the danger of purchasing 
pharmaceuticals over the Internet, focusing on the extent to which 
consumers can purchase pharmaceuticals over the Internet without a 
medical prescription, the importation of pharmaceuticals into the 
United States, and whether pharmaceuticals from foreign services are 
counterfeit, expired, unsafe, or illegitimate, receiving testimony from 
Marcia Crosse, Director, Health Care--Public Health and Military 
Healthcare Issues, and Robert J. Cramer, Managing Director, Office of

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Special Investigations, both of the General Accounting Office; Rudolph 
W. Giuliani, Giuliani Partners, LLC, New York, New York; Marvin D. 
Shepherd, University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy; Francine 
H. Haight, Orange County, California; and Elizabeth Carr, Sacramento, 
California.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, June 24.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2013, to amend section 119 of title 17, United States Code, to 
extend satellite home viewer provisions, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Henry W. Saad, of Michigan, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit.
  Also, committee failed to approve the issuance of a subpoena to 
Attorney General John Ashcroft to obtain certain documents.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.