[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 91 (Tuesday, July 6, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D712-D713]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
approved for full Committee action the Military Construction 
appropriations for fiscal year 2005.

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DEFENDING AMERICA'S MOST VULNERABLE: SAFE ACCESS TO TREATMENT AND CHILD 
PROTECTION ACT OF 2004
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security held a hearing on H.R. 4547, Defending America's Most 
Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 
2004. Testimony was heard from Catherine M. O'Neil, Associate Deputy 
Attorney General, Department of Justice; Robert J. Cramer, Special 
Investigator, GAO; Tyrone V. Patterson, Manager, Model Treatment 
Center, Department of Health, District of Columbia; and a public 
witness.
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 1 
hour of general debate on H.R. 4754, making appropriation for the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, State, Judiciary and Related 
appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005, equally 
divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of 
the Committee on Appropriations. The rule waives all points of order 
against consideration of the bill. Under the rules of the House the 
bill shall be read for amendment by paragraph. The rule waives points 
of order against provisions in the bill for failure to comply with 
clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations or 
legislative provisions in an appropriations bill), except as specified 
in the resolution. The rule authorizes the Chair to accord priority in 
recognition to Members who have pre-printed their amendments in the 
Congressional Record. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit 
with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from Representatives 
Wolf and Serrano.

Joint Meetings
UZBEKISTAN
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): 
On Thursday, June 24, Commission concluded a hearing to examine 
democratization and human rights in Uzbekistan in light of the 
impending decision by the Department of State whether to certify 
Uzbekistan to continue receiving assistance from the United States, 
after receiving testimony from Lorne W. Craner, Assistant Secretary for 
Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, and Lynn Pascoe, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Europe and Eurasia, both of the Department of State; H.E. 
Abdulaziz Komilov, Republic of Uzbekistan Ambassador to the United 
States; Fred Starr, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of 
International Studies (SAIS) Caucasus-Central Asia Institute, and 
Martha Olcott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Abdurahim Polat, Birlik Party, Springfield, Virginia; 
and Veronika Leila Szente Goldston, Human Rights Watch, New York, New 
York.