[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 92 (Wednesday, July 7, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D721]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the 
nominations of Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr., of Maryland, to be Inspector 
General, Social Security Administration, who was introduced by Senator 
Sununu, and J. Russell George, of Virginia, to be Inspector General for 
Tax Administration, Timothy S. Bitsberger, of Massachusetts, to be an 
Assistant Secretary, and Paul Jones, of Colorado, to be a Member of the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, all of the Department of the 
Treasury, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf.
JUVENILE DETENTION CENTERS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine juvenile detention centers, focusing on unnecessary 
incarceration of youth who are waiting for community mental health 
services, after receiving testimony from Representative Waxman; Carol 
Carothers, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Augusta, Maine; 
Tammy Seltzer, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, Washington, D.C.; 
Leonard B. Dixon, Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility, Detroit, 
Michigan, on behalf of the National Juvenile Detention Association; 
Ernestine S. Gray, Orleans Parish Juvenile Court, New Orleans, 
Louisiana; and Kenneth J. Martinez, Director, New Mexico Children, 
Youth and Families Department, Santa Fe.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Michael H. Schneider, Sr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senator Hutchison, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil 
Rights, and Property Rights concluded a hearing to examine United 
States efforts to combat human trafficking and slavery, after receiving 
testimony from Johnny K. Stutton, United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Texas, and Michael T. Shelby, United States 
Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, both of Department of 
Justice; Mary Ellen Doughtery, United States Conference of Catholic 
Bishops, Joseph Mettimano, World Vision, and Mohamed Y. Mattar, Johns 
Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International 
Studies, and Sr. Wendy Patten, Human Rights Watch, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Charles Song, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, 
Los Angeles, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.