[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 95 (Monday, July 12, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1361-E1362]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees,
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place,
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or
changes in the meetings as they occur.
As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
Meetings scheduled for Tuesday, July 13, 2004 may be found in the
Daily Digest of today's Record.
MEETINGS SCHEDULED
JULY 14
9:30 a.m.
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
To hold hearings to examine home products fire safety
issues.
SR-253
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine balancing reform and
counterterrorism in Pakistan.
SD-419
Rules and Administration
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Federal
Election Commission.
SR-301
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business;
to be followed by an oversight hearing on the
implementation of the American Indian Religious Freedom
Act of 1978.
SR-418
Judiciary
To hold hearings to examine the implications of drug
importation.
SD-226
11:30 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-366
2:30 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine U.S. policy toward Southeast
Europe, focusing on the Balkans.
SD-419
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 2317, to limit the royalty
on soda ash, S. 2353, to reauthorize and amend the
National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992, H.R. 1189, to
increase the waiver requirement for certain local
matching requirements for grants provided to American
Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands, and H.R. 2010, to protect
the voting rights of members of the Armed Services in
elections for the Delegate representing American Samoa
in the United States House of Representatives.
SD-366
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Science, Technology, and Space Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine adult stem cell research
issues.
SR-253
3:15 p.m.
Conferees
Meeting of conferees on H.R. 2443, to authorize
appropriations for the Coast Guard for fiscal year
2004, to amend various laws administered by the Coast
Guard.
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JULY 15
9 a.m.
Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine current enforcement of key
provisions in the Patriot Act combating money
laundering and foreign corruption, using a single case
study involving Riggs Bank, focusing on Riggs' anti-
money laundering program, administration of accounts
associated with senior foreign political figures and
their family members, and interactions with its primary
regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency.
SD-342
9:30 a.m.
Armed Services
To receive a closed briefing from the Department of
Defense regarding International Committee of the Red
Cross reports on U.S. military detainee operations in
Iraq.
S-407 Capitol
Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Communications Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine implementation of the Nielsen
local people meter TV rating system.
SR-253
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine a report on the latest round
of six-way talks regarding nuclear weapons in North
Korea.
SD-419
Judiciary
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.
SD-226
Appropriations
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine preventing chronic disease
through healthy lifestyles.
SD-192
10 a.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine regulation of the hedge fund
industry.
SD-538
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Children and Families Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine Pell grants for primary
education.
SD-430
2 p.m.
Foreign Relations
International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion
Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine the Gulf of Guinea and U.S.
strategic energy policy.
SD-419
Aging
To hold hearings to examine medical liability in long
term care.
SD-628
2:30 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Stuart
Levey, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of the
Treasury for Enforcement, Juan Carlos Zarate, of
California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, and Carin
M. Barth, of Texas, to be Chief Financial Officer,
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
SD-538
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 1852, to provide financial
assistance for the rehabilitation of the Benjamin
Franklin National Memorial in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and the development of an exhibit to
commemorate the 300th anniversary of the birth of
Benjamin Franklin, S. 2142, to authorize appropriations
for the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route, S.
2181, to adjust the boundary of Rocky Mountain National
Park in the State of Colorado, S. 2374, to provide for
the conveyance of certain land to the United States and
to revise the boundary of Chickasaw National Recreation
Area, Oklahoma, S. 2397 and H.R. 3706, bills to adjust
the boundary of the John Muir National Historic Site,
S. 2432, to expand the boundaries of Wilson's Creek
Battlefield National Park, S. 2567, to adjust the
boundary of Redwood National Park in the State of
California, and H.R. 1113, to authorize an exchange of
land at Fort Frederica National Monument.
SD-366
Intelligence
To hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence
matters.
SH-219
3 p.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold a closed briefing on Iraq.
S-116 Capitol
JULY 20
9 a.m.
Governmental Affairs
Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce,
and the District of Columbia Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine governmentwide workforce
flexibilities available to federal agencies, focusing
on those enacted in the Homeland Security Act,
specifically their implementation, use by agencies, and
training and education related to using the new
flexibilities.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
To hold hearings to examine S. 2590, provide a
conservation royalty from Outer Continental Shelf
revenues to establish the Coastal Impact Assistance
Program, to provide assistance to States under the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, to ensure
adequate funding for conserving and restoring wildlife,
to assist local governments in improving local park and
recreation systems.
SD-366
Indian Affairs
To hold hearings to examine S. 2605, to direct the
Secretary of the Interior and the heads of other
Federal agencies to carry out an agreement resolving
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major issues relating to the adjudication of water
rights in the Snake River Basin, Idaho.
SR-485
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine performance and outcome
measurement in substance abuse and mental health
programs.
SD-430
2:30 p.m.
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the Semi-Annual
Monetary Policy Report of the Federal Reserve.
SH-216
JULY 21
9:30 a.m.
Foreign Relations
To hold hearings to examine combating multilateral
development bank corruption, focusing on the U.S.
Treasury's role and internal efforts.
SD-419
10 a.m.
Indian Affairs
Business meeting to consider pending calendar business;
to be followed by a hearing to examine S. 519, to
establish a Native American-owned financial entity to
provide financial services to Indian tribes, Native
American organizations, and Native Americans.
SR-485
2 p.m.
Armed Services
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Children and Families Subcommittee
To hold joint hearings to examine the Pentagon and
States' response to the needs of guard and reservists
families.
SD-430
Indian Affairs
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the proposed
reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act.
SR-485
2:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee
To hold hearings to examine S. 738, to designate certain
public lands in Humboldt, Del Norte, Mendocino, Lake,
Napa, and Yolo Counties in the State of California as
wilderness, to designate certain segments of the Black
Butte River in Mendocino County, California as a wild
or scenic river, S. 1614, to designate a portion of
White Salmon River as a component of the National Wild
and Scenic Rivers System, S. 2221, to authorize the
Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange certain
National Forest System land in the State of Oregon, S.
2253, to permit young adults to perform projects to
prevent fire and suppress fires, and provide disaster
relief, on public land through a Healthy Forest Youth
Conservation Corps, S. 2334, to designate certain
National Forest System land in the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico as components of the National Wilderness
Preservation System, and S. 2408, to adjust the
boundaries of the Helena, Lolo, and Beaverhead-
Deerlodge National Forests in the State of Montana.
SD-366
JULY 22
9 a.m.
Governmental Affairs
Investigations Subcommittee
To resume hearings to examine 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 the pharmaceuticals from foreign sources
are counterfeit, expired, unsafe, or illegitimate,
focusing on the extent to which U.S. consumers can
purchase dangerous and often addictive controlled
substances from Internet pharmacy websites and the
procedures utilized by the Bureau of Customs and Border
Protection, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the
United States Postal Service, and the Food and Drug
Administration, as well as the private sector to
address these issues.
SD-342
10 a.m.
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
To hold hearings to examine preparations for possible
future terrorist attacks.
SD-430
Joint Economic Committee
To hold hearings to examine the demographics of health
care, focusing on evidence regarding declining rates of
chronic disability and assess the best opportunities
for further health promotion.
SD-628
2:30 p.m.
Energy and Natural Resources
National Parks Subcommittee
To hold an oversight hearing to examine the
implementation of the National Parks Air Tour
Management Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-181).
SD-366
SEPTEMBER 21
10 a.m.
Veterans' Affairs
To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs to examine the legislative
presentation of the American Legion.
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