[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 96 (Tuesday, July 13, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D753-D754]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
GRAMM-LEACH-BLILEY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (P.L. 106-102), to 
enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a 
prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, 
and other financial service providers, after receiving testimony from 
Harry P. Doherty, Independence Community Bank Corporation, Brooklyn, 
New York, on behalf of America's Community Bankers; Terry Jorde, 
CountryBank USA, Cando, North Dakota, on behalf of the Independent 
Community Bankers of America; Ronnie Turbertini, SouthGroup Insurance 
and Financial Services, Jackson, Mississippi, on behalf of the 
Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America, Inc.; and Travis 
B. Plunkett, Consumer Federation of America, Steve Bartlett, Financial 
Services Roundtable, James D. McLaughlin, American Bankers Association, 
John Taylor, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and J. Steven 
Judge, Securities Industry Association, all of Washington, D.C.
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the proposed reauthorization of the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting, after receiving testimony from Kathleen A. 
Cox, President and CEO, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Carl 
Matthusen, KJZZ-FM, KBAQ-FM, Sun Sounds Radio Reading Services, Tempe, 
Arizona; Ken Burns, Florentine Films, Walpole, New Hampshire, on behalf 
of PBS; Loris Ann Vincente-Taylor, KUYI 88.1 FM, Keams Canyon, Arizona, 
on behalf of the Hopi Foundation; and Peter A. Frid, New Hampshire 
Public Television, University of New Hampshire, Durham, on behalf of 
the Association of Public Television Stations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of David M. Stone, of Virginia, to 
be an Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, Transportation Security 
Administration, and Albert A. Frink, Jr., of California, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Manufacturing and Services, after 
each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NUCLEAR POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine the role of nuclear power in national 
energy policy, focusing on the high-level nuclear waste repository at 
the Yucca Mountain, Nevada site, the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative 
(AFCI), the Nuclear Energy Research Advisory Committee (NERAC), and 
enhancing nuclear technology education, after receiving testimony from 
Kyle E. McSlarrow, Deputy Secretary of Energy.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded a hearing to examine human trafficking issues, 
focusing on mail order bride abuses, including exploitation and 
physical abuse, forced motherhood, threats of deportation, marketing of 
extremely vulnerable populations, underage children on marriage agency 
websites, and informational, economic, cultural, and legal 
vulnerability, after receiving testimony from Senator Cantwell; John R. 
Miller, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, 
Department of State; Michele A. Clark, Johns Hopkins University School 
of International Studies Foreign Policy Institute, and Suzanne Jackson, 
George Washington University Law School, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Donna M. Hughes, University of Rhode Island Women's Studies Program, 
Kingston.
OLYMPIC GAMES SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on security preparations for the 2004 Olympic Games 
from Thomas J. Miller, U.S. Ambassador to Greece.
FEDERAL SENTENCING REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Blakely v. 
Washington on the current and future operation of the federal 
sentencing guidelines, focusing on concerns regarding the validity of 
the federal guideline system, after receiving testimony from William W. 
Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Helena, 
Department of Justice; John R. Steer, and William K. Sessions, III, 
Chief United States District Judge for the District of Vermont, both a 
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Commissioner, United States Sentencing Commission; Lawrence L. Piersol, 
Chief United States District Judge for the District of South Dakota, 
Sioux Falls, on behalf of the Federal Judges Association; Paul G. 
Cassell, United States District Judge for the District of Utah, Salt 
Lake City; Frank O. Bowman, III, Indiana University School of Law, 
Indianapolis; Rachel E. Barkow, New York University School of Law, and 
Alan Vinegrad, Covington and Burling, both of New York, New York; and 
Ronald Weich, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, Washington, D.C.
PROPERTY RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
section 211 of the Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, of 1999, 
as included in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act of 1999 (Public Law 105-277), focusing on 
intellectual property rights relating to Cuba, after receiving 
testimony from Nancie G. Marzulla, Defenders of Property Rights, 
William A. Reinsch, National Foreign Trade Council, Inc., and Bruce A. 
Lehman, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of 
Patents and Trademarks, all of Washington, D.C.; Kenneth B. Germain, 
University of Cincinnati College of Law, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Ramon 
Arechabala, Miami, Florida.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
STEROID ABUSE
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded a hearing to examine the abuse of anabolic steroids and their 
precursors by adolescent amateur athletes, after receiving testimony 
from Joseph T. Rannazzisi, Deputy Director, Office of Diversion 
Control, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; Terry 
Madden, United States Anti-Doping Agency, Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
William C. Martin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Don H. Catlin, 
University of California at Los Angeles Olympic Analytical Laboratory; 
Curtis A. Wenzlaff, Flint, Michigan; Don Hooten, Plano, Texas; and an 
anonymous witness.