[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 100 (Monday, July 19, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D793]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nominations of Neil McPhie, of Virginia, to be Chairman, 
and Barbara J. Sapin, of Maryland, to be a Member, both of the Merit 
Systems Protection Board, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
MEDICARE DRUG BENEFIT
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
certain aspects of the new Medicare law aimed at assisting seniors of 
modest and low incomes, including principally the full drug benefit 
scheduled for 2006, and the ongoing prescription drug card transitional 
assistance, after receiving testimony from Mark McClellan, 
Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Gail R. Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, 
Maryland, former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; and Thomas Byron Thames, AARP, 
Jane L. Delgado, National Alliance for Hispanic Health, and Patricia B. 
Nemore, Center for Medicare Advocacy, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.