[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 105 (Wednesday, September 8, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D860-D861]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 9, 2004

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, 
Treasury and General Government, business meeting to mark up 
proposed legislation, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation and Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, 
and certain independent agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2005, 10 a.m., SD-116.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
investigation of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Abu 
Ghraib Prison, Iraq, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the report of the 
Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention 
Operations, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: business meeting 
to consider S. 1368, to authorize the President to award a gold 
medal on behalf of the Congress to Reverend Doctor Martin Luther 
King, Jr. (posthumously) and his widow Coretta Scott King in 
recognition of their contributions to the Nation on behalf of the 
civil rights movement; to be followed by a hearing to examine the

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impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and developments concerning 
international convergence, 2 p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
current situation in Sudan and prospects for peace, 9:30 a.m., SD-
G50.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider S. 1635, 
to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure the integrity 
of the L-1 visa for intracompany transferees, S. 1700, to eliminate 
the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes 
and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing 
capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to 
increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, 
to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of 
DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in 
State capital cases, S. 2396, to make improvements in the operations 
and administration of the Federal courts, H.R. 1417, to amend title 
17, United States Code, to replace copyright arbitration royalty 
panels with Copyright Royalty Judges, S. 2204, to provide criminal 
penalties for false information and hoaxes relating to terrorism, S. 
1860, to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy, S. 
2195, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the 
definition of anabolic steroids and to provide for research and 
education activities relating to steroids and steroid precursors, 
S.J. Res. 23, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States providing for the event that one-fourth of the members 
of either the House of Representatives or the Senate are killed or 
incapacitated, proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
Department of Justice, and the nominations of Claude A. Allen, of 
Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, 
David E. Nahmias, to be United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Georgia, and William Sanchez, of Florida, to be Special 
Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, both of 
the Department of Justice, Ricardo H. Hinojosa, of Texas, to be 
Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and Michael 
O'Neill, of Maryland, and Ruben Castillo, of Illinois, each to be a 
Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, 10 a.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Armed Services, hearing on the Final Report of the 
Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention 
Operations, 9:30 a.m., and a hearing on the investigation of 
military intelligence activities at Abu Ghraib prison facility, 2 
p.m., 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Examining Professional 
Boxing: Are Further Reforms Needed?'' 9:30 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Publication and Disclosure Issues in Anti-Depressant Pediatric 
Clinical Trials,'' 11 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Capital Markets, 
Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, hearing entitled 
``G.I. Finances: Protecting Those Who Protect Us,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Creating Secure 
Borders and Open Doors: A Review of DHS-State Collaboration on U.S. 
Visa Policy,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up S. 878, Bankruptcy 
Judgeship Act of 2003, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral 
Resources, hearing on H.R. 4984, Potash Royalty Reduction Act of 
2004, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following 
measures: H.R. 3834, Desalination Energy Assistance Act of 2004; 
H.R. 4775, To amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study 
and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the El Paso, Texas, water reclamation, reuse, and 
desalinization project; H.R. 4893, To authorize additional 
appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978; and 
the Bureau of Reclamation Contract Renewal, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Aviation, oversight hearing on Delay Reduction Efforts at Chicago's 
O'Hare Airport, 10 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, Briefing on 
Terrorism Update, 10:30 a.m., H-405 Capitol.