[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 106 (Thursday, September 9, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D865-D866]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, 
and General Government approved for full Committee consideration an 
original bill 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.
IRAQI PRISONER ABUSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the investigation of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Abu 
Ghraib Prison, Iraq, after receiving testimony from General Paul J. 
Kern, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command; 
Lieutenant General Anthony R. Jones, USA, Deputy Commanding General, 
Chief of Staff, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command; Major 
General R. Steven Whitcomb, USA, Special Assistant to the Commander, 
United States Central Command; Major General George R. Fay, USA, Deputy 
Commander, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command; and 
Major General Antonio M. Taguba, USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Reserve Affairs, Readiness, Training and Mobilization.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DETENTION OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense 
Detention Operations, focusing on why prisoner abuse occurred,

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how they occurred and lessons learned, after receiving testimony from 
James R. Schlesinger, Chairman, and Harold Brown, Member, both of the 
Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations.
IMPACT OF SARBANES-OXLEY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and 
developments concerning international convergence, focusing on 
regulations in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, strengthening 
corporate governance and internal controls, concerns of small 
companies, and the changed behavior of audit committees, management, 
and auditors, after receiving testimony from Paul Boyle, Financial 
Reporting Council, Sir David Tweedie, International Accounting 
Standards Board, and Douglas Flint, HSBC Holdings, all of London, 
United Kingdom; Andrew Sheng, Hong Kong Securities and Futures 
Commission; Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems, Inc., Exton, Pennsylvania; 
Arnold C. Hanish, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, on 
behalf of Financial Executives International; Leonard Moodispaw, Essex 
Corporation, Columbia, Maryland; and James S. Turley, Ernst and Young, 
LLP, New York, New York.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the current situation in Sudan and prospects for peace, 
focusing on the State Department's investigation of the Darfur crisis, 
after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  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, William Sanchez, of Florida, to be Special Counsel for 
Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, and Richard B. Roper 
III, of Texas, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District 
of Texas.