[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 109 (Tuesday, September 14, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D887-D889]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INTERIOR/AGRICULTURE/TRANSPORTATION AND TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 2804) making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005;
  An original bill (S. 2803) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005; and

[[Page D888]]


  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.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and 
Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 2532, to establish wilderness 
areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for the high 
quality development in Lincoln County, Nevada, S. 2723, to designate certain 
land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, and S. 2709, to provide for the 
reforestation of appropriate forest cover on forest land derived from the 
public domain, after receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Ensign; 
Representative Gibbons; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural 
Resources and Environment; Rebecca W. Watson, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Mayor Linda Malone, Sandy, 
Oregon; Jay Ward, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Portland; Jason Spadaro, 
SDS Lumber Company, Bingen, Washington; Chris DiStefano, International 
Mountain Bicycling Association, Boulder, Colorado; Michael Newton, Oregon 
State University Department of Forest Science, Philomath; and John Hiatt, 
Red Rock Audubon Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the Nevada 
Wilderness Coalition.
9/11 COMMISSION HUMAN CAPITAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government 
Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia concluded a 
hearing to examine and discuss legislative and administrative options to 
address human capital recommendations of the National Commission on 
Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission), focusing on 
improving the presidential appointments process for national security 
positions, establishing a single agency that conducts security clearance 
background investigations for U.S. personnel, and providing some additional 
personnel flexibilities to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reflect 
its increased counterterrorism and intelligence responsibilities, after 
receiving testimony from Fred Fielding, and Jamie S. Gorelick, both 
Commissioners, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United 
States; Mark Steven Bullock, Assistant Director, Administrative Services 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; John A. 
Turnicky, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for 
Security, Central Intelligence Agency; J. Christopher Mihm, Managing 
Director of Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; Paul C. 
Light, New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and the 
Brookings Institution, C. Morgan Kinghorn, National Academy of Public 
Administration, and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Doug Wagoner, Information Technology Association of 
America Security Clearances Task Group, Arlington, Virginia.
GROUP PURCHASING ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy 
and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine maintaining innovation 
and cost savings relating to hospital group purchasing, focusing on 
maintaining a group purchasing organization industry that helps hospitals 
realize significant savings on the best products for their patients, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Betz, Health Industry Group Purchasing 
Association, Arlington, Virginia; Joe E. Kiani, Masimo Corporation, Irvine, 
California; and David A. Balto, Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi LLP, 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nomination of Porter J. Goss, of Florida, to be Director of Central 
Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Graham (FL) 
and Nelson (FL), testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MANDATORY RETIREMENTS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
mandatory retirement age rules, anti-age-discrimination laws in the private 
sector, and technology-induced demand and projected worker shortages, after 
receiving testimony from Abby L. Block, Deputy Associate Director, Center 
for Employee and Family Support Policy, Office of Personnel Management; 
Eugene R. Freedman, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and 
Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Russell B. 
Rayman, Aerospace Medical Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Joseph 
Eichelkraut, Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association, Dallas, Texas.
        H

[[Page D889]]