[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 114 (Tuesday, September 21, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D919-D921]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
9/11 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held a hearing to examine the 9/
11 Commission intelligence recommendations, receiving testimony from 
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State; Admiral Dennis C. Blair, 
USN (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command; General Joe 
Ralston, USAF (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. European Command and 
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, Northern Atlantic Treaty 
Organization; and Admiral James O. Ellis, Jr., USN (Ret.), former 
Commander, U.S. Strategic Command.
  Hearing will continue on Wednesday, September 22.
APPROPRIATIONS: DC/VA-HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 2826) making appropriations for the government 
of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or 
in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2005;
  An original bill (S. 2825) making appropriations for the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005.
COMMISSION ON OCEAN POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the final report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean 
Policy which makes recommendations to avert the decline of ocean 
wildlife and collapse of ocean ecosystems, after receiving testimony 
from Representative Farr; Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, USN 
(Ret.), Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Richard A. 
Feely, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, both of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Admiral 
James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.), Chairman, U.S. Commission on Ocean 
Policy; Alaska Governor Frank H. Murkowski, Juneau, on behalf of the 
National Governors Association; D. James Baker, Academy of Natural 
Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, former Administrator, National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; 
Victoria J. Fabry, California State University San Marcos, San Marcos; 
Berrien Moore, III, University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study 
of Earth,

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Oceans, and Space, Durham; Vice Admiral Roger T. Rufe, The Ocean 
Conservancy, Washington, D.C.; and Captain Daniel S. Schwartz, 
University of Washington School of Oceanography, Seattle, on behalf of 
the Marine Technology Society.
WIRELESS 411 PRIVACY ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine S. 1963, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 
to protect the privacy right of subscribers to wireless communication 
services, after receiving testimony from Senator Specter; former 
Representative Steve Largent, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet 
Association, and Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Dennis F. Strigl, Verizon Wireless, 
Bedminster, New Jersey; Patrick M. Cox, Qsent, Inc., Portland, Oregon; 
and Kathleen Pierz, Pierz Group, Clarkston, Michigan.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine the nominations of Karen Alderman Harbert, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
International Affairs and Domestic Policy, and John S. Shaw, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for 
Environment, Safety and Health, after each nominee testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 784, to revise the boundary of 
the Petrified Forest National Park in the State of Arizona, S. 2656, to 
establish a National Commission on the Quincentennial of the discovery 
of Florida by Ponce de Leon, S. 2499, to modify the boundary of the 
Harry S Truman National Historic Site in the State of Missouri, S. 
1311, to establish the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain 400th Commemoration 
Commission, and H.R. 2055, to amend Public Law 89-366 to allow for an 
adjustment in the number of free roaming horses permitted in Cape 
Lookout National Seashore, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Walter B. Jones; P. Daniel Smith, Special Assistant to 
the Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; David 
D. Gillette, Northern Arizona University Department of Geology, 
Flagstaff; and Michael R. Fitzgerald, Twin Buttes Ranch, LLC, Holbrook, 
Arizona.
INDIAN DETENTION FACILITIES
Committee on Finance: Committee held a hearing to examine the call for 
reform in Indian jails, focusing on present law and background relating 
to tax-exempt financing of Indian tribal prisons, and detention 
facility staffing, receiving testimony from David W. Anderson, 
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Walter Lamar, Acting 
Director of Law Enforcement Services, both of the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, and Earl E. Devaney, Inspector General, all of the Department 
of the Interior; Tracy A. Henke, Deputy Associate Attorney General, 
Department of Justice; William Talks About, Jr., Blackfeet Tribal 
Business Council, Browning, Montana; and Corinna Sohappy, Warm Springs, 
Oregon.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Governmental Affairs: Committee began mark up of 
proposed legislation to reform the intelligence community and the 
intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States 
Government, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on 
Wednesday, September 22, 2004.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  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, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  H.R. 1417, to amend title 17, United States Code, to replace 
copyright arbitration royalty panels with Copyright Royalty Judges, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2742, to extend certain authority of the Supreme Court Police, 
modify the venue of prosecutions relating to the Supreme Court building 
and grounds, and authorize the acceptance of gifts to the United States 
Supreme Court.
U.S. REFUGEE PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Border 
Security and Citizenship concluded a hearing to examine solutions to a 
global concern regarding the resettlement of refugees, focusing on 
systemic changes to enhance and expand the U.S. Admissions Program, 
budget needs for the U.S. Refugee Program, and the refugee crises in 
Haiti and Sudan, after receiving testimony from Arthur E. Dewey, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Population,

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Refugees, and Migration; Eduardo Aguirre, Jr., Director, U.S. 
Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security; 
Charles H. Kuck, Weathersby, Howard, and Kuck, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia; 
and Mark Franken, Refugee Council, USA, and Lavinia Limon, U.S. 
Committee for Refugees, both of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and 
ordered favorably reported the nomination of Porter J. Goss, of 
Florida, to be Director of Central Intelligence.
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.