[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 114 (Tuesday, September 21, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D924-D925]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 22, 2004

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: to hold hearings to examine the 9/11 
Commission intelligence recommendations, 10 a.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine the condition and regulation of the insurance industry, 2 
p.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: business 
meeting to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nomination of Lloyd O. Pierson, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Administrator for Africa, United States Agency for International 
Development, and to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
African Development Foundation, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: business meeting to continue 
mark up of the proposed National Intelligence Reform Act, 10 a.m., 
SD-342.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: business 
meeting to consider S. 2686, to amend the Carl D. Perkins Vocational 
and Technical Education Act of 1998 to improve the Act, S. 518, to 
increase the supply of pancreatic islet cells for research, to 
provide better coordination of Federal efforts and information on 
islet cell transplantation, and to collect the data necessary to 
move islet cell transplantation from an experimental procedure to a 
standard therapy, S. 2283, to extend Federal funding for operation 
of State high risk health insurance pools, S. 1217, to direct the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to expand and intensify 
programs with respect to research and related activities concerning 
elder falls, S. 2526, to reauthorize the Children's Hospitals 
Graduate Medical Education Program, S. Res. 389, expressing the 
sense of the Senate with respect to prostate cancer information, and 
other pending legislation and pending nominations, time to be 
announced, S-216, Capitol.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business; to be followed by an oversight hearing on the 
contributions of Native American code talkers in American military 
history, 9:30 a.m., SD-562.
  Committee on the Judiciary: to hold hearings to examine 
counterterrorism legislation and proposals, including the USA 
PATRIOT ACT (P.L. 107-56), and the SAFE Act, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of 
Christopher A. Boyko, to be United States District Judge for the 
Northern District of Ohio, and Beryl A. Howell, of the District of 
Columbia, to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, 
3:30 p.m., SD-226.


                                 House

  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, 
and Consumer Protection, hearing entitled ``Repairing the 21st 
Century Car: Is Technology Locking the Consumer Out?'' 2 p.m., 2322 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``Problems with the E-rate Program: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Concerns 
in the Wiring of Our Nation's Schools to the Internet,'' 10 a.m., 
2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, hearing entitled ``Legislative 
Proposals to Implement the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission,'' 
11 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, 
Drug Policy and Human Resources, hearing entitled ``Access to 
Recovery: Improving Participation and Access in Drug Treatment,'' 2 
p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness, hearing entitled 
``Dietary Supplements: Nature's Answer to Cost Effective 
Preventative Medicine,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and 
International Relations, hearing entitled ``Combating Terrorism: The 
9/11 Commission Recommendations and the National Strategies,'' 10 
a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental 
Relations and the Census, oversight hearing entitled ``Identity 
Theft: The Causes, Costs, Consequences, and Potential Solutions?'' 
2:45 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the 
Pacific, hearing on Asia's Environmental Challenges, 1 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and 
Human Rights, hearing on Disarmament of Libya's Weapons of Mass 
Destruction, 1:30 p.m., 2255 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following: H.R. 5107, 
To protect crime victims' rights, 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

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DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to 
exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in 
State capital cases; and H.J. Res. 22, Proposing a balanced budget 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, 11 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on the Constitution, to consider a motion to 
authorize the issuance of a subpoena to Custodian of Records, United 
States Commission on Civil Rights, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following measures: H.J. 
Res. 102, Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Peleliu 
and the end of Imperial Japanese control of Palau during World War 
II and urging the Secretary of the Interior to work to protect the 
historic sites of the Peleliu Battlefield National Historic Landmark 
and to establish commemorative programs honoring the Americans who 
fought there; H. Res. 737, Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the 
Liberation of Guam during World War II; H. Res. 752, Expressing 
continued support for the construction of the Victims of Communism 
Memorial; H.R. 2440, Indian Health Care Improvement Act; H.R. 3176, 
Ojito Wilderness Act; H.R. 3283, Federal Lands Recreation 
Enhancement Act; H.R. 3391, Provo River Project Transfer Act; H.R. 
4593, Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and Development Act; 
H.R. 4650, Wichita Project Equus Beds Division Authorization Act of 
2004; H.R. 4683, Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Act; H.R. 4887, 
Cumberland Island Wilderness Boundary Adjustment Act of 2003; H.R. 
4908, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians Land Transfer Act of 
2004; H.R. 5016, To extend the water service contract for the 
Ainsworth Unit, Sandhills Division, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin 
Program, Nebraska; H.R. 5083, To designate certain lower-elevation 
Federal lands in the Skykomish River valley of the State of 
Washington as wilderness, to designate a portion of such lands for 
management as a backcountry wilderness management area; H.R. 5104, 
To amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to authorize 
appropriations for the John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue 
Assistance Grant Program; and S. 347, Rim of the Valley Corridor 
Study Act, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power, hearing on the following bills: 
H.R. 2603, To impose limitations on the authority of the Secretary 
of the Interior to claim title or other rights to water absent 
specific direction of law or to abrogate, injure, or otherwise 
impair any right to the use of any quantity of water; H.R. 4580, To 
remove certain restrictions on the Mammoth Community Water 
District's ability to use certain property acquired by that District 
from the United States; and H.R. 4623, Eastern New Mexico Rural 
Water System Act of 2004, 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Rural Enterprise, 
Agriculture and Technology, hearing entitled ``The Impact of High 
Natural Gas Prices on Small Farmers and Manufacturers,'' 10 a.m., 
311 Cannon.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing on 
Trade Preferences for Haiti, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, executive, Briefing on 
Cyber Issues, 4:30 p.m., H-405 Capitol.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emergency 
Preparedness and Response, hearing entitled ``Emergency Warning 
Systems: Ways to Notify the Public in the New Era of Homeland 
Security,'' 10 a.m., 2261 Rayburn.


                             Joint Meetings

  Joint Economic Committee: to hold hearings to examine consumer 
choice and addressing ``adverse selection'' concerns with regard to 
health insurance, 10 a.m., SD-628.