[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 115 (Wednesday, September 22, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D934-D935]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 23, 2004

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and 
Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine National 
Labor Relations Board issues, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.
  Committee on Armed Services: to hold hearings to examine the 
Global Posture Review of United States military forces stationed 
overseas, 2:30 p.m., SH-216.
  Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: to hold 
hearings to examine the role of prescription drug monitoring 
programs, 2 p.m., SD-430.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: closed business meeting to 
consider pending intelligence matters, 4 p.m., SH-219.
  Special Committee on Aging: to meet to discuss the new Medicare-
approved prescription drug cards and transitional assistance 
programs for seniors, 2:30 p.m., SD-628.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to consider the following measures: H. 
Res. 261, Expressing the support of the House of Representatives for 
the efforts of organizations such as Second Harvest to provide 
emergency food assistance to hungry people in the United States, and 
encouraging all Americans to provide volunteer services and other 
support for local antihunger advocacy efforts and hunger relief 
charities, including food banks, food rescue organizations, food 
pantries, soup kitchens, and emergency shelters; H. Res. 481, 
Recognizing the establishment of Hunters for the Hungry programs 
across the United States and the contributions of those programs to

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efforts to decrease hunger and help feed those in need; H.R. 2119, 
To provide for the use by the State of North Carolina of Federal 
lands, improvements, equipment, and resource materials at the Oxford 
Research Station in Granville County, North Carolina; H.R. 2984, To 
amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to remove the requirement that 
processors be members of an agency administering a marketing order 
applicable to pears, H.R. 3372, To designate the facility of the 
Agriculture Research Service of the Department of Agriculture 
located at State Highway 26 West in Poplarville, Mississippi, as the 
``Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory;'' H.R. 3514, 
Pennsylvania National Forest Improvement Act of 2003; S. 33, To 
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or 
part of certain administrative sites and other land in the Ozark-St. 
Francis and Ouachita National Forests and to use funds derived from 
the sale or exchange to acquire, construct, or improve 
administrative sites; H.R. 4569, To provide for the development of a 
national plan for the control and management of Sudden Oak Death, a 
tree disease caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora 
ramorum; H.R. 4620, To confirm the authority of the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Commodity Credit Corporation to enter into 
memorandums of understanding with a State regarding the collection 
of approved State commodity assessments on behalf of the State from 
the proceeds of marketing assistance loans; H.R. 4918, To provide 
for the conveyance of certain Federal land administered by the 
Department of Agriculture in the City of Bastrop, Louisiana, to the 
City to permit the City to establish and operate a regional 
emergency services training center for firefighters, police, and EMS 
personnel serving rural communities in northeast Louisiana, southern 
Arkansas, and western Mississippi; H.R. 5042, To amend the 
Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to ensure that the 
dependents of employees of the Forest Service stationed in Puerto 
Rico receive a high-quality elementary and secondary education; and 
S. 1814, To transfer federal lands between the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, 1 p.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 21st 
Century Competitiveness, hearing entitled ``Current Safeguards 
Protecting Taxpayers Against Diploma Mills,'' 11 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
Hazardous Materials, to mark up H.R. 4940, Municipal Solid Waste 
Responsibility Act of 2004, 12 p.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, hearing entitled 
``FDA's Role in Protecting the Public Health: Examining FDA's Review 
of Safety and Efficacy Concerns in Anti-Depressant Use by 
Children,'' 11 a.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, hearing entitled ``Encouraging Small Business Growth 
and Access to Capital,'' 11 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, hearing entitled ``Intellectual 
Property Piracy: Are We Doing Enough to Protect U.S. Innovation 
Abroad?'' 11 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on United States 
Security Policy in Afghanistan on the Eve of National Elections, 1 
p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and 
Homeland Security, to mark up the following measures: H.R. 4547, 
Defending America's Most Vulnerable Safe Access to Drug Treatment 
and Child Protection Act of 2004; S. 1194, Mentally Ill Offender 
Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2003; and H.R. 4264, Animal 
Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2004, 9 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, oversight hearing on the Upcoming Thirteenth 
Regular Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the 
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild 
Fauna and Flora (CITES), 2 p.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Ways and Means, September 23, Subcommittee on Select 
Revenue Measures, hearing on Select Tax Issues, 11:30 a.m., 1100 
Longworth.