[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 116 (Thursday, September 23, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D939-D940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to examine 
National Labor Relations Board issues, including whether graduate 
student assistants are considered employees under the National Labor 
Relations Act, and the purpose and need for the Board's recognition bar 
doctrine, after receiving testimony from Robert J. Battista, Chairman, 
Arthur F. Rosenfeld, General Counsel, and Wilma B. Liebman, Member, all 
of the National Labor Relations Board; John B. Langel, Ballard Spahr 
Andrews and Ingersoll, and Christina

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Collins, on behalf of Graduate Employees Together-University of 
Pennsylvania, both of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 
Nancy Schiffer, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.; and William L. Messenger, 
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Springfield, Virginia.
GLOBAL POSTURE REVIEW
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the Global Posture Review of United States military forces stationed 
overseas, after receiving testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary 
of Defense; General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of 
Staff; General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC, Commander, U.S. European 
Command and Supreme Allied Commander, Europe; Admiral Thomas B. Fargo, 
USN, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command; and General Leon J. LaPorte, USA, 
Commander, United Nations Command, Republic of Korea/U.S. Combined 
Forces Command, Commander, U.S. Forces Korea.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine drug abuse prevention issues, focusing 
on the role of prescription drug monitoring programs, and federal 
privacy standards for PMPs, after receiving testimony from 
Representative Whitfield; James W. Holsinger, Jr., Kentucky Secretary 
for Health and Family Services, Frankfort; Sherry Green, National 
Alliance for Model State Drug Laws, Alexandria, Virginia; Kenneth G. 
Varley, Alabama Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Birmingham, 
on behalf of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians; 
Joy L. Pritts, Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to the call.
MEDICARE DISCOUNT DRUG CARDS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee met to discuss the new Medicare-
approved prescription drug cards and transitional assistance programs 
for seniors, with Mark McClellan, Administrator, and Sharman Stephens, 
Director, Planning and Policy Analysis Group, Office of Research, 
Development and Information, both of the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services; and James 
Firman, National Council on the Aging, Mary R. Grealy, Healthcare 
Leadership Council, Robert B. Helms, American Enterprise Institute, and 
Julie James, Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
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