[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 119 (Tuesday, September 28, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D964-D965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                   COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR WEDNESDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 29, 2004

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: to hold hearings 
to examine recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, focusing on 
efforts to identify and combat terrorist financing, 10 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine the 
controversy over embryonic stem cell research, 2 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public 
Lands and Forests, to hold hearings to examine S. 2410, to promote 
wildland firefighter safety; H.R. 1651, to provide for the exchange 
of land within the Sierra National Forest, California; S. 2378, to 
provide for the conveyance of certian public land in Clark County, 
Nevada, for use as a heliport; H.R. 2400, to amend the Organic Act 
of Guam for the purposes of clarifying the local judicial structure 
of Guam; H.R. 3874, to convey for public purposes certain Federal 
lands in Riverside County, California, that have been identified for 
disposal; H.R. 4170, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
recruit volunteers to assist with, or facilitate, the activities of 
various agencies and offices of the Department of the Interior; and 
S. Res. 387, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Wilderness 
Act, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Ryan C. Crocker, of Washington, to be Ambassador to 
the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Marcie B. Ries, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Catherine 
Todd Bailey, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Latvia, and Douglas Menarchik, of Texas, to be an Assistant 
Administrator of the United States Agency for International 
Development, 3 p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business; to be followed by an oversight hearing on 
lobbying practices involving Indian tribes, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, 
Rural Development, and Research, hearing to review the Farm Credit 
System, 1:30 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  Committee on Armed Services, to mark up H.R. 10, 9/11 
Recommendations Implementation Act, 1 p.m. 2118 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, hearing 
entitled ``Improving Women's Health: Understanding Depression After 
Pregnancy,'' 1 p.m., 2123 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, hearing 
entitled ``An Examination of Wireless Directory Assistance Policies 
and Programs,'' 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, to consider the following bills; 
H.R. 5011, Military Personnel Financial Services Protection Act; 
H.R. 4634, Terrorism Insurance Backstop Extension Act of 2004; and 
H.R. 10, 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act, 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, to mark up the following bills: 
H.R. 10, 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act; and H.R. 3281, 
Whistler Protection Enhancement Act, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, hearing on Afghanistan: 
United States Strategies on the Eve of National Elections; followed 
by markup of S. 2292, Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004, 10:30 
a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 10, 9/11 Recommendations Implementation Act; H.R. 4306, to 
amend section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality Act to improve 
the process for verifying an individual's eligibility for 
employment; S. 1994. Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime 
Reduction Act of 2003; H.R. 4547. Defending America's Most 
Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act 
of 2004; H. Res. 568, expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that Judicial determinations regarding the meaning 
of the laws of the United States should not be based on judgments, 
laws or pronouncements of foreign institutions unless such foreign 
judgements, laws, or pronouncements inform an understanding of the 
original meaning of the laws of the United States; H.R. 3143, 
International Consumer Protection Act of 2003; H.R. 4264, Animal 
Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act of 2004; H.R. 775m Security and 
Fairness Enhancement for America Act of 2003; H.R. 4453, Access to 
Rural Physicians Improvements Act of 2004; and a private relief 
measure, 10 a.m., 2141 Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, to mark up the following bills: H.R. 855, 
Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act; H.R. 5134, To require the 
prompt review by the Secretary of the Interior of the long-standing 
petitions for Federal recognition of certain Indian tribes; and H.R. 
5135, To provide for a nonvoting delegate to the House of 
Representatives to represent the Commonwealth of the Northern 
Mariana Islands, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing on the 
following bills: H.R. 977, Aerial Firefighter Relief Act of 2003; 
H.R. 1550, To authorize the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Agriculture to make grants to improve the commercial 
value of forest biomass for electric energy, useful heat, 
transportation fuels, petroleum-based product substitutes, and other 
commercial purposes; H.R. 1723, Caribbean National Forest Act of

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2003; and H.R. 4461, Walnut Canyon Study Act, 2 p.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and 
Standards, to mark up H.R. 4546, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration Act, 2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to consider the 
following: GSA Fiscal Year 2005 Capital Investment and Leasing 
Program Resolutions; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Resolutions; H.R. 
5082, Public Transportation Terrorism Prevention and Response Act of 
2004; H.R. 5105, To authorize the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution to carry out construction and related 
activities in support of the collaborative Very Energetic Radiation 
Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) project on Kitt Peak near 
Tucson, Arizona; H.R. 5121, to further protect the United States 
aviation system from terrorist attacks; the National Health Museum 
Authorization Act; the Research and Special Programs Reorganization 
Act of 2004; and other pending business, 11 a.m., 167 Rayburn.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to mark up H.R. 10, 9/
11 Recommendations Implementation Act, 1:30 p.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Emergency 
Preparedness and Response, hearing entitled ``The National Incident 
Management System: Enhancing Response to Terrorist Attacks,'' 10 
a.m., 210 Cannon.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: meeting of conferees on H.R. 4200, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense 
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel 
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, 10 a.m., SD-
628.