[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 120 (Wednesday, September 29, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D969-D970]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TERRORIST FINANCING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a 
hearing to examine recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, focusing on 
efforts to identify and combat terrorist financing, after receiving 
testimony from former Representative Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair, and 
former Senator Slade Gorton, Commissioner, both of the National 
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Stuart A. 
Levey, Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial 
Intelligence; Michael J. Garcia, Assistant Secretary of Homeland 
Security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; John E.

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Lewis, Deputy Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Mallory Factor, Mallory 
Factor, Inc., New York, New York; and Lee S. Wolosky, Boies, Schiller 
and Flexner, LLP, Washington, D.C.
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded a hearing to examine the 
controversy over embryonic stem cell research, focusing on ethical 
safeguards in human research, and the moral status of the human embryo, 
after receiving testimony from Richard M. Doerflinger, U.S. Conference 
of Catholic Bishops, and David Prentice, Family Research Council, both 
of Washington, D.C.; Laurie Zoloth, Northwestern University Center for 
Genetic Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; George Q. Daley, Harvard School of 
Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Society for 
Cell Biology; and Marc Hedrick, Macropore Biosurgery, San Diego, 
California.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands 
and Forests concluded a hearing 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 certain 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, after 
receiving testimony from Guam Delegate Bordallo; Christopher Pyron, 
Deputy Chief for Business Operations, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; and Scott Cameron, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Performance and Management.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing 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, who was introduced by Senator McConnell, and Douglas Menarchik, 
of Texas, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency 
for International Development, after each nominee testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 519, to establish a Native American-owned financial entity to 
provide financial services to Indian tribes, Native American 
organizations, and Native Americans, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  S. 1905, to provide habitable living quarters for teachers, 
administrators, other school staff, and their households in rural areas 
of Alaska located in or near Alaska Native Villages, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2843, to make technical corrections to laws relating to Native 
Americans, with amendments.
TRIBAL LOBBYING OVERSIGHT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held an oversight hearing on 
lobbying practices involving Indian tribes, focusing on the propriety 
of certain dealings and interactions, especially those relative to 
testimony and evidence in the pending matter In re Tribal Lobbying 
Matters, et. al., receiving testimony from Richard M. Milanovich, Agua 
Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, Palm Springs, California; and Bernie 
Sprague and Christopher Petras, both of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian 
Tribe of Michigan, Mount Pleasant.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.