[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 120 (Wednesday, September 29, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D974-D975]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                    COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR THURSDAY,

                           SEPTEMBER 30, 2004

        (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)


                                 Senate

  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee 
on Communications, to hold oversight hearings to examine the 
security of Internet Root Servers and the Domain Name System (DNS), 
2:30 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: to hold oversight 
hearings to examine issues related to low-level radioactive waste, 
10:30 a.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: Financial Management, the 
Budget, and International Security, to hold oversight hearings to 
examine Section 529 College Savings Plans, focusing on fees, 
disclosure, state tax treatment and broker sales practices, 10:30 
a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider pending 
calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the 
nominations of Mary J. Schoelen, of the District of Columbia, and 
William A. Moorman, of Virginia, each to be a Judge of the United 
States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and Robert Allen 
Pittman, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs for Human Resources and Administration, 2 p.m., SR-418.


                                 House

  Committee on Agriculture, to consider the following bills: H.R. 
3242, Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2003; and H.R. 5120, 
U.S. National Arboretum Appreciation Act of 2004, 1 p.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, Subcommittee on 
Employer-Employee Relations, hearing on H.R. 4343, Secret Ballot 
Protection Act of 2004, 10:30 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment and 
Hazardous Materials, hearing entitled ``Controlling Bioterror: 
Assessing Our Nation's Drinking Water Security,'' 12:30 p.m., 2123 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Domestic and 
International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology and the 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, joint hearing entitled 
``Combating International Terrorist Financing,'' 10 a.m., 2128 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on Energy Policy, 
Natural Resources and Regulatory Affairs, hearing entitled ``How Can 
We Maximize Private Sector Participation in Transportation?--Part 
II,'' 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  Subcommittee on Government Efficiency and Financial Management, 
oversight hearing entitled ``Financial Management at the Department 
of Health and Human Services,'' 2 p.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Africa, to 
mark up H.R. 5061, Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act, 3:30 p.m., 2172 
Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, to mark up the following measures: 
H.R. 4306, To amend section 274A of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act to improve the process for

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verifying an individual's eligibility for employment; S. 1194, 
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. 775, Security and Fairness Enhancement 
for America Act of 2003; H.R. 4453, Access to Rural Physicians 
Improvement Act of 2004; and a private relief measure, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans, hearing on H.R. 4368, To transfer the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the Department of the 
Interior, 10 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Subcommittee on 
Water Resources and Environment, oversight hearing entitled ``Are 
Citizen Suit Provisions of the Clean Water Act Being Misused?'' 10 
a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security and 
the Subcommittee on Human Resources, joint hearing on the 
Commissioner of Social Security's Proposal to Improve the Disability 
Process, 1 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Select Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on 
Infrastructure and Border Security and the Subcommittee on 
Intelligence and Counterterrorism, joint hearing entitled 
``Disrupting Terrorist Travel: Safeguarding America's Borders 
Through Information Sharing,'' 1 p.m., 210 Cannon.