[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 121 (Thursday, September 30, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D979-D980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Peter Cyril Wyche Flory, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, and 5,851 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
INTERNET GOVERNANCE AND SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Internet 
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, focusing on security of 
Internet Root Servers and the Domain Name System (DNS), after receiving 
testimony from David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International 
Communications and Information Policy, Bureau of Economic and Business 
Affairs, Department of State; John M.R. Kneuer, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information; Pat Morrisse, 
Security Director, Law Enforcement Intelligence, U.S. Secret Service, 
Department of Homeland Security; Paul Twomey, Internet Corporation for 
Assigned Names and Numbers, and Bill Manning, University of Southern 
California Information Service Institute, both of Marina del Rey, 
California; and Aristotle Balogh, VeriSign, Inc., Washington, D.C.
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine issues related to the disposal 
availability of low-level radioactive waste, focusing on the 
requirements of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (P.L. 96-
573), and commercial disposal sites, after receiving testimony from 
Christine Gelles, Director, Office of Commercial Disposition Options, 
and Edward G. McGinnis, Director, Office of Global Radiological Threat 
Reduction, National Nuclear Security Administration, both of the 
Department of Energy; Robin M. Nazzaro, Director, Natural Resources and 
Environment, Government Accountability Office; and Alan Pasternak, 
California Radioactive Materials Management Forum, Lafayette.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: on September 29, 2004, 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 Senators 
McConnell and Bunning, 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.
COLLEGE SAVINGS PLANS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial 
Management, the Budget, and International Security concluded an 
oversight hearing to examine Section 529 College Savings Plans, 
focusing on levels of fees, quality of plan disclosure, state tax 
treatment and broker sales practices, after receiving testimony from 
Steven T. Miller, Commissioner, Tax Exempt and Government Entities 
Division, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Ernesto 
A. Lanza, Senior Associate General Counsel, Municipal Securities 
Rulemaking Board; Michael A. Ablowich, New Hampshire State Treasurer, 
Concord, on behalf of the National Association of State Treasurers; 
Jacqueline T. Williams, Ohio Tuition Trust Authority, Columbus, on 
behalf of the College Savings Plan Network; Martin M. Noven, Office of 
the Illinois State Treasurer, Springfield; Richard O. Davis, Utah 
Higher Education Assistance Authority, Salt Lake City; Mary L. 
Schapiro, NASD, New York, New York; Daniel McNeela, Morningstar, Inc., 
Chicago, Illinois; and Mercer E. Bullard, Fund Democracy, Inc., Oxford, 
Mississippi.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1635, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure the 
integrity of the L-1 visa for intracompany transferees;
  S. 2195, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the 
definition of anabolic steroids and to provide for research and 
education activities relating

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to steroids and steroid precursors, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute;
  S. Res. 424, designating October 2004 as ``Protecting Older Americans 
From Fraud Month''; and
  The nominations of Micaela Alvarez, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Keith Starrett, to be United 
States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, Raymond 
L. Finch, to be Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 
David E. Nahmias, to be United States Attorney for the Northern 
District of Georgia, Richard B. Roper III, to be United States Attorney 
for the Northern District of Texas, Lisa Godbey Wood, to be United 
States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, Ricardo H. 
Hinojosa, of Texas, to be Chair, Michael O'Neill, of Maryland, to be a 
Member, and Ruben Castillo, of Illinois, to be a Member, all of the 
United States Sentencing Commission, and William Sanchez , of Florida, 
to be Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment 
Practices, Department of Justice.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the nominations of Mary J. Schoelen, of the District of Columbia, who 
was introduced by Senator Rockefeller, and William A. Moorman, of 
Virginia, who was introduced by Senator Graham (SC), 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, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.