[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 133 (Thursday, November 18, 2004)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded a hearing to examine the status of financial 
management reform within the Department of Defense and the individual 
services, after receiving testimony from Tina W. Jonas, Under Secretary 
of Defense (Comptroller); David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the 
United States; Valerie Lynn Baldwin, Assistant Secretary of the Army 
(Financial Management and Comptroller); Richard Greco, Jr., Assistant 
Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller); and 
Michael Montelongo, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial 
Management and Comptroller).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine the nominations of Jonathan Steven Adelstein, of 
South Dakota, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, 
who was introduced by Senator Johnson, Ernest J. Wilson III of 
Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting, Claudia Puig, of Florida, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Gay 
Hart Gaines, of Florida, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of 
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Harold Jennings Creel, Jr., of 
South Carolina, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, and James S. 
Simpson, of New York, to be a Member of the Advisory Board of the Saint 
Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf.
PORNOGRAPHY ADDICTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology and Space concluded a hearing to examine the brain 
science behind pornography addiction, focusing on the effects of 
addiction on families and communities, after receiving testimony from 
Judith Reisman, California Protective Parents Association, Sacramento; 
Mary Anne Layden, University of Pennsylvania Center for Cognitive 
Therapy, Philadelphia; James B. Weaver, III Virginia Polytechnic 
Institute and State University Department of Communication, Blacksburg; 
and Jeffrey Satinover, Weston, Connecticut.
PATIENT SAFETY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine putting 
patient safety first regarding drugs such as Vioxx, focusing on the 
Food and Drug Administration, and heart attacks, after receiving 
testimony from David J. Graham, Associate Director for Science and 
Medicine, Office of Drug Safety, Center for Drug Evaluation and 
Research, and Sandra L. Kweder, Acting Director, Office of New Drugs, 
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, both of the Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Gurkirpal 
Singh, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California; 
Bruce M. Psaty, University of Washington, Seattle; and Raymond V. 
Gilmartin, Merck & Co., Inc., Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
STANDING ROCK SIOUX RESERVATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee on Indian Affairs held an 
oversight hearing on the water problems on the Standing Rock Sioux 
Reserve, receiving testimony from William T. Grisoli, Brigadier 
General, Commander and Division Engineer, Northwestern Division, Army 
Corps of Engineers; Dennis Breitzman, Area Manager, Dakotas Area 
Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Richard 
Olson, Director, Division of Clinical and Community Services, and 
Ronald Ferguson, Director, Division of Sanitation Facilities 
Construction, both of the Indian Health Service, Department of Health 
and Human Services; and Charles W. Murphy, and Mike Claymore, both of 
Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council, Fort Yates, North Dakota.
  Hearing recessed subject to the call of the Chair.