[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 26, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D33-D34]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 14) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee, and adopted its rules of procedure for 
the 109th Congress.
CURRENT MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing regarding current military operations in Iraq and 
Afghanistan from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; and General 
John P. Abizaid, USA, Commander, United States Central Command.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 15) authorizing 
expenditures by the committee.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 109th 
Congress, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Financial Institutions: Senators Bennett (Chairman), 
Allard, Santorum, Sununu, Martinez, Hagel, Bunning, Crapo, Johnson, 
Carper, Dodd, Reed, Stabenow, and Bayh.
  Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation: Senators Allard 
(Chairman), Santorum, Dole, Enzi, Bennett, Martinez, Shelby, Reed, 
Stabenow, Corzine, Dodd, Carper and Schumer.
  Subcommittee on Securities and Investment: Senators Hagel (Chairman), 
Enzi, Sununu, Martinez, Bennett, Bunning, Crapo, Dole, Allard, 
Santorum, Dodd, Johnson, Reed, Schumer, Bayh, Stabenow, Corzine, and 
Carper.
  Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance: Senators Crapo 
(Chairman), Hagel, Enzi, Sununu, Dole, Bayh, Johnson, and Corzine.
  Subcommittee on Economic Policy: Senators Bunning (Chairman), Shelby, 
and Schumer.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  Samuel W. Bodman, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Energy; and
  An original resolution (S. Res. 13) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee.
  Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Energy: Senators Alexander (Chairman), Burr, 
Martinez, Talent, Allen, Bunning, Murkowski, Craig, Thomas, Burns, 
Dorgan, Akaka, Johnson, Laudrieu, Feinstein, Cantwell, Corzine, and 
Salazar.
  Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests: Senators Craig (Chairman), 
Burns, Thomas, Talent, Smith, Alexander, Murkowski, Allen, Wyden, 
Akaka, Dorgan, Johnson, Landrieu, Feinstein, and Cantwell.
  Subcommittee on National Parks: Senators Thomas (Chairman), 
Alexander, Allen, Burr, Martinez, Smith, Akaka, Wyden, Landrieu, 
Corzine, and Salazar.
  Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Murkowski (Chairman), 
Smith, Craig, Burr, Martinez, Burns, Bunning, Talent, Johnson, Dorgan, 
Wyden, Feinstein, Cantwell, Corzine, and Salazar.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 17) authorizing expenditures 
by the committee.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 109th 
Congress, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Senators Bond 
(Chairman), Warner, Voinovich, Chafee, Murkowski, Thune, Baucus, 
Lieberman, Boxer, Carper, and Clinton.
  Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety: 
Senators Voinovich (Chairman), Bond, DeMint, Isakson, Vitter, Carper, 
Lieberman, Lautenberg, and Obama.
  Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water: Senators Chafee 
(Chairman), Warner, Murkowski, DeMint, Vitter, Clinton, Lieberman, 
Lautenberg, and Obama.
  Subcommittee on Superfund and Waste Management: Senators Thune 
(Chairman), Isakson, Warner, Bond, Boxer, Baucus, and Lautenberg.
MULTI-EMISSIONS LEGISLATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded a hearing to examine the 
need for multi-emissions legislation, focusing on the Clean Air Act, 
National Ambient Air Quality Standards, and the Clear Skies Act, after 
receiving testimony from Indiana State Senator Beverly Gard, 
Indianapolis; Mayor Bob Young, Augusta, Georgia, on behalf of the U.S. 
Conference of Mayors; John A. Paul, Regional Air Pollution Control 
Agency, Dayton, Ohio, on the behalf of State and Territorial Air 
Pollution Program Administrators and Association of Local Air Pollution 
Control Officials; Ronald R. Harper, Basin Electric Power Cooperative, 
Bismarck,

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North Dakota; Conrad G. Schneider, Clean Air Task Force, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Fred Parady, OCI Wyoming, L.P., Green River, on 
behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers.
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Homeland Security, 
focusing on management challenges related to border security, 
transportation security, integration, intelligence, and preparedness, 
after receiving testimony from Richard L. Skinner, Acting Inspector 
General, Department of Homeland Security; James Jay Carafano, The 
Heritage Foundation, and Richard A. Falkenrath, The Brookings 
Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; Michael A. Wermuth, RAND 
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Stephen E. Flynn, Council on 
Foreign Relations, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee 
ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 16) 
authorizing expenditures by the Committee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 19) authorizing expenditures by the 
committee, and agreed to continue the protocol used in the 108th 
Congress for the release of information obtained by subpoena in the 
ongoing Indian lobbying investigation.
  Also, committee elected Senator McCain as the Chairman and Senator 
Dorgan as Vice Chairman, and adopted its rules of procedure for the 
109th Congress.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Alberto R. Gonzales, of Texas, to be Attorney General, 
Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 21) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee, and 
approved the committee's rules of procedure for the 109th Congress.
  Also, committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, 
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
INTERNET PHARMACY AND DRUG IMPORTATION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
the risks and benefits associated with Internet pharmacies, focusing on 
the importation of prescription drugs into the United States, and 
reducing the costs of prescription drugs, after receiving testimony 
from Richard H. Carmona, Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Jeff Kimmell, drugstore.com, 
Bellevue, Washington; Gary A. Schnabel, Oregon State Board of Pharmacy, 
Portland; Mary Jorgensen, Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups, Madison; 
and Roger Pilon, CATO Institute, Washington, D.C.