[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 33 (Thursday, March 17, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D264-D265]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine current and future worldwide threats to the 
national security of the United States, after receiving testimony from 
Porter J. Goss, Director of Central Intelligence; and Vice Admiral 
Lowell E. Jacoby, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency, 
Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of John Paul Woodley, Jr., of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of the Army, James William Carr, of Arkansas, George M. 
Dennison, of Montana, and Kiron Kanina Skinner, of Pennsylvania, each 
to be a Member of the National Security Education Board, Anthony Joseph 
Principi, of California, to be a Member of the Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Commission, and 5,664 nominations in the Air Force, Army, 
Navy and Marine Corps.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill entitled ``The Federal Public 
Transportation Act of 2005''.
COAST GUARD BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans, Fisheries and Coast Guard concluded a hearing to examine the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2006 for the Coast 
Guard Operational Readiness/Mission Balance, after receiving testimony 
from Admiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, and Master Chief Petty 
Officer Franklin A. Welch, both of the United States Coast Guard, 
Department of Homeland Security; and Margaret T. Wrightson, Director, 
Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Government Accountability Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Daniel R. Levinson, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Lester M. Crawford, of 
Maryland, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Department of Health 
and Human Services.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 188, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal years 2005 through 2011 to carry out the 
State Criminal Alien Assistance Program;
  S. 589, to establish the Commission on Freedom of Information Act 
Processing Delays; and
  The nominations of William Gerry Myers III, of Idaho, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Paul A. Crotty, to be 
United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and 
J. Michael Seabright, to be United States District Judge for the 
District of Hawaii.
  Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversights and the Courts: Senators 
Sessions (Chairman), Specter, Grassley, Kyl, Schumer, Feinstein, and 
Feingold.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights: 
Senators DeWine (Chairman), Specter, Hatch, Grassley, Graham, 
Brownback, Kohl, Leahy, Biden, Feingold, and Schumer.
  Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights: 
Senators Brownback (Chair), Specter, Graham, Cornyn, Coburn, Feingold, 
Kennedy, Feinstein, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Corrections and Rehabilitations: Senators Coburn 
(Chairman), Specter, Sessions, Cornyn, Brownback, Durbin, Leahy, Biden, 
and Feingold.
  Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs: Senators Graham (Chairman), 
Grassley, Kyl, DeWine, Sessions, Coburn, Biden, Kohl, Feinstein, 
Feingold, and Schumer.
  Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship: 
Senators Cornyn (Chairman), Grassley, Kyl, DeWine, Sessions, Brownback, 
Coburn, Kennedy, Biden, Feinstein, Feingold, Schumer, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Intellectual Property: Senators Hatch (Chairman), 
Kyl, DeWine, Graham, Cornyn, Brownback, Coburn, Leahy, Kennedy, Biden, 
Feinstein, Kohl, and Durbin.
  Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security: Senators 
Kyl (Chairman), Hatch, Grassley, Cornyn, DeWine, Sessions, Graham, 
Feinstein, Kennedy, Biden, Kohl, Feingold and Durbin.
VETERANS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the report entitled, ``Back from the Battlefield: Are we 
providing the proper care for America's Wounded Warriors?'', after 
receiving testimony from Jonathan B. Perlin, Acting Under Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs for Health; Major General Kenneth L. Farmer, Jr., 
Commanding General, North Atlantic Regional Medical Command and Walter 
Reed Army Medical Center, United States Army; Cynthia A. Bascetta, 
Director, Health Care--Veterans', Health and Benefits Issues, 
Government Accountability Office; Major Tammy Duckworth, United States 
Army National Guard; Joseph J. Costello, Vista Vet Center, Vista, 
California; and David J. Hosking, Vet Center, Madison, Wisconsin.