[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 41 (Monday, April 11, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D313-D314]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded a hearing to examine the Chemical 
Demilitarization Program of the Department of Defense in review of the 
Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2006, after receiving 
testimony from Michael W. Wynne, Under

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Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Claude 
M. Bolton, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Technology 
and Logistics; Donald A. Mahley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, 
Bureau of Arms Control; Dale E. Klein, Assistant to the Secretary of 
Defense, Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs.
UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND EXEMPTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
a hearing to examine S. 241, to amend section 254 of the Communications 
Act of 1934 to provide that funds received as universal service 
contributions and the universal service support programs established 
pursuant to that section are not subject to certain provisions of title 
31, United States Code, commonly known as the Antideficiency Act, after 
receiving testimony from Austin C. Schlick, Acting General Counsel, and 
Lisa Gelb, Deputy Bureau Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau, both of 
the Federal Communications Commission; Patricia A. Dalton, Managing 
Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, Government Accountability 
Office; Brian L. Talbott, Universal Service Administrative Company, 
Denver, Colorado; Sheryl Abshire, Calcasieu ParishPublic Schools, Lake 
Charles, Louisiana; and Steve Hamlen, United Utilities, Inc., 
Anchorage, Alaska.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began a hearing to examine 
the nominations of John Robert Bolton, of Maryland, to be U.S. 
Representative to United Nations, with the rank and status of 
Ambassador and U.S. Representative in the Security Council of the 
United Nations, and Representative to the Sessions of the General 
Assembly of the United Nations during his tenure of service as 
Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, 
where the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
  Hearings will continue tomorrow.