[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 133 (Wednesday, October 19, 2005)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1055-D1056]
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 completed 
its review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet 
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 95, establishing 
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 
year 2006, revising appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2005, 
and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2007 
through 2010, and agreed on recommendations which it will make to the 
Committee on the Budget thereon.
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded a hearing to 
examine the potential of stem cell and nuclear transplantation 
research, focusing on related provisions of S. 471, to amend the Public 
Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research, 
H.R. 810, to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human 
embryonic stem cell research, and S. 876, to prohibit human cloning and 
protect stem cell research, after receiving testimony from Judith 
Gasson, University of California, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los 
Angeles; Steven Teitelbaum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; 
John Wagner, University of Minnesota Medical School Stem Cell 
Institute, Minneapolis; Rudolf Jaenisch, Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, Cambridge; and Anthony Herrera, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:  Committee completed its 
review of certain spending reductions

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and revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by 
H. Con. Res. 95, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2006, revising appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal year 2005, and setting forth appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal years 2007 through 2010, and agreed on 
recommendations which it will make to the Committee on the Budget 
thereon.
U.S.-IRAQ POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine United States foreign policy relating to Iraq, focusing on 
United States' objectives and strategies to improve security, and 
advance political development and economic progress in Iraq, and to 
discuss the recent Constitutional referendum, and assess the enemies 
progress in Iraq, after receiving testimony from Condoleezza Rice, 
Secretary of State.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to 
examine the nomination of David M. Hale, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, after the nominee 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the business items:
  S. 1873, to prepare and strengthen the biodefenses of the United 
States against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of 
illness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Mark Hofflund, of Idaho, to be a Member of the 
National Council on the Arts, Naomi Churchill Earp, of Virginia, and 
Christine M. Griffin, of Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the 
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Jan Cellucci, of 
Massachusetts, Sandra Frances Ashworth, of Idaho, and Diane Rivers, of 
Arkansas, each to be a Member of the National Commission on Libraries 
and Information Science, Bertha K. Madras, of Massachusetts, to be 
Deputy Director for Demand Reduction, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, Mark S. Schneider, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Commissioner of Education Statistics, Department of Education, Bruce 
Cole, of Indiana, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, and John O. Agwunobi, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary 
of Health and Human Services for Health.
  Also, Committee completed its review of certain spending reductions 
and revenue increases to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by 
H. Con. Res. 95, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2006, revising appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal year 2005, and setting forth appropriate budgetary 
levels for fiscal years 2007 through 2010, and agreed on 
recommendations which it will make to the Committee on the Budget 
thereon.
REPORTERS' PRIVILEGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine 
issues and implications regarding reporters' privilege legislation, 
focusing on S. 1419, to maintain the free flow of information to the 
public by providing conditions for the federally compelled disclosure 
of information by certain persons connected with the news media, after 
receiving testimony from Chuck Rosenberg, United States Attorney for 
the Southern District of Texas, Department of Justice; Judith Miller, 
The New York Times, and David Westin, ABC News, both of New York, New 
York; Joseph E. diGenova, diGenova & Toensing LLP, Washington, D.C.; 
Anne K. Gordon, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 
Dale Davenport, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Steven 
D. Clymer, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York.
VIDEO COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and 
Business and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine video 
competition in 2005, focusing on the impact for consumers of the 
acquisition of Adelphia by Comcast and Time Warner, policies to ensure 
new competitors in the video market, and the transformation in the 
cable industry including new products and more choices as cable 
operators compete, after receiving testimony from Glenn A. Britt, Time 
Warner Cable, Stamford, Connecticut; Kyle McSlarrow, National Cable and 
Telecommunications Association, Walter B. McCormick, Jr., United States 
Telecom Association, Scott Cleland, Precursor, and Mark Cooper, 
Consumer Federation of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Doron 
Gorshein, The America Channel, LLC, Heathrow, Florida; and Peter D. 
Aquino, RCN Corporation, Herndon, Virginia.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on certain intelligence matters from officials of 
the intelligence community.