[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 22459-22460]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Thursday, September 18, 2003 may be found in 
the Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                              SEPTEMBER 23
     9 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
         Business meeting to consider a bill to extend the 
           authority of TEA-21 (Transportation Equity Act for the 
           21st Century) for five months, to be immediately 
           followed by a hearing to consider the nomination of 
           Michael O. Leavitt, of Utah, to be Administrator of the 
           Environmental Protection Agency.
                                                            SD-406
     9:30 a.m.
       Aging
         To hold hearings to examine HIPAA medical privacy and 
           transaction rules.
                                                            SD-628
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the implementation of the 
           Sarbanes-Oxley Act and restoring investor confidence.
                                                            SD-538
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine health technology.
                                                            SD-430
     2 p.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         Business meeting to mark up the National Consumer Credit 
           Reporting System Improvement Act of 2003, the Defense 
           Production Reauthorization Act of 2003, and The Federal 
           Transit Extension Act of 2003.
                                                            SD-538
     2:30 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine information sharing and 
           coordination for visa issuance in relation to homeland 
           security.
                                                            SD-226
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine S. 213, to clear title to 
           certain real property in New Mexico associated with the 
           Middle Rio Grande Project, S. 1236, to direct the 
           Secretary of the Interior to establish a program to 
           control or eradicate tamarisk in the western States, S. 
           1516,

[[Page 22460]]

           to further the purposes of the Reclamation Projects 
           Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 by directing 
           the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
           commissioner of Reclamation, to carry out an assessment 
           and demonstration program to assess potential increases 
           in water availability for Bureau of Reclamation 
           projects and other uses through control of salt cedar 
           and Russian olive, H.R. 856, to authorize the Secretary 
           of the Interior to revise a repayment contract with the 
           Tom Green County Water Control and Improvement District 
           No. 1, San Angelo project, Texas, and H.R. 961, to 
           promote Department of the Interior efforts to provide a 
           scientific basis for the management of sediment and 
           nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.
                                                            SD-366

                              SEPTEMBER 24
     9 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the findings of the GAO 
           concerning the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 
           financial allocations and activities after the 
           terrorist attacks on September 11th, and to conduct 
           oversight on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 
           effectiveness since becoming part of the Department of 
           Homeland Security.
                                                            SD-406
     9:30 a.m.
       Governmental Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine discrimination against 
           employees and retirees relating to social security 
           government pension offset and windfall elimination 
           provisions.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Dale S. 
           Fischer to be United States District Judge for the 
           Central District of California, Claude A. Allen, of 
           Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the 
           Fourth Circuit, and Gary L. Sharpe to be United States 
           District Judge for the Northern District of New York.
                                                            SD-226
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold hearings to examine intellectual diversity.
                                                            SD-430
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1601, to amend the Indian 
           Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act to 
           provide for the reporting and reduction of child abuse 
           and family violence incidences on Indian reservations.
                                                            SR-485
     2:30 p.m.
       Judiciary
       Crime, Corrections and Victims' Rights Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine elder abuse, neglect, and 
           exploitation.
                                                            SD-226

                              SEPTEMBER 25
     9:30 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To hold hearings to examine the report of the Panel to 
           Review Sexual Misconduct Allegations at the United 
           States Air Force Academy.
                                                            SH-216
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine counterterror initiatives in 
           the terror finance program.
                                                            SD-538
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         Business meeting to consider S. 606, to provide 
           collective bargaining rights for public safety officers 
           employed by States or their political subdivisions, the 
           Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2003,the Family 
           Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, and pending 
           nominations.
                                                            SD-430
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine proposed legislation to 
           reauthorize the Head Start program.
                                              Room to be announced
     2:30 p.m.
       Foreign Relations
         To hold hearings to examine the nominations of Richard 
           Eugene Hoagland, of the District of Columbia, to be 
           Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan, Pamela P. 
           Willeford, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Switzerland, 
           and to serve concurrently and without additional 
           compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of 
           Liechtenstein, and James Casey Kenny, of Illinois, to 
           be Ambassador to Ireland.
                                                            SD-419

                              SEPTEMBER 30
     10 a.m.
       Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the state of the securities 
           industry.
                                                            SD-538
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
       Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine underage drinking.
                                                            SD-430

                               OCTOBER 2
     10 a.m.
       Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
         To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on Energy 
           and Commerce to examine activities of the National 
           Institutes of Health.
                                                            SD-106
     2 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1438, to provide for 
           equitable compensation of the Spokane Tribe of Indians 
           of the Spokane Reservation in settlement of claims of 
           the Tribe concerning the contribution of the Tribe to 
           the production of hydropower by the Grand Coulee Dam.
                                                            SR-485

                               OCTOBER 16
     10 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine the Missouri River Master 
           Manual.
                                                            SR-485

                               OCTOBER 21
     10 a.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings to examine S. 1565, to reauthorize the 
           Native American Programs Act of 1974.
                                                            SR-485