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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D865-D866 on Sept. 9, 2004.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION, TREASURY, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury, and General Government approved for full Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation and Treasury, the Executive Office of the President, and certain independent agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005.
IRAQI PRISONER ABUSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the investigation of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq, after receiving testimony from General Paul J. Kern, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Materiel Command; Lieutenant General Anthony R. Jones, USA, Deputy Commanding General, Chief of Staff, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command; Major General R. Steven Whitcomb, USA, Special Assistant to the Commander, United States Central Command; Major General George R. Fay, USA, Deputy Commander, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command; and Major General Antonio M. Taguba, USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Readiness, Training and Mobilization.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DETENTION OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the report of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations, focusing on why prisoner abuse occurred, how they occurred and lessons learned, after receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, Chairman, and Harold Brown, Member, both of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations.
IMPACT OF SARBANES-OXLEY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and developments concerning international convergence, focusing on regulations in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, strengthening corporate governance and internal controls, concerns of small companies, and the changed behavior of audit committees, management, and auditors, after receiving testimony from Paul Boyle, Financial Reporting Council, Sir David Tweedie, International Accounting Standards Board, and Douglas Flint, HSBC Holdings, all of London, United Kingdom; Andrew Sheng, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission; Greg Bentley, Bentley Systems, Inc., Exton, Pennsylvania; Arnold C. Hanish, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, on behalf of Financial Executives International; Leonard Moodispaw, Essex Corporation, Columbia, Maryland; and James S. Turley, Ernst and Young, LLP, New York, New York.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the current situation in Sudan and prospects for peace, focusing on the State Department's investigation of the Darfur crisis, after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1635, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure the integrity of the L-1 visa for intracompany transferees;
S. 1700, to eliminate the substantial backlog of DNA samples collected from crime scenes and convicted offenders, to improve and expand the DNA testing capacity of Federal, State, and local crime laboratories, to increase research and development of new DNA testing technologies, to develop new training programs regarding the collection and use of DNA evidence, to provide post-conviction testing of DNA evidence to exonerate the innocent, to improve the performance of counsel in State capital cases;
S. 2396, to make improvements in the operations and administration of the Federal courts;
H.R. 1417, to amend title 17, United States Code, to replace copyright arbitration royalty panels with Copyright Royalty Judges;
S. 2204, to provide criminal penalties for false information and hoaxes relating to terrorism;
S. 1860, to reauthorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy;
S. 2195, to amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify the definition of anabolic steroids and to provide for research and education activities relating to steroids and steroid precursors;
S.J. Res. 23, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the event that one-fourth of the members of either the House of Representatives or the Senate are killed or incapacitated, proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Department of Justice; and
The nominations of Claude A. Allen, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, David E. Nahmias, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and William Sanchez, of Florida, to be Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, both of the Department of Justice, Ricardo H. Hinojosa, of Texas, to be Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, and Michael O'Neill, of Maryland, and Ruben Castillo, of Illinois, each to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, William Sanchez, of Florida, to be Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, and Richard B. Roper III, of Texas, to be United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
