“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” published by the Congressional Record on July 9, 2003

“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” published by the Congressional Record on July 9, 2003

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Volume 149, No. 100 covering the 1st Session of the 108th Congress (2003 - 2004) was published by the Congressional Record.

The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.

“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Extensions of Remarks section on pages E1441 on July 9, 2003.

The publication is reproduced in full below:

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, July 10, 2003 may be found in the Daily Digest of today's Record.

MEETINGS SCHEDULED

JULY 142 p.m.

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

To hold hearings to examine restoring stability to the defined benefit pension system.

SD-430

Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine temporary entry provisions of the proposed free trade agreements with Chile and

Singapore.

SD-226

JULY 159:30 a.m.

Governmental Affairs

To hold hearings to examine castaway children, focusing on whether parents must relinquish custody in order to secure mental health services for their children.

SD-34210 a.m.

Foreign Relations

To hold hearings to examine successes and challenges for

U.S. policy relative to Haiti.

SD-419

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration.

SD-4302:30 p.m.

Judiciary

Immigration, Border Security and Citizenship Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine visa issuance, information sharing and enforcement in a post 9-11 environment.

SD-226

Veterans' Affairs

To hold hearings to receive a report by the National

Commander of The American Legion, Ronald F. Conley, of his tenure.

SR-418

JULY 1610 a.m.

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

To hold oversight hearings to examine the semi-annual monetary policy report of the Federal Reserve System.

SD-538

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Business meeting to markup the proposed Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2003.

SD-430

Indian Affairs

To hold hearings to examine S. 556, to amend the Indian

Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that

Act.

SR-485

Judiciary

To hold oversight hearings on the federal sentencing guidelines of the U.S. sentencing comission.

SD-226

Governmental Affairs

Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine the recent General Accounting

Office report entitled: ``An Overall Strategy and

Indicators for Measuring Progress Are Needed to Better

Achieve Restoration Goals'', focusing on the ramifications of an uncoordinated Great Lakes restoration strategy, current management of various environmental programs, and possible next steps to improve the management of Great Lakes programs.

SD-3422:30 p.m.

Judiciary

Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights

Subcommittee

To hold hearings to examine competition in the marketplace in relation to hospital group purchasing.

SD-226

Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine the nomination of Suedeen G.

Kelly, of New Mexico, to be a Member of Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission.

SD-366

JULY 179:30 a.m.

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Business meeting to consider pending calendar business.

SR-253

Governmental Affairs

To resume hearings to examine castaway children, focusing on whether parents must relinquish custody in order to secure mental health services for their children.

SD-342

JULY 2210 a.m.

Energy and Natural Resources

To hold hearings to examine S. 1314, to expedite procedures for hazardous fuels reduction activities on

National Forest System lands established from the public domain and other public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, to improve the health of

National Forest System lands established from the public domain and other public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management, and H.R. 1904, to improve the capacity of the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior to plan and conduct hazardous fuels reduction projects on National Forest

System lands and Bureau of Land Management lands aimed at protecting communities, watersheds, and certain other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire, to enhance efforts to protect watersheds and address threats to forest and rangeland health, including catastrophic wildfire, across the landscape; to examine the impacts of insects, disease, weather-related damage, and fires on public and private forest lands.

Processes for implementing forest health and hazardous fuels reduction projects on public and private lands, and processes for implementing forest health and hazardous fuels reduction projects will also be discussed.

Room to be announced

Judiciary

To hold hearings to examine bankcruptcy and competition issues in relation to the WorldCom Case.

SD-226

JULY 2310 a.m.

Indian Affairs

To hold hearings to examine S. 556, to amend the Indian

Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend that

Act.

SR-485

Judiciary

To hold oversight hearings to examine certain pending matters.

SD-226

JULY 3010 a.m.

Indian Affairs

To hold hearings to examine S. 578, to amend the Homeland

Security Act of 2002 to include Indian tribes among the entities consulted with respect to activities carried out by the Secretary of Homeland Security.

SR-485

SEPTEMBER 1610 a.m.

Veterans' Affairs

To hold joint hearings with the House Committee on

Veterans' Affairs to receive the legislative presentation of The American Legion.

SH-216

SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 149, No. 100

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