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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D196-D198 on March 6, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: OPERATIONS INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded closed hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for operations intelligence, after receiving testimony from General Richard B. Myers, USAF, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
APPROPRIATIONS: HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies concluded hearings to examine the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after receiving testimony from Mel Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of State, after receiving testimony from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, and the Future Years Defense Program, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. White, Secretary of the Army, Hansford T. Johnson, Acting Secretary of the Navy, and James G. Roche, Secretary of the Air Force, all of the Department of Defense.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on military construction and environmental programs, after receiving testimony from Hansford T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environemnt, Raymond F. DuBois, Jr., Deputy Under Secretary for Installations and Environment, Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment, and Nelson F. Gibbs, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Installations, Environment, and Logistics, all of the Department of Defense.
SPECTRUM POLICY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine the future of spectrum policy, focusing on recommendations of the Federal Communications Commission's Spectrum Policy Task Force including, the establishment of a spectrum relocation trust fund, ways in which to evolve the current ``command and control'' approach to spectrum policy into a more integrated, market-oriented approach that provides greater regulatory certainty, while minimizing regulatory intervention, and the implementation of interference protection, spectral efficiency, effective public safety communications, and international spectrum policy, after receiving testimony from Steven K. Berry, Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, and Michael Calabrese, New America Foundation, on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, and the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, both of Washington, D.C.; Gregory L. Rosston, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford, California; Kevin Kahn, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon; and Paul J. Kolodzy, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey.
TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to examine energy use in the transportation sector, focusing on oil dependency, technology challenges, vehicle safety issues, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program, and alternative fuels, after receiving testimony from David K. Garman, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy; Emil H. Frankel, Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy; Gregory Dana, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.; Richard Cromwell III, SunLine Transit Agency, Thousand Palms, California; and David Friedman, Union of Concerned Scientists, San Francisco, California.
HIGH PLAINS AQUIFER/ILLINOIS HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded hearings to examine S. 212, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with the High Plains States in conducting a hydrogeologic characterization, mapping, modeling and monitoring program for the High Plains Aquifer, and S. 220 and H.R. 397, bills to reinstate and extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Illinois, after receiving testimony from Senator Brownback; and William M. Alley, Chief, Office of Ground Water, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine an agreed framework for dialogue with North Korea, focusing on negotiations regarding their nuclear weapons program, and South Korea, after receiving testimony from Ashton B. Carter, Harvard University Preventive Defense Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Arnold Kanter, Scowcroft Group, and Robert J. Einhorn, Center for Strategic and International Studies International Security Program, former Assistant Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, both of Washington, D.C.
NASA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the status of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's workforce and consider proposed personnel flexibilities to assist the agency in achieving its mission, especially managing Human Capital effectively and efficiently, after receiving testimony from Representative Sherwood L. Boehlert; and Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training concluded hearings to examine the Administration's approach to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act
(WIA), focusing on strengthening the delivery of employment and training services nationwide, after receiving testimony D. Cameron Findlay, Deputy Secretary of Labor.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 253, to amend title 18, United States Code, to exempt qualified current and former law enforcement officers from State laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed handguns;
S. 113, to exclude United States persons from the definition of
``foreign power'' under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 relating to international terrorism, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of Timothy M. Tymkovich, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, J. Daniel Breen, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, Thomas A. Varlan, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, William H. Steele, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Alabama, and Humberto S. Garcia, to be United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, and Eugene James Corcoran, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York, both of the Department of Justice
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
