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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D887-D889 on Sept. 14, 2004.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: INTERIOR/AGRICULTURE/TRANSPORTATION AND TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
An original bill (S. 2804) making appropriations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005;
An original bill (S. 2803) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2005; and
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.
LAND BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 2532, to establish wilderness areas, promote conservation, improve public land, and provide for the high quality development in Lincoln County, Nevada, S. 2723, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, and S. 2709, to provide for the reforestation of appropriate forest cover on forest land derived from the public domain, after receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Ensign; Representative Gibbons; Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Rebecca W. Watson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Mayor Linda Malone, Sandy, Oregon; Jay Ward, Oregon Natural Resources Council, Portland; Jason Spadaro, SDS Lumber Company, Bingen, Washington; Chris DiStefano, International Mountain Bicycling Association, Boulder, Colorado; Michael Newton, Oregon State University Department of Forest Science, Philomath; and John Hiatt, Red Rock Audubon Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of the Nevada Wilderness Coalition.
9/11 COMMISSION HUMAN CAPITAL RECOMMENDATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine and discuss legislative and administrative options to address human capital recommendations of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission), focusing on improving the presidential appointments process for national security positions, establishing a single agency that conducts security clearance background investigations for U.S. personnel, and providing some additional personnel flexibilities to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to reflect its increased counterterrorism and intelligence responsibilities, after receiving testimony from Fred Fielding, and Jamie S. Gorelick, both Commissioners, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States; Mark Steven Bullock, Assistant Director, Administrative Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; John A. Turnicky, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Security, Central Intelligence Agency; J. Christopher Mihm, Managing Director of Strategic Issues, Government Accountability Office; Paul C. Light, New York University Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and the Brookings Institution, C. Morgan Kinghorn, National Academy of Public Administration, and Max Stier, Partnership for Public Service, all of Washington, D.C.; and Doug Wagoner, Information Technology Association of America Security Clearances Task Group, Arlington, Virginia.
GROUP PURCHASING ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights concluded a hearing to examine maintaining innovation and cost savings relating to hospital group purchasing, focusing on maintaining a group purchasing organization industry that helps hospitals realize significant savings on the best products for their patients, after receiving testimony from Robert Betz, Health Industry Group Purchasing Association, Arlington, Virginia; Joe E. Kiani, Masimo Corporation, Irvine, California; and David A. Balto, Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi LLP, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Porter J. Goss, of Florida, to be Director of Central Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Graham (FL) and Nelson (FL), testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MANDATORY RETIREMENTS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded a hearing to examine mandatory retirement age rules, anti-age-discrimination laws in the private sector, and technology-induced demand and projected worker shortages, after receiving testimony from Abby L. Block, Deputy Associate Director, Center for Employee and Family Support Policy, Office of Personnel Management; Eugene R. Freedman, National Air Traffic Controllers Association, and Jagadeesh Gokhale, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Russell B. Rayman, Aerospace Medical Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Joseph Eichelkraut, Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association, Dallas, Texas.
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