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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D769-D770 on July 8, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004.
LIBERIA
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the situation in Africa, with a focus on Liberia, from Vice Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, USN, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Major General Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Vice Director, Operations Directorate, J-3, The Joint Staff; and Theresa Whelan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs.
NOMINATIONS:
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nominations of Nicole R. Nason, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs, and Pamela Jones Harbour, of New York, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
RADIO OWNERSHIP
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine radio ownership, focusing on the impact of industry consolidation, and Federal Communications Commission's new radio market definition, after receiving testimony from Representative Menendez; Lewis W. Dickey, Jr., Cumulus Media Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Jon Mandel, MediaCom, Grey Global Group, Inc., New York, New York; Simon Renshaw, The Firm, Beverly Hills, California, on behalf of the Recording Artists' Coalition; and Alex Kolobieski, First Media Radio, Easton, Maryland.
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded oversight hearings on the maintenance backlog within the national park system, including the impact of new park unit designations, land acquisitions, and personnel vacancies, after receiving testimony from Donald Murphy, Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Barry T. Hill, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, General Accounting Office; Eric Dillinger, Carter and Burgess, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas; Thomas C. Kiernan, National Parks Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.; and Curtis E. Cornelssen, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Boston, Massachusetts.
CLIMATE CHANGE: AGRICULTURAL SEQUESTRATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate Change, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine the potential of agricultural sequestration to address climate change through affecting atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, after receiving testimony from Bruce I. Knight, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Cynthia Rosenzweig, Research Scientist, Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Columbia University, New York, New York), National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Bob Stallman, Columbus, Texas, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Rattan Lal, Ohio State University Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, Columbus; Joseph L. Bast, Heartland Institute, Chicago, Illinois; and Debbie A. Reed, National Environmental Trust, Washington, D.C.
U.S. TAX POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine U.S. tax policy and its effects on the domestic and international competitiveness of U.S.-based operations, after receiving testimony from Robert Hall, Stanford University Hoover Institution, Stanford, California; William C. Barrett, Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, California; James G. Berges, Emerson, St. Louis, Missouri; Mark Russell, Electrolux North America, Cleveland, Ohio; Alexander Spitzer, Nestle USA, Norwalk, Connecticut; and Kathryn Kobe, Joel Popkin and Company, and Thea M. Lea, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings recessed subject to the call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nominations of Michael J. Garcia, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, and Jack Landman Goldsmith III, of Virginia, to be Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice, who was introduced by Senator Allen, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
