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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1290-D1291 on Nov. 18, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SPACE ACQUISITION POLICIES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces concluded a hearing to examine space acquisition policies and processes, focusing on the Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization, the space industrial base, and improvements needed to optimize the growing investment in space exploration, after receiving testimony from Peter B. Teets, Under Secretary of the Air Force, and Director, National Reconnaissance Office; Lieutenant General Brian Arnold, USAF, Commander, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command; A. Thomas Young, Chairman, Defense Science Board/Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Joint Task Force on Acquisition of National Security Space Programs; and Robert E. Levin, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, General Accounting Office.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Michael W. Wynne, of Florida, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MUTUAL FUND INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine current investigations and regulatory actions regarding the mutual fund industry, focusing on investors' rights, the Risk Management Initiative, the Putnam settlement, disclosure proposals, and late trading and market timing, after receiving testimony from William H. Donaldson, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; and Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company Institute, and Marc E. Lackritz, Securities Industry Association, both of Washington, DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Michael D. Gallagher, of Washington, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, Cheryl Feldman Halpern, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Elizabeth Courtney, of Louisiana, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kirk Van Tine, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Transportation, Jeffrey A. Rosen, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Transportation, Robert L. Crandall, of Texas, Floyd Hall, of New Jersey, and Louis S. Thompson, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the Reform Board
(Amtrak), and certain nominations for promotion in the United States Coast Guard.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded a hearing to examine S. 1209, to provide for the acquisition of property in Washington County, Utah, for implementation of a desert tortoise habitat conservation plan, H.R. 708, to require the conveyance of certain National Forest System lands in Mendocino National Forest, California, to provide for the use of the proceeds from such conveyance for National Forest purposes, S. 1467, to establish the Rio Grande Outstanding Natural Area in the State of Colorado, S. 1167, to resolve the boundary conflicts in Barry and Stone Counties in the State of Missouri, and S. 1848, to amend the Bend Pine Nursery Land Conveyance Act to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell the Bend Pine Nursery Administration Site in the State of Oregon, after receiving testimony from Senator Bond; Tom Thompson, Deputy Chief, National Forest Systems, Department of Agriculture; Jim Hughes, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Charlotte Bobicki, County Commission, Alamosa, Colorado; and Kate Booth Doyle, San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, Del Norte, Colorado.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Arnold I. Havens, of Virginia, to be General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of James M. Loy, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Stevens and Inouye, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
U.S. TAX SHELTER INDUSTRY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the role of professional organizations like accounting firms, law firms, and financial institutions in developing, marketing and implementing tax shelters, after receiving testimony from Debra S. Petersen, California Franchise Tax Board, Rancho Cordova; Calvin H. Johnson, University of Texas at Austin School of Law; Philip Weisner and Mark Watson, both of Washington, D.C., Jeffrey Eischeid, Atlanta, Georgia, Lawrence DeLap, San Francisco, California, Larry Manth, Los Angeles, California, and Richard H. Smith, Jr., New York, New York, all of KPMG LLP; Richard Berry, Jr., PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York, New York; and Mark A. Weinberger, Ernst and Young LLP, Washington, D.C.
AMERICA POST 9/11
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded a hearing to examine America after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, focusing on whether the government response to the attacks has adversely affected individual liberties, including the right to privacy, after receiving testimony from former Representative Barr; Nadine Strossen, American Civil Liberties Union, Muzaffar A. Chishti, Migration Policy Institute at New York University School of Law, and Robert J. Cleary, Proskauer Rose LLP, all of New York, New York; and Viet D. Dinh, Georgetown University Law Center, James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, and James X. Dempsey, Center for Democracy and Technology, all of Washington, D.C.
