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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Labor was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D445-D446 on May 4, 2004.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OVERTIME PAY RULE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held a hearing to examine the final rule on overtime pay, setting forth the criteria for determining who is exempted from the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime requirements as an executive, administrative, or professional employee, also known as the ``white-collar'' exemptions to the Act, receiving testimony from Tammy D. McCutchen, Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, Department of Labor; and Craig Becker, AFL-CIO, David S. Fortney, Fortney and Scott, Ross E. Eisenbrey, Economic Policy Institute, and Ronald Bird, Employment Policy Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearing recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
D.C. CHARTER SCHOOLS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia concluded a hearing to examine public charter schools in the District of Columbia, focusing on challenges facing D.C. charter schools, and best practices in D.C. charter school education, after receiving testimony from Peggy Cooper Cafritz, President, District of Columbia Board of Education; Thomas Louglin, Chairman, District of Columbia Public Charter School Board; Eric Adler, Co-Founder and Managing Director, School for Educational Evolution and Development (SEED) School; Joshua Kern, President and Chief Executive Officer, Thurgood Marshall Academy; David Domenici, Executive Director, See Forever Foundation; Joe Nathan, University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, Minneapolis; and Ariana Quinones, District of Columbia Public Charter School Association, Washington, D.C.
IRAQI PRISONERS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing regarding allegations of mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners from General George W. Casey, Jr., USA, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; Lieutenant General Paul T. Mikolashek, USA, Army Inspector General; and Major General Michael J. Marchand, USA, Assistant Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities met in closed session and approved for full committee consideration, those provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2005 for military activities of the Department of Defense.
SATELLITE HOME VIEWER IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded a hearing to reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999, focusing on preserving and extending pro-competitive measures in the current Act, as well as improving regulatory parity between cable and satellite TV providers, after receiving testimony from Charles W. Ergen, EchoStar Communications Corporation, Englewood, Colorado; Jim Yager, Barrington Broadcasting Company, Hoffman Estates, Illinois; Eddy Hartenstein, DirecTV, El Segundo, California; Araceli De Leon, Telemundo Communications Group, Phoenix, Arizona; and Gigi B. Sohn, Public Knowledge, Washington, D.C.
OLYMPIC SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Competition, Foreign Commerce, and Infrastructure concluded a hearing to examine lessons learned from security at past Olympic Games, focusing on having a security team selected with complementary skills and the institutional experience to tackle an event of this proportion, after receiving testimony from Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Boston; Mark Camillo, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; David G. Maples, Johnson, Maples, and Associates, Atlanta, Georgia; Carl Lewis, Beaverton, Oregon; and Steven Lopez, Sugar Land, Texas.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 2005 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System.
