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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D654-D655 on June 12, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL CROP INSURANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the Department of Agriculture's implementation of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 and related crop insurance issues, after receiving testimony from J.B. Penn, Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Keith Collins, Chief Economist, and Ross J. Davidson, Jr., Administrator, Risk Management Agency, all of the Department of Agriculture.
HOMEOWNERSHIP
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues relating to expanding homeownership opportunities, focusing on the American Dream Downpayment Initiative, HOME Investment Partnerships Program, Community Development Block Grant programs, Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance product, Single-Family Affordable Housing Tax Credit, and HUD's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, after receiving testimony from Representative Harris; Mel Martinez, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Terri Y. Montague, Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland; Cathy Whatley, National Association of Realtors, Jacksonville, Florida; Thomas L. Jones, Habitat for Humanity International, Washington, D.C.; James R. Rayburn, Rayburn Associates, Jackson, Mississippi, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders.
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine global overfishing and international fishery conservation and management, including the role of the United States, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, and the Convention of the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, after receiving testimony from Admiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; Rebecca Lent, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Ransom A. Myers, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia Halifax, Canada; Richard P. Ruais, East Coast Tuna Association, Salem, New Hampshire; Lisa Speer, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, New York; and Patrick J. Sullivan, Cornell University Department of Natural Resources, Ithaca, New York.
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine advances in adult and non-embryonic stem cell research, focusing on the use of bone marrow and cord blood stem cells, after receiving testimony from David C. Hess, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; Joanne Kurtzberg, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; John W. McDonald, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research; Jean D. Peduzzi-Nelson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Pablo Rubinstein, New York Blood Center, New York, New York; Steven L. Barsh, Merion Station, Pennsylvania; Keone Penn, Snellville, Georgia; and Stephen R. Sprague, Staten Island, New York.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests concluded hearings to examine S. 434, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain parcels of National Forest System land in the State of Idaho and use the proceeds derived from the sale or exchange for National Forest System purposes, S. 435, to provide for the conveyance by the Secretary of Agriculture of the Sandpoint Federal Building and adjacent land in Sandpoint, Idaho, S. 490, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California, H.R. 762, to amend the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and the Mineral Leasing Act to clarify the method by which the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture determine the fair market value of certain rights-of-way granted, issued, or renewed under these Acts, and H.R. 622, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in the Coconino and Tonto National Forests in Arizona, after receiving testimony Tom Thompson, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine repercussions of Iraq stabilization and reconstruction policies, focusing on the consequences of looting, political confusion, regional consequences, and Europe and the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), after receiving testimony from Peter W. Galbraith, National Defense University, and Geoffrey Kemp, Nixon Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Frank G. Wisner, American International Group, New York, New York.
TWA/AMERICAN INTEGRATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain issues relative to TWA/American Airline workforce integration, after receiving testimony Jeff Brundage, American Airlines, and Captain Edwin C. White, Jr., Allied Pilots Association, both of Fort Worth, Texas; Karen Schooling, American Airlines, Independence, Missouri; Theodore A. Case, Snellville, Georgia; Sherry Cooper, Jupiter, Florida.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
H.R. 1954, to revise the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act relating to naturalization through service in the Armed Forces, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. Res. 141, recognizing ``Inventing Flight: The Centennial Celebration'', a celebration in Dayton, Ohio of the centennial of Wilbur and Orville Wright's first flight;
S. Res. 163, commending the Francis Marion University Patriots men's golf team for winning the 2003 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Men's Golf Championship; and
The nominations of David G. Campbell, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, Eduardo Aguirre, Jr., of Texas, to be Director of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security, and Richard James O'Connell, of Arkansas, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas, Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full committee consideration, S.J. Res. 1, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the rights of crime victims.
