THIS CR ISSUE CR BY DATE GO TO
Next Digest New Search
Prev Digest HomePage
CR Date Table Help[Page: D1149] GPO's PDF
Measures Introduced:
Ten bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 1763-1772, and S. Res. 248.
Page S12969
Measures Reported:
S. 1132, to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve and enhance certain benefits for survivors of veterans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (S. Rept. No. 108-169)
Page S12969
Class Action Reform:
Senate continued consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S. 1751, to amend the procedures that apply to consideration of interstate class actions to assure fairer outcomes for class members and defendants.
Pages S12948-63
Page S12984
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act--Conference Report:
By 64 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 402), Senate agreed to the conference report on S. 3, to prohibit the procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion, clearing the measure for the President.
Pages S12914-12948
Messages From the House:
Pages S12966-67
Measures Referred:
Page S12967
Measures Read First Time:
Page S12984
Executive Communications:
Pages S12967-69
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S12969-71
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S12971-83
Additional Statements:
Page S12966
Amendments Submitted:
Page S12983
Notices of Hearings/Meetings:
Page S12983
Authority for Committees to Meet:
Page S12984
Record Votes:
One record vote was taken today. (Total-402)
Page S12984
Adjournment:
Senate met at 9:30 a.m., and adjourned at 8:17 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Wednesday, October 22, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S12948.)
MILITARY OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services:
Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing regarding ongoing military operations and areas of key concern around the world from Lieutenant General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF, Director for Operations, J-3, Major General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., USA, Director for Intelligence, J-2, both of The Joint Staff; and Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.
[Page: D1150] GPO's PDF
TAX SHELTERS
Committee on Finance:
Committee held a hearing to examine the current situation on tax shelters, and the role of the Federal Government relative to the buying and selling of tax shelters, receiving testimony from Senator Levin; Michael Brostek, Director, Tax Issues, General Accounting Office; Pamela F. Olson, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and Mark W. Everson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of the Treasury; Eileen O'Connor, Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, Department of Justice; William J. McDonough, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and B. John Williams, Jr., Shearman and Sterling LLP, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert V. Lally, Federman, Lally and Remis LLC, Farmington, Connecticut; Philip C. Cook, Alston and Bird LLP, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael Hamersley, Fair Oaks, California; Robert Schmidt, and Thomas Walsh, both of San Jose, California; Henry Camferdam, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana; and an anonymous witness.
Hearing recessed subject to the call of the Chair.
U.N. CONVENTION ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Committee on Foreign Relations:
Committee concluded a hearing to examine United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, with Annexes, done at Montego Bay, December 10, 1982 (the ``Convention''), and the Agreement Relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982, with Annex, adopted at New York, July 28, 1994 (the ``Agreement''), and signed by the United States, subject to ratification, on July 29, 1994 (Treaty Doc.103-39), after receiving testimony from Rear Admiral John E. Crowley, Jr., Chief Counsel and Judge Advocate General, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security; Admiral Michael G. Mullen, Vice Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy; William H. Taft IV, Legal Adviser, and John F. Turner, Assistant Secretary of Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, both of the Department of State; Mark T. Esper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy; Paul L. Kelly, Rowan Companies, Inc., Houston, Texas; and Randi Thomas, U.S. Tuna Foundation, Joseph J. Cox, Chamber of Shipping of America, and Vice Admiral Roger T. Rufe, Jr., U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), The Ocean Conservancy, all of Washington, D.C.
U.S. ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations:
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded a hearing to examine U.S. energy security policy relating to West Africa and Latin America, focusing on prospects for increasing energy production in Latin America and West Africa, promoting a good investment climate, and oil imports, after receiving testimony from John R. Brodman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Energy Policy, Office of Policy and International Affairs; Matthew T. McManus, Acting Director of International Energy and Commodity Policy Office, Economic and Business Affairs Bureau, Department of State; and J. Robinson West, PFC Energy, David L. Goldwyn, Goldwyn International Strategies, LLC, and Marina Ottaway, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, all of Washington, D.C.
TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary:
Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Department of Justice efforts in the investigation and prosecution of terrorists, focusing on how anti-terrorism tools have been crucial to those efforts, and how they have helped prosecutors and agents in fighting the war on terrorism, after receiving testimony from Christopher A. Wray, AssistantAttorney General, Criminal Division, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (Chicago), and Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria), all of the Department of Justice.
Measures Introduced:
21 public bills, H.R. 3352-3372; and 9 resolutions, H.J. Res. 74, H. Con. Res. 308-310, and H. Res. 408-412, were introduced.
Pages H9810-12
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages H9812-13
Reports Filed:
No reports were filed today.
Recess:
The House recessed at 9:13 a.m. and reconvened at 10 a.m.
Page H9740D1151
Chaplain:
The prayer was offered today by Rev. Tom Nelson, Senior Pastor, Denton Bible Church in Denton, Texas.
Page H9740
Continuing Appropriations for FY 2004:
The House passed H.J. Res. 73, making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2004 by a yea-and-nay vote of 397 yeas to 19 nays, Roll No. 568.
Pages H9743-48, H9775
[Page: D1151] GPO's PDF
H. Res. 407, the rule that provided for consideration of the bill was agreed to by a yea-and-nay vote of 219 yeas to 189 nays, Roll No. 566.
Pages H9746-47
Recess:
The House recessed at 11:30 p.m. and reconvened at 11:39 a.m.
Page H9748
Suspensions:
The House agreed to suspend the rules and pass the following measures:
Graduate Opportunities in Higher Education Act of 2003:
H.R. 3076, amended, to amend title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to ensure graduate opportunities in postsecondary education; and
Pages H9748-52
Pages H9752-59
Economic Development Administration Reauthorization Act of 2003:
The House passed H.R. 2535, to reauthorize and improve the program authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 by voice vote.
Pages H9759-70
Pages H9762-65
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations:
The House disagreed to the Senate amendment to H.R. 3289, making emergency supplemental appropriations for defense and for the reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and agreed to a conference.
Pages H9770-75
Pages H9770-75
Page H9775
Energy Policy Act of 2003:
The House debated the Markey motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 6, to enhance energy conservation and research and development, to provide for security and diversity in the energy supply for the American people. Further consideration of the motion was postponed.
Pages H9777-80
Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003:
The House debated the Brown of Ohio motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 1, to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for a voluntary prescription drug benefit under the medicare program and to strengthen and improve the medicare program. Further consideration of the motion was postponed until a later date.
Pages H9780-84
Tax Relief, Simplification, and Equity Act of 2003:
The House debated the Woolsey motion to instruct conferees on H.R. 1308, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to accelerate the increase in the refundability of the child tax credit. Further consideration of the motion was postponed until a later date.
Pages H9784-87
Legislative Program:
The Majority Leader announced the legislative program for the week of October 27-31.
Pages H9776-77
Meeting Hour:
Agreed that when the House adjourns today, it adjourn to meet at 10 a.m. on Friday, October 24, and further that when it adjourns on that day, it adjourns to meet at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 28.
Page H9787
Calendar Wednesday:
Agreed to dispense with the Calendar Wednesday business of Wednesday, October 29.
Page H9787
Adjournment:
The House met at 9 a.m. and adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
Page H9787
REVIEW--U.S. NATIONAL ARBORETUM
Committee on Agriculture:
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry held a hearing to review the United States National Arboretum. Testimony was heard from Representative Frelinghuysen; Rodney J. Brown, Deputy Under Secretary, Research, Education, and Economics, USDA; and a public witness.
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
Committee on Armed Services:
Held a hearing on Operation Iraqi Freedom: Outside Perspectives. Testimony was heard from the following former officials of the U.S. Army War College: Maj. Gen. Robert Scales, USA, (Ret.), Commandant; and Stephen D. D1152Biddle, Associate Research Professor of National Security Studies; and a public witness.
[Page: D1152] GPO's PDF
FORCES--RESETTING AND RECONSTITUTING
Committee on Armed Services:
Subcommittee on Readiness held a hearing on Resetting and Reconstituting the Forces. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Adm. Michael G. Mullen, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Gen. William L. Nyland, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, both with the Department of the Navy; Gen. T. Michael Moseley, USAF, Vice Chief of Staff, Air Force, Department of the Air Force; and Lt. Gen. Richard A. Cody, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3, Department of the Army.
C41 INTEROPERABILITY
Committee on Armed Services:
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities held a hearing on C41 Interoperability: New Challenges in 21st Century Warfare. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Lt. Gen. William Wallace, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth; Lt. Gen. Daniel P. Leaf, USAF, Vice Commander, Air Force Space Command; Maj. Gen. Keith Stalder, USMC, Commanding General, First Marine Expeditionary Brigade and Deputy Commanding General First Marine Expeditionary Force; Brig. Gen. Dennis C. Moran, USA, Director, Information Operations, Networks and Space, Office of the Chief Information Officer/G-6, U.S. Army; and Brig. Gen. Marc Rogers, USAF, Director, Joint Requirements and Integration Directorate, U.S. Joint Forces Command.
U.S.-CHINA TIES
Committee on International Relations:
Held a hearing on U.S.-China Ties: Reassessing the Economic Relationship. Testimony was heard from Grant D. Aldonas, Under Secretary, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce; and public witnesses.
U.S. POLICY--WESTERN HEMISPHERE--CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on International Relations:
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere held a hearing on Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Policy in the Western Hemisphere. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of State: Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; and Adolfo A. Franco, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, AID; and a public witness.
NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS JUDGESHIP AND REORGANIZATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary:
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property held a hearing on H.R. 2723, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judgeship and Reorganization Act of 2003. Testimony was heard from the following Judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit: Mary Schroeder, Chief Judge and Diarmuid O'Scannlain and Alex Kozinski; and a public witness.
NORTHERN ARIZONA NATIONAL FOREST LAND EXCHANGE ACT; TRAIL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS ACT
Committee on Resources:
Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2907, Northern Arizona National Forest Land Exchange Act of 2003; and H.R. 3247, Trail Responsibility and Accountability for the Improvement of Lands Act of 2003. Testimony was heard from Mark Rey, Under Secretary, Natural Resources and Environment, USDA; Larry R. Parkinson, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Law Enforcement and Security, Department of the Interior; and public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources:
Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 265, amended, Mount Rainier National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2003; H.R. 280, amended, National Aviation Heritage Area Act; H.R. 532, amended, Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act; H.R. 1014, amended, Gateway Communities Cooperation Act; H.R. 1058, amended, to provide for an exchange of certain private property in Colorado and certain Federal property in Utah; H.R. 1594, amended, St. Croix National Heritage Area Study Act; H.R. 1618, amended, Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area Act; H.R. 1629, Upper Missouri River Breaks Boundary Clarification Act; H.R. 1798, amended, Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area Act; H.R. 1862, amended, Oil Region National Heritage Area Act; H.R. 2424, National Great Black Americans Commemoration Act of 2003; H.R. 2715, to provide for necessary improvements to facilities at Yosemite National Park; and S. 677, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area Boundary Revision Act of 2003.
The Subcommittee also began markup of H.R. 1964, Highlands Stewardship Act.
[Page: D1153] GPO's PDF
HOMELAND SECURITY CONTRACTS--CHALLENGES SMALL BUSINESSES FACE
Committee on Small Business:
Subcommittee on Rural Enterprise, Agriculture and Technology held a hearing entitled ``Challenges that Small Businesses Face Accessing Homeland Security Contracts.'' Testimony was heard from Kevin Boshears, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Department of Homeland Security; Michael Barrera, Associate Deputy Administrator, Government Contracting and Business Development, SBA; and public witnesses.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS--PHYSICIAN AND DENTIST COMPENSATION ISSUES
Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs physician and dentist compensation issues. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Robert H. Roswell, M.D., Under Secretary, Health; Jacqueline Parthemore, M.D., Chief of Staff/Medical Director, San Diego Health Care System; Richard Bauer, M.D., Chief of Staff, South Texas Health Care System; Sheila M. Cullen, Medical Director, San Francisco Medical Center; Michael H. Ebert, M.D., Chief of Staff, Connecticut Health Care System; Michael M. Lawson, Director, Boston Health Care System; and Michael S. Simberkoff, M.D., Executive Chief of Staff, New York Harbor Health Care System; and public witnesses.
MIDDLE EAST ISSUES
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
Met in executive session to hold a hearing on Middle East Issues. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.
FUNDING FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
Select Committee on Homeland Security:
Held a hearing entitled ``Funding for First Responders: Ensuring That Federal Funds Are Distributed Intelligently.'' Testimony was heard from John G. Rowland, Governor, State of Connecticut; Ray A. Nelson, Executive Director, Office for Security Coordination, State of Kentucky; John D. Cohen, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Public Safety, State of Massachusetts; and a public witness.
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:
to hold hearings to examine counterterror initiatives in the terror finance program and organization of terror groups for funding and future U.S. responses, 10 a.m., SD-538.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
to hold hearings to examine federal involvement in the regulation of the insurance industry, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries and Coast Guard, to hold an oversight hearing on fisheries, 9:30 a.m., SR-428A.
Committee on Foreign Relations:
Subcommittee on European Affairs, to hold hearings to examine Anti-Semitism in Europe, 2:30 p.m., SD-419.
Committee on Governmental Affairs:
business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on Indian Affairs:
to hold hearings to examine the nomination of David Wayne Anderson, of Minnesota, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Interior; to be followed by a business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-106.
Committee on the Judiciary:
to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Janice R. Brown, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, 10 a.m., SH-216.
Select Committee on Intelligence:
to hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
No committee meetings are scheduled.
Program for Wednesday:
After the transaction of any morning business (not to extend beyond 11:30 a.m.), Senate will continue consideration of the motion to proceed to consideration of S.1751, Class Action Reform, with a vote on the motion to close further debate on the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill to occur at approximately 12:30 p.m.
Program for Wednesday:
The House is not in session on Wednesday, October 22. The House will meet in pro forma session on Friday, October 24 at 10 a.m.
HOUSE
Acevedo-Vila, Anibal, P.R., E2110
Ackerman, Gary L., N.Y., E2116
Becerra, Xavier, Calif., E2118
Bishop, Sanford D., Jr., Ga., E2117, E2120, E2121
Brady, Robert A., Pa., E2103, E2105, E2108, E2109
Camp, Dave, Mich., E2105, E2107
Capps, Lois, Calif., E2110
Christensen, Donna M., The Virgin Islands, E2122
Crenshaw, Ander, Fla., E2120
Davis, Danny K., Ill., E2104, E2107
Davis, Tom, Va., E2112
DeLauro, Rosa L., Conn., E2109
Diaz-Balart, Lincoln, Fla., E2114
Emanuel, Rahm, Ill., E2104, E2107
Eshoo, Anna G., Calif., E2122
Farr, Sam, Calif., E2105, E2108, E2118, E2119, E2121
Filner, Bob, Calif., E2121
Gerlach, Jim, Pa., E2103
Gillmor, Paul E., Ohio, E2114
Gordon, Bart, Tenn., E2110, E2110
Harris, Katherine, Fla., E2113
Hoeffel, Joseph M., Pa., E2115
Israel, Steve, N.Y., E2103, E2105, E2108
Johnson, Sam, Tex., E2110
Kildee, Dale E., Mich., E2116
Lee, Barbara, Calif., E2120
Lofgren, Zoe, Calif., E2104, E2106, E2108
McCotter, Thaddeus G., Mich., E2116
McInnis, Scott, Colo., E2117, E2118, E2120, E2121, E2122, E2123
Maloney, Carolyn B., N.Y., E2118, E2119
Moore, Dennis, Kansas, E2123
Myrick, Sue Wilkins, N.C., E2104, E2106
Northup, Anne M., Ky., E2114
Paul, Ron, Tex., E2114
Rahall, Nick J., II, W.Va., E2112
Rogers, Harold, Ky., E2109
Rogers, Mike, Ala., E2117
Roybal-Allard, Lucille, Calif., E2112
Ruppersberger, C.A. Dutch, Md., E2109
Sanchez, Linda T., Calif., E2119
Sanchez, Loretta, Calif., E2109
Sanders, Bernard, Vt., E2111
Schiff, Adam B., Calif., E2116, E2119
Scott, David, Ga., E2114
Sessions, Pete, Tex., E2111
Stupak, Bart, Mich., E2115
Tierney, John F., Mass., E2115
Towns, Edolphus, N.Y., E2103, E2105, E2108, E2109
Udall, Tom, N.M., E2111
Upton, Fred, Mich., E2117
Wilson, Heather, N.M., E2110
THIS CR ISSUE CR BY DATE GO TO
Next Digest New Search
Prev Digest HomePage
CR Date Table Help