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Measures Introduced:
Five bills and one resolution were introduced, as follows: S. 2172-2176, and S. Con. Res. 96.
Page S2301
Measures Reported:
Reported on Friday, March 5, during the adjournment:
S. Con. Res. 95, setting forth the congressional budget for theUnited States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including theappropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.
Page S2301
Measures Passed:
Commemorating First Meeting of Republican Party:
Senate agreed to S. Con. Res. 96, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the first meeting of the Republican Party in Ripon, Wisconsin.
Pages S2364-65
Pages S2365-75
Budget Resolution:
Senate began consideration of S. Con. Res. 95, setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.
Pages S2256-94, S2375
Page S2375
Executive Reports of Committees:
Senate received the following executive report of a committee:
Report to accompany the Convention Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Japan for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income, signed at Washington on November 6, 2003, together with a Protocol and an exchange of notes (the ``Convention'') (Treaty Doc. 108-14) (Ex. Rept. 108-9)
Messages From the President:
Senate received the following messages from the President of the United States:
Transmitting, pursuant to law, a report on the intent to enter into a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the Government of Morocco; to the Committee on Finance. (PM-71)
Page S2299
Page S2299
Nominations Confirmed:
Senate confirmed the following nominations:
Domingo S. Herraiz, of Ohio, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance.
Michele M. Leonhart, of California, to be Deputy Administrator of Drug Enforcement.
LaFayette Collins, of Texas, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Texas for the term of four years.
Ronald J. Tenpas, of Illinois, to be United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois for a term of four years.
Pages S2364, S2375
Messages From the House:
Page S2299
Measures Referred:
Page S2299
Enrolled Bills Presented:
Page S2299
Executive Communications:
Pages S2299-S2301
Executive Reports of Committees:
Page S2301
Additional Cosponsors:
Pages S2301-03
Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions:
Pages S2303-09
Additional Statements:
Pages S2297-99
Amendments Submitted:
Page S2309
Authority for Committees to Meet:
Pages S2313-14
Privilege of the Floor:
Page S2314
Text of H.R. 1047, as Previously Passed:
Pages S2314-64D194
Adjournment:
Senate convened at 12 noon, and adjourned at 7:56 p.m., until 9:30 a.m., on Tuesday, March 9, 2004. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S2375.)
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2005 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget:
On Thursday, March 4, Committee ordered favorably reported an original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 95) setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2005 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 through 2009.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance:
Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Mark B. McClellan, of the District of Columbia, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services, who was introduced by Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Brian Carlton Roseboro, of New Jersey, to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury, Donald L. Korb, of Ohio, to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and an Assistant General Counsel, Department of the Treasury, and Mark J. Warshawsky, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
Measures Introduced:
One public bill, H.R. 3913, was introduced.
Page H876
Additional Cosponsors:
Page H876
Reports Filed:
Reports were filed today as follows:
H.R. 339, to prevent frivolous lawsuits against the manufacturers, distributors, or sellers of food or non-alcoholic beverage products that comply with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, amended (H. Rept. 108-432).
Pages H875-76
Speaker:
Read a letter from the Speaker wherein he appointed Representative Cole to act as Speaker Pro Tempore for today.
Page H873
Senate Message:
Message from the Senate appears today on page H873.
Quorum Calls--Votes:
There were no votes or quorum calls today.
Adjournment:
The House met at 10 a.m. and adjourned at 10:05 a.m.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--ENSURING SAFE DRINKING WATER
Committee on Government Reform:
On March 5, the Committee held a hearing entitled ``Public Confidence, Down the Drain: The Federal Role in Ensuring Safe Drinking Water in the District of Columbia.'' Testimony was heard from the following officials of the EPA: Benjamin H. Grumbles, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Water; and Donald S. Welsh, Regional Administrator, Region III; Thomas P. Jacobus, General Manager, Washington Aqueduct, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army; Glenn S. Gerstell, Chairman, District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority; and public witnesses.
IRAQI WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
On March 5, the Committee met in executive session to hold a hearing on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.
EMPLOYMENT SITUATION
Joint Economic Committee:
On Friday, March 5, Committee concluded hearings to examine the employment situation for February 2004, focusing on economic growth, business activity in the manufacturing and service industries, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), job creation and loss, and discouraged workers--those who have stopped seeking work because of discouragement over their job prospects, after receiving testimony from Kathleen P. Utgoff, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.D195
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Committee on Appropriations:
Subcommittee on Homeland Security, to hold hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2005 for border and transportation security, 10 a.m., SD-124.
Subcommittee on Transportation, Treasury and General Government, to hold hearings to examine budget and management challenges for the Department of Transportation, 10 a.m., SD-138.
Committee on Armed Services:
to hold hearings to examine current and future worldwide threats to the national security of the United States; to be followed by a closed session in SH-219, 9:
30 a.m., SD-106.
Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, to hold hearings to examine military readiness programs in review of the defense authorization request for fiscal year 2005, 2:30 p.m., SR-232A.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:
business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 9:
30 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
to hold oversight hearings to examine water supply issues in the arid West, 10 a.m., SD-366.
Subcommittee on National Parks, to hold hearings to examine S. 1306, to introduce the efforts of the California Missions Foundation to restore and repair the Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in the State of California and to preserve the artworks and artifacts of these missions, H.R. 1521, to provide for additional lands to be included within the boundary of the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania, H.R. 1446, to support the efforts of the California Missions Foundation to restore and repair the Spanish colonial and mission-era missions in the State of California and to preserve the artworks and artifacts of these missions, S. 1430, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of the Baranov Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, for potential inclusion in the National Park System, and S. 1687, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the preservation and interpretation of the historic sites of the Manhattan Project for potential inclusion in the National Park System, 2:30 p.m., SD-366.
Committee on Finance:
to hold hearings to examine the administration's international trade agenda, 10 a.m., SD-215.
Committee on Foreign Relations:
to hold a closed briefing on transition to sovereignty relating to Iraq, 2:30 p.m., S-407, Capitol.
Committee on Governmental Affairs:
to hold hearings to examine postal reform issues, focusing on sustaining the 9 million jobs in the $900 billion mailing industry, 10 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions:
to hold hearings to examine advantages and impediments in relation to a year round college calendar, 9:30 a.m., SD-430.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
to hold hearings to examine S. 1509, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide a gratuity to veterans, their spouses, and children who contract HIV or AIDS as a result of a blood transfusion relating to a service-connected disability, 2:30 p.m., SR-418.
Select Committee on Intelligence:
to hold closed hearings to examine certain intelligence matters, 2:30 p.m., SH-219.
Special Committee on Aging:
to hold hearings to examine the new Medicare drug discount card, focusing on consumer savings, beneficiary education, implementation and outreach to low-income seniors, and how the new cards will work with existing discount programs, 10 a.m., SD-628.
Committee on Appropriations,
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, on Teachers and Math and Science Education, 10 a.m., 2358 Rayburn.
Committee on Government Reform,
Subcommittee on National Security, Emergency Threats and International Relations, hearing on Nonproliferation: Assessing Missile Technology Export Controls, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
Committee on the Judiciary,
Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, oversight hearing on the Department of Justice: Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Civil Division, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Executive Office for United States Trustees, and Office of the Solicitor General, 3 p.m., 2141 Rayburn.
Committee on Rules,
to consider H.R. 339, Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
Committee on Ways and Means,
Subcommittee on Health, hearing on the Uninsured, 2 p.m., 1100 Longworth.
Conference:
meeting of conferees on H.R. 3108, to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to temporarily replace the 30-year Treasury rate with a rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements and other provisions, 5 p.m., HC-6, Capitol.
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Program for Tuesday:
Senate will continue consideration of S. Con. Res. 95, the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2005.
(Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for their respective party conferences.)
Program for Tuesday:
Consideration of Suspensions:
(1) H. Res. 519, Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the earthquake that occurred in San Luis Obispo, Co., CA, on 12/22/03;
(2) H.R. 3536, Army Staff Sgt. Lincoln Hollinsaid Malden Post Office Designation Act;
(3) H.R. 3537, Army Pvt. Shawn Pahnke Manhattan Post Office Designation Act;
(4) H.R. 3538, Marine Capt. Ryan Beaupre Saint Anne Post Office Building Designation Act;
(5) H. Res. 392, Congratulating the Detroit Shock for winning the 2003 Women's National Basketball Association championship;
(6) H. Res. 475, Congratulating the San Jose Earthquakes for winning the 2003 Major League Soccer Cup;
(7) S. 1881, Medical Devices Technical Corrections Act; and
(8) H. Con. Res. 334, Expressing the sense of Congress that ``Kids Love a Mystery Month'' should be established.
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