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Thursday, January 23, 2003


Daily Digest


HIGHLIGHTS



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Senate


Chamber Action


Routine Proceedings, pages S1373-S1496

Measures Introduced: Fourteen bills and two resolutions were introduced as follows: S. 205-218, S.J. Res. 5, and S. Res. 25. 

Page S1479

Measures Passed:

Omnibus Appropriations Resolution: By 69 yeas to 29 nays (Vote No. 28), Senate passed H. J. Res. 2, making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2003, after taking action on the following amendments proposed thereto: 

Pages S1379-S1419, S1421-60

Adopted:
Murray Amendment No. 39, to provide funding for the community access program. 
Page S1384

Stevens (for Byrd) Amendment No. 165, to provide for the Office of the President pro tempore emeritus. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 23, to strike the provision relating to the treatment of certain excise taxes. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Frist) Amendment No. 70, to provide additional funding for innovative programs at the state and local level. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 96, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 10 East Commerce Street in Youngstown, Ohio, as the ``Nathaniel R. Jones Federal Building and United States Courthouse''. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Kohl) Amendment No. 113, to provide a savings provision for certain transfer of functions under the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-296). 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Boxer) Amendment No. 190, to provide that no funds shall be used to pay any federal employee or any employee, member or chairperson of any federal commission, board, committee, or council an annual salary in excess of the annual salary of President of the United States. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Akaka/Mikulski) Amendment No. 174, to express the sense of Congress that there should be parity in the adjustment in pay rates for members of the uniform services and civilian employees of the United States, including prevailing rate employees. 
Pages S1405-06

Stevens (for Wyden/Smith) Amendment No. 46, to establish the West Coast Groundfish Fishing Capacity Reduction Program. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens (for Leahy) Amendment No. 72, to provide necessary funding for the Crime-free Rural States by offsetting funds by reducing the account for buildings and facilities of the Federal Prison System. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 100, to increase funding for methamphetamine reduction efforts. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens Amendment No. 159, to provide that certain funds be made available to the Alaska Fisheries Marketing Board to award grants to market, develop, and promote Alaska seafood and improve related technology and transportation with emphasis on wild salmon. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens Amendment No. 160, to provide that certain amounts appropriated for the Port of Anchorage for an intermodal marine facility shall be subject only to conditions and requirements required by the Maritime Administration. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens (for Breaux/Landrieu) Further Modified Amendment No. 191, to provide economic assistance to the oyster industry in Louisiana affected by Hurricanes Isidore and Lili. 
Pages S1406-08, S1408

Stevens (for Corzine/Clinton) Amendment No. 233, to prohibit funds appropriated under this Act from being used to remove, deport, or detain an alien spouse or child of an individual who died as a result of a September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, unless certain circumstances exist. 
Pages S1406-08

Stevens (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 107, to restore a provision regarding fees to cover the full costs of all adjudication services. 
Pages S1406-08

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Stevens (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 35, to provide funding for the mass layoff statistics program under section 15 of the Wagner-Peyser Act. 

Pages S1411-12

Stevens (for Grassley) Amendment No. 52, making a technical correction. 
Pages S1411-12

Stevens (for Collins/Bond) Amendment No. 58, to provide for an extension of the temporary increase in payments for Medicare home health services furnished in a rural area. 
Pages S1411-12

Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 87, to amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit Kentucky to operate a separate retirement system for certain public employees. 
Pages S1411-12

Stevens (for Boxer) Amendment No. 220, to provide funding for after-school programs. 
Pages S1411-12

Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 98, of a technical nature. 
Page S1411

Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 99, of a technical nature. 
Page S1411

Stevens (for Fitzgerald) Amendment No. 162, to restrict the availability of funds for the International Committee of the Red Cross. 
Page S1411

Stevens (for Lott) Amendment No. 26, to amend the Aviation and Transportation Security Act. 
Page S1412

Stevens (for Sarbanes/Mikulski) Amendment No. 48, to redirect funds to the Susquehanna Greenway, Maryland. 
Page S1412

Stevens (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 92, to strike the section that redefines the Alameda Corridor East and Southwest Passage, California, that has previously been designated as a high priority corridor on the National Highway System. 
Page S1412

Stevens (for Clinton) Amendment No. 69, to authorize the use of certain previously appropriated funds by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be used for health examinations of emergency services personnel who responded to the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. 
Page S1412

Stevens (for Bond) Amendment No. 224, to permit certain qualified aliens and immigrants access to public and assisted housing consistent with the intent of the 1996 welfare and immigration reform legislation. 
Page S1412

Stevens (for Wyden) Amendment No. 59, to provide certain limitations and prohibitions on the development and deployment of the Total Information Awareness program. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Bunning/Bingaman) Amendment No. 37, to provide for a General Accounting Office study on subtitle D of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Bunning) Amendment No. 38, to provide for a General Accounting Office study of cleanup at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Domenici) Amendment No. 42, to correct extension date and provide civil penalties in Division M, Title II. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Sarbanes) Amendment No. 49, to direct the Secretary of the Army to provide immediate corrective maintenance to the project at Herring Cree-Tall Timbers, Maryland, at full Federal expense. 
Pages S1412-16

Subsequently, the amendment was modified. 
Page S1416

Stevens (for Reid) Amendment No. 84, to provide for the design, planning, and construction of the North Las Vegas Reuse Project. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Levin) Amendment No. 128, to set aside funds for the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal, Illinois. 
Pages S1412-16

Subsequently, the amendment was modified. 
Page S1416

Stevens (for Domenici) Amendment No. 161, to provide that none of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be used to defer, deobligate, withdraw to headquarters, reserve for contemplated future rescissions, or otherwise adversely affect the planned and continuing expenditure of funds previously made available for Cerro Grande Fire Activities in P.L. 106-246 and P.L. 106-377. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens (for Voinovich) Amendment No. 206, to extend the prohibition on oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes through fiscal year 2005. 
Pages S1412-16

Stevens/Frist Amendment No. 74, to further reinforce the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security in applying criteria to designate college-and university-based centers for homeland security research. 
Pages S1416-17

Landrieu (for Lieberman) Amendment No. 137, to authorize additional appropriations for historically black colleges and universities and to decrease the cost-sharing requirement relating to the additional appropriations. 
Pages S1417-18

Bingaman Amendment No. 138, to extend the QI-1 program under title XIX of the Social Security Act through the end of fiscal year 2003. 
Pages S1408-09, S1418

By 50 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 25), Thomas Amendment No. 246 (to Amendment No. 61), of a perfecting nature. 
Pages S1421-23

Mikulski Amendment No. 61, to prohibit funds to be used to establish, apply, or enforce certain goals relating to Federal employees and public-private competitions or work force conversions. 
Pages S1418-19

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Stevens (for Coleman) Modified Amendment No. 6, to increase funding for the Paul and Sheila Wellstone Center for Community Building. 

Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 83, to prohibit the National Nuclear Security Administration from taking any actions adversely affecting employment at its Nevada Operations Office for a period of not less than 365 days. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 85, to provide for carrying out CALFED activities. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Harkin/Durbin/Landrieu) Modified Amendment No. 131, to increase appropriations for the Legal Services Corporation by $19,000,000 to ensure that no service area (including a merged or reconfigured service area) receives less funding under the Legal Services Corporation Act for fiscal year 2003 than the area received for fiscal year 2002, due to use of data from the 2000 Census, and to offset the increased appropriations by reducing funds for travel, supplies, and printing expenses. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Mikulski) Modified Amendment No. 136, to increase funding for certain nursing programs as authorized under the Nurse Reinvestment Act. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Santorum) Modified Amendment No. 144, to make funds available for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS and should also include programs and activities that are designed to maintain and preserve the families of those persons afflicted with HIV/AIDS and to reduce the numbers of orphans created by HIV/AIDS. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Domenici) Modified Amendment No. 156, to clarify the use of funding under the National Fire Plan. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Landrieu/Snowe) Modified Amendment No. 172, to provide for the protection of the rights of women in Afghanistan, and to improve the conditions for women in Afghanistan. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Murkowski/Stevens) Modified Amendment No. 150, to provide for the document entitled ``Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Renewal of the Federal Grant for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Right-of-Way (FEIS)'' dated November 2002. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Durbin/Hutchison) Modified Amendment No. 199, to provide a restriction on certain attorney fees. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Bond) Modified Amendment No. 186, to prohibit the use of funds by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to impose on the Corps of Engineers certain requirements relating to the Missouri River. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 142, to protect, restore, and enhance fish, wildlife, and associated habitats of certain lakes and rivers. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Nelson of Florida) Modified Amendment No. 178, to make additional appropriations for emergency relief activities. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for McCain) Modified Amendment No. 57, to express the sense of the Senate with respect to North Korea. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Byrd) Modified Amendment No. 167, to modify the requirements relating to the allocation of interest of the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Byrd) Modified Amendment No. 166, to rename the United States-China Security Review Commission as the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Dodd) Modified Amendment No. 188, to exempt Head Start programs from across-the-board rescissions. 
Pages S1426-29

Stevens (for Bunning/Santorum) Modified Amendment No. 112, to provide that the Secretary of Health and Human Services may make grants to purchase ultrasound equipment. 
Page S1429

Stevens (for Nelson) Amendment No. 10, to transfer the building at 5401 NW Broken Sound Boulevard, Boca Raton, Florida and all improvements thereon to the Administrator of the General Service Administration. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Kennedy) Amendment No. 28, to permit the National Park Service to rehabilitate historic buildings in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park that were severely damaged by fire. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Feinstein) Amendment No. 47, to extend the expiration of the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Act of 1998. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Kyl) Modified Amendment No. 65, to fund rehabilitation on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. 
Page S1416, S1431-33

Stevens (for Warner) Amendment No. 88, to clarify the boundaries of the Plum Island Unit of the Coastal Barrier Resources System. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Boxer/Feinstein) Amendment No. 110, to express the sense of the Senate regarding prohibiting the use of funds to approve any exploration, development, or production plan for, or application for a permit to drill on, land in the southern California planning area of the outer Continental Shelf that is subject to certain leases. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Graham/Nelson (FL)/Voinovich) Modified Amendment No. 139, to direct the Corps of Engineers to construct a portion of the modified water delivery project in the State of Florida. 
Pages S1431-33

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Stevens (for Domenici) Amendment No. 155, to extend certain authority relating to the Board of Trustees of the Valles Caldera Trust. 

Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Feingold) Amendment No. 201, to require the release of a Department of the Interior strategy to address chronic wasting disease. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Hatch) Amendment No. 218, to extend the availability of funds for the Four Corners Interpretive Center. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Murkowski/Stevens) Amendment No. 151, to make technical corrections. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Sarbanes) Amendment No. 50, to direct the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to submit a report on avian mortality at communication towers. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Craig) Amendment No. 34, to modify the provision relating to the Bonneville Power Administration Fund. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Bingaman/Domenici/Landrieu) Amendment No. 126, to extend the authority to operate the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Domenici/Bingaman) Amendment No. 158, to estabish the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area within the Cibola National Forest in the State of New Mexico to resolve a land claim involving land within the Cibola National Forest and the Sandia Mountain Wilderness. 
Pages S1431-33

Stevens (for Craig) Amendment No. 33, to clarify the rates applicable to marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments for other oil-seeds, dry peas, lentils, and small chickpeas. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 102, to provide funds for value-added projects for agricultural diversification. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for McConnell) Amendment No. 205, to improve the administration of price supports. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Harkin) Amendment No. 236, to express the sense of the Senate concerning use of certain funds to provide technical assistance for mandatory conservation programs under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Edwards) Amendment No. 243, to broaden the purpose for which certain funds for rural housing may be used. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Talent) Modified Amendment No. 135, to improve the administration of certain programs. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 116, expressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should use the authorities of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide additional international food aid. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Kohl) Modified Amendment No. 226, to provide funding for Grants for Youth Organizations Program. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Fitzgerald/Harkin) Modified Amendment No. 163, to provide funding for the bioenergy program. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 187, to provide funding for international family planning programs. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for McConnell/Leahy) Modified Amendment No. 62, to make available certain funds for Pakistan. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Dodd) Amendment No. 238, to clarify the effect of the appropriation relating to election reform. 
Pages S1433-38

Stevens (for Kerry/Snowe) Amendment No. 129, to provide for the use of certain emergency funds for small business loans. 
Pages S1433-38

Stabenow Amendment No. 248, to express the sense of the Senate that the conferees on the part of the Senate for H.J. Res. 2 should insist that certain amendments to the Homeland Security Act of 2002 be included in the conference report. 
Pages S1438-39

Stevens (for Voinovich/DeWine) Amendment No. 207, to expand the boundaries of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Complex and the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. 
Pages S1439-40

Stevens (for Reid) Modified Amendment No. 143, to apply minimum milk price requirements to certain handlers of Class I milk products in the Arizona-Las Vegas marketing area or the Pacific Northwest Marketing area under certain circumstances, and to exclude Clark County, Nevada from Federal milk marketing orders. 
Pages S1439-40

Rejected:
By 36 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 19), Feingold Amendment No. 200, to restrict funds made available for IMET assistance for Indonesian military personnel to ``Expanded International Military Education and Training'' assistance unless certain conditions are met. 
Pages S1379-83

Kennedy Amendment No. 123, to increase funding for reducing health disparities and promoting minority health. (By 51 yeas to 46 nays (Vote No. 20), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
Pages S1386-89, S1401-02

McCain Amendment No. 214, to require completion of the feasibility study required by Public Law 105-245, and the other requirements of that law relating to construction of an emergency outlet at Devils Lake, North Dakota, before any appropriated funds are spent for the project. (By 62 yeas to 34 nays (Vote No. 22), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
Pages S1393-98, S1403-04

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McCain Amendment No. 230, to reduce the total construction general account in the Corps of Engineers, Flood Control, Mississippi River and Tributaries, etc., account by $14,750,000 and restore the appropriation for the Yazoo Basin Backwater Pumping Plant to the $250,000 level recommended by the President. (By 67 yeas to 30 nays (Vote No. 23), Senate tabled the amendment.) 

Pages S1398-S1401, S1404-05

Cantwell Amendment No. 108, to increase appropriations for workforce investment activities. (By 50 yeas to 48 nays (Vote No. 24), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
Pages S14-0-11, S1418

By 47 yeas to 50 nays (Vote No. 26), Mikulski Amendment No. 247 (to Amendment No. 61), in the nature of a substitute. 
Pages S1423-26

Lautenberg Modified Amendment No. 192, to increase the appropriation for the Hazardous Substance Superfund. (By 53 yeas to 45 nays (Vote No. 27), Senate tabled the amendment.) 
Pages S1429-31

During consideration of this measure today, Senate also took the following action:
By 41 yeas to 56 nays (Vote No. 21), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, not having voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected the motion to waive section 207 of H. Con. Res. 68, Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2000 as amended by S. Res. 304 (107th Congress), with respect to Clinton Amendment No. 89, to improve health care under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Subsequently, the point of order that the amendment was in violation of section 207 of H. Con. Res. 68 was sustained, and the amendment thus falls. 
Pages S1389-93, S1402-03

Senate insisted on its amendment, requested a conference with the House thereon, and the Chair was authorized to appoint the following conferees on the part of the Senate: Senators Stevens, Cochran, Specter, Domenici, Bond, McConnell, Burns, Shelby, Gregg, Bennett, Campbell, Craig, Hutchison, DeWine, Brownback, Byrd, Inouye, Hollings, Leahy, Harkin, Mikulski, Reid, Kohl, Murray, Dorgan, Feinstein, Durbin, Johnson, Landrieu. 
Page S1457

Nominations Confirmed: Senate confirmed the following nominations:
Jewel Spears Brooker, of Florida, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Celeste Colgan, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, of Georgia, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
David Hertz, of Indiana, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2006.
Stephen McKnight, of Florida, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2006.
Sidney McPhee, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Lawrence Okamura, of Missouri, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Stephan Thernstrom, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Marguerite Sullivan, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities for a term expiring January 26, 2008.
Terry L. Maple, of Georgia, to be a Member of the National Museum Services Board for a term expiring December 6, 2005.
Phyllis C. Hunter, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board for a term of two years. (New Position)
Douglas Carnine, of Oregon, to be a Member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board for a term of three years. (New Position)
Blanca E. Enriquez, of Texas, to be a Member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board for a term of three years. (New Position)
Asa Hutchinson, of Arkansas, to be Under Secretary for Border and Transportation, Department of Homeland Security. (New Position)
2 Army nominations in the rank of general. 

Pages S1420, S1495-96

Executive Communications: 

Pages S1469-70

Petitions and Memorials: 

Pages S1470-74

Executive Reports of Committees: 

Page S1479

Additional Cosponsors: 

Pages S1480-81

Statements on Introduced Bills/Resolutions: 

Pages S1481-94

Additional Statements: 

Pages S1466-69

Amendments Submitted: 

Pages S1494-95

Privilege of the Floor: 

Page S1495

Record Votes: Ten record votes were taken today. (Total--28) 

Pages S1383, S1401-02, S1403, S1404, S1404-05, S1418, S1423, S1426, S1431, S1457

Adjournment: Senate met at 10 a.m., and adjourned at 9:31 p.m., until 9:45 a.m., on Friday, January 24, 2003. (For Senate's program, see the remarks of the Acting Majority Leader in today's Record on page S1419.) 

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Committee Meetings


(Committees not listed did not meet)

BUSINESS MEETING


Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Asa Hutchinson, of Arkansas, to be Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Border and Transportation, Department of Homeland Security.

House of Representatives


Chamber Action


The House was not in session today. Pursuant to the provisions of H. Con. Res. 8, the House stands adjourned until 2 p.m. on Monday, January 27, 2003.

Committee Meetings


No committee meetings were held.

COMMITTEE MEETINGS FOR FRIDAY,


JANUARY 24, 2003


(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Senate


Committee on Governmental Affairs: to hold hearings to examine the nomination of Gordon England, of Texas, to be Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 9:30 a.m., SD-342.
Committee on the Judiciary: business meeting to consider the nomination of Miguel A. Estrada, of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, and S. 151, to amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the sexual exploitation of children, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.

House


No committee meetings are scheduled.

CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD


Week of January 27 through February 1, 2003


Senate Chamber


On Monday, Senate will be not be in session.
On Tuesday, Senate will be in a period of morning business. At 8:30 p.m., Senate will meet in the Senate Chamber to proceed to the House of Representatives to receive the President's State of the Union Address.
During the balance of the week, Senate may consider any cleared legislative and executive business.

Senate Committees


(Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)

Committee on Appropriations: January 29, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine the implementation of smallpox vaccination plan, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.

January 30, Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, to hold hearings to examine Medicare reimbursement for physicians and hospitals, 9:30 a.m., SD-192.
Committee on Armed Services: January 30, to hold hearings to examine the nominations of Paul McHale, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security, and Christopher Ryan Henry, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 9:30 a.m., SH-216.
Committee on the Budget: January 29, to hold hearings to examine the state of the economy, 10 a.m., SD-608.

January 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the budget and current economic outlook, 10 a.m., SD-608.
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: January 28, organizational business meeting to consider Subcommittee membership for the 108th Congress; to be followed by a hearing to discuss recent allegations of ethical violations at the United States Olympic Committee, and examine the management of the organization, 2:30 p.m., SR-253.

January 29, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space, to hold hearings to examine the science and ethics of human cloning, and other issues in the field of bioethics, 2:30 p.m., SR-243.

January 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine media ownership focusing on consolidation in the radio industry, 9:30 a.m., SR-253.
Committee on Finance: January 28, to hold hearings to examine the nomination of John W. Snow, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Treasury, 10 a.m., SD-215.

January 30, Full Committee, to hold hearings to examine the status of U.S. border security, 10 a.m., SD-215. 

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Committee on Foreign Relations: January 28, business meeting to consider Committee organizational matters including Committee rules of procedure and Subcommittee jurisdiction and membership for the 108th Congress, 2:30 p.m., S-116, Capitol.
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: January 30, to hold hearings to examine the challenges and next steps in regard to the small pox vaccination, 10 a.m., SD-106.
Committee on Indian Affairs: January 29, organizational business meeting to consider proposed legislation requesting funds for the Committee's operating expenses, Subcommittee assignments, and rules of procedure for the 108th Congress, 10 a.m., Room to be announced.
Committee on the Judiciary: January 28, to hold hearings to examine judicial nominations, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.

January 30, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 9:30 a.m., SD-226.

House Committees


Committee on the Budget, January 29, hearing on the Congressional Budget Office: The Budget and Economic Outlook Fiscal Years 2004-2013, 10 a.m., 210 Cannon.
Committee on Education and the Workforce, January 29, to hold an organizational meeting, 10 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, January 29, to hold an organizational meeting, 9:30 a.m., followed by a hearing on the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system, 10 a.m., 334 Cannon.

Joint Meetings


Joint Economic Committee: January 30, to hold joint hearings to examine the Administration's growth and jobs plan, 10 a.m., SD-628. 

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Next Meeting of the
SENATE

9:45 a.m., Friday, January 24

Senate Chamber

Program for Friday: Senate will meet in a pro forma session.

Next Meeting of the
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

2 p.m., Monday, January 27

House Chamber

Program for Monday: To be announced. 

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