Volume 149, No. 52 covering the 1st Session of the 108th Congress (2003 - 2004) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D326-D327 on April 1, 2003.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine Alzheimer's disease, focusing on increasing funding for Alzheimer's research, including ways to maintain the pipeline of basic scientific discovery to develop potential targets for treatment and prevention, develop better animal models of Alzheimer's that will more closely parallel humans, test the most promising potential targets for prevention in large-scale clinical trials, search for biomarkers that show evidence of disease and monitor its progress without having to wait for evidence from cognitive testing, and identify additional risk factors for Alzheimer's through genetics, after receiving testimony from Richard J. Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Sheldon Goldberg, Alzheimer's Association, Washington, D.C.; Marilyn A. Albert, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association; Mary Jean Uptegraph, Dubuque, Iowa; Donald Kurtz, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association; Mike Martz, St. Louis, Missouri; and Terrell Owens, Fremont, California.
APPROPRIATIONS: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from John Ashcroft, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
WARTIME SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 762) making supplemental appropriations to support Department of Defense operations in Iraq, Department of Homeland Security, and Related Efforts for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2003.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management support concluded hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense, focusing on impacts of environmental laws on readiness and the related Administration Legislative Proposal, after receiving testimony from John P. Suarez, Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Environmental Protection Agency; H. Craig Manson, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; William T. Hogarth, Assistant Administrator for National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Benedict S. Cohen, Deputy General Counsel, Environment and Installations, Department of Defense; Douglas H. Benevento, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver; David Mears, Washington State Office of the Attorney General, Olympia; Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Center for Naval Analysis, Alexandria, Virginia; Darlene R. Ketten, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Nina M. Young, The Ocean Conservancy, and Lenny Siegel, Center for Public Environmental Oversight, both of Washington, D.C.; Jamie R. Clarke, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, Virginia.
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: NAVY/MARINE CORPS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded hearings to examine proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2004 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on Navy and Marine Corps development, procurement priorities and Navy shipbuilding programs, after receiving testimony from Admiral Vernon E. Clark, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; General Michael W. Hagee, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; John J. Young, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition; and Vice Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Requirements, and Assessments.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nominations of Ricky Dale James, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission, Richard W. Moore, of Alabama, to be Inspector General, Tennessee Valley Authority, who was introduced by Senator Sessions, and John Paul Woodley, Jr., to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TAXPAYER ISSUES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine tax payer issues, focusing on the quality of service provided by paid preparers' and the importance of their role in the tax system, and charitable car donations, including how vehicle donations programs operate, the role of fundraisers and charities in the vehicle donations process, and IRS rules and regulations regarding allowable tax deductions, receiving testimony from James R. White, Director of Tax Issues, and Cathleen A. Berrick, Acting Director of Homeland Security and Justice, both of the General Accounting Office; Pamela J. Gardiner, Acting Inspector General for Tax Administration, and Dale F. Hart, Deputy Commissioner for Small Business/Self Employed Operating Division, and Nina E. Olson, National Taxpayer Advocate, both of the Internal Revenue Service, all of the Department of Treasury; and Jeffrey W. Yabuki, H&R Block, Kansas City, Missouri.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nominations of Mark Van Dyke Holmes, of New York, Diane L. Kroupa, of Minnesota, who was introduced by Senators Coleman and Dayton, Robert Allen Wherry, Jr., of Colorado, and Harry A. Haines, of Montana, who was introduced by Senator Baucus, each to be a Judge of the United States Tax Court, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NATO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) enlargement strategy, focusing on the role of NATO in the war on terror and in the future of Iraq, after receiving testimony R. Nicholas Burns, United States Permanent Representative to NATO; and Ronald D. Asmus, German Marshall Fund, and Bruce P. Jackson, Project on Transitional Democracies, both of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, (Treaty Doc. 106-48).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nominations of Carolyn B. Kuhl, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, who was introduced by Senator Frist, Cecilia M. Altonaga, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, who was introduced by Senator Graham
(FL), and Patricia Head Minaldi, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, after each nominee testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
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