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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
EVENT: HOUSE in session.
AGENDA: For the latest information on the floor agenda please phone the contacts listed below.
DATE: May 8, 2003
CONTACT: Republican Cloakroom, 202-225-7430 or Democratic Cloakroom, 202-225-7400.
TIME: 9:45 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE APPROPRATIONS COMMITTEE LABOR, HHS, EDUCATION Subcommittee holds hearings with public witnesses.
WHO: Witnesses:
Dr. Mark Johnson, President, Association of Departments of Family Medicine
Re: Organization of Academic Family Medicine
Paula Frost, Member of the National Kidney Foundation Council on Renal Nutrition Executive Committee
Re: National Kidney Foundation
Dr. Karla Zadnik, Professor of Optometry, Ohio State University, School of Optometry
Re: American Optometric Association
Lenny Moore
Re: Scleroderma Foundation
Joseph Giammalvo, Vice President, Cooley's Anemia Foundation Accompanied by: Michael Giammalvo (son)
Re: Cooley's Anemia Foundation
Sandra C. Raymond, President and CEO, LUPUS Foundation of America, Inc.
Accompanied by: Dr. Joan Merrill, Scientific Advisor, LFA Federal Education
Programs; Program Head, Clinical Pharmacology Research, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Re: LUPUS Foundation of America, Inc.
Margo G. Wootan, Director, Nutrition Policy, Center for Science in the Public Interest Accompanied by: Wesley Fox, Student, North Bethesda Middle School, Bethesda, MD
Re: National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity
Dr. David R. Nielsen, Executive Vice President, American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck
Re: American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck
Brad Stewart (parent) Accompanied by: Autumn Conaway, patient
Re: The NephCure Foundation
Loren Soft, Chairman and CEO, Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch
Re: Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch
Harry Teter, Executive Director, American Trauma Society
Re: American Trauma Society
David K. Curtis, President, American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Re: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
Jeffrey C. Martin, Chairman, Board of Directors, Parkinson's Action Network
Re: Parkinson's Action Network
Dr. Logan Ludwig, Associate Dean for Library and Telehealth Services, Loyola University Strich School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois
Re: Medical Library Association
Dr. Jennifer L. Howse, President, March of Dimes
Re: March of Dimes
Dr. Henry N. Ginsberg, President-Elect, Association of General Clinical Research Centers Program Directors
Re: General Clinical Research Centers
Sandy Wimsatt, Member of the Board of Directors and Volunteer, Families of SpinalMuscular Atrophy (FMSA) Accompanied by: Kimberly Symonds, Director of Public Policy, FMSA
Re: Spinal Muscular Atrophy Coalition
Jeanne Donalty, Volunteer
Re: Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy
Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin, President, Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida
Re: Barry University
Dr. Michael Cataldo, Director, Department of Behavioral Psychology, Kennedy Krieger Institute
Re: The Kennedy Krieger Institute
William B. Wagner, Executive Director, Family Health Centers, Inc.
Re: National Association of Community Health Centers
Dr. Richard Hynes, Professor for Cancer Research, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Re: Joint Steering Committee for Public Policy
Dr. James A. Harrell, Chair of the American Dental Association's Council on Government Affairs
Re: American Dental Association
Dwayne Ashley, President, Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, Inc
Accompanied by: John Garland, Esq., President Central State University
Derrick Warren, Senior Project Executive, IBM Global Svces.
Stravel Drake, Thurgood Marshall Scholar, Student, Bowie State
Re: Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Dr. Henry N. Ginsberg, Program Director, General Clinical Research Center, Columbia University, President-Elect , Association of General Clinical Research Centers Program Director
Re: General Clinical Research Centers
Dr. Maurice A. Cerulli, President of the Digestive Disease National Coalition
Re: Disgestive Disease National Coalition
Dr. John E. Maupin, Jr., President, Association of Minority Health Professions Schools
Re: Association of Minority Health Professions Schools
Sam Harrell, Senior Program Officer for Public Policy and Community Partnership
Re: Public/Private Ventures
Mary Anne Schmitt, President and CEO, New American Schools
Re: New American Schools
Michael J. Novacek, Senior Vice President and Provost of Science
Re: American Museum of Natural History
Dr. Warren A. Jones, Board Chair, American Academy of Family Physicians
Re: American Academy of Family Physicians
Stephen H. Perdue, President, American Congress of Community Supports and Employment Services (ACCSES)
Re: ACCSES
Mark Winne, Executive Director, Hartford Food System
Re: Hartford Food Systems
Thomas Rozek, President and CEO, Miami Children's Hospital
Re: Miami Children's Hospital
Linda Wolfe, President of the National Association of School Nurses
Re: National Association of School Nurses
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2358 Rayburn House Office Building
CONTACT: 202-225-2171
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE APPROPRATIONS COMMITTEE TRANSPO/TREASURY Subcommittee holds hearings on Management and Cost Oversight of Federal Highway Funding (panel)
2 p.m. - Secretary of the Treasury
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2358 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-2171
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE holds a markup of H.R. ___, the Project Bioshield Act of 2003.
WHO: Witnesses:
Ralph F. Ives, III, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Asia-Pacific and APEC Affairs, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington, DC
Regina K. Vargo, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for the Americas, Office of the United States Trade Representative, Washington, DC
Michelle O'Neill, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Information Technology Industries, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC
Franklin J. Vargo, Vice President, International Economic Affairs, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, DC
Robert W. Holleyman, II, President & Chief Executive Officer, Business Software Alliance, Washington, DC
David Waskow, International Policy Analyst & Trade Policy Coordinator, Friends of the Earth - U.S., Washington, DC
Ronald T. Monford, President & Chief Executive Officer, Mind Over Machines, Inc., Baltimore, MD
Mark Bohannon, General Counsel & Senior Vice President Public Policy, Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC
Thea Lee, Chief International Economist, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC
Brian Kelly, Senior Vice President of Government Relations and Communications, Electronic Industries Alliance, Arlington, VA
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-2927
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection holds hearings on Trade in Services and E-Commerce: The Significance of the Singapore and Chile Free Trade Agreements.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2123 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-2927
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit holds hearings entitled "The Importance of the National Credit Reporting System to Consumers and the U.S. Economy."
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2128 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-7391
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE holds hearings on "Out of Many, One: Assessing Barriers to Information Sharing in the Department of Homeland Security."
WHO: Witnesses:
Steve Cooper, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Mark Forman, Associate Director, Information Technology and E-Government, Office of Management and Budget
Robert Dacey, Director, Information Technology Team, General Accounting Office
Randolph C. Hite, Director, Architecture and Systems Issues, Information Technology, General Accounting Office
Charles Rossotti, former Commissioner; Internal Revenue Service
Greg Baroni, President, Global Public Sector, Unisys Corporation
Steven Perkins, Senior Vice President for Public Sector & Homeland Security, Oracle Corporation
Mark Bisnow, Senior Vice President, webMethods, Inc.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-225-5074
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE Human Rights and Wellness Subcommittee holds hearings on "Consumer Choice and Implementing Full Disclosure in Dentistry."
WHO: Witnesses:
Dr. Fritz Lorscheider, P.h.D., Professor Emeritus, Medical Physiology & Biophysics University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dr. Boyd E. Haley, P.h.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Dr. Maths Berlin, Professor Emeritus, Environmental Medicine University of Lund, Sweden, and Past Chair, International Project of Chemical Safety,
World Health Organization
Dr. Frederick C. Eichmiller, D.D.S., Director, American Dental Association Health Foundation Paffenbarger Research Center, National Bureau of Standards & Technology Gaithersburg, MD
Rep. Mike Michaud (ME-02)
Member of Congress, Second District of Maine
Sandra Duffy, Esq., Founding Member, Consumers for Dental Choice Northwest Lake Oswego, OR
Dr. Chester Yokoyama, D.D.S., Member, Dental Board of California Los Angeles, CA Emmitt Carlton, Immediate Past President, Alexandria, Virginia Chapter, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Alexandria, VA
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-225-5074
TIME: 2:30 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Europe and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Human Rights hold a hearing on U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction and Nonproliferation Programs-Part I.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2172 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-225-5021
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Legislative hearing on H.R. ____, the "Youth Smoking Prevention and State Revenue Enforcement Act."
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2141 Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3951
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Oversight hearing on "Direct Broadcast Satellite Service in the Multichannel Video Distribution Market."
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2141 Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3926
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims holds a hearing on "War on Terrorism: Immigration Enforcement Since September 11, 2001.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2141 Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3926
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE SCIENCE COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics holds hearings on
NASA's Integrated Space Transportation Plan & Orbital Space Plan Program.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-7285
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE SCIENCE COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Research holds hearings The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program: Past, Present, and Future.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-7285
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: HOUSE SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE Subcommittee on Tax, Finance and Exports holds hearings on "Overcoming Obstacles Facing the Uninsured: How the Use of Medical Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts and Tax Credits Can Help."
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2360 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-5821
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE Aviation Subcommittee holds hearings on The Status Of The Federal Flight Deck Officer Program.
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 2167 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3014
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE holds hearings on past and present efforts to identify and eliminate fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement in programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
WHO: Witnesses:
Richard J. Griffin, Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs
Michael Slachta, Jr., Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, Department of Veterans Affairs
Cynthia A. Bascetta, Director, Healthcare—Veterans', Health and Benefits Issues
U.S. General Accounting Office
Paul Reynolds, Assistant Director—Healthcare, U.S. General Accounting Office
Irene Chu, Assistant Director—Education, Workforce and Income Security
U.S. General Accounting Office
DATE: May 8, 2003
LOCATION: 334 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3527
