To designate the visitor center in Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona as the "Kris Eggle Visitor Center", and for other purposes.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 9:30 a.m., in open session to consider the nomination of Lieutenant General John P. Abizaid, USA, for appointment to the grade of General and to be commander, United States Central Command.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate, on Wednesday, June 25 at 10:00 a.m. to consider pending calendar business.

On Wednesday, June 25, at 10:00 a.m., the Committee will hold a Business Meeting in Room SD-366 to consider the following items on the Agenda:

Agenda Item #3: S. 470--A bill to extend the authority for the construction of a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Agenda Item #4: S. 490--A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and California.

Agenda Item #6: S. 546--A bill to provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes.

Agenda Item #7: S. 643--A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the University of New Mexico, to construct and occupy a portion of the Hibben Center for Archaeological Research at the University of New Mexico.

Agenda Item #8: S. 651--A bill to amend the National Trails System Act to clarify Federal authority relating to land acquisition from willing sellers for the majority of the trails in the System, and for other purposes.

Agenda Item #9: S. 677--A bill to revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.

Agenda Item #10: S. 924--A bill to authorize the exchange of lands between an Alaska Native Village Corporation and the Department of the Interior, and for other purposes.

Agenda Item #13: S. 1076--A bill to authorize construction of an education center at or near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Agenda Item #14: H.R. 255--To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant an easement to facilitate access to the Lewis and Clark Interpretative Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Agenda Item #15: H.R. 1577--To designate the visitor center in Organ Pipe National Monument in Arizona as the ``Kris Eggle Visitor Center'', and for other purposes.

In addition, the Committee may turn to any other measures that are ready for consideration.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 9:30 a.m. to hold a hearing on The African Growth and Opportunity Act.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at 2:00 p.m. to hold a hearing on Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in the Nation of Iraq.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Foreign Relations be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 2:30 p.m. to hold a hearing on The Successor States to Pre-1991 Yugoslavia: Progress & Challenges.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Governmental Affairs be authorized to meet on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. to consider the nomination of the Joshua B. Bolton to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions be authorized to meet in Executive Session during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, 2003. The following agenda will be considered:

Agenda

S. 1248, Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2003.

Any nominees that have been cleared for action.

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on ``Oversight Hearing: Lessons Learned--The Inspector General's Report on the 9/11 Detainees'' on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226.

Tentative Witness List

Panel I: The Honorable Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

Panel II: Harley G. Lappin, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Michael E. Rolince, Assistant Director in Charge, Washington Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, DC; and David Nahmias, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC.

THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

Committee on the Judiciary

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary be authorized to meet to conduct a hearing on ``Department of Justice and Judicial Nominations'' on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 215 [Finance Committee Hearing Room].

Revised Tentative Agenda

Panel I: Senators.

Panel II: Allyson K. Duncan to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.

Panel III: Robert C. Brack to be United States District Judge for the District of New Mexico; Samuel Der-Yeghiayan to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; Louise W. Flanagan to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina; Lonny R. Suko to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Washington; and Earl Leroy Yeakel III to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Texas.

Panel IV: Karen P. Tandy to be Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice; and Christopher A. Wray to be Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice.

THE PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

subcommittee on the constitution, civil rights, and property rights

subcommittee on near eastern and south Asian affairs

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights and the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs be authorized to meet to conduct a joint hearing on ``Constitutionalism, Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Iraq,'' on Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. in SD226.

Tentative Witness List

Panel I: Mr. Sermid Al-Sarraf, Iraqi Jurists Association, Los Angeles, CA; Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of Law, The Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Fellow in Islamic Law, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA; Mr. Bernard Haykel, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and History, New York University, New York, NY; Dr. Kenneth M. Pollack, Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; and Ms. Zainab Salbi, President and Founder, Women for Women International, Washington, DC.

Panel II: Mr. Naoyuki Agawa, Former Professor of Constitutional Law, Keio University, Minister and Director of the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan, Washington, DC; Mr. A. E. Dick Howard, White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs, Roy L. and Rosamond Woodruff Morgan Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA; Dr. Donald P. Kommers, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame, Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, IN; Mr. Neil J. Kritz, Director, Rule of Law Program, U.S. Institute of Peace, Washington, DC; and Mr. John C. Yoo, Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington,

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee on economic policy of the committee on banking, housing, and urban affairs be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on June 25, 2003, at 2:00 p.m. to conduct a hearing on ``Jumpstarting the Economy: Rural America.''

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water be authorized to meet on Wednesday, June 25th at 9:30 am to examine the consulting process required by Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act.

The hearing will take place in SD 406 (Hearing Room).

subcommittee on public lands and forests

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the subcommittee on public lands and forests of the committee on energy and natural resources be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on Wednesday, June 25, at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366. The purpose of this oversight hearing is to gain an understanding of the grazing programs of the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service. The subcommittee will receive testimony on grazing permit renewal, BLM's potential changes to grazing regulations, range monitoring, drought and other grazing issues.

Mr. Speaker, first I, too, want to thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra), the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Shadegg) and others who have been down on the border. We held a hearing there in the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources just weeks ago, particularly going down to Organ Pipe, one of our more beautiful national monuments where the cactus, unlike the saguaro, come up, and hence the name, the Organ Pipe. They have saguaro cactus there as well. But unfortunately right now because of all the illegal immigrants and all the drug smuggling moving through that park, one of the most beautiful hiking trails in the country is sealed off because it is too dangerous for people to hike there.

When you walk through the park, you see milk containers all over the place. If they are clear, it means they were water of people walking into the deserts by the hundreds. You can see them across the line because we basically have little protection on that border. If they are black, it is clear they had narcotics and were moving narcotics through.

The area where this brave ranger was killed is just east of the main crossing point. It was in a wash. As he and seven other agents from Customs and Border Patrol and others were trying to capture this illegal immigrant and drug smuggler, the immigrant, the smuggler, hid in some bushes. The ranger, as he was being guided by a helicopter above him, could not see where the shots came from. They hit him, went through his vest and another protective device, through one side and the other side of his body.

When he committed to work for the National Park Service, he thought he was going to be working with people who were trying to cut down trees or flowers, or who were basically having inner kind of conflicts in the parks. But we have watched our parks and monuments change into places, particularly around our borders or in our national forests and our parks where they are growing marijuana or producing methamphetamine, into far more dangerous places, endangering not only our rangers, but the people that are there.

When you walk through this visitors' center at the Organ Pipe and when you walk through the park headquarters there, you see this young ranger's picture there. You see many pictures of him. You hear from every staff person at that park. They miss Kris. They miss the loss there. All of a sudden it has taken their profession, probably the highest-rated profession in the United States, and any poll shows that park rangers and the people who are serving our public parks are supposed to be a happy place, not a sad place. The parents, when the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Hoekstra) brought them in and I met them, they said, ``We don't want our son's loss to be in vain.''

By naming this visitors' center, it is a reminder to Members of Congress and the American people that unless we can make our borders more secure, and I also serve on the subcommittee of the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp) as well as chairing the narcotics committee, we are not going to be secure in this country. We do not know who is going to come across, unless we can do a better job of restricting the narcotics coming in that are also killing people all over our country. Kris was out there trying to protect people in Fort Wayne, Indiana, all over America, by going after this drug dealer.

But unless we can make those borders more secure, unless we are more aggressive, we are putting people in our national parks at risk, we are putting our national forests at risk, everybody else along the borders.

One last comment. As we start to address the problems of Organ Pipe, we have pushed it over to the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation next door. The Shadow Wolves, who were just highlighted in ``Smithsonian Magazine'' a couple months ago as well as ``People Magazine,'' are now threatened with disbandment, that what we saw when we did our hearing, we saw four busts while we were doing the hearing of 1,500 pounds more than they seized all of last year in this Indian reservation, and we need to understand that while we are naming this monument after Kris and saying we are going to remember him and the people who sacrificed like him, that we also have to think of the adjacent areas and do not just push it through the next community as we address this. We have to get control, responsible control, of our borders, or we will not be secure in the United States, and hopefully this resolution today will help remind us of that.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time, and I thank Chairman Pombo and Chairman Radanovich for their support in moving this bill, moving it expeditiously, and that we have today the honor of passing this piece of legislation through the House.

This week Kris Eggle will not only be memorialized here on the floor of the House, he will also be memorialized at the memorial for slain police officers, officers who died in the line of duty. His family is in town this week, and his friends from all over the country are here to recognize an outstanding young man whose life was cut short.

H.R. 1577 is a bill to honor National Park Service Ranger Kris Eggle, who was murdered on duty last August in Organ Pipe National Monument, a National Park Service unit deep in the American Southwest. It is absolutely a beautiful and a gorgeous part of the American Southwest. I had the opportunity to visit there earlier this year with Kris' dad, Bob Eggle. This bill designates the visitors' center in Organ Pipe as the Kris Eggle Visitors' Center, dedicated to the legacy and memory of Kris.

Who was Kris Eggle? Let me give a little bit of background about Kris. Kris was a 28-year-old National Park Service ranger. He was assigned to the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument at the time of his death. My colleague has given us a little bit of the details about that, but if we go back, Kris was one of the best of the best. He graduated as valedictorian of Cadillac High School in 1991. He was an accomplished cross-country runner at Cadillac High School. He went on to be a top cross-country runner at the University of Michigan where he graduated with honors in 1995.

After graduation, he chose government service as the field where he was going to commit his life. He joined the National Park Service. He served at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore where he served as a ranger on both the North and South Manitou Islands. He had been stationed in Arizona since 2000. That is a little bit about the background.

The area where Kris served is a magnet for illegal aliens and Mexican smugglers. Some 200,000 illegal border-crossers and 700,000 pounds of drugs were intercepted at the park last year. Nonetheless, Kris embraced his job. He was always cheerful, a model citizen, a quintessential American boy turned ranger. He baked chocolate chip cookies for his fellow rangers and entertained them with songs while on duty.

Bob Eggle said Kris was where he wanted to be and he did what he wanted to do. He grew up on the family farm. He was an Eagle Scout, a devout Baptist and fleet-footed. His speed and his dedication may have been what cost him his life. He and three U.S. Border Patrol officers responded after Mexican police reported that two armed fugitives had fled across the border into the U.S. A Border Patrol helicopter gave chase and directed Kris and the other officers to where three suspects had ditched their vehicle. The

American officers pursued the fugitives on foot. One of the Mexican nationals was caught. The other ambushed Kris. Kris was shot, and he passed away.

Kris, like all of his other fellow employees, took an oath to swear his allegiance to this country. Kris did his job. He did it magnificently. Today we honor his memory by dedicating the visitors' center in Organ Pipe National Monument, but more importantly the responsibility of this Congress is also to deal with the causes of Kris' death. We have a border that looks more like Swiss cheese, allows illegals to cross the border indiscriminately, and allows drugs to flow across the border. This Congress needs to move forward and respond and to recognize that this is a Nation of laws, and that we will respond and enforce the laws and enforce our borders.

Again I thank my colleague for the time and moving this bill forward.

Mr. President, I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that the following hearing has been scheduled before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:

June 3, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 268, authorizes the Pyramid of Remembrance Foundation to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia and its environs to honor members of the Armed Forces of the United States who have lost their lives during peacekeeping operations, humanitarian efforts, training, terrorist attacks, or covert operations; S. 296, to require the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress regarding the requirements applicable to the inscription of veterans' names on the memorial wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; S. 470, to extend the authority for the construction of a memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr.; and S. 1076, to authorize construction of an education center at or near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Because of the limited time available for the hearings, witnesses may testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written testimony for the hearing record should send two copies of their testimony to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, SD-364 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6150.

For further information, please contact: Tom Lillie at (202) 224-5161 or Pete Lucero at (202) 224-6293.

committee on indian affairs

Mr. President, I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that the following hearing has been scheduled before the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

June 10, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 499, to authorize the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish in the State of Louisiana a memorial to honor the Buffalo Soldiers; S. 546, to provide for the protection of paleontological resources on Federal lands, and for other purposes; S. 643, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the University of New Mexico, to construct and occupy a portion of the Hibben Center for Archaeological Research at the University of New Mexico, and for other purposes; S. 677, to revise the boundary of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes; S. 1060 and H.R. 1577, to designate the visitors' center at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, as the ``Kris Eggle Visitors' Center''; H.R. 255, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant an easement to facilitate access to the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center in Nebraska City, Nebraska; and H.R. 1012, to establish the Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.

Because of the limited time available for the hearings, witnesses may testify

by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written testimony for the hearing record should send two copies of their testimony to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, SD-364 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6150.

For further information, please contact Tom Lillie at (202) 224-5161 or Pete Lucero at (202) 224-6293.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding me this time.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this legislation today to rename the Visitors Center at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in honor of Kris Eggle. And I want to thank its sponsor for his efforts for bringing this measure forward.

As has been mentioned here on the floor, Kris Eggle was an extraordinary, truly extraordinary young man. I regret that I never got to know him personally; but as the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Camp) mentioned, he was a standout by any measure. He was an Eagle Scout, and I know that makes me proud. My son is an Eagle Scout. He was a valedictorian of his class. But if we run into Kris Eggle's family or his friends or the people of service that I have had a chance to meet, we can see that this was an extraordinary young man.

I will tell the Members the story of his death is one that is extraordinary. He was on the border as a park ranger doing his job when a radio call came in. There was no obligation for Kris Eggle to jump into the fray and respond to that radio call. This was a call that should have been responded to by DEA agents or Customs agents because it involved drug smuggling by a drug ring, and yet Kris Eggle did not stay in that border station and do nothing. He left the station and he raced out into the desert with his colleagues. And as the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) just pointed out, he was directed by a helicopter to where the shots had been fired and to where the suspect he was looking for was.

Just a few months ago I visited that scene. I was there with Kris's father, Bob; and we were taken to the very spot where the murder occurred, and we saw where the gunman stood hiding under a tree and ambushed Kris, firing at him at literally point-blank range and killing him.

It is indeed a fitting honor that we should name this visitors center after him, but there is more to it than that. I met with Kris's parents this morning, Bob and Bonnie Eggle; and while they are thrilled that this bill is passing, they are very much devoted to substance. They care about what happens on the merits. Bob Eggle has spent countless hundreds of hours on that border trying to do what he can to rebuild the fence and to try to aid the people that are caring about it. But just this morning, Bonnie Eggle said to me, Congressman, can we get more Members of Congress to go visit the border to see what is going on there so that more might not die?

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation; but I also urge them to honor Kris Eggle's memory, this extraordinary young man, by helping us strengthen that border; and I join the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) in his comments regarding the Shadow Wolves. The Shadow Wolves are an extraordinary unit which we cannot allow to be disbanded, nor can we allow to be taken off of that border.