[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 66 (Monday, May 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D503]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1998 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 27) setting forth the 
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 
1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS RESEARCH
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research and Development, Production and Regulation concluded hearings 
on H.R. 363, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the Electric 
and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination 
Program of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, after receiving testimony 
from Robert Brewer, Senior Advisor, Office of Energy Efficiency and 
Renewable Energy, Department of Energy; and Richard M. Loughery, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute, the 
American Public Power Association, National Electrical Manufacturers 
Association, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
MEDICARE REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine ways to 
restructure the current Medicare payment system to insure greater 
choice and equity, focusing on managed care plans, receiving testimony 
from William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, 
Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting 
Office; David C. Colby, Deputy Director, Physician Payment Review 
Commission; Steve Brenton, Association of Iowa Hospitals and Health 
Systems, Des Moines; Doug Dillon, Providence Health Plans, Portland, 
Oregon; Susan Bartlett Foote, Coalition for Fairness in Medicare, 
Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. Thorpe, Tulane University School of Public 
Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Hans Running, 
Hillsboro, Oregon.
  Committee recessed subject to call.