[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 20 (Wednesday, March 4, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D165-D167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the Department of Commerce, 
receiving testimony from William M. Daley, Secretary, W. Scott Gould, 
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Administration, and 
Mark Brown, Director, Office of Budget, all of the Department of 
Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on Air Force programs, receiving testimony from F. 
Whitten Peters, Under Secretary, and Gen. Michael E. Ryan, Chief of 
Staff, both of the United States Air Force.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
policies of the industrial and technology base supporting national 
defense, receiving testimony from John B. Goodman, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense (Industrial Affairs and Installations); Lance A. 
Davis, Deputy Director (Technology Transfer and Lab Management), 
Department of Defense; and David E. Cooper, Associate Director for 
Defense Acquisition Issues, General Accounting Office.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
MILITARY TRANSFORMATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces held 
hearings to examine certain military transformation initiatives, 
focusing on the Joint Staff's implementation plan (Joint Vision 2010) 
to promote innovation and change in the Department of Defense, 
including developing information superiority, receiving testimony from 
Lt. Gen. Frank B. Campbell, Director for Force Structure, Resources, 
and Assessment; Lt. Gen. Douglas D. Buchholz, Director for Command, 
Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, Joint Staff; Maj. Gen. 
George F. Close, Director for Operational Plans and Interoperability; 
Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC (Ret.), former Commander, United States 
Atlantic Command; and Gen. Robert W. RisCassi, USA (Ret.), Member, 
National Defense Panel.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel held hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
recruiting and retention policies within the Department of Defense and 
the military services, receiving testimony from Mark Gebicke, Director, 
Military Operations and Capabilities Issues, General Accounting Office; 
Frank M. Rush, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force 
Management Policy; Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Vollrath, USA, Deputy Chief of 
Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Daniel T. Oliver, USN, Chief of Naval 
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Carol A. Mutter, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Michael D. McGinty, USAF, Deputy 
Chief of Staff for Personnel; Maj. Gen. Mark R. Hamilton, USA, 
Commanding General, United States Army Recruiting Command; Rear Adm. 
Barbara E. McGann, USN, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command; Maj. Gen. 
Jack W. Klimp, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting 
Command; Col. Peter U. Sutton, USAF, Commander, Air Force Recruiting 
Service; Beverly Schladt and David Moser, both Senior Evaluators, 
General Accounting Office; Sgt. First Class Gregory W. Seibert, United 
States Army; Aviation Administrator Second Class Jack D. Layne, and 
Signalman Second Class Deanna M. Luna, both of the United States Navy; 
Technical Sgt. Timothy C. Barber, United States Air Force; and Gunnery 
Sgt. Paul A. Jornet, United States Marine Corps.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
DEFENSE DEPOT MAINTENANCE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness concluded 
hearings to examine the status of the bidding process between public 
and private competitors over the disposition of the workloads currently 
performed at Sacramento and San Antonio Air Logistics Centers 
identified for closure during the 1995 base realignment and closure 
process, after receiving testimony from Henry L. Hinton, Jr., Assistant 
Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, Robert Murphy, General Counsel, and Julia Denman, Assistant 
Director, Defense Management Issues, all of the General Accounting 
Office; Jacques S. Gansler, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition 
and Technology; Gen. George T. Babbitt, Jr., USN, Commander, Air Force 
Materiel Command; Darleen A. Druyun, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition and Management); Maj. Gen. 
Eugene L. Tattini, USAF, Commander, Sacramento Air Logistics Center; 
Maj. Gen. Richard H. Roellig, USAF, Commander, Ogden Air Logistics 
Center; Maj. Gen. Charles H. Perez, USAF, Commander, Oklahoma City Air 
Logistics Center; Maj. Gen. James S. Childress, USAF, Commander, San 
Antonio Logistics Center; and Maj. Gen. Richard N. Goddard, USAF, 
Commander, Warner Robins Air Logistics Center.
DOE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Federico Pena, 
Secretary of Energy.
U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the recent World Trade 
Organization decision in the Eastman Kodak v. Fuji Photo Film dispute 
and its implications for United States-Japan relations, after receiving 
testimony from Susan G. Esserman, General Counsel, Office of the United 
States Trade Representative; Ira Wolf, Kodak Japan Limited, Tokyo, on 
behalf of the Eastman Kodak Company; and William H. Barringer, Willkie 
Farr & Gallagher, on behalf of the Fuji Photo Film, Inc., Clyde V. 
Prestowitz, Economic Strategy Institute, and Edward J. Lincoln, 
Brookings Institution, all of Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
effectiveness of national drug control policies, after receiving 
testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug 
Control Policy.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition held hearings on the implementation of the 
Telecommunications Act of 1996 and its goal to provide increased 
competition to the telecommunications industry, focusing on Federal and 
State coordination efforts with regard to the entry of the Regional 
Bell Companies into interLATA long distance service, receiving 
testimony from William E. Kennard, Chairman, Federal Communications 
Commission; Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust 
Division, Department of Justice; Jolynn Barry Butler, Public Utilities 
Commission of Ohio, Columbus; Bert Roberts, MCI Communications 
Corporation, Washington, D.C.; Royce Caldwell, SBC Communications, 
Inc., San Antonio, Texas; Jim Robbins, Cox Communications, Inc., 
Atlanta, Georgia; and William J. Rouhana, Jr., WinStar Communications, 
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York, on behalf of the Association for Local Telecommunications 
Services.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS THREAT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and 
Government Information held joint hearings with the Select Committee on 
Intelligence to examine the threat posed by the use of biological 
weapons by terrorists, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Ostroff, 
Associate Director for Epidemiologic Science, National Center for 
Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Col. David R. Franz, Deputy 
Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Ft. 
Detrick, Maryland; and W. Seth Carus, Center for Counter Proliferation 
Research/National Defense University, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OPERATIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 
1578, to require the Director of the Congressional Research Service to 
make accessible to the public via the Internet all information 
available through the CRS web site that is not confidential, including 
CRS issue briefs, reports, and authorization or appropriations 
products, the proposed budget request for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Library of Congress, to review the Library's management operations, and 
its plans for the Bicentennial observance in the year 2000, and 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the American Folklife Center 
of the Library of Congress, receiving testimony from Senator McCain; 
James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Donald L. Scott, Deputy 
Librarian of Congress; William L. Kinney Jr., Chairman, American 
Folklife Center Board of Trustees; and Alan Jabbour, Director, American 
Folklife Center.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.