[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 55 (Wednesday, May 6, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D464-D465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
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 the United States Pacific Command, receiving 
testimony from Adm. Joseph W. Prueher, U.S. Navy, Commander in Chief, 
United States Pacific Command.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 11.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to begin 
markup of proposed legislation to authorize funds for fiscal year 1999 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe 
military personal strengths for fiscal year 1999, and related 
proposals, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again 
tomorrow.
COMMON CARRIER BUREAU
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded oversight hearings to examine the activities 
of the Common Carrier Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission, 
focusing on its implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 
after receiving testimony from A. Richard Metzger, Jr., Chief, Common 
Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Ronald J. Binz, 
Competition Policy Institute, Denver, Colorado; and Earl W. Comstock, 
Sher & Blackwell, Albert Halprin, Halprin, Temple, Goodman & Sugrue, 
and Peter W. Huber, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, on behalf of 
the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, all of Washington, D.C.
NEVADA PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 94 and H.R. 449, bills 
to provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands in Clark 
County, Nevada, and to provide for the acquisition of environmentally 
sensitive lands in the State of Nevada, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Reid and Bryan; Representatives Ensign and Gibbons; Tom Fry, 
Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; 
Mayor Michael L. Montandon, North Las Vegas, Nevada; and Lance Malone 
and Mary Kincaid, both of the Clark County Board of Commissioners, and 
Rosemary Vassiliadis, Clark County Department of Aviation, all of Las 
Vegas, Nevada.
KOSOVO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held 
hearings to examine the status of human rights violations and United 
States foreign policy in Kosovo, receiving testimony from Robert S. 
Gelbard, Special Representative of the President

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and the Secretary of State for Implementation of the Dayton Peace 
Accords; and John Fox, Open Society Institute, James R. Hooper, Balkan 
Institute, and Joseph J. DioGuardi, Albanian American Civic League, all 
of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRIBAL SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1691, 
to provide for Indian legal reform, focusing on the status of tribal 
sovereign immunity and the role it plays to preserve the Federal 
Government's protection of tribal self-government, and its impact on 
Indian economic development, commercial dealings, and taxation, after 
receiving testimony from Thomas L. LeClaire, Director, Office of Tribal 
Justice, Department of Justice; Dale Webb, Mescalero Apache Tribe, 
Mescalero, New Mexico; Pedro Johnson and Jackson King, both of the 
Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, Mashantucket, Connecticut; Wendell 
Askenette, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Keshena; Milton 
Bluehouse, Sr., and Britt E. Clapham, II, both of the Navajo Nation, 
Window Rock, Arizona; Eric D. Eberhard, Dorsey and Whitney, Seattle, 
Washington; Dennis A. Ferdon, Anderson and Ferdon, Norwich, 
Connecticut; Richard A. Goren, Rubin, Hay and Gould, Framingham, 
Massachusetts; Gregory A. Abbott, Weinblatt and Gaylord, St. Paul, 
Minnesota; and Bernard J. Gamache, Wapato, Washington.
AUTHORIZATION--INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
begin markup of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 
1999 for intelligence and intelligence related activities of the United 
States Government, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed 
subject to call.
MEDICARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
status of the Health Care Financing Administration's development of its 
information campaign, and recommendations on ways to help beneficiaries 
make informed choices among Medicare health plans and other related 
resources, after receiving testimony from Michael Hash, Deputy 
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of 
Health and Human Services; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health 
Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Susan Kleimann, Kleimann 
Communications Group, Geraldine Dallek, Institute for Health Care 
Research and Policy/Georgetown University, and David S. Abernathy, HIP 
Health Plans, all of Washington, D.C.