[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 65 (Wednesday, May 20, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D537-D538]
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 concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on Army programs, after receiving testimony from 
Robert M. Walker, Acting Secretary of the Army; and Gen. Dennis J. 
Reimer, Chief of Army Staff.
OSTEOPOROSIS PREVENTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
issues relating to the funding of osteoporosis prevention, education, 
and research, after receiving testimony from Representative Morella; 
Stephen I. Katz, Director, National Institute of Arthritis and 
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Judy A. Black, National 
Osteoporosis Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Dominic DiMaggio, The Paget 
Foundation, New York, New York; Susan Burdick, Cambridge Springs, 
Pennsylvania; and Frederick R. Singer, Santa Monica, California.
HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans and Fisheries concluded hearings to examine the scope of harmful 
algal blooms, including pfiesteria, red tide, brown tide, and paralytic 
shellfish poisoning, including hypoxia, a condition related to harmful 
algal blooms, that has created a massive ``dead zone'' in the Gulf of 
Mexico, and S. 1480, to authorize funds for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration to conduct research, monitoring, education 
and management activities for the eradication and control of harmful 
algal blooms, including blooms of Pfiesteria piscicida and other 
aquatic toxins, after receiving testimony from Terry D. Garcia, 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and Donald Scavia, 
Senior Scientist, both of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Suzanne E. Schwartz, Acting 
Director, Oceans and Coastal Protection Division, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Donald Anderson, Woods Hole Oceanographic 
Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; L. Donelson Wright, College of 
William and Mary School of Marine Science/Virginia Institute of Marine 
Science, Gloucester Point, Virginia; Nancy N. Rabalais, Louisiana 
Universities Marine Consortium, Chauvin; JoAnn M. Burkholder, North 
Carolina State University, Raleigh; and Michael Voisin, Motivatit 
Seafoods, Inc., Houma, Louisiana, on behalf of the National Fisheries 
Institute and the National Marine Manufacturers Association.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following measures:
  S. 1275, to implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving 
the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1693, to renew, reform, reinvigorate, and protect the National 
Park System, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  Also, committee began consideration of S. 624, to establish a 
competitive process for the awarding of concession contracts in units 
of the National Park System, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed subject to call.
RUSSIAN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine Russian and domestic policy issues and 
United States policy toward Russia, after receiving testimony from 
Stephen Sestanovich, Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the 
New Independent States; Peter Reddaway, George Washington University, 
and Leon Aron, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Lauren B. Homer, Law and Liberty Trust, Vienna, Virginia; and Scott M. 
Blacklin, American Chamber of Commerce, Moscow, Russia.
UNITED NATIONS BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations concluded hearings to examine the certification made by the 
Acting Secretary of State on May 4 regarding the budget of the United 
Nations, after receiving testimony from Princeton N. Lyman, Assistant 
Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.
CHILD CUSTODY PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1645, to 
prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid laws requiring the 
involvement of parents in abortion decisions, after receiving

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testimony from Representative Ros-Lehtinen; Pennsylvania Attorney 
General D. Michael Fisher, Harrisburg; Eileen Roberts, Mothers Against 
Minors' Abortions, Fredricksburg, Virginia; Renee Jenkins, Howard 
University College of Medicine, Washington, on behalf of the Society 
for Adolescent Medicine Advocates for Youth; D.C.; John C. Harrison, 
University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Joyce Farley, Duschore, 
Pennsylvania; and Bill Bell, Zionsville, Indiana.
IDENTITY FRAUD
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings on S. 512, to amend the 
Federal criminal code to provide penalties against any person who 
knowingly, and with intent to deceive or defraud, obtains, uses, or 
attempts to obtain or use one or more means of identification other 
than that lawfully issued to such person, authorizes the U.S. Secret 
Service to investigate such offenses, directs the U.S. Sentencing 
Commission to provide sentencing enhancements in connection with such 
offenses in relation to the number of victims involved, and provides 
forfeiture and restitution requirements with respect to such offense, 
after receiving testimony from James Bauer, Deputy Assistant Director, 
Office of Investigations, United States Secret Service, Department of 
the Treasury; David Medine, Associate Director for Credit Practices, 
Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Robert Hartle, 
Phoenix, Arizona; and Mari J. Frank, Laguna Niguel, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
2069, to permit the leasing of mineral rights, in any case in which the 
Indian owners of an allotment that is located within the boundaries of 
the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and held in trust 
by the United States have executed leases to more than 50 percent of 
the mineral estate of that allotment, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 1691, to provide for Indian legal 
reform, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to 
call.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee met 
and adopted its rules of procedure.