[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 73 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D603-D604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1999 for the U.S. 
Agency for International Development, receiving testimony from J. Brian 
Atwood, Administrator, Agency for International Development.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1999.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Rebecca M. Blank, of Illinois, to be a 
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Michael J. Copps, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Trade Development, and Awilda 
R. Marquez, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary and Director General 
of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service, both of the 
Department of Commerce, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Copps was introduced by Senator 
Hollings and Ms. Marquez was introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
TREATY--COMBATING BRIBERY OF FOREIGN OFFICIALS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in 
International Business Transactions, adopted at Paris on November 21, 
1997, by a conference held under the auspices of the Organization for 
Economic Cooperation and Development, signed in Paris on December 17, 
1997, by the United States and 32 other nations (Treaty Doc. 105-43), 
after receiving testimony from Stuart E. Eizenstat, Under Secretary of 
State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs; and Fritz F. 
Heimann, Transparency International USA, Washington, D.C.

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ACTIVE AGING
Special Committee on Aging: On Monday, June 9, committee concluded 
hearings to examine the international trend of increased life 
expectancy, focusing on international programs, policies and research 
that encourage active aging, after receiving testimony from Jeanette C. 
Takamura, Assistant Secretary for Aging, and Richard J. Hodes, 
Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, 
both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Robert N. Butler, 
New York, New York, Lady Sally Greengross, London, England, and 
Francoise Forette, Paris, France, all on behalf of the International 
Longevity Center; Yuzo Okamoto, Kobe City College of Nursing, Kobe, 
Japan; A.H.B. de Bono, International Institute on Aging-Malta, Oxford, 
England; and Alvar Svanborg, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and 
University of Illinois, Chicago.