[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 85 (Thursday, June 25, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D710-D712]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill to authorize funds through fiscal 
year 2003 for programs of the National School Lunch Act and the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 to provide children with increased access to food 
and nutrition assistance, and to simplify program operations and 
improve program management.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the 
Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
1999; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, and the Judiciary, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 678 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1283, to award Congressional gold medals to Jean Brown Trickey, 
Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Patillo Beals, Terrence Roberts, Gloria 
Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, 
and Jefferson Thomas, commonly referred collectively as the ``Little 
Rock Nine'' on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the integration 
of the Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas;
  An original bill entitled ``International Anti-Bribery Act''; and
  The nominations of 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.
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on H.R. 10, to enhance competition in the financial services 
industry

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by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, 
securities firms, and other financial service providers, after 
receiving testimony from Julie L. Williams, Acting Comptroller of the 
Currency, and Ellen Seidman, Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, 
both of the Department of the Treasury; Arthur Levitt, Chairman, 
Securities and Exchange Commission; Donna Tanoue, Chairman, Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation; Timothy R. McTaggart, Dover, Delaware, 
on behalf of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors; George Nichols 
III, Shelbyville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Association of 
Insurance Commissioners; and Denise Voigt Crawford, on behalf of the 
North American Securities Administrators Association, and James L. 
Pledger, on behalf of the American Council of State Savings 
Supervisors, both of Austin, Texas.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of William Lloyd Massey, of Arkansas, to be a 
Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination 
of Mr. Massey, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator 
Bumpers, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
UTAH LAND EXCHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 2146 and H.R. 3830, 
bills to provide for the exchange of Utah School Trust lands located 
within Utah's national parks, monuments, recreation areas, and forests 
for cash and federal assets in other parts of Utah, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Hatch and Bennett; Representatives Cook and 
Cannon; John D. Leshy, Solicitor, Department of the Interior; Utah 
Governor Michael O. Leavitt, David T. Terry, Utah School and 
Institutional Trust Lands Administration, John L. Watson, Utah State 
Board of Education, Paula Plant, Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers, 
and Roger P. Pinkerton, Conoco Inc., all of Salt Lake City, Utah; Emery 
County Commissioner Randy G. Johnson, Castle Dale, Utah, on behalf of 
the Utah Association of Counties Public Lands Oversight Committee; 
Garfield County Commissioner Louise Liston, Escalante, Utah; Kane 
County Commissioner Joe Judd, Kanab, Utah; and William H. Meadows, 
Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.
CHINA MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held closed hearings to 
examine Chinese missile proliferation issues, receiving testimony from 
John Lauder, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence 
for Nonproliferation.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DUAL-USE TECHNOLOGY EXPORT LICENSING PROCESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Defense Technology Security Administration's role in the 
licensing process for the export of dual-use technologies to foreign 
countries, after receiving testimony from Peter M. Leitner, Senior 
Strategic Trade Advisor, Defense Technology Security Administration, 
and Franklin C. Miller, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Strategy and Threat Reduction, both of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1976, to increase public awareness of the plight of victims of 
crime with developmental disabilities, to collect data to measure the 
magnitude of the problem, and to develop strategies to address the 
safety and justice needs of victims of crime with developmental 
disabilities, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of John D. Kelly, of North Dakota, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Raner Christercunean 
Collins, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Arizona, Robert G. James, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Louisiana, Dan A. Polster, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ralph E. Tyson, 
to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Louisiana.
  Also, committee continued markup of S.J. Res. 44, proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the 
rights of crime victims, but did not complete action thereon and 
recessed subject to call.
JUDGESHIP ALLOCATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings to examine the appropriate allocation 
of judgeships in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh 
Circuit, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge, 
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; and William R. Quinlan, Quinlan & 
Crisham, Chicago, Illinois.

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HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR 55- TO 64-YEAR-OLDS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine a report entitled Private Health Insurance: Declining Employer 
Coverage May Affect Access for 55-to 64-Year-Olds, which addresses the 
employment, income, health, and health insurance status of the near 
elderly population, and their ability to obtain employer-based health 
insurance if they retire before becoming eligible for Medicare, and 
proposed legislation to expand access to health coverage for certain 
uninsured Americans aged 55-64 who are not yet eligible for Medicare, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Daschle; William J. Scanlon, 
Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and 
Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; C. Keith Campbell, 
Seward, Alaska, on behalf of the American Association of Retired 
Persons; Paul Fronstin, Employee Benefit Research Institute, and 
Charles N. Kahn III, Health Insurance Association of America, both of 
Washington, D.C.; David Shactman, Institute for Health Policy/Brandeis 
University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and Teresa DeRuiter, Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin.