[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 98 (Tuesday, July 21, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D802]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE/DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 2333) making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part 
against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1999; and
  An original bill (S. 2334) making appropriations for foreign operations, 
export financing, and related programs for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1999.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to consider 
pending nominations, but made no announcements, and will meet again 
tomorrow.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the Federal Reserve's monetary policy and economic 
outlook report to Congress, after receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, 
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
PERSONAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
administration of proposed personal savings accounts within the Social 
Security system, after receiving testimony from Francis X. Cavanaugh, former 
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Retirement Thrift 
Investment Board; James S. Phalen, State Street Bank and Trust Company, 
Boston, Massachusetts; and Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Skadden, Arps, Slate, 
Meagher & Flom, Washington, D.C.
DISCRETIONARY FUNDING PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the process by which the Department of Commerce and 
Department of Transportation distribute financial assistance or 
discretionary funds to states, municipalities, and other eligible entities, 
after receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, and 
Kenneth R. Wykle, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, both of the 
Department of Transportation; and Johnnie E. Frazier, Acting Inspector 
General, and W. Scott Gould, Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary 
for Administration, both of the Department of Commerce.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill 
to encourage increased trade and economic cooperation between the United 
States and sub-Saharan African countries, to extend duty-free treatment 
under the Generalized System of Preferences, to extend preferential 
treatment to certain products imported from Caribbean Basin countries, to 
extend tariff proclamation authority and fast track procedures for 
congressional consideration of certain trade agreements, to extend certain 
trade adjustment assistance programs, to bolster United States efforts to 
eliminate barriers to American agricultural exports, to approve and 
implement the OECD Shipbuilding Trade Agreement, to extend permanent normal 
trade relations tariff treatment to imports from Mongolia, and to reduce or 
suspend duties on imports of certain types of wool fabric in order to 
correct an inversion in the tariff schedule. (As approved by the committee, 
the bill incorporates certain provisions of S. 219, S. 343, S. 1216, S. 
1269, S. 1278, S. 1457, S. 2047, and H.R. 1432.)
CONTRACEPTIVE INSURANCE COVERAGE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
766, to require equitable coverage of prescription contraceptive drugs and 
devices and contraceptive services under health plans, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Snowe and Reid; Maryland State Delegate Sharon 
Grosfeld, Kensington; and Gloria Feldt, Planned Parenthood Federation of 
America, and Richard H. Schwarz, New York Methodist Hospital, on behalf of 
the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, both of New York, 
New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Scott E. Thomas, of the District of Columbia, David M. Mason, 
of Virginia, Darryl R. Wold, of California, and Karl J. Sandstrom, of 
Washington, each to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Wold 
was introduced by Representative Thomas.