[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 118 (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D946-D947]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTO CHOICE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 625, to provide for competition between forms of motor 
vehicle insurance, to permit an owner of a motor vehicle to choose the most 
appropriate form of insurance for that person, to guarantee affordable 
premiums, and to provide for more adequate and timely compensation for 
accident victims, after receiving testimony from Nebraska Governor E. 
Benjamin Nelson, Lincoln; former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, 
Northeastern University, Boston; Arizona State Senator Gary Richardson, on 
behalf of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, and Michael R. 
Perry, Carnahan & Perry, on behalf of the Defense Research Institute, both 
of Phoenix, Arizona; Mayor Wellington E. Webb, Denver, Colorado; Fulton 
County Commissioner Michael Hightower, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert J. 
Demichelis, on behalf of the Brain Injury Association, and Peter Kinzler, 
Coalition for Auto-Insurance Reform, both of Alexandria, Virginia; Mark S. 
Mandel, Providence, Rhode, Island, on behalf of the Association of Trial 
Lawyers of America; Robert Lee Maril, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; 
and Tim Ryles, Ryles Resource Group, Newborn, Georgia, former Georgia State 
Commissioner of Insurance.
RETIREMENT SECURITY POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine retirement security 
policy, focusing on proposals to reform the social security system, 
including S. 2313, to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide 
for individual security accounts funded by employee and employer social 
security payroll deductions, and to extend the solvency of the old-age, 
survivors, and disability insurance program, receiving testimony from 
Senators Moynihan, Kerrey, Beaux, Gregg, Gramm, and Dominic; Edward M. 
Gramlich, Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, on 
behalf of the Advisory Council on Social Security; Alicia H. Munnell, Boston 
College Carroll School of Management, Chestnut, Massachusetts, former 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and former Member of 
the Council of Economic Advisers; Robert Myers, Silver Spring, Maryland, 
former Chief Actuary and former Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security 
Administration and former Executive Director of the National Commission on 
Social Security Reform; Andrew A. Samwick, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New 
Hampshire; and Carolyn L. Weaver, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 
D.C., former Member of the Social Security Advisory Council and the U.S. 
Social Security Advisory Board.

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  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian 
Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy in Iraq, receiving 
testimony from Martin S. Indyk, Assistant Secretary of State for Near 
Eastern Affairs; and R. James Woolsey, former Director, Central Intelligence 
Agency, Richard W. Murphy, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near 
Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Lawrence S. Eagleburger, former Secretary 
of State, and Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise Institute, former 
U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INSPECTOR GENERAL ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the state of the Inspector General community on the 20th anniversary of the 
Inspector General Act, and S. 2167, to increase the efficiency and 
accountability of Offices of Inspector General within Federal departments, 
after receiving testimony from June Gibbs Brown, Inspector General, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; and G. Edward DeSeve, Acting 
Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Robert Bruce King, of West Virginia, and William B. Traxler, Jr., of 
South Carolina, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit, H. Dean Buttram, Jr. and Inge Prytz Johnson, each to be a United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, and Thomas J. 
Whelan, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
California, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. King was introduced by Senators Byrd and Rockefeller, Mr. 
Traxler was introduced by Senators Thurmond and Hollings, Messrs. Buttram 
and Johnson were introduced by Senators Sessions and Shelby, and Mr. Whelan 
was introduced by Senator Feinstein.
PRESIDENCY AND THE CRIMINAL PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, 
and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the extent to which a 
sitting president should be subject to indictment or other compulsory 
criminal process, after receiving testimony from Eric M. Freedman, Hofstra 
University School of Law, Hempstead, New York; Akhil Reed Amar, Yale 
University Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Frank Teurkheimer, University 
of Wisconsin School of Law, Madison; and Jonathan Turley, George Washington 
University Law School, Susan Low Bloch, Georgetown University Law Center, 
Peter F. Rient, Gainer, Rient and Hotis, and Douglas R. Cox, Gibson, Dunn & 
Crutcher, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported 
S. 2432, to support programs of grants to States to address the assistive 
technology needs of individuals with disabilities, with an amendment.
  Also, committee began consideration of proposed legislation to provide for 
compassionate payments with regard to individuals with blood-clotting 
disorders, such as hemophilia, who contracted human immunodeficiency virus 
due to contaminated blood products, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, September 16.
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