[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 16, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D984-D986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant

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Marine concluded hearings to examine the effects of fatigue on 
operators of trucks and rail equipment, and proposed legislation to 
establish a comprehensive, system-wide fatigue management plan on Class 
I and II freight railroads and carriers providing commuter or intercity 
passenger service by the year 2000, after receiving testimony from 
Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, 
and George L. Reagle, Associate Administrator for Motor Carriers, 
Federal Highway Administration, both of the Department of 
Transportation; Vernon S. Ellingstad, Director, Office of Research and 
Engineering, National Transportation Safety Board; Daphne Izer, Parents 
Against Tired Truckers, Lisbon Falls, Maine; Mark R. Rosekind, 
Alertness Solutions, Cupertino, California; Susan M. Coughlin, ATA 
Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia; and Charles E. Dettmann, Association 
of American Railroads, Clarence V. Monin, Brotherhood of Locomotive 
Engineers, on behalf of the Transportation Trades Department (AFL-CIO), 
and LaMont Byrd, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, all of 
Washington, D.C.
REFORMULATED GASOLINE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline 
and S. 1576, to amend the Clean Air Act to permit the exclusive 
application of California State regulations regarding reformulated 
gasoline in certain areas within the State, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Feinstein: Representative Bilbray; John D. Dunlap III, 
California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento; Edward O. Sullivan, Maine Department of Environmental 
Protection, Augusta; Daniel S. Greenbaum, Health Effects Institute, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Al Jessel, Chevron Products Company, San 
Francisco, California; and Douglas A. Durante, Clean Fuels Development 
Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. ANTI-DRUG INTERDICTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded joint hearings with the 
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to 
examine United States anti-drug interdiction efforts and S. 2341, 
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1999 through 2001 to support 
enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit countries and 
support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop substitution 
program in source countries, after receiving testimony from Barry R. 
McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Brian E. 
Sheridan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special 
Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Donnie R. Marshall, Acting 
Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of 
Justice; William R. Brownfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for 
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Samuel H. Banks, 
Deputy Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Adm. James M. Loy, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, 
Department of Transportation; Henry L. Hinton, Jr., Assistant 
Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Barry D. Crane and A. Rex 
Rivolo, both of the Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, D.C.
RADIATION FALLOUT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine the National Cancer 
Institute's management of a scientific study which assessed the 
radiation effects of nuclear weapons tests, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Harkin; Barry L. Johnson, Assistant Surgeon General/
Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry, William F. Raub, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science 
Policy, and Richard D. Klausner, Director, and Bruce Wachholz, Chief, 
Radiation Effects Branch, both of the National Cancer Institute, all of 
the Department of Health and Human Services; and F. Owen Hoffman, SENES 
Oak Ridge, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, former Consultant, National 
Cancer Institute.
COMPUTER EXPORT CONTROL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine a General Accounting Office report on the Administration's 1995 
decision to revise United States export controls on high performance 
computers, after receiving testimony from Harold J. Johnson, Associate 
Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security 
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and 
William Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
IMMIGRATION DETENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
oversight hearings on the structure and management of the Immigration 
and Naturalization Service detention system and the implementation of 
the mandatory criminal alien detention provisions that were included in 
the Illegal Immigration Reform Act of 1996, after receiving testimony 
from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization 
Service, Department of Justice; Wendy A. Young, Washington, D.C., on 
behalf

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of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Eleanor Acer, 
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and Sam Waterston, both of New 
York, New York; Police Chief David Lon Walker, Marshalltown, Iowa; 
Fauziya Kassindja, Arlington, Virginia.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 
2288, to provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of 
the production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access 
of the Government's publications, receiving testimony from J. Michael 
Farren, Xerox Corporation, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
Information Technology Industry Council; Leonard Pomata, Litton/PRC, 
Inc., McLean, Virginia, representing the Professional Services Council; 
and William A. Gindlesperger, ABC Advisors, Inc., Chambersburg, 
Pennsylvania.
  Also, committee held hearings to examine issues with regard to the 
proposed renovation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and United 
States Capitol dome, receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, 
Architect of the Capitol.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
1771, to provide for a final settlement of the claims of the Colorado 
Ute Indian Tribes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As 
approved by the committee, the substitute amendment incorporated the 
text of S. 1899, to ratify a Water Rights Compact entered into by the 
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation and the State of 
Montana, as Title II of the bill.)
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Montie R. Deer, of Kansas, to be Chairman of the National 
Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior.
  Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Mr. Deer, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.