[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 125 (Friday, September 18, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1006-D1007]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment held a 
hearing on The State Children's Health Insurance Program: A Progress 
Report. Testimony was heard from Nancy-Ann DeParle, Administrator, 
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Claude Allen, Secretary of Health and Human Resources, State 
of Virginia; James Haveman, Director, Department of Community Health, 
State of Michigan; Douglas M. Cook, Director, Agency for Health Care 
Administration, State of Florida; Barbara A. DeBuono, M.D., 
Commissioner, Department of Health, State of New York; and Barbara 
Edwards, Director of Medicaid, State of Ohio.
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and 
Consumer Protection held a hearing on Spectrum Management Oversight. 
Testimony was heard from Dan Phythyon, Wireless Bureau Chief, FCC; and 
public witnesses.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL COMMUNICATION--RELEASE OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS, 
RECORDS, AND MATERIALS
Committee on the Judiciary: Met in executive session and voted to 
release approximately 2,800 pages of the documents received by the 
House from the Office of Independent Counsel. The Committee also agreed 
to release the video version of the President's testimony before the 
grand jury on August l7th.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 
4558, amended, Welfare, Noncitizen, and Unemployment Insurance 
Technical Amendments Act of 1998; H.R. 4377, to amend title XVIII of 
the Social Security Act to expand the membership of the Medicare 
Payment Advisory Commission to 17; H.R. 3511, amended, to amend title 
XI of the Social Security Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services to provide additional exceptions to the imposition of 
civil money penalties in cases of payments to beneficiaries; and H.R. 
4567, amended, Medicare Home Health Care Interim Payment System 
Refinement Act of 1998.
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS TO CHINA
Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial 
Concerns with the People's Republic of China: Met in executive session 
to consider pending business.

Joint Meetings
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between 
the Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 4112, making 
appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1999.

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KOSOVO
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): 
On Thursday, September 17, Commission held hearings to examine United 
States policy regarding current political and human rights developments 
in Kosovo, receiving testimony from former Senator Dole, on behalf of 
the International Commission on Missing Persons in Bosnia; and John 
H.F. Shattuck, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights 
and Labor, and Commissioner, Commission on Security and Cooperation in 
Europe.
  Commission recessed subject to call.