[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 22, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1016-D1017]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MIND/BODY MEDICINE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
the clinical applications of mind and body medicine and its effects on 
health care costs, after receiving testimony from Norman Anderson, 
Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Herbert 
Benson, Mind/Body Medical Institute/Harvard University Medical School, 
Boston, Massachusetts; and Harold G. Koenig, Center for the Study of 
Religion/Spirituality and Health/Duke University Medical Center, 
Durham, North Carolina.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Richard Danzig, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Secretary, Stephen W. Preston, of the District of Columbia, to be 
General Counsel, and Herbert Lee Buchanan III, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, all of 
the Department of the Navy, Bernard Daniel Rostker, of Virginia, to be 
Under Secretary of the Army, and Jeh Charles Johnson, of New York, to 
be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Linwood Holton, of Virginia, and Amy M. 
Rosen, of New Jersey, each to be a Member of the Reform

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Board (AMTRAK), after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Holton was introduced by Senators Warner and 
Robb, and Ms. Rosen was introduced by Senator Lautenberg.
COASTAL BARRIER MODIFICATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2470, to modify the boundaries within the Coastal Barrier 
Resources System in Florida by removing the 25-acre island of Pumpkin 
Key, after receiving testimony from Gerry Jackson, Assistant Director 
of the Interior for Ecological Services/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 
Jacqueline Savitz, Coast Alliance, and Ralph DeGennaro, Taxpayers for 
Common Sense, both of Washington, D.C.; and Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr., 
Terra Cotta Realty, Inc., Key Largo, Florida.
BP-AMOCO MERGER
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights 
and Competition concluded hearings to examine the state of competition 
within the petroleum industry, focusing on the competitive implications 
of the proposed merger between BP America and the Amoco Corporation, 
after receiving testimony from David Freitag, Ohio Petroleum Retailers 
and Repair Association, Inc., Bellevue; Steven W. Percy, BP America 
Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; George S. Spindler, Amoco Corporation, Chicago, 
Illinois; and Philip K. Verleger, Jr., Brattle Group, Concord, 
Massachusetts.
VA HEALTH CARE QUALITY
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings 
to examine the quality of care in the veterans health care system, 
after receiving testimony from Kenneth W. Kizer, Under Secretary for 
Health, and Mark Catlett, Acting Assistant Secretary for Management, 
both of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Harry J. Wilbur, Chief, 
Urology Section, Samuel Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 
Albany, New York; Richard A. Wannemacher, Jr., Disabled American 
Veterans, Gordon H. Mansfield, Paralyzed Veterans of America, 
Jacqueline Garrick, American Legion, and Bobby L. Harnage, Sr., 
American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), all of 
Washington, D.C.; Ellen Pitts, National Association of Government 
Employees, Boston, Massachusetts; and Robert Jones, New York, New York, 
and John T. Carson, Springfield, Missouri, both former Directors, 
Veterans Integrated Service Network.