[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1034-D1036]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Richard Danzig, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary 
of the Navy, Bernard Daniel Rostker, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of 
the Army, Stephen W. Preston, of the District of Columbia, to be General 
Counsel of the Department of the Navy; Herbert Lee Buchanan, III, of 
Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Jeh Charles Johnson, of 
New York, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force, James M. 
Bodner, of Virginia, to be Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and 
5,539 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on 
the report of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the 
United States, after receiving testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, Chairman, 
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States, who 
was accompanied by several of his associates.
ARMY/MARINE READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness concluded hearings to 
examine the readiness challenges confronting the United States Army and 
Marine Corps forces and their ability to successfully execute the National 
Military Strategy, after receiving testimony from Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz, 
USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command; Gen. David A. Bramlett, 
USA, former Commanding General, U.S. Army Forces Command; Maj. Gen. Wayne E. 
Rollings, USMC, Commanding General, II Marine Expeditionary Force; Maj. Gen. 
Emil R. Bedard, USMC, Commanding General, 2nd Marine Division; Maj. Gen. 
William L. Nyland, USMC, Commanding General, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing; Maj. 
Gen. Ray L. Smith, USMC, Commanding General, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune; 
and Brig. Gen. Paul M. Lee, Jr., USMC, 2nd Force Service Support Group.
MIDWEST ELECTRICITY PRICE SPIKES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the need to provide consumers with the benefits of a competitive 
electric market, focusing on the electricity pricing abnormalities that 
occurred in the Midwest during the week of June 22 through 26, 1998, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Durbin; James J. Hoecker, Chairman, Federal 
Energy Regulatory Commission; Jolynn Barry Butler, Commissioner, Public 
Utility Commission of Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and Susan Tomasky, American Electric Power 
Company, both of Columbus, Ohio; James L. Turner, Cinergy Corporation, 
Cincinnati, Ohio; Steven J. Kean, Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas; and 
Mark Millett, Steel Dynamics, Inc., Butler, Indiana.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of 
Patricia T. Montoya, of New Mexico, to be Commissioner on Children, Youth, 
and Families, Department of Health and Human Services, and David C. 
Williams, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. 
Montoya was introduced by Senators Domenici and Bingaman.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Patricia A. Broderick, Natalia Combs Greene, and Neal 
E. Kravitz, each to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia, Kenneth Prewitt, of New York, to be Director of the 
Census, Department of Commerce, and Robert M. Walker, of Tennessee, to be 
Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency;

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  S. 2404, to establish designations for United States Postal Service 
buildings located in Coconut Grove, Opa Locka, Carol City, and Miami, 
Florida;
  S. 2370, to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at Tall Timbers Village Square, United States Highway 19 South, in 
Thomasville, Georgia, as the ``Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper Station'';
  S. 2310, to designate the United States Post Office located at 297 
Larkfield Road in East Northport, New York, as the ``Jerome Anthony Ambro, 
Jr. Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3999, to designate the United States Postal Service building located 
at 5209 Greene Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the ``David P. 
Richardson, Jr., Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3939, to designate the United States Postal Service building located 
at 658 63rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the ``Edgar C. Campbell, 
Sr., Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 3810, to designate the United States Post Office located at 202 
Center Street in Garwood, New Jersey, as the ``James T. Leonard, Sr. Post 
Office'';
  H.R. 3808, to designate the United States Post Office located at 47526 
Clipper Drive in Plymouth, Michigan, as the ``Carl D. Pursell Post Office'';
  H.R. 3630, to redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 9719 Candelaria Road NE. in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the 
``Steven Schiff Post Office'';
  H.R. 2799, to redesignate the building of the United States Postal Service 
located at 324 South Laramie Street, in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Reverend 
Milton R. Brunson Post Office Building'';
  H.R. 2798, to redesignate the building of the United States Postal Service 
located at 2419 West Monroe Street, in Chicago, Illinois, as the ``Nancy B. 
Jefferson Post Office Building''; and
  H.R. 2623, to designate the United States Post Office located at 16250 
Highway 603 in Kiln, Mississippi, as the ``Ray J. Favre Post Office 
Building''.
FOOD IMPORT SAFETY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 
resumed hearings to examine the safety of food imports, focusing on imported 
fruits and vegetables, receiving testimony from Senators Coverdell, Kennedy, 
Mikulski, and Harkin; Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner, United States Customs 
Service, Department of the Treasury; Thomas J. Billy, Administrator, Food 
Safety and Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; William B. 
Schultz, Deputy Commissioner for Policy, Food and Drug Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; and Sanford A. Miller, University 
of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, on behalf of the Committee to 
Ensure Safe Food From Production to Consumption, Institute of Medicine/
National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 2151, to clarify Federal law to prohibit the dispensing or distribution 
of a controlled substance for the purpose of causing, or assisting in 
causing, the suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing of any individual, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2099, to provide for enhanced Federal sentencing guidelines for 
counterfeiting offenses, with an amendment;
  S. 2235, to amend part Q of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 to encourage the use of school resource officers;
  S. 2253, to establish a matching grant program to help State and local 
jurisdictions purchase bullet resistant equipment for use by law enforcement 
departments;
  H.R. 379, for the relief of Larry Errol Pieterse;.
  H.R. 2744, for the relief of Chong Ho Kwak;
  S. 1551, for the relief of Kerantha Poole-Christian;
  H.R. 378, for the relief of Heraclio Tolley;
  S. 1202, providing relief for Sergio Lozano, Fauricio Lozano, and Ana 
Lozano; and
  S. 1460, for the relief of Alexandre Malofienko, Olga Matsko, and their 
son Vladimir Malofienko.
CAPITOL SECURITY
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held closed hearings to 
examine United States Capitol security issues, receiving testimony from 
Larry E. Torrence, Acting Assistant Director, and Robert M. Blitzer, Section 
Chief, Domestic Terrorism Unit, both of the National Security Division, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Gregory S. Casey, 
Sergeant at Arms, United States Senate; Wilson Livingood, Sergeant at Arms, 
U.S. House of Representatives; Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol; 
Gary Abrecht, Chief of Police, and Bob Greeley, Director, Physical Division, 
both of the United States Capitol Police; and Sam Raines, Booz, Allen & 
Hamilton, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
SMALL BUSINESS COMPETITION
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings to examine how 
small businesses can compete with campus bookstores, and related provisions 
of S. 2490, to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from 
requiring the purchase of goods and services from on-campus businesses, 
intentionally withholding course information from off-campus businesses, or 
preventing students from obtaining course information or materials from off-
campus businesses, after receiving testimony from William D. Gray, Gray's 
College Bookstore, Charlotte, North

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Carolina, on behalf of the Campus Area Small Business Alliance; Graham 
Gillette, Pinnacle Communications, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the Campus 
Book Store, Inc.; Rob Karr, Illinois Retail Merchants Association, Chicago; 
and Anthony Samu, United States Student Association, Washington, D.C.
AUBURN INDIAN RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 1805, to 
amend the Auburn Indian Restoration Act to establish restrictions related to 
gaming on and use of land held in trust for the United Auburn Indian 
Community of the Auburn Rancheria of California, after receiving testimony 
from Representative Doolittle; Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; and Jessica Tavares, United Auburn Indian 
Community, Newcastle, California.
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