[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 130 (Friday, September 25, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1044-D1045]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MILITARY FORCES OPERATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the world wide threat

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and status of United States military forces and potential operational 
requirements from Lt. Gen. Edward G. Anderson, Director, Strategic 
Plans and Policy, Maj. Gen. John Maher, Vice Director of Operations, 
and Rear Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, Director of Intelligence, all of the 
Joint Staff, Department of Defense.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Robert C. Randolph, of Washington, to be Assistant 
Administrator for Asia and Near East Affairs, Agency for International 
Development, B. Lynn Pascoe, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, 
and Diane Edith Watson, of California, to be Ambassador to the 
Federated States of Micronesia, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
S. 1404, to establish a Federal Commission on Statistical Policy to 
study the reorganization of the Federal statistical system, to provide 
uniform safeguards for the confidentiality of information acquired for 
exclusively statistical purposes, and to improve the efficiency of 
Federal statistical programs and the quality of Federal statistics by 
permitting limited sharing of records among designated agencies for 
statistical purposes under strong safeguards, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
FOOD IMPORT SAFETY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine the safety of food 
imports, focusing on legislative, administrative and regulatory 
remedies, after receiving testimony from Timothy M. Hammonds, Food 
Marketing Institute, Stacey A. Zawel, Grocery Manufacturers of America, 
Dane T. Bernard, National Food Processors Association, Richard 
Levinson, American Public Health Association, Carol Tucker Foreman, 
Safe Food Coalition, and Robert Hahn, Public Voice for Food and Health 
Policy, all of Washington, D.C.; Nancy Nagle, United Fresh Fruit and 
Vegetable Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Ruth Kava, American 
Council on Science and Health, New York, New York.
CAPITOL SECURITY
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee continued hearings in 
open and closed session to examine United States Capitol security 
issues, receiving testimony from Robert Gramling, Director for 
Corporate Audits and Standards Issues, Accounting and Information 
Management Division, General Accounting Office; Kenneth Lopez, Director 
of Security, Library of Congress; Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the 
Capitol; Gregory S. Casey, Sergeant at Arms, United States Senate; 
Wilson Livingood, Sergeant at Arms, U.S. House of Representatives; Gary 
Abrecht, Chief of Police, United States Capitol Police; and Joyce Doria 
and Jack Mayer, both of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Falls Church, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.