[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 138 (Tuesday, October 6, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1106-D1107]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
worldwide threats facing the United States and potential United States 
operational and contingency requirements, after receiving testimony 
from William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, 
USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 2178, to amend the National Housing Act to authorize the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to insure mortgages for the 
acquisition, construction, or substantial rehabilitation of child care 
and development facilities and to establish the Children's Development 
Commission to certify such facilities for such insurance, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Kohl; Representatives Maloney and 
Baker; Mildred Kiefer Wurf, on behalf of the Girls Incorporated and the 
National Collaboration for Youth, and Melinda Green, National Black 
Child Development Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Faith Wohl, 
Child Care Action Campaign, New York, New York; and Cheryl Luce, 
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  The nominations of David Micaela, of New York, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, and Rose Eileen 
Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Non-
Proliferation and National Security, both of the Department of Energy, 
and Eljay B. Bowron, of Michigan, to be Inspector General, Department 
of the Interior;
  S. 2402, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain 
lands in San Juan County, New Mexico, to San Juan College, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2413, to provide for the development of a management plan for the 
Woodland Lake Park tract in Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in the 
State of Arizona reflecting the current use of the tract as a public 
park, with amendments;
  S. 2513, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal 
land located within or adjacent to Rogue River National Forest and to 
clarify the authority of the Bureau of Land Management to sell and 
exchange other Federal land in Oregon; and
  S. 2458, to amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
creation of the Morristown National Historical Park in the State of New 
Jersey, and for other purposes'' to authorize the acquisition of 
property known as the ``Warren Property''.
ACID DEPOSITION CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on S. 
1097, to reduce acid deposition under the Clean Air Act, after 
receiving testimony from Senator D'Amato; Representative Solomon; Brian 
J. McLean, Director, Acid Rain Division, Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Edward Kropp, West Virginia Department 
of Environmental Protection, Charleston; Bernard Melewski, Adirondack 
Council, Albany, New York; and William F. Tyndall, Cinergy Corporation, 
Cincinnati, Ohio.
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
a report on the nature and extent of the existing and emerging 
ballistic missile threat to the United States, after receiving 
testimony from Donald H. Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, Barry 
M. Blechman, former Assistant Director for Weapons Evaluation and 
Control, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and William Robert 
Graham, former Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, and 
former Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, all on behalf of the Commission to Assess the Ballistic 
Missile Threat to the United States (Rumsfeld Commission).
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Sylvia M. Mathews, of West Virginia, to be Deputy 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after the nominee, who 
was introduced by Senators Byrd and

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Rockefeller, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
COAL ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded oversight hearings to examine the implementation of the Coal 
Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992 (Coal Act), focusing on the 
financial status of the funding of health benefits for retired coal 
miners and how the recent Supreme Court ruling in Eastern Enterprises 
v. Apfel will impact on the financial management of the United Mine 
Workers of America's Combined Benefit Fund, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Rockefeller and Conrad; Kathy Karpan, Director, Office of 
Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the 
Interior; and Marilyn O'Connell, Associate Commissioner for Program 
Benefits, Social Security Administration.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of William J. Hibbler and Matthew F. Kennelly, each to be a 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 
Yvette Kane and James M. Munley, each to be a United States District 
Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Alex R. Munson, to be a 
Judge for the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, and 
Francis M. Allegra, of Virginia, Lawrence Baskir, of Maryland, Lynn 
Jeanne Bush, of the District of Columbia, Edward J. Damich, of 
Virginia, and Nancy B. Firestone, of Virginia, each to be a Judge of 
the United States Court of Federal Claims, after the nominees testified 
and answered questions in their own behalf. Messrs. Hibbler and 
Kennelly were introduced by Senator Durbin, Ms. Kane was introduced by 
Senators Specter and Santorum, Mr. Munley was introduced by Senators 
Specter and Santorum and Representative McDade, Mr. Munson was 
introduced by Northern Mariana Islands Resident Representative Juan 
Babauta, Messrs. Allegra and Damich and Ms. Firestone were introduced 
by Senator Robb, Mr. Baskir was introduced by Senator Sarbanes, and Ms. 
Bush was introduced by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes 
Norton.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Leigh A. Bradley, of Virginia, to be General Counsel, 
Eligah Dane Clark, of Alabama, to be Chairman of the Board of Veterans' 
Appeals, and Edward A. Powell, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary for Management, all of the Department of Veterans Affairs.