[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 27, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D78-D79]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 4, 
to improve pay and retirement equity for members of the Armed Forces, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
BUDGET PROCESS REFORM
Committee on the Budget/Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committees 
concluded joint hearings on S. 92, to provide for biennial process and 
a biennial appropriations process and to enhance oversight and the 
performance of the Federal Government, and S. 93, to improve and 
strengthen the budget process, after receiving testimony from Senator 
McCain; Representatives Nussle and Cardin; Timothy J. Muris, George 
Mason University School of Law, Fairfax, Virginia; and Martha H. 
Phillips, The Concord Coalition, and Van Doorn Ooms, Committee for 
Economic Research, both of Washington, D.C.
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY IMPACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the impacts of coastal areas and communities 
caused by offshore oil and gas exploration and development, and on S. 
25, to provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local 
governments, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments 
of 1978, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban 
Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife 
Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act) to 
establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs 
of the American people, after receiving testimony from Alaska State 
Representative Jim Whitaker, Fairbanks; James I. Palmer, Jr., 
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Jackson; Donald F. 
Oltz, Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Jack C. Caldwell, 
Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge; and Mark Van 
Putten, National Wildlife Federation, Vienna, Virginia.
TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on trade policy 
issues affecting the services sector, international investments, 
agricultural trade, housing costs, and the steel industry, receiving 
testimony from Gary G. Benanav, New York Life International Inc., New 
York, New York; Calman J. Cohen, Emergency Committee for American 
Trade, and Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Dean Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation, Parkridge, Illinois; 
George Becker,

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United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; J. Peter 
Kelly, LTV Steel Company, Cleveland, Ohio; and Richard K. Riederer, 
Weirton Steel Corporation, Weirton, West Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IMF REFORM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion met to receive a briefing on 
International Monetary Fund reform issues, including transparency, 
accountability, market-based loans, private sector burden-sharing, and 
policy improvement from Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the 
Treasury.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SATELLITE/CABLE COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded hearings to examine the competitive 
implications of Echostar's proposed purchase of the MCI orbital 
satellite slot, after receiving testimony from Decker Anstrom, National 
Cable Television Association, and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, both 
of Washington, D.C.; and Charles W. Ergen, Echostar Communications 
Corporation, Littleton, Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 280, to provide for education flexibility 
partnership, with an amendment.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee adopted its rules of procedure 
for the 106th Congress.