[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 20 (Thursday, February 4, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERTERRORISM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on 
counterterrorism issues, including terrorist prevention, response 
capabilities, domestic readiness, domestic terrorist groups, the 
bombings in East Africa, international terrorism, and international 
partnerships and cooperations, after receiving testimony from Janet 
Reno, Attorney General, and Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Madeleine K. 
Albright, Secretary of State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee began markup of S. 257, to state 
the policy of the United States regarding the deployment of a missile 
defense capable of defending the territory of the United States against 
limited ballistic missile attack, but did not complete action thereon, 
and recessed subject to call.
RECREATION FEE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to review the Department of the Interior Recreation Fee Demonstration 
Program, focusing on implementation, fee revenue generation, 
expenditures, approaches to fee collection, and effects on visitation, 
after receiving testimony from Barry T. Hill, Associate Director for 
Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and 
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Robert J. 
Lamb, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Budget and 
Finance; Ronald E. Stewart, Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Derrick Crandall, American 
Recreation Coalition, and Edward W. Moreland, American Motorcyclist 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert Jones, Utah Guides and 
Outfitters Association, Moab; David L. Brown, America Outdoors, 
Knoxville, Tennessee; and W. Kent Olson, Friends of Acadia, Bar Harbor, 
Maine.
NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight 
hearings to review activities of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 
including nuclear industry regulation, enforcement and safety concerns, 
and NRC organizational and regulatory reforms, after receiving 
testimony from Shirley Ann Jackson, Chairman, and Greta Joy Dicus, Nils 
Diaz, Edward McGaffigan, and Jeffrey S. Merrifield, all Commissioners, 
all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Gary L. Jones, Associate 
Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, 
and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Joe F. 
Colvin, Nuclear Energy Institute, and David Lochbaum, Union of 
Concerned Scientists, both of Washington, D.C.; and James T. Rhodes, 
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, Atlanta, Georgia.
WORK INCENTIVES FOR THE DISABLED
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S.331, to amend the 
Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage 
for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to 
Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration 
to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, 
receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy; former Senator Dole; Joe 
Leean, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, Madison; 
Larry D. Henderson, Independent Resources, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; 
Allan I. Bergman, Brain Injury Association, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; 
and Joann Elliot, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of James M. Simon, Jr., of Alabama, to be Assistant Director 
of Central Intelligence for Administration, after the nominee testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.