[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 25 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D132-D133]
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 Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 313, to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, to 
enact the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1999; and
  An original bill to provide for improved monetary policy and 
regulatory reform in financial institution management and activities, 
to streamline financial

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regulatory agency actions, to provide for improved consumer credit 
disclosure.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  The nominations of William Clyburn Jr., of South Carolina, and Wayne 
O. Burkes, of Mississippi, each to be a Member of the Surface 
Transportation Board, Department of Transportation; and routine 
nominations for promotion in the United States Coast Guard; and
  S. 82, authorizing funds for the Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation, with amendments.
EDUCATION BUDGET
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 
for the Department of Education, focusing on special education costs, 
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, vocational-technical 
education, career preparation programs, military children, and higher 
education, after receiving testimony from Vermont State Representative 
Albert J. Perry, Richford; Paul Marchand, Education Task Force/
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities, Betsy Brand, American Youth 
Policy Forum, Edward Kealy, Committee for Education Funding, Anthony 
Samu, United States Student Association, and William D. Hansen, 
Education Finance Council, all of Washington, D.C.; H. Allen Gilbert, 
Worcester School Board, Worcester, Vermont; John F. Deegan, Bellevue 
Public Schools, Bellevue, Nebraska, on behalf of the National Military 
Impacted Schools Association; and Dunbar Brooks, Baltimore County 
Public Schools, Towson, Maryland, on behalf of the National School 
Boards Association.