[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 28 (Tuesday, February 23, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D155-D156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS/NIH
Committee on Appropriations:Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Health and 
Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health, receiving 
testimony from Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; 
and Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department 
of Health and Human Services, who was accompanied by several of his 
associates.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MONETARY POLICY/FINANCIAL SERVICES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
oversight hearings on the Federal Reserve's semi-annual Humphrey-
Hawkins monetary policy report and on proposed legislation to enhance 
competition in the financial services industry by providing a 
prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, 
and other financial service providers, receiving testimony from Alan 
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
  Hearings will continue tomorrow.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on elements of 
the framework for Social Security and Medicare in the President's 
proposed budget for fiscal year 2000, including reform principles, 
program structure, trust fund accounting, budget surpluses and debt 
reduction, general revenue payments, private sector investments, 
demographics, and Universal Savings Accounts, after receiving testimony 
from Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and David 
M. Walker, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office.
SATELLITE TV ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 303, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to enhance 
the ability of direct broadcast satellite and other multichannel video 
providers to compete effectively with cable television systems, after 
receiving testimony from Andrew S. Fisher, Cox Broadcasting Company, 
Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the National Association of 
Broadcasters; Eddy W. Hartenstein, DIRECTV, Inc., El Segundo, 
California; and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, Washington, D.C.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, February 
12, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Stevens, Burns, 
Lott, Hutchison, Ashcroft, Frist, Snowe, Brownback, Abraham, 
Rockefeller, Hollings, Inouye, Bryan, Breaux, Dorgan, Wyden, and 
Cleland.
  Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens, 
Gorton, Lott, Ashcroft, Hutchison, Abraham, Frist, Brownback, Hollings, 
Inouye, Kerry, Breaux, Rockefeller, Dorgan, Wyden, and Cleland.
  Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism: 
Senators Ashcroft (Chairman), Gorton, Abraham, Burns, Brownback, Bryan, 
and Breaux.
  Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness: Senators Abraham 
(Chairman), Snowe,

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Ashcroft, Frist, Brownback, Dorgan, Bryan, Hollings, and Rockefeller.
  Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senators Snowe (Chair), 
Stevens, Gorton, Hutchison, Kerry, Inouye, and Breaux.
  Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Frist 
(Chairman), Burns, Hutchison, Stevens, Abraham, Breaux, Rockefeller, 
Kerry, and Dorgan.
  Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senators 
Hutchison (Chair), Stevens, Burns, Snowe, Frist, Abraham, Ashcroft, 
Brownback, Inouye, Breaux, Dorgan, Bryan, Wyden, and Cleland.
U.S. TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues of 
international dispute settlement and domestic enforcement measures 
relating to United States trade agreement compliance, including the 
World Trade Organization, bilateral agreements, U.S. trade laws, North 
American Free Trade Agreement, and the beef, distilled spirits, and 
banana industries, after receiving testimony from David L. Aaron, Under 
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; Susan G. Esserman, 
General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Jeffrey M. 
Lange, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, former U.S. Deputy Trade 
Representative, Charles D. Lambert, National Cattlemen's Beef 
Association, Mark Z. Orr, Distilled Spirits Council of the United 
States, Inc., and Ira Wolf, all of Washington, D.C.; and Dennis Doyle, 
Chiquita Brands International, Cincinnati, Ohio.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: Committee concluded 
hearings on elementary and secondary education reform initiatives at 
the state level and the view of state governors on the proper role of 
the federal government in education, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Voinovich; New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Trenton; 
Michigan Governor John Engler, Lansing; Pennsylvania Governor Tom 
Ridge, Harrisburg; and Maryland Governor Parris N. Glendening, 
Annapolis.