[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 30 (Thursday, February 25, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D176-D178]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
oversight hearings on Department of Transportation management issues 
raised in recent General Accounting Office and Inspector General 
reports, focusing on the Federal Aviation Administration, aviation, 
highway, and rail safety programs, Amtrak's financial condition, year 
2000 computer problem, and the Coast Guard anti-drug efforts, after 
receiving testimony from John H. Anderson, Jr., Director, 
Transportation Issues, Resource, Community, and Economic Development 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector 
General, and Peter J. Basso, Chief Financial Officer/Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs, both of the Department of 
Transportation.
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
2000 for the Internal Revenue Service, receiving testimony from Charles 
O. Rossotti, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 4.
U.S. KOSOVO POLICY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on United 
States policy regarding Kosovo, focusing on diplomacy, NATO air strike 
threats, a NATO-led implementation force, the Rambouillet negotiation, 
the Kosovo Verification Mission, and U.S. military intervention, after 
receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense 
for Policy; Thomas Pickering, Under Secretary of State for Political 
Affairs; and Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs 
of Staff.
FINANCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings 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 services 
providers, after receiving testimony from Michael E. Patterson, J.P. 
Morgan and Co. Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the Financial 
Services Council; E. Lee Beard, First Federal Bank, Hazelton, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the America's Community Bankers; William L. 
McQuillan, City National Bank, Greeley, Nebraska, on behalf of the 
Independent Bankers Association of America; James D. Ericson, 
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 
behalf of the American Council of Life Insurance; Robert W. Gillespie, 
KeyCorp, Cleveland , Ohio, on behalf of the Bankers Roundtable; Hjalma 
Johnson, East Coast Bank Corp, Dade City, Florida, on behalf of the 
American Bankers Association; John G. Finneran, Jr., Capital One 
Financial Corporation, Falls Church, Virginia, on behalf of the 
Association of Financial Services Holding Companies; Bart Harvey, 
Enterprise Foundation, Columbia, Maryland; and Jeffrey A. Tassey, 
American Financial Services Association, Marc E. Lackritz, Securities 
Industry Association, Scott A. Sinder, on behalf of the Independent 
Insurance Agents of America, Mary Griffin, Consumers Union, Deborah 
Goldberg, Center for Community Change, Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm 
Coalition, and John Taylor, National Community Investment Coalition, 
all of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of T.J. Glauthier, of California, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Energy, and Rose Eilene Gottemoeller, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Non-Proliferation and National 
Security.

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ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget request for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Energy and the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony from Bill Richardson, 
Secretary of Energy.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget request for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, 
after receiving testimony from Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, 
Jim Lyons, Under Secretary of Agriculture, and Mike Dombeck, Chief, 
U.S. Forest Service, who was accompanied by several of his associates, 
all of the Department of Agriculture.
SODA ASH EXPORTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine Asian trade barriers to United 
States soda ash exports, after receiving testimony from Richard L. 
Hogan, Solvay Minerals, Inc., Houston, Texas; John Andrews, American 
Natural Soda Ash Corporation, Westport, Connecticut; and James Pearce, 
FMC Wyoming Corporation, Green River.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
247, to amend title 17, United States Code, to reform the copyright law 
with respect to satellite retransmissions of broadcast signals, with an 
amendment.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 106th 
Congress, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight: Senators Thurmond 
(Chairman), DeWine, Ashcroft, Abraham, Sessions, Schumer, Biden, 
Torricelli, and Leahy.
  Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts: Senators 
Grassley (Chairman), Sessions, Thurmond, Abraham, Torricelli, Feingold, 
and Schumer.
  Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information: 
Senators Kyl (Chairman), Hatch, Grassley, DeWine, Feinstein, Biden, and 
Kohl.
  Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and Competition: Senators 
DeWine (Chairman), Hatch, Specter, Thurmond, Kohl, Torricelli, and 
Leahy.
  Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights: 
Senators Ashcroft (Chairman), Hatch, Bob Smith, Specter, Thurmond, 
Feingold, Kennedy, and Leahy.
  Subcommittee on Immigration: Senators Abraham (Chairman), Specter, 
Grassley, Kyl, Kennedy, Feinstein, and Schumer.
  Subcommittee on Youth Violence: Senators Sessions (Chairman), Bob 
Smith, Kyl, Ashcroft, Biden, Feinstein, and Kohl.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded hearings to review competition and antitrust 
issues relating to the Telecommunications Act, after receiving 
testimony from former Senator Pressler; William E. Kennard, Chairman, 
Federal Communications Commission; Joel I. Klein, Assistant Attorney 
General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; and Reed E. Hundt, 
Washington, D.C., former Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the public health problem 
of antimicrobial resistance, or the ability of bacteria to become 
resistant to antibiotics, after receiving testimony from David Satcher, 
Surgeon General/Assistant Secretary for Health, James M. Hughes, 
Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, and Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National 
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of 
Health, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Bernice 
Steinhardt, Director, Health Services Quality and Public Health Issues, 
General Accounting Office; Mary J.R. Gilchrist, University of Iowa 
Hygienic Laboratory, Iowa City, Iowa, on behalf of the Association of 
Public Health Laboratories; Diane M. Dwyer, Maryland Department of 
Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore, on behalf of the Council of State 
and Territorial Epidemiologists; Stuart B. Levy, Alliance for the 
Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts; and W. Gary Tarpley, 
Pharmacia and Upjohn, Bridgewater, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered reported the 
following measures:
  S. Res. 51, providing for members on the part of the Senate of the 
Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee on the Library, 
without recommendation; and

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  S. Res. 52, to authorize the printing of a collection of the rules of 
the committees of the Senate, without recommendation.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 106th 
Congress.