[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 3, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D204-D206]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Education, 
after receiving testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of 
Education.
NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2000 for the 
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from John J. Hamre, 
Deputy Secretary, and William J. Lynn, III, Under Secretary 
(Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of 
Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS--CAPITOL POLICE BOARD/ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 
for the U.S. Capitol Police Board, after receiving testimony from James 
W. Ziglar, Senate Sergeant at Arms, Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the 
Capitol, and Gray L. Abrecht, Chief, U.S. Capitol Police, all on behalf 
of the Capitol Police Board.
  Also, Subcommittee held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, 
receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol, who 
was accompanied by several of his associates.
APPROPRIATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 
for the Department of Defense, focusing on recommendations pertaining 
to military retirement, pay and compensation, and the Future Years 
Defense Program, and certain provisions of S. 4, to improve pay and 
retirement equity for members of the Armed Forces (passed Senate on 2-
24-99), after receiving testimony from Christopher Jehn, Assistant 
Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office; Rudy 
deLeon, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Patrick 
T. Henry, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve 
Affairs; Carolyn H. Becraft, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Ruby B. DeMesme, Assistant Secretary of 
the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and 
Environment; James R. Hosek and Beth J. Asch, both of the Rand 
Corporation, Washington D.C.; and MCPO Joseph Barnes, USN (Ret), Fleet 
Reserve Association, COL Steven P. Strobridge, USAF (Ret), Retired 
Officers Association, and Sydney T. Hickey, National Military Family 
Association, all of Alexandria, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Subcommittee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 
for the Department of Defense, focusing on Army modernization, and the 
future years defense programs, after receiving testimony from Richard 
Armitage, and Gen. Robert W. Riscassi, USA (Ret.), both former Members, 
National Defense Panel; Lt. Gen. Paul J. Kern, USA, Military Deputy, 
Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, 
Logistics, and Technology; Lt. Gen. Randall L. Rigby, Jr., USA, Deputy 
Commanding General, Army Training and Doctrine Command; Brig. Gen. 
Michael J. Squires, USA, Deputy Director of the Army National Guard; 
Thomas W. Rabaut, United Defense LP, Arlington, Virginia; and Arthur J. 
Veitch, General Dynamics Land Systems, Warren, Michigan.
SEAPOWER OVERVIEW
Committee on the Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded 
hearings on the 21st century seapower vision overview and maritime 
implications of 21st century threats, after receiving testimony from 
Richard Danzig, Secretary of the Navy; Paul M. Lowell, Deputy Director 
of Naval Intelligence;

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Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval 
Operations for Resources; and Lt. Gen. John E. Rhodes, USMC, Commanding 
General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command.
YEAR 2000 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the President's proposed 
budget for fiscal year 2000, after receiving testimony from Dan L. 
Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported S. 96, to regulate commerce between and among the 
several States by providing for the orderly resolution of disputes 
arising out of computer-based problems related to processing data that 
includes a 2-digit expression of that year's date, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Power Marketing 
Administrations, after receiving testimony from Patricia J. Beneke, 
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Eluid L. Martinez, 
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department of the 
Interior; and Michael L. Telson, Chief Financial Officer, Charles A. 
Borchardt, Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, Michael A. 
Deihl, Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration, Michael S. 
Hacskaylo, Administrator, Western Area Power Administration, and 
Stephen Wright, Senior Vice President, Bonneville Power Administration, 
all of the Department of Energy.
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife and Drinking Water concluded oversight hearings on the 
Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of the 1996 amendments 
to the Safe Drinking Water Act, after receiving testimony from J. 
Charles Fox, Assistant Administrator, Office of Water, and Norine 
Noonan, Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development, 
both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Gerry C. Biberstine, 
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Denver, on behalf 
of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators; Merril 
Bingham, Provo City Water Resources, Provo, Utah, on behalf of the 
American Water Works Association; Erik D. Olson, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; Gurnie Gunter, Kansas City Water 
Services Department, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the 
Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies; Steven Levy, Atlantic State 
Rural Water Association, Norwich, Connecticut, on behalf of the 
National Rural Water Association; and Andrew M. Chapman, Elizabethtown 
Water Company, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, on behalf of the National 
Association of Water Companies.
EDUCATION TAX PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine education 
savings incentives, education financing, school construction financing 
proposals, and S. 211, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to 
make permanent the exclusion for employer-provided educational 
assistance programs, after receiving testimony from Senators Coverdell, 
Graham, Schumer, Sessions, and McConnell; Dennis Zimmerman, Specialist 
in Public Finance, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; 
Esthelda R. Parker Selby, Rehoboth Elementary School, Milton, Delaware; 
James T. McCarthy, Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith, Inc., 
Princeton, New Jersey; Alexis Garland, Hewlett Packard Company, New 
Castle, Delaware; Shirley Hughes, Ceridian Corporation, Bloomington, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers; 
William E. Manning, Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of 
Education, Wilmington, Delaware; and Octavio J. Visiedo, OV Education 
Concepts, Miami, Florida.
CASPIAN SEA EXPORT ENERGY PIPELINE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings on the commercial 
viability of a Caspian Sea export energy pipeline, after receiving 
testimony from Richard L. Morningstar, Special Advisor to the President 
and Secretary of State for Caspian Basin Energy Diplomacy; Nancy E. 
Frame, Deputy Director, Trade and Development Agency; Jeffrey L. 
Miller, Group Manager, Structured Export Finance, Export-Import Bank of 
the United States; Audrey Zuck, Regional Manager, New Independent 
States, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Edward M. Smith, 
Pipeline Solutions Group International, London, England; J. Michael 
Stinson, Conoco, Inc., Houston, Texas; and Maureen Greenwood, Amnesty 
International, Washington, D.C.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
future of the Independent

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Counsel Act, after receiving testimony from Robert S. Bennet, Skadden, 
Arps, Slate, Meagher, and Flom; Nathan Lewin, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca 
and Lewin; Henry Ruth, former Special Prosecutor of the Watergate 
Special Prosecution Force; and Robert B. Fiske, Jr., Davis, Polk, and 
Wardwell, all of Washington, D.C.; and George Beall, Baltimore, 
Maryland, former United States Attorney for the District of Maryland.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Aging concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of and 
proposed authorizations for the Older Americans Act, after receiving 
testimony from Jeanette C. Takamura, Assistant Secretary of Health and 
Human Services for Aging; Ray Bramucci, Assistant Secretary of Labor 
for Employment and Training; William D. Bechill, Maryland Commission on 
Aging, Kensington; Geneva Shedd, Indiana Bureau of Aging and In Home 
Services, Indianapolis, on behalf of the National Association of State 
Units on Aging; Neetu Dhawan-Gray, Baltimore City Commission on Aging 
Retirement Education, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National 
Association of Area Agencies on Aging; and C. Susan Oliver, Meigs 
County Council on Aging, Inc., Pomeroy, Ohio.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee completed its review of those 
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in 
the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2000, and agreed on 
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
INDIAN TRUST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs/Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:
  Committee held joint oversight hearings to examine the Department 
of the Interior's implementation of the Indian Trust Fund Management 
Reform Act, receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the 
Interior; Edward K. Thomas, Central Council of Tlingit and Haida 
Indians Tribes of Alaska, Juneau, on behalf of the Advisory Board to 
the Special Trustee for American Indians on Trust Fund Reform; 
Charles Tillman, Osage Nation of Oklahoma, Tulsa, on behalf of the 
Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds; and Paul 
M. Homan, Homan and Associates, Washington, D.C., former Special 
Trustee for American Indians.
  Hearings recessed subject to the call.