[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 16, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D278-D281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, after 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Lawrence J. Wilker, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the 
Performing Arts; Earl A. Powell, III, Director, National Gallery of 
Art; I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; and Lee H. 
Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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APPROPRIATIONS--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Immigration and Naturalization, after 
receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.
BIOTERRORISM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, with the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 
concluded hearings to assess the roles and preparedness of the 
Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Veterans 
Affairs to respond to a domestic chemical or biological weapons attack, 
after receiving testimony from Kenneth W. Kizer, Under Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs for Health; Margaret A. Hamburg, Assistant Secretary 
of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; Henry L. 
Hinton, Jr., Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Joshua 
Lederberg, Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Donald A. 
Henderson, Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense 
Studies, Baltimore, Maryland; and Robert C. Myers, BioPort Corporation, 
Lansing, Michigan.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Agriculture and 
Department of Health and Human Services food safety programs, after 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Catherine E. Woteki, Under Secretary for Food Safety, and Dennis 
Kaplan, Deputy Director, Budget, Legislative and Regulatory Systems, 
both of the Department of Agriculture; and Jane Henney, Commissioner, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Jeffrey P. Koplan, Director, Centers 
for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the Department of Health 
and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 
for Navy shore infrastructure and military construction, after 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy for Installations and Environment; Rear Adm. Ralph E. Suggs, 
Deputy Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command; 
Rear Adm. Thomas F. Carrato, Chief Operating Officer, Tricare 
Management Activity, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Health Affairs; Frederick N. Baillie, Executive Director of Resources, 
Planning, and Performance, Defense Logistics Support Command, Defense 
Logistics Agency; and Gail H. McGinn, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary 
of Defense, Personnel Support, Families and Education.
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Committee on Armed Services/Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 
Committees concluded joint closed hearings on alleged Chinese espionage 
at the Department of Energy laboratories, after receiving testimony 
from William B. Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department 
of Defense, focusing on the Department of Energy national security 
programs, and the future years defense program, after receiving 
testimony from William B. Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded closed and open hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, 
focusing on information warfare and critical infrastructure protection, 
and the future years defense program, after receiving testimony from 
Gen. Robert T. Marsh, USAF (Ret.), Chairman, President's Commission on 
Critical Infrastructure Protection; Michael A. Vatis, Deputy Assistant 
Director and Chief, National Infrastructure Protection Center, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Arthur L. Money, Senior 
Civilian Official, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, for 
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence; and Maj. Gen. John 
Campbell, USAF, Director, Joint Task Force for Computer Network 
Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for the Export Administration Act, 
focusing on the globalization of technology, multilateral 
nonproliferation, and current national security threats, after 
receiving testimony from John P. Barker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State for Export Controls; R. Roger Majak, Assistant Secretary of

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Commerce for Export Administration; Patricia Dedik, Director, Nuclear 
Transfer and Supplier Policy Division, Office of Arms Control and 
Nonproliferation, Department of Energy; Dan Hoydysh, Unisys 
Corporation, on behalf of the Computer Coalition for Responsible 
Exports, Paul Freedenberg, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Trade Administration, on behalf of the Association for Manufacturing 
Technology, and John W. Douglass, Aerospace Industries Association, all 
of Washington, D.C.; and Stephen D. Bryen, Silver Spring, Maryland, 
former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
BUDGET 2000
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to mark up a proposed concurrent 
resolution setting forth the fiscal year 2000 budget for the Federal 
Government, but did not complete consideration thereon, and will meet 
again tomorrow.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service, 
focusing on fair market value, concession reform, recreation fees, 
payments to states, and federal land usage, after receiving testimony 
from Ronald E. Stewart, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture.
EPA'S RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight 
hearings on the implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's 
Risk Management Plan Program of the Clean Air Act, after receiving 
testimony from Timothy Fields, Jr., Acting Assistant Administrator for 
Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Robert M. Burnham, Chief, Domestic Terrorism Section, National Security 
Division, and Robert M. Blitzer, former Section Chief, Domestic 
Terrorism/Counterterrorism Planning Section, both of the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation, Department of Justice; Dean Kleckner, Rudd, Iowa on 
behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; James E. Bertelsmeyer, 
Heritage Propane, Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Propane 
Gas Association; Thomas M. Susman, Ropes & Gray, and Thomas E. Natan, 
Jr., National Environmental Trust, both of Washington, D.C.; Paula R. 
Littles, Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers 
International Union, Fairfax, Virginia; and Ben Laganga, Union County 
Office of Emergency Management, Westfield, New Jersey.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: PERSONAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposals to restore 
the Social Security program's solvency, focusing on personal or 
individual retirement accounts, including S. 263, to amend the Social 
Security Act to establish the Personal Retirement Accounts Program, and 
S. 21, to reduce social security payroll taxes, receiving testimony 
from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General 
Accounting Office; Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher 
& Flom, former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, and former 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and Robert D. 
Reischauer, Brookings Institution, former Director, Congressional 
Budget Office, both of Washington, D.C.; Sam Beard, Economic Security 
2000, New Castle, Delaware; Martin S. Feldstein, Harvard University, 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Bureau on Economic 
Research; and Sylvester J. Schieber, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Bethesda, 
Maryland.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--EDUCATING THE DISADVANTAGED
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on Title I, education 
programs for the disadvantaged, after receiving testimony from Wayne 
Riddle, Specialist in Education Finance, Domestic Social Policy 
Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; David 
Baroudi, State Director (Montpelier, Vermont), Title 1 Programs, 
Department of Education; Lula M. Ford, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, 
Illinois; William L. Taylor, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, 
Washington, D.C.; and Terry Bergeson, Washington State Superintendent 
of Public Instruction, Olympia, on behalf of the Council of Chief State 
School Officers.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on the President's 
fiscal year 2000 budget request for the Small Business Administration, 
including the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting program, receiving 
testimony from Aida Alvarez, Administrator, Small Business 
Administration; Mark Barbash, Columbus Countywide Development 
Corporation, Columbus Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of 
Development Companies; Agnes Noonan, Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency 
Team, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Deryl K. Schuster, Mid-America Division, 
Business Loan Center, Inc. Wichita, Kansas, on

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behalf of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders; 
and Max E. Summers, Missouri Small Business Development Centers, 
Columbia, on behalf of the Association of Small Business Development 
Centers.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.