[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 45 (Monday, March 22, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Small Business Administration, after receiving 
testimony from Aida Alvarez, Administrator, Small Business 
Administration.
ANTI-TERRORISM PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded closed and open hearings on Department of 
Defense policies and programs to combat terrorism, after receiving 
testimony from Brian E. Sheridan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and Charles L. 
Cragin, Principal Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, both of the 
Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. John F. Sattler, USMC, Deputy 
Director for Operations Combating Terrorism, Joint Staff; and an 
official from the intelligence community.
INTERNET SECURITIES FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigation held hearings to examine federal and state enforcement 
efforts to combat securities fraud on the Internet, particularly penny 
stock fraud, and the adequacy of federal and state consumer education 
programs, receiving testimony from Richard J. Hillman, Associate 
Director, Financial Institutions and Markets Issues, General Government 
Division, General Accounting Office; Howard M. Friedman, University of 
Toledo, Toledo, Ohio; Thomas M. Gardner, Motley Fool, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Kristin Morris, Berryville, Virginia; and Galen O'Kane, 
Ellsworth, Maine.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIREARM PROSECUTIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence and the 
Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight concluded joint oversight 
hearings to review the Department of Justice firearm prosecution, 
focusing on violent crime prosecution, firearm legislation, Project 
Achilles, and Project Triggerlock, after receiving testimony from 
Andrew L. Vita, Assistant Director of Field Operations, Washington 
Field Division, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Department of 
the Treasury; Helen Fahey, United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Virginia; Donald Stern, United States Attorney for the 
District of Massachusetts; Thomas W. Corbett Jr., former United States 
Attorney, Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, Pittsburgh; 
Jerry A. Oliver, Richmond Police Department, Richmond, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Project Exile; and John F. Timoney, Philadelphia Police 
Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
NURSING HOME QUALITY
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
quality of care in nursing homes focusing on the federal-state survey 
and certification system and complaint and enforcement practices, after 
receiving testimony from George F. Grob, Deputy Inspector General for 
Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Inspector General, Department of 
Health and Human Services; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health 
Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human 
Services Division, General Accounting Office; Gloria Cruz, Millsboro, 
Delaware; and Denise Bryant, Detroit, Michigan.