[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 24, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D337-D340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2000, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for 
their respective activities from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas A. Constantine, Administrator, Drug 
Enforcement Administration, both of the Department of Justice.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRETARY OF THE SENATE/SERGEANT AT ARMS/CBO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Gary Sisco, Secretary of the Senate; James W. Ziglar, 
Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper; and Dan L. Crippen, Director, 
Congressional Budget Office.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee 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 program, after receiving testimony from Louis Caldera, 
Secretary of the Army; Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, USA, Chief of Staff of 
the Army; Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Plewes, USAR, Chief, Army Reserve; and 
Maj. Gen. Roger C. Schultz, USARNG, Director, Army National Guard.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation

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authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, 
focusing on active and reserve military and civilian personnel 
programs, and the future years defense program, receiving testimony 
from Rudy de Leon, 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; Lt. Gen. David H. Ohle, USA, Deputy 
Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Daniel T. Oliver, USN, 
Chief of Naval Personnel and Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for 
Manpower and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Jack W. Klimp, USMC, Deputy Chief of 
Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Lt. Gen. Donald L. 
Peterson, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel.
FORCE PROTECTION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded 
hearings to examine littoral force protection and power projection in 
the 21st century, after receiving testimony from Rear Adm. John B. 
Nathman, USN, Director, Air Warfare Division; Rear Adm. Michael G. 
Mullen, USN, Director, Surface Warfare Division; Rear Adm. Robert C. 
Williamson, USN, Director, Office of Program Appraisal; Maj. Gen. 
Dennis T. Krupp, USMC, Director, Expeditionary Warfare Division; and 
Brig. Gen. Jan C. Huly, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Operations.
SEC FEE COLLECTIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities concluded hearings to examine the fee collections and 
funding structure of the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to 
the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 
focusing on registration, transaction, and merger and tender offers 
fees, after receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Chairman, 
Securities Exchange Commission; Marc E. Lackritz, Securities Industry 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Lee Korins and Arthur Kearney, both 
of the Security Traders Association, and Robert Seijas, Specialist 
Association of the New York Stock Exchange, all of New York, New York.
NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE/DISPOSAL
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine nuclear waste storage and disposal policy, including S. 608, 
to direct the Secretary of Energy to develop an integrated management 
system for spent nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste, focusing on 
a disposal management system, an interim storage facility, user fee 
collection, and the geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Grams, Reid, and Bryan; 
Representatives Gibbons and Berkley; Shirley Ann Jackson, Chairman, 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Lake H. Barrett, Acting Director, Office 
of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy; John G. 
Strand, Michigan Public Service Commission, Lansing, on behalf of the 
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Erle Nye, 
Texas Utilities Company, Dallas, on behalf of the Nuclear Energy 
Institute; and Michael Mariotte, Nuclear Information and Resource 
Service, Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 
323, to redesignate the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument 
as a national park and establish the Gunnison Gorge National 
Conservation Area; S. 338, to provide for the collection of fees for 
the making of motion pictures, television productions, and sound tracks 
in units of the Department of the Interior; and S. 568, to allow the 
Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to 
establish a fee system for commercial filming activities in a site or 
resource under their jurisdictions, after receiving testimony from 
Stephen Saunders, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish 
and Wildlife and Parks; Jack Craven, Director of Lands, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; Philip H. Voorhees, National Parks and 
Conservation Association, Clark Rector, Jr., American Advertising 
Federation, and Daniel L. Jaffe, Association of National Advertisers, 
Inc. all of Washington, D.C.; Matthew Miller, Association of 
Independent Commercial Producers, Inc., New York, New York; Victor S. 
Perlman, American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., Princeton 
Junction, New Jersey, on behalf of the American Society of Media 
Photographers and North American Nature Photography Association; and 
Marlene Zanetell, Gunnison County, Colorado.
VOLUNTARY GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine voluntary greenhouse gas mitigation activities issues, 
including actions and programs in the United States, issues related to 
the design of a voluntary action crediting program, and S. 547, to 
authorize the President to enter into agreements to provide regulatory 
credit for voluntary early action to mitigate potential environmental 
impacts from greenhouse gas emissions, after receiving testimony from 
Eileen Claussen, Pew

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Center on Global Climate Change, and Tia Nelson, Nature Conservatory, 
both of Arlington, Virginia; Dale A. Landgren, Wisconsin Electric Power 
Company, Milwaukee; Richard L. Sandor, Environmental Financial 
Products, Chicago, Illinois; and John Passacantando, Ozone Action, and 
Raymond Keating, Small Business Survival Committee, both of Washington, 
D.C.
COLOMBIA THREAT TO U.S. INTERESTS AND SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings on Colombia's 
threat to United States interests and regional security, focusing on 
U.S.-Colombia counternarcotics efforts, after receiving testimony from 
Rand Beers, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law 
Enforcement Affairs, and Jack Leonard, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
the Western Hemisphere, both of the Department of State.
EUROPEAN UNION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings on issues relating to the European Union, focusing 
on internal reform, enlargement, and a common foreign policy, after 
receiving testimony from E. Anthony Wayne, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; and Lily Gardner 
Feldman, Georgetown University Center for German and European Studies, 
Jeffrey Gedmin, American Enterprise Institute, and Peter W. Rodman, 
Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, all of Washington, D.C.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
future of the Independent Counsel Act, after receiving testimony from 
Lawrence E. Walsh, Crowe and Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, former 
Independent Counsel, Iran-Contra Investigation; Samuel Dash, former 
Chief Counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee and former Ethics 
Advisor to Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, and Julie R. 
O'Sullivan, former Assistant Prosecutor--Whitewater Investigation, both 
of the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth 
G. Gormley, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CRIME VICTIMS PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 
3, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
protect the rights of crime victims, after receiving testimony from 
Paul G. Cassell, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City; 
Steven J. Twist, VIAD Corp., Scottsdale, Arizona; and Beth A. 
Wilkinson, Latham & Watkins, Washington, D.C.
STATE ETHICS RULES EFFECT ON FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight 
concluded hearings on the effect of State ethics rules on federal law 
enforcement, focusing on section 530B of title 28 of the United States 
Code, which requires Department attorneys to comply with state laws and 
rules, and local federal court rules, governing attorneys in each State 
where such attorney engages in that attorney's duties, the Citizens 
Protection Act, and potential abuse of power, after receiving testimony 
from Eric H. Holder, Jr., Deputy Attorney General, Zachary W. Carter, 
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, P. Michael 
Patterson, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, 
Richard L. Delonis, Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern 
District of Michigan, on behalf of the National Association of 
Assistant United States Attorneys, all of the Department of Justice; 
John Smietanka, Law Office of John Smietanka, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 
former Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General; John R. Justice, 
Chester, South Carolina, on behalf of the National District Attorneys 
Association; G. Andrew McKay, DSFX, International, Washington, DC, on 
behalf of the American Corporate Counsel Association; and Geoffrey C. 
Hazard, Jr., University of Pennsylvania American Law Institute, 
Philadelphia.
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine issues relating to the financing of federal election campaigns, 
focusing on campaign costs and time, the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1974, equitable competition for challengers, corruption, the costs 
of television media, and negative campaigning, receiving testimony from 
former Senator Dan Coats, Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and 
Hand, Washington, DC; Karen Sheridan, SMY Media, Inc., and John R. 
Lott, Jr., University of Chicago School of Law, both of Chicago, 
Illinois; and Demaris H. Miller, McLean, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
INDIAN GAMBLING REGULATORY ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 399, to 
amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, focusing on minimum standards 
for Indian gaming nationwide, and fair fee assessments by the National 
Indian Gaming Commission, after receiving testimony from Montie R. 
Deer, National Indian Gaming Commission, Raymond C.

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Scheppach, National Governors' Association, and Richard G. Hill, 
National Indian Gaming Association, all of Washington, DC.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.