[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 59 (Wednesday, April 28, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D447-D448]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the National 
Guard Bureau, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Russell C. Davis, 
Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Roger C. Schultz, Director, 
Army National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Paul A. Weaver, Jr., Director, Air 
National Guard.
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded closed 
hearings on the damage to the national security from alleged Chinese 
espionage at the Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, 
after receiving testimony from Notra Trulock, Acting Deputy Director, 
Office of Intelligence, and Ed Curran, Director, Office of 
Counterintelligence, both of the Department of Energy; Bob Walpole, 
National Intelligence Officer for Strategic and Nuclear Programs, 
National Intelligence Council, Central Intelligence Agency; and Neil 
Gallagher, Assistant Director, National Security Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
ARIZONA TRUST FUNDS/GEOLOGIC MAPPING/SEWAGE TREATMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on the following bills:
  S. 415, to protect the permanent trust funds of the State of Arizona 
from erosion due to inflation and modify the basis on which 
distributions are made from those funds, after receiving testimony from 
Scott K. Celley, Arizona Governor's Office, Phoenix;
  S. 607, to reauthorize and amend the National Geologic Mapping Act of 
1992, after receiving testimony from P. Patrick Leahy, Chief Geologist, 
U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; and

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Larry D. Woodfork, Association of American State Geologists, 
Morgantown, West Virginia; and
  S. 416, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the city of 
Sisters, Oregon, a certain parcel of land for use in connection with a 
sewage treatment facility, after receiving testimony from Jack Craven, 
Director of Lands, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; and Mayor 
Steve Wilson, Sisters, Oregon.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of George T. Frampton, Jr., of the District of 
Columbia, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, after 
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the context 
and evolution of Medicare, focusing on medical research, teaching 
hospitals, cost reduction, effective treatments, medical education 
trust funds, aging Baby Boomers, and privatization, receiving testimony 
from Herbert Pardes, Columbia University College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York, New York; Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University 
School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey; 
William L. Roper, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, 
Chapel Hill; and John E. Wennberg, Dartmouth College Center for 
Evaluative and Clinical Sciences, Hanover, New Hampshire.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on 
issues involving the future of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, after 
receiving testimony from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Georgetown University/
American Enterprise Institute/former U.S. Ambassador to the United 
Nations, and John B. Rhinelander, Shaw, Pittman, Potts, and Trowbridge/
former Legal Advisor for U.S. SALT Delegation, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Robert G. Joseph, Director, National Defense University 
Center for Counter Proliferation Research, Department of Defense, 
former U.S. Commissioner for the Standing Consultive Commission.
U.S. FLAG DESECRATION PROHIBITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 
14, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States 
authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag 
of the United States, after receiving testimony from Senators Chafee, 
McCain, Kerrey, Cleland, and Hagel; and former Senator Glenn; and 
Randolph D. Moss, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 
Counsel, Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee met and 
began markup of S. 385, to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act 
of 1970 to further improve the safety and health of working 
environments, but did not complete action thereon, and will continue 
tomorrow.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the capacity and mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, focusing on 
funding, trust management, accountability, policy development and 
coordination, scientific expertise availability, economic development, 
law enforcement, education, Safety of Dams Program, irrigation 
programs, resource allocation, Tribal Priority Allocation, and 
transportation, after receiving testimony from Kevin Gover, Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Ross O. Swimmer, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Bernie Teba, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, San Juan, 
New Mexico; Tim Martin, United South and Eastern Tribes, Nashville, 
Tennessee; and Jack Jackson, National Congress of American Indians, 
Washington, D.C.
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.