[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 63 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D476-D478]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Carolyn L. Huntoon, of Virginia, to be Assistant 
Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, after the nominee 
further testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance concluded oversight hearings on the 
effects of international institutions on United States agricultural 
exports, focusing on upcoming World Trade Organization negotiations, 
International Monetary Fund funding holds, the World Bank, ``fast track 
authority'', tariff-rate quotas, export subsidies, state trading 
enterprises, domestic subsidies rules, trade restricting technical 
barriers, and scientific innovation, after receiving testimony from 
Peter L. Scher, Special Trade Negotiator, Office of the United States 
Trade Representative; August Schumacher, Jr., Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; Keith Kinzer, 
Idaho Grain Producers Association, Genesee; Nels J. Smith, Wyoming 
Stock Growers Association, Sundance; Dennis Jones, AGP Inc./CoBank, 
Bath, South Dakota; and Bryce Neidig,

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Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation, Madison, on behalf of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation.
YOUTH VIOLENCE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on how the violence that is marketed to children through media 
and toys is harming children's development, learning, play, and 
behavior, and measures that help to reduce children's exposure to 
entertainment violence, receiving testimony from Senators Hatch and 
Lieberman; William J. Bennett, Empower America, former Secretary of 
Education, Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, and 
Doug Lowenstein, Interactive Digital Software Association, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Denver, 
Colorado; Dave A. Grossman, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro; 
Daphne White, The Lion & Lamb Project, Bethesda, Maryland; Henry 
Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; L. Rowell 
Huesmann, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and Diane Levin, Wheelock 
College, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF REVENUES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings 
on S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local 
governments, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments 
of 1978, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban 
Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife 
Restoration Act (commonly referred to a the Pittman-Robertson Act) to 
establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs 
of the American people, S. 446, to provide for the permanent protection 
of the resources of the United States in the year 2000 and beyond, S. 
532, to provide increased funding for the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund and Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Programs, to resume the 
funding of the State grants program of the Land and Water Conservation 
Fund, and to provide for the acquisition and development of 
conservation and recreation facilities and programs in urban areas, S. 
819, to provide funding for the National Park System from outer 
Continental Shelf revenues, and the Administration's Lands Legacy 
Initiative, receiving testimony from Senators Feinstein and Boxer; 
former Senator Malcolm Wallop, on behalf of the Frontiers of Freedom; 
Ron Marlenee, Safari Club International, Fairfax, Virginia; Thomas C. 
Kiernan, National Parks and Conservation Association, and Mark L. 
Shaffer, Defenders of Wildlife, both of Washington, D.C.; David Waller, 
Georgia Wildlife Resources Division, Social Circle, on behalf of the 
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; Mark Van 
Putten, National Wildlife Federation, Vienna, Virginia; and Dennis J. 
Foster, Leesburg, Virginia, on behalf of the Masters of Foxhounds 
Association of America, and the Wildlife Legislative Fund of America.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 11.
MEDICARE/DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUBVENTION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the status of the 
participation of the Department of Defense in a Medicare subvention 
demonstration project established under the Balanced Budget Act of 
1997, and a related measure S. 445, to amend title XVIII of the Social 
Security Act to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration 
project to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with Medicare 
reimbursement for Medicare healthcare services provided to certain 
Medicare-eligible veterans, receiving testimony from Senator Specter; 
Togo D. West, Jr., Secretary, and Kenneth W. Kizer, Under Secretary for 
Health, both of the Department of Veterans Affairs; Robert A. Berenson, 
Director, Center for Health Plans and Providers, Health Care Financing 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Rear Adm. 
Thomas F. Carrato, Director, Military Health System Operations, Tricare 
Management Activity, Department of Defense; William J. Scanlon, 
Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, and Stephen P. 
Backhus, Director, Veterans' Affairs and Military Health Care Issues, 
both of the Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; James E. Woys, Foundation Health Federal Services, 
Inc., Rancho Cordova, California; and Jo Ann K. Webb, Paralyzed 
Veterans of America, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on issues 
relating to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, focusing on the 
technological feasibility of the United States ballistic missile 
defense, receiving testimony from Senator Shelby; William Robert 
Graham, National Security Research, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia, former 
Director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Gen. 
John Piotrowski, Colorado Springs, Colorado, former Commander in Chief 
of Space Command; Richard L. Garwin, Council on Foreign Relations, New 
York, New York; and David Wright, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Security Studies Program, Cambridge.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.

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INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded oversight hearings on issues relating to 
international antitrust cooperation and enforcement, including positive 
comity agreements, the flat glass industry, and problems with the 
Japanese market, after receiving testimony from Joel I. Klein, 
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; 
Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Gorton M. Evans, 
Consolidated Papers, Inc., Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin; John C. 
Reichenbach, Jr., Pittsburgh Plate and Glass Industries, Inc., 
Washington, D.C.; and Peter S. Walters, Guardian Industries 
Corporation; Auburn Hills, Michigan.
CLASS ACTION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on S. 353, to provide for class 
action reform, after receiving testimony from Senator Kohl; Eleanor D. 
Acheson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Policy Development, 
Department of Justice; John P. Frank, Lewis and Roca, Phoenix, Arizona; 
E. Donald Elliott, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Stephen G. 
Morrison, Nelson, Mullins, Riley and Scarborough, Columbia, South 
Carolina; Richard A. Daynard, Northeastern University School of Law, 
Boston, Massachusetts; and John H. Beisner, O'Melveny and Myers, 
Washington, D.C.
INDIAN CENSUS 2000
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the Bureau of the Census Year 2000 plans for testing and 
developing enumeration procedures and methods for American Indian 
tribes and Alaska Native villages, after receiving testimony from 
Kenneth Prewitt, Director, and Belva Morrison, Team Leader, Tribal 
Partnership Program, Denver Region, both of the Bureau of the Census, 
Department of Commerce; Curtis Zunigha, Delaware Tribe of Indians, 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Robert Wayne Nygaard, Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa 
Tribe, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Gregory A. Richardson, North 
Carolina State Commission of Indian Affairs, Hollister, and Glenda 
Ahhaitty, Los Angeles, California, all on behalf of the U.S. Census 
Bureau Advisory Committee on American Indians and Alaska Native 
Populations; Taylor McKenzie, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; 
JoAnn K. Chase, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, 
D.C.; and Edna L. Paisano, Nez Perce Nation, Idaho.