[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 63 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D479-D480]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
SECTION 8 ``OPT-OUTS'' AND EMERGENCY RESIDENTS PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Subcommittee on Housing 
held a hearing on Section 8 ``Opt-Outs'' and H.R. 1136, Emergency 
Residents Protection Act. Testimony was heard from William Apgar, 
Assistant Secretary, Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner, Department 
of Housing and Urban Development; and public witnesses.
``HOW UNIFORMITY TREATS DIVERSITY: DOES ONE SIZE FIT ALL?''
Committee on the Budget: Social Security Task Force held a hearing on 
``How Uniformity Treats Diversity: Does One Size Fit All?'' Testimony 
was heard from public witnesses.

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LOSING PANAMA: THE IMPACT ON REGIONAL COUNTERDRUG CAPABILITIES
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug 
Policy, and Human Resources held a hearing on Losing Panama: The Impact 
on Regional Counterdrug Capabilities. Testimony was heard from Peter F. 
Romero, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere 
Affairs, Department of State; Ana Maria Salazar, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary, Drug Enforcement Policy and Support, Department of Defense; 
and public witnesses.
OVERSIGHT--DOD FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Government Management, 
Information, and Technology held an oversight hearing on Financial 
Management Practices at the Department of Defense. Testimony was heard 
from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Donald 
Mancuso, Acting Inspector General; and William Lynn, Under Secretary, 
Chief Financial Officer; and Gene Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller 
General, Accounting and Information Management, GAO.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 
775, amended, Year 2000 Readiness and Responsibility Act; and H.R. 916, 
to make technical amendments to section 10 of title 9, United States 
Code.
BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT
Committee on Rules: The Committee granted, by voice vote, a structured 
rule on H.R. 833, Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1999, providing one hour of 
general debate to be equally divided between the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The rule waives 
points of order against consideration of the bill for failure to comply 
with section 302 (prohibiting consideration of legislation which 
exceeds a committee's allocation of new spending authority) or section 
311 (prohibiting consideration of legislation that would cause the 
total level of new budget authority or outlays in the most recent 
budget resolution to be exceeded or cause revenues to be less) of the 
Congressional Budget Act. The rule provides that it shall be in order 
to consider as an original bill for the purpose of amendment under the 
five-minute rule the amendment in the nature of a substitute 
recommended by the Committee on the Judiciary now printed in the bill. 
The rule waives all points of order against the committee amendment in 
the nature of a substitute and amendments thereto. The rule makes in 
order only those amendments printed in the Rules Committee report 
accompanying the resolution. The rule provides that amendments made in 
order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be 
offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered 
as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall 
not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for a 
division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. 
The rule allows for the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole to 
postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to reduce voting 
time to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows a 
fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit, 
with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from Chairman Hyde; 
and Representatives Gekas, Graham, Morella, Conyers, Nadler, Watt of 
North Carolina, Jackson-Lee of Texas, Delahunt, Rothman, Dooley of 
California, Moran of Virginia, Barrett of Wisconsin and Velazquez.