[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 65 (Thursday, May 6, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D492-D493]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2000 for the National Institutes of Health, Department 
of Health and Human Services, focusing on disease research, after 
receiving testimony from Harold Varmus, Director, National Institutes 
of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Mary Hendrix, 
University of Iowa, Iowa City, on behalf of the Federation of American 
Societies for Experimental Biology; Brad Margus, Ataxia-Telangiectasia 
Children's Project, Boca Raton, Florida; Stephen H Smith, American 
Diabetes Association, Columbia, South Carolina; Stephen Spector, AIDS 
Policy Center for Children, Youth and Families, San Diego, California; 
and Purnell Choppin, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, 
Maryland.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Brig. Gen. Harry D. Gatanas, for appointment in the 
United States Army to the grade of Major General, and 15 nominations 
for appointment in the Marine Corps to the grade of Brigadier General.
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans and Fisheries concluded hearings on proposed legislation 
authorizing funds for programs of the Coastal Zone Management Act, 
focusing on the President's Lands Legacy Initiative, state coastal 
programs, coastal community assistance, coastal resource conservation, 
and the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program, after receiving 
testimony from Terry D. Garcia, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 
Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; 
Sarah W. Cooksey, Delaware Coastal Management Programs, Dover, on 
behalf of the Coastal States Organization; Tim Eichenberg, Center for 
Marine Conservation, Washington, D.C.; David Keeley, Maine Coastal 
Program, Augusta; and Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Society, 
Oakland, California.
PUERTO RICO POLITICAL STATUS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the results of the December 1998 political status plebiscite 
on Puerto Rico, after receiving testimony form Puerto Rico Governor 
Pedro Rossello, Anibal Acevedo-Vila, President, Popular Democratic 
Party, Ruben Berrios Martinez, President, Puerto Rican Independence 
Party, Luis Vega-Ramos, President, PROELA, and Zoraida F. Fonalledas, 
New Progressive Party, all of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS THREAT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded closed hearings to 
examine the growing threat of biological weapons, after receiving 
testimony from John Lauder, Special Assistant to the Director of 
Central Intelligence for Nonproliferation.
FEDERALISM AND CRIME CONTROL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on 
Federalism and crime control, focusing on the increasing Federalization 
of criminal law and its impact on crime control and the criminal 
justice system, after receiving testimony from Gilbert S. Merritt, 
Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, 
Nashville, Tennessee; North Dakota State Representative John M. Dorso, 
Bismark, on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; 
Edwin Meese III, Heritage Foundation and the ABA Task Force on the 
Federalization of Criminal Law, Washington, D.C., former Attorney 
General of the United States; John S. Baker, Jr., Louisiana State 
University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Baton Rouge; and Gerald B. 
Lefcourt, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition approved for full committee consideration S. 467, to 
restate and improve section 7A of the Clayton Act, which would 
establish time limits on FCC review of telecommunications mergers, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
SCHOOL SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on safety programs, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Campbell; Denise C. Gottfredson, 
University of Maryland Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 
College Park; James A. Fox, Northeastern University College of Criminal 
Justice, and Paul F. Evans, Boston Police Department, both of Boston, 
Massachusetts; Karen L. Bierman, Pennsylvania State University, 
University Park, on behalf of the Fast Track Program; Jan Kuhl, Des 
Moines Independent School District, Des Moines, Iowa; Kenneth S. Trump, 
National School Safety and Security Services, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio; 
Robert Eagan, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; 
and William Strauss, McLean, Virginia.
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe: Commission concluded 
hearings on the state of democratization and human rights in 
Kazakhstan, after receiving testimony from Ross Wilson, Principal 
Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large/Special Advisor to the Secretary of 
State for New Independent States; Bolat Nurgaliev, Republic of 
Kazakhstan Ambassador to the United States; Akezhan Kazhegeldin, 
Republican People's Party of Kazakhstan, Pyotr Svoik, Kazakhstan's 
Socialist Party, and Evgeni Zhovtis, Kazakhstan International Bureau 
for Human Rights and Justice, all of Almaty; and Martha Brill Olcott, 
Colgate University/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 
Washington, D.C.