[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 69 (Thursday, May 13, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D524-D525]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued in evening session to 
mark up S. 974, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 and 
2001 for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal years 2000 and 2001.
ALASKAN NATIONAL PARKS/OIL SPILL SETTLEMENT/NATIVE HIRING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 698, to review the suitability and feasibility of recovering 
costs of high altitude rescues at Denali National Park and Preserve in 
the state of Alaska, S. 711, to allow for the investment of joint 
Federal and State funds from the civil settlement of damages from the 
Exxon Valdez oil spill, and S. 748, to improve Native hiring and 
contracting by the Federal Government within the State of Alaska, after 
receiving testimony from Stephen C. Saunders, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; Molly 
McCammon, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, and Boris Merculief, 
St. George Traditional Council and Aleutian/Pribilof Islands 
Association, Inc., both of Anchorage, Alaska; Charlie Curtis, NANA 
Regional Corporation, Inc., and Dennis J. Tiepelman, Maniilaq 
Association, both of Kotzebue, Alaska; and Loretta Bullard, Kawerak, 
Inc., Nome, Alaska.
CLEAN WATER ACTION PLAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on issues relating to the President's Clean Water Action Plan, after 
receiving testimony from Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; Carol 
M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Gary G. 
Beach, Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, Cheyenne; John 
Godbee, International Paper Company, Washington, DC, on behalf of the 
American Forest and Paper Association; Daniel F. Heilig, Wyoming 
Outdoor Council, Lander, on behalf of the Clean Water Network; Ross 
Wilson, Texas Cattle Feeder's Association, Amarillo, on behalf of the 
National Cattlemen's Beef Association; and Jane Nishida, Maryland 
Department of the Environment, Baltimore.
U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Finance: Committee held oversight hearings on activities 
of the United States Customs Service, focusing on commercial 
operations, international trade, law enforcement, and the Automated 
Commercial Environment, receiving testimony from James E. Johnson, 
Under Secretary for Enforcement, Nancy Killefer, Assistant Secretary 
for Financial Management, and Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner, United 
States Customs Service, all of the Department of the Treasury; Randolph 
C. Hite, Associate Director, Governmentwide and Defense Information 
Systems, Accounting and Information Management Division, General 
Accounting Office; George Bardos and Ty Bordner, both of Vastera, Inc., 
Dulles, Virginia; Kevin Smith, General Motors

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Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; Charles Morgan Kinghorn, 
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Fairfax Virginia; Malcolm E. McLouth, Canaveral 
Port Authority, Cape Canaveral, Florida; James D. Phillips, Canadian/
American Border Trade Alliance, Lewiston, New York; and Sam F. Vale, 
Border Trade Alliance, Rio Grande City, Texas.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on issues 
relating to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, focusing on its impact 
on Start II and National Missile Defense, receiving testimony from 
Stephen J. Hadley, Shea and Gardner, former Assistant Secretary of 
Defense, and Robert G. Joseph, National Defense University Center for 
Counter Proliferation Research, former Ambassador to the ABM Treaty's 
Standing Consultative Commission, both of Washington, DC; David J. 
Smith, Global Horizons Incorporated, Annandale, Virginia, former Chief 
U.S. Negotiator to the Defense and Space Talks; and William T. Lee, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Alexandria Virginia, 
former Analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
VOLUNTARY CONFESSIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight 
concluded hearings to examine the Department of Justice's decision 
regarding the enforce of Federal statute 18 U.S.C. 3501, which governs 
the admissibility of voluntary confessions in Federal court, and the 
impact on the Miranda rights, after receiving testimony from Stephen J. 
Markman, Lansing, Michigan, former United States Attorney for the 
Eastern District of Michigan/former Assistant Attorney General for the 
Office of Legal Policy; Maricopa County District Attorney Richard M. 
Romley, Phoenix, Arizona; Gilbert G. Gallegos, Fraternal Order of 
Police, Washington, DC; Daniel C. Richman, Fordham University School of 
Law, New York, New York, former Chief Appellate Attorney for the 
Southern District of New York; George Thomas, Rutgers University School 
of Law, Newark, New Jersey; and Paul G. Cassell, University of Utah 
College of Law, Salt Lake City, former Associate Deputy Attorney 
General
NOMINATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard M. McGahey, of the 
District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in is own behalf.