[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 76 (Tuesday, May 25, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D581-D583]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for energy and water 
development programs.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation approved 
for full committee consideration an original bill making appropriations 
for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Transportation and related 
agencies.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE/EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 1122) making appropriations for fiscal year 2000 
for the Department of Defense; and
  H.R. 1664, making emergency supplemental appropriations for military 
operations, refugee relief, and humanitarian assistance relating to the 
conflict in Kosovo, and for military operations in Southwest Asia for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, with amendments.
  Also, committee completed its review of subcommittee allocations of 
budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the committee in 
H. Con. Res. 68, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 2000 and setting forth appropriate 
budgetary levels for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2009.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of Ikram U. Khan, of Nevada, to be a Member of the Board 
of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 
and 224 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air 
Force.
RETAIL ELECTRICITY COMPETITION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held oversight 
hearings on State progress in retail electricity competition, receiving 
testimony from Marsha H. Smith, Idaho Public Utilities Commission, 
Boise, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility 
Commissioners; B.J. Helton, Kentucky Public Service Commission, 
Frankfort, on behalf of the Low Cost Electricity States Initiative; 
Roger Hamilton, Oregon Public Utility Commission, Salem; Maureen O. 
Helmer, New York Public Utility Commission, Albany; Benjamin F. 
Montoya, Public Service Company of New Mexico, Albuquerque, on behalf 
of the Edison Electric Institute and Alliance for Competitive 
Electricity; P. Chrisman Iribe, U.S. Generating Company, Bethesda, 
Maryland; Jan Schori, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, 
Sacramento, California; and Irwin A. Popowsky, Pennsylvania Office of 
Consumer Advocate, Harrisburg.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/RECREATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 
140, to establish the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the State 
of New York as an affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 734, 
entitled the ``National Discovery Trails Act of 1999'', S. 762, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility

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study on the inclusion of the Miami Circle in Biscayne National Park, 
S. 938, to eliminate restrictions on the acquisition of certain land 
contiguous to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, S. 939, to correct 
spelling errors in the statutory designations of Hawaiian National 
Parks, S. 946, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer 
administrative jurisdiction over land within the boundaries of the Home 
of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site to the Archivist of the 
United States for the construction of a visitor center, and S. 955, to 
allow the National Park Service to acquire certain land for addition to 
the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, as previously authorized by 
law, by purchase or exchange as well as by donation, after receiving 
testimony from Katherine Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural 
Resource Stewardship and Partnerships, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; Lewis J. Bellardo, Deputy Archivist, 
National Archives and Record Administration; Robert S. Carr, Miami 
Circle Discovery, Miami, Florida; and Reese F. Lukei, American 
Discovery Trail Society, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on 
S. 1090, to reauthorize and amend the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1980, receiving testimony 
from Mayor Jim Marshall, Macon, Georgia, on behalf of the U.S. 
Conference of Mayors; Mayor Thomas Suozzi, Glen Cove, New York, on 
behalf of the American Communities for Cleanup Equity; Tom Curtis, 
National Governors' Association, Karen Florini, Environmental Defense 
Fund, and Red Cavaney, American Petroleum Institute, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Claudia Kerbawy, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, 
Lansing, on behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Solid 
Waste Management Officials; Gordon J. Johnson, New York State Assistant 
Attorney General, Albany, on behalf of the National Association of 
Attorneys General; Bernard J. Reilly, Du Pont De Nemours E.I. & Co., 
Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers 
Association; Mark Gregor, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the 
National Association of Local Government Environmental Professionals; 
Mike Nobis, J. K. Creative Printers, Quincy, Illinois, on behalf of the 
National Federation of Independent Business; Mike Ford, Mike Ford 
Agency, Clark, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of 
Realtors; and Wilma Subra, Subra Company, New Iberia, Louisiana.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S. CUSTOMS OPERATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the enforcement 
activities of the U.S. Customs Service, focusing on how the Custom 
Services is ensuring effectiveness, integrity, and accountability in 
customs operations, receiving testimony from Michael C. Tarr, Acting 
Assistant Inspector General, William A. Keefer, Assistant Commissioner, 
and Vincent J. Parolisi, Director, Narcotics and Currency Inspection, 
both of the Office of Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs Service, all of 
the Department of the Treasury; Milton Mollen, Graubard, Mollen and 
Miller, New York, New York; Jack O. Bradshaw, Motorola, Inc., 
Schaumburg, Illinois; John S. Moore, Siecor Corp., Hickory, North 
Carolina; and Jerry Cook, Sara Lee Branded Apparel, Winston-Salem, 
North Carolina.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
POLITICAL AND MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs concluded hearings on political and military developments 
in India and their implications for American policy, after receiving 
testimony from Karl Frederick Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State 
for South Asian Affairs; Frank G. Wisner, American International Group, 
Inc., New York, New York; and Stephen P. Cohen, Brookings Institution, 
Washington, D.C.
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
legal status of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, receiving testimony 
from Douglas J. Feith, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Negotiation Policy, and George Miron, both of Feith and Zell, and David 
B. Rivkin, Jr., and Lee A. Casey, both of Hunton and Williams, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael J. Glennon, University of California 
School of Law, Davis.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL DISTANCE EDUCATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
Library of Congress Copyright Office report on copyright and digital 
distance education, after receiving testimony from Marybeth Peters, 
Register of Copyrights/Associate Librarian for Copyright Services, 
United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS SUCCESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the 
effect of the level of academic competence achieved by high school 
graduates on the

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success of future entrepreneurs, small businesses, and the workforce, 
receiving testimony from Eric Rolfe Greenberg, American Management 
Association, International, New York, New York; Carol L. Ball, Ball 
Publishing, Inc., Greenville, Ohio, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of 
Commerce; Barbara Seisler Goodling, Albert Seisler Machine Corporation, 
Mohnton, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Federation of 
Independent Business; Edward B. Rust, Jr., State Farm Insurance 
Companies, Bloomington, Illinois, on behalf of the National Alliance of 
Business and the Business Roundtable; and Kelly Fujiwara, Lexington/
Rockbridge Chamber of Commerce, Lexington, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
COMMUNITY Y2K PREPAREDNESS
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee 
concluded hearings to explore individual and community Y2K 
preparedness, and the media's role in providing Y2K information, after 
receiving testimony from Edward Yourdon, Cutter Consortium, Taos, New 
Mexico; Paloma O'Riley, Cassandra Project, Louiseville, Colorado; Liza 
K. Christian, Rogue Valley Y2K Task Force, Ashland, Oregon; Michael 
Nolan, City of Norfolk, Nebraska; Cathy Hotka, National Retail 
Federation, and Barbara Cochran, Radio-Television News Directors 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Lawrence T. McGill and Kerry 
Brock, both of the Media Studies Center, New York, New York; James 
Adams, Infrastructure Defense, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and Rich 
Jaroslovsky, Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, New York, New 
York, on behalf of the Online News Association.