[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 26, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D591-D592]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the livestock industry, including mandatory pricing 
and country of origin labeling, receiving testimony from Representative 
Chenoweth; Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; George Swan, House 
Creek Ranch, Rogerson, Idaho, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's 
Beef Association; John McNutt, Iowa City, Iowa, on behalf of the 
National Pork Producers Council; Frank Moore, Douglas, Wyoming, on 
behalf of the American Sheep Industry Association, Inc.; Harry L. 
Pearson, Indiana Farm Bureau, Hartford City, on behalf of the American 
Farm Bureau Federation; Phillip Klutts, Oklahoma Farmers Union, 
Oklahoma City, on behalf of the National Farmers Union; Robert P. Mack, 
Mack Farms, Watertown, South Dakota; Bruce Bass, IBP, Inc., Dakota 
Dunes, South Dakota; Rosemary Mucklow, National Meat Association, 
Oakland, California; Steven C. Anderson, American Frozen Food 
Institute, McLean, Virginia; Raymond M. Stewart, Hy-Vee, Inc., West Des 
Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the Food Marketing Institute; and J. Patrick 
Boyle, American Meat Institute, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 566, to amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to exempt 
agricultural commodities, livestock, and value-added products from 
unilateral economic sanctions, to prepare for future bilateral and 
multilateral trade negotiations affecting United States agriculture, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 604, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to complete a land 
exchange with Georgia Power Company;
  The nomination of Thomas J. Erickson, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
CORPORATE BOND PRICE TRANSPARENCY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities concluded hearings to examine the private sector's voluntary 
corporate bond price transparency initiative coordinated by the Bond 
Market Association (Corporate Trades 1), after receiving testimony from 
Nelson D. Civello, Bond Market Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the activities of the Federal Communications 
Commission, after receiving testimony from William E. Kennard, 
Chairman, and Susan Ness, Harold W. Furchtgott-Roth, Michael K. Powell, 
and Gloria Tristani, each a Commissioner, all of the Federal 
Communications Commission.
AMERICAN LAND SOVEREIGNTY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 510, to preserve the 
sovereignty of the United States over public lands and acquired lands 
owned by the United States, and to preserve State sovereignty and 
private property rights in non-Federal lands surrounding those public 
lands and acquired lands, after receiving testimony from Representative 
Chenoweth; Melinda L. Kimble, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for 
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Donald 
J. Barry, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and 
Parks; Steven C. Borell, Alaska Miners Association, Anchorage, Alaska; 
Jeremy Rabkin, Cornell University Department of Government, Ithica, New 
York; Carol W. LaGrasse, Property Rights Foundation of America, Stony 
Creek, New York; and Kathleen Benedetto, National Wilderness Institute, 
Washington, D.C.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on Medicare reform 
issues, focusing on the work of the National Bipartisan Commission on 
the Future of Medicare, receiving testimony from Senator Breaux; 
Representative Thomas; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing 
and Public Health Issues,

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Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting 
Office; Dan L Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Bruce C. 
Vladeck, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, former 
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of 
Health and Human Services; Deborah Steelman, Steelman Health 
Strategies, and David B. Kendall, Progressive Policy Institute, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Kenneth E. Thorpe, Tulane University Institute of 
Health Services Research, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
a protocol to reconstitute the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with 
four new partners, after receiving testimony from Henry A. Kissinger, 
Kissinger and Associates, New York, New York, former Secretary of 
State.
NATIONAL SECURITY AND MILITARY COMMERCIAL CONCERNS WITH CHINA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine the unclassified report of the House Select Committee on United 
States National Security and Military/Commercial concerns with the 
People's Republic of China, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Cox and Dicks.
IMMIGRANT'S CONTRIBUTION TO ARMED FORCES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings to examine immigrant American's contribution to the Armed 
Forces and national defense, after receiving testimony from Erick A. 
Mogollon, Groton, Connecticut, Senior Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Navy; 
Charles MacGillivary, Braintree, Massachusetts, former Army Sergeant, 
Company I, 71st Infantry, 44th Infantry Division; and Elmer R. Compton, 
Evansville, Indiana, former Army Sergeant, and Alfred Rascon, Laurel, 
Maryland, former Army Specialist Four, both of the 173rd Airborne 
Brigade, 1st Battalion Recon Platoon.
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Employment, Safety and Training held hearings on issues relating to 
mine safety and proposed legislation to amend the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Act of 1977, to establish a more cooperative and effective 
method for rulemaking that takes into account the special needs and 
concerns of smaller miners, receiving testimony from J. Davitt McAteer, 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health; Tom Thorson, 
Black Hills Bentonite, Mills, Wyoming; Steve Minshall, Ash Grove Cement 
Company, Overland Park, Kansas, on behalf of the American Portland 
Cement Alliance; Joseph A. Main, United Mine Workers of America, and 
Bruce H. Watzman, National Mining Association, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Kim Snyder, Eastern Industries, Inc., Center Valley, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Stone Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
discuss Native American youth activities and initiatives within the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, after receiving testimony from Dominic Nessi, 
Acting Director, Office of Economic Development, Bureau of Indian 
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Manne Lasiloo, United National 
Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY), Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Delwyn 
Holthusen, Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake, Minnesota; 
Paula Healy, Fort Belknap, Montana, on behalf of the National American 
Indian Business Leaders Board; Daniel N. Lewis, Bank of America, 
Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America; and 
Notah Begay, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.