[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 9, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D635-D637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 
for the government of the District of Columbia, after receiving 
testimony from Mayor Anthony A. Williams, Linda W. Cropp, Council of 
the District of Columbia, and Darius Mans, Financial Responsibility and 
Management Assistance Authority, all of the District of Columbia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary approved for full committee consideration an original 
bill making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice and 
State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year 2000.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of General Eric K. Shinseki, USA, for reappointment to the 
grade of general and for appointment as Chief of Staff, United States 
Army, and Lieutenant General James L. Jones, Jr., USMC, to be general 
and for appointment as Commandant of the Marine Corps.
FINANCIAL PRIVACY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 187, to give customers notice and choice about how their 
financial institutions share or sell their personally identifiable 
sensitive financial information, and other financial privacy issues, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Kyl and Leahy; and 
Representatives Inslee, Markey, and Paul.
AUTO INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 837, to enable drivers to choose a more affordable form 
of auto insurance that also provides for more adequate and timely 
compensation for accident victims, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Lieberman, McConnell, and Moynihan; Representative Stupak; 
former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Boston; Ralph Nader, 
Center for Responsive Law, Washington, D.C.; Fletcher Dal Handley, Jr., 
Fogg, Fogg and Handley, El Reno, Oklahoma, on behalf of the American 
Bar Association; Jeffrey O'Connell, University of Virginia Law School, 
Charlottesville; New York State Senator Neil Breslin, Albany, on behalf 
of the National Conference of Insurance Legislators; Gerald T. Noce, 
Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers, St. Louis, on behalf of the 
Defense Research Institute, Inc.; Peter Kinzler, Coalition for Auto-
Insurance Reform, Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert L. Maril, Oklahoma 
State University Department of Sociology, Stillwater.
SNAKE RIVER DAMS/NORTHWEST POWER PLANNING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power held oversight hearings on the process to determine the future of 
the four lower Snake River dams and conduct oversight on the Northwest 
Power Planning Council's Framework Process, receiving testimony from 
Stephen J. Wright, Senior Vice President, Corporate, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Department of Energy; Donna Darm, Assistant Regional 
Administrator for Protected Resources, Northwest Region, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; David W. Welch, High Seas 
Salmon Research, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada; Donald Sampson, 
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, Roy Sampsel, Columbia 
River Basin Multi-Species Framework Project, John Saven, Northwest 
Irrigation Utilities, C. Clarke Leone, Public Power Council, all of 
Portland, Oregon; Glen Spain, Pacific

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Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Eugene, Oregon; and Don 
Swartz, Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, Oregon City, 
Oregon.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure resumed hearings on the project 
delivery and streamlining provisions of the Transportation Equity Act 
for the 21st Century, receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., 
Acting Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; and Eugene A. Conti, 
Jr., Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed oversight hearings to examine 
risk adjustment methodology, and enrollment, payment, and other 
implementation issues relating to Medicare+Choice, receiving testimony 
from Michael Hash, Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Steven M. 
Lieberman, Executive Associate Director, Congressional Budget Office; 
William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Peter Smith, Ralin Medical, Inc., Buffalo Grove, 
Illinois; Robert B. Cumming, Milliman and Robertson, Inc., Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the American Academy of Actuaries; and Stephen 
J. deMontmollin, AvMed Health Plan, Gainesville, Florida, on behalf of 
the American Association of Health Plans.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Donald K. Bandler, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Cyprus, M. Michael Einik, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Donald W. Keyser, of 
Virginia, for Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service as Special 
Representative of the Secretary of State for Nagorno-Karabakh and New 
Independent States Regional Conflicts, Joseph Limprecht, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Thomas J. Miller, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Richard L. 
Morningstar, of Massachusetts, to be the Representative of the United 
States to the European Union with the rank and status of Ambassador, 
Larry C. Napper, of Texas, for Rank of Ambassador during tenure of 
service as Coordinator of the Support for East European Democracy 
(SEED) Program, and Donald Lee Pressley, of Virginia, to be an 
Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Bandler was introduced by Senator Sarbanes, Mr. Limprecht 
was introduced by Senator Hagel, and Mr. Miller was introduced by 
Senators Sarbanes and Biden.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Oliver P. Garza, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Nicaragua, Frank Almaguer, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Honduras, John R. Hamilton, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Prudence Bushnell, of Virginia, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
ESPIONAGE INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings in closed session on the national security methods and 
processes relating to the Wen-Ho Lee espionage investigation, after 
receiving testimony from officials from the intelligence and national 
security community.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
918, to authorize the Small Business Administration to provide 
financial and business development assistance to military reservists' 
small business, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INTERNET GAMBLING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on issues 
involving Indian gaming and related provisions of S. 692, to prohibit 
Internet gambling, after receiving testimony from Kevin V. DiGregory, 
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of 
Justice; Montie R. Deer, National Indian Gaming Commission, and Richard 
Hill, National Indian Gaming Commission, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Richard Williams, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
Indians, Watersmeet, Michigan; Ernest L. Stensgar, Coeur d'Alene Indian 
Tribe, Plummer, Idaho; and Frank Miller, Washington State Gaming 
Commission, Seattle.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY REORGANIZATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on 
issues relating to the Department of Energy reorganization, focusing on 
improvements in security and management of the nuclear weapons complex, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Domenici, Kyl and Murkowski; 
and Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy.