[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 83 (Monday, June 14, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D658-D659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
HEALTH CARE COSTS AND AMERICA'S UNINSURED
Committee on Education and the Workforce: On June 11, the Subcommittee 
on Employer-Employee Relations held a hearing on the Relationship 
Between Health Care Costs and America's Uninsured. Testimony was heard 
from Dan Crippen, Director, CBO; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health 
Financing and Public Health Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL STATUTE
REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On June 11, the Subcommittee on Commercial 
and Administrative Law held a hearing on the reauthorization of the 
Independent Counsel Statute. Testimony was heard from former Senators 
George J. Mitchell of Maine and Robert Dole of Kansas; and public 
witnesses.
CONSEQUENCES FOR JUVENILE
OFFENDERS ACT
Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Members of Congress, but no 
action was taken on H.R. 1501, Consequences for Juvenile Offenders Act 
of 1999.
AVIATION INVESTMENT AND REFORM ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote a structured rule providing 
one hour of general debate on H.R. 1000, Aviation Investment and Reform 
Act for the 21st Century, to be equally divided between the chairman 
and ranking minority member of the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill. The rule makes in order the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure amendment in the nature of a 
substitute as an original bill for the purpose of amendment, modified 
by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on 
Rules accompanying this resolution. The rule waives all points of order 
against consideration of the amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in part B of the 
Rules Committee report accompanying this resolution. The rule provides 
that amendments

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made in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, 
may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be 
considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the 
report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, 
shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand 
for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments 
printed in the report. The rule allows for the Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration of the 
bill, and to reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed question 
if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Chairman Shuster and Representatives Sweeney, Hyde, 
Traficant, Obey, Dingell, Jackson of Illinois, and Weiner.

Joint Meetings
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to highlight issues 
relating to the High-Technology National Summit, focusing on the impact 
of recent breakthroughs in computers, software and information networks 
on the U.S. economy and society, receiving testimony from Alan 
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; Robert Katz, 
Technology Network, Palo Alto, California; Craig R. Barrett, Intel 
Corporation, Santa Clara, California; Edward J. Nicoll, Datek Online 
Holdings Corporation, Iselin, New Jersey; Judy G. Carter, Softworks, 
Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; James L. Barksdale, Barksdale Group, 
Mountain View, California; and Sara Horowitz, Working Today, New York, 
New York.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.