[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 16, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D671-D673]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to 
prostate cancer research activities, after receiving testimony from 
Harold E. Varmus, Director, and Richard D. Klausner, Director, National 
Cancer Institute, both of the National Institutes of Health, Department 
of Health and Human Services; former Senator Dole; Christopher J. 
Logothetis, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; 
Michael Milken, Association for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate, 
Santa Monica, California; and Joe Torre, New York Yankees, New York, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 762, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
feasibility study on the inclusion of the Miami Circle in Biscayne 
National Park, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  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, 
with amendments;
  S. 734, the ``National Discovery Trails Act of 1999'', with 
amendments;
  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, with amendments;
  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, with an 
amendment;
  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, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 459, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act for FERC 
Project No. 9401, the Mt. Hope Waterpower Project;
  S. 1027, to reauthorize the participation of the Bureau of 
Reclamation in the Deschutes Resources Conservancy; and
  An original bill to provide for the storage of spent nuclear fuel 
pending completion of the nuclear waste repository, in lieu of S. 608.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 1833, to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 
for the United States Customs Service for drug interdiction and other 
operations, for the Office of the United States Trade Representative, 
for the United States International Trade Commission, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  An original bill to eradicate the overcapacity in the global steel 
industry caused by factors such as market barriers overseas, 
anticompetitive behavior, subsidization and unstable currency 
management.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Mark Wylea Erwin, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without 
additional compensation as Ambassador to the Federal Islamic Republic 
of the Comoros and as Ambassador to the Republic of Seychelles, Johnnie 
Carson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Kenya, 
Christopher E. Goldthwait, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Chad, Joyce E. Leader, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Guinea, Bismarck Myrick, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia, David B. Dunn, of California, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, and Michael D. Metelits, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Erwin was introduced by Senator Helms and Mr. Goldthwait was introduced 
by Representative Fowler.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Marsha L. Berzon, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Robert A. Katzmann, of New York, 
to be United States Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Keith P. 
Ellison, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of Texas, Gary Allen Feess, to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of California, W. Allen Pepper Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi, Karen 
E. Schreier, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
South Dakota, Stefan R. Underhill, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Connecticut, and T. John Ward, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Berzon was 
introduced by Senators Feinstein, Boxer, Schumer, and Moynihan, Mr. 
Katzmann was introduced by Senators Schumer and Moynihan, Mr. Ellison 
and Mr. Ward were introduced by Senator Hutchison, Mr. Feess was 
introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Mr. Pepper was introduced 
by Senators Lott and Cochran, Ms. Schreier was introduced by Senators 
Daschle and Johnson, and Mr. Underhill was introduced by Senators Dodd 
and Lieberman.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 28, to authorize an interpretive center and related visitor 
facilities within the Four Corners Monument Tribal Park, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 400, to provide technical corrections to the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, to improve the 
delivery of housing assistance to Indian tribes in a manner that 
recognizes the right of tribal self-governance, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 401, to provide for business development and trade promotion for 
native Americans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 613, to encourage Indian economic development, to provide for the 
disclosure of Indian tribal sovereign immunity in contracts involving 
Indian tribes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 614, to provide for regulatory reform in order to encourage 
investment, business, and economic development with respect to 
activities conducted on Indian lands, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  S. 944, to amend Public Law 105-188 to provide for the mineral 
leasing of certain Indian lands in Oklahoma.