[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 22, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D704-D705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL Y2K SPENDING
Committee on Appropriations/Special Committee on the Year 2000 
Technology Problem: Committees concluded joint hearings to examine the 
allocation and use of funds for Federal Y2K remediation, repair, and 
contingency planning, after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; 
and Jacob J. Lew, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
JUVENILE DIABETES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on the National Institutes 
of Health proposed budget increase for the treatment and prevention of 
juvenile diabetes, after receiving testimony from Senator Thurmond; 
Harold Varmus, Director, and Phillip Gorden, Director, National 
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, both of the 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
and Mary Tyler Moore, New York, New York, on behalf of the Juvenile 
Diabetes Foundation.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior approved for full 
committee consideration an original bill to make appropriations for the 
Department of the Interior and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2000.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Lawrence H. Summers, of Maryland, to be 
Secretary of the Treasury, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Santorum, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECURITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources/Committee on Armed Services/
Committee on Governmental Affairs/Select Committee on Intelligence: 
Committees concluded joint hearings on the President's Foreign 
Intelligence Advisory Board's report on security problems at the 
Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from Bill Richardson, 
Secretary of Energy; and former Senator Rudman, Chairman, President's 
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to explore the effectiveness of existing Federal and industry efforts 
to promote distributed generating technologies, including solar, wind, 
fuel cells and microturbines, as well as regulatory and other barriers 
to their widespread use, after receiving testimony from Dan W. Reicher, 
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy; Meera Kohler, Anchorage Municipal Light and Power, and Matthew 
Nicolai, Calista Corporation, both of Anchorage, Alaska; Tony Prophet, 
AlliedSignal Power Systems, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; George C. 
McNamee, Plug Power, Latham, New York; Thomas R. Schneider, Institute 
of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., Portola Valley, 
California; and Beverly E. Jones, Consolidated Natural Gas Company, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Gas Association.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nomination of Lawrence H. Summers, of Maryland, to be Secretary 
of the Treasury;
  An original bill to extend the Generalized System of Preferences 
program from June 30, 1999 to June 30, 2004;
  An original bill authorizing funds through fiscal year 2001 for trade 
adjustment assistance programs for the purpose of providing assistance 
to individual workers and firms that are adversely affected by the 
import competition;
  An original bill to extend preferential treatment to certain products 
imported from Caribbean Basin countries; and
  An original bill to provide eligible sub-Saharan African countries 
with enhanced benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences 
program, to provide quota-free access to the United States for apparel 
products produced in eligible sub-Saharan African countries using U.S. 
fabric, to direct the President to begin plans for implementing a 
United States-Sub-Saharan Africa free trade area, and to create a 
United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum.
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine 
counter-drug efforts in the United States Southern Command's Area of 
Responsibility, after receiving testimony from Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, 
USMC, Commander in Chief, U.S. Southern Command.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the 
nomination of Richard Holbrooke, of New York, to be the Representative 
of the United States of America to the United Nations with the rank and 
status of Ambassador, and the Representative of the United States of 
America in the Security Council of the United Nations, where the 
nominee further testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 
Testimony was also received from Harold Jim Johnson, Associate 
Director, International Relations and Trade Division, General 
Accounting Office.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, June 24.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Gwen C. Clare, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Ecuador, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf.
STADIUM FINANCING AND FRANCHISE RELOCATION ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 952, to 
expand an antitrust exemption applicable to professional sports leagues 
and to require, as a condition of such an exemption, participation by 
professional football and major league baseball sports leagues in the 
financing of certain stadium construction activities, after receiving 
testimony from Jerry Richardson, Carolina Panthers, Charlotte, North 
Carolina; Benjamin Klein, University of California Los Angeles 
Department of Economics, Los Angeles; Gene Upshaw, National Football 
League Players Association, Washington, D.C.; Paul Tagliabue, National 
Football League, New York, New York; and Richard Horrow, Horrow Sports 
Ventures, Miami, Florida.
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on professional 
development opportunities for teachers, after receiving testimony from 
William Badders, Cleveland Municipal School District, Cleveland, Ohio; 
Barbara Schneider, Community School District 2, and Randi Weingarten, 
United Federation of Teachers, on behalf of the American Federation of 
Teachers, both of New York, New York; Stephen L. Bedford, Col. E. 
Brooke Lee Middle School, Silver Spring, Maryland; and C. Emily 
Feistritzer, National Center for Education Information, Washington, 
D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Aging concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
programs of the Older Americans Act, focusing on the need for a 
National Family Caregiver Support Program, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Grassley; Donna M. Butts, Generations United, Washington, 
D.C.; and Carolyn Erwin-Johnson, Baltimore, Maryland.