[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 14, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D799-D800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERDRUG OPERATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittees on Defense and Military 
Construction concluded joint hearings on Department of Defense forward 
operating locations for counterdrug operations, focusing on Panama, 
after receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy; and Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, USMC, Commander in 
Chief, United States Southern Command.
RURAL HOSPITAL CARE COSTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on health care 
cost issues affecting rural hospitals, focusing on the effects of the 
passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and Medicare's payment 
policies, after receiving testimony from Robert A. Berinson, Director, 
Center for Health Plans and Providers, and Roland E. King, former Chief 
Actuary, both of the Health Care Financing Administration, and Claude 
Earl Fox, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, 
all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Gail R. Wilensky, 
Chair, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; G. Douglas Higginbotham, 
South Central Regional Medical Center, Laurel, Mississippi; Anne 
Klawiter, Southwest Health Center, Platteville, Wisconsin, on behalf of 
the Federation of American Health Systems; and Debra L. Griffin, 
Humphreys County Memorial Hospital, Belzoni, Mississippi.
TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine transportation conformity activities under the Clean Air Act 
and the effect recent litigation may have on this program, and S. 1053, 
to amend the Clean Air Act to incorporate certain provisions of the 
transportation conformity regulations, as in effect on March 1, 1999, 
after receiving testimony from Robert Perciasepe, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection 
Agency; Kenneth R. Wykle, Administrator, Federal Highway 
Administration, and Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit 
Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; E. Dean 
Carlson, Kansas Department of Transportation, Topeka, on behalf of the 
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; 
Jack L. Stephens, Jr., Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, 
Atlanta, Georgia; Jacob L. Snow, Clark County Regional Transportation 
Commission, Las Vegas, Nevada; Mark Pisano, Southern California 
Association of Governments, Los Angeles; Michael A. Replogle, 
Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Jack Kinstlinger, KCI 
Technologies, Inc., Hunt Valley, Maryland, on behalf of the American 
Road and Transportation Builders Association.

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GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded 
hearings on managing global and regional trade policy without fast 
track negotiating authority, after receiving testimony from former 
Representative Sam M. Gibbons; Richard W. Fisher, Deputy United States 
Trade Representative; David L. Aaron, Under Secretary of Commerce for 
International Trade; Robert D. Hormats, Goldman Sachs, International, 
New York, New York; and William T. Pryce, Council of the Americas, 
Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras.
FEDERALISM ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
1214, to ensure the liberties of the people by promoting federalism, to 
protect the reserved powers of the States, to impose accountability for 
Federal preemption of State and local laws, after receiving testimony 
from John Spotila, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Randy Moss, Acting Assistant 
Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; 
Delaware Governor Thomas R. Carper, Dover, on behalf of the National 
Governors' Association; North Dakota State Representative John Dorso, 
Bismarck, on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; 
Mayor Alexander G. Fekete, Pembroke Pines, Florida, on behalf of the 
National League of Cities; Ernest Gellhorn, George Mason University, 
Fairfax, Virginia; Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville; and Rena Steinzor, University of Maryland School of 
Law, Baltimore.
HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
competition and consumer choice in broadband, high-speed Internet 
services and technologies, focusing on the impact of recent 
consolidation in the communications industry, after receiving testimony 
from C. Michael Armstrong, AT&T Corporation, and Gene Kimmelman, 
Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.; Ivan G. Seidenberg, Bell 
Atlantic Corporation, New York, New York; Alex J. Mandl, Teligent, 
Inc., Vienna, Virginia; William L. Schrader, PSINet, Inc., Herndon, 
Virginia; Anna-Maria Kovacs, Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc., Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Kevin M. Moore, Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, 
Baltimore, Maryland.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act and to discuss the 
President's proposals to extend the Act's benefits and fund research to 
provide information on the Act's impact on American families, after 
receiving testimony from John R. Fraser, Deputy Administrator, Wage and 
Hour Division, Employment Standards Administration, Department of 
Labor; Edward F. Harold, McCalla, Thompson, Pyburn, Hymowitz, and 
Shapiro, New Orleans, Louisiana; Deanna R. Gelak, Society for Human 
Resource Management, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the Family and 
Medical Leave Act Technical Corrections Coalition; Kimberley K. 
Hostetler, Connecticut Hospital Association, Wallingford, on behalf of 
the Greater Bristol Chamber of Commerce; Ellen Bravo, 9 to 5, National 
Association of Working Women, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Eric J. Oxfeld, 
UWC--Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers' Compensation, 
Washington, D.C.
INDIAN TRUST FUND REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs/Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 
Committees concluded joint oversight hearings on the General Accounting 
Office report on Interior Department's planned trust fund reform, after 
receiving testimony from Keith A. Rhodes, Director, Office of Computer 
and Information Technology Assessment, Accounting and Information 
Management Division, General Accounting Office; Mark Fox, Three 
Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North 
Dakota, on behalf of the Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian 
Trust Funds; and Donald T. Gray, Lillick and Charles, San Francisco, 
California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original resolution (S. Res. 139) authorizing expenditures by the 
Select Committee on Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, July 21.