[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 100 (Thursday, July 15, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D808-D810]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 143) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on Armed Services.
OFFICIAL DOLLARIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance and the Subcommittee on Economic Policy 
concluded joint hearings on issues relating to the official 
dollarization in Latin America, receiving testimony from Manuel E. 
Hinds, San Salvador, El Salvador, former Republic of El Salvador 
Minister of Finance; Michael Gavin, Warburg Dillon Read, Stamford, 
Connecticut; and David R. Malpass, Bear, Stearns and Company, Inc., and 
Liliana Rojas-Suarez, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc., both of New York, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, July 
14, Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. 
Res. 147) authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: On Wednesday, July 14, Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 149) authorizing 
expenditures by the Committee on the Budget.
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National 
Transportation Safety Board, after receiving testimony from James E. 
Hall, Chairman, Peter Goelz, Managing Director, Daniel Campbell, 
General Counsel, Craig Keller, Chief Financial Officer, Bernard S. 
Loeb, Director, Office of Aviation Safety, and Claude Harris, Deputy 
Director, Office of Highway Safety, all of the National Transportation 
Safety Board.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 145) authorizing 
funds by the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
ELECTRIC COMPANY COMPETITION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 161, to provide for a transition to market-based rates for power 
sold by the Federal Power Marketing Administrations and the Tennessee 
Valley Authority, S. 282, to provide that no electric utility shall be 
required to enter into a new contract or obligation to purchase or to 
sell electricity or capacity under section 210 of the Public Utility 
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, S. 516, to benefit consumers by 
promoting competition in the electric power industry, S. 1047, to 
provide for a more competitive electric power industry, S. 1273, to 
amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more 
competitive and efficient electric power markets, and S. 1284, to amend 
the Federal Power Act to ensure that no State may establish, maintain, 
or enforce on behalf of any electric utility an exclusive right to sell 
electric energy or otherwise unduly discriminate against any consumer 
who seeks to purchase electric energy in interstate commerce from any 
supplier, after receiving testimony from John W. Rowe, Unicom 
Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Susan F. Clark, Florida Public Service 
Commission, Tallahassee, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; John Anderson, Electricity Consumers 
Resource Council, Washington, D.C.; Billy Jack Gregg, Public Service 
Commission of West Virginia, Charleston, on behalf of the National 
Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates; Steven J. Kean, ENRON 
Corporation, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Electric Power Supply 
Association; Ralph Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council, San 
Francisco, California; George Fraser, Northern California Power Agency, 
San Diego, on behalf of the American Public Power Association; Glenn 
English, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, 
Virginia; and David R. Nevius, North American Electric Reliability 
Council, Princeton, New Jersey.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
resolution (S. Res. 150) authorizing expenditures by the Committee on 
Finance.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
an original resolution (S. Res. 154) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on Governmental Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 144) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on the Judiciary.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: On Wednesday, July 
14, Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. 
Res. 138) authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Health, 
Education, Labor, and Pensions.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committees on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 152) authorizing expenditures 
by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original resolution (S. Res. 142) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on Small Business;
  S. 1156, to amend provisions of law enacted by the Small Business 
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 to ensure full analysis of 
potential impacts on small entities of rules proposed by certain 
agencies, with amendments;
  S. 1346, to ensure the independence and nonpartisan operation of the 
Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration, with 
amendments; and
  H.R. 1568, to provide technical, financial, and procurement 
assistance to veteran owned small businesses, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an 
original resolution (S. Res. 151) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on Veterans Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Indian 
Affairs.
BUSINESS MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution (S. Res. 155) authorizing expenditures by the 
Special Committee on Aging.

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STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Y2K PREPAREDNESS
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee 
concluded hearings on state and local government preparedness for the 
year 2000 computer problem, after receiving testimony from Joel C. 
Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information System, Accounting and 
Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; Mike 
Benzene, State of Missouri, Jefferson City, on behalf of NASIRE; 
Indiana State Auditor Connie Kay Nass, and Patrick R. Ralston, Indiana 
State Emergency Management Agency, both of Indianapolis; Brian O'Neil, 
City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National League of 
Cities; Suzanne J. Peck, Government of the District of Columbia; Mayor 
James E. Trobaugh, Kokomo, Indiana, on behalf of the Conference of 
Mayors; James O'Brien, City of West Hartford, Connecticut; Randy 
Johnson, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the 
National Association of Counties; and Robert D. Browder, Shannon, 
Gracey, Ratliff, and Miller, Fort Worth, Texas.