[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 105 (Thursday, July 22, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D854-D855]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Wednesday, July 21, 
committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
  The nomination of William J. Rainer, of New Mexico, to be Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Commissioner of the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission; and
  An original resolution (S. Res. 159) authorizing expenditures by the 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Curt Hebert, Jr., of Mississippi, to be a Member 
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, and Earl 
E. Devaney, of Massachusetts, to be Inspector General, Department of the 
Interior.
  Prior to this action, Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
(listed above), after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Hebert was introduced by Senators Lott and Cochran.
PUBLIC LANDS PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1320, to provide to the 
Federal land management agencies the authority and capability to manage 
effectively the Federal lands, after receiving testimony from Barry T. Hill, 
Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, 
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office, who 
was accompanied by several of his associates.
COASTAL RESTORATION AND PROTECTION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 835, to encourage the restoration of estuary habitat through more 
efficient project financing and enhanced coordination of Federal and non-
Federal restoration programs, S. 878, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to permit grants for the national estuary program to be used for 
the development and implementation of a comprehensive conservation and 
management plan, to reauthorize appropriations to carry out the program, S. 
492, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Act to assist in the restoration 
of the Chesapeake Bay, S. 1119, to amend the Act of August 9, 1950, to 
continue funding of the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and 
Restoration Act, S. 522, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to 
improve the quality of beaches and coastal recreation water, and H.R. 999, 
to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of 
coastal recreation waters, after receiving testimony from Senators Breaux, 
Sarbanes, and Torricelli; Representative Bilbray; J. Charles Fox, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Michael L. 
Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Mayor Martin 
L. Pagliughi, Avalon, New Jersey; Ted Danson, American Oceans Campaign, 
Santa Monica, California; Linda Shead, Galveston Bay Foundation, Galveston 
Bay, Texas, on behalf of the Restore America's Estuaries; Richard Ribb, 
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, Providence, on behalf 
of the Association of National Estuary Programs; Michael F. Hirshfield, 
Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland; and Len Bahr, Office of the 
Governor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's proposal to 
reform Medicare and the

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modernization of the current benefit package, receiving testimony from Donna 
E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; and Dan 
L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S.-IRAN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian 
Affairs held hearings on the United State's policy with Iran, focusing on 
rapprochement limits, receiving testimony from L. Bruce Laingen, American 
Academy of Diplomacy, and Azar Nafisi, Johns Hopkins University School of 
Advanced International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and Jerrold D. 
Green, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of J. Brady Anderson, of South Carolina, to be Administrator of 
the Agency for International Development, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Lincoln, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Charles R. Wilson, of Florida, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, William Haskell Alsup, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of California, Adalberto Jose 
Jordan, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of 
Florida, Carlos Murguia, to be United States District Judge for the District 
of Kansas, Marsha J. Pechman, to be United States District Judge for the 
Western District of Washington, and Ronnie L. White, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.
CYBERSQUATTING AND INTERNET CONSUMER PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the impact of 
cybersquating and Internet consumer protection, focusing on domain name 
integrity, and S. 1255, to protect consumers and promote electronic commerce 
by amending certain trademark infringement, dilution, and counterfeiting 
laws, after receiving testimony from Anne H. Chasser, International 
Trademark Association, Washington, D.C.; Gregory D. Phillips, Howard, 
Phillips and Andersen, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Christopher D. Young, 
Cyveillance, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
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 Thursday, July 29.
GLOBAL CORPORATIONS Y2K IMPACT
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee concluded 
hearings on the impact of the Year 2000 technology problem on global 
corporations, after receiving testimony from Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, 
Inspector General, Department of State; Ron Balls, International 
Telecommunications Union, London, England; Gary Beach, CIO Magazine, 
Framingham, Massachusetts; George Surdu, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, 
Michigan; Patrick M. Roberts, Ahold USA, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia; Kevin 
Click, Philip Morris Companies, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Kevin Haukebo, 
Procter and Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Charles Krichbaum, Praxair, Inc., 
Danbury, Connecticut.
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