[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 107 (Tuesday, July 27, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D870-D871]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL CONCENTRATION AND ANTI-TRUST
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine anti-trust implications of consolidation and 
concentration in production agriculture and agribusiness, focusing on 
monopoly, monopsony, new technology, and the Cargill and Continental 
Grains mergers, after receiving testimony from Senator Dorgan; Joel I. 
Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of 
Justice; Michael V. Dunn, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory 
Programs, James Baker, Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and 
Stockyards Administration, and Betsey Kuhn, Director, Food and Rural 
Economics Division, Economic Research Service, all of the Department of 
Agriculture; John Crabtree, Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, 
Nebraska; William C. MacLeod, Collier, Shannon, Rill and Scott, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Grocery Manufacturers of America; 
and Robert White, Kenton, Ohio, on behalf of the National Farmers 
Union.
INTERNET PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings on privacy issues on the Internet, 
and S. 809, to require the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe 
regulations to protect the privacy of personal information collected 
from and about private individuals who are not covered by the 
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to 
provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that 
information, after receiving testimony from Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, 
Sheila F. Anthony, Commissioner, Orson Swindle, Commissioner, and 
Mozelle W. Thompson, Commissioner, all of the Federal Trade Commission; 
and Jill Lesser, America Online, Deirdre Mulligan, Center for Democracy 
and Technology, Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, 
and Christine Varney, Hogan and Hartson, on behalf of the Online 
Privacy Alliance, all of Washington, D.C.
LAND MANAGEMENT AND CONVEYANCE BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1288, to provide 
incentives for collaborative forest restoration projects on National 
Forest System and other public lands in New Mexico, S. 719, to provide 
for the orderly disposal of certain Federal land in the State of Nevada 
and for the acquisition of environmentally sensitive land in the State, 
S. 930, to provide for the sale of certain public land in the Ivanpah 
Valley, Nevada, to the Clark County, Nevada, Department of Aviation, S. 
1374, to authorize the development and maintenance of a multiagency 
campus project in the town of Jackson, Wyoming, S. 1030, to provide 
that the conveyance by the Bureau of Land Management of the surface 
estate to certain land in the State of Wyoming in exchange for certain 
private land will not result in the removal of the land from operation 
of the mining laws, and S. 439, to amend the National Forest and Public 
Lands of Nevada Enhancement Act of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the 
Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Reid and Bryan; Representative Gibbons; John Reynolds, 
Regional Director, Pacific West Region, National Park Service, and 
Larry Finfer, assistant Director of Communications, Bureau of Land 
Management, both of the Department of the Interior; Ron Stewart, Deputy 
Chief, Programs and Legislation, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Nevada State Senator Dean Rhoads, Tuscarora, Nevada; Max 
Cordova, Los Siete, Truchas, New Mexico, on behalf of the Truchas Land 
Grant; Thomas R. Jervis, New Mexico Audubon Council, Los Alamos, New 
Mexico, on behalf of the Southwest Forest Alliance, the Southwest 
Center for Biological Diversity, and the National Audubon Society-New 
Mexico; Melissa Savage, Four Corners Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; 
Scott Anderson, Town Council, Jackson, Wyoming; and Randall H. Walker, 
Clark County Department of Aviation, Las Vegas, Nevada.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began markup of S. 
1090, to reauthorize and amend the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1980, but did not complete 
action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, August 3.
BREAST/CERVICAL CANCER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care held hearings on 
S.662, to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide medical 
assistance for certain women screened and found to have breast or 
cervical cancer under a federally funded screening program, receiving 
testimony from Senator Mikulski; Barbara D. Matula, North Carolina 
Medical Society Foundation, Raleigh; Marlene McCarthy, National Breast 
Cancer Coalition, Washington, D.C.; Carolyn Tapp, Women of Color Breast 
Cancer Survivors Support Project, Los Angeles, California; Barbara 
Flett, Women's Health Partnership of Suffolk County, Buffalo, New York; 
and Marilyn Almond, Providence, Rhode Island.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT BARRIERS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine 
barriers to trade and investment in Africa, receiving testimony from 
Robert L. Mallett, Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard 
University Center for International Development, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Kim Jaycox, AIG Africa Infrastructure Fund, Chester 
Crocker, Georgetown University, and Walter Kansteiner, Scowcroft Group, 
all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CRIMINAL DIVISION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight 
concluded oversight hearings on the responsibilities and activities of 
the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, after receiving 
testimony from James K. Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal 
Division, Department of Justice.
CHILD CARE INNOVATIONS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on innovations that are being made to help improve 
the quality and supply of child care, after receiving testimony from 
Carole Black, Lifetime Television, and Ellen Galinsky, Families and 
Work Institute, both of New York, New York; Yasmina S. Vinci, National 
Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, Washington, 
D.C.; Amanda O'Neill, Educare Colorado, Denver; Sue Russell, Child Care 
Services Association, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Elaine Fersh, 
Parents United for Child Care, Boston, Massachusetts; Eva Marie Saint, 
Los Angeles, California; and Barrie Brigham, Burlington, Vermont.