[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 110 (Friday, July 30, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D901-D905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
AGRICULTURAL RISK PROTECTION ACT
Committee on Agriculture: Began markup of H.R. 2559, Agricultural Risk 
Protection Act.
  Will continue August 3.
VA, HUD, AND INDEPENDENT AGENCIES AND COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, AND 
JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the following appropriations 
for fiscal year 2000: VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies; and Commerce, 
Justice, State, and Judiciary.
HOMEOWNERS' INSURANCE AVAILABILITY ACT
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Held a hearing on H.R. 21, 
Homeowners' Insurance Availability Act of 1999. Testimony was heard from 
Stuart E. Eizenstat, Deputy Secretary, Department of the Treasury; Ronald E. 
Hanna, Deputy Commissioner, Insurance Department, State of Mississippi; and 
public witnesses.
DRUG ADDITION TREATMENT ACT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment held a hearing 
on H.R. 2634, Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 1999. Testimony was heard from 
Senators Levin and Hatch; the following officials of the Department of 
Health and Human Services: Alan I. Leshner, M.D., Director, National 
Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH; and H. Wesley Clark, M.D., Director, Center 
for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services 
Administration; and public witnesses.
DRUGSTORES ON THE NET
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a 
hearing on Drugstores on the Net: The Benefits and Risks of On-line 
Pharmacies. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the FDA, 
Department of Health and Human Services: Janet Woodcock, M.D., Director, 
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; and Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., Medical 
Officer, Office of Policy; Jody Bernstein, Director, Bureau of Consumer 
Protection, FTC; Ivan K. Fong, Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department 
of Justice; Carla Stovall, Attorney General, State of Kansas; Cynthia T. 
Culmo, Director, Division of Drugs and Medical Devices, Department of 
Health, State of Texas; and public witnesses.

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UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution began markup of 
H.R. 2436, Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 1999.
  The Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
RECESSIONS PROCESS AFTER THE LINE ITEM VETO
Committee on Rules: Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process held a 
hearing on The Rescissions Process After the Line Item Veto: Tools for 
Controlling Spending. Testimony was heard from Sylvia Mathews, Deputy 
Director, OMB; Dan Crippen, Director, CBO; Gary Kepplinger, Associate 
General Counsel, GAO; Louis Fisher, Congressional Research Service, Library 
of Congress; and public witnesses.
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                       CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD

                 Week of August 2 through August 7, 1999

                             Senate Chamber

  On Monday, Senate will consider S. 335, Deceptive Mail Prevention and 
Enforcement Act, with a vote to occur thereon at 5:30 p.m., and will resume 
consideration of S. 1233, Agriculture Appropriations.
  During the balance of the week, Senate expects to resume consideration of 
H.R. 2466, Interior Appropriations, and any other cleared legislative and 
executive business, including appropriation bills, when available.
  (On Tuesday, Senate will recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m., for their 
respective party conferences.)


                            Senate Committees

          (Committee meetings are open unless otherwise indicated)
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: August 3, to hold 
hearings on farm crisis issues, 9 a.m., SR-328A.
  August 4, Full Committee, to continue hearings on farm crisis issues, 9 
a.m., SR-328A.
  August 5, Full Committee, to continue hearings on farm crisis issues, 9 
a.m., SR-328A.
  Committee on Armed Services: August 3, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of Charles A. Blanchard, of Arizona, to be General Counsel of 
the Department of the Army; and the nomination of Carol DiBattiste, of 
Florida, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, 9:30 a.m., SR-222.
  Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: August 5, 
Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation, to hold oversight hearings on 
activities of the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 9:30 a.m., SD-538.
  Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: August 4, to hold 
hearings to examine fraud against seniors, 2:15 p.m., SR-253.
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: August 4, Subcommittee on 
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation, to hold oversight 
hearings to review the performance management process under the 
requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act, by the 
National Park Service, 2:15 p.m., SD-366.
  Committee on Environment and Public Works: August 3, business meeting 
to resume markup of S. 1090, to reauthorize and amend the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Liability, and Compensation Act of 1980, 10 a.m., 
SD-406.
  Committee on Foreign Relations: August 4, to hold hearings on S. 693, 
to assist in the enhancement of the security of Taiwan, 10:30 a.m., SD-
419.
  August 4, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and 
Trade Promotion, to hold hearings on economic reform and trade 
opportunities in Vietnam, 2 p.m., SD-419.
  August 5, Full Committee, to hold hearings on pending nominations, 2:15 
p.m., SD-419.
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: August 3, business meeting to 
consider pending calendar business, 10 a.m., SD-342.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, 
Restructuring and the District of Columbia, to hold hearings on overlap 
and duplication in the Federal Food Safety System, 10:30 a.m., SD-342.
  Committee on Indian Affairs: August 3, to hold hearings on proposed 
legislation to provide equitable compensation to the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe, 10 a.m., SR-485.
  August 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 299, to elevate the 
position of Director of the Indian Health Service within the Department 
of Health and Human Services to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health; 
and S. 406, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to make 
permanent the demonstration program that allows for direct billing of 
Medicare, Medicaid, and other third party payors, and to expand the 
eligibility under such program to other tribes and tribal organizations; 
followed by a business meeting to consider pending calendar business, 
9:30 a.m., SR-485.
  Select Committee on Intelligence: August 4, to hold closed hearings on 
pending intelligence matters, 2 p.m., SH-219.
  Committee on the Judiciary: August 4, to hold hearings on the 
nomination of David W. Ogden, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney 
General; and the nomination of Robert Raben, of Florida, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, 8:30 a.m., SD-628.

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  August 4, Full Committee, to hold hearings on S. 1172, to provide a 
patent term restoration review procedure for certain drug products, 
focusing on proposed remedies for relief, relating to pipeline drugs, 10 
a.m., SD-628.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Immigration, to hold hearings on annual 
refugee consultation, 2 p.m., SD-628.
  August 5, Full Committee, business meeting to consider pending calendar 
business, 10 a.m., SD-628.
  Committee on Rules and Administration: August 4, to hold hearings on 
certain proposed committee resolutions requesting funds for operating 
expenses, 9:15 a.m., SR-301.


                              House Chamber

  Monday, consideration of Suspensions and complete consideration of H.R. 
2606, Foreign Operations Appropriations;
  Tuesday and the Balance of the Week, consideration of H.R. 2031, Twenty-
First Amendment Enforcement Act; H.R. 987, Workplace Preservation Act; H.J. 
Res. 58, disapproving the extension of the waiver authority for Vietnam; VA, 
HUD Appropriations; and Commerce, State, Justice, Appropriations, all 
subject to rules being granted.


                            House Committees

  Committee on Agriculture, August 3, to continue consideration of H.R. 
2559, Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999, 9:30 a.m., 1300 
Longworth.
  August 3, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, 
and Forestry, hearing to review the effects of the implementation of the 
Food Quality Protection Act on public health, 1 p.m., 1300 Longworth.
  August 5, Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, 
and Forestry, hearing to review the operations of the Food Stamp Program, 
10 a.m., 1300 Longworth.
  August 5, Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research, and Specialty 
Corps, hearing to review regulatory relief for U.S. futures exchanges, 2 
p.m., 1302 Longworth.
  Committee on Banking and Financial Services, August 3, Subcommittee on 
Domestic and International Monetary Policy, hearing on Federal Oversight 
of Internet Banking, 10 a.m., 2128 Rayburn.
  Committee on Commerce, August 3, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations, to continue hearings on How Healthy Are the Government's 
Medicare Fraud Fighters? 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials, hearing on 
legislation to Improve the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, focusing on several brownfields-related 
provisions contained in the following bills: H.R. 1300, Recycle America's 
Land Act of 1999; H.R. 1750, Community Revitalization and Brownfield 
Cleanup Act of 1999; and H.R. 2580, Land Recycling Act of 1999, 10 a.m. 
2123 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, hearing on 
Medicare+Choice: An Evaluation of the Program, 10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn.
  Committee on Education and the Workforce, August 3, Subcommittee on 
Early Childhood, Youth, and Families, hearing on Drug Abuse Prevention: 
Protecting Our Students, 9 a.m., 2175 Rayburn.
  Committee on Government Reform, August 2, Subcommittee on Government 
Management, Information, and Technology, hearing on Unpaid Payroll Taxes: 
Billions in Delinquent Taxes and Penalty Assessments are Owed to the 
Government, 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  August 3, full Committee, hearing on Vacancies: Finding the Balance 
Between Public Safety and Personal Choice, 2 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Civil Service, hearing on reauthorization of 
the Office of Government Ethics, 10 a.m., 2247 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human 
Resources, hearing on What is HUD's Role in Litigation Against Gun 
Manufacturers? 10 a.m., 2203 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on the Postal Service, to mark up the following 
bills: H.R. 2319, to make the American Battle Monuments Commission and 
the World War II Memorial Advisory Board eligible to use nonprofit 
standard mail rates of postage; H.R. 642, to redesignate the Federal 
building located at 701 South Santa Fe Avenue in Compton, California, and 
known as the Compton Main Post Office, as the ``Mervyn Malcolm Dymally 
Post Office Building''; H.R. 643, to redesignate the Federal building 
located at 10301 South Compton Avenue, in Los Angeles, California, and 
known as the Watts Finance Office, as the ``Augustus F. Hawkins Post 
Office Building''; H.R. 1666, to designate the facility of the United 
States Postal Service at 200 East Pinckney Street in Madison, Florida, as 
the ``Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr. Post Office''; and H.R. 2307, to 
designate the building of the United States Postal Service located at 5 
Cedar Street in Hoskinton, Massachusetts, as the ``Thomas J. Brown Postal 
Office Building''; followed by a hearing on Deceptive Sweepstakes 
Mailings, 1 p.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  August 5, full Committee, hearing on ``White House Insider Mark 
Middleton: His Ties to John Huang, Charlie Trie, and Other Campaign 
Finance Figures'', 10 a.m., 2154 Rayburn.
  August 6, Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human 
Resources, hearing on the Narcotics Threat from Colombia, 9 a.m., 2154 
Rayburn.
  Committee on House Administration, August 2, to consider pending 
business and campaign reform measures, 5 p.m., 1310 Longworth.

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  Committee on International Relations, August 23, hearing on U.S. Trade 
with Asia: Preparations for the APEC Summit, 1:30 p.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  August 3, Subcommittee on Africa, Nigeria: On the Democratic Path? 10 
a.m., 2170 Rayburn.
  August 4, full Committee, hearing on The Balkans: What Are U.S. 
Interests and the Goals of U.S. Engagement? 10 a.m., 2172 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, to 
mark up H.R. 1356, Freedom From Sexual Trafficking Act of 1999, 2 p.m., 
2200 Rayburn.
  Committee on the Judiciary, August 3, to continue markup of H.R. 1875, 
Interstate Class Action Jurisdiction Act of 1990; and to mark up the 
following measures: H.R. 2260, Pain Relief Promotion Act of 1999; H.J. 
Res. 54, granting the consent of Congress to the Missouri-Nebraska 
Boundary Compact; and H.J. Res. 62, to grant the consent of Congress to 
the boundary change between Georgia and South Carolina, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  August 4, oversight hearing on Hate Crimes Violence, 10 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  August 5, Subcommittee on Crime, hearing on the following bills: H.R. 
2558, Prison Industries Reform Act of 1999; and H.R. 2551, Federal Prison 
Industries Competition in Contracting Act of 1999, 9:30 a.m., 2141 
Rayburn.
  August 5, Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims, oversight hearing on 
the H-1B Temporary Professional Worker Visa Program, 1 p.m., 2226 
Rayburn.
  Committee on Resources, August 3, oversight hearing on Contract Support 
Costs within the Indian Health Service and the Bureau of Indian Affairs 
(Part II), 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  August 3, Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, hearing on the 
following: S. 416, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to 
the city of Sisters, Oregon, a certain parcel of land for use in 
connection with a sewage treatment facility; H.R. 1749, to designate 
Wilson Creek in Avery and Caldwell Counties, North Carolina, as a 
component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; and a measure to 
designate certain Federal lands in the Talladega National Forest in the 
State of Alabama as the Dugger Mountain Wilderness, 2 p.m., 1334 
Longworth.
  August 4, full Committee, to consider the following: S. 416, to direct 
the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the city of Sisters, Oregon, a 
certain parcel of land for use in connection with a sewage treatment 
facility; H.R. 795, Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation 
Indian Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act of 1999; H.R. 970, Perkins 
County Rural Water System Act of 1999; H.R. 1231, to direct the Secretary 
of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest lands to Elko County, 
Nevada, for continued use as a cemetery; H.R. 1444, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Army to develop and implement projects for fish screens, 
fish passage devices, and other similar measures to mitigate adverse 
impacts associated with irrigation system water diversions by local 
governmental entities in the State of Oregon, Washing, Montana, and 
Idaho; H.R. 1619, Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage 
Corridor Reauthorization Act of 1999; and H.R. 2435, to expand the 
boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Wills 
House; and a motion to adopt a resolution and report recommending that 
David Plouffe, the Executive Director of the Democratic Congressional 
Campaign Committee be held in contempt of Congress for failure to comply 
with the subpoena served on him on July 13, 1999, and reporting the 
matter to the full House for appropriate action, 11 a.m., 1324 Longworth.
  August 5, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, hearing on H.R. 
33, imposing certain restrictions and requirements on the leasing under 
the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of lands offshore Florida, 2 p.m., 
1324 Longworth.
  August 5, Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands, to mark up 
the following bills: H.R. 20, Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational 
River Mongaup Visitor Center Act of 1999; H.R. 748, to amend the Act that 
established the Keweenaw National Historical Park to require the 
Secretary of the Interior to consider nominees of various local interests 
in appointing members of the Keweenaw National Historical Parks Advisory 
Commission; bills: H.R. 1615, Lamprey Wild and Scenic River Extension 
Act; H.R. 1665, to allow the National Park Service to acquire certain 
land for addition to the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, as 
previously authorized by law, by purchase or exchange as well as by 
donation; H.R. 2140, to improve protection and management of the 
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area in the State of Georgia; and 
H.R. 2339, National Discovery Trails Act of 1999, 10 a.m., 1324 
Longworth.
  Committee on Rules, August 2, to consider the following: H.R. 2031, 
Twenty-First Amendment Enforcement Act; and H.R. 987, Workplace 
Preservation Act, 5 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  August 3, to consider the Department of Commerce, Justice, State and 
the Judiciary, and Related Agencies appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000, 
1 p.m., H-313 Capitol.
  Committee on Science, August 3, Subcommittee on Basic Research, hearing 
on Plant Genome Science: From the Lab to the Market, 10 a.m., 2318 
Rayburn.
  August 4, full Committee, hearing on K-12 Math and Science Education-
Testing and Licensing Teachers, 1 p.m., 2318 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Technology and the Subcommittee on Government 
Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government 
Reform, joint hearing on Computer Security Impact of Y2K: Expanding Risks 
of Fraud, 10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn.

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  Committee on Small Business, August 4, hearing to investigate the 
effects of federal procurement policy on small business competitiveness, 
10 a.m., 2360 Rayburn.
  Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, August 3, Subcommittee 
on Aviation, hearing on Pilot Fatigue, 9:30 a.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  August 4, Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Emergency 
Management, hearing on Effectiveness of Disaster Mitigation Spending, 2 
p.m., 2167 Rayburn.
  Committee on Ways and Means, August 5, Subcommittee on Trade, hearing 
on United States Negotiating Objectives for the WTO Seattle Ministerial 
Meeting, 10 a.m., 1100 Longworth.
  Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, August 4, executive, 
briefing on Khobar Towers Update, 12 p.m., H-405 Capitol.


                             Joint Meetings

  Conference: August 2, meeting of conferees on S. 507, to provide for 
the conservation and development of water and related resources, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for 
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, 5 p.m., SC-5, 
Capitol.