[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 120 (Wednesday, September 15, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D989-D990]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2000.
TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on how telemedicine 
technologies are impacting rural health care, after receiving testimony 
from James Brick, West Virginia University Department of Medicine 
(Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center), Morgantown; Sam Burgiss, 
University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville; Richard Ferrans, 
Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans; Lt. Col. 
Ronald K. Poropatich, USA, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the American Telemedicine Association; and Aaron S. 
Waitz, Eastman Kodak Company, Allendale, New Jersey.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of David J. Hayes, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of the Interior, Sylvia V. Baca, of New Mexico, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management, 
and Ivan Itkin, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Office of 
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Baca 
was introduced by Senator Domenici, and Mr. Itkin was introduced by 
Senator Spector.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of James G. Huse, Jr., of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Social 
Security Administration, and Neal S. Wolin, of Illinois, to be General 
Counsel for the Department of the Treasury, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Sally Katzen, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy 
Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Levin, testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
FALN MEMBERS CLEMENCY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
implications of the President's grant of clemency for members of the 
Armed Forces of National Liberation (the FALN), receiving testimony 
from Puerto Rico Representative Angel M. Cintron, San Juan; Gilbert G. 
Gallegos, Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police, Washington, D.C.; Rev. 
C. Nozomi Ikuta, United Church of Christ, Cleveland, Ohio; Rocco 
Pascarella, Washingtonville,

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New York; William P. Newhall, New York, New York; Donald R. Wofford, 
Wilmington, North Carolina; and Richard S. Hahn, Long Beach, 
California.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably 
reported an original resolution authorizing expenditures by committees 
of the Senate for the period October 1, 1999 through September 30, 
2000, and October 1, 2000 through February 28, 2001.
INDIAN CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the contracting provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and 
Education Assistance Act, focusing on shortfalls in contract support 
costs and alternatives for funding them, after receiving testimony from 
Jim Wells, Director, Energy, Resources and Science Issues, Resources, 
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting 
Office; Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Michel E. Lincoln, Deputy Director, Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Edward K. Thomas, Central 
Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; W. Ron 
Allen, National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; Mayor 
Timothy E. Gilmartin, Metlakatla, Alaska, on behalf of the Metlakatla 
Indian Community-Annette Island Reserve; and Lloyd Miller, Sonosky, 
Chambers, Sachse, Miller and Munson, Anchorage, Alaska.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.