[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 121 (Thursday, September 16, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D998]
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: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 1596), 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.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the 
Administration's Pacific Northwest Forest Plan, after receiving 
testimony from James Furnish, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department 
of Agriculture, who was accompanied by several of his associates.
FOREIGN MISSILE DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on foreign 
missile developments and the ballistic missile threat to the United 
States through 2015, after receiving testimony from Bob Walpole, 
National Intelligence Officer for Strategic and Nuclear Programs, 
Central Intelligence Agency.
SECURITIES DAY TRADING INDUSTRY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings on the practices and operations of the 
securities day trading industry, focusing on the similar 
characteristics to gambling, advertising practices, and the impact on 
the stability of the markets, receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, 
Jr., Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mary L. 
Schapiro, NASD Regulation, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Peter C. Hildreth, 
New Hampshire Bureau of Securities, Concord, and David Shellenberger, 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Securities Division, Boston, both on 
behalf of the North American Securities Administrators Association; and 
Saul S. Cohen, Electronic Traders Association, New York, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
POSTMASTER GENERAL ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on the 
annual report of the Postmaster General, after receiving testimony from 
William J. Henderson, Postmaster General/Chief Executive Officer, 
United States Postal Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. Res. 
178, designating the week beginning September 19, 1999, as ``National 
Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week''.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS REORGANIZATION PLAN
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
oversight hearings on activities of the Department of Justice Office of 
Justice Programs and to examine a proposed reorganization plan, after 
receiving testimony from Laurie Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Office 
of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie 
Mellon University H. John Heinz, III School of Public Policy and Management, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Gene R. Voegtlin, International Association of 
Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, Virginia; and Donna F. Edwards, National 
Network to End Domestic Violence, Washington, D.C.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Public 
Health held hearings to examine issues relating to children's health, 
focusing on autism, asthma, and traumatic brain injury, receiving testimony 
from Senators Gorton, Bond, and Durbin; Nicole Lurie, Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Anthony 
Edwards, Cure Autism Now, Los Angeles, California; Geraldine Dawson, 
University of Washington, Seattle; Laura Lloyd, Autism Society of Middle 
Tennessee, and Dennis C. Stokes, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 
on behalf of the American Lung Association, both of Nashville, Tennessee; 
John C. Carl, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Robert 
Jackson, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Carlos Camargo, Massachusetts General 
Hospital, Boston; Allan I. Bergman, Brain Injury Association, Inc., 
Alexandria, Virginia; Augusta W. Cash, Alabama Department of Rehabilitation, 
Birmingham, on behalf of the National Association of State Head Injury 
Administrators; and Sue Mallonee, Oklahoma Department of Health, Oklahoma 
City.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
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 Wednesday, September 22.