[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 21, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1008]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. TERRORISM POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on United States policy on 
terrorism in light of the FALN members clemency, after receiving 
testimony from Neil J. Gallagher, Assistant Director for National 
Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Patrick Fitzgerald, 
Chief of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Unit, U.S. Attorney for the 
Southern District of New York, both of the Department of Justice.
HYBRID PENSIONS PLANS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee held 
hearings to examine the growth of hybrid pension plans and their 
advantages and disadvantages over traditional defined benefit pension 
plans, receiving testimony from Senator Leahy; Representatives Hinchey 
and Sanders; J. Mark Iwry, Benefits Tax Counsel, and Stuart L. Brown, 
Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, both of the Department of the 
Treasury; Bill Syverson, Colchester, Vermont, and J. Thomas Bouchard, 
Armonk, New York, both of the IBM Corporation; Janet Krueger, 
Rochester, Minnesota, on behalf of the IBM Employee Benefits Action 
Coalition; Robert G. Chambers, Montgomery, McCracken, Walker and 
Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Association of 
Private Pension and Welfare Plans; Ron Gebhardtsbauer, American Academy 
of Actuaries, Karen W. Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, Morton Bahr, 
Communications Workers of America, Lawrence Z. Lorber, Sonnenschein, 
Nath and Rosenthal, all of Washington, D.C.; and John F. Woyke, Towers 
Perrin, Valhalla, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
SCHOOL SYSTEMS Y2K READINESS
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee 
concluded hearings to explore Y2K readiness among public school 
systems, colleges and universities, and the college financial aid 
system, after receiving testimony from Marshall S. Smith, Acting Deputy 
Secretary of Education; Richard R. Boyd, and Terryl J. Hedrich, both of 
the Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, California; 
Richard D. Koeller, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; K. David 
Weidner, American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, 
Virginia; George Chin, City University of New York, New York, on behalf 
of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators; 
Paul Kobulnicky, University of Connecticut, Storrs; and William E. 
Lewis, Arizona State University, Phoenix.
COUNTER-INSURGENCY VS. COUNTER-NARCOTICS
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: 
Committee concluded hearings on counter-insurgency vs. counter-
narcotics issues in regards to Colombia and U.S. efforts to stop drug 
production and transiting, after receiving testimony from Rand Beers, 
Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau for International Narcotics 
and Law Enforcement Affairs; Brian E. Sheridan, Assistant Secretary for 
Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, and Gen. Charles E. 
Wilhelm, USMC, Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command, both 
of the Department of Defense; and Bernard Aronson, ACON Investments, 
former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, and 
Michael Shifter, Inter-American Dialogue, both of Washington, D.C.