[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 125 (Thursday, September 23, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1024-D1025]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Paul W. Fiddick, of Texas, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration, and Andrew C. 
Fish, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for 
Congressional Relations, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Fish was introduced by Senators 
Harkin and Leahy.
COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT: ELECTRIC TRADING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Commodity 
Exchange Act, focusing on the impact of electronic trading on the 
futures and derivatives market place, after receiving testimony from 
Roger Barton, BrokerTec Global, Jersey City, New Jersey; David P. 
Brennan, Chicago Board of Trade, Leo Melamed, Chicago Mercantile 
Exchange, and David G. Downey, InterActive Brokers, all of Chicago, 
Illinois; Shawn A. Dorsch, DNI Holdings, Inc., Charlotte, North 
Carolina; Howard W. Lutnick, Cantor Fitzgerald, Edward J. Rosen, 
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton, on behalf of the Coalition, and 
Matthew Andresen, Island ECN, all of New York, New York; and Philip 
McBride Johnson, Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, Washington, 
D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 3,086 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An original bill, titled the Export Administration Act of 1999; and
  The nominations of Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., of Massachusetts, to be 
Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
John D. Hawke, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be Comptroller of 
the Currency, Department of the Treasury, Armando Falcon, Jr., of 
Texas, to be Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise 
Oversight, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Harry J. Bowie, 
of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
National Consumer Cooperative Bank, and Dan H. Renberg, of Maryland, 
and Dorian V. Weaver, of Arkansas, each to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY Y2K READINESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the potential consequences of the year 2000 
computer problem to the Nation's supply of electricity, after receiving 
testimony from T.J. Glauthier, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Frank J. 
Miraglia, Deputy Executive Director for Reactor Programs, Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission; and Michehl R. Gent, North American Electric 
Reliability Council, Princeton, New Jersey.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of Richard A. Meserve, of Virginia, to be a Member 
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Paul L. Hill, Jr., of West 
Virginia, to be Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board, Maj. Gen. Phillip R. Anderson, United States Army, 
to be a Member and President of the Mississippi River Commission, and 
Sam Epstein Angel, of Arkansas, and Brig. Gen. Robert H. Griffin, 
United States Army, each to be a Member of the Mississippi River 
Commission, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Hill was introduced by Senator Byrd.
CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues on corruption in Russia and the status of United States and 
Russian relations, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, 
Deputy Secretary of State; Jim E. Moody, Jim Moody and Associates, 
McLean, Virginia, former Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal 
Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; E. Wayne Merry, Atlantic Council of the United States, 
Washington, D.C.; Robert Legvold, Columbia University, New York, New 
York; and Fritz W. Ermarth, Fairfax, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
Res. 99, designating November 20, 1999, as ``National Survivors for 
Prevention of Suicide Day''.
  Also, committee approved a committee resolution on issuance of 
subpoenas pursuant to Rule 26.
INS REFORM AND BORDER SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings on proposals to reform current immigration structure and 
border security, including S. 1563, proposed Immigration and 
Naturalization Service Reform and Border Security Act of 1999, after 
receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, and Paul M. 
Berg, Chief, Del Rio Sector, U.S. Border Patrol, both of the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Warren 
R. Leiden, Berry, Appleman and Leiden, San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; Rachel S. 
Yoskowitz, Jewish Family Service Metro Detroit, Detroit, Michigan; T.J. 
Bonner, National Border Patrol Council, Campo, California; and Richard 
J. Gallo, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, East Northport, 
New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee continued to discuss 
procedural issues relating to S. Res. 172, to establish a special 
committee of the Senate to address the cultural crisis facing America.
  Committee recessed subject to call.