[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 28, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1046-D1047]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill (S. 1650) making appropriations for the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH AND TREATMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to 
Parkinson's disease, focusing on research, treatment, and funding, 
after receiving testimony from Gerald Fischbach, Director, National 
Institute of Neurological Disorders, National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; J. William Langston, The 
Parkinson's Institute, Sunnyvale, California; Joan Samuelson, 
Parkinson's Action Network, Washington, D.C.; Michael J. Fox, New York, 
New York; and Jim Cordy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF U.S. STOCK MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine public ownership of the United States stock market 
issues, after receiving testimony from Richard A. Grasso, New York 
Stock Exchange, New York, New York; and Frank G. Zarb, National 
Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Linda Joan Morgan, of Maryland, to be a 
Member of the Surface Transportation Board, Stephen D. Van Beek, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Associate Deputy Secretary/Director of 
Transportation for Intermodialism, and Michael J. Frazier, of Maryland, 
to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Government Affairs, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC BUILDINGS REQUESTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on the proposed 
fiscal year 2000 budget request for the Public Buildings Requests of 
the General Services Administration, after receiving testimony from 
Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General 
Services Administration.
IRAQ'S IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the disarray caused within the international community by Saddam 
Hussein's Iraq, after receiving testimony from Richard Butler, Council 
on Foreign Relations, New York, New York, former Executive Chairman, 
United Nations Special Commission on Iraq.
U.S.-KOSOVO DIPLOMACY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
United States-Kosovo diplomacy between February 1998 and March 1999, 
after receiving testimony from former Senator Robert Dole; and Ivo 
Daalder, Brookings Institution, and Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment 
for International Peace, both of Washington, D.C.
JUVENILE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
hearings to examine juvenile crime prevention and intervention funding 
and strategies, focusing on state juvenile court system assistance, 
detention space, alternative intervention programs, and the Boys and 
Girls Clubs of America, after receiving testimony from Robbie Callaway, 
Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Rockville, Maryland; Clyde McGuire, 
Boys and Girls Clubs of South

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Alabama, and Robert J. Martin, Mobile County Juvenile Court, both of 
Mobile, Alabama; and Richard Pounsberry, Seaford Police Department, 
Seaford, Delaware.
Y2K IMPACT ON RUSSIA
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee 
concluded hearings on the potential impacts and future consequences of 
the Year 2000 computer problem on the Russian economy and political 
environment, after receiving testimony from Senator Lugar; John R. 
Beyrle, Deputy to the Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for the 
New Independent States; Edward Warner, III, Assistant Secretary of 
Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction; Kenneth Baker, Principal 
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for the Office of Non-
proliferation and National Security; and William K. McHenry, Georgetown 
University McDonough School of Business, and Richard A. Conn, Jr., 
Latham and Watkins, on behalf of the U.S. Russia Business Council, both 
of Washington, D.C.