[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 133 (Tuesday, October 5, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1089-D1090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on issues 
relating to military implications of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty 
(Treaty Doc. 105-28), receiving testimony from officials of the 
Department of Energy and the Intelligence Community.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded hearings on S. 1452, to modernize 
the requirements under the National Manufactured Housing Construction 
and Safety Standards of 1974 and to establish a balanced consensus 
process for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal 
construction and safety standards for manufactured homes, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Bayh; William Apgar, Assistant 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing/Federal Housing 
Commissioner; William Lear, Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., Riverside, 
California, on behalf of the Coalition to Improve the Manufactured 
Housing Act; and Rutherford Brice, Decatur, Georgia, on behalf of the 
American Association of Retired Persons.
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1608, to provide annual 
payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands 
managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed 
predominately by the Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties 
in which the lands are situated for the benefit of the public schools, 
roads, emergency and other public purposes; to encourage and provide 
new mechanism for cooperation between counties and the Forest Service 
and the Bureau of Land Management to make necessary investments in 
federal lands, and reaffirm the positive connection between Federal 
Lands counties and Federal Lands, after receiving testimony from Idaho 
State Representative Shirley Ringo; Bob Douglas, National Forest 
Counties and Schools Coalition, Tehama County, California; Jane 
O'Keefe, Oregon Counties Public Lands Committee, Lake County; Jack H. 
Summers, Jr., Liberty County School District, Liberty County, Florida; 
Steven K. Troha, Allegheny Forest Coalition, Kane Pennsylvania; Phil 
Davis, Valley County Board of Commissioners, Valley County, Idaho; R. 
Chris von Doenhoff, Houston County Court, Houston County, Texas; David 
Schmidt, Linn County Board of Commissioner, Linn County, Oregon; 
Michael A. Francis, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; and Doug 
Robertson, Association of O and C Counties, Roseburg, Oregon.
MTBE FUEL ADDITIVE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to 
examine the Environmental Protection Agency's Blue Ribbon Panel 
findings on the use of Oxygenates and MTBE, methyl tertiary-butyl 
ether, in gasoline, after receiving testimony from former Senator Jake 
Garn, on behalf of the Huntsman Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah 
Daniel S. Greenbaum, Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency's Blue 
Ribbon Panel; Michael P. Kenney, California Air Resources Board, 
Sacramento, on behalf of the California Environmental Protection 
Agency; and Robert H. Campbell, Sunoco, Inc.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Convention On Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of 
Intercountry Adoption (Treaty Doc. 105-51), and S. 682, to implement 
the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in 
Respect of Intercounty Adoption, after receiving testimony from Mary A. 
Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs; Ronald 
S. Federici, Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Associates, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Barbara A. Holtan, Tressler Lutheran Services, York, 
Pennsylvania; Tomilee Harding, Christian World Adoption, 
Hendersonville, North Carolina, Mark T. McDermott, American Academy of 
Adoption Attorneys, Washington, D.C.; and Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Holt 
International Children's Services, Eugene, Oregon.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
continued hearings to examine the effectiveness of United States 
development assistance to Africa and the implementation of United 
States foreign policy, receiving testimony from Nicholas N. Eberstadt, 
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Carol 
Lancaster, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, both of 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

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ASBESTOS EXPOSURE LITIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on the S. 758, to establish legal 
standards and procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and 
efficient resolution of personal injury claims arising out of asbestos 
exposure, after receiving testimony from Representatives Gekas, Moran, 
Cannon, and Scott; Christopher Edley, Jr, Harvard Law School, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Jonathan P. Hiatt, American Federation of Labor and 
Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Karen Kerrigan, Small 
Business Survival Committee, both of Washington, D.C.; former Michigan 
Supreme Court Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallet, Jr., Detroit, on behalf 
of the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution; Samuel J. Heyman, GAF 
Corporation, Wayne, New Jersey; Richard Middleton, Jr., Middleton, 
Mathis, Adams, and Tate, Savannah, Georgia, on behalf of the 
Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Michael Green, University of 
Iowa College of Law, Iowa City; Richard A. Nagareda, University of 
Georgia School of Law, Athens; and Paul R. Verkuil, Yeshiva University 
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York.
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.