[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 139 (Thursday, October 14, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1134-D1136]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
                  (Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM RISK MANAGEMENT/CROP INSURANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1666, to provide risk education assistance to 
agricultural producers, S. 1108, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance 
Act to improve crop insurance coverage and administration,

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and S. 1580, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to assist 
agricultural producers in managing risk, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Graham; Bruce L. Gardner, University of Maryland Department of 
Agricultural and Resource Economics, College Park; and Craig Hill, Iowa 
Farm Bureau Federation, Indianola, on behalf of the American Farm 
Bureau Federation.
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings on the lessons learned from the military operations conducted 
as part of Operation Allied Force, and associated relief operations, 
with respect to Kosovo, after receiving testimony from William S. 
Cohen, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA, Chairman, 
Joint Chiefs of Staff.
ALASKA LAND CONSERVATION/ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS/U.S. TERRITORIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1683, to make technical changes to the Alaska National Interest 
Lands Conservation Act, S. 1686, to provide for the conveyances of land 
interests to Chugach Alaska Corporation to fulfill the intent, purpose, 
and promise of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and S. 1702, to 
amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to allow shareholder 
common stock to be transferred to adopted Alaska Native children and 
their descendants, after receiving testimony from Donald J. Barry, 
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and Marilyn 
Heiman, Special Assistant to the Secretary to Alaska, both of the 
Department of the Interior; Ronald E. Stewart, Deputy Chief for 
Programs and Legislation, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Sheri Buretta, Chugach Alaska Corporation, Jack Hession, Sierra Club, 
Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation of Natives, Inc., and Peter Van Tuyn, 
Trustees for Alaska, all of Anchorage, Alaska; William P. Horn, Birch, 
Horton, Bittner, and Cherot, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Alaska 
Professional Hunters Association; and Dune Lankard, Cordova, Alaska, on 
behalf of the Eyak Preservation Council.
  Also, committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2841, to amend the Revised 
Organic Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for greater fiscal 
autonomy consistent with other United States jurisdictions, and H.R. 
2368, to assist in the resettlement and relocation of the people of 
Bikini Atoll by amending the terms of the trust fund established during 
the United States administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
Islands, after receiving testimony from Danny Aranza, Director, Office 
of Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior; Jonathan M. Weisgall, 
Washington, D.C., representing the People of Bikini; and Peter N. 
Hiebert, Winston and Strawn, Washington, D.C., and Margaret Guarino, 
First Union Securities, Inc., New York, New York, both on behalf of the 
Government of Virgin Islands.
PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 610, to direct the 
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land under the jurisdiction 
of the Bureau of Land Management in Washakie County and Big Horn 
County, Wyoming, to the Westside Irrigation District, Wyoming, S. 1218, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue to the Landusky School 
District, without consideration, a patent for the surface and mineral 
estates of certain lots, S. 408, to direct the Secretary of the 
Interior to convey a former Bureau of Land Management administrative 
site to the City of Carson City, Nevada, for use as a senior center, S. 
1629, to provide for the exchange of certain land in the State of 
Oregon, S. 1599, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or 
exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in 
the Black Hills National Forest and to use funds derived from the sale 
or exchange to acquire replacement sites and to acquire or construct 
administrative improvements in connection with Black Hills National 
Forest, and S. 1343, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey 
certain National Forest land to Elko County, Nevada, for continued use 
as a cemetery, after receiving testimony from Senator Reid; Sandra H. 
Key, Associate Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Carson Culp, Assistant Director for 
Minerals, Realty and Resource Protection, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; and King Williams, King, Inc., Canyon City, 
Oregon, on behalf of the Clearwater Land Exchange of Oregon.
AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN AIR ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety held hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Clean Air 
Act, focusing on air and radiation, risk, cost/benefit, and exposure 
issues, Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) process, acid rain 
program, and the effect of multiple regulations directed at the same 
pollutants, receiving testimony from Robert Perciasepe, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection 
Agency; John D. Graham, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 
Massachusetts; Richard L. Revesz, New York University School of Law, 
New York, New York; Alison Kerester, University of Texas

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School of Public Health/Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxic Research 
Center, Houston; Michel R. Benoit, Cement Kiln Recycling Coalition, 
Washington, D.C.; Bernard C. Melewski, Adirondack Council, Albany, New 
York; and William F. Tyndall, Cinergy Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, on 
behalf of the Edison Electric Institute.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
PAKISTAN POLITICAL CRISIS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs held hearings on issues related to the political crisis 
in Pakistan and how the United States can promote its restoration of 
democracy, receiving testimony from Karl F. Inderfurth, Assistant 
Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DIABETES RESEARCH
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to examine the impact of diabetes on 
society and government investment in diabetes research, focusing on 
scientific opportunities available in diabetes research, treatment, 
prevention, and funding levels for diabetes research, after receiving 
testimony from Phillip Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes 
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institute of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; C. Ronald Kahn, Joslin 
Diabetes Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Edward H. Leiter, The Jackson 
Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine; Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Ben May Institute 
for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Ryan 
Dinkgrave, Livonia, Michigan, on behalf of the Juvenile Diabetes 
Foundation International; Pam Fernandes, Needham, Massachusetts; Gordon 
Jump, Coto de Caza, California; and William H. Fuller, Jr., Virginia 
Beach, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Ronald A. Guzman, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois, William Joseph Haynes, Jr., to be 
United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, and 
Barbara M. Lynn, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Texas.
  Also, committee approved a committee resolution on the issuance of 
subpoenas pursuant to Rule 26, as amended.