[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 144 (Thursday, October 21, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1177-D1179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed 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, receiving testimony from Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, 
Commander-in-Chief, United States European Command, Supreme Allied 
Commander, Europe; Adm. James O. Ellis, Jr., USN, Commander-in-Chief, 
United States Naval Forces, Europe, Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces, 
Southern Europe; and Lt. Gen. Michael C. Short, USAF, Commander, 16th 
Air Force, United States Air Forces, Europe, Commander, Allied Air 
Forces, Southern Europe.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues 
dealing with the Department of Commerce's proposal to close the 
National Technical Information Service, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Robb; Representatives Davis and James Moran; Robert Mallett, 
Deputy Secretary of Commerce; Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer, 
Government Printing Office; Joan R. Challinor, Member, United States 
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; and Bill 
Clark, National Federation of Federal Employees, Washington, DC.
NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 
1365, to amend the National Preservation Act of 1966 to extend the 
authorization for the Historic Preservation Fund and the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation, S. 1434, to amend the National 
Historic Preservation Act to reauthorize that Act, and H.R. 834,

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to extend the authorization for the National Historic Preservation 
Fund, after receiving testimony from Robert Stanton, Director, 
Katherine Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural Resource, Stewardship 
and Partnerships, and Michael Soukup, Associate Director, Natural 
Resources, Stewardship and Science, all of the National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; John Fowler, Executive Director, Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation; Judith Bittner, Alaska State Office 
of Historic Preservation, Anchorage, on behalf of the National 
Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; Gerri Johnson 
Hobdy, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, Baton 
Rouge; Michael A. Andrews, Washington, DC, and Lucille Clark Dumbrill, 
New Castle, Wyoming, both of the National Trust for Historic 
Preservation; and Susan West Montgomery, Preservation Action, 
Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill, the Balanced Budget Adjustment Act of 1999.
WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded 
hearings to examine the United States trade negotiating objectives for 
services at the Seattle World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting, 
after receiving testimony from David L. Aaron, Under Secretary of 
Commerce for International Trade; Susan G. Esserman, Deputy United 
States Trade Representative; and Stuart J. Brahs, The Principal 
Financial Group, Catherine L. Mann, Institute for International 
Economics, and J. Robert Vastine, Coalition of Service Industries, all 
of Washington DC.
CHILD LABOR ABUSE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on 
Convention (No. 182) Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action 
for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor, adopted by the 
International Labor Organization Convention at its 87th Session in 
Geneva on June 17, 1999 (Treaty Doc. 106-05), after receiving testimony 
from Senator Harkin; Alexis M. Herman, Secretary of Labor; John J. 
Sweeney, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial 
Organizations, Washington, DC; Thomas M.T. Niles, United States Council 
for International Business, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
International Labor Organization; Casey Harrell, Duke University 
Students Against Sweatshops, Durham, North Carolina; and Francoise 
Remington, Forgotten Children, Arlington, Virginia.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John F. Walsh, of Connecticut, and Legree Sylvia 
Daniels, of Pennsylvania, each to be a Governor of the United States 
Postal Service, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Walsh was introduced by Senator Dodd, and Ms. 
Daniels was introduced by Senator Specter.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H.R. 2112, to amend chapter 87 of title 28, United States Code, to 
authorize a judge to whom a case is transferred to retain jurisdiction 
over certain multidistrict litigation cases for trial, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee 
the substitute amendment incorporates the text of S. 1748, Senate 
companion measure.);
  H.J. Res. 62, to grant the consent of Congress to the boundary change 
between Georgia and South Carolina;
  S. 1713, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for 
an additional 2 years the period for admission of an alien as a 
nonimmigrant under section 101(a)(15)(S) of such Act, and to authorize 
appropriations for the refugee assistance program under chapter 2 of 
title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
  S. 1485, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to confer 
United States citizenship automatically and retroactively on certain 
foreign-born children adopted by citizens of the United States;
  S. 1753, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that 
an adopted alien who is less than 18 years of age may be considered a 
child under such Act if adopted with or after a sibling who is a child 
under such Act;
  S. 1754, ``Denying Safe Havens to International and War Criminals Act 
of 1999'', with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1235, to amend part G of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow railroad police officers to attend 
the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy for law 
enforcement training; and
  The nominations of Timothy B. Dyk, of the District of Columbia, and 
Richard Linn, of Virginia, each to be a United States Circuit Judge for 
the Federal Circuit, Paul L. Seave, to be United States Attorney for 
the Eastern District of California, and Diana E. Murphy, of Minnesota, 
Ruben Castillo, of Illinois, Sterling R. Johnson, Jr., of New York, 
Elton J. Kendall, of Texas, Michael E. O'Neill, of

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Maryland, William K. Sessions, III, of Vermont, and John R. Steer, of 
Virginia, each to be a Member of the United States Sentencing 
Commission.
FDA MODERNIZATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on the implementation of the Food and Drug 
Administration Modernization Act (P.L. 105-115), focusing on provisions 
on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, after receiving testimony from 
Jane E. Henney, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Richard A. 
Galbraith, University of Vermont Fletcher Allen Health Care, 
Burlington; Janice Bourque, Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Inc., 
Waltham; Myron Genel, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 
Connecticut, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; Amy S. 
Langer, National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, New York, New 
York; and Pamela G. Bailey, Health Industry Manufacturers Association, 
and Alan F. Holmer, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of 
America, both of Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES WORKFORCE NEEDS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings to examine workforce needs in the high technology industry and 
at smaller companies, focusing on the need for additional H-1B visas, 
after receiving testimony from Senators Gramm and Robb; Susan Williams 
DeFife, womenCONNECT.com, Fairfax, Virginia; Julie Holdren, Olympus 
Group, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Robert D. Atkinson, Progressive 
Policy Institute, and William T. Archey, American Electronics 
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Roberta Katz, Technology 
Network, Palo Alto, California.