[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 144 (Thursday, October 21, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1181-D1183]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
YOUTH ANTI-DRUG MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government held a hearing on the Youth Anti-Drug Media 
Campaign. Testimony was heard from Barry McCaffrey, Director, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy; Susan David, National Institute of Drug 
Abuse, Department of Health and Human Services; and public witnesses.
POSTURE, READINESS ISSUES, AND UNFUNDED REQUIREMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing on posture, readiness 
issues, and unfunded requirements. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Defense: Gen. Eric K. 
Shinseki, USA, Chief of Staff, Department of the Army; Adm. Jay L. 
Johnson, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy; Gen. 
Michael E. Ryan, USAF, Chief of Staff, Department of the Air Force; and 
Gen. James. L. Jones, USMC, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.
Y2K AND MEDICAL DEVICES
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment and the 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a joint hearing on 
Y2K and Medical Devices: Testing for the Y2K Bug. Testimony was heard 
from the following officials of the Department of Health and Human 
Services: Thomas Shope, Special Assistant to the Director, Office of 
Science and Technology, Center for Devices and Radiological Health; 
William Hubbard, Senior Associate Commissioner, Policy, Planning and 
Legislation, both with the FDA; and George Grob, Deputy Inspector 
General; Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information 
Systems, Accounting and Management Division, GAO; and public witnesses.
MSPA CLARIFICATION ACT; OPPORTUNITIES FOR MIGRANT EMPLOYEES
Committee on Education and the Workforce: Subcommittee on Workforce 
Protections held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 1886, MSPA 
Clarification Act of 1999; and H.R. 2757, Opportunities for Migrant 
Employees. Testimony was heard from Representatives Canady of Florida, 
Hastings of Washington and Radanovich; and public witnesses.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PARITY
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug 
Policy and Human Resources held a hearing on Substance Abuse Treatment 
Parity: A Viable Solution to the Nation's Epidemic of Addiction? 
Testimony was heard from Senator Wellstone; Representative Ramstad; 
Capt. Ronald Smith, M.D., USN, Vice Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, 
National Naval Medical Center, Department of Defense; and public 
witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; OVERSIGHT--POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Postal Service approved 
for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 2952, to 
redesignate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 
100 Orchard Park Drive in Greenville, South Carolina, as the ``Keith D. 
Oglesby Station''; and H.R. 3018, amended, to designate the United 
States Post Office located at 557 East Bay Street in Charleston, South 
Carolina, as the ``Marybelle H. Howe Post Office''.
  The Subcommittee also held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Postal 
Service. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the U.S. 
Postal Service: Karla W. Corcoran, Inspector General; and William J. 
Henderson, Postmaster General and CEO; and Bernard L. Ungar, Director, 
Government Business Operations Issues, GAO.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on House Administration: Met and considered pending Committee 
business.
Y2K: A THREAT TO U.S. INTERESTS ABROAD?
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on Y2K: A Threat 
to U.S. Interests Abroad? Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development: Richard C. 
Nygard, Chief Information Officer; and Theodore Alves, Director, 
Assistant Inspector General, Audits; the following officials of the 
Department of State: John O'Keefe, Special Representative for the Year 
2000; and Jacquelyn L. Williams-Bridgers, Inspector General; Lawrence 
K. Gershwin, National Intelligence Officer, Science and Technology, 
CIA; and Linda D. Koontz, Associate Director, Accounting and 
Information Management Division, GAO.
PARTICIPATION AND REHABILITATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held a 
hearing on H.R. 906, Civic Participation and Rehabilitation Act of 
1999. Testimony was heard from Representative Davis of Illinois; and 
public witnesses.
ANTITAMPERING ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual 
Property held a hearing on H.R.

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2100, Antitampering Act of 1999, Testimony was heard from public 
witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources 
held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 3063, to amend the National 
Leasing Act to increase the maximum acreage of Federal leases for 
sodium that may be held by an entity in any one State; and H.R. 2818, 
to prohibit oil and gas drilling in Mosquito Creek Lake in Cortland, 
Ohio. Testimony was heard from Representative Traficant; the following 
officials of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior: 
Gwen Mason, Associate State Director, Eastern States Office; and Robert 
M. Anderson, Deputy Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and Resource 
Protection; Brig. Gen. Hans A. VanWinkle, USA, Deputy Commander for 
Civil Works, Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army; and public 
witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans held a hearing on the following measures: H. Con. 
Res. 189, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the wasteful 
and unsportsmanlike practice known as shark finning; and H.R. 2903, 
Coral Reef Conservation and Restoration Act of 1999. Testimony was 
heard from Representative Cunningham; from the following officials of 
NOAA, Department of Commerce: Sally Yozell, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Oceans and Atmosphere; and Andrew Rosenberg, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service; and public 
witnesses.
LAND EXCHANGE
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands 
held a hearing on H.R. 2950, to provide for the exchange of certain 
land in the State of Oregon. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Walden of Oregon; Carson Culp, Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty and 
Resource Protection, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
Interior; Jack Craven, Director, Lands, Forest Service, USDA; and 
public witnesses.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power held a hearing 
on the following: H.R. 2348, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to 
provide cost sharing for the endangered fish recovery implementation 
programs for the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins; H.R. 2619, 
to amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to authorize 
additional measures to carry out the control of salinity upstream of 
Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner; H.R. 3067, Nampa and Meridian 
Conveyance Act; and a measure to amend the Act that authorized 
construction of the San Luis Unit of the Central Valley Project, 
California, to facilitate water transfers in the Central Valley 
Project. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Bureau 
of Reclamation, Department of the Interior: David Hayes, Acting Deputy 
Secretary; and Eluid Martinez, Commissioner; Katheen Clarke, Executive 
Director, Department of Natural Resources, State of Utah; and public 
witnesses.
PAIN RELIEF PROMOTION ACT
  Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a structured rule 
providing 1 hour of general debate on H.R. 2260, Pain Relief 
Promotion Act of 1999, equally divided and controlled by the 
chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Commerce and the 
chairman and ranking member of the Committee on the Judiciary. The 
rule waives clause 4(a) of rule XIII (requiring a three-day layover 
of the committee report) against consideration of the bill. The rule 
makes in order as an original bill for the purpose of amendment the 
amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the bill as 
modified by the amendments recommended by the Committee on Commerce 
and printed in the bill. The rule provides for consideration of only 
the amendments printed in the Rules Committee report accompanying 
the resolution. The rule provides that the amendments will be 
considered only in the order specified in the report, may be offered 
only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as 
read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent and 
shall not be subject to amendment. The rule allows the Chairman of 
the Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration of 
the bill, and to reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed 
question if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the 
rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Bilirakis, Canady of 
Florida, Scott, Watt of North Carolina, Rothman, Hoyer, Maloney of 
New York, Hooley of Oregon and Wu.
SUPERFUND RD&D
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Energy and Environment held a 
hearing on Superfund RD&D. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the EPA: Norine Noonan, Assistant Administrator, Research 
and Development, Office of Research and Development; and Ed Berkey, 
Committee on Environmentalk Engineering, Science Advisory Board; and 
public witnesses.
NASA'S SPACE SHUTTLE--SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE UPGRADES
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a 
hearing on Safety and Performance Upgrades to NASA's Space Shuttle. 
Testimony was heard from William F. Readdy, Deputy Associate

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Administrator, Space Flight, NASA; and public witnesses.
CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITY
Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on the proposed changes to 
Part 9 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation relating to contractor 
responsibility. Testimony was heard from Representative Davis of 
Virginia; Deidre Lee, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy, OMB; Eleanor Spector, Director, Defense Procurement, Department 
of Defense; James Ballentine, Acting Associate Deputy Administrator, 
Government Contracting and Minority Enterprise Development, SBA; and 
public witnesses.
STATE OF AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on 
Aviation continued hearings on the State of Airline Competition, 
(including the Status of New Low-Cost Airlines and the DOT Response to 
the TRB Report). Testimony was heard from Nancy E. McFadden, General 
Counsel, Department of Transportation; and public witnesses.
FATHERS COUNT ACT; MEDICARE BALANCED BUDGET REFINEMENT ACT
Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported, amended the following 
bills: H.R. 3073, amended, Fathers Count Act of 1999 and H.R. 3075, 
Medicare Balanced Budget Refinement Act of 1999.
MANAGEMENT OF DISABILITY CASES
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security and the 
Subcommittee on Human Resources held a joint hearing on the Management 
of Disability Cases. Testimony was heard from Kenneth S. Apfel, 
Commissioner, SSA; Cynthia M. Fagnoni, Director, Income Security 
Issues, Health, Education and Human Services Division, GAO; the 
following Administrative Law Judges: Ronald G. Bernoski; and Kathleen 
A. McGraw; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
FINANCIAL SERVICES MODERNIZATION
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences 
between the Senate and House passed versions of S. 900/H.R.10, bills to 
enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a 
prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, 
insurance companies, and other financial service providers.