[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 152 (Tuesday, November 2, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1238-D1239]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Senate concluded 
hearings to examine the new Round of international trade negotiations 
to be discussed at the upcoming World Trade Organization Conference in 
Seattle, focusing on the services industries trade agenda, after 
receiving testimony from Charlene Barshefsky, United States Trade 
Representative.
PROTECTION OF FOREST ROADLESS AREAS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings to examine the President's 
Memorandum for the Secretary of Agriculture on the Protection of Forest 
Roadless Areas, and the Forest Service's actions that are planned in 
response, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; and Daniel R. 
Glickman, Secretary, Jim Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural Resources 
and Environment, and Mike Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service, all of the 
Department of Agriculture.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Avis Thayer Bohlen, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Robert J. Einhorn, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Non-
proliferation, J. Stapleton Roy, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Craig Gordon 
Dunkerley, of Massachusetts, for the Rank of Ambassador during his 
tenure of service as Special Envoy for Conventional Forces in Europe, 
Norman A. Wulf, of Virginia, to be a Special Representative of the 
President, with the rank of Ambassador, Charles Taylor Manatt, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and 
Anthony Stephen Harrington, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the 
Federative Republic of Brazil, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Manatt was introduced by 
Senators Gramm, Feinstein, Boxer, and Harkin, and Mr. Harrington was 
introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs held hearings to examine the incidence of terrorism in 
the Middle East and South Asia, focusing on how to combat the growing 
problem of extremism and its by-product, terrorism, receiving testimony 
from Michael A. Sheehan, Ambassador at Large and Coordinator for 
Counterterrorism, Department of State; Mansoor Ijaz, Crescent Equity 
Partners, New York, New York; Milton Beardon, former CIA Chief in Sudan 
and Pakistan, Reston, Virginia; and Frederick Starr, Johns Hopkins 
University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and Michael 
Krepon, Henry L. Stimson Center, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Melvin W. Kahle, to be United States Attorney for 
the Northern District of West Virginia, Q. Todd Dickinson, of 
Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, and Anne H. 
Chasser, of Ohio, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents and 
Trademarks, both of the Department of Commerce, and Kathryn M. Turman, 
of Virginia, to be Director of the Office for Victims of Crime, 
Department of Justice;
  S. 1798, to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide enhanced 
protection for investors and innovators, protect patent terms, and 
reduce patent litigation;
  H.R. 1907, to amend title 35, United States Code, to provide enhanced 
protection for inventors and innovators, protect patent terms, and 
reduce patent litigation, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute. (As approved by the committee, the substitute amendment 
incorporates the text of S. 1798, Senate companion measure.);
  S. 1515, to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, with an 
amendment; and
  H.J. Res. 65, commending the World War II veterans who fought in the 
Battle of the Bulge.
  Also, committee agreed to postpone consideration of the nominations 
of Ann Claire Williams, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge 
for the Seventh Circuit, Faith S. Hochberg, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, Frank H. McCarthy, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and 
Virginia A. Phillips, to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of California.

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GOVERNMENT LAWSUITS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
spate of certain government lawsuits filed against different 
industries, receiving testimony from Senators Durbin, Reed, and 
McConnell; Jonathan Turley, George Washington University Law School, 
Don Ryan, Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, Matthew L. Myers, 
National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell and 
Moring, on behalf of the American Tort Reform Association, and R. Bruce 
Josten, United States Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
Lt. Gen. William M. Keys, USMC(Ret.), New Colt's Holding Company, 
Hartford, Connecticut.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.