[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 156 (Monday, November 8, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1273]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY MERGERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine the impact of mergers on market competition in the 
telecommunications industry, receiving testimony from William E. 
Kennard, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Robert Pitofsky, 
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Scott C. Cleland, Legg Mason 
Precursor Group, Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, Paul Glenchur, 
Charles Schwab Washington Research Group, and John Sidgemore, MCI 
WorldCom, all of Washington, D.C.; and Mike McTighe, Cable and 
Wireless, Vienna, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of William A. Halter, of Arkansas, to be Deputy Commissioner 
of the Social Security Administration.
  Also, Committee approved the appointment of Senator Coverdell to 
become a member of the Committee, and to be Chairman of the 
Subcommittee on Health Care. In addition, Senator Coverdell will be a 
member of the Subcommittee on International Trade, the Subcommittee on 
Long-Term Growth and Debt Reduction, and the Subcommittee on Social 
Security and Family Policy
BABY BOOM GENERATION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
political, social, and economic challenges that may face the United 
States as the baby boomer generation approach retirement, after 
receiving testimony from Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave, Emeryville, 
California; Fernando M. Torres-Gil, UCLA Center for Policy Research on 
Aging, Los Angeles, California; Peter G. Peterson, Blackstone Group, 
New York, New York, on behalf of the Concord Coalition; and Tipper 
Gore, Washington, D.C.