[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 7 (Wednesday, February 2, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D46-D47]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BOSNIA AND KOSOVO SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine current security status in Bosnia and Kosovo 
following U.S. military operations, after receiving testimony from Gen. 
Wesley K. Clark, USA, Commander-in-Chief, United States European 
Command, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe.
INTERNET TAXATION
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
Internet taxation issues, focusing on the implications of State and 
local government sales taxes applied to purchases made over the 
Internet, after receiving testimony from Massachusetts Governor Argeo 
Paul Cellucci, Boston; Michigan Governor John Engler, Lansing, on 
behalf of the National Governors' Association; Charles E. McLure, Jr., 
Stanford University Hoover Institute, Stanford, California; and Aaron 
Lukas, Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies, and Iris J. Lav, 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, both of Washington, D.C.
IRS REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the status of Internal 
Revenue Service reform, focusing on the implementation of the 
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, receiving testimony from Charles 
O. Rossotti, Commissioner, and W. Val Oveson, National Taxpayer 
Advocate, both of the Internal Revenue Service, and David C. Williams, 
Inspector General for Tax Administration, all of the Department of the 
Treasury; and James R. White, Director, Tax Policy and Administration 
Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
GENE THERAPY SAFETY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health held hearings to examine certain issues regarding patient 
safety in gene therapy clinical trials, focusing on federal oversight 
procedures and guidelines for informing patients and their families of 
potential risks and benefits of gene therapy, receiving testimony from 
Amy Patterson, Director, Office of Biotechnology Activities, National 
Institutes of Health, and Jay P. Siegel, Director, Office of 
Therapeutics Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and 
Research, Food and Drug Administration, both of the Department

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of Health and Human Services; Inder M. Verma, Salk Institute Laboratory 
of Genetics, La Jolla, California; LeRoy Walters, Georgetown University 
Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Washington, D.C.; H. Stewart Parker, 
Targeted Genetics Corporation, Seattle, Washington, on behalf of the 
Biotechnology Industry Organization; Eric Kast, Norman, Oklahoma, on 
behalf of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; and Paul L. Gelsinger, 
Tucson, Arizona.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
WORLD THREATS ASSESSMENT
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings to examine worldwide threats to national security, focusing on 
traditional and unconventional threats, including proliferation of 
weapons of mass destruction, state-sponsored terrorism, and non-state 
terrorists, after receiving testimony from George J. Tenet, Director, 
Central Intelligence Agency; Vice Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, Director, 
Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense; and J. Stapleton 
Roy, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.