[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 10 (Tuesday, February 8, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D61-D62]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DAIRY POLICY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held 
hearings to examine the United States dairy policy and programs, 
focusing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order, Northeast Dairy Compact, 
Dairy Export Incentive Program, and S. 1930, to amend the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act to provide for the termination of milk marketing orders, 
receiving testimony from Senators Specter, Jeffords, Kohl, Wellstone, 
Feingold, and Grams; Representatives Kind, Mark Green, and Ryan; 
Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, Madison; Nathan L. Rudgers, New 
York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Albany; Keith 
Collins, Chief Economist, Department of Agriculture; Gregg L. Engles, 
Suiza Foods Corporation, Dallas, Texas; Martin Yoder, Indiana 
Professional Dairy Producers, Middlebury; John J. Wilson, Dairy Farmers 
of America, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Dennis Vander Stelt, Kuna, 
Idaho, on behalf of the Western States Dairy Producers Trade 
Association and the Idaho Dairymen's Association, Inc.; Gordon Hoover, 
Gap, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Milk Producers Federation; 
Richard Gorder, Mineral Point, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Wisconsin 
Farm Bureau Federation; and Wayne Bok, Geddes, South Dakota, on behalf 
of the Associated Milk Producers, Inc.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.

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SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on suicide awareness and 
prevention issues, after receiving testimony from David Satcher, 
Surgeon General/Assistant Secretary for Health, Susan Blumenthal, 
Assistant Surgeon General/Senior Science Advisor, Office of Public 
Health and Science, and Steven E. Hyman, Director, National Institute 
of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, all of the Department 
of Health and Human Services; John Mann, American Foundation for 
Suicide Prevention, New York, New York; John Fildes, University of 
Nevada School of Medicine Trauma Institute, Las Vegas; Kay Redfield 
Jamison, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Washington, D.C.; Jade 
Smalls, Evanston, Illinois; and Danielle Steel, San Francisco, 
California.
APPROPRIATIONS--JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE/CBO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 
for the Joint Economic Committee, and the Congressional Budget Office, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Saxton; and Dan L. 
Crippen, Director, and Barry B. Anderson, Deputy Director, both of the 
Congressional Budget Office.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from William S. Cohen, 
Secretary of Defense; Gen. Henry H. Shelton, USA, Chairman, Joint 
Chiefs of Staff; and William J. Lynn, III, Principal Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY STABILITY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Economic Policy concluded hearings on S. 1879, to promote international 
monetary stability and to share seigniorage with officially dollarized 
countries, after receiving testimony from Edwin M. Truman, Assistant 
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
2001 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001, focusing on 
education programs and tax provisions, after receiving testimony from 
Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education; and Stuart E. Eizenstat, 
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the President's 
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 and related tax proposals, 
receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Secretary of the 
Treasury; and Silva Mathews, Deputy Director, Office of Management and 
Budget.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for foreign 
assistance and to review U.S. foreign policy around the world, after 
receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
MEDICARE REFORM: PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings on certain 
provisions of S. 1895, to amend the Social Security Act to preserve and 
improve the medicare program, focusing on its overall restructuring 
plan, and prescription drug coverage, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Frist; David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United 
States, General Accounting Office; Gail R. Wilensky, Project HOPE, 
Bethesda, Maryland; Stephen L. Goeser, Myrtue Memorial Hospital, 
Harlan, Iowa; Beatrice Braun, Springhill, Florida, on behalf of the 
American Association of Retired Persons; Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., Eli 
Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana; and Deborah Steelman, 
Steelman Health Strategies, Washington, D.C.