[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 17 (Wednesday, February 23, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D110-D112]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
WATER QUALITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on water quality as it pertains to agriculture and forestry, 
and related provisions of S. 2041, to amend the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act to exempt discharges from certain silvicultural activities 
from permit requirements of the national pollutant discharge 
elimination system, focusing on the Environmental Protection Agency's 
proposed regulations with regard to the Total Maximum Daily Load 
program and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 
Program, after receiving testimony from Senator Thomas; Carol Browner, 
Administrator, and J. Charles Fox, Associate Administrator for 
Reinvention, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Dan Glickman, 
Secretary, Richard Rominger, Deputy Secretary, and James Lyons, Under 
Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, all of the Department 
of Agriculture; James A. Kraft, Plum Creek Timber Company, Seattle, 
Washington, on behalf of the American Forest and Paper Association; 
Paul Johnson, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Des Moines; Roberta 
H. Savage, Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control 
Administrators, Washington, D.C.; Robert W. Adler, University of Utah 
College of Law, Salt Lake City; and John Barrett, Edroy, Texas, on 
behalf of the Texas Coastal Coordination Council and the Management 
Committee of the Gulf of Mexico Program.

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KOSOVO
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings to 
examine the situation in Kosovo, after receiving testimony from Walter 
B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Vice Adm. Scott 
A. Fry, USN, Director, Operations Directorate, and Rear Adm. Lowell E. 
Jacoby, USN, Director, Intelligence Directorate, both of the Office of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
MONETARY POLICY REPORT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the Monetary Policy Report to Congress pursuant to the Full 
Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, after receiving testimony 
from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System.
AMTRAK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded oversight hearings 
on the financial outlook of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak), focusing on the findings of the Amtrak Reform Council report, 
after receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, 
Department of Transportation; Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, 
Madison, on behalf of the Amtrak Reform Board; Gilbert E. Carmichael, 
Amtrak Reform Council, and William W. Millar, American Public 
Transportation Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Catherine L. 
Ross, Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, Atlanta.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  H.R. 2862, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to release 
reversionary interests held by the United States in certain parcels of 
land in Washington County, Utah, to facilitate an anticipated land 
exchange;
  H.R. 2863, to clarify the legal effect on the United States of the 
acquisition of a parcel of land in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve in the 
State of Utah; and
  S. 1936, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or 
exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other National 
Forest System land in the State of Oregon and use the proceeds derived 
from the sale or exchange for National Forest System purposes, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
  Also, Committee completed its review of those programs which fall 
within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's 
proposed budget for fiscal year 2001, and agreed on recommendations it 
will make thereon to the Committee on the 
Budget.
WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held oversight hearings on the progress on 
revisions of the White River National Forest Land and Resource 
Management Plan, focusing on biological diversity, recreation, travel 
management, roadless area, management, special areas, and timber 
harvest, receiving testimony from Senator Allard; Lyle Laverty, 
Regional Forester, Rocky Mountain Region, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Randy Parsons, White River Forest Alliance, and Beverly 
Compton, Aspen Wilderness Workshop, both of Carbondale, Colorado; John 
Swartout, Colorado Governor's Policy and Initiatives Office, and Jerry 
Abboud, Colorado Off-Highway Vehicle Coalition, both of Denver; Stan 
Broome, Club 20, Grand Junction, Colorado; Tom C. Stone, Eagle County 
Board of Commissioners, Eagle County, Colorado; Gary J. Severson, 
Northwest Colorado Council of Governments, Silverthorne; Andy Daly, 
Vail Resorts, Inc., Vail, Colorado; Vera Smith, Colorado Mountain Club, 
Golden; and Dorothea Farris, Pitkin County Commission, Aspen, Colorado.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
EPA BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget request for 
fiscal year 2001 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after 
receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental 
Protection Agency, who was accompanied by several of her associates.
CHINA WTO ACCESSION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the U.S.-China 
Bilateral Trade Agreement on China's accession to the World Trade 
Organization, receiving testimony from Charlene Barshefsky, United 
States Trade Representative; Steve Van Andel, Amway Corporation, Ada, 
Michigan, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; William D. Ellis, 
Southern Mills, Inc., Union City, Georgia, on behalf of the American 
Textile Manufacturers Institute; Christopher B. Galvin, Motorola, Inc., 
Schaumburg, Illinois; and Jeffrey M. Swain, Townsends, Inc., 
Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the National Chicken Council and the 
USA Poultry and Egg Export Council.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

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UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 1673, to 
amend titles 10 and 18, United States Code, to protect unborn victims 
of violence, receiving testimony from Representative Graham; Eleanor D. 
Acheson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Policy Development, 
Department of Justice; Gerard V. Bradley, University of Notre Dame, 
South Bend, Indiana; Ronald H. Weich, Zuckerman, Spaeder, Goldstein, 
Taylor and Kolker, and Juley A. Fulcher, National Coalition Against 
Domestic Violence, both of Washington, D.C.; Lt. Col. Michael J. 
Davidson, USA, Army Judge Advocate, Third U.S. Army, Fort McPherson, 
Georgia; Shiwona Pace, Little Rock, Arkansas; William Croston, 
Charlotte, North Carolina; and Joseph P. Daly, Middletown, Ohio.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for Indian 
programs, focusing on health care, housing, education, government, and 
law enforcement, after receiving testimony from Kevin Gover, Assistant 
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Michel E. Lincoln, Deputy 
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Jacqueline Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for Native American Programs; Michael Cohen, 
Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary 
Education; Jonathan M. Orszag, Assistant to the Secretary and Director, 
Policy and Strategic Planning, Department of Commerce; Mark C. Van 
Norman, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; 
Susan Masten, National Congress of American Indians, and Christopher D. 
Boesen, National American Indian Housing Council, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Julia Davis, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, 
Portland, Oregon; John W. Cheek, National Indian Education Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Eddie F. Brown, Washington University George 
Warren Brown School of Social Work, St. Louis, Missouri.
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.