[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 22 (Thursday, March 2, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D153-D155]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 345, to amend the Animal Welfare Act to remove the limitation that 
permits interstate movement of live birds, for the purpose of fighting, 
to States in which animal fighting is lawful; and
  An original bill, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to improve 
crop insurance coverage, and to provide agricultural producers with 
choices to manage risk.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 2001 for the Department of State, after receiving testimony 
from Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 
for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on the Defense Health Program, after receiving testimony from 
Rudy de Leon, Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, Sue Bailey, 
Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, Robert R. Soule, Director, 
Program Analysis and Evaluation, and H. James T. Sears, Executive 
Director, TRICARE Management Activity, all of the Department of 
Defense; Gen. John M. Keane, USA, Vice Chief of Staff; Adm. Donald L. 
Pilling, USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Lester L. Lyles, 
USAF, Vice Chief of Staff; Gen. Terrence R. Dake, USMC, Assistant 
Commandant of the Marine Corps; Lt. Gen. John M. McDuffie, USA, 
Director for Logistics; Lt. Gen. Ronald R. Blanck, USA, Army Surgeon 
General; Vice Adm. Richard A. Nelson, USN, Medical Corps, Navy Surgeon 
General; Lt. Gen. Paul K. Carlton, Jr., USAF, Air Force Surgeon 
General; CDR Mike Lord, JAGC, USN (Ret.), Commissioned Officers 
Association of the United States Public Health Service, Inc., Landover, 
Maryland, and Susan Schwartz, National Military Family Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia, both on behalf of the Military Coalition; and 
Charles C. Patridge, National Association for Uniformed Services, 
Springfield, Virginia, and Kristen Pugh, Retired Enlisted Association, 
Aurora, Colorado, both on behalf of the National Military/Veterans 
Alliance.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 
for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, 
focusing on shipbuilding procurement and research and development 
programs, after receiving testimony from Ronald K. O'Rourke, Specialist 
in National Defense, Congressional Research Service, Library of 
Congress; H. Lee Buchanan, III, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm. Conrad C. 
Lautenbacher, Jr., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, 
Warfare Requirements, and Assessments; Lt. Gen. John E. Rhodes, USMC, 
Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command; and Rear 
Adm. Malcolm I. Fages, USN, Director of Submarine Warfare Division, 
Office of Chief of Naval Operations.

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BUSINESS COMBINATIONS ACCOUNTING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the accounting of business combinations, focusing 
on the public policy implications of the Financial Accounting Standards 
Board's pooling-of-interest accounting regulation proposal, after 
receiving testimony from Harvey Golub, American Express Company, New 
York, New York; John Doerr, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, and 
James Barksdale, Barksdale Group, both of Menlo Park, California; 
Dennis Powell, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, California; Robert L. 
Ryan, Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Alain J. Hanover, InCert 
Software Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kimberly J. Pinter, 
National Association of Manufacturers, and Martin A. Regalia, U.S. 
Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; and Edmund L. Jenkins, 
Financial Accounting Standards Board, Norwalk, Connecticut.
2001 BUDGET: ENERGY PROGRAMS
Committee on the Budget: On Wednesday, March 1, Committee concluded 
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 
2001 for nuclear non-proliferation, stockpile stewardship, and other 
energy programs, after receiving testimony from Bill Richardson, 
Secretary of Energy.
AOL/TIME WARNER MERGER
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine certain issues relating to the proposed America 
Online/Time Warner merger, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Case, 
America Online, Dulles, Virginia; Gerald M. Levin, Time Warner, Inc., 
New York, New York; Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and Technology, 
and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Robert H. Lande, University of Baltimore School of Law, Silver Spring, 
Maryland, on behalf of the American Antitrust Institute.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget requests for 
fiscal year 2001, for the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held oversight hearings on the United States 
Forest Service's proposed revisions to the regulation governing 
National Forest Planning and wildlife population viability 
requirements, receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary 
of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; K. Norman 
Johnson, Oregon State University College of Forestry, Covallis; Barry 
R. Noon, Colorado State University Department of Fishery and Wildlife 
Biology, Fort Collins; Charles F. Wilkinson, University of Colorado Law 
School, Boulder; Donald G. Arganbright, Northern Arizona University 
School of Forestry, Flagstaff, Arthur W. Cooper, North Carolina State 
University, Raleigh, and Donald W. Floyd, State University of New York 
College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, all on behalf 
of the Society of American Foresters; Daniel R. Dessecker, Ruffed 
Grouse Society, Rice Lake, Wisconsin; David A. Buehler, University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville; Robert W. Duncan, Virginia Department of Game and 
Inland Fisheries, Richmond; James R. Woehr, Wildlife Management 
Institute, and Gerald J. Gray, American Forests, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Frank Priestley, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, Pocatello, on 
behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Michael Byrne, Tulelake, 
California, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association; and 
H. Michael Anderson, Wilderness Society, Seattle, Washington.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of George L. Farr, of Connecticut, Charles L. Kolbe, of 
Iowa, Nancy Killefer and Karen Hastie Williams, both of the District of 
Columbia, Larry L. Levitan and Robert M. Tobias, both of Maryland, and 
Steve H. Nickles, of North Carolina, each to be a Member of the 
Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board, Department of the Treasury.
SUDAN TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded closed hearings on 
terrorism issues relating to Sudan, after receiving testimony from 
Michael A. Sheehan, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of 
State.
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SECURITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the federal government's computer system vulnerabilities, 
focusing on how people exploit those weaknesses and what federal 
agencies should be doing to strengthen the management of its 
information systems, and S. 1993, to reform Government information 
security by strengthening information security practices throughout the 
Federal Government, after receiving testimony from Jack L. Brock, Jr., 
Director, Governmentwide and

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Defense Information Systems, Accounting and Information Management 
Division, General Accounting Office; Roberta L. Gross, Inspector 
General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; James Adams, 
Infrastructure Defense, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Kenneth Watson, 
Cisco Systems, Inc., Austin, Texas; and Kevin Mitnick, Los Angeles, 
California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 577, to provide for injunctive relief in Federal district court to 
enforce State laws relating to the interstate transportation of 
intoxicating liquor, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 128, designating March 2000, as ``Arts Education Month''; and
  The nominations of Randolph D. Moss, of Maryland, to be an Assistant 
Attorney General, Department of Justice, Julio M. Fuentes, of New 
Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, and 
James D. Whittemore, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for 
the Middle District of Florida.
  Also, Committee approved a resolution of issuance of subpoenas for 
the Secretary of Defense pursuant to Rule 26.
AUTHORIZATION--RYAN WHITE CARE ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee held 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the 
Ryan White Care Act, focusing on the challenges of an evolving HIV/AIDS 
epidemic, receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Representative 
Coburn; David Satcher, Assistant Secretary for Health, United States 
Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services; Sandra 
Thurman, Director, Office of National AIDS Policy; Jeanne White, AIDS 
Action, Washington, D.C.; Christopher Grace, University of Vermont 
College of Medicine, Burlington; Mike Kenn, Board of Commissioners of 
Fulton County, Atlanta, Georgia; Guthrie S. Birkhead, New York State 
Department of Health, Albany; and Lori-San Clark, Hyde Park, 
Massachusetts.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 7.