[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 23 (Monday, March 6, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D163-D164]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of 
Defense, after receiving testimony from John J. Hamre, Deputy Secretary 
of Defense.
AIR FORCE DEPOT MAINTENANCE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 3, Subcommittee on 
Readiness and Management Support concluded hearings to examine the 
management of Air Force depot maintenance on fielded weapon systems, 
after receiving testimony from F. Whitten Peters, Secretary of the Air 
Force; Gen. George T. Babbitt, Jr., USAF, Commander, Air Force Materiel 
Command; and David R. Warren, Director, and Julia C. Denman, Assistant 
Director, both of Defense Management Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
RUSSIAN THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAMS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded closed and open hearings to examine U.S. 
programs to reduce the threats that the former Soviet Union's weapons 
of mass destruction pose to national security, focusing on the 
Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and the 
Department of Energy Nonproliferation programs, after receiving 
testimony from John A. Lauder, Director, Nonproliferation Center, 
Central Intelligence Agency; Harold J. Johnson, Associate Director, 
International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Susan J. 
Koch, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction 
Policy; and Rose E. Gottemoeller, Acting Deputy Administrator for 
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Department of Energy.

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COLON CANCER PREVENTION
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
prevention and treatment of colon cancer, focusing on efforts to 
increase awareness and screening procedures, including the use of 
Medicare-covered screening and diagnostic services to prevent 
colorectal cancer and minimize its effect on beneficiaries health 
status through early detection and treatment, after receiving testimony 
from William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Michael McMullan, Deputy Director, Center for 
Beneficiary Services, Health Care Financing Administration, Department 
of Health and Human Services; Katie Couric, National Broadcasting 
Company, on behalf of the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, 
and Shirley Heiligman, both of New York, New York; and Bernard Levin, 
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, on behalf of 
the American Gastroenterological Association.