[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 26 (Thursday, March 9, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D187-D189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine issues dealing 
with Medicare reform, focusing on the Department of Health and Human 
Services Inspector General's report on Medicare Payment errors and 
waste, fraud and abuse reduction, after receiving testimony from Nancy-
Ann M. DeParle, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, 
and June G. Brown, Inspector General, both of the Department of Health 
and Human Services; and Leslie G. Aronovitz, Associate Director, Health 
Financing and Public Health Issues, General Accounting Office.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held 
oversight hearings to examine major management issues facing the 
Department of Transportation, focusing on Amtrak and rail 
infrastructure improvement, receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, 
Inspector General, and Peter J. Basso, Assistant Secretary for Budget 
and Programs and Chief Financial Officer, both of the Department of 
Transportation; and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, Madison, on 
behalf of the Amtrak Reform Board.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee 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 atomic 
energy defense activities of the Department of Energy, after receiving 
testimony from William B. Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
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 active and reserve military and civilian personnel 
programs, after receiving testimony from Alphonso Maldon, Jr., 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management Policy; Patrick T.

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Henry, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve 
Affairs; Carolyn H. Becraft, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Ruby B. DeMesme, Assistant Secretary of 
the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations, and 
Environment; Lt. Gen. David H. Ohle, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Personnel; Vice Adm. Norbert R. Ryan, Jr., USN, Chief of Naval 
Personnel; Lt. Gen. Jack W. Klimp, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for 
Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Donald L. Peterson, USAF, Deputy 
Chief of Staff for Personnel; MCPO Joseph Barnes, USN (Ret.), Fleet 
Reserve Association, Joyce Raezer, National Military Family 
Association, and Col. Steven P. Strobridge, USAF (Ret.), Retired 
Officers Association, all on behalf of the Military Coalition, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Larry D. Rhea, Non Commissioned Officers 
Association, and Marshall A. Hanson, Naval Reserve Association, both on 
behalf of the National Military and Veterans Alliance, Springfield, 
Virginia.
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTE ADVISORY COMMISSION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the final report of the International Financial Institution 
Advisory Commission, focusing on how should the international financial 
institutions be restructured to meet current and prospective economic 
and financial conditions, after receiving testimony from Allan H. 
Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial 
Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard 
University Center for International Development, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, 
Washington, D.C., and Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University 
Graduate School of Business, New York, New York, all on behalf of the 
International Financial Institution Advisory Commission.
2001 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to receive a preliminary report 
on an analysis of the President's budgetary proposals for fiscal year 
2001 from Dan L. Crippen, Director, Congressional Budget Office.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight 
hearings on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, focusing on the 
regulatory process in the nuclear industry, enforcement and safety 
concerns, and possible reforms for more effective oversight, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Sessions; Richard A. Meserve, 
Chairman, who was accompanied by Nils Diaz, Jeffrey S. Merrifield, 
Edward McGaffigan, and Greta Joy Dicus, each a Commissioner, all of the 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Gary L. Jones, Associate Director, 
Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and 
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Ralph Beedle, 
Nuclear Energy Institute, and David E. Adelman, Natural Resources 
Defense Council, both of Washington, D.C.; and William E. Kennedy, Jr., 
Health Physics Society, Benton City, Washington, on behalf of the 
American National Standards Institute.
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
penalty and interest provisions in the Internal Revenue Code, and 
certain recommendations to simplify penalty administration and reduce 
taxpayer burden, receiving testimony from Judith Akin, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Association of Enrolled Agents; 
David A. Lifson, on behalf of the Tax Division of the American 
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Robert H. Scarborough, 
on behalf of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association, 
both of New York, New York; Paul J. Sax, San Francisco, California, on 
behalf of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association; 
Charles W. Shewbridge, III, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, on 
behalf of the Tax Executives Institute, Inc.; Mark A. Ernst, H&R Block, 
Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; and Nina E. Olson, Community Tax Law 
Project, Richmond, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded hearings on issues relating to NATO's Defense Capabilities 
Initiative and the European Union's European Security and Defense 
Program issues, after receiving testimony from Marc Grossman, Assistant 
Secretary of State for European Affairs; Franklin D. Kramer, Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and Jeffrey 
Gedmin, American Enterprise Institute, on behalf of the New Atlantic 
Initiative, and F. Stephen Larrabee and Robert E. Hunter, both of RAND 
Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.
MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on management of human capital, focusing on how to 
improve the federal government's approach

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to managing its people, after receiving testimony from David M. Walker, 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; 
and Janice R. Lachance, Director, Office of Personnel Management.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2045, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to 
H-1B nonimmigrant aliens, with amendments;
  S. 1796, to modify the enforcement of certain anti-terrorism 
judgments;
  S.J. Res. 39, recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Korean War and 
the service by members of the Armed Forces during such war; and
  S. Res. 258, designating the week beginning March 12, 2000 as 
``National Safe Place Week''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2, to extend programs and activities under the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  The nominations of Joan R. Challinor, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information 
Science, Juanita Sims Doty, of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board 
of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, 
Jerome F. Kever, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Railroad Retirement 
Board, Leslie Lenkowsky, of Indiana, to be a Member of the Board of 
Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Bobby 
L. Roberts, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the National Commission on 
Libraries and Information Science, Michael G. Rossmann, of Indiana, to 
be a Member of the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, 
Daniel Simberloff, of Tennessee, to be a Member of the National Science 
Board, National Science Foundation, Virgil M. Speakman, Jr., of Ohio, 
to be a Member of the Railroad Retirement Board, and certain Public 
Health Service Corps lists.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.