[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 33 (Wednesday, March 22, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D240-D242]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CABIN USER FEE FAIRNESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization concluded hearings on 
S. 1938, to provide for the return of fair and reasonable fees to the 
Federal Government for the use and occupancy of National Forest System 
land under the recreation residence program, after receiving testimony 
from Paul Brouha, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; David R. Mead, Sawtooth 
Forest Cabin Owners' Association, Twin Falls, Idaho; Mary Clarke Ver 
Hoef, National Forest Homeowners, Sacramento, California; Paul R. 
Allman, American Land Rights Association, and Richard M. Betts, Betts 
and Associates, both of Berkeley, California; and Joe Corlett, Mountain 
States Appraisal and Consulting, Inc., Boise, Idaho.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, after receiving testimony 
from James Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and 
Environment, and Mike Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service, both of the 
Department of Agriculture.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on 
tactical aviation, after receiving testimony from H. Lee Buchanan, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and 
Acquisition; Lawrence J. Delaney, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force 
for Acquisition; and Philip E. Coyle, III, Director, Operational Test 
and Evaluation, Department of Defense.
ELECTRONIC AND EQUITY FINANCIAL MARKETS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities concluded hearings to examine electronic communications 
networks and brokerage firms efforts to meet investors' needs in the 
equity financial marketplace of the future, after receiving testimony 
from J. Joe Ricketts, Ameritrade Holding Corporation, Omaha, Nebraska; 
Matthew Andresen, Island ECN, and Kevin Foley, Bloomberg Tradebook, 
both of New York, New York; David G. Downey, Interactive Brokers, and 
Gerald Putnam, Archipelago, both of Chicago, Illinois; and John M. 
Schaible, NexTrade Holdings, Inc., Clearwater, Florida.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Susan Ness, of Maryland, to be a Member 
of the Federal Communications Commission, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senators Sarbanes and Mikulski, testified and answered 
questions in her own behalf.
NASA MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space held hearings to examine recent program 
and management issues at the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration, receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, 
Administrator, Harry McDonald, Director, Ames Research Center, Tony 
Spear, Task Leader, and Arthur G. Stephenson, Director, George C. 
Marshall Space Flight Center, all of NASA; and Allen Li, Associate 
Director, Defense Acquisitions Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
WATER AND POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings

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on H.R. 862, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement 
the provisions of the Agreement conveying title to a Distribution 
System from the United States to the Clear Creek Community Services 
District, H.R. 992, to convey the Sly Park Dam and Reservoir to the El 
Dorado Irrigation District, H.R. 1235, to authorize the Secretary of 
the Interior to enter into contracts with the Solano County Water 
Agency, California, to use Solano Project facilities for impounding, 
storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, 
industrial, and other beneficial purposes, S. 2091 and H.R. 3077, bills 
to amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of 
the Central Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers 
in the Central Valley Project, and S. 1659, to convey the Lower 
Yellowstone Irrigation Project, the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan 
Missouri Basin Program, and the Intake Irrigation Project to the 
appurtenant irrigation districts, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives Herger, Doolittle, George Miller, and Dooley; Eluid 
Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; Walter P. McNeill, Clear Creek Community Services District, 
Anderson, California; Walter J. Bishop, Contra Costa Water District, 
Concord, California; Steven Malloch, Trout Unlimited, Inc., Arlington, 
Virginia; Daniel G. Nelson, San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority, 
Los Banos, California; and Jerry Nypen, Lower Yellowstone Irrigation 
Projects, Sidney, Montana.
MEDICARE REFORM: PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to examine the 
inclusion of a prescription drug benefit in the Medicare program, 
focusing on current and supplemental drug coverage, beneficiary income 
spending, benefit design, and cost controls, receiving testimony from 
Jennifer O'Sullivan, Specialist in Social Legislation, Congressional 
Research Service, Library of Congress; William J. Scanlon, Director, 
Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human 
Services Division, General Accounting Office; Edwin C. Hustead, Hay 
Group, on behalf of the Congressional Research Service, Alan F. Holmer, 
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Charles N. Kahn, 
III, Health Insurance Association of America, and Deborah Briceland-
Betts, Older Women's League, all of Washington, D.C.; and Alan B. 
Levin, Happy Harry's, Inc., Newark, Delaware, on behalf of the National 
Association of Chain Drug Stores.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 28.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs held hearings to examine the impact of United Nations 
sanctions and United States policy on Iraq, focusing on the proposed 
United Nations Resolution 1284 which re-affirms that Iraq has not 
fulfilled its obligation under previous Security Council resolutions to 
declare and destroy its weapons of mass destruction, receiving 
testimony from Edward S. Walker, Assistant Secretary of State for Near 
Eastern Affairs; Gary Milhollin, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms 
Control, and Paul Leventhal, Nuclear Control Institute, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Charles Duelfer, UNSCOM, New York, New York.
DOE GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the Department of Energy's management of health and safety 
issues surrounding the DOE's gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge, 
Tennessee, and Piketon, Ohio, after receiving testimony from David 
Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and 
Health; Jeffery B. Walburn, Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, 
Greenup, Kentucky; Steven B. Markowitz, City University of New York 
Queens College Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Flushing, New 
York; Vikki Hatfield, Kingston, Tennessee; Ann H. Orick, Knoxville, 
Tennessee; and Sam Ray, Lucasville, Ohio.
ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded oversight hearings on certain antitrust 
enforcement issues, after receiving testimony from Robert Pitofsky, 
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; and Joel I. Klein, Assistant 
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine certain constitutional issues surrounding campaign finance 
reform, including certain contributions made to a political party that 
do not come within the current limits and restrictions imposed by the 
Federal Election Campaign Act, and ``phony issue ads'', receiving 
testimony from Ira Glasser, American Civil Liberties Union, and Deborah 
Goldberg, NYU School of Law Brennan Center for Justice, both of New 
York, New York; Joel M. Gora, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, New York; 
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford University Law School, Stanford, 
California; Lillian R. BeVier, University of Virginia School of Law, 
Charlottesville;

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and Alan B. Morrison, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 1315, to permit the leasing of oil and gas rights on certain lands 
held in trust for the Navajo Nation or allotted to a member of the 
Navajo Nation, in any case in which there is consent from a specified 
percentage interest in the parcel of land under consideration for 
lease, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1586, to reduce the fractionated ownership of Indian Lands, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Thomas N. Slonaker, of Arizona, to be Special Trustee, 
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the 
Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Kyl, 
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also 
received from Charles Tillman, Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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.