[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 34 (Thursday, March 23, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D253-D255]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HAITI
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
concluded hearings to examine recent developments in Haiti and the 
Administration's efforts to address the challenges of promoting 
democracy, human rights, and economic recovery, after receiving 
testimony from Donald Steinberg, Special Haiti Coordinator, Department 
of State.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2001 for the Internal Revenue Service, after receiving testimony 
from Charles O. Rossotti, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, 
Department of the Treasury.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2001 for the Environmental Protection Agency, after receiving 
testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental 
Protection Agency.
EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the national security implications of export controls, and related 
provisions of S. 1712, Export Administration Act (pending on Senate 
Calendar), after receiving testimony from Donald Mancuso, Deputy 
Inspector General, Department of Defense; Harold J. Johnson, Associate 
Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security 
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; John W. 
Douglass, Aerospace Industries Association, Washington, D.C.; and Gary 
L. Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf of 
the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
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 Navy and Marine Corps' seapower operational capability 
requirements, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Michael J. 
Williams, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs and Resources, 
Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps; and Rear Adm. Michael G. Mullen, USN, 
Director, Surface Warfare Division, Maj. Gen. Dennis T. Krupp, USMC, 
Director, Expeditionary Warfare Division, Rear Adm. Malcolm I. Fages, 
USN, Director, Submarine Warfare Division, and Rear Adm. John B. 
Nathman, USN, Director, Air Warfare Division, all of the Office of the 
Chief of Naval Operations.
RAIL MERGERS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded oversight hearings 
on the Surface Transportation Board's moratorium on major rail mergers 
and 15-month rulemaking proceeding on future mergers, after receiving 
testimony from Linda J. Morgan, Chairman, Surface Transportation Board, 
Department of Transportation.

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NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Thomas A. Fry, III, of Texas, to be Director of 
the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, after the 
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
D.C. AREA MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight 
hearings to examine the status of monuments and memorials, and the new 
policies that have been adopted for determining locations for future 
commemorative works in and around Washington, D.C., after receiving 
testimony from John G. Parsons, Associate Regional Director for Lands, 
Resources and Planning, National Park Service, National Capital Region, 
Department of the Interior, and Chairman, National Capital Memorial 
Commission; J. Carter Brown, Chairman, U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; 
Margaret G. Vanderhye, Member, National Capital Planning Commission, 
and Chairman, Joint Task Force on Memorials; and Judy Scott Feldman and 
W. Kent Cooper, both of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, 
Washington, D.C.
WATER QUALITY REGULATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Drinking Water resumed hearings to examine the 
Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules regarding changes in 
the total maximum daily load and National Pollutant Discharge 
Elimination System permit programs pursuant to the Clean Water Act, 
receiving testimony from Senators Gordon Smith, Lincoln, and 
Hutchinson; Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Robert J. Wittman, Westmoreland County Board 
of Supervisors, Montross, Virginia, on behalf of the Virginia and 
Maryland Associations of Municipal Wastewater Agencies and Rappahannock 
River Basin Commission; David Skolasinski, Cliffs Mining Services 
Company, Duluth, Minnesota, on behalf of the National Mining 
Association and Iron Mining Association of Minnesota; Nina Bell, 
Northwest Environmental Advocates, Portland, Oregon; W. Jeffrey Pardue, 
Florida Power Corporation, St. Petersburg, on behalf of the Edison 
Electric Institute and Clean Water Industry Coalition; Norman E. 
LeBlanc, Hampton Roads Sanitation District, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 
on behalf of the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies; Joan M. 
Cloonan, J. R. Simplot Company Food Group, Boise, Idaho, on behalf of 
the Northwest Food Processors Association; Thomas N. Thomson, Thomson 
Family Tree Farm, Orford, New Hampshire, on behalf of the American Tree 
Farm System; Sharon Buccino, Natural Resources Defense Council, 
Washington, D.C.; Robert J. Olszewski, Timber Company, Atlanta, 
Georgia, on behalf of the American Forest and Paper Association; and 
Dina J. Moore, Kneeland, California, on behalf of the National 
Cattlemen's Beef Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S./CHINA TRADE POLICY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine trade with the 
Peoples' Republic of China and its implications for United States 
national security, economic, political, and religious interests, 
receiving testimony from James R. Lilley, former Ambassador to The 
People's Republic of China, and Richard Perle, former Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, both of the 
American Enterprise Institute, Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment for 
International Peace, James Sasser, former Ambassador to the People's 
Republic of China, John J. Sweeney, AFL-CIO, and Harry Wu, Laogai 
Research Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; Merle Goldman, Harvard 
University Fairbanks Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Nelson E. 
Graham, East Gates International, Sumner, Washington; and Michael A. 
Santoro, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Graduate School of 
Management, Newark.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
nonproliferation objectives of the United States, focusing on recent 
global and regional developments, including India, Pakistan, and North 
Korea, receiving testimony from Ronald F. Lehman and Fred C. Ikle, both 
former Directors, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Sumit 
Ganguly, Stanford University Center for International Security and 
Cooperation, Stanford, California.
  Hearings will continue Tuesday, March 28.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill, to authorize appropriations for technical assistance for 
fiscal year 2001, to promote trade and anti-corruption measures.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following bills:

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  S. 1993, to reform Government information security by strengthening 
information security practices throughout the Federal Government, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1964 and H.R. 3189, bills to designate the United States Post 
Office located at 14071 Peyton Drive in Chino Hills, California, as the 
Joseph Ileto Post Office; and
  H.R. 1374, to designate the United States Post Office building 
located at 680 State Highway 130 in Hamilton, New Jersey, as the ``John 
K. Rafferty Hamilton Post Office Building''.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H.R. 1658, to provide a more just and uniform procedure for Federal 
civil forfeitures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Nicholas P. Godici, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Department of Commerce;
  Also, Committee approved resolution of issuance of subpoenas to a 
former and current Department of Justice employee pursuant to Rule 26.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Richard C. Tallman, of Washington, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, John Antoon II, to be United 
States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, and Marianne 
O. Battani and David M. Lawson, each to be a United States District 
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Tallman was 
introduced by Senators Gorton and Murray, Mr. Antoon was introduced by 
Senator Graham, and Ms. Battani and Mr. Lawson were introduced by 
Senators Abraham and Levin.
HEALTH CARE FOR THE UNINSURED
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Public Health concluded hearings to examine the access of essential 
health care services for the uninsured and medically underserved 
individuals, focusing on certain safety net programs to reduce the 
barriers and increase health insurance access to the uninsured, and the 
proposed Community Access to Health Care Act, after receiving testimony 
from Charles Earl Fox, Administrator, Health Resources and Services 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Janet 
Heinrich, Associate Director, Health Financing and Public Health 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Thomas M. Dean, Horizon Health Care, Wessington 
Springs, South Dakota, on behalf of the National Rural Health 
Association; Bernard Simmons, Southwest Health Agency for Rural People, 
Tylertown, Mississippi, on behalf of the National Association of 
Community Health Centers; Mary Bufwack, United Neighborhood Health 
Services, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee; Robert L. Taube, Boston Health 
Care for the Homeless Program, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the 
National Health Care for the Homeless Council; and Larry S. Gage, 
National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, 
Washington, D.C.
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.