[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 35 (Monday, March 27, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D267]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 24, Subcommittee on 
Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department 
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on DOD 
policies and programs to combat terrorism, after receiving testimony 
from Brian E. Sheridan, Assistant Secretary for Special Operations and 
Low-Intensity Conflict, Charles L. Cragin, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary for Reserve Affairs, and Pamela B. Berkowsky, Assistant to 
the Secretary for Civil Support, all of the Department of Defense; and 
Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., USN, Commander in Chief, U.S. Joint Forces 
Command.
RISING OIL PRICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, March 24, Committee 
concluded oversight hearings to examine the status of the global crude 
oil market and its effects on the U.S. heating oil, diesel fuel, and 
gasoline markets and prices, and U.S. security implications, David L. 
Goldwyn, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, and Jay E. 
Hakes, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, both of the 
Department of Energy; William M. Flynn, New York State Energy Research 
and Development Authority, Albany; Red Cavaney, American Petroleum 
Institutes, Robert E. Ebel, Center for Strategic and International 
Studies, and Richard N. Haass, Brookings Institution, all of 
Washington, D.C.; John P. Holdren, Harvard University Kennedy School of 
Government and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the President's Committee of Advisors on 
Science and Technology; and Adam E. Sieminski, Deutsche Banc Alex. 
Brown, Baltimore, Maryland.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE FINANCING
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
long-term financing challenges confronting Social Security and Medicare 
programs, focusing on general income tax revenue transfers, after 
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System; David W. Wilcox, Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury for Economic Policy; Paul L. Posner, Director, Budget 
Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, General 
Accounting Office; and C. Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, Washington, 
D.C.