[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 36 (Tuesday, March 28, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D272-D273]
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 Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2001 for the Department of Energy, focusing on defense programs, 
after receiving testimony from Rose E. Gottemoeller, Acting Deputy 
Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Department of 
Energy; Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, USAF, Retired Director, Office of 
Security and Emergency Operations; Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Gioconda, USAF, 
Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs and Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Military Application, National Nuclear Security 
Administration; and Adm. Frank L. Bowman, USN, Director, Naval Nuclear 
Propulsion Program.
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine issues dealing 
with complementary and alternative medicine therapies, which are 
designed to complement traditional healthcare approaches, such as 
surgery and drug therapy, after receiving testimony from Stephen 
Straus, Director, National Center for Complementary and Alternative 
Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Andrew Weil, University of Arizona College of Medicine 
Program in Integrative Medicine, Tucson; Mary Jo Kreitzer, University 
of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing, Minneapolis; Herbert 
Benson, Harvard University Medical School/Mind/Body Medical Institute, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Dean Ornish, University of California School of 
Medicine/Preventive Medicine Research Institute, San Francisco; James 
M. Cassidy, Andover, Massachusetts; Kristen Magnacca, Wellesley, 
Massachusetts; and Walter Czapliewicz, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
oversight hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 
for the Department of Transportation, after 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.
DRUG TRAFFICKING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive 
a briefing on the impact of drug trafficking on the security of 
Columbia and neighboring countries of the Andean Ridge from officials 
of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of an original 
concurrent resolution setting forth the fiscal year 2001 budget for the 
Federal Government, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet 
again tomorrow.
RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings to examine the current state of 
deployment of hi-speed Internet technologies, focusing on broadband 
communication service access in rural America, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Tauzin; Montana Public Service 
Commissioner Bob Rowe, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utilities Commissioners, and John S. Fitzpatrick, Touch 
America, Inc., both of Helena, Montana; Roy Neel, United States Telecom 
Association, and Timothy J. Regan, Corning Incorporated, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Stephen C. Gray, McLeodUSA, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 
and David M. Woodrow, Cox Communications, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
U.S. DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded joint 
hearings with the Committee on Foreign Relations to examine United 
States dependency on foreign oil, focusing on oil import needs, 
diplomacy, strategic petroleum reserve, and domestic oil production, 
after receiving testimony from Richard Perle, former Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for International Security, American Enterprise 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Denise A. Bode, Oklahoma Corporation 
Commission, Oklahoma City; and Virginia Lazenby, Bretagne G.P., 
Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum 
Association of America.
BUDGET--EPA/ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on 
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Environmental Protection Agency's clean air programs and the Army Corps 
of Engineers wetlands programs, after receiving testimony from Robert 
Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; and Michael L. Davis, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary

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of the Army for Civil Works, United States Army Corps of Engineers, 
Department of Defense.
IRAN AND IRAQ PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
issues dealing with Iran and Iraq, focusing on the future of 
nonproliferation policy, receiving testimony from Anthony H. Cordesman, 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.; and 
Rolf Ekeus, Ambassador of Sweden, Washington, D.C., and Richard Butler, 
Diplomat in Residence, Council on Foreign Relations, both of the United 
Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM).
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 30.
HCFA SETTLEMENT POLICIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded oversight hearings to examine Health Care 
Financing Administration's (HCFA) settlement policies, focusing on 
whether certain Medicare providers settlements conform to HCFA 
regulations, after receiving testimony from Robert H. Hast, Acting 
Assistant Comptroller General for Special Investigations, Office of 
Special Investigations, General Accounting Office; and Charles R. 
Booth, Director, Financial Services Group, Office of Financial 
Management, Jean Ohl, Technical Health Insurance Specialist, Tony 
Seubert, Payment Specialist, and Bruce C. Vladeck, former 
Administrator, all of the Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
CYBER CRIMES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the incidence of 
cyber attacks on the nation's information systems, focusing on removing 
roadblocks to investigation and information sharing, after receiving 
testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; Harris N. Miller, Information 
Technology Association of America, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard D. 
Pethia, CERT Centers Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania.
INTERNET PREDATOR PROTECTION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Children and Families concluded hearings on child safety on the 
Internet, focusing on online protection from predators, after receiving 
testimony from Kenneth Neu, Assistant Section Chief, Violent Crimes 
Major Offenders Section, and William Hagmaier, Unit Chief, Child 
Abduction Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center, both of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Donna Rice 
Hughes, Phoenix Financial and Advisory Services, Vienna, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Child Online Protection Commission; Mary Anne Layden, 
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Ernest E. Allen, National 
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Washington, D.C.; John Ryan, 
America Online, Inc., Ashburn, Virginia; Tim Remsburg, Nashua, New 
Hampshire; and Teresa Strickland, Opelika, Alabama.
OFFICE SUPPLY FRAUD
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the 
effects of certain office supply scams, including toner-phoner schemes 
on small business, receiving testimony from Jodie Bernstein, Director, 
Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission; Joan Bailey, 
Brownstone Real Estate Company, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Linda Easton-
Saunders, Prospect Associates, Silver Spring, Maryland; George 
Everding, Feed My People, St. Louis, Missouri; Peter Grosfeld, American 
Flyers, Miami, Florida; William R. Duffy, Imaging Supplies Coalition 
for International Intellectual Property Protection, Inc., Lexington, 
Kentucky; and Tricia Burke, Office Equipment Company, Inc., Louisville, 
Kentucky, on behalf of the Independent Office Products and Furniture 
Dealers Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.