[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 37 (Wednesday, March 29, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D280-D282]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on Air Force programs, after receiving testimony from 
F. Whitten Peters, Secretary, and Gen.

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Michael E. Ryan, USAF, Chief of Staff, both of the Department of the 
Air Force.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to continue 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.
AMATEUR SPORTS GAMBLING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine issues dealing with gambling in amateur sports, 
including related provisions of S. 2267, to direct the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a program to support 
research and training in methods of detecting the use of performance-
enhancing substances by athletes (pending on Senate calendar), 
receiving testimony from Senators Reid and Edwards; Representatives 
Graham, Roemer, Gibbons, and Berkley; Charles T. Wethington, Jr., 
University of Kentucky, Lexington, on behalf of the National Collegiate 
Athletic Association; Jim Calhoun, University of Connecticut Men's 
Basketball, Storrs; Timothy A. Kelly, National Gambling Impact Study 
Commission, Alexandria, Virginia; Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr., American 
Gaming Association, Washington, D.C.; Don Yeager, Sports Illustrated, 
New York, New York; Brian Sandoval, Nevada Gaming Commission, Reno; 
Kenneth Winters, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and Bobby 
Siller, Nevada Gaming Control Board, Carson City.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
LAND CONVEYANCE AND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1778, to provide for 
equal exchanges of land around the Cascade Reservoir, S. 1894, to 
provide for the conveyance of certain land to Park County, Wyoming, and 
S. 1969, to provide for improved management of, and increases 
accountability for, outfitted activities by which the public gains 
access to and occupancy and use of Federal land, after receiving 
testimony from Elaine F. Brong, Deputy Assistant Director for Renewable 
Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land Management, and Eluid L. 
Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department 
of the Interior; Dennis Bschor, Director, Recreation, Heritage and 
Wilderness Resources, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Wyoming State Senator Henry H.R. Coe, Cody, on behalf of the Park 
County Board of Commissioners; Jack Rich, Rich Ranch, Seeley Lake, 
Montana; Becky Smith, Orange Torpedo Trips, Grants Pass, Oregon, and 
Doug Tims, Maravia Corporation, Boise, Idaho, both on behalf of the 
America Outdoors; David E. Jenkins, American Canoe Association, 
Springfield, Virginia; and Jason D. Robertson, American Whitewater 
Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
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 
Senators Frist, Kennedy, Snowe, and Wyden; Representative Bilirakis; 
Michael Hash, Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Michael 
Fogarty, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Oklahoma City, on behalf of 
the National Association of State Medicaid Directors; Carol J. McCall, 
Allscripts, Inc., Libertyville, Illinois; and Marjorie Dorr, Anthem 
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut, North Haven, on behalf of 
the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of 
Michelle Andrews Smith, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the 
Treasury, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own 
behalf.
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine budget and oversight issues to better position the federal 
government to meet current and emerging challenges and shape a more 
efficient and effective government, after receiving testimony from 
David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General 
Accounting Office.
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts resumed oversight hearings on alleged Chinese espionage, 
focusing on the handling of the investigation of Peter Lee, receiving 
testimony from Stephen W. Preston, General Counsel, and John G. 
Schuster, Jr., Branch Head, Submarine Security and Technology Branch 
(OPNAV N875), both of the Department of the Navy; Dan Sayner, Assistant 
Special-Agent-in-Charge, Los Angeles Field Office, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; and Thomas L. Cook, 
Nonproliferation and International Security Division, NIS-9/Weapon 
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Alamos National Laboratory, and Richard Twogood, former Technical 
Director, Non-Acoustical Anti-Submarine Warfare Program, Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory, both of the Department of Energy.
  Hearings continue Wednesday, April 5.
CAMPAIGN REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed oversight 
hearings to examine issues dealing with campaign finance reform, 
focusing on Presidential selection process and campaign contribution 
limits, after receiving testimony from Senators Thompson, Lieberman, 
and Gorton; Roger Pilon, CATO Institute Center for Constitutional 
Studies, and Derek Cressman, United States Public Interest Research 
Group, both of Washington, D.C.; Lamar Alexander, Nashville, Tennessee; 
and Herbert E. Alexander, Silver Spring, Maryland.
  Hearings continue Friday, April 7.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1507, to authorize the integration and consolidation of alcohol 
and substance programs and services provided by Indian tribal 
governments, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1509, to amend the Indian Employment, Training, and Related 
Services Demonstration Act of 1992, to emphasize the need for job 
creation on Indian reservations, with an amendment.
CHOCTAW INDIAN LAND TRUST
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1967, 
to make technical corrections to the status of certain land held in 
trust for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, to take certain land 
into trust for that Band, after receiving testimony from Kevin Gover, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; and Phillip 
Martin, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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.