[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 38 (Thursday, March 30, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D290-D292]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2001 for the National Institutes of Health, after 
receiving testimony from Ruth L. Kirschstein, Acting Director, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, who was 
accompanied by several of her associates.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury and General 
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2001 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in 
behalf of funds for their respective activities from James E. Johnson, 
Under Secretary for Enforcement, Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner, U.S. 
Customs Service, Bradley A. Buckles, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco and Firearms, Brian L. Stafford, Director, U.S. Secret Service, 
W. Ralph Basham, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and 
William Baity, Deputy Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, 
all of the Department of the Treasury.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 2001 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after 
receiving testimony from Andrew M. Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,137 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget 
for the United States Government for fiscal years 2001 through 2005.

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CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S.882, to strengthen provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and 
the Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and Development Act of 1974 with 
respect to potential Climate Change, and S.1776, to amend the Energy 
Policy Act of 1992 to revise the energy policies of the United States 
in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, advance global climate 
science, promote technology development, and increase citizen 
awareness, after receiving testimony from Mark Mazur, Director, Office 
of Policy, and Jay Hakes, Administrator, Energy Information 
Administration, both of the Department of Energy; Margaret Leinen, 
Assistant Director for Geosciences, National Science Foundation, on 
behalf of the National Science and Technology Council; Elbert W. 
Friday, Jr., Director, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, 
National Research Council; Samuel L. Maury, Business Roundtable, 
Richard L. Lawson, National Mining Association, Joe F. Colvin, Nuclear 
Energy Institute, Paul C. Bailey, Edison Electric Institute, Michael L. 
Marvin, Business Council for Sustainable Energy, and Daniel Lashof, 
Natural Resources Defense Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Kurt E. 
Yeager, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; and 
Charles D. Estes, Estes and Associates/Appalachian-Pacific Coal Mine 
Methane Power Company, Arlington, Virginia.
FOREST SERVICE ROADLESS POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management resumed oversight hearings on the President's 
October 1999 announcement to review approximately 40 million acres of 
national forest lands for increased protection, focusing on the Forest 
Services's Roadless Policy announcement and its decision to not honor 
the requests of several states for cooperating agency status under the 
National Environmental Policy Act, receiving testimony from Montana 
Governor Marc Racicot, Helena; and George T. Frampton, Jr., Acting 
Chair, Council on Environmental Quality.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
2001 BUDGET--EPA
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Control, and Risk Assessment concluded oversight hearings on the 
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for programs 
of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, focusing on the current status and future direction 
of the Superfund, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Brownfields, 
and Underground Storage Tank programs, after receiving testimony from 
Timothy Fields, Jr., Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill entitled Marriage Tax Relief Act of 2000.
U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
nonproliferation threats and U.S. policy formulation issues, focusing 
on the prevention of further spread of weapons of mass destruction and 
the means to deliver them, a U.S. Ballistic Missile Commission report, 
and a review of North Korea policy, after receiving testimony from 
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld Associates, Chicago, Illinois, former 
Secretary of Defense; Stephen J. Hadley, Shea and Gardner, Washington, 
D.C., former Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Ashton B. Carter, 
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Harvard-Stanford Preventive Defense 
Project; former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International 
Security Policy.
UNITED NATIONS ROUNDTABLE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met to discuss crucial issues 
before the United Nations with Arnoldo M. Listre, Permanent 
Representative of Argentina; Anwarul Karim Chowdhury, Permanent 
Representative of the People's Republic of Bangladesh; Robert R. 
Fowler, Permanent Representative of Canada; Wang Ying Fan, Permanent 
Representative of China; Jean-David Levitte, Permanent Representative 
of France; Mignonette Patricia Durant, Permanent Representative of 
Jamaica; Agam Hasmy, Permanent Representative of Malaysia; Moctar 
Ouane, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Mali; Martin 
Andjaba, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Namibia; Arnold 
Peter van Walsum, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands; Sergey 
V. Lavrov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation; Said Ben 
Mustapha, Permanent Representative of Tunisia; Volodymyr Y. 
Yel'chencko, Permanent Representative of Ukraine; Jeremy Quentin 
Greenstock, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom; and Richard 
Holbrooke, U.S. Representative to the United Nations.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Alan Craig Kessler, of Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of 
the United States Postal Service, and Carol Waller Pope,

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of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Labor 
Relations Authority, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kessler was introduced by Senators 
Santorum and Biden, and Ms. Pope was introduced by District of Columbia 
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton.
LAW ENFORCEMENT RACIAL PROFILING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, 
and Property Rights concluded hearings on S. 821, to provide for the 
collection of data on traffic stops, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Lautenberg; Representative Conyers; New Jersey State 
Assemblyman LeRoy J. Jones, Jr., Trenton, on behalf of the New Jersey 
Legislative Black and Latino Caucus; David A. Harris, University of 
Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of the Center on Crime, 
Communities and Culture; Johnny L. Hughes, National Troopers Coalition, 
Annapolis, Maryland; John Welter, San Diego Police Department, San 
Diego, California; Rodney Watt, City of Highland Park Police 
Department, Highland Park, Illinois; Rossano Gerald, Ft. Hood, Texas; 
and Robert L. Wilkins, Washington, D.C.; and Curtis V. Rodriguez, San 
Jose, California,
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the operations, activities, and proposed fiscal year 2001 
budget of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, focusing on 
physical safety, customer services delivery, building preservation, 
utility, and security, and staff development, after receiving testimony 
from Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 4.