[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 41 (Wednesday, April 5, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D315-D317]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony from Bruce 
Babbitt, Secretary, and John D. Trezise, Director, Office of Budget, 
both of the Department of the Interior.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1608, to provide annual payments to the States and counties from 
National Forest System lands managed by the Forest Service, and the 
revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon 
Road grant lands managed predominately by the Bureau of Land 
Management, for use by the counties in which the lands are situated for 
the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other public 
purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for cooperation 
between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management to make necessary investments in federal lands, and reaffirm 
the positive connection between Federal Lands counties and Federal 
Lands, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1705 to direct the Secretary of the Interior to enter into land 
exchanges to acquire from the private owner and to convey to the State 
of Idaho approximately 1,240 acres of land near the City of Rocks 
National Reserve, Idaho;
  S. 1727, to authorize for the expansion annex of the historic Palace 
of the Governors, a public history museum located, and relating to the 
history of Hispanic and Native American culture, in the Southwest, with 
an amendment;

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  S. 1849, to designate segments and tributaries of White Clay Creek, 
Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a component of the National Wild and 
Scenic Rivers System, with an amendment;
  S. 1910, to amend the Act establishing Women's Rights National 
Historical Park to permit the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
title in fee simple to the Hunt House located in Waterloo, New York, 
with an amendment;
  H.R. 1615, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to extend the 
designation of a portion of the Lamprey River in New Hampshire as a 
recreational river to include an additional river segment;
  S. 311, to authorize the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation 
to establish a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs, 
with an amendment;
  S. 1836, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project in the State of Alabama;
  S. 1892, to authorize the acquisition of the Valles Caldera, to 
provide for an effective land and wildlife management program for this 
resource within the Department of Agriculture, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3063, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to increase the maximum 
acreage of Federal leases for sodium that may be held by an entity in 
any one State;
  S. 1797, to provide for a land conveyance to the City of Craig, 
Alaska, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1778, to provide for equal exchanges of land around the Cascade 
Reservoir, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Thomas A. Fry, III, of Texas, to be Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
ARCTIC ENERGY POTENTIAL
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the energy potential of the 1002 Area of the Arctic Coastal 
Plain, the role this energy could play in national security; the role 
this energy could play in reducing U.S. dependence on imported oil, and 
S. 2214, to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing 
program that will result in an environmentally sound and job creating 
program for the exploration, development, and production of the oil and 
gas resources of the Coastal Plain, after receiving testimony from 
Alaska Governor Tony Knowles, Juneau; David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary 
of the Interior; Brenda Itta Lee, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, 
Barrow, Alaska; Gerald L. Hood, Alaska General Teamsters Local 959, on 
behalf of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Roger C. 
Herrera, Northern Knowledge, both of Anchorage, Alaska; W. Thomas 
Goerold, Lookout Mountain Analysis, Golden Colorado, on behalf of the 
Alaska Wilderness League; and Luci Beach, Gwich'in Nation, Fort Yukon, 
Alaska.
MEDICAID IN SCHOOLS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to examine Medicaid 
policies and practices related to school-based health services and 
administrative activities, after receiving testimony from Kathryn G. 
Allen, Associate Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, 
and Robert H. Hast, Acting Assistant Comptroller General for Special 
Investigations, both of the General Accounting Office; Timothy 
Westmoreland, Director, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, 
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; Lynn Davenport, MAXIMUS, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts; Susan 
Sclafani, Houston Independent School District, Texas; and Jacquelin 
Golden, National Parent Network on Disabilities, Baltimore, Maryland, 
on behalf of the American Physical Therapy Association.
UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations held hearings on United Nations peacekeeping missions and 
their proliferation, focusing on the principles underlying traditional 
U.N. peacekeeping, expansion of peacekeeping into new and non-tradition 
fields after the end of the Cold War, outcomes of recent missions, and 
the question of American interest implications, receiving testimony 
from John Hillen, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the U.S. Commission 
on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission); John R. 
Bolton, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and 
Michael O'Hanlon, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Kenneth Allard, Stratfor.com, Alexandria, Virginia.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
HOLOCAUST LEGACIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on legacies of 
the Holocaust, focusing on providing a forum for discussion, exposing 
long-suppressed truths about World War II and Holocaust-era assets, and 
to bring justice to survivors and victims, receiving testimony from 
Stuart E. Eizenstat, Deputy Secretary of Treasury/Special 
Representative of the Secretary of State and the President on 
Holocaust-Related Issues; Edgar M. Bronfman, Chairman, Presidential 
Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States; Elie 
Wiesel, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark B. Levin, 
National Conference of Soviet Jewry, and David A.

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Harris, American Jewish Committee, both of Washington, D.C.; and Israel 
Singer, World Jewish Congress, New York, New York.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts resumed open and closed oversight hearings on alleged 
Chinese espionage, focusing on the plea-bargain agreement reached in 
the case of Peter Lee, receiving testimony from Jonathan Shapiro, Los 
Angeles, California, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Central 
District of California.
  Committee will meet again Wednesday, April 12.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the role of political parties in America, focusing on campaign 
finance reform issues, after receiving testimony from Representatives 
Shays and Meehan; Bobby R. Burchfield, Covington and Burling, Scott 
Harshbarger, Common Cause, and Charles E.M. Kolb, Committee for 
Economic Development, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael C. Munger, Duke 
University, Department of Political Science, Durham, North Carolina; 
Robert T. Bennett, Ohio Republican Party, Columbus; and Dylan C. Glenn, 
Albany, Georgia.
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Thomas N. Slonaker, of Arizona, to be Special Trustee, 
Office of Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of the 
Interior.
INDIAN NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 612, to 
provide for periodic Indian needs assessments, and to require Federal 
Indian program evaluations, after receiving testimony from Kevin Gover, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; JoAnn K. Chase, 
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C.; and Britt E. 
Clapham, II, Navajo Nation Department of Justice, Window Rock, Arizona.