[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 25, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D385]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Army, after receiving 
testimony from Louis Caldera, Secretary, and Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, Chief of 
Staff, both of the Department of the Army.
FEDERAL MASS TRANSIT GRANT PROGRAM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine issues relating to the Transportation Equity 
Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) transit grant program, focusing on the 
Department of Labor's process for issuing certifications for grant 
applications, the length of the process, and its potential to delay or 
change mass transit projects, after receiving testimony from John H. 
Anderson, Jr., Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community and 
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Bernard E. 
Anderson, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards 
Administration; Nuria I. Fernandez, Acting Administrator, Federal Transit 
Administration, Department of Transportation; James La Sala, Amalgamated 
Transit Union, and Charles Moneypenny, Transport Workers Union of America, 
both of Washington, D.C.; Roger Snoble, Dallas Area Rapid Transit Authority, 
Dallas, Texas; Lee G. Gibson, Regional Transportation Commission of Clark 
County, Nevada, Las Vegas; and James Stoetzel, Transit Safety Management, 
Boston, Massachusetts.
ENDANGERED FISH RECOVERY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power 
concluded hearings on S. 2239, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to 
provide cost sharing for the endangered fish recovery implementation 
programs for the Upper Colorado River and San Juan River basins, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Allard; Eluid L. Martinez, Commissioner, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Leslie James, Colorado 
River Energy Distributors Association, Tempe, Arizona; Greg Walcher, 
Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Denver; L. Randy Kirkpatrick, San 
Juan Water Commission, Farmington, New Mexico; Tom Pitts, Water Consult, 
Loveland, Colorado, on behalf of the Colorado Water Congress, Utah Water 
Users Association, and Wyoming Water Development Association; and Daniel F. 
Luecke, Environmental Defense, Boulder, Colorado.
U.S. EAST ASIA AID PROGRAMS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine issues relating to U.S. aid programs 
and priorities in East Asia, focusing on how USAID is promoting U.S. 
national and foreign policy interests, after receiving testimony from Robert 
C. Randolph, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Asia and the Near East, 
U.S. Agency for International Development.
PAIN RELIEF PROMOTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2260 and S. 
1272, bills to amend the Controlled Substances Act to promote pain 
management and palliative care without permitting assisted suicide and 
euthanasia, after receiving testimony from Senators Nickles, Wyden, and 
Gordon Smith; Eric Chevlen, St. Elizabeth Medical Center Cancer Care Center, 
Youngstown, Ohio; Arthur L. Caplan, University of Pennsylvania Center for 
Bioethics, Philadelphia; Rabbi J. David Bleich, Benjamin Cardozo School of 
Law, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Union of Orthodox Jewish 
Congregations of America; Kathleen M. Foley, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer 
Center, New York, New York; and Walter R. Hunter, VistaCare Hospice, 
Scottsdale, Arizona.