[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 49 (Wednesday, April 26, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D390-D392]
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 Defense concluded hearings 
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of 
Defense, after receiving testimony from William S. Cohen, Secretary of 
Defense; and Gen. Henry H. Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 
Staff.
STEM CELL RESEARCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to stem 
cell research, after receiving testimony from Senator Brownback; Gerald 
Fischbach, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and 
Stroke, and Allen M. Spiegel, Director, National Institute of Diabetes 
and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, both of the National Institutes of 
Health, and Frank Young,

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Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, all of the Department of 
Health and Human Services; Mary Jane Owen, National Catholic Office for 
Persons with Disabilities, Washington, D.C.; Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, 
University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, on 
behalf of the American Society for Cell Biology; Christopher Reeve, 
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Springfield, New Jersey; and 
Jennifer Estess, Los Angeles, California.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years 
Defense Program, focusing on acquisition reform efforts, the 
acquisition workforce, logistics contracting and inventory management 
practices, and the Defense Industrial Base, after receiving testimony 
from Jacques S. Gansler, Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology 
and Logistics, and Donald Mancuso, Deputy Inspector General, both of 
the Department of Defense; and David M. Walker, Comptroller General of 
the United States, General Accounting Office.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY MARKET STRUCTURE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Securities concluded oversight hearings on the security industry market 
structure, focusing on competition and transparency, the New York Stock 
Exchange Market Structure Report, and the Intermarket Trading System, 
after receiving testimony from Richard A. Grasso, New York Stock 
Exchange, New York; Antonio Cecin, U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray, Inc., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kenneth D. Pasternak, Knight/Trimark Group, 
Inc., Jersey City, New Jersey; John W. Bachmann, Edward Jones 
Investments, St. Louis, Missouri; Harold Bradley, American Century 
Investors, Kansas City, Missouri; and David Colker, Cincinnati Stock 
Exchange, Chicago, Illinois.
LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held hearings on S. 2273, to establish the Black 
Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation 
Area, and S. 2048, to establish the San Rafael Western Legacy District 
in the State of Utah, receiving testimony from Senators Hatch, Bennett, 
Reid, and Bryan; Molly McUsic, Counselor to the Secretary of the 
Interior; Randy G. Johnson, Kent R. Petersen, and Ira Hatch, all of the 
Emery County Commission, Castle Dale, Utah; Wes Curtis, Governor's 
Rural Partnership Office, Cedar City, Utah; Wilson G. Martin, State 
Historic Preservation Office, Salt Lake City, Utah; Larry Young, 
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Washington, D.C.; Patrick Fagan, 
Nevada Commission on Mineral Resources, and Stuart L. Brown, on behalf 
of the Nevada and California Cattlemen's Associations and the Nevada 
and California Public Lands Councils, both of Carson City, Nevada; 
Charles H. Dodd, Oregon-California Trails Association, Chilcoot, 
California; John H. Milton III, Humboldt County Commission, Winnemucca, 
Nevada; and Roger Scholl, on behalf of the Friends of Nevada 
Wilderness, Nevada Wilderness Project, Toiyabe Chapter of the Sierra 
Club, Wilderness Society, and American Lands Alliance, and Susan Lynn, 
both of Reno, Nevada.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING PRIORITIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations concluded hearings to examine the process for identifying 
the priorities and impact of U.S. international broadcasting language 
services, after receiving testimony from Edward E. Kaufman and Alberto 
Mora, both of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Washington, D.C.
HEALTH INFORMATION PRIVACY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee resumed 
hearings to examine issues dealing with privacy of individually 
identifiable health information, focusing on related provisions of the 
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, receiving 
testimony from Janet Heinrich, Associate Director, Health Financing and 
Public Health Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 
General Accounting Office; John P. Houston, University of Pittsburgh 
Medical Center Health System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of 
the American Hospital Association; Kathy Farmer, Hewlett Packard, Palo 
Alto, California, on behalf of the Washington Business Group on Health; 
E. Greg Koski, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Joanna C. 
Horobin, EntreMed, Inc., Rockville, Maryland, on behalf of the 
Biotechnology Industry Organization; and Charles N. Kahn III, Health 
Insurance Association of America, and Janlori Goldman, Georgetown 
University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, both of 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on 
campaign finance reform issues, focusing on citizen participation, the 
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and practical implications of updating campaign finance law, 
disproportionate influence of interest groups, and perceived campaign 
finance abuses, receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Laura W. 
Murphy, American Civil Liberties Union, Washington, D.C.; E. Joshua 
Rosenkranz, New York University School of Law Brennan Center for 
Justice, New York; and James Bopp, Jr., Bopp, Coleson and Bostrom, 
Terre Haute, Indiana, on behalf of the James Madison Center for Free 
Speech.
  Hearings resume on Wednesday, May 3.
AUTHORIZATION--AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act, focusing on American Indian education programs, 
including the role of school boards in hiring educators, education 
standards, and accountability issues, after receiving testimony from 
Carmen Taylor, National Indian School Board Association, Polson, 
Montana; Roger Bordeaux, Tiospa Zina Tribal School, Agency Village, 
South Dakota, on behalf of the Association of Community Tribal Schools, 
Inc.; Mark Sorensen, Little Singer Community School, Winslow, Arizona, 
on behalf of the Native American Grant School Association; Angela 
Barney Nez, Navajo Area School Board Association, Window Rock, Arizona; 
and John W. Cheek, National Indian Education Association, Alexandria, 
Virginia.