[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 52 (Tuesday, May 2, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D408-D409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities approved for full committee consideration those 
provisions, which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of 
proposed legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2001 
for military activities of the Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel approved for 
full committee consideration those provisions, which fall within the 
jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed legislation authorizing 
appropriations for fiscal year 2001 for military activities of the 
Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support approved for full committee consideration those provisions, 
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee, of proposed 
legislation authorizing appropriations for fiscal year 2001 for 
military activities of the Department of Defense.
SUCCESSFUL STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on State environmental success stories and 
environmental protection program improvements, focusing on the EPA's 
relationship with States, enforcement, funding, inspections, 
administration, land recycling and brownfields, data management, non-
point source runoff, technology, and the ECOS/EPA Regulatory Innovation 
Agreement, after receiving testimony from W. Michael McCabe, Acting 
Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Peter F. 
Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, 
Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting 
Office; R. Lewis Shaw, South Carolina Department of Health and 
Environmental Control, Columbia, and Robert W. Varney, New Hampshire 
Department of Environmental Services, Concord, both on behalf of the 
Environmental Council of the States (ECOS); James M. Seif, Pennsylvania 
Department of Environmental Protection, Harrisburg; Brent C. Bradford, 
Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Salt Lake City; Lynn 
Scarlett, Reason Public Policy Institute, Los Angeles, California; and 
Erik D. Olson, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Jason S. Grumet, 
Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, both of 
Washington, D.C.
INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on Inter-
American Convention Against Corruptions (''the Convention''), adopted 
and opened for signature at the Specialized Conference of the 
Organization of American States (OAS) at Caracas, Venezuela, on March 
29, 1996. The Convention was signed by the United States on June 27, 
1996, at the twenty-seventh regular session of the OAS General Assembly 
meeting in Panama City, Panama (Treaty Doc. 105-39), after receiving 
testimony from Alan Larson, Under Secretary of State for Economic,

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Business and Agricultural Affairs; and Ambassador William T. Pryce, 
Council of the Americas, Nancy Zucker Boswell, Transparency 
International USA, and Lucinda A. Low, Inter-American Bar Association, 
on behalf of the American Bar Association, all of Washington, D.C.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of Federal employee 
incentive programs in achieving high employee performance, focusing on 
recruitment and retention, monetary incentives, work scheduling, leave 
flexibility, awards, motivation, and issues relating to information 
technology, after receiving testimony from Roberta L. Gross, Inspector 
General, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Henry Romero, 
Associate Director, Workforce Compensation and Performance, Office of 
Personnel Management; Michael Brostek, Associate Director, Federal 
Management and Workforce Issues, General Government Division, General 
Accounting Office; and Colleen M. Kelley, National Treasury Employees 
Union, Washington, D.C.
LA BELLA MEMORANDUM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts held hearings to examine Department of Justice 
activities about alleged improprieties during the 1996 Presidential 
campaign cycle, focusing on the LaBella Memorandum, receiving testimony 
from Charles LaBella, former Chief, Department of Justice Campaign 
Finance Task Force.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded hearings to examine issues dealing with the 
state of competition in the deregulated airline industry and the 
application of related antitrust laws, after receiving testimony from 
Alfred E. Kahn, Cornell University Department of Economics, Ithaca, New 
York; Steven A. Morrison, Northeastern University Department of 
Economics, Boston, Massachusetts; Donald J. Carty, American Airlines, 
Inc., Dallas, Texas; Robert R. Ferguson III, Midway Airlines 
Corporation, Morrisville, North Carolina; and Bill La Macchia, Jr., Sun 
Country Airlines, Mendota Heights, Minnesota.
WATER RIGHTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on provisions 
of S. 2350, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to 
certain water rights to Duchesne City, Utah, and S. 2351, to provide 
for the settlement of the water rights claims of the Shivwits Band of 
the Paiute Indian tribe of Utah, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Bennett; David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior; Mayor Kim 
Hamlin, Duchesne, Utah; Craig Smith, Nielsen and Senior, and Darin 
Bird, Utah Department of Natural Resources, both of Salt Lake City, 
Utah; Mayor Daniel D. McArthur, and Ron Thompson, Washington County 
Water Conservancy District, both of St. George, Utah; and Glenn Rogers, 
Shivwits Band of Paiute Indians of Utah, Santa Clara.
SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
vulnerability of the Social Security Representative Payee Program, 
focusing on solutions to prevent and detect representative payee 
abuses, after receiving testimony from Susan M. Daniels, Deputy 
Commissioner, Disability and Income Security Programs, and James G. 
Huse, Jr., Inspector General, both of the Social Security 
Administration; Betty Byrd, Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Theresa 
King, an incarcerated witness.