[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 61 (Wednesday, May 17, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D481-D482]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full 
committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for 
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense.
GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine global warming issues, focusing on science and 
technology programs, including the U.S. Global Change Research Program, 
receiving testimony from Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for 
Science and Technology; Jerry D. Mahlman, Director, Geophysical Fluid 
Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Department of Commerce; Raymond S. Bradley, University of Massachusetts 
Department of Geosciences, Amherst; John R. Christy, University of 
Alabama Earth System Science Center, Huntsville; Kevin E. Trenberth, 
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; and Robert 
T. Watson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met and began 
markup of S. 2098, to facilitate the transition to more competitive and 
efficient electric power markets, and to ensure electric reliability, 
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, 
May 24.
MONTANA FLATHEAD IRRIGATION PROJECT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded oversight hearings on the operation, by the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, of the Flathead Irrigation Project in Montana, after 
receiving testimony from Sharon Blackwell, Acting Deputy Commissioner, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Jon Metropoulos, 
Flathead Joint Board of Control, St. Ignatius, Montana; and D. Fred 
Matt, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation, 
Pablo, Montana.
CLEAN AIR ACT AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Clean Air 
Act, focusing on an incentive-based

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utility emissions reduction approach, after receiving testimony from 
David G. Wood, Associate Director, Environmental Protection Issues, 
Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General 
Accounting Office; James E. Rogers, Cinergy Corporation, Cincinnati, 
Ohio; Charles D. McCrary, Southern Company Generation, Birmingham, 
Alabama; Frank Cassidy, PSEG Power, Newark, New Jersey; Armond Cohen, 
Clean Air Task Force, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Clean the 
Air: The National Campaign Against Dirty Power; and Wayne Brunetti, New 
Century Energies, Inc., Denver, Colorado.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2277, to terminate the application of title IV of the Trade Act of 
1974 with respect to the People's Republic of China; and
  The nomination of Michelle Andrews Smith, of Texas, to be an 
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 1816, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide 
meaningful campaign finance reform through requiring better reporting, 
decreasing the role of soft money, and increasing individual 
contribution limits, S. 2565, to reform the financing of Federal 
elections, S. 1502, to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 
to require mandatory spending limits for Senate candidates and limits 
on independent expenditures, to ban soft money, and certain provisions 
of S.J. Res. 6, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to 
affect elections, after receiving testimony from Senators Hagel, 
Kerrey, Abraham, Landrieu, Hutchison, Hollings, and Reed.
INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the Department of the Interior's implementation of the Indian Arts and 
Crafts Act (P.L. 101-644), focusing on counterfeiting and 
misrepresentation, law enforcement, and Indian arts and crafts programs 
and activities, after receiving testimony from Senators Kyl and 
Bingaman; Faith Roessel, Chairperson, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, 
Department of the Interior; Mark C. Van Norman, Director, Office of 
Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; Jacob H. Lonetree, Ho-Chunk 
Nation, Black River Falls, Wisconsin; Michael P. Mullen, Mullen and 
Foster, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Ho-Chunk Nation; Andy P. 
Abeita, Council for Indigenous Art and Culture, Albuquerque, New 
Mexico, and Tony Eriacho, Jr., Eriachio Arts and Crafts, Santa Fe, New 
Mexico, both on behalf of the Indian Arts & Crafts Association; and 
Jason Takala, Holbrook, Arizona.
INDIAN LAND PROJECTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1148, 
to provide for the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe of 
Nebraska certain benefits of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan 
project, and S. 1658, to authorize the construction of a Reconciliation 
Place in Fort Pierre, South Dakota, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Johnson; Mark C. Van Norman, Director, Office of Tribal 
Justice, Department of Justice; Terry Virden, Director, Office of Trust 
Responsibilities, Department of the Interior; Madonna Archambeau, 
Yankton Sioux Tribe, Marty, South Dakota; Arthur Denny, Santee Sioux 
Tribe of Nebraska, Santee; Michael B. Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux 
Tribe, Lower Brule, South Dakota; and Webster Two Hawk, South Dakota 
Tribal Government Relations, William V. Fischer, American State Bank, 
and Clarence W. Skye, United Sioux Tribes of South Dakota Development 
Corporation, all of Pierre, South Dakota.