[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 62 (Thursday, May 18, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D492-D493]
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: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 2593), making appropriations for the Department 
of Defense for fiscal year ending September 30, 2001; and
  An original bill, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001.
LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on Amyotrophic Lateral 
Sclerosis Research (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, focusing 
on a cure-directed research initiative that will identify and support 
ALS research, after receiving testimony from Gerald D. Fischbach, 
Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Tom Maniatis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf 
of the ALS Association; Steve Beuerlein, Carolina Panthers, Charlotte, 
North Carolina; Steve Garvey, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Blair Underwood, 
both of Los Angeles, California; Dick Schaap, ESPN, Bristol, 
Connecticut; Shelbie Oppenheimer, New Hope, Pennsylvania; and Steve 
Rigazzio, Las Vegas, Nevada.
``I LOVE YOU'' VIRUS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions concluded hearings to examine the attack of the 
``I Love You'' virus and its impact on United States financial services 
industry, after receiving testimony from Jack Brock, Director of 
Government and Defense Information System, General Accounting Office; 
and John J. Hamre, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 
Washington, DC.
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA INTERTIE SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 2439, to authorize the appropriation of funds for the 
construction of the Southeastern Alaska Intertie system, after 
receiving testimony from Randy Simmons, Alaska Industrial Development 
and Export Authority and Alaska Energy Authority, Bonnie Jo Savland, 
Alaska Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes Central Council, and Loren 
Gerhard, Southeast Conference, all of Juneau; Mayor Lonnie Anderson, 
Kake, Alaska; Mayor Albert Dick, Hoonah, Alaska, on behalf of the Huna 
Totem Corporation; Eric Hummel, Tongass Conservation Society, 
Ketchikan, Alaska, on behalf of the Southeast Alaska Conservation 
Council; Vern Rauscher, Tlingit-Haida Regional Electric Authority, Auke 
Bay, Alaska; and Randy Cornelius, Sitka Electric Department, Sitka, 
Alaska, on behalf of the Southeast Alaska Intertie Committee for 
Southeast Conference.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, of Massachusetts, to 
be Director of the Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Drinking Water held hearings on S. 2417, to amend the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to increase funding for State 
nonpoint source pollution control programs.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE TRAINING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the status of Federal employee 
development and training, focusing on Federal programs to train and 
educate employees throughout their careers to maintain their skills and 
productivity, after receiving testimony from John U. Sepulveda, Deputy 
Director, Office of Personnel Management; Diane M. Disney, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy; and 
Michael Brostek, Associate Director, Federal Management

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and Workforce Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting 
Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 2098, to facilitate the transition to more competitive and 
efficient electric power markets, and to ensure electric reliability, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 371, to expedite the naturalization of aliens who served with 
special guerrilla units in Laos, with an amendment;
  S. 484, to provide for the granting of refugee status in the United 
States to nationals of certain foreign countries in which American 
Vietnam War POW/MIAs or American Korean War POW/MIAs may be present, if 
those nationals assist in the return to the United States of those POW/
MIAs alive;
  S. 1902, to require disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 
regarding certain persons and records of the Japanese Imperial Army in 
a manner that does not impair any investigation or prosecution 
conducted by the Department of Justice or certain intelligence matters, 
with an amendment;
  S. Res. 296, designating the first Sunday in June of each calendar 
year as ``National Child's Day'', with an amendment; and
  The nominations of James J. Brady, to be United States District Judge 
for the Middle District of Louisiana, and Mary A. McLaughlin, Berle M. 
Schiller, Richard Barclay Surrick, and Petrese B. Tucker, each to be a 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  Also, Committee approved a resolution for issuance of a document 
subpoenas duces tecum to Attorney General Reno for documents related to 
the appointment of an Independent Counsel, pursuant to Rule 26.
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee held 
hearings to examine mental health parity issues, including S. 796, to 
provide for full parity with respect to health insurance coverage for 
certain severe biologically-based mental illnesses and to prohibit 
limits on the number of mental illness-related hospital days and 
outpatient visits that are covered for all mental illnesses, receiving 
testimony from Senators Domenici and Wellstone; Kathryn G. Allen, 
Associate Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, 
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; 
Steven E. Hyman, Director, National Institute of Mental Health, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Ken Libertoff, Vermont Association for Mental Health, Montpelier; Dean 
Rosen, Health Insurance Association of America, Washington, DC; Tara 
Wooldridge, Delta Air Lines, Atlanta, Georgia; and Kenneth Duckworth, 
Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Boston.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.