[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D522-D523]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Gen. John A. Gordon, United States Air Force, to be Under 
Secretary for Nuclear Security, Department of Energy, and two military 
nominations in the Army and Navy. Prior to this action, Committee 
concluded hearings on the nomination of Gen. Gordon, (listed above), 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Domenici, testified 
and answered questions in his own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nomination of Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus, of 
Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Science, Department of 
Energy.
  Also, Committee resumed 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 recessed subject to call.
WATER AND POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on S. 2163, to provide for a study of the 
engineering feasibility of a water exchange in lieu of electrification 
of the Chandler Pumping Plant at Prosser Diversion Dam, Washington, S. 
2396, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into 
contracts with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, Utah, to use 
Weber Basin Project facilities for the impounding, storage, and 
carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, industrial, S. 
2248, to assist in the development and implementation of projects to 
provide for the control of drainage water, storm water, flood water, 
and other water as part of water-related integrated resource 
management, environmental infrastructure, and resource protection and 
development projects in the Colusa Basin Watershed, California, S. 
2410, to increase the authorization of appropriations for the 
Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978, and S. 2425, to authorize the 
Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the planning, design, and 
construction of the Bend Feed Canal Pipeline Project, Oregon, after 
receiving testimony from Eluid L. Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of 
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Randy Settler, Yakama Nation, 
Toppenish, Washington; Charles W. Garner, Kennewick Irrigation 
District, Kennewick, Washington; Gaye Lopez, Colusa Basin Drainage 
District, Woodland, California; Ivan Flint, Weber Basin Water 
Conservancy District, Layton, Utah; David McCarley, Langell Valley 
Irrigation District, Bonanza, Oregon; and Elmer McDaniels, Tumalo 
Irrigation District, Bend, Oregon.
COASTAL CONSERVATION AND REINVESTMENT PROGRAMS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on proposed legislation that would use revenue generated from Outer 
Continental Shelf oil and gas production to fund coastal conservation 
and restoration, and related activities, including related provisions 
of S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local 
governments, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments 
of 1978, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban 
Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife 
Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act) to 
establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs 
of the American people, S. 2123, to provide Outer Continental Shelf 
Impact assistance to State and local

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governments, to amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 
the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act of 1978, and the Federal Aid 
in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-
Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and 
recreation needs of the American people, and S. 2181, to amend the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund Act to provide full funding for the Land 
and Water Conservation Fund, and to provide dedicated funding for other 
conservation programs, including coastal stewardship, wildlife habitat 
protection, State and local park and open space preservation, historic 
preservation, forestry conservation programs, and youth conservation 
corps, after receiving testimony from Senators Cochran and Landrieu; 
Representatives Don Young, George Miller, Chenoweth-Hage, Shadegg, and 
Tauzin; Jamie R. Clark, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior; David Waller, Georgia Division of Wildlife, 
Social Circle, and Wayne Vetter, New Hampshire Fish and Game 
Department, Concord, both on behalf of the International Association of 
Fish and Wildlife Agencies; Rindy O'Brien, Wilderness Society, Rodger 
Schlickeisen, Defenders of Wildlife, Michael Hardiman, American Land 
Rights Association, and Rollin D. Sparrowe, Wildlife Management 
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Charles R. Niebling, Society 
for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Concord.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be Director General of the 
Foreign Service, Department of State, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Sarbanes, testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded oversight hearings on the 1996 campaign 
finance investigations relating to the Independent Counsel Act and its 
application to campaign financing matters, after receiving testimony 
from Larry Parkinson, General Counsel, and Neil Gallagher, Assistant 
Director, National Security Division, both of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and Lee J. Radek, Chief, Public Integrity Section, 
Criminal Division, all of the Department of Justice.
INDIAN FEDERAL RECOGNITION ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 611, to 
provide for administrative procedures to extend Federal recognition to 
certain Indian groups, after receiving testimony from Kevin Gover, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Richard L. 
Velky, Schaghticoke Tribal Nation, Kent, Connecticut; Louis Roybal, 
Piro/Manso/Tiwa Indian Tribe, Pueblo of San Juan de Guadalupe, Las 
Cruces, New Mexico; Leon Jones, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 
Cherokee, North Carolina; Mark C. Tilden, Native American Rights Fund, 
Boulder, Colorado; and Arlinda Locklear, Knoxville, Maryland, on behalf 
of the Miami Nation of Indiana.