[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 68 (Tuesday, June 6, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D538-D539]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CASH BALANCE PENSION PLANS
Special Committee on Aging: On Monday, June 5, committee concluded 
hearings to examine the impact on older workers when employers convert 
from a traditional defined benefit pension plan to a cash balance 
pension plan, focusing on how to promote pensions without harming 
participants, after receiving testimony from James A. Bruggeman, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, and Laurel Sweatt, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the 
Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans, both of Central and 
South West Corporation; Joseph Perkins, Danvers, Massachusetts, on 
behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons; Karen W. 
Ferguson, Pension Rights Center, Washington, D.C.; Sylvester J. 
Schieber, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Bethesda, Maryland; and John F. 
Woyke, Towers Perrin, Valhalla, New York, on behalf of the United 
States Chamber of Commerce.
EPA ALASKA OFFICE CREATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1311, to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency to establish an eleventh region of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, comprised solely of the State of Alaska, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Murkowski; Romulo L. Diaz, Jr., Assistant 
Administrator for Administration and Resources Management, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Michele D. Brown, Alaska Department of 
Environmental Conservation, and Ken Freeman, Resource Development 
Council, both of Anchorage, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Michael G. Kozak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Belarus, John Martin O'Keefe, of Virginia, to be Ambassador 
to the Kyrgyz Republic, John F. Tefft, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Lithuania, and W. Robert Pearson, of Tennessee, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Pearson was introduced by 
Senator Frist.
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER EXPORT CONTROL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, May 26, committee 
concluded hearings to examine export control implementation issues with 
respect to high performance computers and the potential harm to 
national security by requiring the decontrol of sensitive technologies, 
after receiving testimony from Harold J. Johnson, Associate Director, 
International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and 
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Robert J. 
Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, Department of 
Defense; Dan Hoydysh, Unisys Corporation, Washington, D.C., on behalf 
of the Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports; and Gary Milhollin, 
University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin 
Project on Nuclear Arms Control.

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CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts resumed oversight hearings to examine the 1996 campaign 
finance investigations, receiving testimony from Lee J. Radek, Chief, 
and Joseph Gangloff, Principle Deputy Chief, both of the Public 
Integrity Section, and Neil Gallagher, Assistant Director, National 
Security Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, all of the 
Department of Justice; and William Esposito, former Deputy Director, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 14.