[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 75 (Thursday, June 15, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D605-D606]
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 Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2487,to authorize appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 for certain 
maritime programs of the Department of Transportation, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2438, to provide for enhanced safety, public awareness, and 
environmental protection in pipeline transportation, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1510, to revise the laws of the United States appertaining to United 
States cruise vessels, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1534, to reauthorize the Coastal Zone Management Act, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1687, to amend the Federal Trade Commission Act to authorize 
appropriations for the Federal Trade Commission, with amendments;
  S. 2440, to amend title 49, United States Code, to improve airport 
security, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2412, to amend title 49, United States Code, to authorize 
appropriations for the National Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 
2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003;
  S. 893, to amend title 46, United States Code, to provide equitable 
treatment with respect to State and local income taxes for certain 
individuals who perform duties on vessels; and
  The nominations of J. Randolph Babbitt, of Virginia, Robert W. Baker, of 
Texas, Edward M. Bolen, of Maryland, Geoffrey T. Crowley, of Wisconsin, 
Robert A. Davis, of Washington, and Kendall W. Wilson, of the District of 
Columbia, each to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory 
Council, Department of Transportation; Delmond J.H. Won, of Hawaii, to be a 
Federal Maritime Commissioner; and a nomination list for promotion in the 
United States Coast Guard.
FOREIGN OIL SOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
certain provisions of S. 2557, to protect the energy security of the United 
States and decrease America's dependency on foreign oil sources to 50 
percent by the Year 2010 by enhancing the use of renewable energy resources, 
conserving energy resources, improving energy efficiencies, and increasing 
domestic energy supplies, mitigating the effect of increases in energy 
prices on the American consumer, including the poor and the elderly, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Jeffords; former Senator Johnston, J. 
Bennett Johnston and Associates, Washington D.C.; Ernest J. Moniz, Under 
Secretary of Energy for Science, Energy and Environment; Richard L. Lawson, 
National Mining Association, Steven E. Plotkin, Center for Transportation 
Research, Argonne National Laboratory, and Jaime Steve, American Wind Energy 
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Jerry Jordan, Jordan Energy, Inc., 
Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of 
America and the National Stripper Well Association; and Paul Vermylen, 
Meenan Oil Co., Syosset, New York, on behalf of the Independent Fuel 
Terminal Operators Association.
CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, 
Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight hearings to 
examine a General Accounting Office report on the problems which plague the 
Concessions Management Program of the National Park Service, after receiving 
testimony from Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and 
Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Maureen Finnerty, Associate Director, Park 
Operations and Education, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
and Philip H. Voorhees, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Parks 
Conservation Association.
HEAVY-DUTY DIESEL EMISSION RULE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine 
Environmental Protection Agency emission standards for heavy duty trucks and 
buses and the accompanying low sulfur requirement for diesel fuel, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; J. Louis Frank, 
Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Findlay, Ohio; Jerry Thompson, Citgo Petroleum 
Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Petrochemical and 
Refiners Association; Robert J. Looney, Cenax Harvest States Cooperative, on 
behalf of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, David S. Addington, 
American Trucking Associations, Inc., and Bruce Bertelsen, Manufacturers of 
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Controls Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and James A Haslam, III, 
Pilot Oil Corporation, Knoxville, Tennessee, on behalf of the Society of 
Independent Gasoline Marketers of America.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
report of the National Commission on Terrorism evaluating the changing 
threat of international terrorism and United States laws, policies, and 
practices for preventing and punishing terrorism aimed at U.S. citizens, 
receiving testimony from L. Paul Bremer, III, Chairman, and Maurice 
Sonnenberg, Vice Chairman, both of the National Commission on Terrorism; 
Michael A. Sheehan, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Department of State; 
and Dale L. Watson, Assistant Director, Counterterrorism, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and James S. Reynolds, Chief, Terrorism and Violent Crime 
Section, Criminal Division, both of the Department of Justice.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 11, for the relief of Wei Jingsheng;
  S. 150, to the relief of Marina Khalina and her son, Albert Mifakhov;
  S. 451, for the relief of Saeed Rezai;
  S. 1078, for the relief of Mrs. Elizabeth Eka Bassey and her children, 
Emmanuel O. Paul Bassey, and Mary Idongesit Paul Bassey, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1513, for the relief of Jacqueline Salinas and her children Gabriela 
Salinas, Alejandro Salinas, and Omar Salinas;
  S. 2019, for the relief of Malia Miller; and
  The following nominations of Jay A. Garcia-Gregory, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Puerto Rico; Beverly B. Martin, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia; Laura 
Taylor Swain, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District 
of New York; Julio F. Mercado, of Texas, to be Deputy Administrator of Drug 
Enforcement Department of Justice; Daniel G. Webber, Jr., to be United 
States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma; James L. Whigham, to 
be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Illinois; and Russell 
John Qualliotine, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of 
New York.
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