[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 83 (Tuesday, June 27, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D670-D671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Lt. Gen. Tommy R. Franks, United States Army, for 
appointment to the grade of general and to be Commander-in-Chief, 
United States Central Command; and Lt. Gen. William F. Kernan, United 
States Army, for appointment to the grade of general and to be 
Commander-in-Chief, United States Joint Forces Command/Supreme Allied 
Commander, Atlantic, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
  Also, committee ordered favorably reported 2,009 military nominations 
in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
NUCLEAR WASTE CLEANUP
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research, Development, Production and Regulation concluded hearings to 
examine Department of Energy efforts to clean up its Paducah, Kentucky, 
uranium enrichment plant, after allegations of improper disposal of 
hazardous and radioactive materials, after receiving testimony from 
Gary L. Jones, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting

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Office; Carolyn L. Huntoon, Assistant Secretary for Environmental 
Management, David Michaels, Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety 
and Health, and William D. Magwood, IV, Director of the Office of 
Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology, all of the Department of 
Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Karl William Hofmann, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Togolese Republic, Howard Franklin Jeter, of South Carolina, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, John W. Limbert, of 
Vermont, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Roger 
A. Meece, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi, 
Donald Y. Yamamoto, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Djibouti, Sharon P. Wilkinson, of New York, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Mozambique, and Pamela E. Bridgewater, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Benin, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of John W. Darrah, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Illinois, Paul C. Huck, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Joan Humphrey 
Lefkow, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of 
Illinois, and George Z. Singal, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Maine.
  Also, Committee began markup of S. 353, to provide for class action 
reform, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to 
call.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
issues relating to the now expired Independent Counsel statute, 
Congressional oversight requests, and the Department of Justice 1996 
campaign finance investigations, after receiving testimony from Janet 
Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice.
SINGLE USE MEDICAL DEVICES
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the safety and effectiveness of certain 
medical devices, focusing on the practice of reprocessing and reusing 
certain medical devices that were designed, manufactured, and approved 
by FDA for use in a single patient, during a single procedure, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Eshoo; David W. Feigal, 
Director, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Janet 
Heinrich, Associate Director, Health Financing and Public Health 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General 
Accounting Office; Josephine M. Torrente, Association of Disposable 
Device Manufacturers, Washington, D.C.; Vern Feltner, Alliance Medical 
Corporation, Asheville, North Carolina, on behalf of the Association of 
Medical Device Reprocessors; John Clough, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 
Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the American Hospital Association; and 
Anne Cofiell, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, on behalf of the International 
Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on 
the goals and operations of the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian 
Institution, after receiving testimony from James H. Billington, 
Librarian of Congress; and Lawrence M. Small, Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution.