[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 28, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D681-D682]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AIRLINE CUSTOMER SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings 
to examine the status after six months of the major airlines' implementation 
of their Airline Customer Service Commitment, to improve customer service, 
accountability, enforcement, and commercial air passengers protection, 
receiving testimony from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, Department of 
Transportation; and Donald J. Carty, American Airlines, Dallas, Texas, Mary 
Jopplin, Continental Airlines, Houston, Texas, and Vicki Escarra, Delta Air 
Lines, Atlanta, Georgia, all on behalf of the Air Transport Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 2797, to authorize a comprehensive Everglades restoration plan, with 
amendments; and
  S. 2796, to provide for the conservation and development of water and 
related resources, to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct 
various projects for improvements to rivers and harbors of the United 
States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the 
Committee, the bill incorporates the text of S. 2797, a related measure.)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill 
entitled the Marriage Tax Relief Reconciliation Act.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill to provide for international debt forgiveness and the 
strengthening of anticorruption measures and accountability at international 
financial institutions;
  An original bill to authorize appropriations to carry out security 
assistance for fiscal year 2001;
  An original bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize 
the provision of assistance to increase the availability of credit to 
microenterprises lacking full access to credit, to establish a Microfinance 
Loan Facility;
  An original bill to authorize additional assistance to countries with 
large populations having HIV/AIDS, to authorize assistance for tuberculosis 
prevention, treatment, control, and elimination;
  An original concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that 
the President of the United States should support free and fair elections 
and respect for democracy in Haiti;
  S. Res. 239, expressing the sense of the Senate that Nadia Dabbagh, who 
was abducted from the United States, should be returned home to her mother, 
Ms. Maureen Dabbagh;
  S. Res. 309, expressing the sense of the Senate regarding conditions in 
Laos;
  S. Res. 329, urging the Government of Argentina to pursue and punish those 
responsible for the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in 
Buenos Aires, Argentina;
  S. Con. Res. 57, concerning the emancipation of the Iranian Baha'i 
community, with an amendment;
  S. Con. Res. 113, expressing the sense of the Congress in recognition of 
the 10th anniversary of the free and fair elections in Burma and the urgent 
need to improve the democratic and human rights of the people of Burma, with 
an amendment;
  S. Con. Res. 122, recognizing the 60th anniversary of the United States 
nonrecognition policy of the Soviet takeover of Estonia, Latvia, and 
Lithuania, and calling for positive steps to promote a peaceful and 
democratic future for the Baltic region;
  S. Con. Res. 124, expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to 
Iraq's failure to release prisoners of war from Kuwait and nine other 
nations in violation of international agreements;
  H.R. 4249, to foster cross-border cooperation and environmental cleanup in 
Northern Europe; and
  The nominations of Owen James Sheaks, of Virginia, to be an Assistant 
Secretary of State; John Edward Herbst, of Virginia, to be to the Republic 
of Uzbekistan; Carlos Pascual, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador 
to Ukraine; Ross L. Wilson, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Azerbaijan; Mary Ann Peters, of California, to be Ambassador to the People's 
Republic of Bangladesh; Janet A. Sanderson, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to 
the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria; E. Ashley Wills, of Georgia, 
to be Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, and to 
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the 
Republic of Maldives; Karl William Hofmann, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to 
the Togolese Republic; 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; Sharon P. Wilkinson, of New York, to 
be Ambassador to the Republic of Mozambique; Donald Y. Yamamoto, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti; and Pamela E. 
Bridgewater, of

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Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Benin.
LIBERATION OF IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the progress report of the liberation 
of Iraq, after receiving testimony from Richard N. Perle, former Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for International Security; and Ahmad Chalabi, Iraqi 
National Congress, London, England.
TREATMENT OF U.S. BUSINESS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded 
hearings to examine the treatment of U.S. business in Central and Eastern 
Europe, after receiving testimony from Earl Anthony Wayne, Assistant 
Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Ronald 
S. Lauder, Central European Media Enterprises, New York, New York; Kempton 
Jenkins, Ukraine U.S. Business Council, Washington, D.C.; and Peter K. 
Nevitt, Greenbrier Europe, San Francisco, California.
WWII POW SLAVE LABOR LAWSUIT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to determine 
whether those who profited from the forced labor of American World War II 
Prisoners of War once held and forced into labor for private Japanese 
companies have an obligation to remedy their wrongs and whether the United 
States can help facilitate an appropriate resolution, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Bingaman; David W. Ogden, Acting Assistant Attorney 
General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Ronald J. Bettauer, Deputy 
Legal Adviser, Department of State; Harold G. Maier, Vanderbilt University 
Law School, Nashville, Tennessee; and Harold W. Poole, Salt Lake City, Utah, 
Frank Bigelow, Brooksville, Florida, Lester I. Tenney, La Jolla, California, 
Maurice Mazer, Boca Raton, Florida, and Edward Jackfert, Wellsburg, West 
Virginia, all former WWII Prisoners of War.
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings on the National Commission on 
Terrorism's report on issues relating to efforts being made by the 
intelligence and law enforcement communities to counter, and U.S. policies 
regarding, the changing threat of international terrorism to the United 
States, after receiving testimony from L. Paul Bremer III, Chairman, 
National Commission on Terrorism; R. James Woolsey, Shea and Gardner, 
Washington, D.C., former Director of Central Intelligence; Jane Harman, 
Harman International, Los Angeles, California; John F. Lewis Jr., Goldman, 
Sachs and Company, New York, New York; and Juliette N. Kayyem, Harvard 
University John F. Kennedy School of Government Belfer Center for Science 
and International Affairs, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
INDIAN TRIBAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2283, to 
amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to make certain 
amendments with respect to Indian tribes, after receiving testimony from 
Kevin Gover, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Kenneth 
R. Wykle, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Rodger Vicenti, Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Dulce, New Mexico; 
Pete Red Tomahawk, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Ft. Yates, North Dakota; David 
Whitener, Sr., Squaxin Island Tribe, Shelton, Washington; and Pat Ragsdale, 
Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
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