[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 85 (Thursday, June 29, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D691-D693]
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 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 2697, to reauthorize and amend the Commodity Exchange Act to 
promote legal certainty, enhance competition, and reduce systemic risk 
in markets for futures and over-the-counter derivatives, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1155, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide 
for uniform food safety warning notification requirements, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 2811, to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to 
make communities with high levels of out-migration or population loss 
eligible for community facilities grants.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session and 
ordered favorably reported S. 2507, to authorize appropriations for 
fiscal year 2001 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities 
of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and 
the Central Intelligence Agency

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Retirement and Disability System, with amendments.
NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed 
hearings on the report of the National Missile Defense Independent 
Review Team to examine the progress being made toward the Deployment 
Readiness Review and towards the planned Initial Operating Capability 
of 2005 for a limited, C1 system, as well as the acquisition approach 
to, and testing of, the program, after receiving testimony from Lt. 
Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense 
Organization; and Gen. Larry R. Welch, USAF (Ret.), Institute for 
Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the National 
Missile Defense Independent Review Team.
PUBLIC FOREST LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the United 
States Forest Service's Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the 
Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment, and Draft Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement for the Interior Columbia Basin 
Ecosystem Management Plan, after receiving testimony from Dale 
Bosworth, Regional Forester, Northern Region, and Bradley E. Powell, 
Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region, both of the Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 
134, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to study whether the 
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore should be protected as a wilderness 
area, S. 2051, to revise the boundaries of the Golden Gate National 
Recreation Area, S. 2279, to authorize the addition of land to Sequoia 
National Park, and S. 2512, to convey certain Federal properties on 
Governors Island, New York, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Feinstein, Moynihan, and Feingold; Representatives Lantos, Nadler, and 
Carolyn Maloney; Jacqueline Lowey, Deputy Director, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior; Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, 
Public Buildings Service, General Services Administration; Bradford J. 
Race, on behalf of the Office of New York Governor George Pataki, 
Albany; Michael Carey, New York City Economic Development Corporation, 
New York; David Reed, Dillonwood, Quincy, California; Katherine 
Anderton, Save-the-Redwoods League, San Francisco, California; Annette 
Rose, Board of Supervisors of Marion County, San Rafael, California; 
and William H. Meadows, The Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Drinking Water concluded oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act, focusing on the primary 
statute for protecting public water supplies from harmful contaminants, 
after receiving testimony from J. Charles Fox, Assistant Administrator, 
Office of Water, and Norine E. Noonan, Assistant Administrator, Office 
of Research and Development, both of the Environmental Protection 
Agency; Gregg L. Grunenfelder, Washington Department of Health, 
Olympia, Washington, on behalf of the Association of State Drinking 
Water Administrators; Gurnie Gunter, Kansas City Water Services 
Department, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the Association of 
Metropolitan Water Agencies; J. William Hirzy, National Treasury 
Employees Union Chapter 280, Erik D. Olson, Natural Resources Defense 
Council, and J. Richard Tompkins, National Association of Water 
Companies, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael J. Kosnett, University of 
Colorado Health Sciences Center Division of Clinical Pharmacology and 
Toxicology, Denver, on behalf of the National Research Council's 
Subcommittee on Arsenic in Drinking Water; David Paris, Manchester 
Water Treatment Plant, Manchester, New Hampshire, on behalf of the 
American Water Works Association; and Randy Van Dyke, Clay Regional 
Water, Spencer, Iowa, on behalf of the National Rural Water 
Association.
BROWNFIELDS REVITALIZATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund, 
Waste Control, and Risk Assessment concluded hearings on S. 2700, to 
amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act of 1980 to promote the cleanup and reuse of brownfields, 
to provide financial assistance for brownfields revitalization, and to 
enhance State response programs, after receiving testimony from Timothy 
Fields, Jr., Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and 
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Mayor J. Christian 
Bollwage, Elizabeth, New Jersey, on behalf of the United States 
Conference of Mayors; Mayor Preston A. Daniels, Des Moines, Iowa, on 
behalf of the National Association of Local Government Environmental 
Professionals; Jan H. Reitsma, Rhode Island Department of Environmental 
Management, Providence; Kevin P. Fitzpatrick, AIG Global Real Estate 
Investment Corporation, on behalf of the

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Real Estate Roundtable, and William McElroy, Zurich U.S. Specialities, 
on behalf of the American Insurance Association, both of New York, New 
York; Alan Front, Trust for Public Land, Washington, D.C.; and Vernice 
Miller-Travis, Partnership for Sustainable Brownfields Redevelopment, 
Baltimore, Maryland.
RISING OIL PRICES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on rising oil prices and the efficiency and effectiveness of 
Executive Branch response, after receiving testimony from Ernest J. 
Moniz, Under Secretary for Energy, Science and Environment, and John 
Cook, Director, Petroleum Division, Energy Information Administration, 
both of the Department of Energy; Ohio Governor Bob Taft, Columbus; 
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Hartford; Denise A. 
Bode, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma City; Phyllis Apelbaum, 
Arrow Messenger Service, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the 
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce and the Messenger Courtier Association 
of the Americas; Red Cavaney, American Petroleum Institute, Washington, 
D.C.; and J. Louis Frank, Marathon Ashland Petroleum, Findlay, Ohio.
HUD'S GOVERNMENT INSURED MORTGAGES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the adequacy of Department of 
Housing and Urban Affairs' policies and procedures for overseeing 
lenders that make mortgage loans insured by HUD's Federal Housing 
Administration, focusing on mortgage fraud commonly known as 
``flipping'', which involves the purchase and then resale of property 
at greatly inflated prices, receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; 
Stanley J. Czerwinski, Associate Director, Housing and Community 
Development Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development 
Division, General Accounting Office; Lisa Smith, Fresh Meadows, New 
York; Sonia Pratts, Hollywood, Florida; and Stekeena Rollins, Chicago, 
Illinois.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 353, to provide for class action reform;
  S. 2787, to reauthorize the Federal programs to prevent violence 
against women;
  S. 2413, to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 
1968 to clarify the procedures and conditions for the award of matching 
grants for the purchase of armor vests;
  H.R. 3646, for the relief of certain Persian Gulf evacuees, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 869, for the relief of Mina Vahedi Notash.