[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 89 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D727-D728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ANTHRAX VACCINE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the 
threat, effectiveness, safety, and supply of the Department of Defense 
Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program and the Food and Drug 
Administration role with respect to the regulation of the vaccine, 
receiving testimony from Rudy de Leon, Deputy Secretary, Adm. J. 
Jarrett Clinton, USPHS, First Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for 
Health Affairs, Maj. Gen. Randall L. West, Senior Advisor to the Deputy 
Secretary for Chemical and Biological Protection, Anna Johnson-Winegar, 
Deputy Assistant to the Secretary for Chemical and Biological Defense, 
David Oliver, Principal Deputy Secretary for Acquisition, Technology 
and Logistics, and Robert J. Lieberman, Assistant Inspector General for 
Auditing, all of the Department of Defense; and Kathryn C. Zoon, 
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
DISABLED CHILDREN MEDICAID COVERAGE
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings on certain 
provisions of S. 2274, to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to 
provide families and disabled children with the opportunity to purchase 
coverage under the Medicaid program for such children, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Kennedy; Representative Sessions; William J. 
Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, 
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; 
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Little Rock; David Alexander, Raymond 
Blank Children's Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa; Gordon Fay, Montgomery, 
Alabama; Rebecca Eichhorn, Newberg, Oregon; and Tanya Baker-McCue, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Francisco J. Sanchez, of Florida, to be 
an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, and Katherine Milner 
Anderson, of Virginia, Frank Henry Cruz, of California, Kenneth Y. 
Tomlinson, of Virginia, and Ernest J. Wilson III, of Maryland, each to 
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Sanchez was introduced by Senator Graham.
UNITED NATIONS IN AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the United Nations policy in Africa, focusing on future peace, 
prosperity and freedom, after receiving testimony from Richard C. 
Holbrooke, United States Permanent Representative to the United 
Nations; William Franklin Graham III, Samaritan's Purse, Boone, North 
Carolina; and Eric G. Berman, Belmont, Massachusetts.
BIOTECHNOLOGY IN COMBATING POVERTY AND HUNGER
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings to examine the 
role of biotechnology in combating hunger and poverty in developing 
countries, after receiving testimony from David B. Sandalow, Assistant 
Secretary of State for Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science; 
Andrew Young, GoodWorks International, Atlanta, Georgia; Roger N. 
Beachy, Donald Danforth Plant Science

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Center, St. Louis, Missouri; Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute, 
Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Glenn A. Fine, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Justice, Dennis M. Cavanaugh, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and James S. Moody, Jr., 
Gregory A. Presnell, and John E. Steele, each to be a United States 
District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Cavanaugh was 
introduced by Senators Lautenberg and Torricelli, Mr. Moody, Mr. 
Presnell, and Mr. Steele, were introduced by Senators Mack and Graham, 
and Representative McCollum.
IDENTITY THEFT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings on preventing criminals from 
using technology to prey upon society, focusing on identity theft 
prevention measures and the implementation of the Identity Theft and 
Assumption Deterrence Act (Pub. Law 105-318), after receiving testimony 
from Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, 
Federal Trade Commission; James G. Huse, Jr., Inspector General of 
Social Security, Social Security Administration; Beth Givens, Privacy 
Rights Clearinghouse, San Diego, California; Steven M. Emmert, Reed 
Elsevier, Inc., on behalf of Lexis-Nexis and Individual Reference 
Services Group, and Stuart K. Pratt, Associated Credit Bureaus, Inc., 
both of Washington, D.C, and Michelle Brown, Los Angeles, California.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the 
National Science Foundation, focusing on its role in and contribution 
to our nation's mathematics, science and engineering research, and math 
and science education, after receiving testimony from Rita R. Colwell, 
Director, National Science Foundation; Douglas E. Harris, Vermont 
Institute for Science, Math, and Technology, Montpelier; Dennis M. 
Bartels, San Francisco Exploratorium Center for Teaching and Learning, 
San Francisco, California; Daniel L. Goroff, Harvard University Derek 
Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Charles M. Vest, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both of Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; Joseph G. Danek, Experimental Program to Stimulate 
Competitive Research Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and Steven J. 
Wallach, Chiaro Networks, Richardson, Texas.
RISK MANAGEMENT AND TORT LIABILITY
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
certain reports on the extent and degree of liability insurance Tribal 
governments have in order to provide compensation for people injured as 
a result of accidents or torts committed by Tribal employees, after 
receiving testimony from Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, 
Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Ethan M. Posner, 
Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice; Michael J. 
Anderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; and Michael Willis, Hobbs, Straus, Dean and Walker, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation.