[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 89 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D731-D732]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FEDERAL FARM POLICY
Committee on Agriculture: Held a hearing to review federal farm policy. 
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
  Hearings continue July 19.
REVISED SUBALLOCATION OF BUDGET ALLOCATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported a report on the revised 
suballocation of budget allocations for fiscal year 2001.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held a hearing on Fiscal Year 2001 District of Columbia Budget. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the District of 
Columbia: Anthony A. Williams, Mayor; and Linda M. Cropp, Chairman, 
Council; and Alice M. Rivlin, Chairman, D.C. Financial Responsibility 
and Management Assistance Authority.
MEDICARE AND MEDICAID--PAYMENT ERRORS
Committee on the Budget: Health Task Force held a hearing on Blowing 
Smoke on the Invisible Man, Measuring Fraud, Payment Errors in Medicare 
and Medicaid. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
GAO: Gloria L. Jarmon, Director, Civil Audits; and William D. Hamel, 
Special Agent; Penny Thompson, Director, Program Integrity Group, 
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human 
Services; and Robb Miller, Inspector General, Department of Public Aid, 
State of Illinois.
DOE'S MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Committee on the Budget: Natural Resources and the Environment Task 
Force held a hearing on Department of Energy Management Practices. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of 
Energy: Carolyn Huntoon, Assistant Secretary, Environmental Management; 
and Brig. Gen. Thomas Giocanda, USAF, Acting Deputy Administrator, 
Defense Programs; and Gary Jones, Associate Director, Energy Resources 
and Science, GAO.
COMMODITY FUTURES MODERNIZATION ACT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials 
held a hearing on H.R. 4541, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 
2000. Testimony was heard from Arthur Levitt, Chairman, SEC; C. Robert 
Paul, General Counsel, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Patrick M. 
Parkinson, Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics, 
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; and Lewis A. Sachs, 
Assistant Secretary, Financial Markets, Department of the Treasury.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Government Management, 
Information, and Technology held a hearing on the following measures: 
Federal Property Asset Management Reform Act; and H.R. 3285, Federal 
Asset Management Improvement Act of 1999. Testimony was heard from 
Representative Sessions; the following officials of the GSA: David 
Barram, Administrator; and David L. Bibb, Deputy Associate 
Administrator, Office of Governmentwide Policy; Bernie Ungar, Director, 
Governmentwide Business Operations Issues, GAO; Rear Adm. Ronald F. 
Silva, USCG, Assistant Commandant, Systems and Chief Engineer, U.S. 
Coast Guard, Department of Transportation; and public witnesses.
HEPATITIS C: VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on National Security, 
Veterans' Affairs and International Relations held a hearing on 
Hepatitis C: Access, Testing and Treatment in the VA Health Care 
System. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs: Thomas Holohan, M.D., Chief, Patient 
Care Services, Veterans Health Administration; Frank Iber, M.D., 
Gastroenterologist, Hines VA Medical Center; Samuel B. Ho, M.D., Staff 
Physician, Minneapolis VA Medical Center; and Norbert Brau, M.D., Staff 
Physician, Bronx VA Medical Center; and public witnesses.
GLOBAL TERRORISM
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on Global 
Terrorism: South Asia-The New Locus. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of State: Michael A. Sheehan, 
Ambassador-at-Large, Coordinator for Counterterrorism; and Alan W. 
Eastham, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South Asian 
Affairs.
OVERSIGHT--CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held an 
oversight hearing on the Civil

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Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Testimony was heard from 
Bill Lann Lee, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights 
Division, Department of Justice.
CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS ISSUES; OVERSIGHT--OFFICE OF INSULAR AFFAIRS
Committee on Resources: Approved a motion to sustain rulings by 
Chairman Don Young on objections to the production of records subject 
to subpoenas issued by Chairman Don Young under the authority of a 
resolution adopted by the Committee on Resources on June 9, 1999, which 
objections were raised by Robert A. Berman, Henry M. Banta, Danielle 
Brian Stockton, Keith Rutter, and the Project on Government Oversight.
  The Committee also held an oversight hearing on Office of Insular 
Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of the Interior: Earl E. Devaney, 
Inspector General; and Ferdinand Aranza, Director, Office of Insular 
Affairs; and Allen Stayman, Office of Compact Negotiator, E.A.P., 
Department of State.
VETERANS LEGISLATION
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Benefits held a hearing 
on the following bills: H.R. 4765, 21st Century Veterans Employment and 
Training Act; and H.R. 3256, Veterans' Right to Know Act. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Pascrell and Doyle; Joseph Thompson, Under 
Secretary, Benefits, Veterans Benefits Administration, Department of 
Veterans Affairs; Espiridion Borrego, Assistant Secretary, Veterans' 
Employment and Training, Department of Labor; Alan Gibson, Disabled 
Veteran Outreach Program Specialist, State of Missouri; James H. 
Hartman, Director, Veterans Employment and Training Service, State of 
New York; Stephen A. Horton, Manager, Employment Security Program 
Services, Department of Industrial Relations, State of Alabama; and 
public witnesses.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.