[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 100 (Thursday, July 27, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D841-D843]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on proposals to establish an international school feeding program, 
after receiving testimony from Senator Durbin; former Senators Dole and 
McGovern; Representative McGovern; Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; 
Catherine Bertini, World Food Programme, Rome, Italy; Beryl Levinger, 
Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California, on behalf 
of the Education Development Center; Kenneth Hackett, Catholic Relief 
Services, Baltimore, Maryland; and Ellen S. Levinson, Cadwalader, Wickersham 
and Taft, on behalf of the Coalition for Food Aid, and Carole Brookins, 
World Perspectives, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Donald Mancuso, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, 
Department of Defense, Roger W. Kallock, of Ohio, to be Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Readiness, James Edgar 
Baker, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for 
the Armed Forces, and 2,147 military nominations in the Air Force, Navy, 
Army, and Marine Corps.
ANTITRUST LAWS IN AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the current state of competition in the airline 
industry, and the role that antitrust laws play in assuring that consumers 
receive the benefits of competition, after receiving testimony from Joel I. 
Klein, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of 
Justice; and Alfred Kahn, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
CERRO GRANDE FIRE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the United States General Accounting Office's investigation of 
the Cerro Grande Fire in the State of New Mexico, and from Federal agencies 
on the Cerro Grande Fire and their fire policies in general, after receiving 
testimony from Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and 
Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Robert G. Stanton, Director, National Park 
Service, and Nina Hatfield, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, both 
of the Department of the Interior; and Michael T. Rains, Area Director, 
Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry, 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. 1734, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contribute funds for the 
establishment of an interpretative center on the life and contributions of 
President Abraham Lincoln, H.R. 3084, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to contribute funds for the establishment of an interpretative 
center on the life and contributions of President Abraham Lincoln, S. 2345, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study 
concerning the preservation and public use of sites associated with Harriet 
Tubman located in Auburn, New York, S. 2638, to adjust the boundaries of the 
Gulf Islands National Seashore to include Cat Island, Mississippi, H.R. 
2541, to adjust the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore to 
include Cat Island, Mississippi, and S. 2848, to provide for a land exchange 
to benefit the Pecos National Historical Park in New Mexico, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Lott, Cochran, Fitzgerald, and Durbin; Denis P. 
Galvin, Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
Bridget Lamont, Office of the Governor of Illinois, Springfield; and Vijay 
K. Mital, Auburn, New York.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations 
of Robert S. LaRussa, of

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Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, 
Jonathan Talisman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury 
for Tax Policy, Ruth Martha Thomas, of the District of Columbia, to be a 
Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury, and Lisa Gayle Ross, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary for Management and Chief Financial 
Officer, Department of the Treasury.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 113, to increase the criminal penalties for assaulting or threatening 
Federal judges, their family members, and other public servants;
  S. 783, to limit access to body armor by violent felons and to facilitate 
the donation of Federal surplus body armor to State and local law 
enforcement agencies, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2272, to improve the administrative efficiency and effectiveness of the 
Nation's abuse and neglect courts and for other purposes consistent with the 
Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997;
  S. 1865, to provide grants to establish demonstration mental health 
courts, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2289, for the relief of Jose Guadalupe Tellez Pinales;
  S. 2000, for the relief of Guy Taylor;
  S. 2002, for the relief of Tony Lara, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of Susan Ritchie Bolton, Mary H. Murguia. and James A. 
Teilborg, each to be a United States District Judge for the District of 
Arizona, Michael J. Reagan, to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Illinois, Norman C. Bay, to be United States Attorney 
for the District of New Mexico, and Marie F. Ragghianti, of Tennessee, and 
Janie L. Jeffers, of Maryland, each to be a Commissioner of the United 
States Parole Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and 
Competition approved for full committee consideration S. 2778, to amend the 
Sherman Act to make oil-producing and exporting cartels illegal.
EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICIALS PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight 
concluded hearings to examine the lack of standardization and training in 
security protection of Executive Branch officials, after receiving testimony 
from Bernard L. Ungar, Director, Government Business Operations Issues, 
General Government Division, and Robert H. Hast, Acting Assistant 
Comptroller General for Special Investigations, both of the General 
Accounting Office.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  An original bill to increase, effective as of December 1, 2000, the rates 
of compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the 
rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of certain 
disabled veterans;
  S. 1810, to amend title 38, United States Code, to amend title 38, United 
States Code, to expand and improve compensation and pension, education, 
housing loan, insurance, and other benefits for veterans, with an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Thomas L. Garthwaite, of Pennsylvania, to be Under 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health, and Robert M. Walker, of West 
Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of John E. McLaughlin, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Director of 
Central Intelligence.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded closed hearings on the 
nomination of Mr. McLaughlin, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
NURSING HOME CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
preliminary findings of a new government report on the correlation between 
inadequate staffing and deficient quality care in nursing homes, and the 
dangerous consequences which may result from these shortages, receiving 
testimony from Nancy-Ann DeParle, Administrator, Health Care Financing 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Andrew Kramer, 
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver; and John F. Schnelle, 
University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, on behalf of the 
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging Borun Center for Gerontological 
Research.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
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