[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 103 (Thursday, September 7, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D872]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 (Committees not listed did not meet)
 STEM CELL RESEARCH
 Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine the scientific 
and ethical impact of embryonic stem cell research, after receiving 
testimony from Gerald Fischbach, Director, National Institute of 
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and Allen M. Spiegel, Director, 
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, both 
of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human 
Services; David A. Prentice, Indiana University School of Medicine, 
Terre Haute; and Micheline M. Matthews-Roth, Harvard Medical School, 
Boston, Massachusetts.
 NOMINATIONS
 Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 12 
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corp.
 BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 1102, to provide for pension reform, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  An original bill, entitled, ``Retired Coal Miners Health Benefit 
Security Act''.
 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
 Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Department of State Annual International Religious Freedom 
Report, which monitors violations of religious freedom engaged in or 
tolerated by governments of foreign countries and to promote religious 
freedom by targeting violators, after receiving testimony from Robert 
A. Seiple, Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom, 
Department of State; and Michael K. Young, George Washington University 
Law School, and John R. Bolton, American Enterprise Institute for 
Public Policy, both of Washington, D.C., and Firuz Kazemzadeh, National 
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, Alta Loma, 
California, all on behalf of the United States Commission on 
International Religious Freedom.
 U.S. POSTAL SERVICE'S E-COMMERCE ACTIVITIES
 Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on e-
commerce activities of the United States Postal Service, after 
receiving testimony from Bernard L. Ungar, Director, Government 
Business Operations Issues, General Government Division, General 
Accounting Office; John Nolan, Deputy Postmaster General, and Robert F. 
Rider, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, both of the United States 
Postal Service; and Edward J. Gleiman, Chairman, Postal Rate 
Commission.