[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 107 (Wednesday, September 13, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D901-D903]
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 Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H.R. 4635, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 2001, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  An original bill (S. 3041) making appropriations for the government 
of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or 
in part against revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies approved for full committee consideration H.R. 4635, making 
appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and 
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, 
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2001, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
COIN DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee met to 
discuss U.S. coin designs, focusing on the physical and fiscal concerns 
regarding changing circulating coin designs, after receiving testimony 
from Jay W. Johnson, Director, and Thomas D. Rogers, Engraver/Artist, 
both of the United States Mint, Department of the Treasury; Richard G. 
Doty, Curator of Numismatics, Smithsonian Institution; H. Robert 
Campbell, American Numismatic Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado; 
and Ute Wartenburg, American Numismatic Society, New York, New York.
MARKETING VIOLENCE TO CHILDREN
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on the Federal Trade Commission report which examines the 
marketing of violence in movies, television, music, and video games to 
children, and recommendations to curtail their exposure, including 
entertainment industry self-regulation, the need for legislative 
oversight, enforcement of rating guidelines, and parental involvement 
and responsibility, receiving testimony from Senators Boxer, DeWine, 
Hagel, Hatch, Kohl, and Lieberman; Representatives Hyde and Markey; 
Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Danny Goldberg, 
Artemis Records, and Strauss Zelnick, BMG Entertainment-North America, 
both of New York, New York; Peter Moore, Sega of America, Inc., San 
Francisco, California; Gregory Fischbach, Acclaim Entertainment, Inc., 
Glen Cove, New York; Tom Diaz, Violence Policy Center, Hilary Rosen, 
Recording Industry Association, Douglas Lowenstein, Interactive Digital 
Software Association, Daniel B. Borenstein, American Psychiatric 
Association, on behalf of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent 
Psychiatry, Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America, and 
Jeff McIntyre, American Psychological Association, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Donald E. Cook, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 
Denver, on behalf of the American Academy of Pediatrics; and Michael E. 
Dyson, DePaul University Ida B. Wells-Barnett University, Chicago, 
Illinois.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met and began 
consideration of H.R. 3236, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior 
to enter into contracts with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy

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District, Utah, to use Weber Basin Project facilities for the 
impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, 
municipal, industrial, S. 1848, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and 
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to participate in the design, planing, and construction of the 
Denver Water Reuse project, S. 2594, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to contract with the Mancos Water Conservancy District to use 
the Mancos Project facilities for impounding, storage, diverting, and 
carriage of nonproject water for the irrigation, domestic, municipal, 
and industrial purposes, H.R. 1680, to provide for the conveyance of 
Forest Service property in Kern County, California, in exchange for 
county lands suitable for inclusion in Sequoia National Forest, S. 
2111, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey for fair market 
value 1.06 acres of land in the San Bernardino National Forest, 
California, to KATY 101.3 FM, a California corporation, S. 2301, to 
amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities 
Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the 
design, planning, and construction of the Lakehaven water reclamation 
project for the reclamation and reuse of water, S. 2163, to provide for 
a study of the engineering feasibility of a water exchange in lieu of 
electrification of the Chandler Pumping Plant at Prosser Diversion Dam, 
Washington, H.R. 1235, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
enter into contracts with the Solano County Water Agency, California, 
to use Solano Project facilities for impounding, storage, and carriage 
of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, and industrial purposes, 
S. 2195, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and 
Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
participate in the design, planning, and construction of the Truckee 
watershed reclamation project for the reclamation and reuse of water, 
S. 2350, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
water rights to Duchesne City, Utah, S. 2877, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to conduct a feasibility study on water 
optimization in the Burnt River basin, Malheur River basin, Owyhee 
River basin, and Powder River basin, Oregon, S. 2757, to provide for 
the transfer or other disposition of certain lands at Melrose Air Force 
Range, New Mexico, and Yakima Training Center, Washington, H.R. 4063, 
to establish the Rosie the Riveter-World War II Home Front National 
Historical Park in the State of California, 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, H.R. 4115, to authorize 
appropriations for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and H. 
Con. Res. 89, recognizing the Hermann Monument and Hermann Heights Park 
in New Ulm, Minnesota, as a national symbol of the contributions of 
Americans of German heritage, but did not complete final action 
thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, September 20.
FORESTS AND PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 2873, to provide for 
all right, title, and interest in and to certain property in Washington 
County, Utah, to be vested in the United States, H.R. 3676 and S. 2784, 
bills to establish the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National 
Monument in the State of California, S. 2865, to designate certain land 
of the National Forest System located in the State of Virginia as 
wilderness, H.R. 4275 and S. 2956, bills to establish the Colorado 
Canyons National Conservation Area and the Black Ridge Canyons 
Wilderness, and S. 2977, to assist in the establishment of an 
interpretive center and museum in the vicinity of the Diamond Valley 
Lake in southern California to ensure the protection and interpretation 
of the paleontology discoveries made at the lake and to develop a trail 
system for the lake for use by pedestrians and nonmotorized vehicles, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Bono; Tom Fry, Director, 
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; Paul Brouha, 
Associate Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Glen 
Peterson, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Los 
Angeles; James Doyle, Environmental Land Technology, Ltd., Sun Valley, 
Idaho; Brad Quayle, KSL Recreation Corporation, La Quinta, California; 
and Ed Kibbey, Building Industry Association of Southern California, 
and Katie Barrows, Friends of the Desert Mountain, on behalf of the 
Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy, both of Palm Desert, 
California.
COLUMBIA RIVER POWER AND SALMON RECOVERY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Drinking Water held hearings to examine the biological 
opinion on the Federal Columbia River Power System and the Federal 
Caucus Draft Basinwide Salmon Recovery Strategy, receiving testimony 
from William Stelle, Jr., Northwest Regional Administrator, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce; Col. Eric T. Mogren, 
Deputy Division Engineer, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; Judith A. Johansen, Administrator/ Chief Executive Officer, 
Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy; David 
Cottingham, Special

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Assistant to the Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
of the Interior; Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne, Boise; Samuel Penny, 
Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, Idaho, on behalf of the Columbia River Inter-
Tribal Fish Commission; Lionel Q. Boyer, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort 
Hall, Idaho; and John Etchart, Helena, Montana, Eric J. Bloch, 
Portland, Oregon, and Frank L. Cassidy, Vancouver, Washington, all on 
behalf of the Northwest Power Planning Council.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
TREATIES/NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on 
Investment Treaty with Bahrain (Treaty Doc. 106-25), Investment Treaty 
with Bolivia (Treaty Doc. 106-26), Investment Treaty with Honduras 
(Treaty Doc. 106-27), Investment Treaty with El Salvador (Treaty Doc. 
106-28), Investment Treaty with Croatia (Treaty Doc. 106-29), 
Investment Treaty with Jordan (Treaty Doc. 106-30), Investment Treaty 
with Uzbekistan (Treaty Doc. 104-25), Investment Treaty with Mozambique 
(Treaty Doc. 106-31), Investment Treaty with Lithuania (Treaty Doc. 
106-42), Treaty with Mexico on Delimitation of Continental Shelf 
(Treaty Doc. 106-39), and Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement 
(Treaty Doc. 106-41), Investment Treaty with Azerbijan (Treaty Doc. 
106-47), Protocol Amending Investment Treaty with Panama (Treaty Doc. 
106-46), after receiving testimony from Mary Beth West, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, and Janice F. Bay, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary, International Finance and Development, Bureau of 
Economic and Business Affairs, both of the Department of State.
  Also, committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Barry Edward 
Carter, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Development, after the 
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Baucus, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John Ramsey Johnson and Gerald Fisher, each to be an 
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in there own 
behalf. Mr. Johnson and Mr. Fisher were introduced by Representative 
Norton.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE COSTS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues relating to long-term care insurance, including protecting 
consumers from unanticipated premium increases, rate stabilization 
regulation, and proposed legislation to allow tax incentives towards 
the purchase of policies, after receiving testimony from William J. 
Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, Health, 
Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; 
Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas Insurance Department, Topeka, on behalf of 
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Allan Kanner, 
Allan Kanner and Associates/Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana; 
Charles N. Kahn, III, Health Insurance Association of America, 
Washington, D.C.; and David S. Martin, John Hancock Life Insurance 
Company, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Council of 
Life Insurers.