[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 111 (Tuesday, September 19, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the threat of Iraq on the region and to United States interests, after 
receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense 
for Policy; Edward S. Walker, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for 
Near Eastern Affairs; and Gen. Tommy R. Franks, USA, Commander in 
Chief, U.S. Central Command.
WATER AND POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on H.R. 3577, to increase the amount 
authorized to be appropriated for the north side pumping division of 
the Minidoka reclamation project, Idaho, S. 2906, to authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with the city of 
Loveland, Colorado, to use Colorado-Big Thompson Project facilities for 
the impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, 
municipal, industrial, S. 2942, to extend the deadline for commencement 
of construction of certain hydroelectric projects in the State of West 
Virginia, S. 2951, to authorize the Commissioner of Reclamation to 
conduct a study to investigate opportunities to better manage the water 
resources in the Salmon Creek watershed of the upper Columbia River, 
and S. 3022, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
irrigation facilities to the Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District, 
after receiving testimony from Robert J. Quint, Acting Chief of Staff, 
Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Larry Howard, City 
of Loveland Department of Water and Power, Loveland, Colorado; D.R. 
Michelle, Colville Confederated Tribes, Omak, Washington; Tom Sullivan, 
Okanogan Irrigation District, Okanogan, Washington, and Henry Weick, 
Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District, Boise, Idaho.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  H.R. 4986, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 
provisions relating to foreign sales corporations (FSCs) and to exclude 
extraterritorial income from gross income, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute; and
  H.R. 4868, to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
States to modify temporarily certain rates of duty, to make other 
technical amendments to the trade laws, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of George A. Omas, of Mississippi, to be a Commissioner of 
the Postal Rate Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by 
Senator Lott, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE CAPABILITIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine issues relating to the state of foreign language capabilities 
and requirements within the United States Federal Intelligence 
Community and its effect on national security, after receiving 
testimony from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education; Robert O. 
Slater, Director, National Security Education Program; Dan E. Davidson, 
Bryn Mawr College Department of Russian and Second Language 
Acquisition, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American 
Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS; Martha G. Abbott, 
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, Virginia; and Frances McLean 
Coleman, Ackerman High School, Ackerman, Mississippi, on behalf of the 
Weir Attendance Center.