[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 121 (Tuesday, October 3, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1021-D1022]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Robert B. Pirie, Jr., of Maryland, to be Under Secretary 
of the Navy, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his 
own behalf.
INTERNET PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 809, to require

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the Federal Trade Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the 
privacy of personal information collected from and about private 
individuals who are not covered by the Children's Online Privacy 
Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to provide greater individual 
control over the collection and use of that information, S. 2606, to 
protect the privacy of American consumers, and S. 2928, to protect the 
privacy of consumers who use the Internet, after receiving testimony 
from Scott Cooper, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Marc Rotenberg, 
Electronic Privacy Information Center, both of Washington, D.C.; George 
Vradenberg III, America Online, Dulles, Virginia; Paul Rubin, Emory 
University, Atlanta, Georgia; and Simson Garfinkel, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT ASSESSMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's use 
of comparative assessment to evaluate and compare risks posed by 
certain environment threats, and EPA's Science Advisory Board report on 
EPA's method for comparing risk, focusing on lessons learned from the 
application of comparative risk analysis in defining strategic goals 
for the environment and setting priorities at the Federal, State, and 
local level, after receiving testimony from Al McGartland, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Peter F. Guerrero, Director, 
Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Katherine Hartnett, 
New Hampshire Comparative Risk Project, Concord; Michael J. Pompili, 
Columbus Health Department, Columbus, Ohio; J. Clarence Davies, 
Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.; and Elizabeth L. Anderson, 
Sciences International, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the progress and challenges of 
performance management in the District of Columbia, after receiving 
testimony from J. Christopher Mihm, Director, Strategic Issues, General 
Accounting Office; and Mayor Anthony A. Williams, and Deputy-Mayor John 
Koskinen, both of Washington, D.C.
WEN HO LEE INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts resumed oversight hearings to examine certain decisions 
that were made in the investigation and prosecution of the Wen Ho Lee 
case, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Younger, Associate Laboratory 
Director for Nuclear Weapons, John Richter, Consultant, and Ron 
Wilkins, Computer Network Specialist, all of the Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, Department of Energy; Robert S. Vrooman, Bozeman, Montana, 
former Chief, Los Alamos National Lab Counterintelligence; and Notra 
Trulock III, Falls Church, Virginia, former Director of Intelligence, 
Department of Energy.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the financial and performance 
accountability of the Office of Justice Programs in preventing and 
controlling illegal drug use, particularly among young people, after 
receiving testimony from Mary Lou Leary, Acting Assistant Attorney 
General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Judge 
Michael E. McMaken, District Court of Alabama, Mobile; Associate Judge 
Richard S. Gebelein, Superior Court of Delaware, Wilmington; Steven 
Belenko, Columbia University National Center on Addiction and Substance 
Abuse, New York, New York; and John S. Goldkamp, Temple University, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine issues relating to the energy crisis and 
high fuel cost impact on low-income families, the effectiveness of the 
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to provide heating 
assistance to those in need, and a proposed increase in LIHEAP funding, 
after receiving testimony from Olivia A. Golden, Assistant Secretary of 
Health and Human Services for Children and Families; Richard H. Moffi, 
Vermont Agency of Human Services, Waterbury; Jerry McKim, Iowa 
Department of Human Rights, Des Moines; John Howat, National Consumer 
Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark Seetin, New York Mercantile 
Exchange, Washington, D.C.; Callie Parker, Little Deer Isle, Maine; and 
Cathy Duncan, Johnson, Vermont.