[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 122 (Wednesday, October 4, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SEAPORT SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Seaport Commission Report of the 
Interagency Commission on Crime and Security in U.S. Seaports, focusing 
on how to improve security and crime within the United States' port 
environment, after receiving testimony from Senator Graham; Adm. James 
M. Loy, U.S. Coast Guard, and Clyde J. Hart, Jr., Maritime 
Administrator, both of the Department of Transportation; Raymond W. 
Kelly, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; 
James K. Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice; Kurt J. Nagle, American Association of Port 
Authorities, Alexandria, Virginia; and John Tousseau, International 
Longshore and Warehouse Union, Washington, D.C.
HEALTH CARE COVERAGE
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine issues relating to the challenges and 
barriers faced in obtaining and maintaining affordable health care 
coverage, including related data from the recent Current Population 
Survey, the impact of current tax policy, and expanding coverage, after 
receiving testimony from Robert Garcia de Posada, Hispanic Business 
Roundtable, Paul Fronstin, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Judith 
Feder, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, and Mary R. 
Grealy, Healthcare Leadership Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Sandra 
Adamson Fryhofer, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, 
Georgia, on behalf of the American College of Physicians-American 
Society of Internal Medicine; Grace-Marie Arnett, Galen Institute, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and Sara R. Munro, Burlington, Vermont.
U.S. FOREST SERVICE AND SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine the 
effects of U.S. Forest Service policies on small businesses and what 
could be done to improve the agency's management of the forests, 
receiving testimony from Senators Craig and Thomas; James R. Furnish, 
Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Jim Hurst, Owens and Hurst Lumber Company, Inc., Eureka, 
Montana; Joel E. Bousman, Boulder, Wyoming, on behalf of the Wyoming 
Stockgrowers Association; Del Tinsley, Wyoming Livestock Roundup, 
Casper, on behalf of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture; 
Al Bukowsky, Solitude River Trips, Salmon, Idaho; Larry W. Van Tassell, 
University of Idaho Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural 
Sociology, Moscow; and William McKillop, University of California 
College of Natural Resources, Berkeley.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ALCOHOL AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IN ALASKA
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to 
examine the state of alcohol, substance abuse, and related law 
enforcement problems in Alaska, focusing on the identity and quantity 
levels of alcohol and illegal drug use in the State, after receiving 
testimony from Jacqueline Agtuca, Acting Director, Office of Tribal 
Justice, Department of Justice; Ernie Turner, Alaska Division of 
Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, Juneau; and Julie Kitka, Alaska Federation 
of Natives, Anchorage.