[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 132 (Thursday, October 19, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 28 
military nominations in the Army.
U.S.S. COLE ATTACK
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine issues 
related to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, receiving testimony 
from Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC (Ret.), former Commander-In-Chief, 
U.S. Central Command.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Department of Energy's recent 
decision to release 30 million barrels of crude oil from the strategic 
petroleum reserve and the bid process used to award contracts regarding 
the same, after receiving testimony from Ernest J. Moniz, Under 
Secretary for Energy, Science and Environment, Mark J. Mazur, Energy 
Information Administration, and John D. Shages, Director, Finance and 
Policy Office, Office of Petroleum Reserve, all of the Department of 
Energy; James Schlesinger, Lehman Brothers, Washington, D.C.; and Jerry 
E. Thompson, CITGO Petroleum Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
FOREST SERVICE TIMBER SALES CONTRACTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the Administration's policy toward, and the 
associated liability for, canceled Forest Service timber sales 
contracts, after receiving testimony from James Furnish, Deputy Chief, 
Forest Service, and Michael Gippert, Office of General Counsel, both of 
the Department of Agriculture; David Cohen, Branch Director for 
Commercial Litigation, Civil Division, Department of Justice; and Duane 
Gibson, General Counsel, Oversight and Investigations, House Committee 
on Resources.