[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 47 (Tuesday, April 3, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D306-D307]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
issues related to the need for funding of medical research of 
Alzheimer's Disease at various facilities, including the National 
Institutes of Health, the Alzheimer's Clinical Research and Training 
Program, and the Alzheimer's Matching Grant Programs, after receiving 
testimony from Representatives Chris Smith and Markey; Richard J. 
Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of 
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; and Steven T. Dekosky, 
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Alzheimer's Disease Center, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Christine Frey, Peoria, Illinois, John 
Wagenaar, George, Iowa, and David Hyde Pierce, Saratoga Springs, New 
York, all on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association.
NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE, IMAGERY, AND MAPPING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded 
hearings to examine the Report of the National Commission for the 
Review of the National Reconnaissance Office and the Report of the 
Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Goss, Co-Chairman, Larry 
D. Cox, Member, Martin C. Faga, Member, and William Schneider, Jr., 
Member, all of the National Commission for the Review of the National 
Reconnaissance Office; and Peter Marino, Chairman, Kevin O'Connell, 
Executive Secretary, Evan Hineman, Member, and Gen. Tom Weinstein, 
Member, all of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and 
Mapping Agency.
DOMESTIC OIL AND NATURAL GAS RESOURCES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine issues related to the development of a national energy 
policy for the next decade, focusing on impediments to domestic oil and 
gas production and its impact on availability and price of energy in 
the United States, after receiving testimony from P. Patrick Leahy, 
Associate Director for Geology, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of 
the Interior; David J. Hayes, Latham and Watkins,

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former Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior, and Mark 
Rubin, American Petroleum Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Matthew 
R. Simmons, Simmons and Company International, Houston, Texas, on 
behalf of the National Petroleum Council; and Neal A. Stanley, Forest 
Oil Corporation, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Independent 
Petroleum Association of Mountain States and Independent Petroleum 
Association of America.
MEDICARE+CHOICE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine ways to 
improve the relationship between Medicare and managed care, focusing on 
Medicare+Choice program reform, which was designed to expand health 
plans to markets where existing access was limited or non-existent and 
to offer new types of plans, in addition to controlling costs, 
receiving testimony from Madeleine Smith, Specialist in Social 
Legislation, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research 
Service, Library of Congress; Murray N. Ross, Executive Director, 
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission; Victor E. Turvey, 
UnitedHealthcare, Maryland Heights, Missouri; Kevin W. McCarthy, Towers 
Perrin, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Thomas C. Buchmueller, University of 
California Graduate School of Management, Irvine; and Len M. Nichols, 
Urban Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 219, to suspend for two years the certification procedures under 
section 490(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 in order to foster 
greater multilateral cooperation in international counternarcotics 
programs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. Res. 27, to express the sense of the Senate regarding the 1944 
deportation of the Chechen people to central Asia;
  S. Res. 60, urging the immediate release of Kosovar Albanians 
wrongfully imprisoned in Serbia;
  S. Con. Res. 7, expressing the sense of Congress that the United 
States should establish an international education policy to enhance 
national security and significantly further United States foreign 
policy and global competitiveness, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. Con. Res. 23, expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the 
involvement of the Government in Libya in the terrorist bombing of Pan 
Am Flight 103; and
  The nominations of William Howard Taft, IV, of Virginia, to be Legal 
Adviser of the Department of State, and a Foreign Service Officer 
promotion list.
ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT AND COPYRIGHT LAW
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
issues related to progress being made in finding a balance between 
ever-advancing online entertainment technology and accessibility, and 
copyright law and the rights of the artists and entertainment industry, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Cannon; Richard D. 
Parsons, AOL Time Warner, Inc., Steve Gottlieb, TVT Records, and Edward 
P. Murphy, National Music Publishers' Association, Inc., all of New 
York, New York; Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association, Sally 
Greenberg, Consumers Union, and Hilary Rosen, Recording Industry 
Association of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Hank Barry, Napster, 
San Mateo, California; Ken Berry, EMI Recorded Music, Hollywood, 
California; Gerald W. Kearby, Liquid Audio, Inc., Redwood City, 
California; Robin Richards, MP3.com, Inc., San Diego, California; Mike 
Farrace, Tower Records/Books/Video, MTS., Inc., West Sacramento, 
California; Edmund Fish, Intertrust Technologies Corporation, Santa 
Clara, California; Don Henley, Santa Monica, California, on behalf of 
the Recording Artists Coalition; and Alanis Morissette, Beverly Hills, 
California.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the U.S. 
Commission on National Security/21st Century Hart-Rudman Report, which 
makes certain recommendations with regard to national security, based 
on a thorough analysis of the future global security environment and 
the development of the United States National Security Strategy to deal 
with that environment, after receiving testimony from former Senator 
Gary Hart, Co-Chair, former Senator Warren Rudman, Co-Chair, and former 
Representative Lee Hamilton, Commissioner, all of the U.S. Commission 
on National Security/21st Century.