[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 19, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D593-D594]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MULTIFAMILY ASSISTED HOUSING REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
implementation of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and 
Affordability Act of 1997 and the impending expiration of the Office of 
Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring, after receiving testimony 
from John C. Weicher, Assistant Secretary for Housing/FHA Commissioner, 
and Ira G. Peppercorn, Director, Office of Multifamily Housing 
Assistance Restructuring, both of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development; Peter Guerrerro, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, 
General Accounting Office; John Bentz, Property Advisory Group, Inc., 
Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the National Leased Housing 
Association; Geraldine Thomas, National Alliance of HUD Tenants, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Barbara J. Thompson, National Council of 
State Housing Agencies, Washington, D.C.; Cathy Vann, Ontra, Inc., 
Austin, Texas; and Charles Wehrwein, Mercy Housing, Inc., Denver, 
Colorado.
U.S. EXPORT/IMPORT BANK
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
International Trade and Finance concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds and renewing the charter for the United 
States Export-Import Bank, after receiving testimony from John E. 
Robson, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United 
States; and John B. Taylor, Under Secretary of the Treasury for 
International Affairs.
LOCAL TELEPHONE COMPETITION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine the goals and objectives of the 1996 
Telecommunications Act, focusing on the current state and future 
prospects of local telecommunication competition, receiving testimony 
from Representative Markey; Illinois State Senator Dave Sullivan, 
Prospect; Royce J. Holland, Allegiance Telecom, Inc., Dallas, Texas; 
Margaret H. Greene, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; C. Michael 
Armstrong, AT&T Corporation, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Clark McLeod, 
McLeod USA, Inc., Cedar Rapids, Iowa; David W. Rolka, Rhoads & Sinon, 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 764, to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to impose 
just and reasonable load-differentiated demand rates or cost-of-service 
based rates on sales by public utilities of electric energy at 
wholesale in the western energy market, and certain provisions relating 
to wholesale electricity rates in the western energy market, natural 
gas rates in the western energy market, and the sale price of bundled 
natural gas transactions of S. 597, to provide for a comprehensive and 
balanced national energy policy, after receiving testimony from Curt L. 
Hebert, Jr., Chairman, Nora Meade Brownell, Patrick Wood III, Linda Key 
Breathitt, and William L. Massey, all Commissioners, and Kevin P. 
Madden, General Counsel, all of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Department of Energy; Geoffrey D. Roberts, Entergy 
Wholesale Operations, The Woodlands, Texas; Ronald L. McMahan, Enercap 
Associates, Boulder, Colorado; Steven M. Fetter, Fitch, Inc., New York, 
New York; Thomas R. Brill, Sempra Energy, San Diego, California; and 
Bruce B. Henning, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc., Arlington, 
Virginia.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine medicare 
reform, focusing on issues related to the Centers for Medicare and 
Medicaid Services (formerly Health Care Financing Administration), 
including effective communications, customer service, confusing rules 
and regulations, personnel, information technology, and contractor 
accountability, receiving testimony from Tommy G. Thompson, Secretary 
of Health and Human Services; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Care 
Issues, General Accounting Office; Michael E. Gluck, Georgetown 
University Institute for Health Care Research and Policy, Washington, 
D.C.; Judith H. Hibbard, University of Oregon Department of Planning, 
Public Policy and Management, Eugene; and Nicholas J. Wolter, Deaconess 
Billings Clinic, Billings Montana.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.

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GERIATRICS
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on 
Aging concluded hearings to examine the effect of the national shortage 
of geriatrics-trained health professionals may have on the growing 
senior population, after receiving testimony from Howard Fillit, 
International Longevity Center, New York, New York; John R. Burton, 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Division of Geriatric 
Medicine and Gerontology, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the 
American Geriatrics Society; David A. Lipschitz, University of Arkansas 
for Medical Sciences Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, 
Little Rock; Robyn G. Dickey, Alexandria, Virginia; and Anna Mae 
Gannaway, Little Rock, Arkansas.
MIDWEST ALLIANCE OF SOVEREIGN TRIBES
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings to 
examine the goals and priorities of the member tribes of the Midwest 
Alliance of Sovereign Tribes/Inter-tribal Bison Cooperative for the 
107th Congress, receiving testimony from Robert Chicks, Stockbridge-
Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians, Bowler, Wisconsin; Melanie 
Benjamin, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Onamia, Minnesota; Eli O. Hunt, 
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Cass Lake, Minnesota; Doyle Turner, White 
Earth Reservation Tribal Council, White Earth, Minnesota; Richard 
McGeshick, Sr., Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa 
Indians, and Ruby Camp, Lac Vieux Desert Tribe, both of Watersmeet, 
Michigan; Gerald Danforth, Onieda Tribe of Indians, Onieda, Wisconsin; 
Gerald V. Chingwa, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, 
Petoskey, Michigan; Ardith Chambers and Thurlow McClellan, both of the 
Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Suttons Bay, 
Michigan; Mike Christensen, Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior 
Chippewa Indians, and Alfred Trepania, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal 
Council, Inc., both of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin; and Aaron 
Schlehuber, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. 
Marie, Michigan.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.