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“House Committee Meetings” mentioning the Federal Reserve System was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D658-D659 on June 14, 1999.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
HEALTH CARE COSTS AND AMERICA'S UNINSURED
Committee on Education and the Workforce: On June 11, the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations held a hearing on the Relationship Between Health Care Costs and America's Uninsured. Testimony was heard from Dan Crippen, Director, CBO; William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Public Health Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL STATUTE
REAUTHORIZATION
Committee on the Judiciary: On June 11, the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law held a hearing on the reauthorization of the Independent Counsel Statute. Testimony was heard from former Senators George J. Mitchell of Maine and Robert Dole of Kansas; and public witnesses.
CONSEQUENCES FOR JUVENILE
OFFENDERS ACT
Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Members of Congress, but no action was taken on H.R. 1501, Consequences for Juvenile Offenders Act of 1999.
AVIATION INVESTMENT AND REFORM ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote a structured rule providing one hour of general debate on H.R. 1000, Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century, to be equally divided between the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the bill. The rule makes in order the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure amendment in the nature of a substitute as an original bill for the purpose of amendment, modified by the amendment printed in part A of the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying this resolution. The rule waives all points of order against consideration of the amendment in the nature of a substitute. The rule makes in order only those amendments printed in part B of the Rules Committee report accompanying this resolution. The rule provides that amendments made in order may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. The rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report. The rule allows for the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to reduce voting time to five minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. Finally, the rule provides one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Testimony was heard from Chairman Shuster and Representatives Sweeney, Hyde, Traficant, Obey, Dingell, Jackson of Illinois, and Weiner.
Joint Meetings
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to highlight issues relating to the High-Technology National Summit, focusing on the impact of recent breakthroughs in computers, software and information networks on the U.S. economy and society, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; Robert Katz, Technology Network, Palo Alto, California; Craig R. Barrett, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California; Edward J. Nicoll, Datek Online Holdings Corporation, Iselin, New Jersey; Judy G. Carter, Softworks, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; James L. Barksdale, Barksdale Group, Mountain View, California; and Sara Horowitz, Working Today, New York, New York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
