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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D503 on May 19, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1998 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 27) setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS RESEARCH
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development, Production and Regulation concluded hearings on H.R. 363, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the Electric and Magnetic Fields Research and Public Information Dissemination Program of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, after receiving testimony from Robert Brewer, Senior Advisor, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy; and Richard M. Loughery, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute, the American Public Power Association, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
MEDICARE REFORM
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine ways to restructure the current Medicare payment system to insure greater choice and equity, focusing on managed care plans, receiving testimony from William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; David C. Colby, Deputy Director, Physician Payment Review Commission; Steve Brenton, Association of Iowa Hospitals and Health Systems, Des Moines; Doug Dillon, Providence Health Plans, Portland, Oregon; Susan Bartlett Foote, Coalition for Fairness in Medicare, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. Thorpe, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana; and Hans Running, Hillsboro, Oregon.
Committee recessed subject to call.
