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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D194-D195 on March 9, 1998.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the District of Columbia Public Schools' efforts to repair school roofs during the summer of 1997, focusing on the availability of funds and the cost of the fiscal year 1997 capital improvement program procurement process, after receiving testimony from Gloria L. Jarmon, Director, Health, Education, and Human Services Accounting and Financial Management Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, General Accounting Office; David L. Cotton, Cotton & Company, Alexandria, Virginia; Joyce Ladner, Member, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority; Julius W. Becton, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, District of Columbia Public Schools; and Taalib-Din Uqdah, Washington, D.C.
JUVENILE RECORD KEEPING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of the juvenile record keeping requirement provisions of S. 10, to reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by juvenile criminals, and punish and deter violent gang crime (pending on Senate calendar), after receiving testimony from Charles W. Archer, Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Lewis Vass, Virginia Department of State Police, Richmond; and Gary R. Cooper, Sacramento, California, and Robert R. Belair, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of SEARCH/National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics.
BABY BOOMERS' LONG-TERM CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the financial challenge for individuals and policy makers of meeting the long-term care needs of the baby boom generation, focusing on how retirement of the baby boomers will impact the demand for long-term care, the ability of public budgets to provide those services, and the projected retirement income of baby boomers, after receiving testimony from William J. Scanlon, Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Mathew Greenwald, Mathew Greenwald & Associates, Inc., Janemarie Mulvey and Barbara Stucki, both of the American Council of Life Insurance, and Joshua M. Wiener, Urban Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Samuel Morgante, GE Capital Assurance Company, San Rafael, California, on behalf of the Health Insurance Association of America; Roger Auerbach, Oregon Department of Human Resources, Salem; Alan Lazaroff, Centura Health, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the National Chronic Care Consortium; Mark J. Schulte, Brookdale Living Communities, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the American Seniors Housing Association; and Lynda Gormus, Richmond, Virginia.