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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D998 on Sept. 16, 1999.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 1596), making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the Administration's Pacific Northwest Forest Plan, after receiving testimony from James Furnish, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, who was accompanied by several of his associates.
FOREIGN MISSILE DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on foreign missile developments and the ballistic missile threat to the United States through 2015, after receiving testimony from Bob Walpole, National Intelligence Officer for Strategic and Nuclear Programs, Central Intelligence Agency.
SECURITIES DAY TRADING INDUSTRY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings on the practices and operations of the securities day trading industry, focusing on the similar characteristics to gambling, advertising practices, and the impact on the stability of the markets, receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mary L. Schapiro, NASD Regulation, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Peter C. Hildreth, New Hampshire Bureau of Securities, Concord, and David Shellenberger, Commonwealth of Massachusetts Securities Division, Boston, both on behalf of the North American Securities Administrators Association; and Saul S. Cohen, Electronic Traders Association, New York, New York.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
POSTMASTER GENERAL ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on the annual report of the Postmaster General, after receiving testimony from William J. Henderson, Postmaster General/Chief Executive Officer, United States Postal Service.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported S. Res. 178, designating the week beginning September 19, 1999, as ``National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week''.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS REORGANIZATION PLAN
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded oversight hearings on activities of the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs and to examine a proposed reorganization plan, after receiving testimony from Laurie Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Alfred Blumstein, Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz, III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Gene R. Voegtlin, International Association of Chiefs of Police, Alexandria, Virginia; and Donna F. Edwards, National Network to End Domestic Violence, Washington, D.C.
CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Subcommittee on Public Health held hearings to examine issues relating to children's health, focusing on autism, asthma, and traumatic brain injury, receiving testimony from Senators Gorton, Bond, and Durbin; Nicole Lurie, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Anthony Edwards, Cure Autism Now, Los Angeles, California; Geraldine Dawson, University of Washington, Seattle; Laura Lloyd, Autism Society of Middle Tennessee, and Dennis C. Stokes, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, on behalf of the American Lung Association, both of Nashville, Tennessee; John C. Carl, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and Robert Jackson, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Carlos Camargo, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Allan I. Bergman, Brain Injury Association, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; Augusta W. Cash, Alabama Department of Rehabilitation, Birmingham, on behalf of the National Association of State Head Injury Administrators; and Sue Mallonee, Oklahoma Department of Health, Oklahoma City.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, September 22.
