106th Congress (1999 - 2000)
Senate Hearings, Printed and Unprinted, by Date
Compiled March 7, 2005 at North Carolina State University
** HEARINGS FOR 19990105
* Armed Services
U.S. ARMED FORCES STATUS: On Tuesday, January 5, committee concluded hearings
to review the status of the United States Armed Forces and any shortfalls in
resources and capabilities that might prevent them from successfully executing
their assigned missions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Status of
the U.S. Armed Forces, Military Posture, Service Secretaries, Service Chiefs,
Unified Commands, Department of Energy)
S.Hrg. 106-0116,pt.1
Hearings also held on 2/3, 3/2, 3/4, 3/16, 3/18, 4/13/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990112
* Appropriations
STEM CELL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the
scientific implications of stem cell research and development, focusing on
patent and technology transfer implications and how intellectual property
consideration affect basic science and the future development of products for
public benefits, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/2/98
Hearings also held on 12/2/98, 1/26/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990115
* Appropriations
YEAR 2000 CONVERSION: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the
status of government and industry efforts to prepare for Year 2000 computer
compliance, and to review a related proposed allocation and plan for certain
federal agencies to achieve Y2K compliance activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Year 2000 Computer Problem (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0022
Hearings also held on 1/20/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990119
* Budget
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: Committee held hearings on Social Security reform
issues, including treatment of the postwar generation, privatization, and Old
Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2000
S.Hrg. 106-0042
Hearings also held on 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990120
* Appropriations
YEAR 2000 CONVERSION: Committee concluded hearings to examine the status of
government and industry efforts to prepare for Year 2000 computer compliance,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/15/99
Hearings also held on 1/15/99
* Banking
AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Subcommittee on International Trade
and Finance concluded hearings on proposed legislation to authorize funds for
programs of the Export Administration Act and the potential need for an
extension of the expired EAA, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Export Administration Act
S.Hrg. 106-0461
Hearings also held on 3/16/99
* Budget
FEDERAL TAX POLICY: Committee concluded hearings on Federal Tax Policy
issues, including the tax rate, revenue growth, future changes in the tax
code, tax reform consequences, use of federal budget surplus for tax cuts, and
saving and investment initiatives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Commerce
AUTHORIZATION--FAA: Committee held hearings on S.82, authorizing funds for
the Federal Aviation Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Legislation,
S. 82 (This number was incorrectly assigned to the hearing, "Airline
Passenger Fairness Act (S. 383)"; the correct designation for that title is
S.Hrg. 106-845.)
S.Hrg. 106-0425
* Finance
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Susan G.
Esserman of Maryland, to be Deputy United States Trade Representative, with
the rank of Ambassador, and Timothy F. Geithner of New York, to be Under
Secretary for International Affairs, Gary S. Gensler of Maryland, to be Under
Secretary for Domestic Finance, Edwin M. Truman of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary for International Affairs, and David C. Williams of Illinois, to be
Inspector General for Tax Administration, all of the Department of the
Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Health
HEALTH CARE: Committee concluded hearings to examine group health plan
comparative information and coverage determination standards, focusing on
proposed regulation on internal claims and appeals procedures and information
disclosure requirements for plans under the Employee Retirement and Income
Security Act (ERISA), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Group Health Plan Comparative Information and Coverage
Determination Standards
S.Hrg. 106-0002
** HEARINGS FOR 19990121
* Appropriations
MINORITY HEALTH ISSUES: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the results of the
Institute of Medicine assessment of National Institutes of Health research and
programs for ethnic minorities and the medically underserved, including
differences in cancer survival rates, cancer research approach and
prioritization, prevention and treatment programs, clinical trials, research
result communication, and improvement of health, ...
S.Hrg. 106-0091
PRINTED TITLE: Cancer Research in Minority and Medically Underserved
Populations (Special hearing)
** HEARINGS FOR 19990122
* Appropriations
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on Social Security
reform issues, including projected Social Security surpluses, voluntary
savings matches, privatized individual accounts, retirement ages,
cost-of-living allowance, and benefit reduction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990126
* Agriculture
AGRIBUSINESS CONCENTRATION: Committee concluded hearings to examine economic
concentration in agriculture and agribusiness with an emphasis on changes in
the pork industry and other areas of livestock farming, focusing on Cargill,
Incorporated's proposed acquisition of Continental Grain Company's grain
merchandising business, and S.101, to promote trade in United States
agricultural commodities, livestock, and value-added products, and to prepare
for future bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Concentration in Agribusiness
S.Hrg. 106-0194
* Appropriations
STEM CELL RESEARCH: Committee concluded hearings on the ethical, scientific,
and legal implications of the recent decision of the Department of Health and
Human Services to allow federally funded stem cell research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/2/98
Hearings also held on 12/2/98, 1/12/99
* Finance
TRADE POLICY: Committee held hearings on trade policy issues, including trade
negotiating agenda, international economic agenda, including export promotion
programs, trade adjustment assistance program, and administration of unfair
trade laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Trade Policy In the Era of Globalization
S.Hrg. 106-0045
Hearings also held on 1/27, 1/28/99
* Health
IMPROVING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES: Committee concluded hearings on S. 277, to
improve elementary and secondary education programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Improving Education Opportunities: Senator's Perspective
S.Hrg. 106-0001
** HEARINGS FOR 19990127
* Budget
BUDGET PROCESS REFORM: Committees concluded joint hearings on S. 92, to
provide for biennial process and a biennial appropriations process and to
enhance oversight and the performance of the Federal Government, and S. 93, to
improve and strengthen the budget process, ...
PRINTED TITLE: To Consider Budget Process Reform (Joint with Governmental
Affairs)
S.Hrg. 106-0024
* Energy
OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY IMPACT: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the impacts of coastal areas and communities caused by offshore oil and gas
exploration and development, and on S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact
Assistance to State and local governments, to amend the Outer Continental
Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act
of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and the Federal Aid in
Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act)
to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs of
the American people, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Offshore Oil and Gas Activity Impact
S.Hrg. 106-0014
* Finance
TRADE POLICY: Committee continued hearings on trade policy issues affecting
the services sector, international investments, agricultural trade, housing
costs, and the steel industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/99
Hearings also held on 1/26, 1/28/99
* Foreign Relations
IMF REFORM: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export, and Trade
Promotion met to receive a briefing on International Monetary Fund reform
issues, including transparency, accountability, market-based loans, private
sector burden-sharing, and policy improvement from Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy
Secretary of the Treasury.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
SATELLITE/CABLE COMPETITION: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to examine the competitive implications of
Echostar's proposed purchase of the MCI orbital satellite slot, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Satellite/Cable Competition: An Examination of the
Echostar/MCI deal
S.Hrg. 106-0066
** HEARINGS FOR 19990128
* Armed Services
IRAQ POLICY: Committee concluded hearings, in open and closed sessions, on
issues involving Iraq, including the Department of Defense's role in
implementing Iraq policies and events surrounding Operation Desert Fox, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Policy on Iraq
S.Hrg. 106-0327
* Budget
SOCIAL SECURITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine the United States
long-term fiscal outlook, focusing on Social Security reform and funding, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Energy
PETROLEUM INDUSTRY: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the current
state of the petroleum industry in the United States, including the effects of
declining crude oil prices and foreign oil dependence, and S. 325, to provide
tax incentives to encourage production of oil and gas within the United
States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: State of the Petroleum Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0026
* Finance
TRADE POLICY: Committee continued hearings on trade policy issues, including
abusive child labor, international labor, global environmental objectives, and
global economic integration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/99
Hearings also held on 1/26, 1/27/99
* Judiciary
SATELLITE TELEVISION SERVICE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 247, to
amend title 17, United States Code, to reform the copyright law with respect
to satellite retransmissions of broadcast signals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Satellite Home Viewer Improvements Act (S. 247)
S.Hrg. 106-0143
** HEARINGS FOR 19990129
* Budget
ECONOMIC AND BUDGET OUTLOOK: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Congressional Budget Office's report on The Economic and Budget Outlook:
Fiscal Years 2000-2009, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Finance
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Susan G. Esserman, Timothy F. Geithner, Gary S.
Gensler, Edwin M. Truman, and David C. Williams
S.Hrg. 106-0011
* Intelligence
BUSINESS MEETING: Committee met in closed session to consider pending
intelligence matters.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS BENEFITS: Committee concluded hearings on findings and
recommendations of the Commission on Servicemembers and Veterans Transition
Assistance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Findings and Recommendations of the Commission on
Servicemembers and Veterans Transition Assistance
S.Hrg. 106-0319
** HEARINGS FOR 19990202
* Armed Services
NATIONAL SECURITY: Committee held hearings, in open and closed sessions, on
current and future worldwide threats to U.S. national security, including
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international narcotrafficking
and organized crime, information warfare, terrorist bombings, Russia, China,
Iraq, North Korea, Iran, India and Pakistan, the Balkans, the Aegean, Haiti,
and Africa, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Worldwide Threats
S.Hrg. 106-0436
Hearings also held on 4/22/99
* Budget
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Energy
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Carolyn L.
Huntoon, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental
Management, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Carolyn Huntoon Nomination
S.Hrg. 106-0046
* Finance
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET AND TAX PROPOSALS: Committee held hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 and related tax
proposals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Fiscal Year 2000 Budget and Tax Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0114
** HEARINGS FOR 19990203
* Armed Services
DEFENSE BUDGET: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 3/2, 3/4, 3/16, 3/18, 4/13/99
* Budget
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/23, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990204
* Appropriations
COUNTERTERRORISM: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on counterterrorism issues, including
terrorist prevention, response capabilities, domestic readiness, domestic
terrorist groups, the bombings in East Africa, international terrorism, and
international partnerships and cooperations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Counterterrorism and Infrastructure Protection (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0145
* Energy
RECREATION FEE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM: Committee concluded hearings to review
the Department of the Interior Recreation Fee Demonstration Program, focusing
on implementation, fee revenue generation, expenditures, approaches to fee
collection, and effects on visitation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Recreation Fee Demonstration Program
S.Hrg. 106-0029
* Environment
NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight hearings to review activities
of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, including nuclear industry regulation,
enforcement and safety concerns, and NRC organizational and regulatory
reforms, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Review of Programs and Reforms
S.Hrg. 106-0039
* Finance
WORK INCENTIVES FOR THE DISABLED: Committee held hearings to amend the Social
Security Act to the availability of health care coverage for working
individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to and Self-Sufficiency
Program in Social Security Administration to provide such individuals
withmeaningful opportunities to work, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (S. 331)
S.Hrg. 106-0122
* Intelligence
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of James M. Simon,
Jr., of Alabama, to be Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for
Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of James M. Simon, Jr., to be Assistant Director of
Central Intelligence for Administration
S.Hrg. 106-0394
Hearings also held on 2/26/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990205
* Small Business
BUSINESS MEETING: On Friday, February 5, Committee favorably reported the
following business items: ... and The nomination of Phyllis K. Fong, of
Maryland, to be Inspector General, Small Business Administration. Also, the
committee approved their rules of procedure for the 106th Congress.
PRINTED TITLE: Organizational Meeting, Markup of Pending Legislation, and
Nomination of Phyllis K. Fong to be Inspector General of the Small Business
Administration
S.Hrg. 106-0056
* Year 2000
Y2K IMPACT ON FOOD SUPPLY: On Friday, February 5, Committee concluded
hearings to examine Y2K problem within the food supply industry, focusing on
the Department of Agriculture's assessment of the food industry's Y2K
preparedness, food processing and distribution, Y2K impacts on food producers,
dairy industry, precision farming and general crop farming, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Food Supply: Will the Cupboards be Bare? (at Y4.3:T22/F73/2)
S.Hrg. 106-0089
** HEARINGS FOR 19990209
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural, and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000 for the Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R. 1906/S. 1233) (Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Department of Agriculture, Food and Drug
Administration, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0390
Hearings also held on 3/2, 3/16, 4/27/99
* Commerce
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the of Wayne O. Burkes, of
Mississippi, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board, Department of
Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Wayne O. Burkes, to be a Member of the Surface
Transportation Board
S.Hrg. 106-0467
YEAR 2000 COMPUTER PROBLEM: Committee held hearings on S. 96, to regulate
commerce between and among the several States by providing for the orderly
resolution of disputes arising out of computer-based problems to processing
data that includes a 2-digit expression of that date, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 96, The Y2K Act
S.Hrg. 106-0429
* Finance
SOCIAL SECURITY: Committee concluded hearings on general revenue financing of
Social Security, ...
PRINTED TITLE: General Revenue Financing of Social Security
S.Hrg. 106-0642
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds to extend programs and activities under
the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Education Elementary and Secondary Education
Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0030
** HEARINGS FOR 19990210
* Indian Affairs
NOMINATION: ... Committee concluded hearings on the nomination [of Montie R.
Deer, of Kansas, to be Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission], ...
PRINTED TITLE: Confirmation of Montie Deer
S.Hrg. 106-0003
** HEARINGS FOR 19990211
* Health
EDUCATION BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the proposed budget request
for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Education, focusing on special
education costs, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, education,
career preparation programs, military children, and higher education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Budget Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0031
** HEARINGS FOR 19990219
* Year 2000
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Millennium Bug: Is Oregon Prepared? (at Y4.3:T22/M61)
S.Hrg. 106-0088
** HEARINGS FOR 19990222
* Aging
WOMEN AND SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of certain individual accounts contained in Social Security reform
proposals on women's current Social Security benefits, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Women and Social Security Reform: Are Individual Accounts the
Answer?
S.Hrg. 106-0098
** HEARINGS FOR 19990223
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--HHS/NIH: Subcommittee Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Health and Human Services, including
the National Institutes of Health, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R.
3037/S. 1650) (Department of Education, Department of Health and Human
Services, Department of Labor, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0332
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/23/99
* Banking
MONETARY POLICY/FINANCIAL SERVICES: Committee held oversight hearings on the
Federal Reserve's semi-annual Humphrey-Hawkins monetary policy report and on
proposed legislation to enhance competition in the financial services industry
by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities
firms, and other financial service providers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0250
* Budget
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE: Committee concluded hearings on elements of the
framework for Social Security and Medicare in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 2000, including reform principles, program structure, trust
fund accounting, budget surpluses and debt reduction, general revenue
payments, private sector investments, demographics, and Universal Savings
Accounts, ... PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/24, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Commerce
SATELLITE TV ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S.303, to amend the
Communications Act of 1934 to enhance the ability of direct broadcast
satellite and other multichannel video providers to compete effectively with
cable television systems, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 303, Satellite Television Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0482
* Finance
U.S. TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE: Committee concluded hearings to examine
issues of international dispute settlement and domestic enforcement measures
relating to United States trade agreement compliance, including the World
Trade Organization, bilateral agreements, U.S. trade laws, North American Free
Trade Agreement, and the beef, distilled spirits, and banana industries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Monitoring and Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
S.Hrg. 106-0065
* Health
EDUCATION REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on elementary and secondary
education reform initiatives at the state level and the view of state
governors on the proper role of the federal government in education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Reform: Governors' Views
S.Hrg. 106-0004
** HEARINGS FOR 19990224
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Agriculture,
focusing on crop insurance reform, Russian food assistance, and certain Y2K
issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fiscal Year 2000 Budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture
S.Hrg. 106-0277
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DOD: Strategic Subcommittee concluded, hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on national missile defense programs and policies, and the
future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Strategic)
S.Hrg. 106-0116, pt.7
Hearings also held on 2/26, 3/11, 3/22, 4/14/99
AUTHORIZATION--DOD: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded, hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on recruiting and retention policies, and the future years
defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Personnel)
S.Hrg. 106-0116, pt.6
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/11, 3/24/99
Y2K NATIONAL SECURITY IMPACT: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management
Support concluded hearings to examine the preparation and readiness for, and
the potential impact of, the Year 2000 computer problem on the Department of
Defense and the intelligence community, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review the National Security Ramifications of the Year 2000
Computer Problem
S.Hrg. 106-0291
* Banking
FINANCIAL SERVICES MODERNIZATION: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation to enhance competition in the financial services industry by
providing framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other
financial service providers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Financial Services Modernization
S.Hrg. 106-0426
Hearings also held on 2/25/99
* Budget
NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on national security and
defense budget issues, including defense strategy, operational tempo,
procurement budget, readiness, modernization, nuclear forces, ballistic
missile defense, waste and inefficiency, operation and support, and Pentagon
infrastructure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 3/2,
3/3/99
* Commerce
COAST GUARD BUDGET: Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries concluded hearings
on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the United
States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Coast Guard Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2000
S.Hrg. 106-0512
* Energy
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE BUDGET: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2000 for National Park Service programs and
operations, focusing on visitor services, maintenance and infrastructure
repair, and cultural and natural resource enhancement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request for the National Park
Service
S.Hrg. 106-0025
* Environment
EPA BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2000 for the Environmental Protection Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Environmental Protection Agency's Fiscal Year 2000 Budget
Request
S.Hrg. 106-0129
Y2K/NUCLEAR INDUSTRY AND CHEMICAL SAFETY: Subcommittee on Clean Air,
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on potential
year 2000 computer problem issues relative to the nuclear industry and
chemical safety, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nuclear and Chemical Safety, Y2K Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0044
* Finance
RETIREMENT SAVINGS: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
retirement savings and the current status, availability, and effectiveness of
tax-favored savings vehicles, and the proposed Retirement Savings Opportunity
Act, to expand the opportunities for Americans to save for their retirement in
IRAs, 401(k)s and other retirement saving vehicles, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Increasing Savings for Retirement
S.Hrg. 106-0488
* Foreign Relations
ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA: Committee concluded hearings on anti-Semitism in
Russia, focusing on historical background, the Communist Party, Neo-Nazi
movement, violence, public opinion, and international dialogue, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Anti-Semitism in Russia
S.Hrg. 106-0006
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for foreign
assistance programs, and to review the principles and practice of U.S. foreign
policy around the world, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fiscal Year 2000 Foreign Affairs Budget and Embassy Security
for a New Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0047
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/11, 4/21/99
* Governmental Affairs
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT: Committee held hearings on the future of the
Independent Counsel Act enacted in 1978 as part of the Watergate reform and
due to expire this year, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Future of the Independent Counsel Act
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/17, 3/24, 4/14/99
S.Hrg. 106-0131
* Health
MEDICAL RESEARCH AND CONFIDENTIALITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine
issues involving balancing the needs of medical research and confidentiality,
including the General Accounting Office report Medical Records Privacy, Common
Rule, FDA regulations, information technology, and the institutional review
board system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Privacy Under a Microscope: Balancing the Needs on Research
and Confidentiality
S.Hrg. 106-0016
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for Indian programs, focusing on
health, housing, education, government, and law enforcement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fiscal Year 2000 Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0008
* Narcotics Control
U.S.-MEXICO COUNTER NARCOTICS: Caucus concluded hearings to evaluate the
future of U.S.-Mexico counter narcotic relations, reviewing the degree and
level of cooperation and dedication from Mexico, focusing on the High Level
Contact Group, Border Task Forces, extradition, cartels, money laundering,
Operation Casablanca, and air and maritime efforts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Drug Control: Update on United States--Mexican
Counternarcotics Efforts
S.Hrg. 106-0060
** HEARINGS FOR 19990225
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--IRS: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Internal
Revenue Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Treasury and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year
2000 (H.R. 2490/S. 1282) (Department of the Treasury, Executive Office of the
President, Nondepartmental Witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0314
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/25, 4/15/99
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Transportation
concluded oversight hearings on Department of Transportation management issues
raised in recent General Accounting Office and Inspector General reports,
focusing on the Federal Aviation Administration, aviation, highway, and rail
safety programs, Amtrak's financial condition, year 2000 computer problem, and
the Coast Guard anti-drug efforts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies
Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R. 2084/S. 1143) (Department of
Transportation, General Accounting Office, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (Amtrak), Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0221
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/10, 3/23, 3/25/99
* Armed Services
U.S. KOSOVO POLICY: Committee concluded hearings on United States policy
regarding Kosovo, focusing on diplomacy, NATO air strike threats, a NATO-led
implementation force, the Rambouillet negotiation, the Kosovo Verification
Mission, and U.S. military intervention, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Policy and NATO Military Operations in Kosovo
S.Hrg. 106-0794
Hearings also held on 4/15, 7/1, 7/20, 10/14, 10/21, 11/3/99
* Banking
FINANCIAL SERVICES LEGISLATION: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to enhance competition in the financial services industry by
providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities
firms, and other financial services providers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24/99
* Energy
ENERGY BUDGET: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Energy and
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request for the Department of
Energy and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
S.Hrg. 106-0159
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2000, Budget Request for the Forest
Service (Joint 3/16/99 with Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management)
S.Hrg. 106-0061
Hearings also held on 3/12, 3/16/99
* Foreign Relations
SODA ASH EXPORTS: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded
hearings to examine Asian trade barriers to United States soda ash exports,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Health
ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE: Subcommittee on Public Health concluded hearings to
examine the public health problem of antimicrobial resistance, or the ability
of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Antimicrobial Resistance: Solutions for this Growing Public
Health Threat
S.Hrg. 106-0007
* Judiciary
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to review competition and antitrust issues
relating to the Telecommunications Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Third Anniversary of the Telecom Act: A Competition and
Antitrust Review
S.Hrg. 106-0103
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings to review
the legislative recommendations of certain veteran's organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/2, 3/4, 3/17, 3/24/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990226
* Armed Services
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest [DOD AUTHORIZATION
by Strategic Subcommittee]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/11, 3/22, 4/14/99
* Intelligence
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [James M. Simon,
Jr., nomination hearing]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/4/99
Hearings also held on 2/4/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990301
* Aging
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
President's proposal to preserve the financial well-being of the Social
Security and Medicare programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Social Security Reform: Is More Money the Answer?
S.Hrg. 106-0099
* Judiciary
Y2K FAIRNESS AND RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 461,
to assure that innocent users and businesses gain access to solutions to the
year 2000 problem-related failures through fostering an incentive to settle
year 2000 lawsuits that may disrupt significant sectors of the American
economy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Y2K Bill: The Next Generation (S. 461)
S.Hrg. 106-0171
** HEARINGS FOR 19990302
* Agriculture
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Agriculture, focusing on assistance to
producers and farm economy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/9/99
Hearings also held on 2/9, 3/16, 4/27/99
CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation, authorizing funds for federal child nutrition programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of Child Nutrition Programs
S.Hrg. 106-0307
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, and the
future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 2/3, 3/4, 3/16, 3/18, 4/13/99
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, First
Session, 106th Congress (Brian E. Sheridan; Dr. Lawrence J. Delaney; Dr.
Carolyn L. Huntoon; Gen. Eric K. Shinseki; Lt. Gen. James L. Jones, Jr.; F.
Whitten Peters; Arthur L. Money, Carol A. DiBattiste; Charles A. Blanchard;
Gen. Henry H. Shelton; Gen. Joseph W. Ralston; Gen. Richard B. Myers; Gen.
Thomas A. Schwartz; Gen. Ralph Eberhart; Alphonso Maldon, Jr. and John K.
Veroneau)
S.Hrg. 106-0584
Hearings also held on 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Budget
NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for national defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24,
3/3/99
* Commerce
AUTHORIZATION--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Surface Transportation Board, Department of
Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Board
S.Hrg. 106-0624
* Energy
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of the Interior, focusing on Minerals Management Service, Lands
Legacy Initiative, Payments in Lieu of Taxes, Mining Law, National Park
Service, Office of Insular Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, and Alaska issues,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request for the Department of the
Interior
S.Hrg. 106-0081
* Foreign Relations
HURRICANE MITCH RELIEF: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps,
Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings on the United States relief efforts
in response to Hurricanes Mitch and Georges, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Relief Efforts in Response to Hurricane Mitch
S.Hrg. 106-0005
* Health
DETERMINING MEDICAL NECESSITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
with regard to the delivery of necessary health care in the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Necessity: From Theory to Practice
S.Hrg. 106-0009
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs and the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
to review the legislative recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 3/17, 3/24/99
* Year 2000
Y2K IMPACT ON FOOD INDUSTRY: Committee concluded hearings to examine
Y2K-related problems within the food industry, focusing on the manufacturing,
distribution, and retail of food products and recommendations relative to the
status of food import, export, preparation, and distribution, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Food Industry and Y2K: Starving for Attention? (at
Y4.3:T22/F73)
S.Hrg. 106-0038
** HEARINGS FOR 19990303
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--CAPITOL POLICE BOARD/ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL: Subcommittee on
Legislative Branch concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2000 for the U.S. Capitol Police Board, ... Also, Subcommittee held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Office of
the Architect of the Capitol, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Legislative Branch Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000
(Architect of the Capitol (except House items), Congressional Budget Office,
General Accounting Office, General Printing Office, Joint Committee on
Taxation, Joint Economic Committee, Library of Congress, Nondepartmental
Witnesses, Office of Compliance, U.S. Capitol Police Board, U.S. Senate)
S.Hrg. 106-0033
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 3/24/99
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/23/99
Hearings also held on 2/23, 3/23/99
NATIONAL DEFENSE BUDGET: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000
(H.R. 2561/S. 1122) (Department of Defense, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0238
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded, hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on Army modernization, and the future years defense
programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Airland
Forces)
S.Hrg. 106-0116,pt.4
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 3/24/99
APPROPRIATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on recommendations pertaining to military retirement, pay
and compensation, and the Future Years Defense Program, and certain provisions
of S. 4, to improve pay and retirement equity for members of the Armed Forces
(passed Senate on 2-24-99), ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/11, 3/24/99
SEAPOWER OVERVIEW: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded, hearings on the 21st
century seapower vision overview and maritime implications of 21st century
threats, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Seapower)
S.Hrg. 106-0116,pt.2
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/24, 4/13, 4/21/99
* Budget
YEAR 2000 BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Congressional
Budget Office's analysis of the President's proposed budget for fiscal year
2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/19/99
Hearings also held on 1/19, 1/20, 1/22, 1/28, 1/29, 2/2, 2/3, 2/23, 2/24,
3/2/99
* Energy
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUDGET: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for
the Bureau of Reclamation and the Power Marketing Administrations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request for the Bureau of
Reclamation and the Power Marketing Administrations
S.Hrg. 106-0132
* Environment
SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Drinking
Water concluded oversight hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency's
implementation of the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Implementation of the 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments
S.Hrg. 106-0070
* Finance
EDUCATION TAX PROPOSALS: Committee concluded hearings to examine education
savings incentives, education financing, school construction financing
proposals, and S. 211, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make
permanent the exclusion for employer-provided educational assistance programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Tax Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0164
* Foreign Relations
CASPIAN SEA EXPORT ENERGY PIPELINE: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings on the commercial
viability of a Caspian Sea export energy pipeline, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT: Committee concluded hearings on the future of the
Independent Counsel Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/17, 3/24, 4/14/99
* Health
OLDER AMERICANS ACT: Subcommittee on Aging concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of and proposed authorizations for the Older Americans Act,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act: Oversight and Review
S.Hrg. 106-0015
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN TRUST MANAGEMENT: Committee held joint oversight hearings to examine
the Department of the Interior's implementation of the Indian Trust Fund
Management Reform Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Trust Funds (Joint with Energy)
S.Hrg. 106-0012
** HEARINGS FOR 19990304
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY: Subcommittee on Veteran
Affairs, Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R.
2684/S. 1596) (Corporation for National and Community Service, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, Department of the Treasury, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, Executive Office of the
President, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, National Science Foundation, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0367
Hearings also held on 3/11, 3/18, 3/23, 4/15/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY: Subcommittee on Treasury and
General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2000 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/25, 4/15/99
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/10, 3/23, 3/25/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense focusing
on the military strategy and operational requirements of the regional
commands, and the future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 2/3, 3/2, 3/16, 3/18, 4/13/99
* Commerce
CHILDREN INTERNET PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 97, to
require the installation and use by schools and libraries of a technology for
filtering or blocking material on the Internet on computers with Internet
access to be eligible to receive or retain universal service assistance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 97, The Children's Internet Protection Act
S.Hrg. 106-0603
* Economic
TAX CUT PROPOSALS: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
economic growth through tax cuts, focusing on the federal budget surplus,
small businesses, income tax, capital gains tax, tax rates, tax system reform,
retail sales tax, and the trade deficit, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Economic Growth Through Tax Cuts: What's the Best Approach?
(at Y4.Ec7:G91/14)
S.Hrg. 106-0017
* Energy
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Robert Wayne
Gee, of Texas, to be the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Robert W. Gee Nomination
S.Hrg. 106-0055
* Environment
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Gary S. Guzy,
of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Administrator (Office of
General Counsel) of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Anne Jeannette
Udall, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the
Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy
Foundation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Gary Guzy and Anne Jeannette Udall
S.Hrg. 106-0040
* Foreign Relations
FOREIGN AFFAIRS BUDGET: Subcommittee on International Operations concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for
the Department of State, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/11, 4/21/99
* Health
NEW SAFE ACT: Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee
on Employment, Safety and Training concluded hearings on S. 385, to amend the
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to further improve the safety and
health of working environments, ...
PRINTED TITLE: New Safe Act
S.Hrg. 106-0037
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings to review
the legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/2, 3/17, 3/24/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990305
* Armed Services
NATIONAL SECURITY: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on emerging threats to vital U.S. national security
interest, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Emerging
Threats and Capabilities)
S.Hrg. 106-0116,pt.5
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/22, 3/23, 4/20, 4/27/99
* Economic
EMPLOYMENT--UNEMPLOYMENT: Committee concluded hearings on the
employment-unemployment situation for February, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Employment Situation, February 1999 (at
Y4.Ec7:Em7/25/999-3-5)
S.Hrg. 106-0018
* Year 2000
INTERNATIONAL Y2K PROBLEM: Committee concluded hearings to examine world-wide
Y2K preparedness, the impact of other counties' readiness on the United
States, and the federal government's position on foreign assistance for Y2K,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990308
* Governmental Affairs
DECEPTIVE MAILINGS: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings to
examine the nature and impact of sweepstakes run by certain major companies,
focusing on their increasingly deceptive and aggressive marketing techniques,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Deceptive Mailings and Sweepstakes Promotions
S.Hrg. 106-0071
Hearings also held on 3/9/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990309
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF RECLAMATION: Subcommittee on Energy and Water
Development concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000 for the Bureau of Reclamation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Energy and Water Development Appropriations for Fiscal Year
2000 (H.R. 2605/S. 1186) (Department of Defense, Department of Energy,
Department of the Interior, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0381
Hearings also held on 3/11, 3/18, 4/13/99
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R. 2670/S. 1217)
(Department of Commerce, Department of Justice, Federal Communications
Commission, Nondepartmental witnesses, Securities and Exchange Commission,
Small Business Administration)
S.Hrg. 106-0147
Hearings also held on 3/11, 3/16, 3/19, 3/22, 3/24, 3/25/99
U.S.-AFGHANISTAN POLICY: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings on
United States policy toward Afghanistan, focusing on security, refugees, and
women, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R. 2606, 3196, 3422/S. 1234) (Agency
for International Development, Department of Justice, Department of State,
Department of the Treasury, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0340
Hearings also held on 3/25, 4/29, 5/19, 5/20/99
* Armed Services
U.S. TERRORISM POLICY: Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed
session to receive a briefing on United States Government policies and
programs to combat terrorism ...
Also, committee concluded hearings to examine United States Government
policies and programs to combat terrorism, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Government Policies and Programs to Combat Terrorism
S.Hrg. 106-0464
* Banking
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND: Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance
concluded oversight hearings on International Monetary Fund reform issues,
focusing on transparency and accountability, effectiveness, market-based terms
for financial support, the Treasury task force, and policy and program design
in Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand, ...
PRINTED TITLE: International Monetary Fund
S.Hrg. 106-0251
* Foreign Relations
POST ELECTION CAMBODIA: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on issues relating to post election Cambodia, including
national reconciliation, democratic development, rival political parties,
Khmer Rouge accountability, and U.S. consultation and aid policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
U.S.-IRAQ POLICY: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held
hearings on the United States' policy toward Iraq, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United States Policy Toward Iraq
S.Hrg. 106-0041
* Governmental Affairs
DECEPTIVE MAILINGS: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations continued
hearings to examine the nature and impact of sweepstakes run by certain major
companies, focusing on their increasingly deceptive and aggressive marketing
techniques, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/8/99
Hearings also held on 3/8/99
* Judiciary
INTERSTATE ALCOHOL SALES: Committee held hearings to examine issues relating
to interstate alcohol sales, including labeling, quality control standards,
consumer fraud, and access of alcohol by minors, as well as proposed
legislation that will permit the Attorney General of a State to file an action
in federal court for an injunction to stop illegal shipment of alcohol, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Interstate Alcohol Sales and the 21st Amendment
S.Hrg. 106-0141
** HEARINGS FOR 19990310
* Agriculture
CROP INSURANCE: Committee held hearings to examine the nature of risk
management in agriculture and federal crop insurance programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crop Insurance
S.Hrg. 106-0365
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak), focusing on issues relating
to Amtrak's short-and long-term financial health, and the operational
decisions which determine the railroad's present and future status, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 3/23, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--JOINT COMMITTEE ON TAXATION/JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE/OFFICE OF
COMPLIANCE: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/17, 3/24/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for Navy and Marine Corps
programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on tactical aviation modernization, and the future years
defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/17, 3/24/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing on military installations and
facilities, military construction, family housing, homeowners assistance fund,
reserve base realignment and closure, and shore infrastructure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2000 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 1059) (Readiness and
Management Support)
S.Hrg. 106-0116,pt.3
Hearings also held on 3/17, 3/18, 4/13, 4/14, 4/21/99
STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL LIFT: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded hearings to
examine strategic and tactical lift requirements versus capabilities, focusing
on the environment of future conflicts, engagement and combat employment,
equipment requirements, and the Defense Transportation System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/24, 4/13, 4/21/99
* Finance
MEDICARE FINANCIAL STATUS: Committee held hearings to examine spending trends
in the Medicare program, the impact on those trends of Medicare savings in the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and the President's proposed budget request
including the fifteen-percent surplus funding proposal, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Financial Status of Medicare
S.Hrg. 106-0400
Hearings also held on 3/18/99
* Foreign Relations
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CUBA: Committee concluded hearings to examine the current
human rights situation in Cuba, focusing on Fidel Castro's recent crackdown on
Cubans and independent journalists, U.S. support for dissidents, and the
codification of the embargo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Castro's Crackdown in Cuba: Human Rights on Trial
S.Hrg. 106-0052
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Small Business
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight of the Regulatory Flexibility Act and the Red Tape
Reduction Act (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0292
** HEARINGS FOR 19990311
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000
for the Department of Commerce, focusing on decennial census and other
statistical programs, oceans and atmosphere, trade, technology, and assisting
distressed communities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/16, 3/19, 3/22, 3/24, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of Energy, focusing on defense programs, materials disposition, and
non-proliferation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/18, 4/13/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and
Independent Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2000 for the Corporation for National and Community Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/4/99
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/18, 3/23, 4/15/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Strategic Subcommittee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on ballistic missile defense programs and management, and
the future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 2/26, 3/22, 4/14/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the defense health program, and the
future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/3, 3/24/99
* Commerce
AIRLINE PASSENGER FAIRNESS ACT: Committee held hearings on S. 383, to
establish a national policy of basic consumer fair treatment for airline
passengers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Airline Passenger Fairness Act (S. 383) (This title when
printed was identified incorrectly as S.Hrg. 106-425; the correct designation
is S.Hrg. 106-845.)
S.Hrg. 106-0845
* Environment
WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 507, to
provide for the conservation and development of water and related resources,
and to authorize the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Army Corps of Engineers,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Water Resources Development Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0123
* Finance
INTERNATIONAL TAXATION: Committee held hearings to explore the ramifications
of the changing world economy and the reforms that are needed in the
international tax area, ...
PRINTED TITLE: International Tax Issues Relating to Globalization
S.Hrg. 106-0121
* Foreign Relations
EMBASSY SECURITY: Committee held hearings to examine embassy security for a
new millennium, focusing on the bombings in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam, the
Bureau of Diplomatic Security's efforts to protect American personnel,
facilities, and national security information, and the Accountability Review
Board recommendations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/4, 4/21/99
* Health
MANAGED HEALTH CARE: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to enhance
consumer protections for privately-insured Americans who receive health
coverage under managed care arrangements, including S. 6, to amend the Public
Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans
and other health coverage, and S. 300 and S. 326, bills to improve access and
choice of patients to quality, affordable health care, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Key Patients' Protections: Lessons From the Field
S.Hrg. 106-0010
* Judiciary
BANKRUPTCY REFORM: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on
Administrative Oversight and the Courts concluded joint hearings with the
House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Commercial and
Administrative Law on bankruptcy reform issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Year 2000
Y2K COMPUTER PROBLEM: Committee concluded hearings to explore claims that
failures caused by the Y2K computer glitch will result in a large number of
lawsuits that could negatively impact the courts and business community, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Y2K in the Courts: Will We be Capsized by a Wave of
Litigation? (at Y4.3:T22/C83)
S.Hrg. 106-0097
** HEARINGS FOR 19990312
* Commerce
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Airline Competition and Service
S.Hrg. 106-0806
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET: On Friday, March 12, Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Land Management held oversight hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/16/99
* Judiciary
JUSTICE BUDGET: On Friday, March 12, Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Justice Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Oversight
S.Hrg. 106-0276
** HEARINGS FOR 19990315
* Appropriations
TOBACCO AND MEDICAID SETTLEMENTS: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine the
Health Care Financing Administration's obligation under current law to recoup
Federal taxpayers' share of Medicaid funds from State tobacco settlements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Tobacco Recoupment (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0092
* Finance
INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL TRADE: Subcommittee on International Trade held
hearings on the status of agricultural trade issues and negotiations with the
People's Republic of China and the European Union, focusing on market access,
China's negotiations with the World Trade Organization, pork import
restrictions, the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy, biotechnology
issues, and approval process, beef import restrictions, the oilseed industry
trade, and labeling, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of Agricultural Trade Issues and Negotiations with the
People's Republic of China and the European Union
S.Hrg. 106-0489
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Records Privacy (Field hearing held in Berlin, VT)
S.Hrg. 106-0049
** HEARINGS FOR 19990316
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: Subcommittee on
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services food safety programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/9/99
Hearings also held on 2/9, 3/2, 4/27/99
APPROPRIATIONS--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION: Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice, State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Immigration and Naturalization, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/19, 3/22, 3/24, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES: Subcommittee on the Interior concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations
for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R. 2466, 3423/S. 1292) (Department of Agriculture,
Department of Energy, Department of the Interior, John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts, national Gallery of Art, Nondepartmental witnesses,
Smithsonian Institution, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
S.Hrg. 106-0382
Hearings also held on 3/18, 4/14, 4/15, 4/22/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for Navy shore
infrastructure and military construction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Military Construction Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000
(H.R. 2465/S. 1205)
S.Hrg. 106-0273
Hearings also held on 3/23, 7/14/99
BIOTERRORISM: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, with the Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded hearings to
assess the roles and preparedness of the Department of Health and Human
Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs to respond to a domestic
chemical or biological weapons attack, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bioterrorism--Domestic Weapons of Mass Destruction (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0352
* Armed Services
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committees concluded joint closed hearings on
alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004. (3/16 hearing, joint with
Energy)
Hearings also held on 3/25, 4/14, 4/22/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the Department of Energy national security programs, and the future years
defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 2/3, 3/2, 3/4, 3/18, 4/13/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded closed and open hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing on information
warfare and critical infrastructure protection, and the future years defense
program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/5/99
Hearings also held on 3/5, 3/22, 3/23, 4/20, 4/27/99
* Banking
AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Subcommittee on International Trade
and Finance concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
the Export Administration Act, focusing on the globalization of technology,
multilateral nonproliferation, and current national security threats, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/20/99
Hearings also held on 1/20/99
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committees concluded joint closed hearings on
alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004. (3/16 hearing, joint with
Armed Services)
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
concluded oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service, focusing on fair market value,
concession reform, recreation fees, payments to states, and federal land
usage, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/12/99
* Environment
EPA'S RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight hearings on the
implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's Risk Management Plan
Program of the Clean Air Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: EPA's Risk Management Plan (RMP) Program
S.Hrg. 106-0151
* Finance
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: PERSONAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS: Committee held
hearings on proposals to restore the Social Security program's solvency,
focusing on personal or individual retirement accounts, including S. 263, to
amend the Social Security Act to establish the Personal Retirement Accounts
Program, and S. 21, to reduce social security payroll taxes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Personal Retirement Accounts
S.Hrg. 106-0665
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--EDUCATING THE DISADVANTAGED: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, focusing on Title I, education programs for the disadvantaged,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Educating the Disadvantaged
S.Hrg. 106-0023
* Small Business
SBA BUDGET: Committee held hearings on the President's fiscal year 2000
budget request for the Small Business Administration, including the HUBZone
Empowerment Contracting program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request for the Small
Business Administration
S.Hrg. 106-0118
** HEARINGS FOR 19990317
* Agriculture
CROP INSURANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the nature of
risk management in agriculture and federal crop insurance programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crop Insurance
S.Hrg. 106-0338
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for Air Force programs,
focusing on airmen, infrastructure, and modernization, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/24/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on tactical aviation modernization, and the future years
defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/24/99
DEFENSE ACQUISITION REFORM: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings to examine the efforts to reform and streamline the
Department of Defense's acquisition process, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/18, 4/13, 4/14, 4/21/99
* Environment
OPEN SPACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Committee held hearings to examine the
loss of open space and environmental quality, focusing on sprawl and
development, and related proposals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Open Space and Environmental Quality (Field hearing held 7/7
in Las Vegas, NV)
S.Hrg. 106-0148
Hearings also held on 3/18, 7/7/99
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain Medicare
provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 relating to provider payment
policies and the Medicare+Choice program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Implementation and Impact of Changes Made to Medicare by the
1997 Balanced Budget Act (This title when printed was identified incorrectly
as S.Hrg. 106-109; the correct designation is S.Hrg. 106-190.)
S.Hrg. 106-0190
Hearings also held on 6/9, 6/10/99
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Robert A.
Seiple, of Washington, to be Ambassador at Large for International Religious
Freedom ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NUCLEAR SAFETY TREATY: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention on
Nuclear Safety, done at Vienna on September 20, 1994 (Treaty Doc. 104-6), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Convention on Nuclear Safety
S.Hrg. 106-0263
U.S.-IRAQ POLICY: Committee concluded joint hearings to examine the impact of
the United Nations' proposals to expand Iraqi oil for food on United States
policy toward Iraq, ...
PRINTED TITLE: New Proposals to Expand Iraqi Oil for Food: The End of
Sanctions? (Joint with Energy)
S.Hrg. 106-0086
* Governmental Affairs
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT: Committee resumed hearings on the future of the
Independent Counsel Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/3, 3/24, 4/14/99
* Indian Affairs
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 400,
to provide technical corrections to the Native American Housing Assistance
and Self-Determination Act of 1996, and to improve the delivery of housing
assistance to Indian tribes in a manner that recognizes the right of
tribal self-governance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Native American Housing Assistance Legislation
S.Hrg. 106-0013
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/18/99
* Veterans Affairs
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans
Affairs and the House Committee on Veterans Affairs concluded joint hearings
to examine the legislative recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/2, 3/4, 3/24/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990318
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE/ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT:
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 4/13/99
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of Energy, focusing on energy conservation, fossil energy research
and development, and other related programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 4/14, 4/15, 4/22/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/4/99
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/11, 3/23, 4/15/99
* Armed Services
AIR FORCE AND ARMY READINESS: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management
Support concluded hearings to examine the readiness of the United States Air
Force and Army operating forces, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 4/13, 4/14, 4/21/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, and the
future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 2/3, 3/2, 3/4, 3/16, 4/13/99
* Environment
OPEN SPACE AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine
the loss of open space and environmental quality, focusing on sprawl and
development, and related proposals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/17/99
Hearings also held on 3/17, 7/7/99
* Finance
MEDICARE FINANCIAL STATUS: Committee held hearings to examine spending trends
in the Medicare program, the impact on those trends of Medicare savings in the
Balanced Budget Act of 1997, and the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 2000 for Medicare, including the fifteen-percent surplus funding
proposal, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/18/99
* Foreign Relations
INDONESIA ELECTIONS: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs held
hearings to examine recent developments in Indonesia, focusing on new election
laws, the election schedule, disproportionate government control, economic
reform, and political stability, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indonesia, Countdown to Elections
S.Hrg. 106-0076
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/17/99
Hearings also held on 3/17/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990319
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION: Subcommittee
on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/16, 3/22, 3/24, 3/25/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990322
* Aging
NURSING HOME QUALITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine the quality of
care in nursing homes focusing on the federal-state survey and certification
system and complaint and enforcement practices, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Residents at Risk? Weaknesses Persist in Nursing Home
Complaint Investigation and Enforcement
S.Hrg. 106-0108
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION: Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice, State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Small Business Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/16, 3/19, 3/24, 3/25/99
* Armed Services
ANTI-TERRORISM PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded closed and open hearings on Department of Defense policies and
programs to combat terrorism, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/5/99
Hearings also held on 3/5, 3/16, 3/23, 4/20, 4/27/99
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest [DOD AUTHORIZATION
by Strategic Subcommittee]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 2/26, 3/11, 4/14/99
* Governmental Affairs
INTERNET SECURITIES FRAUD: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation held
hearings to examine federal and state enforcement efforts to combat securities
fraud on the Internet, particularly penny stock fraud, and the adequacy of
federal and state consumer education programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Securities Fraud on the Internet
S.Hrg. 106-0137
Hearings also held on 3/23/99
* Judiciary
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FIREARM PROSECUTIONS: Subcommittee on Youth Violence and
the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight concluded joint oversight
hearings to review the Department of Justice firearm prosecution, focusing on
violent crime prosecution, firearm legislation, Project Achilles, and Project
Triggerlock, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review of Department of Justice Firearm Prosecutions
S.Hrg. 106-0201
** HEARINGS FOR 19990323
* Aging
FAMILY CAREGIVERS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the National
Family Caregiver Support Program, a proposal to bolster support for family
caregivers who provide long-term care for relatives with chronic illnesses or
disabilities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Long-Term Care for the 21st Century: A Common Sense Proposal
to Support Family Caregiver
S.Hrg. 106-0102
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY/AIR FORCE MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Subcommittee on
Military Construction concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2000 for Army and Air Force military construction programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 7/14/99
APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION: Subcommittee on
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000 for the Federal Aviation Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 3/10, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000
for the Department of Labor, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/23/99
Hearings also held on 2/23, 3/3/99
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POLICY: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/4/99
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 4/15/99
* Armed Services
PROLIFERATION THREATS: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on the proliferation threat and the programs and policies
of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy to counter this threat,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/5/99
Hearings also held on 3/5, 3/16, 3/22, 4/20, 4/27/99
* Banking
HUD MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation concluded
oversight hearings on management challenges affecting the Department of
Housing and Urban Development, focusing on HUD's continued reclassification as
a "high-risk" agency by the General Accounting Office, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Management Challenges Facing HUD
S.Hrg. 106-0417
* Finance
STEEL IMPORT IMPACT: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of the
steel import surge on the United States market and industry, the
Administration's response, and related measures, including H.R. 975, to
provide for a reduction in the volume of steel imports, and to establish a
steel import notification and monitoring program, H.R. 1120, to modify the
standards for responding to import surges under section 201 of the Trade Act
of 1974, to establish mechanisms for import monitoring and the prevention of
circumvention of United States trade laws, and to strengthen the enforcement
of United States trade remedy laws, S. 61, to eliminate disincentives to fair
trade conditions, S. 261, to repeal the requirement that the cause of serious
injury (or threat) be substantial to the domestic industry producing an
article like or directly competitive with an article that is being imported
into the United States in such increased quantities with respect to the
President taking action to facilitate efforts by such industry to make a
positive adjustment to the import competition, S. 395, to ensure that the
volume of steel imports does not exceed the average monthly volume of such
imports during the 36-month period preceding July 1997, and S. 528, to provide
for a private right of action in the case of injury from the importation of
certain dumped and subsidized merchandise, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Steel Imports (H.R. 975, H.R. 1120, S. 61, S. 395, and S. 528)
S.Hrg. 106-0187
* Foreign Relations
SUDAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: Subcommittee on African Affairs held hearings on
Sudan's humanitarian crisis and the United States response, focusing on road
repair, food distribution and self-reliance, health care, expanding the
cease-fire, and political recommendations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
U.S.-CHINA POLICY: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs held
hearings to reexamine United States and China policy issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reexamination of U.S.--China Relations
S.Hrg. 106-0232
Hearings also held on 7/1, 7/21/99
* Governmental Affairs
INTERNET SECURITIES FRAUD: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations continued
hearings to examine federal and State enforcement efforts to combat securities
fraud on the Internet, focusing on penny stock fraud, and the adequacy of
federal and State consumer education programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/99
Hearings also held on 3/22/99
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--ELDER ABUSE PREVENTION: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Older
Americans Act, focusing on elder abuse prevention provisions, the Preventing
Elder Financial Exploitation project, Medicaid Fraud Control Units, and the
Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act: Elder Abuse
S.Hrg. 106-0027
* Judiciary
INTERNET GAMBLING: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government
Information concluded hearings on issues relating to Internet gambling,
including youth gamblers, addiction, bankruptcy, unfair payout, crime, the
Wire Act, and the proposed Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Internet Gambling
S.Hrg. 106-0170
** HEARINGS FOR 19990324
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/16, 3/19, 3/22, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRETARY OF THE SENATE/SERGEANT AT ARMS/CBO: Subcommittee on
the Legislative Branch concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on Army modernization, and the future years defense
program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on active and reserve military and civilian personnel
programs, and the future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/3, 3/11/99
FORCE PROTECTION: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded hearings to examine
littoral force protection and power projection in the 21st century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 4/13, 4/21/99
* Banking
SEC FEE COLLECTIONS: Subcommittee on Securities concluded hearings to examine
the fee collections and funding structure of the Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, focusing on registration, transaction, and merger and tender
offers fees, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fees Collected Under the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
S.Hrg. 106-0475
* Energy
NATIONAL PARKS: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and
Recreation concluded hearings on S. 323, to redesignate the Black Canyon of
the Gunnison National Monument as a national park and establish the Gunnison
Gorge National Conservation Area; S. 338, to provide for the collection of
fees for the making of motion pictures, television productions, and sound
tracks in units of the Department of the Interior; and S. 568, to allow the
Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture to establish a
fee system for commercial filming activities in a site or resource under their
jurisdictions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Redesignating Black Canyon and Establishing Gunnison Gorge
National Conservation Area; and Fees for Motion Pictures (S. 323, S. 338, S.
568)
S.Hrg. 106-0032
NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE/DISPOSAL: Committee concluded hearings to examine
nuclear waste storage and disposal policy, including S. 608, to direct the
Secretary of Energy to develop an integrated management system for spent
nuclear fuel and high level nuclear waste, focusing on a disposal management
system, an interim storage facility, user fee collection, and the geologic
repository at Yucca Mountain, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Policy (S. 608)
S.Hrg. 106-0105
* Environment
VOLUNTARY GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION: Committee concluded hearings to examine
voluntary greenhouse gas mitigation activities issues, including actions and
programs in the United States, issues related to the design of a voluntary
action crediting program, and S. 547, to authorize the President to enter into
agreements to provide regulatory credit for voluntary early action to mitigate
potential environmental impacts from gas emissions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Credit for Early Reduction Act (S. 547)
S.Hrg. 106-0150
Field hearing held in Providence, RI, 6/3/99
* Foreign Relations
COLOMBIA THREAT TO U.S. INTERESTS AND SECURITY: Subcommittee on Western
Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings on
Colombia's threat to United States interests and regional security, focusing
on U.S.-Colombia counternarcotics efforts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
EUROPEAN UNION: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded hearings on issues
relating to the European Union, focusing oninternal reform, enlargement, and a
common foreign policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: European Union: Internal Reform, Enlargement, and the Common
Foreign and Security Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0048
* Governmental Affairs
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT: Committee concluded hearings on the future of the
Independent Counsel Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/3, 3/17, 4/14/99
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN GAMBLING REGULATORY ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 399, to
amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, focusing on minimum standards for
Indian gaming nationwide, and fair fee assessments by the National Indian
Gaming Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Gaming Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999 (S. 309) (Issued as
Part 1; the Senate Library reports (3/01) that only Part 1 was issued.)
S.Hrg. 106-0020
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/25/99
* Judiciary
CRIME VICTIMS PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 3,
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to protect the
rights of crime victims, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Protect Crime Victims
(S.J. Res. 3)
S.Hrg. 106-0269
STATE ETHICS RULES EFFECT ON FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Subcommittee on
Criminal Justice Oversight concluded hearings on the effect of State ethics
rules on federal law enforcement, focusing on section 530B of title 28 of the
United States Code, which requires Department attorneys to comply with state
laws and rules, and local federal court rules, governing attorneys in each
State where such attorney engages in that attorney's duties, the Citizens
Protection Act, and potential abuse of power, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Effect of State Ethics Rules on Federal Law Enforcement
S.Hrg. 106-0255
* Rules
CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS: Committee held hearings to examine issues
relating to the financing of federal election campaigns, focusing on campaign
costs and time, the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974, equitable
competition for challengers, corruption, the costs of television media, and
negative campaigning, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Campaign Contribution Limits
S.Hrg. 106-0019
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Meeting: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to
review the legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/2, 3/4, 3/17/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990325
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS: COAST GUARD: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000
for the United States Coast Guard, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 3/10, 3/23/99
APPROPRIATIONS: FCC/SEC: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/16, 3/19, 3/22, 3/24/99
APPROPRIATIONS: TREASURY: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 4/15/99
TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
concluded hearings to examine certain incidents of terrorist attacks against
U.S. citizens in Israel, and U.S. efforts to press for the indictment and
extradition of terrorists who have taken American lives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 4/29, 5/19, 5/20/99
* Armed Services
CHINESE ESPIONAGE AT DOE LABORATORIES: Committee resumed closed hearings to
examine alleged Chinese espionage at Department of Energy laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 4/14, 4/22/99
* Banking
BANKRUPTCY REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation on
bankruptcy reform, focusing on financial services, the Bankruptcy Code,
Federal Deposit Insurance Act, minimum payment disclosure, credit extensions
to college students, debit cards, mortgage and home equity loans, and
convenience users, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bankruptcy Reform and Financial Services Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0466
FHA SINGLE FAMILY INSURANCE FUND: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded oversight hearings on challenges facing the Federal Housing
Administration Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund, which backs the single family
insurance fund, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Challenges Facing the FHA's Single-Family Insurance Fund
S.Hrg. 106-0418
* Commerce
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MODERNIZATION: Subcommittee on Aviation concluded
hearings on proposed legislation to modernize air traffic control programs,
focusing on the National Airspace System, infrastructure, safety features,
increasing capacity and efficiency, equipment age and maintenance, Free
Flight, Data Link, and year 2000 computer efforts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Air Traffic Control Modernization
S.Hrg. 106-0531
GRADE CROSSING SAFETY: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on issues relating to highway-rail grade crossing
safety, including the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, Operation
Lifesaver, warning sign improvement, emergency telephone systems, passive
crossings, driving behavior, and enforcement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Grade Crossing Safety
S.Hrg. 106-0787
INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE REFORM: Subcommittee on Communications concluded
hearings on S. 376, to amend the Communications Satellite Act of 1962 to
promote competition and privatization in satellite communications, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 376, Open-Market Reorganization for the Betterment of
International Telecommunications Act
S.Hrg. 106-1099
* Energy
ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF KYOTO PROTOCOL: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine the economic impact of the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes legally
binding emissions limits for greenhouse gasses on the industrialized nations,
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Economic Impacts of the Kyoto Protocol
S.Hrg. 106-0104
* Foreign Relations
U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
United States-Taiwan relations, including the twentieth anniversary of Taiwan
Relations Act, Taiwan Strait security, defense assistance, the engagement
strategy with China, free market economy, and protecting U.S. interests, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United States--Taiwan Relations: The 20th Anniversary of the
Taiwan Relations Act
S.Hrg. 106-0043
* Governmental Affairs
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia held oversight
hearings to examine multiple program coordination in early childhood
education, focusing on the Results Act 1993, which requires executive
agencies, in consultation with the Congress and other stakeholders, to prepare
strategic five-year plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Multiple Program Coordination in Early Childhood Education
S.Hrg. 106-0139
Hearings also held on 5/11/99
* Health
BIOTERRORISM: Subcommittee on Public Health concluded hearings on issues
relating to bioterrorism, including United States public health and medical
readiness, biological terrorism deterrence, outbreak containment and
investigation, national pharmaceutical stockpile, and research and
development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bioterrorism: Our Frontline Response, Evaluating U.S. Public
Health and Medical Readiness
S.Hrg. 106-0021
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee met in closed sessions on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/24/99
Hearings also held on 3/24/99
* Judiciary
JUSTICE BUDGET: Subcommittee on Youth Violence hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for the Office of Justice
Programs and funding for state and local law enforcement, focusing on Juvenile
Justice Accountability Incentive Block Grant, the Local Law Enforcement Block
Grant, and the Truth in Sentencing/Violent Offender Incarceration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Fiscal Year 2000 Office of Justice Programs
Budget: Undercutting State and Local Law Enforcement in the 21st Century
S.Hrg. 106-0404
** HEARINGS FOR 19990330
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Rio Arriba County Strategy to Combat Heroin Addiction
(Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0074
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Midwest Methamphetamine Crisis: Developing a Plan for
Federal, State and Local Cooperative (Field hearing held in Kansas City, MO)
S.Hrg. 106-0403
** HEARINGS FOR 19990406
* Energy
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Lower Snake River Dams (Field hearing held in Hood River, OR)
S.Hrg. 106-0069
** HEARINGS FOR 19990407
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Northwest Salmon Recovery (Special hearing) (Joint with
Committee on Appropriations (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0087
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(Field hearing held in Winooski, VT)
S.Hrg. 106-0062
** HEARINGS FOR 19990412
* Armed Services
CHINESE ESPIONAGE AT DOE LABORATORIES: Committee concluded open and closed
hearings to examine alleged Chinese espionage at Department of Energy
laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review of Alleged Chinese Espionage at Department of Energy
Laboratories
S.Hrg. 106-0460
Hearings also held on 6/23/99
* Small Business
SMALL BUSINESS TAX FILING: Committee held hearings on issues relating to
small business tax filing, reporting, and maintenance burdens, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Buried Alive: Small Business Consumed by Tax Filing Burdens
S.Hrg. 106-0095
** HEARINGS FOR 19990413
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* Aging
MEDICARE MANAGED CARE MARKETING: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
reliability of Medicare managed care plan information and the adequacy of the
Health Care Financing Administration's review of that information, and whether
the Medicare managed care appeals process adequately protects beneficiaries'
rights, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Beneficiary Beware: Inadequate Review of Medicare Managed
Care Plans Results in Incomplete Information for Consumers (This number was
incorrectly assigned to the hearing, "Implementation and Impact of Changes
made to Medicare by the 1997 Balanced Budget Act",. The correct designation
for that title is S. Hrg. 106-190.)
S.Hrg. 106-0109
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of Energy, in behalf of funds for their respective activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/11, 3/18/99
DEATHS FROM PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY RESTRAINTS: Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine deaths caused
from restraints used in psychiatric facilities, and proposed legislation to
extend existing nursing home standards on the use of restraints on mental
health patients and add a reporting requirement for deaths and serious
injuries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Deaths From Restraints in Psychiatric Facilities (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0093
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the military strategy and operational requirements of the unified commands
and future years defense program, and issues regarding the current situation
in Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/5/99
Hearings also held on 1/5, 2/3, 3/2, 3/4, 3/16, 3/18/99
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing on land withdrawals and
environmental programs, and the future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 3/18, 4/14, 4/21/99
SUBMARINE WARFARE: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded open and closed
hearings on submarine warfare in the 21st Century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 4/21/99
* Commerce
INTERNET ACCESS: Committee held hearings to examine how to facilitate the
deployment of faster, high-speed Internet access services and how to ensure
that these benefits are extended to all American consumers, and on proposed
legislation to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating
or taxing Internet services, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Internet Access and the Consumer
S.Hrg. 106-0652
* Finance
CHINA APPLICATION TO WTO: Committee held hearings on issues related to
China's application for accession to the World Trade Organization, focusing on
agriculture, industrial goods, services, protocol, pacific security, and human
rights, ...
PRINTED TITLE: China's Application for Accession to the World Trade
Organization
S.Hrg. 106-0286
* Foreign Relations
NAFTA REVIEW: Committee concluded hearings on a five year review of the
effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement on United States jobs, wage
rates, and industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Trade Versus Aid: NAFTA Five Years Later
S.Hrg. 106-0080
* Health
OSHA REFORM: SAFE ACT: Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training
concluded hearings on S. 385, to amend the Occupational Safety and Health Act
of 1970 to further improve the safety and health of working environments, and
other related OSHA reform issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Accident Prevention, the Focus of SAFE (S. 385)
S.Hrg. 106-0053
* Judiciary
ANTITRUST MERGER REVIEW ACT: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings on S. 467, to restate and improve section 7A of
the Clayton Act, which would impose time limits on the Federal Communications
Commission review of mergers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Antitrust Merger Review Act: Accelerating FCC Review of
Mergers (S. 467)
S.Hrg. 106-0405
* Veterans Affairs
FORCE REDUCTION: VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION Committee concluded hearings
on the reduction in force in the Veterans Health Administration of the
Department of Veteran Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: VA's Reduction-in-Force Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0320
** HEARINGS FOR 19990414
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on ballistic missile defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN AFFAIRS: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of the
Interior, focusing on Indian programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/18, 4/15, 4/22/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Strategic Subcommittee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on strategic nuclear forces and policy and the future years
defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
2/24, 2/26, 3/11, 3/22/99
DEFENSE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management
Support concluded hearings on the status of financial management within the
Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 3/18, 4/13, 4/21/99
* Banking
EXPORT CONTROL PROCESS: Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Export Administration Act, focusing on issues relating to the export control
process, including security, dual-use goods and technologies, administration
and enforcement, global business, technology trends, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Export Control Process
S.Hrg. 106-0790
* Commerce
OLYMPIC SCANDAL INVESTIGATION: Committee held hearings to examine recent
public controversies involving the selection of host cities and related
activities of members of the International Olympic Committee, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Investigation of the Olympic Scandal
S.Hrg. 106-0637
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE AT DOE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LABORATORIES: Committee held
closed oversight hearings to examine damage to the national security from
alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy nuclear weapons
laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/25, 4/22/99
* Finance
IRS REFORM: Committee held oversight hearings on restructuring and reform of
the Internal Revenue Service, focusing on the implementation of the IRS
Restructuring and Reform Act (P.L.105-206), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight on Restructuring and Reform of the IRS
S.Hrg. 106-0155
* Foreign Relations
AFGHANISTAN: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held
hearings to examine the continuing crisis in Afghanistan, focusing on human
rights violations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL ACT: Committee concluded hearings on the future of the
Independent Counsel Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/3, 3/17, 3/24/99
* Health
EDUCATION RESEARCH: Committee concluded hearings on education research
issues, including research support, vehicles for dissemination, education
improvement, education policy and practice, and the impact of education
research on overall school and student performance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: What Works: Education Research
S.Hrg. 106-0028
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN WELFARE REFORM: Committee on Indian Affairs concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Personal Responsibility and Work
Opportunity Reconciliation Act (P.L. 104-193), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Welfare Reform (P.L.104-193)
S.Hrg. 106-0035
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 4/15/99
* Judiciary
KOSOVO REFUGEE CRISIS: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings on the
current Kosovo refugee situation and the scope and adequacy of the response of
the United States and the international community, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Kosovo Refugee Crisis
S.Hrg. 106-0443
* Year 2000
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT YEAR 2000 PREPAREDNESS: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the preparedness of the Federal Government for the Year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990415
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE: Subcommittee on the Interior concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Forest Service of
the Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/18, 4/14, 4/22/99
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 3/4, 3/25/99
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000
for the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/4/99
Hearings also held on 3/4, 3/11, 3/18, 3/23/99
* Armed Services
U.S.-KOSOVO POLICY: Committee concluded hearings on the United States policy
regarding Kosovo, and a revised strategic concept for NATO, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 7/1, 7/20, 10/14, 10/21, 11/3/99
* Commerce
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENTS: Subcommittee on Science, Technology,
and Space concluded hearings to examine the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2000 for research and development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Research and Development in the Fiscal Year 2000
Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0668
* Energy
ALASKA LANDS: Committee concluded hearings on the following bills: S. 501,
to address resource management issues in Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska,
... and
S. 744, to provide for the continuation of higher education through the
conveyance of certain public lands in the State of Alaska to the University of
Alaska, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska; and Conveyance of Lands in
Alaska (S. 501, S. 744)
S.Hrg. 106-0058
PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/RECREATION: Subcommittee on National Parks,
Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 109, to improve
protection and management of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
in the State of Georgia, S. 340, to amend the Cache La Poudre River Corridor
Act to make technical corrections, S. 582, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to enter into an agreement for the construction and operation of the
Gateway Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park, S. 589, to
require the National Park Service to undertake a study of the Loess Hills area
in western Iowa to review options for the protection and interpretation of the
area's natural, cultural, and historical resources, S. 591, to authorize a
feasibility study for the preservation of the Loess Hills in western Iowa, and
H.R. 149, to make technical corrections to the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands
Management Act of 1996, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous River and Park Bills (S. 109, S. 340, S. 582, S.
589, S. 591, H.R. 149)
S.Hrg. 106-0072
* Environment
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
held oversight hearings on the Department of Transportation's implementation
of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Implementation of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st
Century
S.Hrg. 106-0438
Hearings also held on 4/29, 6/9/99
* Finance
INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to the
complexity of the individual income tax, focusing on the impact of changes to
tax law, Alternative Minimum Tax, phase outs, education savings incentives,
child and child care credit, retirement plans, and simplifications proposals,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Complexity of the Individual Income Tax
S.Hrg. 106-0165
* Foreign Relations
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT: Committee held hearings on United States
vulnerability to ballistic missile attack, focusing on proposed amendments to
revive and expand the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (Treaty Doc. 92-24), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Ballistic Missiles: Threat and Response
S.Hrg. 106-0339
Hearings also held on 4/20, 5/4, 5/5, 5/13, 5/25, 5/26, 9/16/99
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/14/99
Hearings also held on 4/14/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990419
* Foreign Relations
DRUG KINGPINS: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and
Terrorism met in closed session to receive a briefing on issues relating to
the targeting of assets of drug kingpins ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act:
A Focus on Professional Development (Field hearing held in Montpelier, VT)
S.Hrg. 106-0036
** HEARINGS FOR 19990420
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2000 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the science and technology
program and the future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/5/99
Hearings also held on 3/5, 3/16, 3/22, 3/23, 4/27/99
* Energy
CONSERVATION/RESOURCES/PUBLIC LAND AND RECREATION: Committee held hearings on
S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local governments, to
amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery
Act, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as
the Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor
conservation and recreation needs of the American people; S. 446, to provide
for the permanent protection of the resources of the United States in the year
2000 and beyond; and S. 532, to provide increased funding for the Land and
Water Conservation Fund and Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Programs, to
resume the funding of the State grants program of the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, and to provide for the acquisition and development of
conservation and recreation facilities and programs in urban areas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bills and Administrative Proposal to Invest OCS Revenues in
Conservation Programs (S. 25, S. 446, S. 532, S. 819)
S.Hrg. 106-0106
Hearings also held on 4/27, 5/4, 5/11/99
* Foreign Relations
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT: Committee resumed hearings on the United States
vulnerability to ballistic missile attack, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 5/4, 5/5, 5/13, 5/25, 5/26, 9/16/99
WAR IN KOSOVO: Committee held hearings on issues relating to the war in
Kosovo, focusing on United States and NATO policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: War in Kosovo and a Postwar Analysis
S.Hrg. 106-0265
Hearings also held on 9/28, 10/6/99
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Stephen H.
Glickman and Eric T. Washington, each to be an Associate Judge of the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals, and Hiram E. Puig Lugo, to be an Associate Judge
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Eric Washington, Stephen Glickman, and Hiram
Puig-Lugo
S.Hrg. 106-0136
* Indian Affairs
NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVE PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act (P.L. 101-601), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (P.L.
101-601)
S.Hrg. 106-0057
* Judiciary
DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS: Subcommittee on Youth Violence, with the Subcommittee
on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, concluded joint hearings
on domestic preparedness in the next generation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Domestic Preparedness in the Next Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0424
FLAG PROTECTION AMENDMENT: Committee held hearings on S.J. Res. 14, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, authorizing Congress to
prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
Authorizing Congress to Prohibit the Physical Desecration of the Flag of the
United States (S.J.Res. 14)
S.Hrg. 106-0481
Hearings also held on 4/28/99
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS CONTINGENCY PLAN: Committee concluded hearings on the Department of
Veterans Affairs contingency plans for the year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: VA's Contingency Plan for the Year 2000
S.Hrg. 106-0321
** HEARINGS FOR 19990421
* Agriculture
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to review the
recent report on the Federal Crop Insurance Program by the Office of Inspector
General, Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crop Insurance
S.Hrg. 106-0306
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM: Subcommittee on Defense concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Defense
Health Program, focusing on service member care, comprehensive health coverage
for dependents, retirees, and for surviving family members, research, health
promotion, wartime support, and inter-service cooperation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Seapower concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2000 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on ship acquisition programs and policy and the future
years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 4/13/99
NAVY AND MARINE READINESS: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings to review the readiness of the United States Navy and
Marines operating forces, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/10/99
Hearings also held on 3/10, 3/17, 3/18, 4/13, 4/14/99
* Commerce
TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION BUDGET/FASTENER QUALITY ACT: Subcommittee on
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the Department
of Commerce's Technology Administration fiscal year 2000 budget request,
focusing on the global competitive environment, the role of the Office of the
Under Secretary and the Office of Technology, and the National Institute of
Standards and Technology plans for the future, and S.795, to amend the
Fastener Quality Act to strengthen the protection against the sale of
mis-marked, misrepresented, and counterfeit fasteners and eliminate
unnecessary requirements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Technology Administration in the Fiscal Year 2000 Budget and
S. 795, Fastener Quality Act Amendments
S.Hrg. 106-0619
* Energy
LEWIS AND CLARK BICENTENNIAL: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded oversight hearings to review the interagency Memorandum
of Understanding regarding the upcoming Lewis and Clark bicentennial
celebration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
S.Hrg. 106-0110
NATURAL GAS SUPPLY AND INFRASTRUCTURE: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to examine whether the United States has the natural gas supply and
infrastructure necessary to meet projected demand, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Natural Gas
S.Hrg. 106-0115
* Foreign Relations
BUSINESS MEETING: Committee ordered favorably reported on original bill to
authorize appropriations for the Department of State for fiscal years 2000 and
2001; to provide for enhanced security at United States diplomatic facilities;
to provide for certain arms control, nonproliferation, and other national
security measures; and to provide for reform of the United Nations.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/99
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/4, 3/11/99
NATO'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
goals and initiatives of NATO's forthcoming 50th Anniversary Summit, ...
PRINTED TITLE: NATO's 50th Anniversary Summit
S.Hrg. 106-0144
* Governmental Affairs
REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 746,to provide
for analysis of major rules, to promote the public's right to know the costs
and benefits of major rules, and to increase the accountability of quality of
Government, focusing on cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, peer review,
judicial review, comparative risk analysis, and the regulatory review process
under the Office of Management and Budget, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 746--The Regulatory Improvement Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0179
* Indian Affairs
NATIVE AMERICAN BUSINESS, TRADE, AND TOURISM: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 401, to provide for business development and trade promotion for native
Americans, focusing on physical infrastructure, skill development, separation
of powers and good governance, regulatory reform, access to capital, and
international trade and tourism, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Native American Business Development, Trade Promotion, and
Tourism Act of 1999 (S. 401)
S.Hrg. 106-0063
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 4/22/99
* Judiciary
INTERNET PRIVACY: Committee concluded hearings on privacy issues surrounding
the Internet, focusing on Internet industry policy, security, data protection,
law enforcement, technology development, and electronic commerce, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Privacy in the Digital Age: Discussion of Issues Surrounding
the Internet
S.Hrg. 106-0815
* Narcotics Control
CORRUPTION THREAT ON THE SOUTHWEST BORDER: Caucus concluded hearings on the
threat of corruption to United States Law Enforcement along the Southwest
border, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Continued Threat of Corruption to U.S. Border Law Enforcement
Agencies
S.Hrg. 106-0158
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Office of Advocacy and SBIR/STTR Programs (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0274
** HEARINGS FOR 19990422
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 4/29/99
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for Department of the Interior,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/18, 4/14, 4/15/99
* Armed Services
THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY: Committee concluded hearings on worldwide
threats to United States national security interests, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/2/99
Hearings also held on 2/2/99
* Banking
DOLLARIZATION IN EMERGING-MARKET COUNTRIES: Subcommittee on International
Trade and Finance, and the Subcommittee on Economic Policy concluded joint
hearings on issues relating to the official dollarization in emerging-market
countries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Official Dollarization in Emerging-Market Countries
S.Hrg. 106-0210
* Budget
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the future of
Medicare, focusing on the life of the Medicare Trust Fund and the need to
strengthen and modernize the Medicare program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of the Medicare Trust Funds
S.Hrg. 106-0068
* Commerce
PROFESSIONAL BOXING REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on reform of the
professional boxing industry, focusing on contracting practices, restraints of
trade, rating systems, legitimate competition, private sector governing,
sportsmanship, and S. 305, to reform unfair and anti-competitive practices in
the professional boxing industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reform of the Professional Boxing Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0470
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the damage to the national security from Chinese espionage at the
Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Hearings also held on 3/16, 3/25, 4/14/99
NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/RECREATION: Subcommittee on National
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 441, to
amend the National Trails System Act to designate the route of the War of 1812
British invasion of Maryland and Washington, District of Columbia, and the
route of the American defense, for study for potential addition to the
national trails system, S. 548, to establish the Fallen Timbers Battlefield
and Fort Miamis National Historical Site in the State of Ohio, S. 581, to
protect the Paoli and Brandywine Battlefields in Pennsylvania, to authorize a
Valley Forge Museum of the American Revolution at Valley Forge National
Historical Park, and S. 700, to amend the National Trails System Act to
designate the Ala Kahakai Trail as a National Historic Trail, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Battlefields and National Trails (S. 441, S. 548, S. 581, S.
700)
S.Hrg. 106-0113
* Foreign Relations
NORTH KOREAN PRISON CAMPS: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine the human rights situation in North Korea,
focusing on political prison camp system and human rights violations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
REGULATORY RIGHT-TO-KNOW ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 59, to
expand the current requirement that the Office of Management and Budget
prepare an annual report on the costs and benefits of Federal regulations, and
proposals to establish a Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 59--Regulatory Right-to-Know Act of 1999 and Congressional
Office of Regulatory Analysis Legislation
S.Hrg. 106-0180
* Health
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Elementary Secondary Education Act, focusing on
education technology programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Technology
S.Hrg. 106-0078
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/21/99
Hearings also held on 4/21/99
* Year 2000
YEAR 2000 AND OIL IMPORTS: Committee concluded hearings on the Y2K readiness
status of the international oil industry, focusing on the effects of possible
Y2K failures on the world oil supply, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Year 2000 and Oil Imports: Can Y2K Bring Back the Gas Lines?
(at Y4.3:T22/Oi5)
S.Hrg. 106-0161
** HEARINGS FOR 19990426
* Aging
ASSISTED LIVING INDUSTRY: Committee concluded hearings to examine the state
of the growing assisted living industry, focusing on consumer protections and
quality of care in assisted living, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Shopping for Assisted Living: What Customers Need to Make the
Best Buy
S.Hrg. 106-0134
** HEARINGS FOR 19990427
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION: Subcommittee on
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/9/99
Hearings also held on 2/9, 3/2, 3/16/99
APPROPRIATIONS--KOSOVO: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed supplemental budget estimates to finance military and humanitarian
operations related to Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Kosovo Operations Supplemental Appropriations for Fiscal Year
1999 (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0278
* Armed Services
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS-TRAFFICKING: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities concluded hearings on the threat of international
narcotics-trafficking and the role of the Department of Defense in the
Nation's war on drugs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/5/99
Hearings also held on 3/5, 3/16, 3/22, 3/23, 4/20/99
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Brian E.
Sheridan, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special
Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Lawrence J. Delaney, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and Carolyn L. Huntoon,
of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Commerce
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY PROGRAM: Committee concluded hearings on the
effectiveness of the Motor Carrier Safety Programs and the organizational
structure of the Department of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Effectiveness of the Department of Transportation's Motor
Carrier Safety Programs and its Organizational Structure
S.Hrg. 106-0720
* Energy
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF REVENUES: Committee held hearings on S. 25, to
provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local governments, to amend the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and
the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the
Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation
and recreation needs of the American people, S. 446, to provide for the
permanent protection of the resources of the United States in the year 2000
and beyond, S. 532, to provide increased funding for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund and Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Programs, to resume
the funding of the State grants program of the Land and Water Conservation
Fund, and to provide for the acquisition and development of conservation and
recreation facilities and programs in urban areas, S. 819, to provide funding
for the National Park System from outer Continental Shelf revenues, and the
Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20/99
Hearings also held on 4/20, 5/4, 5/11/99
* Finance
REVENUE RAISING PROPOSALS: Committee held hearings to examine revenue raising
proposals as contained in the Administration's fiscal year 2000 budget,
focusing on corporate tax shelters, life insurance taxation, and taxation of
investment income of trade associations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Revenue-Raising Proposals in the Administration's Fiscal Year
2000 Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0085
* Foreign Relations
NONPROLIFERATION/ARMS CONTROL/POLITICAL MILITARY ISSUES: Committee held
hearings on nonproliferation, arms control, and political military issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Political-Military Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0264
* Health
MEDICAL RECORDS PRIVACY: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
medical records confidentiality in a changing health care environment, and
related measures including S.881 and S. 578, bills to ensure confidentiality
with respect to medical records and health care-related information, to ensure
confidentiality with respect to medical records and health care-related
information, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Records Confidentiality in a Changing Health Care
Environment
S.Hrg. 106-0064
* Judiciary
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN BORDER PATROLS: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded
hearings on the need for additional border patrol at the northern and southern
borders of the U.S. to further deter illegal immigration and drug smuggling,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Need for Additional Border Patrol at the Northern and Southern
Borders
S.Hrg. 106-0441
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: SBA's 7(a) and 504 Loan Programs (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0240
** HEARINGS FOR 19990428
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL GUARD BUREAU: Subcommittee on Defense concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the National
Guard Bureau, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 5/11, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committee concluded closed hearings on the damage
to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of
Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
ARIZONA TRUST FUNDS/GEOLOGIC MAPPING/SEWAGE TREATMENT: Subcommittee on
Forests and Public Land Management concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 415, to protect the permanent trust funds of the State of Arizona from
erosion due to inflation and modify the basis on which distributions are made
from those funds, ...
S. 607, to reauthorize and amend the National Geologic Mapping Act of 1992,
... and
S. 416, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the city of
Sisters, Oregon, a certain parcel of land for use in connection with a sewage
treatment facility, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Arizona Statehood and Enabling Act; National Geologic Mapping;
and Conveying Land in Sisters, Oregon (S. 415, S. 416, S. 607)
S.Hrg. 106-0120
* Environment
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of George T.
Frampton, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Council on
Environmental Quality, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations Considered During the First Session of the 106th
Congress
S.Hrg. 106-0268
Hearings also held on 5/5, 9/23, 10/6/99
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings to examine the context and evolution
of Medicare, focusing on medical research, teaching hospitals, cost reduction,
effective treatments, medical education trust funds, aging Baby Boomers, and
privatization, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicare Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0325
Hearings also held on 5/5, 5/12, 5/26, 5/27/99
* Governmental Affairs
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on issues involving the
future of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Future of the ABM Treaty
S.Hrg. 106-0311
* Indian Affairs
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
capacity and mission of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, focusing on funding,
trust management, accountability, policy development and coordination,
scientific expertise availability, economic development, law enforcement,
education, Safety of Dams Program, irrigation programs, resource allocation,
Tribal Priority Allocation, and transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bureau of Indian Affairs' Capacity and Mission
S.Hrg. 106-0079
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 4/29/99
* Judiciary
U.S. FLAG DESECRATION PROHIBITION: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res.
14, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States
authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the
United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20/99
Hearings also held on 4/20/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990429
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AID: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Agency for
International Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/25, 5/19, 5/20/99
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA: Subcommittee on VA-HUD and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/22/99
Hearings also held on 4/22/99
* Banking
HUD GRANT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded oversight hearings on the management of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development's Grants Management System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Grants
Management System
S.Hrg. 106-0476
* Commerce
NASA BUDGET: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2000 for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Aeronautics and Space Administration Fiscal Year 2000
Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0709
* Energy
SOUTH FLORIDA ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation, and the Committee on Appropriations'
Subcommittee on Interior concluded joint oversight hearings to review the GAO
report on the Everglades National Park Restoration Project, ...
PRINTED TITLE: South Florida Ecosystem Restoration (Joint with
Appropriations)
S.Hrg. 106-0125
* Environment
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
held oversight hearings on the implementation of the project delivery and
streamlining provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 6/9/99
* Finance
STATE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM: Committee concluded hearings on
the implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance
Program
S.Hrg. 106-0111
* Foreign Relations
INTERNATIONAL SOFTWARE PIRACY: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings to examine the impact of
international software piracy on the software industry and the American
economy, focusing on the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright
treaties, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement,
special 301 procedures, enforcement resources and willingness to enforce the
laws, and the effect of the Asian economic crisis, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of John T.
Spotila, of New Jersey, to be Administrator of the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of John T. Spotila
S.Hrg. 106-0067
* Health
RETENTION AND SOCIAL PROMOTION: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, focusing on retention and social promotion, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Retention and Social Promotion
S.Hrg. 106-0054
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28/99
* Year 2000
911/LAW ENFORCEMENT Y2K READINESS: Committee concluded the 911 emergency
systems and local law enforcement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Answering the Call for Help: The Impact of Y2K on 911 and Law
Enforcement (at Y4.3:T22/H37)
S.Hrg. 106-0186
** HEARINGS FOR 19990430
* Commerce
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Aviation Competition and Air Service in Iowa
S.Hrg. 106-0710
* Health
OLDER AMERICANS ACT: Subcommittee on Aging concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Older Americans Act,
focusing on title three's and title six's nutrition programs, transportation,
home-based care, and similar services provided to Native Americans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act: Supportive Services
S.Hrg. 106-0034
** HEARINGS FOR 19990501
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Protecting the Rights of Crime Victims (Field hearing held in
St. Louis, MO)
S.Hrg. 106-0434
** HEARINGS FOR 19990503
* Governmental Affairs
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MANAGEMENT REFORM: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia concluded
hearings to examine the District of Columbia's efforts to improve the delivery
of public services, focusing on the District of Columbia government's system
for measuring the progress and performance of management reform in programs
and agencies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Management Reform in the District of Columbia
S.Hrg. 106-0176
** HEARINGS FOR 19990504
* Armed Services
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Carolyn L.
Huntoon, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental
Management, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Banking
U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS: Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance
concluded oversight hearings on the effects of international institutions on
United States agricultural exports, focusing on upcoming World Trade
Organization negotiations, International Monetary Fund funding holds, the
World Bank, "fast track authority", tariff-rate quotas, export subsidies,
state trading enterprises, domestic subsidies rules, trade restricting
technical barriers, and scientific innovation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Effects of International Trade and Financial Institutions on
U.S. Agricultural Exports
S.Hrg. 106-0792
* Commerce
YOUTH VIOLENCE: Committee held hearings on how the violence that is marketed
to children through media and toys is harming children's development,
learning, play, and behavior, and measures that help to reduce children's
exposure to entertainment violence, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Marketing Violence to Children
S.Hrg. 106-0727
* Energy
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF REVENUES: Committee resumed hearings on S. 25, to
provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local governments, to amend the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and
the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to a the
Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation
and recreation needs of the American people, S. 446, to provide for the
permanent protection of the resources of the United States in the year 2000
and beyond, S. 532, to provide increased funding for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund and Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Programs, to resume
the funding of the State grants program of the Land and Water Conservation
Fund, and to provide for the acquisition and development of conservation and
recreation facilities and programs in urban areas, S. 819, to provide funding
for the National Park System from outer Continental Shelf revenues, and the
Administration's Lands Legacy Initiative, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20
Hearings also held on 4/20, 4/27, 5/11/99
* Finance
MEDICARE/DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SUBVENTION: Committee held hearings on the
status of the participation of the Department of Defense in a Medicare
subvention demonstration project established under the Balanced Budget Act of
1997, and a related measure S. 445, to amend title XVIII of the Social
Security Act to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of
Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration project to provide the
Department of Veterans Affairs with Medicare reimbursement for Medicare
healthcare services provided to certain Medicare-eligible veterans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicare Subvention
S.Hrg. 106-0411
* Foreign Relations
BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY: Committee resumed hearings on issues
relating to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, focusing on the
technological feasibility of the United States ballistic missile defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/5, 5/13, 5/25, 5/26, 9/16/99
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN CENSUS 2000: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the
Bureau of the Census Year 2000 plans for testing and developing enumeration
procedures and methods for American Indian tribes and Alaska Native villages,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Census 2000
S.Hrg. 106-0082
* Judiciary
CLASS ACTION REFORM: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
concluded hearings on S. 353, to provide for class action reform, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Class Action Fairness Act of 1999 (S. 353)
S.Hrg. 106-0465
INTERNATIONAL ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business
Rights, and Competition concluded oversight hearings on issues relating to
international antitrust cooperation and enforcement, including positive comity
agreements, the flat glass industry, and problems with the Japanese market,
...
PRINTED TITLE: International Antitrust
S.Hrg. 106-0458
** HEARINGS FOR 19990505
* Agriculture
COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Commodity Exchange Act, focusing on the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission's pilot program for agricultural trade
options, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Trade Options
S.Hrg. 106-0308
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Thomas J.
Erickson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity
Futures Trading Commission ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Thomas J. Erickson
S.Hrg. 106-0288
* Appropriations
INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Defense concluded closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for defense related
intelligence programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Banking
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INSOLVENCY IMPROVEMENT ACT: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions concluded hearings on S. 958, to amend certain banking and
securities laws with respect to financial contract, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Financial Institutions Insolvency Improvement Act of 1999 --
S. 958
S.Hrg. 106-0483
* Energy
CHINESE ESPIONAGE AT DOE LABORATORIES: Committee resumed hearings to examine
the damage to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at
Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Chinese Espionage
S.Hrg. 106-0212
Hearings also held on 5/12, 5/20, 7/16/99
* Environment
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Timothy Fields,
Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste,
Environmental Protection Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 9/23, 10/6/99
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on Medicare reform issues,
focusing on the financial outlook for the Medicare program, including
implications of Medicare financing for the Federal budget and the United
States economy, and the role of Medicare in meeting the health needs of the
elderly and disabled Americans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/12, 5/26, 5/27/99
* Foreign Relations
ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY: Committee resumed hearings on issues relating
to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, focusing on the United States
strategic and arms control objectives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/4, 5/13, 5/25, 5/26, 9/16/99
* Governmental Affairs
STATE OF FEDERALISM: Committee concluded hearings on the current state of
Federal and State relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federalism
S.Hrg. 106-0196
Hearings also held on 5/6, 7/14/99
* Judiciary
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Committee concluded oversight hearings on activities
of the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Justice Oversight
S.Hrg. 106-0496
** HEARINGS FOR 19990506
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services, focusing on disease research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Funding Allocations for Research at National Institutes of
Health
S.Hrg. 106-0355
* Commerce
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT ACT: Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Coastal Zone
Management Act, focusing on the President's Lands Legacy Initiative, state
coastal programs, coastal community assistance, coastal resource conservation,
and the Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Coastal Zone Management Act
S.Hrg. 106-1051
* Energy
PUERTO RICO POLITICAL STATUS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
results of the December 1998 political status plebiscite on Puerto Rico, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Puerto Rico Political Status
S.Hrg. 106-0127
* Foreign Relations
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS THREAT: Committee concluded closed hearings to examine the
growing threat of biological weapons, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERALISM AND CRIME CONTROL: Committee concluded hearings on Federalism and
crime control, focusing on the increasing Federalization of criminal law and
its impact on crime control and the criminal justice system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/5/99
Hearings also held on 5/5, 7/14/99
* Health
SCHOOL SAFETY: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on
safety programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: School Safety
S.Hrg. 106-0142
** HEARINGS FOR 19990510
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Practice of Salting and Its Impact on Small Business (Field
hearing held in Indianapolis, IN) (Joint with Committee on Education and the
Workforce (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0169
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the ESEA: Innovative Programs (Field
hearing held in Bennington, VT)
S.Hrg. 106-0073
* Judiciary
TWA FLIGHT #800: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
concluded oversight hearings on the investigation of TWA Flight #800, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Administrative Oversight of the Investigation of TWA Flight
800
S.Hrg. 106-0534
* Year 2000
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Will Y2K and Chemicals be a Volatile Mix? (Field hearing held
in Trenton, NJ) (at Y4.3:T22/C42)
S.Hrg. 106-0160
** HEARINGS FOR 19990511
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL TRADE SANCTIONS: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating
to agricultural trade sanctions, and S. 566, to amend the Agricultural Trade
Act of 1978 to exempt agricultural commodities, livestock, and value-added
products from unilateral economic sanctions, to prepare for future bilateral
and multilateral trade negotiations affecting United States agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Sanctions
S.Hrg. 106-0309
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on military pay and retirement benefits, readiness protection, and
weapons modernization, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/14, 5/19, 7/14/99
* Energy
OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF/LAND LEGACY INITIATIVE: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 25, to provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local governments,
to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation
Recovery Act, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly
referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the
outdoor conservation and recreation needs of the American people, S. 446, to
provide for the permanent protection of the resources of the United States in
the year 2000 and beyond, S. 532, to provide increased funding for the Land
and Water Conservation Fund and Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Programs,
to resume the funding of the State grants program of the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, and to provide for the acquisition and development of
conservation and recreation facilities and programs in urban areas, S. 819, to
provide funding for the National Park System from outer Continental Shelf
revenues, the Lands Legacy Initiative, which would fund the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, and the role of the Council on Environmental Quality and
its involvement with the Federal land managements agencies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20/99
Hearings also held on 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/99
* Foreign Relations
AGRICULTURAL SANCTIONS POLICY: Committee concluded hearings on United States
agriculture sanctions policy for the 21st century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hearings on Sanctions Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0216
Hearings also held on 7/1, 7/21/99
* Governmental Affairs
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings on
multiple program coordination in early childhood education, focusing on Head
Start, Early Head Start, the Government Performance and Results Act, the
Family and Child Experiences Survey, funding strategies, federal policy, rules
and regulations, collaboration between federal, state, and local governments
in research, services, and performance measurement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/25/99
Hearings also held on 3/25/99
* Judiciary
HATE CRIMES PREVENTION: Committee concluded hearings to examine how to
promote a responsive and responsible role for the Federal Government on
combating hate crimes, focusing on the relationship between the federal
government and the states in combating hate crime, analysis of states'
prosecution of hate crimes, development of a hate crime legislation model, and
existing federal hate crime law, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Combating Hate Crimes: Promoting a Responsive and Responsible
Role for the Federal Government
S.Hrg. 106-0517
** HEARINGS FOR 19990512
* Banking
LOW-INCOME HOUSING TAX CREDIT: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded hearings to examine the effectiveness of the low income housing tax
credit provisions of Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code in producing
affordable housing and revitalizing neighborhoods, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
S.Hrg. 106-0499
* Commerce
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
concluded hearings to examine incentives and barriers created by the federal
government in bringing new technologies to the marketplace, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Emerging Technologies in the New Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0757
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC SAFETY: Subcommittee on Communications
concluded hearings on S. 800, to promote and enhance public safety through the
use of 9-1-1 as the universal emergency assistance number, further deployment
of wireless 9-1-1 service, support of States in upgrading 9-1-1 capabilities
and related functions, encouragement of construction and operation of
seamless, ubiquitous, and reliable networks for personal wireless services,
...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 800, Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0513
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committee held open and closed hearings to examine
damage to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at the
Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/5/99
Hearings also held on 5/5, 5/20, 7/16/99
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee resumed hearings on Medicare reform issues,
focusing on the key differences between Medicare and other group health
insurance programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/5, 5/26, 5/27/99
* Foreign Relations
DEMOCRACY/RULE OF LAW IN THE AMERICAS: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere,
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings on the state of
democracy and the rule of law in the Americas, focusing on Latin America and
the Caribbean, ...
PRINTED TITLE: State of Democracy and the Rule of Law in the Americas
S.Hrg. 106-0235
* Health
AUTHORIZATION: ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on the Title 1 program,
Helping Disadvantaged Children Meet High Standards, including issues as
accountability, targeting assistance to low-income students, allocating
resources for early childhood initiatives, and making Title One a portable
entitlement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA Title I: Evaluation & Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0051
* Indian Affairs
HUBZONES: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Small Business Administration's HUBZone Empowerment Contracting Program, SBA's
initiatives to promote economic development opportunities for Native Americans
and within Indian reservation communities, and other SBA programs that support
economic development on Indian reservations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hubzones Implementation in Indian Country
S.Hrg. 106-0090
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
FARM WORKER PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings to
examine workforce needs of American agriculture, farm workers, and the United
States economy, focusing on illegal migrant farm workers, H-2A reform, AgJOBS,
collective bargaining agreements, sanitation, and farm worker unemployment and
wages, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Meeting the Workforce Needs of American Agriculture, Farm
Workers, and the U.S. Economy
S.Hrg. 106-0530
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's DailyDigest.
PRINTED TITLE: SBA's SBIC and Microloan Programs (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0275
** HEARINGS FOR 19990513
* Energy
ALASKAN NATIONAL PARKS/OIL SPILL SETTLEMENT/NATIVE HIRING: Committee
concluded hearings on S. 698, to review the suitability and feasibility of
recovering costs of high altitude rescues at Denali National Park and Preserve
in the state of Alaska, S. 711, to allow for the investment of joint Federal
and State funds from the civil settlement of damages from the Exxon Valdez oil
spill, and S. 748, to improve Native hiring and contracting by the Federal
Government within the State of Alaska, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Rescues at Denali, Exxon Valdez (sic) Oil Spill, and Federal
Hiring in Alaska (S. 698, S. 711, S. 748)
S.Hrg. 106-0130
* Environment
CLEAN WATER ACTION PLAN: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
the President's Clean Water Action Plan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Water Action Plan
S.Hrg. 106-0389
* Finance
U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE: Committee held oversight hearings on activities of the
United States Customs Service, focusing on commercial operations,
international trade, law enforcement, and the Automated Commercial
Environment, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Customs Service Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0100
Hearings also held on 5/18, 5/25/99
* Foreign Relations
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY: Committee resumed hearings on issues relating
to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, focusing on its impact on Start II and
National Missile Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/4, 5/5, 5/25, 5/26, 9/16/99
* Health
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard M.
McGahey, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination [on Richard McGahey, of the District of Columbia,
to be Assistant Secretary, Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, U.S.
Department of Labor]
S.Hrg. 106-0050
* Judiciary
VOLUNTARY CONFESSIONS: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight concluded
hearings to examine the Department of Justice's decision regarding the enforce
of Federal statute 18 U.S.C. 3501, which governs the admissibility of
voluntary confessions in Federal court, and the impact on the Miranda rights,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Clinton Justice Department's Refusal to Enforce the Law on
Voluntary Confessions
S.Hrg. 106-0237
** HEARINGS FOR 19990514
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/19, 7/14/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990517
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act: State and Local Views (Field hearing
held in Cleveland, OH)
S.Hrg. 106-0075
** HEARINGS FOR 19990518
* Agriculture
NOXIOUS WEEDS AND PLANT PESTS: Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and
Rural Revitalization concluded hearings on S. 910, to streamline, modernize,
and enhance the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture relating to plant
protection and quarantine, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 910--The Noxious Weed Coordination and Plant Protection Act
S.Hrg. 106-0317
* Commerce
TELEVISION VIOLENCE: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to the
effects of violence in mass media programming, and S. 876, to amend the
Communications Act of 1934 to require that the broadcast of violent video
programming be limited to hours when children are not reasonably likely to
comprise a substantial portion of the audience, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Television Violence
S.Hrg. 106-0862
* Energy
FEDERAL ROYALTY CERTAINTY ACT: Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development,
Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 924, entitled the "Federal
Royalty Certainty Act", to codify that royalty value is the value of oil and
gas at the lease, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Royalty Certainty Act (S. 924)
S.Hrg. 106-0192
* Environment
GASOLINE SULFUR STANDARDS: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety held hearings on the Environmental Protection
Agency's proposed sulfur standard for gasoline as contained in the proposed
Tier Two standards for automobiles, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Air Act: Sulfur in the Tier 2 Standards for Automobiles
S.Hrg. 106-0503
Hearings also held on 5/20, 5/29/99
* Finance
CUSTOMS OPERATIONS EFFECTIVENESS: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the
enforcement activities of the United States Customs Service, focusing on
commercial operations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/13/99
Hearings also held on 5/13, 5/25/99
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Educating the Forgotten Half
S.Hrg. 106-0059
** HEARINGS FOR 19990519
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the budget and posture of the United States Army, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/11, 5/14, 7/14/99
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for
foreign assistance programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/25, 4/29, 5/20/99
* Energy
YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight hearings on the status of the
Youth Conservation Corps and other service and job training programs conducted
by the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Youth Conservation Corps
S.Hrg. 106-0135
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 613, to
encourage Indian economic development, to provide for the disclosure of Indian
tribal sovereign immunity in contracts involving Indian tribes, and S. 614, to
provide for regulatory reform in order to encourage investment, business, and
economic development with respect to activities conducted on Indian lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Business Development on Indian Lands (S. 613, S. 614)
S.Hrg. 106-0096
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990520
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2000 for foreign assistance programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/9/99
Hearings also held on 3/9, 3/25, 4/29, 5/19/99
* Commerce
CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 97, to
require the installation and use by schools and libraries of a technology for
filtering or blocking material on the Internet on computers with Internet
access to be eligible to receive or retain universal service assistance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 97, The Children's Internet Protection Act
S.Hrg. 106-0828
COMMERCIAL SPACE LAUNCH INDUSTRY: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and
Space concluded hearings on issues relating to the commercial space launch
industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Commercial Space Launch Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0829
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committee held open and closed hearings to examine
damage to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at the
Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/5/99
Hearings also held on 5/5, 5/12, 7/16/99
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources' Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and
Regulation concluded joint oversight hearings with the House Committee on
Government Reform's Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural
Resources and Regulatory Affairs on the Administration's fiscal year 2000
budget request for climate change programs and compliance with various
statutory provisions in fiscal year 1999 appropriations acts requiring
detailed accounting of climate change spending and performance measures for
each requested increase in funding, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Global Climate Change (Joint with Committee on Government
Reform (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0227
NATIONAL OILHEAT RESEARCH ALLIANCE ACT: Subcommittee on Energy Research,
Development, Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 348, to
authorize and facilitate a program to enhance training, research and
development, energy conservation and efficiency, and consumer education in the
oilheat industry for the benefit of oilheat consumers and the public, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Oilheat Research Alliance Act (S. 348)
S.Hrg. 106-0140
* Environment
GASOLINE SULFUR STANDARDS: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on the Environmental
Protection Agency's proposed sulfur standard for gasoline as contained in the
proposed Tier Two standards for automobiles, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/18/99
Hearings also held on 5/18, 5/29/99
* Governmental Affairs
ESPIONAGE INVESTIGATION: Committee concluded closed oversight hearings on the
national security methods and processes relating to the Wen-Ho Lee espionage
investigation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 6/9/99
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: From Tales to Tapes
S.Hrg. 106-0149
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: SBA's Management Assistance Programs (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0337
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Small Business Procurement (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0305
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Committee concluded hearings on S. 555, to amend title 38,
United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to continue
payment of monthly educational assistance benefits to veterans enrolled at
educational institutions during periods between terms if the interval between
such periods does not exceed eight weeks, S. 695, to direct the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to establish a national cemetery for veterans in the Atlanta,
Georgia, metropolitan area, S. 940, to provide a temporary authority for the
use of voluntary separation incentives by the Department of Veterans Affairs
to reduce employment levels, restructure staff, and S. 1076, to amend title
38, United States Code, to provide a cost-of-living adjustment in rates of
compensation paid to veterans with service-connected disabilities, to enhance
programs providing health care, education, and other benefits for veterans, to
authorize major medical facility projects, to reform eligibility for burial in
Arlington National Cemetery, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pending Legislation Before the Committee
S.Hrg. 106-0576
** HEARINGS FOR 19990524
* Aging
HOME HEALTH CARE ASSESSMENT: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
impact of the Health Care Financing Administration's Outcome and Assessment
Information Set on access to home health care, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Too Much Information? The Impact of OASIS on Access to Home
Health Care
S.Hrg. 106-0289
* Judiciary
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
concluded hearings on the Bureau of Prisons oversight of the role and
importance of the Federal Prison Industries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bureau of Prisons Oversight: The Importance of Federal Prison
Industries
S.Hrg. 106-0528
** HEARINGS FOR 19990525
* Energy
NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/RECREATION: Subcommittee on National
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 140, to
establish the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in the State of New York as
an affiliated area of the National Park System, S. 734, entitled the "National
Discovery Trails Act of 1999", S. 762, to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to conduct a feasibility study on the inclusion of the Miami Circle in
Biscayne National Park, S. 938, to eliminate restrictions on the acquisition
of certain land contiguous to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, S. 939, to
correct spelling errors in the statutory designations of Hawaiian National
Parks, S. 946, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer
administrative jurisdiction over land within the boundaries of the Home of
Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site to the Archivist of the United
States for the construction of a visitor center, and S. 955, to allow the
National Park Service to acquire certain land for addition to the Wilderness
Battlefield in Virginia, as previously authorized by law, by purchase or
exchange as well as by donation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Historic Sites, Trails Act, and National Parks Bills (S. 140,
S. 734, S. 762, S. 938, S. 939, S. 946, S. 955)
S.Hrg. 106-0191
RETAIL ELECTRICITY COMPETITION: Committee held oversight hearings on State
progress in retail electricity competition, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Retail Electricity Competition
S.Hrg. 106-0173
* Environment
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND: Committee held hearings on S. 1090, to reauthorize
and amend the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Liability, and
Compensation Act of 1980, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Superfund Program Completion Act of 1999 (S. 1090)
S.Hrg. 106-0322
* Finance
U.S. CUSTOMS OPERATIONS: Committee resumed hearings on the enforcement
activities of the U.S. Customs Service, focusing on how the Custom Services is
ensuring effectiveness, integrity, and accountability in customs operations,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/13/99
Hearings also held on 5/13, 5/18/99
* Foreign Relations
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY: Committee held hearings to examine the legal
status of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/4, 5/5, 5/13, 5/26, 9/16/99
POLITICAL AND MILITARY DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIA: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs concluded hearings on political and military developments
in India and their implications for American policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Political/Military Developments in India
S.Hrg. 106-0229
* Judiciary
COPYRIGHT AND DIGITAL DISTANCE EDUCATION: Committee concluded hearings to
review the Library of Congress Copyright Office report on copyright and
digital distance education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Copyright Office Report on Copyright and Digital Distance
Education
S.Hrg. 106-0539
* Small Business
EDUCATION AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: Committee held hearings to examine the effect
of the level of academic competence achieved by high school graduates on the
success of future entrepreneurs, small businesses, and the workforce, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Success = Business Success
S.Hrg. 106-0094
* Year 2000
COMMUNITY Y2K PREPAREDNESS: Committee concluded hearings to explore
individual and community Y2K preparedness, and the media's role in providing
Y2K information, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990526
* Agriculture
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY: Committee concluded hearings to examine the livestock
industry, including mandatory pricing and country of origin labeling, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Livestock Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0423
* Banking
CORPORATE BOND PRICE TRANSPARENCY: Subcommittee on Securities concluded
hearings to examine the private sector's voluntary corporate bond price
transparency initiative coordinated by the Bond Market Association (Corporate
Trades 1), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of "Corporate Trades I"
S.Hrg. 106-0537
* Commerce
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the activities of the Federal Communications Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Communications Commission Oversight Hearing
S.Hrg. 106-0861
* Energy
AMERICAN LAND SOVEREIGNTY ACT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded hearings on S. 510, to preserve the sovereignty of the
United States over public lands and acquired lands owned by the United States,
and to preserve State sovereignty and private property rights in non-Federal
lands surrounding those public lands and acquired lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: American Land Sovereignty Protection Act (S. 510)
S.Hrg. 106-0202
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings on Medicare reform issues, focusing
on the work of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/27/99
* Foreign Relations
ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE TREATY: Committee concluded hearings to examine a
protocol to reconstitute the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty with four new
partners, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/4, 5/5, 5/13, 5/25, 9/16/99
* Governmental Affairs
NATIONAL SECURITY AND MILITARY COMMERCIAL CONCERNS WITH CHINA: Subcommittee
on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded
hearings to examine the unclassified report of the House Select Committee on
United States National Security and Military/Commercial concerns with the
People's Republic of China, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Examination of the Report of the House Select Committee on
U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's
Republic of China
S.Hrg. 106-0323
* Health
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT: Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and
Training held hearings on issues relating to mine safety and proposed
legislation to amend the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, to
establish a more cooperative and effective method for rulemaking that takes
into account the special needs and concerns of smaller miners, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Increasing MSHA and Small Mine Cooperation
S.Hrg. 106-0166
* Indian Affairs
NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH ACTIVITIES: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
discuss Native American youth activities and initiatives within the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Youth Activities and Initiatives
S.Hrg. 106-0107
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
IMMIGRANT'S CONTRIBUTION TO ARMED FORCES: Subcommittee on Immigration
concluded hearings to examine immigrant American's contribution to the Armed
Forces and national defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Contribution of Immigrants to America's Armed Forces
S.Hrg. 106-0548
** HEARINGS FOR 19990527
* Agriculture
NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE FUELS AND CHEMICALS ACT: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 935, to amend the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching
Policy Act of 1977 to authorize research to promote the conversion of biomass
into biobased industrial products, ...
PRINTED TITLE: New Petroleum: S. 935, the National Sustainable Fuels and
Chemicals Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0203
* Commerce
MILLENNIUM DIGITAL COMMERCE ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 761, to
regulate interstate commerce by electronic means by permitting and encouraging
the continued expansion of electronic commerce through the operation of free
market forces, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Millennium Digital Commerce Act, S. 761
S.Hrg. 106-0893
* Energy
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of David L.
Goldwyn, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy
(International Affairs), and James B. Lewis, of New Mexico, to be Director of
the Office of Minority Economic Impact, Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Goldwyn and Lewis Nominations
S.Hrg. 106-0220
WATER AND POWER RESOURCE ACTS: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded
hearings on the following bills:
S. 1027, to reauthorize the participation of the Bureau of Reclamation in
the Deschutes Resources Conservancy, ...
S. 769, to provide a final settlement on certain debt owed by the city of
Dickinson, North Dakota, for the construction of the bascule gates on the
Dickinson Dam, ...
S. 244, to authorize the construction of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water
System and to authorize assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System,
Inc., a nonprofit corporation, for the planning and construction of the water
supply system, ...
S. 623, to amend Public Law 89-108 to increase authorization levels for
State and Indian tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water supplies, to
meet current and future water quantity and quality needs of the Red River
Valley, to deauthorize certain project features and irrigation service areas,
to enhance natural resources and fish and wildlife habitat, ... and
H.R. 459, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act for FERC
Project No. 9401, the Mt. Hope Waterpower Project.
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Water and Power Bills (S. 244, S. 623, S. 769,
S. 1027, H.R. 459)
S.Hrg. 106-0208
* Environment
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water concluded hearings on S. 1100, to amend the Endangered Species Act of
1973 to provide that the designation of critical habitat for endangered and
threatened species be required as part of the development of recovery plans
for those species, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Endangered Species Act Recovery Plans: Critical Habitat
Designations
S.Hrg. 106-0437
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on Medicare reform issues,
focusing on the work of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of
Medicare, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/26/99
* Foreign Relations
CHINESE EMBASSY BOMBING: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine the Chinese Embassy bombing and its effects on
United States-China relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of David B.
Sandalow, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, and Lawrence
Harrington, of Tennessee, to be United States Executive Director of the
Inter-American Development Bank, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Health
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS/HUMANITIES: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Endowment for the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Humanities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities
S.Hrg. 106-0172
OLDER AMERICANS ACT: Subcommittee on Aging concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the Older Americans Act, focusing on Title
V, the Senior Community Service Employment Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act, Title V: Longevity in the Workplace
S.Hrg. 106-0174
** HEARINGS FOR 19990529
* Environment
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [GASOLINE SULFUR
STANDARDS]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/18/99
Hearings also held on 5/18, 5/20/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990601
* Aging
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Impact of Social Security Reform on Women
S.Hrg. 106-0271
** HEARINGS FOR 19990603
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [CREDIT FOR
EARLY REDUCTION ACT]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/24/99
Hearings also held on 3/24/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990608
* Armed Services
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of General Eric
K. Shinseki, USA, for reappointment to the grade of general and for
appointment as Chief of Staff, United States Army, and Lieutenant General
James L. Jones, Jr., USMC, to be general and for appointment as Commandant of
the Marine Corps, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Foreign Relations
CENTRAL AFRICAN WARS: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded hearings to
examine the Central African Wars and the future of United States-Africa
policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: Committee concluded closed oversight hearings on
certain activities of the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Veterans Affairs
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Kenneth W.
Kizer, of California, to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health,
and John T. Hanson, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs
for Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990609
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Subcommittee on the District of
Columbia concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000
for the government of the District of Columbia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: District of Columbia Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 (H.R.
2587, 3064, 3194/S. 1283) (Council of the District of Columbia, Office of the
Mayor, Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority)
S.Hrg. 106-0395
* Banking
FINANCIAL PRIVACY: Committee concluded hearings on S. 187, to give customers
notice and choice about how their financial institutions share or sell their
personally identifiable sensitive financial information, and other financial
privacy issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Financial Privacy Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0602
* Commerce
AUTO INSURANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on S. 837, to enable
drivers to choose a more affordable form of auto insurance that also provides
for more adequate and timely compensation for accident victims, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Auto Insurance Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0891
* Energy
SNAKE RIVER DAMS/NORTHWEST POWER PLANNING: Subcommittee on Water and Power
held oversight hearings on the process to determine the future of the four
lower Snake River dams and conduct oversight on the Northwest Power Planning
Council's Framework Process, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Snake River Dams
S.Hrg. 106-0167
* Environment
TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
resumed hearings on the project delivery and streamlining provisions of the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/29/99
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee resumed oversight hearings to examine risk
adjustment methodology, and enrollment, payment, and other implementation
issues relating to Medicare+Choice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/17/99
Hearings also held on 3/17, 6/10/99
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Donald K.
Bandler, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus, M.
Michael Einik, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to The Former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia, Donald W. Keyser, of Virginia, for Rank of Ambassador during
tenure of service as Special Representative of the Secretary of State for
Nagorno-Karabakh and New Independent States Regional Conflicts, Joseph
Limprecht, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Thomas J.
Miller, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Richard L.
Morningstar, of Massachusetts, to be the Representative of the United States
to the European Union with the rank and status of Ambassador, Larry C. Napper,
of Texas, for Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service as Coordinator of
the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Program, and Donald Lee
Pressley, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Oliver P.
Garza, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, Frank
Almaguer, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, John R.
Hamilton, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Prudence
Bushnell, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Government Affairs
ESPIONAGE INVESTIGATION: Committee concluded oversight hearings in closed
session on the national security methods and processes relating to the Wen-Ho
Lee espionage investigation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/20/99
Hearings also held on 5/20/99
* Indian Affairs
INTERNET GAMBLING Committee concluded hearings on issues involving Indian
gaming and related provisions of S. 692, to prohibit Internet gambling, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Internet Gaming (S. 692)
S.Hrg. 106-0112
* Intelligence
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY REORGANIZATION: Committee concluded hearings on issues
relating to the Department of Energy reorganization, focusing on improvements
in security and management of the nuclear weapons complex, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Energy Counterintelligence, Intelligence, and
Nuclear Security Reorganization
S.Hrg. 106-0592
** HEARINGS FOR 19990610
* Aging
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Passport to Independence: Battling the Leading Causes of
Disability Among Seniors (Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0199
* Banking
ESPIONAGE AND EXPORT CONTROLS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
espionage and export control issues in the House Cox Report, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Export Control Issues in the Cox Report
S.Hrg. 106-0474
* Commerce
INTERSTATE COMMERCE ENCRYPTION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 798, to
promote electronic commerce by encouraging and facilitating the use of
encryption in interstate commerce consistent with the protection of national
security, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 798, the Promote Reliable On-Line Transactions to Encourage
Commerce and Trade (PROTECT) Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0892
* Energy
NATIONAL RECREATION LAKES STUDY: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the report and recommendations of the National Recreation Lakes Study
Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Recreation Lakes Study
S.Hrg. 106-0154
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings on the impact of the 1997 Balanced
Budget Act provisions on the Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries and
providers program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/17/99
Hearings also held on 3/17, 6/9/99
* Governmental Affairs
ENERGY DEPARTMENT EXPORT CONTROL: Committee concluded hearings on national
security and economic issues related to the dual-use and munitions list export
control processes and implementation at the Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Dual-Use and Munitions List Export Control Processes and
Implementation at the Department of Energy
S.Hrg. 106-0349
MEDICARE INTERIM PAYMENT SYSTEM: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the impact of the new Medicare Interim Payment System
on certain home health agencies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Home Health Care: Will the New Payment System and Regulatory
Overkill Hurt Our Seniors?
S.Hrg. 106-0197
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on special populations, and
S.505, to give gifted and talented students the opportunity to develop their
capabilities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Special Populations
S.Hrg. 106-0077
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
B.F. GOODRICH/COLTEC MERGER: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to examine the competitive and national
security implications of the proposed merger between B.F. Goodrich/Coltec
Industries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Competitive Implications of the BFGoodrich/Coltec Merger
S.Hrg. 106-0597
* Year 2000
Y2K AND HEALTHCARE: Committee concluded hearings to examine Y2K compliance
issues within the health care industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990611
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Training First Responders Into the Next Century (Field hearing
held in Fort McClellan, AL)
S.Hrg. 106-0601
** HEARINGS FOR 19990614
* Economic
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT: 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, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Summit on High Technology: Day One--Highlight (at
Y4.Ec7:Su6/3/pt.1)
S.Hrg. 106-0175,pt.1
* Small Business
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Small Business and Environmental Technologies: The Challenges
nd Opportunities (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0193
** HEARINGS FOR 19990615
* Economic
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT: Committee held hearings to explore 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, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Summit on High Technology: Day One--Explore (at
Y4.Ec7:Su6/3/pt.2)
S.Hrg. 106-0175,pt.2
* Energy
CROWN JEWEL MINE DECISION: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
concluded oversight hearings on issues related to vacating the Record of
Decision and denial of a plan of operations for the Crown Jewel Mine in
Okanogan County, Washington, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crown Jewel Mine Decision
S.Hrg. 106-0280
* Judiciary
STADIUM FINANCING AND FRANCHISE RELOCATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 952, to expand an antitrust exemption applicable to professional sports
leagues and to require, as a condition of such an exemption, participation by
professional football and major league baseball sports leagues in the
financing of certain stadium construction activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Stadium Financing and Franchise Relocation Act of 1999 (S.
952)(Field hearing held (9/13/99) in Philadelphia, PA)
S.Hrg. 106-0484
Hearings also held on 6/22, 9/13/99
* Small Business
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: E-Commerce: Barriers and Opportunities for Small Business
S.Hrg. 106-0195
** HEARINGS FOR 19990616
* Appropriations
PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to prostate cancer
research activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Prostate Cancer (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0362
* Economic
HIGH-TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL SUMMIT: Committee concluded hearings to advance
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, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Summit on High Technology: Day One--Advance (at
Y4.Ec7:Su6/3/pt.3)
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Mark Wylea
Erwin, of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mauritius, and
to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the
Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros and as Ambassador to the Republic of
Seychelles, Johnnie Carson, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Kenya, Christopher E. Goldthwait, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Chad, Joyce E. Leader, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Guinea, Bismarck Myrick, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Liberia, David B. Dunn, of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Zambia, and Michael D. Metelits, of California, to be Ambassador
to the Republic of Cape Verde, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Marsha L.
Berzon, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth
Circuit, Robert A. Katzmann, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Second Circuit, Keith P. Ellison, to be United States District Judge
for the Southern District of Texas, Gary Allen Feess, to be United States
District Judge for the Central District of California, W. Allen Pepper Jr., to
be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi,
Karen E. Schreier, to be United States District Judge for the District of
South Dakota, Stefan R. Underhill, to be United States District Judge for the
District of Connecticut, and T. John Ward, to be United States District Judge
for the Eastern District of Texas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments
S.Hrg. 106-0399,pt.1
Hearings also held on 7/13, 7/29, 9/14, 10/7, 10/26, 11/10/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990617
* Aging
INCOME SECURITY: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to income
security, focusing on financial preparation and retirement education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Learning to Save: Innovations in the Pursuit of Income
Security
S.Hrg. 106-0272
* Banking
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Export Administration Act,
focusing on emerging technologies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review of the Export Control Authorities
S.Hrg. 106-0616
Hearings also held on 6/23, 6/24/99
* Commerce
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Johnnie E.
Frazier, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Department of Commerce, Cheryl
Shavers, of California, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology,
Kelly H. Carnes, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Technology Policy, Ann Brown, of Florida, and Mary Sheila Gall,
of Virginia, each to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission, and Albert S. Jacquez, of California, to be Administrator of the
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Mr. Johnnie E. Frazier, ... Dr. Cheryl L.
Shavers, ... Kelly H. Carnes, ... Department of Commerce; Mr. Albert S.
Jacquez, ... Saint Lawrence Seaway ... Ann W. Brown, ... and Ms. Mary Sheila
Gall ... Consumer Product Safety Commission
S.Hrg. 106-0949
* Economic
MONETARY POLICY: Committee concluded hearings on monetary policy and the
economic outlook, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy (at Y4.Ec7:P75/9/1999)
S.Hrg. 106-0183
* Environment
MUNICIPAL WASTE CONTROL: Committee concluded hearings on S. 533, to amend the
Solid Waste Disposal Act to authorize local governments and Governors to
restrict receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste, S. 663, to impose
certain limitations on the receipt of out-of-State municipal solid waste, to
authorize State and local controls over the flow of municipal solid waste, and
S. 872, to impose certain limits on the receipt of out-of-State municipal
solid waste, to authorize State and local controls over the flow of municipal
solid waste, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Interstate Transportation of Municipal Solid Waste (S. 533, S.
663, S. 872)
S.Hrg. 106-0357
* Finance
MEDICAID COVERAGE AND SCHOOL-BASED SERVICES: Committee concluded hearings to
examine Medicaid funding for school-based services, focusing on the
school-based services play in assuring that children receive needed health
care, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicaid Funding for School-Based Services
S.Hrg. 106-0138
NOMINATION: Committee held hearings on the nomination of Lawrence H. Summers,
of Maryland, to be Secretary of the, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Lawrence H. Summers
S.Hrg. 106-0310
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee held hearings on the nomination of Richard C.
Holbrooke, of New York, to be the United States Representative to the United
Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the United States
Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hearings on the Nomination of Hon. Richard C. Holbrooke to
Serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
S.Hrg. 106-0225
Hearings held on 6/22, 6/24/99
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Joint Meeting: Senate Committee on
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held joint hearings with the House
Committee on Education and Work Force on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on
research and evaluation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Educational Research and Evaluation Efforts (Joint
with Education and the Workforce Committee (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0128
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990619
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Markets for a New Millennium (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0915
** HEARINGS FOR 19990621
* Narcotics Control
BLACK MARKET PESO EXCHANGE: Committee concluded hearings to examine the black
market peso exchange, focusing on how U.S. companies are used to launder
money, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Black Market Peso Exchange: How U.S. Companies are Used to
Launder Money
S.Hrg. 106-0198
** HEARINGS FOR 19990622
* Appropriations
JUVENILE DIABETES: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings on the National Institutes of Health proposed
budget increase for the treatment and prevention of juvenile diabetes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Juvenile Diabetes (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0370
* Banking
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Lawrence H.
Summers, of Maryland, to be Secretary of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Lawrence H. Summers
S.Hrg. 106-0549
* Energy
DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES: Committee concluded hearings to explore
the effectiveness of existing Federal and industry efforts to promote
distributed generating technologies, including solar, wind, fuel cells and
microturbines, as well as regulatory and other barriers to their widespread
use, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Distributed Generation Technologies
S.Hrg. 106-0224
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SECURITY: Committees concluded joint hearings on the
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board's report on security problems
at the Department of Energy,...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board Report on DOE
(Joint with Armed Services, Governmental Affairs, and Intelligence)
S.Hrg. 106-0452
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Gwen C. Clare,
of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NOMINATION: Committee resumed hearings on the nomination of Richard
Holbrooke, of New York, to be the Representative of the United States of
America to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the
Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the
United Nations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/17/99
Hearings also held on 6/17, 6/24/99
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps,
Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine counter-drug efforts in
the United States Southern Command's Area of Responsibility, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Confronting Threats to Security in the Americas
S.Hrg. 106-0234
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, focusing on professional development opportunities
for teachers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Professional Development in ESEA
S.Hrg. 106-0083
OLDER AMERICANS ACT: Subcommittee on Aging concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Older Americans Act,
focusing on the need for a National Family Caregiver Support Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Older Americans Act and a Long-Term Family Caregiver Program
S.Hrg. 106-0133
* Judiciary
STADIUM FINANCING AND FRANCHISE RELOCATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 952, to expand an antitrust exemption applicable to professional sports
leagues and to require, as a condition of such an exemption, participation by
professional football and major league baseball sports leagues in the
financing of certain stadium construction activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/15/99
Hearings also held on 6/15, 9/13/99
* Year 2000
FEDERAL Y2K SPENDING: Committees concluded joint hearings to examine the
allocation and use of funds for Federal Y2K remediation, repair, and
contingency planning, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Joint Hearing on Federal Agency Y2K Spending (Joint with
Appropriations) (at Y4.3:T22/Ag3)
S.Hrg. 106-0219
** HEARINGS FOR 19990623
* Armed Services
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the findings and recommendations of the Special Investigative Panel
of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board to reorganize
Department of Energy National Security Programs in response to espionage
threats, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/12/99
Hearings also held on 4/12/99
* Banking
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Export Administration Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/17/99
Hearings also held on 6/17, 6/24/99
* Energy
LAND CONVEYANCE AND WILDERNESS DESIGNATION BILLS: Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 503, designating certain land
in the San Isabel National Forest in the State of Colorado as the "Spanish
Peaks Wilderness", S. 953, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey
certain land in the State of South Dakota to the Terry Peak Ski Area, S. 977,
to provide for the conveyance by the Bureau of Land Management to Douglas
County, Oregon, of a county park and certain adjacent land, S. 1088, to
authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain administrative sites
in national forests in the State of Arizona, to convey certain land to the
City of Sedona, Arizona for a wastewater treatment facility, and H.R. 15 and
S. 848, bills to designate a portion of the Otay Mountain region of California
as wilderness, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Wilderness and Land Transfer Bills (S. 503, S.
848, S. 953, S. 977, S. 1088, H.R. 15)
S.Hrg. 106-0207
* Environment
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN SALMON RECOVERY: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife,
and Drinking Water concluded hearings on issues relating to the Columbia River
Basin salmon recovery, focusing on the activities of the Federal Caucus and
the Four-H Paper, and the status of the 99 Decision, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Salmon in the Columbia River Basin: Review of the Proposed
Recovery Plan
S.Hrg. 106-0453
* Finance
MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT: Committee held hearings on proposals to
add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
S.Hrg. 106-0211
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of David B.
Sandalow, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAQ: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
concluded hearings to examine United States policy towards Iraq, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Policy Toward Iraq: Mobilizing the Opposition
S.Hrg. 106-0241
* Governmental Affairs
EXPORT CONTROL PROCESS: Committee concluded hearings on interagency
Inspectors General report on the export control process for dual-use and
munitions list commodities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Inspectors General Report on the Export-Control Process for
Dual-Use and Munitions List Commodities
S.Hrg. 106-0350
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, focusing on Title VI, Innovative Education Program
Strategies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Title VI and Class Size Reduction
S.Hrg. 106-0101
* Indian Affairs
NATIONAL GAMBLING IMPACT STUDY COMMISSION FINAL REPORT: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the National Gambling Impact Study Commission final
report on the status of tribal governmental sponsored gaming in the United
States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report
S.Hrg. 106-0117
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 6/24/99
* Judiciary
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: Committee concluded hearings on issues relating to
religious liberty protection, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Religious Liberty
S.Hrg. 106-0689
Hearings also held on 9/9/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990624
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL TRADE POLICY: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States agricultural trade goals and related objectives of the forthcoming
round of global trade negotiations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Trade Issues
S.Hrg. 106-0334
* Banking
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Export Administration Act,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/17/99
Hearings also held on 6/17, 6/23/99
* Energy
PROPOSED BP AMOCO/ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY MERGER: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to examine the implications of the proposed acquisition of
the Atlantic Richfield Company by BP Amoco, PLC, ...
PRINTED TITLE: BP Amoco-ARCO Merger
S.Hrg. 106-0163
* Environment
NO T2X K EMISSION REDUCTION: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on the Environmental
Protection Agency's NO T2X K
PRINTED TITLE: NOx State Implementation Plans
S.Hrg. 106-0471
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard C.
Holbrooke, of New York, to be the Representative of the United States to the
United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador, and the Representative
of the United States in the Security Council of the United Nations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/17/99
Hearings also held on 6/17, 6/22/99
SATELLITE EXPORT CONTROL/DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND LAUNCH CAPABILITIES:
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion
concluded hearings to examine U.S. satellite export control policy and the
domestic production/launch capability, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
DC COLLEGE ACCESS ACT/HIGHER EDUCATION FOR DC STUDENTS ACT: Subcommittee on
Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia
concluded hearings on H.R. 974, to establish a program to afford high school
graduates from the District of Columbia the benefits of in-State tuition at
State colleges and universities outside the District of Columbia, and S. 856,
to provide greater options for District of Columbia students in higher
education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: H.R. 974--The District of Columbia College Access Act and S.
856--The Expanded Options in Higher Education for District of Columbia
Students Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0252
** HEARINGS FOR 19990628
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of John David
Holum, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and
International Security, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990629
* Commerce
PUBLIC SAFETY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Subcommittee on Science, Technology,
and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Fire
Administration, and the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Public Safety Science and Technology
S.Hrg. 106-0934
* Energy
ELECTRIC UTILITY DEREGULATION: Committee held hearings on S. 161, to provide
for a transition to market-based rates for power sold by the Federal Power
Marketing Administrations and the Tennessee Valley Authority, S. 282, to
provide that no electric utility shall be required to enter into a new
contract or obligation to purchase or to sell electricity or capacity under
section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, S. 516, to
benefit consumers by promoting competition in the electric power industry, S.
1047, to provide for a more competitive electric power industry, S. 1273, to
amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more competitive
and efficient electric power markets, and S. 1284, to amend the Federal Power
Act to ensure that no State may establish, maintain, or enforce on behalf of
any electric utility an exclusive right to sell electric energy or otherwise
unduly discriminate against any consumer who seeks to purchase electric energy
in interstate commerce from any supplier, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Electric Power Industry Competition Legislation (S. 161, S.
282, S. 516, S. 1047, S. 1273, S. 1284)
S.Hrg. 106-0254
Hearings also held on 7/15/99
WILDLAND FIRE PREPAREDNESS: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded oversight hearings on the federal government's state of
preparedness for this year's wildland fire season, including fire fighting
budgets, availability and retention of trained fire fighters, and cooperative
programs outside the federal government to enhance fire suppression
capabilities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Wildland Fire Preparedness
S.Hrg. 106-0247
* Finance
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Stuart E.
Eizenstat, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Jeffrey Rush,
Jr., of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Treasury, and
Lewis Andrew Sachs, of Connecticut, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Financial Markets, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Stuart E. Eisenstat, Jeffrey Rush, Jr., and
Lewis Andrew Sachs
S.Hrg. 106-0312
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, focusing on arts education and magnet schools, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Arts Education and Magnet Schools
S.Hrg. 106-0084
** HEARINGS FOR 19990630
* Aging
NURSING HOME CARE: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Health Care
Financing Administration's implementation of their nursing home improvement
initiative, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nursing Home Initiative: Results at Year One
S.Hrg. 106-0353
* Appropriations
GAMBLING ADDICTION: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings on gambling addiction issues, focusing on the
health research recommendations of the National Gambling Impact Study
Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Addictive Gambling (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0407
* Commerce
NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES ACT/CORAL REEF CONSERVATION ACT: Committee
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of
the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, and S. 725, to preserve and protect coral
reefs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Coral Reef Conservation and the Reauthorization of the
National Marine Sanctuaries Act
S.Hrg. 106-1041
* Energy
U.S. FOREST SERVICE ECONOMIC ACTION PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the United States
Forest Service Economic Action programs, focusing on community based
approaches to natural resource management, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Forest Service Economic Action Programs
S.Hrg. 106-0253
* Finance
PENSION REFORM: Committee held hearings on S. 646, to amend the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986 to provide increased retirement savings opportunities, S.
741, to provide for pension reform, S. 659, to amend the Internal Revenue Code
of 1986 to require pension plans to provide adequate notice to individuals
whose future benefit accruals are being significantly reduced, and S. 60, to
amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide equitable treatment for
contributions by employees to pension plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pension Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0333
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee on Health, Education, Labor
and Pensions Committee continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on
school facilities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: School Facilities
S.Hrg. 106-0153
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN RESERVED WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT ACT: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 438, to provide for the settlement of the water rights claims of the
Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation Indian
Reserved Water Rights Settlement Act (S. 438)
S.Hrg. 106-0119
** HEARINGS FOR 19990701
* Armed Services
MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KOSOVO: Committee concluded hearings on issues
relating to military operations in Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 4/15, 7/20, 10/14, 10/21, 11/3/99
* Banking
LOW-INCOME HOUSING AVAILABILITY: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded hearings on S. 1318, to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to award grants to States to supplement State and local assistance
for the preservation and promotion of affordable housing opportunities for
low-income families, and S. 1319, to authorize the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development to renew project-based contracts for assistance under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 at up to market rent
levels, in order to preserve these projects as affordable low-income housing,
...
PRINTED TITLE: HUD Section 8 Opt-Out Crisis
S.Hrg. 106-0789
* Foreign Relations
SANCTIONS IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: Committee held hearings on the
role of sanctions in United States national security policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/11/99
Hearings also held on 5/11, 7/21/99
U.S. POLICY ON HONG KONG: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine United States policy towards Hong Kong, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/23/99
Hearings also held on 3/23, 7/21/99
* Governmental Affairs
EGG SAFETY: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring
and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the federal food
safety system, focusing on the safety of eggs and egg products, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Egg Safety: Are There Cracks in the Federal Food Safety
System?
S.Hrg. 106-0283
* Health
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT: Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training
concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Workforce Investment
Act of 1998, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Workforce Investment Act: Job Training
S.Hrg. 106-0188
* Indian Affairs
AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1290, to amend title 36 of the United States Code to establish the American
Indian Education Foundation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: American Indian Education Foundation (S. 1290)
S.Hrg. 106-0124
** HEARINGS FOR 19990707
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/17/99
Hearings also held on 3/17, 3/18/99
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Effects of Public Financing on Public Health Infrastructure
(Field hearing held in Wichita, KS)
S.Hrg. 106-0205
** HEARINGS FOR 19990709
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Funding AIDS Research and Services (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0410
** HEARINGS FOR 19990713
* Energy
NEVADA LAND CONVEYANCES: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
concluded hearings on S. 1330, to give the city of Mesquite, Nevada, the right
to purchase at fair market value certain parcels of public land in the city;
and S. 1329, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to
Nye County, Nevada, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Convey Lands to Nye County, Nevada; and the City of Mesquite,
Nevada (S. 1329, S. 1330)
S.Hrg. 106-0256
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee resumed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, focusing on safe and drug free schools, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Drug-Free Schools (The date, 7/7, given on this
hearing's title page and table of contents is incorrect; the hearing was held
on 7/13/99.)
S.Hrg. 106-0178
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Charles R.
Wilson, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh
Circuit, William Haskell Alsup, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of California, Adalberto Jose Jordan, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Carlos Murguia, to be
United States District Judge for the District of Kansas, and Marsha J.
Pechman, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of
Washington, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/29, 9/14, 10/7, 10/26, 11/10/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990714
* Appropriations
COUNTERDRUG OPERATIONS: Subcommittees on Defense and Military Construction
concluded joint hearings on Department of Defense forward operating locations
for counterdrug operations, focusing on Panama, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/99
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/16/99
Defense Subcommittee hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/14, 4/21, 4/28,
5/11, 5/14, 5/19/99
Military Construction Subcommittee hearings also held on 3/16, 3/23/99
RURAL HOSPITAL CARE COSTS: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on health care cost issues affecting
rural hospitals, focusing on the effects of the passage of the Balanced Budget
Act of 1997 and Medicare's payment policies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crisis in Rural America (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0654
* Environment
TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine
transportation conformity activities under the Clean Air Act and the effect
recent litigation may have on this program, and S. 1053, to amend the Clean
Air Act to incorporate certain provisions of the transportation conformity
regulations, as in effect on March 1, 1999, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Conformity Under the Clean Air Act
S.Hrg. 106-0152
* Finance
GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE POLICY: Subcommittee on International Trade
concluded hearings on managing global and regional trade policy without fast
track negotiating authority, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Managing Global and Regional Trade Policy Without Fast Track
Negotiating Authority
S.Hrg. 106-0346
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERALISM ACCOUNTABILITY ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1214, to
ensure the liberties of the people by promoting federalism, to protect the
reserved powers of the States, to impose accountability for Federal preemption
of State and local laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/5/99
Hearings also held on 5/5, 5/6/99
* Health
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act
and to discuss the President's proposals to extend the Act's benefits and fund
research to provide information on the Act's impact on American families, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Family and Medical Leave Act: Present Impact and Possible
Next Steps
S.Hrg. 106-0156
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN TRUST FUND REFORM: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings on
the General Accounting Office report on Interior Department's planned trust
fund reform, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Trust Fund Reform (Joint with Energy and Natural Resources)
S.Hrg. 106-0146
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
HIGH-SPEED INTERNET SERVICES AND TECHNOLOGIES: Committee concluded hearings
to examine competition and consumer choice in broadband, high-speed Internet
services and technologies, focusing on the impact of recent consolidation in
the communications industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Broadband: Competition and Consumer Choice in High-Speed
Internet Services and Technologies
S.Hrg. 106-0678
** HEARINGS FOR 19990715
* Banking
OFFICIAL DOLLARIZATION IN LATIN AMERICA: Subcommittee on International Trade
and Finance and the Subcommittee on Economic Policy concluded joint hearings
on issues relating to the official dollarization in Latin America, receiving
testimony from Manuel E. Hinds, San Salvador, El Salvador ...
PRINTED TITLE: Official Dollarization in Latin America
S.Hrg. 106-0398
* Commerce
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Transportation Safety
Board, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB)
S.Hrg. 106-0977
* Energy
ELECTRIC COMPANY COMPETITION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 161, to
provide for a transition to market-based rates for power sold by the Federal
Power Marketing Administrations and the Tennessee Valley Authority, S. 282, to
provide that no electric utility shall be required to enter into a new
contract or obligation to purchase or to sell electricity or capacity under
section 210 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, S. 516, to
benefit consumers by promoting competition in the electric power industry, S.
1047, to provide for a more competitive electric power industry, S. 1273, to
amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more competitive
and efficient electric power markets, and S. 1284, to amend the Federal Power
Act to ensure that no State may establish, maintain, or enforce on behalf of
any electric utility an exclusive right to sell electric energy or otherwise
unduly discriminate against any consumer who seeks to purchase electric energy
in interstate commerce from any supplier, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/29/99
Hearings also held on 6/29/99
* Year 2000
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Y2K PREPAREDNESS: Committee concluded hearings on
state and local government preparedness for the year 2000 computer problem,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990716
* Energy
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Committee resumed oversight hearings to examine
damage to the national security from alleged Chinese espionage at the
Department of Energy nuclear weapons laboratories, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/5/99
Hearings also held on 5/5, 5/12, 5/20/99
* Judiciary
NINTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS REORGANIZATION: Subcommittee on Administrative
Oversight and the Courts concluded hearings on the Commission on Structural
Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals report regarding the Ninth
Circuit and S. 253, to provide for the reorganization of the Ninth Circuit
Court of Appeals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review of the Report by the Commission on Structural
Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals Regarding the Ninth Circuit and
the Ninth Circuit Reorganization Act (S. 253)
S.Hrg. 106-0681
** HEARINGS FOR 19990720
* Aging
PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS: Committee concluded hearings to examine
prescription drug benefits provided by health maintenance organizations (HMO)
that participate in the Medicare+Choice program, focusing on a report that
examines how Medicare HMOs manage drug formularies to control drug
expenditures and the implications for beneficiaries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Drugstore Surprise: The Impact of Drug Switching on Older
Americans
S.Hrg. 106-0300
* Armed Services
U.S.-KOSOVO POLICY AND OPERATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the United
States policy and military operations regarding Kosovo, focusing on Operation
Allied Force and NATO's actions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 4/15, 7/1, 10/14, 10/21, 11/3/99
* Energy
NATIONAL MONUMENTS DECLARATIONS PARTICIPATION: Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Public and Management concluded
hearings on S. 729, to ensure that Congress and the public have the right to
participate in the declaration of national monuments on Federal land, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Monument Public Participation Act of 1999 (S. 729)
S.Hrg. 106-0267
* Environment
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water held hearings to examine the extent and quality of the science of the
Endangered Species Act's habitat conservation plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Habitat Conservation Plans
S.Hrg. 106-0504
Hearings also held on 7/21, 10/19, 11/3/99
* Foreign Relations
U.N. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT: Subcommittee on International Operations
held closed hearings on issues relating to the United Nations International
Criminal Court, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of A. Peter
Burleigh, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines
and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to
the Republic of Palau, Robert S. Gelbard, of Washington, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Indonesia, M. Osman Siddique, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Fiji, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador to the Republic of Nauru, Ambassador to the Kingdom
of Tonga, and Ambassador to Tuvalu, and Sylvia Gaye Stanfield, of Texas, to be
Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
SWEEPSTAKES COMPANIES DECEPTIVE MAILINGS: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations concluded hearings to examine deceptive mailings and the need
for legislation to curb the deceptive practices used in the sweepstakes, skill
contests and government look-alike mailings, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hidden Operators of Deceptive Mailings
S.Hrg. 106-0181
* Health
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act, focusing on improving use of funds, ...
PRINTED TITLE: ESEA: Improving Uses of Funds
S.Hrg. 106-0185
** HEARINGS FOR 19990721
* Agriculture
FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Farmland Protection Program, which helps farmers keep their land in
agriculture by providing funding to purchase the development rights of
farmland, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Farmland Protection Program
S.Hrg. 106-0422
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of William J.
Rainer, of New Mexico, to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of William J. Rainer
S.Hrg. 106-0446
* Armed Services
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of F. Whitten
Peters, of the District of Columbia, to be Secretary of the Air Force, and
Arthur L. Money, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Economic
IMF FINANCIAL STRUCTURE: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
financial structure of the International Monetary Fund, focusing on IMF costs,
including quotas, reserves, gold holdings, and the treatment of the IMF in the
budget, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Transparency and the Financial Structure of the International
Monetary Fund (at Y4.Ec7:F49/4/1999)
S.Hrg. 106-0184
* Energy
LAND CONVEYANCE AND MANAGEMENT BILLS: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded hearings on S. 1184, to authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to dispose of land for recreation or other public purposes, S.
1129, to facilitate the acquisition of inholdings in Federal land management
units and the disposal of surplus public land, and H.R.150, to amend the Act
popularly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes Act to authorize
disposal of certain public lands or national forest lands to local education
agencies for use for elementary or secondary schools, including public charter
schools, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Land Bills (S. 1129, S. 1184, H.R. 150)
S.Hrg. 106-0270
* Environment
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water concluded hearings to examine the extent and quality of the science of
the Endangered Species Act's habitat conservation plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 7/20/99
Hearings also held on 7/20, 10/19, 11/3/99
* Foreign Relations
NATIONAL SECURITY: Committee held hearings on the role of sanctions in United
States national security policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/11/99
Hearings also held on 5/11, 7/1/99
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Barbara J.
Griffiths, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, Richard
Monroe Miles, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria,
Carl Spielvogel, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Slovak Republic, J.
Richard Fredericks, of California, to be Ambassador to Switzerland, and to
serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the
Principality of Liechtenstein, and William B. Taylor, Jr., of Virginia, for
the Rank of Ambassador during tenure of service as Coordinator of U.S.
Assistance for the New Independent States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
TAIWAN-CHINA RELATIONS: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on recent developments in Taiwan-China relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/23/99
Hearings also held on 3/23, 7/1/99
* Governmental Affairs
RUSSIAN SPACE LAUNCH QUOTA: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine quota based
trade agreements as an instrument of commercial space launch trade policy
between the United States and Russia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Has the Russian Space Launch Quota Achieved its Purpose?
S.Hrg. 106-0177
* Indian Affairs
INTERGOVERNMENTAL GAMING AGREEMENT ACT: Committee concluded hearings on S.
985, to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Intergovernmental Gaming Agreement Act (S. 985)
S.Hrg. 106-0157
* Judiciary
FEDERAL ASSET FORFEITURE: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
concluded oversight hearings on Federal asset forfeiture, focusing on its role
in fighting crime and the need for reform of the asset forfeiture laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight of Federal Asset Forfeiture: Its Role in Fighting
Crime
S.Hrg. 106-0673
** HEARINGS FOR 19990722
* Energy
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations [of Curt Hebert,
Jr., of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy, and Earl E. Devaney, of Massachusetts, to be
Inspector General, Department of the Interior.]
PRINTED TITLE: Devaney and Hebert Nominations
S.Hrg. 106-0279
PUBLIC LANDS PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT: Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management concluded
hearings on S. 1320, to provide to the Federal land management agencies the
authority and capability to manage effectively the Federal lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Public Lands Planning and Management (S. 1320)
S.Hrg. 106-0281
* Environment
COASTAL RESTORATION AND PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 835,
to encourage the restoration of estuary habitat through more efficient project
financing and enhanced coordination of Federal and non-Federal restoration
programs, S. 878, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to permit
grants for the national estuary program to be used for the development and
implementation of a comprehensive conservation and management plan, to
reauthorize appropriations to carry out the program, S. 492, to amend the
Federal Water Pollution Act to assist in the restoration of the Chesapeake
Bay, S. 1119, to amend the Act of August 9, 1950, to continue funding of the
Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act, S. 522, to amend
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to improve the quality of beaches and
coastal recreation water, and H.R. 999, to amend the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act to improve the quality of coastal recreation waters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Estuary and Coastal Habitat Conservation (S. 492, S. 522, S.
835, S. 878, S. 1119, H.R. 999)
S.Hrg. 106-0284
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings on the President's proposal to
reform Medicare and the modernization of the current benefit package, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Proposal to Reform Medicare
S.Hrg. 106-0231
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of J. Brady
Anderson, of South Carolina, to be Administrator of the Agency for
International Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
U.S.-IRAN POLICY: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held
hearings on the United State's policy with Iran, focusing on rapprochement
limits, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Iran: Limits to Rapprochement
S.Hrg. 106-0245
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
CYBERSQUATTING AND INTERNET CONSUMER PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings
on the impact of cybersquating and Internet consumer protection, focusing on
domain name integrity, and S. 1255, to protect consumers and promote
electronic commerce by amending certain trademark infringement, dilution, and
counterfeiting laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cybersquatting and Consumer Protection: Ensuring Domain Name
Integrity (S. 1255)
S.Hrg. 106-0687
* Year 2000
GLOBAL CORPORATIONS Y2K IMPACT: Committee concluded hearings on the impact of
the Year 2000 technology problem on global corporations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Year 2000 Global Corporations: Will the Bug Bite Big
Business? (at Y4.3:T22/G51)
S.Hrg. 106-0342
** HEARINGS FOR 19990723
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: On Friday, July 23, Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Michael A. Sheehan, of New Jersey, to be Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, Department of State, with the rank and status of Ambassador
at Large, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990724
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: How Mergers in the Nation's Agricultural Industry Impact
Consumers (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1007
** HEARINGS FOR 19990726
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Evelyn
Simonowitz Lieberman, of New York, to be Under Secretary of State for Public
Diplomacy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990727
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL CONCENTRATION AND ANTI-TRUST: Committee concluded hearings to
examine anti-trust implications of consolidation and concentration in
production agriculture and agribusiness, focusing on monopoly, monopsony, new
technology, and the Cargill and Continental Grains mergers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Consolidation Antitrust
S.Hrg. 106-0126
* Commerce
INTERNET PRIVACY: Subcommittee on Communications concluded hearings on
privacy issues on the Internet, and S. 809, to require the Federal Trade
Commission to prescribe regulations to protect the privacy of personal
information collected from and about private individuals who are not covered
by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 on the Internet, to
provide greater individual control over the collection and use of that
information, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 809, Online Privacy Protection Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-1044
* Energy
LAND MANAGEMENT AND CONVEYANCE BILLS: Subcommittee on Forests and Public and
Management concluded hearings on S. 1288, to provide incentives for
collaborative forest restoration projects on National Forest System and other
public lands in New Mexico, S. 719, to provide for the orderly disposal of
certain Federal land in the State of Nevada and for the acquisition of
environmentally sensitive land in the State, S. 930, to provide for the sale
of certain public land in the Ivanpah Valley, Nevada, to the Clark County,
Nevada, Department of Aviation, S. 1374, to authorize the development and
maintenance of a multiagency campus project in the town of Jackson, Wyoming,
S. 1030, to provide that the conveyance by the Bureau of Land Management of
the surface estate to certain land in the State of Wyoming in exchange for
certain private land will not result in the removal of the land from operation
of the mining laws, and S. 439, to amend the National Forest and Public Lands
of Nevada Enhancement Act of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the Toiyabe
National Forest, Nevada, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Forest and Land Bills (S. 439, S. 1030, S. 719,
S. 1288, S. 930, S. 1374)
S.Hrg. 106-0287
* Finance
BREAST/CERVICAL CANCER MEDICAL ASSISTANCE: Subcommittee on Health Care held
hearings on S.662, to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide
medical assistance for certain women screened and found to have breast or
cervical cancer under a federally funded screening program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Assistance for Certain Women Found to Have Breast or
Cervical Cancer (S. 662)
S.Hrg. 106-0215
* Foreign Relations
AFRICA TRADE AND INVESTMENT BARRIERS: Committee held hearings to examine
barriers to trade and investment in Africa, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Barriers to Trade and Investment in Africa
S.Hrg. 106-0258
* Health
CHILD CARE INNOVATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on innovations that are
being made to help improve the quality and supply of child care, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Innovations in Child Care
S.Hrg. 106-0213
* Judiciary
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CRIMINAL DIVISION: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Oversight concluded oversight hearings on the responsibilities and activities
of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight of the Criminal Division of the Department of
Justice
S.Hrg. 106-0725
** HEARINGS FOR 19990728
* Banking
MONETARY POLICY REPORT: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Monetary Policy Report to Congress pursuant to the Full Employment and
Balanced Growth Act of 1978, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Reserve's Second Monetary Policy Report for 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0302
* Energy
WATER BILLS: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded hearings on S. 624, to
authorize construction of the Fort Peck Reservation Rural Water System in the
State of Montana, S. 1211, to amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
Act to authorize additional measures to carry out the control of salinity
upstream of Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner, S. 1275, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to produce and sell products and to sell
publications relating to the Hoover Dam, and to deposit revenues generated
from the sales into the Colorado River Dam fund, S. 1236, to extend the
deadline under the Federal Power Act for commencement of the construction of
the Arrowrock Dam Hydroelectric Project in the State of Idaho, S. 1377, to
amend the Central Utah Project Completion Act regarding the use of funds for
water development for the Bonneville Unit, and S. 986, to direct the Secretary
of the Interior to convey the Griffith Project to the Southern Nevada Water
Authority, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Water Projects (S. 624, S. 986, S. 1211, S.
1236, S. 1275, S. 1377)
S.Hrg. 106-0293
* Foreign Relations
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export
and Trade Promotion held hearings on activities of the Agency for
International Development to limit pollution, improve energy efficiency and
preserve the world's resources, focusing on the impact of global climate
change on international economic development and ecological balance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agency for International Development and U.S. Climate Change
Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0242
* Indian Affairs
TRIBAL SELF-GOVERNANCE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 979, to amend the
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to provide for further
self-governance by Indian tribes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Self-Governance (S. 979)
S.Hrg. 106-0168
* Judiciary
COMBATING METHAMPHETAMINE PROLIFERATION: Committee concluded hearings on
combating the problem of methamphetamine manufacturing and trafficking
proliferation in the United States, and S. 1428, to amend the Controlled
Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act relating to
the manufacture, traffic, import, and export of amphetamine and
methamphetamine, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Combating Methamphetamine Proliferation in America (S. 1428)
S.Hrg. 106-0715
* Rules
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION OPERATIONS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the operations of the Smithsonian Institution, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990729
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--CENSUS 2000 SUPPLEMENTAL: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings on the Census Bureau's request for
additional funds for the decennial census, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Fiscal Year 2000 President's Budget Amendment (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0223
* Banking
LOAN LOSS ALLOWANCES: Subcommittee on Securities concluded hearings on the
importance of the transparent financial reporting to investors and the
marketplace, the Securities and Exchange Commission's interaction with
financial institutes, and the progress made by the SEC and banking agencies in
addressing areas of concern, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Accounting for Loan Loss Reserves
S.Hrg. 106-0463
* Commerce
AUTHORIZATION--MAGNUSON-STEVENS FISHERY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT:
Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson--Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act
S.Hrg. 106-1030
* Energy
HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND NATIONAL PARKS: Subcommittee on National Parks,
Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 710, to
authorize the feasibility study on the preservation of certain Civil War
battlefields along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail, S. 905, to establish the
Lackawanna Valley American Heritage Area, S. 1093, to establish the Galisteo
Basin Archaeological Protection Sites, to provide for the protection of
archaeological sites in the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico, S. 1117, to
establish the Corinth Unit of Shiloh National Military Park, in the vicinity
of the city of Corinth, Mississippi, and in the State of Tennessee, S. 1324,
to expand the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include
Wills House, and S. 1349, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
special resource studies to determine the national significance of specific
sites as well as the suitability and feasibility of their inclusion as units
of the National Park System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Civil War Battlefields; Lackawanna Valley; Galisteo Basin;
Shiloh and Gettysburg National Military Parks; and Studies for Inclusion in
the NPS (S. 710, S. 905, S. 1093, S. 1117, S. 1324, S. 1349)
S.Hrg. 106-0301
* Environment
EPA'S STANDARDS GASOLINE: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on the Environmental
Protection Agency's Tier 2 standards for cars and light-duty trucks and the
accompanying proposed low sulfur requirements for gasoline, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Foreign Relations
YUGOSLAVIA DEMOCRACY PROSPECTS: Subcommittee on European Affairs held
hearings on prospects for democracy in Yugoslavia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Prospects for Democracy in Yugoslavia
S.Hrg. 106-0243
* Governmental Affairs
QUALITY STATE MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management,
Restructuring and the District of Columbia held hearings to examine quality
services management initiatives in the Federal Government, focusing on State
success stories as models, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Total Quality Management: State Success Stories as a Model for
the Federal Government
S.Hrg. 106-0351
* Health
FAIR ACCESS TO INDEMNITY AND REIMBURSEMENT ACT: Subcommittee on Employment,
Safety and Training concluded hearings on S. 1158, to allow the recovery of
attorney's fees and costs by certain employers and labor organizations who are
prevailing parties in proceedings brought against them by the National Labor
Relations Board or by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fair Act: Balancing the Scales of Justice for Small Business
S.Hrg. 106-0206
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Maryanne
Trump Barry, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third
Circuit, Raymond C. Fisher, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Ninth Circuit, Naomi Reice Buchwald, to be United States District
Judge for the Southern District of New York, David N. Hurd, to be United
States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, M. James Lorenz,
to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California,
Victor Marrero, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District
of New York, and Brian Theadore Stewart, to be United States District Judge
for the District of Utah, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/13, 9/14, 10/7, 10/26, 11/10/99
* Year 2000
INFORMATION COORDINATION CENTER: Committee concluded hearings on Year 2000
Information Coordination Center, focusing on its role during key Y2K events,
and the Administration's long-term plans to use the ICC for infrastructure
protection, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990730
* Banking
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of: Harry J. Bowie, Armando Falcon, Jr., Martin
N. Baily, Robert Z. Lawrence, Dorian Vanessa Weaver, and Dan Renberg
S.Hrg. 106-0986
Hearings also held on 8/5/99
* Foreign Relations
U.S. POLICY TOWARD TORTURE VICTIMS: Subcommittee on International Operations
concluded hearings on United States policy toward victims of torture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Policy Toward Victims of Torture
S.Hrg. 106-0244
** HEARINGS FOR 19990803
* Agriculture
U.S. FARM ECONOMY: Committee held hearings on the market and financial
performance of the United States agricultural sector, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Farm Income Crisis
S.Hrg. 106-0459
Hearings also held on 8/4, 8/5/99
* Armed Services
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Charles A.
Blanchard, of Arizona, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Army,
and Carol DiBattiste, of Florida, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 9/9, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Indian Affairs
CHEYENNE RIVER SIOUX TRIBE COMPENSATION: Committee held hearings on S. 964,
to provide for equitable compensation for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Equitable Compensation Act (S. 964)
S.Hrg. 106-0200
** HEARINGS FOR 19990804
* Agriculture
U.S. FARM ECONOMY: Committee continued hearings on the market and financial
performance of the United States agricultural sector, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 8/3/99
Hearings also held on 8/3, 8/5/99
* Commerce
FRAUD AGAINST SENIORS: Committee concluded hearings to examine fraud against
seniors, focusing on health care, sweepstakes contests, and financial
services, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fraud: Targeting America's Seniors
S.Hrg. 106-1018
* Energy
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT PROCESS: Subcommittee on
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight
hearings to review the National Park Service's performance management process
under the requirements of the Government Performance and Results Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: NPS Performance Management Process
S.Hrg. 106-0303
* Foreign Relations
VIETNAM ECONOMIC REFORM AND TRADE: Subcommittee on International Economic
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion and Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific
Affairs concluded joint hearings on economic reform and trade opportunities in
Vietnam, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
TAIWAN SECURITY ENHANCEMENT: Committee concluded hearings on S.693, to assist
in the enhancement of the security of Taiwan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 693: The Taiwan Security Enhancement Act
S.Hrg. 106-0230
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERAL FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to
examine the current status of the nations food supply, focusing on overlap and
duplication in the Federal Food Safety System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Overlap and Duplication in the Federal Food Safety System
S.Hrg. 106-0366
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN HEALTH CARE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 299, to elevate the
position of Director of the Indian Health Service within the Department of
Health and Human Services to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health, and S.
406, to amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to make permanent the
demonstration program that allows for direct billing of medicare, medicaid,
and other third party payers, and to expand the eligibility under such program
to other tribes and tribal organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Elevate the Position of Director of the Indian Health Service
to Assistant Secretary for Indian Health; Alaska Native and American Indian
Direct Reimbursement Act (S. 299, S. 406)
S.Hrg. 106-0204
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of David W.
Ogden, of Virginia, and Robert Raben, of Florida, each to be an Assistant
Attorney General, Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of David W. Ogden, of Virginia; and Robert Raben,
of Florida, Each to be Assistant Attorney General for the Department of
Justice
S.Hrg. 106-0684
ANNUAL REFUGEE ADMISSIONS: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings to
examine the President's proposed annual refugee admissions and allocation for
fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Annual Refugee Consultation
S.Hrg. 106-0716
DRUG PATENT TERM RESTORATION REVIEW PROCEDURE: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 1172, to provide a patent term restoration review procedure for certain
drug products, focusing on proposed remedies for relief, relating to pipeline
drugs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pipeline Drugs: Proposed Remedies for Relief in the Drug
Patent Term Restoration Review Procedure Act of 1999 (S. 1172)
S.Hrg. 106-0772
* Rules
COMMITTEE FUNDING RESOLUTIONS: Committee concluded hearings after receiving
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees, as follows:
Committee on Small Business: (S. Res. 142), Senators Bond and Kerry; Select
Committee on Intelligence: (S. Res. 139), Senators Shelby and Kerrey;
Committee on Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 148), Senators Helms and Biden;
Committee on Finance: (S. Res. 150), Senators Roth and Moynihan; Committee on
Armed Services: (S. Res. 143), Senators Warner and Levin; and Special
Committee on Aging: (S. Res. 155), Senators Grassley and Breaux.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0330
** HEARINGS FOR 19990805
* Agriculture
U.S. FARM ECONOMY: Committee concluded hearings on the market and financial
performance of the United States agricultural sector, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 8/3/99
Hearings also held on 8/3, 8/4/99
* Banking
HUD MULTIFAMILY HOUSING ASSISTANCE RESTRUCTURING: Subcommittee on Housing and
Transportation concluded oversight hearings on activities of the Office of
Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring
S.Hrg. 106-0791
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Armando
Falcon, Jr., of Texas, to be Director of the Office of Federal Housing
Enterprise Oversight, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Martin Neil
Baily, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Robert
Z. Lawrence, of Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Council of Economic
Advisers, Dorian Vanessa Weaver, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and Dan Herman
Renberg, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Export-Import Bank of the United States, ...
Also, Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Harry J. Bowie, of
Mississippi, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Consumer
Cooperative Bank.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 7/30/99
Hearings also held on 7/30/99
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Jimmy J.
Kolker, of Missouri, to be Ambassador to Burkina Faso, Jeffrey A. Bader, of
Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia, Martin George Brennan,
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Harriet L. Elam, of
Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, Gregory Lee
Johnson, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland, David H.
Kaeuper, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Congo, Delano Eugene Lewis, Sr., of New Mexico, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of South Africa, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to
the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and Barbro A. Owens-Kirkpatrick,
of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Niger, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990806
* Economic
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Employment Situation: July 1999 (at Y4.Ec7:Em7/25/1999-5-6)
S.Hrg. 106-0189
** HEARINGS FOR 19990810
* Energy
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Interpretation and Implementation of ANILCA (Field hearing
held in Anchorage, AK)
S.Hrg. 106-0316
** HEARINGS FOR 19990812
* Aging
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Making Long-Term Care Affordable (Field hearing held in
Indianapolis, IN)
S.Hrg. 106-0328
** HEARINGS FOR 19990813
* Small Business
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Issues Important to Women in Business
S.Hrg. 106-0249
** HEARINGS FOR 19990816
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Federally Funded Native Hawaiian Programs (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0409
** HEARINGS FOR 19990824
* Small Business
Joint field roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Building a Stronger Agricultural Community (Joint field
roundtable held in MO with Committee on Small Businesss (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0456
** HEARINGS FOR 19990907
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Lead Poisoning: A Serious Threat to Our Children (Field
hearing held in Providence, RI)
S.Hrg. 106-0226
** HEARINGS FOR 19990908
* Foreign Relations
RUSSIAN COMPANY PROLIFERATION ACTIVITIES: Committee held a closed briefing on
proliferation activities of a certain Russian company ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990909
* Armed Services
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of General Henry
H. Shelton, USA, for reappointment as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and appointment to the grade of General, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 10/27, 11/4/99
* Commerce
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Thomas B.
Leary, of the District of Columbia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, and
Gregory Rohde, of North Dakota, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Thomas B. Leary to be a Commissioner on the
Federal Trade Commission; and Gregory L. Rohde to be Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Communications and Information
S.Hrg. 106-0981
* Foreign Relations
INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR POLITICAL FUTURES: Joint Hearing: Senate's Committee
on Foreign Relations' Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded
joint hearings with the House Committee on International Relations'
Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific to examine the political futures of
Indonesia and East Timor, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
protection of religious liberty, focusing on the constitutionality of a
religious protection measure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/23/99
Hearings also held on 6/23/99
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Business Supporting Education (Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0364
** HEARINGS FOR 19990910
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Impact of Pilot Shortages on Air Service to Smaller and Rural
Markets (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0991
** HEARINGS FOR 19990913
* Economic
TAX CUTS AND THE BUDGET SURPLUS: Committee concluded hearings on the economic
impact of certain tax cut provisions and budget surplus issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Tax Cuts and the Budget Surplus (at Y4.Ec7:B85/18)
S.Hrg. 106-0290
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [STADIUM
FINANCING AND FRANCHISE RELOCATION ACT OF 1999]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/15/99
Hearings also held on 6/15, 6/22/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990914
* Aging
EXERCISE BENEFITS FOR SENIORS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
benefits of exercise for the elderly, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Going the Distance: Senior Athletes and the Benefits of
Exercise
S.Hrg. 106-0345
* Appropriations
SOLAR AND RENEWABLE ENERGY: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on issues concerning solar and renewable energy, focusing
on how to assist government and industry in increasing the use of renewable
energy technologies in the nation's energy marketplace, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
YOUTH VIOLENCE INITIATIVE: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education concluded hearings on a proposed fiscal year 2000 youth violence
initiative, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Youth Violence Prevention Program (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0372
* Armed Services
SINKING OF THE USS INDIANAPOLIS: Committee concluded hearings on issues
concerning the sinking of the USS INDIANAPOLIS and the subsequent
court-martial of Rear Admiral Charles B. McVay III, USN, and provisions of S.
J. Res. 26, expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the court-martial
conviction of the late Rear Admiral Charles Butler McVay III, and calling upon
the President to award a Presidential Unit Citation to the final crew of the
U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Subsequent Court
Martial of Rear Adm. Charles B. McVay III, USN
S.Hrg. 106-0378
* Energy
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS COVENANT IMPLEMENTATION ACT: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1052, to implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241)
approving the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Northern Mariana Island Covenant Implementation Act (S. 1052)
S.Hrg. 106-0326
ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION ACT: Subcommittee on Energy Research,
Development, Production and Regulation concluded hearings on S. 1051, to amend
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to manage the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve more effectively, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Energy Policy and Conservation Act (S. 1051)
S.Hrg. 106-0329
* Foreign Relations
COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY/FALN TERRORISTS CLEMENCY: Subcommittee on Western
Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism held hearings to review the
United States counterterrorism policy and certain implications of the
President's decision to grant clemency to FALN terrorists, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Overview of U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and President
Clinton's Decision to Grant Clemency to FALN Terrorists
S.Hrg. 106-0259
* Health
EDUCATIONAL READINESS: Committee held hearings to examine the current status
of the American educational system and how well it is preparing children to
meet the demands of a global economy in the 21st Century, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Education Readiness
S.Hrg. 106-0209
* Judiciary
HATE CRIME ON THE INTERNET: Committee concluded hearings on ramifications of
Internet technology on today's children, focusing on the prevalence of
internet hate, and recommendations on how to shield children from the negative
impact of violent media, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hate Crime on the Internet
S.Hrg. 106-0803
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Ronald M.
Gould, of Washington, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit,
Anna J. Brown, to be United States District Judge for the District of Oregon,
Florence-Marie Cooper, to be United States District Judge for the Central
District of California, Richard K. Eaton, of the District of Columbia, to be a
Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, Ellen Segal Huvelle,
to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Charles
A. Pannell, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Northern District
of Georgia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/13, 7/29, 10/7, 10/26, 11/10/99
* Small Business
GROCERY INDUSTRY SLOTTING FEES: Committee held hearings on issues relating to
grocery industry slotting fees (fees charged by the retailer that
manufacturers pay to hold a certain amount of shelf space), and their effect
on small business and the consumer, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Slotting: Fair for Small Business and Consumers?
S.Hrg. 106-0359
** HEARINGS FOR 19990915
* Commerce
TELEMEDICINE TECHNOLOGIES: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
concluded hearings on how telemedicine technologies are impacting rural health
care, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Telemedicine Technologies
S.Hrg. 106-0990
* Energy
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of David J.
Hayes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior, Sylvia V. Baca, of
New Mexico, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals
Management, and Ivan Itkin, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Itkin, Baca, and Hayes Nominations
S.Hrg. 106-0335
* Finance
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of James G.
Huse, Jr., of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Social Security
Administration, and Neal S. Wolin, of Illinois, to be General Counsel for the
Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of James G. Huse, Jr., and Neal S. Wolin
S.Hrg. 106-0371
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Sally Katzen,
of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Director for Management, Office of
Management and Budget, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Sally Katzen
S.Hrg. 106-0182
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
contracting provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act, focusing on shortfalls in contract support costs and
alternatives for funding them, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act and Contract
Support Costs
S.Hrg. 106-0217
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 9/16/99
* Judiciary
FALN MEMBERS CLEMENCY: Committee held hearings to examine certain
implications of the President's grant of clemency for members of the Armed
Forces of National Liberation (the FALN), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clemency for FALN Members
S.Hrg. 106-0799
Hearings also held on 10/20/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19990916
* Energy
PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded oversight hearings on the Administration's Pacific
Northwest Forest Plan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Northwest Forest Plan
S.Hrg. 106-0336
* Foreign Relations
FOREIGN MISSILE DEVELOPMENT: Committee concluded hearings on foreign missile
developments and the ballistic missile threat to the United States through
2015, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/15/99
Hearings also held on 4/15, 4/20, 5/4, 5/5, 5/13, 5/25, 5/26/99
* Governmental Affairs
SECURITIES DAY TRADING INDUSTRY: 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, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Day Trading: An Overview
S.Hrg. 106-0285
POSTMASTER GENERAL ANNUAL REPORT: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on the annual report of
the Postmaster General, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Annual Report of the Postmaster General
S.Hrg. 106-0480
* Health
CHILDREN'S HEALTH: Subcommittee on Public Health held hearings to examine
issues relating to children's health, focusing on autism, asthma, and
traumatic brain injury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Children's Health: Protecting Our Most Precious Resource
S.Hrg. 106-0214
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 9/15/99
Hearings also held on 9/15/99
* Judiciary
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS REORGANIZATION PLAN: 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, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Office of Justice Programs Oversight: Examining the OJP
Reorganization Plan
S.Hrg. 106-0755
** HEARINGS FOR 19990920
* Energy
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, KY (Field hearing held in
Paducah, KY)
S.Hrg. 106-0348
** HEARINGS FOR 19990921
* Appropriations
U.S. TERRORISM POLICY: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on United States policy on terrorism in light of
the FALN members clemency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Policy on Terrorism in Light of the FALN Members'
Clemency (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0228
* Health
HYBRID PENSIONS PLANS: Committee held hearings to examine the growth of
hybrid pension plans and their advantages and disadvantages over traditional
defined benefit pension plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hybrid Pension Plans
S.Hrg. 106-0393
* Narcotics Control
COUNTER-INSURGENCY VS. COUNTER-NARCOTICS: Committee concluded hearings on
counter-insurgency vs. counter-narcotics issues in regards to Colombia and
U.S. efforts to stop drug production and transiting, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Colombia: Counter-Insurgency vs. Counter-Narcotics
S.Hrg. 106-0511
* Year 2000
SCHOOL SYSTEMS Y2K READINESS: Committee concluded hearings to explore Y2K
readiness among public school systems, colleges and universities, and the
college financial aid system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990922
* Armed Services
VIEQUES TRAINING RANGE: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support held
hearings on the national security requirements for continued training
operations at the Vieques Training Range in Puerto Rico, and the importance
this training site has to the readiness of the U.S. Second Fleet, and the U.S.
Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Vieques and the Future of the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training
Facility
S.Hrg. 106-0419
Hearings also held on 10/19/99
* Governmental Affairs
DOJ HANDLING OF THE CHARLIE TRIE CASE: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the Department of Justice's handling of the Charlie Trie case,
relating to the campaign finance investigation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Justice Department's Handling of the Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie
Case
S.Hrg. 106-0318
* Indian Affairs
AMERICAN INDIAN TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 1587, to amend the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994
to establish within the Department of the Interior an Office of Special
Trustee for Data Cleanup and Internal Control, and S. 1589, to amend the
American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Trust Fund Management Reform Act (S. 1587, S. 1589)
S.Hrg. 106-0218
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19990923
* Aging
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Consumers Assess the Nursing Home Initiative (Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0430
* Agriculture
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Paul W.
Fiddick, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Administration, and Andrew C. Fish, of Vermont, to be Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Congressional Relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Paul W. Fiddick, to be Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Administration; and Andrew C. Fish, to be Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture for Congressional Relations
S.Hrg. 106-0440
COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT: ELECTRIC TRADING: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Commodity Exchange Act,
focusing on the impact of electronic trading on the futures and derivatives
market place, ...
PRINTED TITLE: CEA Reauthorization
S.Hrg. 106-0454
* Energy
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY Y2K READINESS: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the potential consequences of the year 2000 computer problem to the
Nation's supply of electricity, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Y2K, Will the Lights Go Out?
S.Hrg. 106-0358
* Environment
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Richard A.
Meserve, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
Paul L. Hill, Jr., of West Virginia, to be Chairperson of the Chemical Safety
and Hazard Investigation Board, Maj. Gen. Phillip R. Anderson, United States
Army, to be a Member and President of the Mississippi River Commission, and
Sam Epstein Angel, of Arkansas, and Brig. Gen. Robert H. Griffin, United
States Army, each to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/5, 10/6/99
* Foreign Relations
CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues on
corruption in Russia and the status of United States and Russian relations,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Corruption in Russia
S.Hrg. 106-0260
Hearings also held on 9/30/99
* Judiciary
INS REFORM AND BORDER SECURITY: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded
hearings on proposals to reform current immigration structure and border
security, including S. 1563, proposed Immigration and Naturalization Service
Reform and Border Security Act of 1999, after receiving testimony from Doris
Meissner, Commissioner, ...
PRINTED TITLE: INS Reform and Border Security Act of 1999 (S. 1563)
S.Hrg. 106-0813
** HEARINGS FOR 19990925
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0983
** HEARINGS FOR 19990928
* Appropriations
PARKINSON'S DISEASE RESEARCH AND TREATMENT: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education concluded hearings on issues relating to
Parkinson's disease, focusing on research, treatment, and funding, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Parkinson's Disease Research and Treatment (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0373
* Banking
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF U.S. STOCK MARKETS: Committee concluded hearings to
examine public ownership of the United States stock market issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Public Ownership of U.S. Stock Markets
S.Hrg. 106-0917
* Commerce
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Linda Joan
Morgan, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Surface Transportation Board,
Stephen D. Van Beek, of the District of Columbia, to be Associate Deputy
Secretary/Director of Transportation for Intermodialism, and Michael J.
Frazier, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Transportation for
Government Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Linda J. Morgan, to be a Member of the STB; and
Dr. Stephen D. Van Beek, to be Associate Deputy Secretary and Director, Office
of Intermodalism, and Michael J. Frazier, to be Assistant Secretary for
Government Affairs, of the U.S. DOT
S.Hrg. 106-1050
* Environment
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION PUBLIC BUILDINGS REQUESTS: Subcommittee on
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on the proposed fiscal
year 2000 budget request for the Public Buildings Requests of the General
Services Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: GSA: Fiscal Year 2000 Budget for Public Buildings and the
Courthouse Program
S.Hrg. 106-0472
* Foreign Relations
IRAQ'S IMPACT ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the disarray caused within the international community by Saddam
Hussein's Iraq, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Facing Saddam's Iraq: Disarray in the International Community
S.Hrg. 106-0261
U.S.-KOSOVO DIPLOMACY: Committee concluded hearings to examine United
States-Kosovo diplomacy between February 1998 and March 1999, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20/99
Hearings also held on 4/20, 10/6/99
* Judiciary
JUVENILE INTERVENTION PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded
hearings to examine juvenile crime prevention and intervention funding and
strategies, focusing on state juvenile court system assistance, detention
space, alternative intervention programs, and the Boys and Girls Clubs of
America, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Juvenile Intervention Programs That Work
S.Hrg. 106-0900
* Veterans Affairs
AMERICAN LEGION: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to
review the legislative recommendations of the American Legion, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Year 2000
Y2K IMPACT ON RUSSIA: Committee concluded hearings on the potential impacts
and future consequences of the Year 2000 computer problem on the Russian
economy and political environment, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Y2K & Russia: What Are the Potential Impacts and Future
Consequences? (at Y4.3:T22/R92)
S.Hrg. 106-0343
** HEARINGS FOR 19990929
* Commerce
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and
Merchant Marine concluded hearings on S. 1501, to improve motor carrier
safety, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1501, the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-1024
* Economic
BIOTECHNOLOGY: Committee concluded hearings to explore the effects
biotechnology has on our economy, standard of living, and everyday lives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Biotechnology Summit: Putting a Human Face on Biotechnology
(at Y4.Ec7:B52)
S.Hrg. 106-0677
* Energy
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded oversight
hearings on the practices of the Bureau of Reclamation regarding operations
and maintenance costs and contract renewals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bureau of Reclamation Operations and Maintenance Costs
S.Hrg. 106-0360
* Finance
WTO MINISTERIAL MEETING: Committee held hearings on the preparations of the
United States for the upcoming World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in
Seattle and the objectives for the multilateral negotiations that will follow,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Preparations for the Upcoming WTO Ministerial Meeting
S.Hrg. 106-0368
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN TRIBAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1508, to
provide technical and legal assistance for tribal justice systems and members
of Indian tribes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Tribal Justice Systems (S. 1508)
S.Hrg. 106-0233
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 9/30/99
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Q. Todd
Dickinson, of Pennsylvania, to be Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks,
Department of Commerce, and John W. Marshall, of Virginia, to be Director of
the United States Marshals Service, Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Q. Todd Dickinson, to be Commissioner of
Patents and Trademarks, Department of Commerce; and John W. Marshall, to be
Director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Department of Justice
S.Hrg. 106-0625
** HEARINGS FOR 19990930
* Agriculture
WTO AGRICULTURAL TRADE AGENDA: Committee concluded hearings to review the
Administration's agriculture trade agenda for the upcoming World Trade
Organization meeting in Seattle, ...
PRINTED TITLE: World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference
S.Hrg. 106-0449
* Commerce
MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL FAIRNESS: Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign
Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings on S. 1130, to amend title 49, United
States Code, with respect to liability of motor vehicle rental or leasing
companies for the negligent operation of rented or leased motor vehicles, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1130, Motor Vehicle Rental Fairness Act
S.Hrg. 106-1023
* Energy
FOREST RESOURCES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY: Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1457, to amend the Energy
Policy Act of 1992 to assess opportunities to increase carbon storage on
national forests derived from the public domain and to facilitate voluntary
and accurate reporting of forest projects that reduce atmospheric carbon
dioxide concentrations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Forest Resources for the Environment and the Economy Act (S.
1457)
S.Hrg. 106-0374
* Foreign Relations
CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA: Committee concluded hearings to examine the extent of
the corruption in the Russian political and economic system, and the future
status of United States and Russian relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 9/23/99
Hearings also held on 9/23/99
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 9/29/99
Hearings also held on 9/29/99
* Year 2000
GLOBAL TRANSPORTATION Y2K IMPACT: Committee concluded hearings to examine how
the Year 2000 problem may interfere with the global network of transportation
systems and what steps Governments, industry, and trade associations are
taking to minimize the potential impact, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Will Y2K Snarl Global Transportation? (at Y4.3:T22/T68/2)
S.Hrg. 106-0344
** HEARINGS FOR 19991004
* Aging
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Long-Term Care and the Role of Family Caregivers: A Rhode
Island Perspective (Field hearing held in Cranston, RI)
S.Hrg. 106-0379
** HEARINGS FOR 19991005
* Armed Services
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY: Committee held closed hearings on issues
relating to military implications of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Treaty
Doc. 105-28), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Banking
MANUFACTURED HOUSING IMPROVEMENT: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded hearings on S. 1452, to modernize the requirements under the
National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards of 1974 and to
establish a balanced consensus process for the development, revision, and
interpretation of Federal construction and safety standards for manufactured
homes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Manufactured Housing Improvement Act--S. 1452
S.Hrg. 106-0589
* Energy
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION: Subcommittee on
Forests and Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1608, to provide
annual payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands
managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California Railroad
and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed predominately by the
Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties in which the lands are
situated for the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other
public purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for cooperation
between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to
make necessary investments in federal lands, and reaffirm the positive
connection between Federal Lands counties and Federal Lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (S.
1608)
S.Hrg. 106-0376
Hearings also held on 10/19/99
* Environment
MTBE FUEL ADDITIVE: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property,
and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine the Environmental Protection
Agency's Blue Ribbon Panel findings on the use of Oxygenates and MTBE, methyl
tertiary-butyl ether, in gasoline, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Blue Ribbon Panel Findings on MTBE
S.Hrg. 106-0546
* Foreign Relations
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE: Subcommittee on African Affairs continued
hearings to examine the effectiveness of United States development assistance
to Africa and the implementation of United States foreign policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention On
Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
(Treaty Doc. 105-51), and S. 682, to implement the Hague Convention on
Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercounty Adoption,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in
Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing
Legislation, S. 682
S.Hrg. 106-0257
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 10/6/99
* Judiciary
ASBESTOS EXPOSURE LITIGATION: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and
the Courts concluded hearings on the S. 758, to establish legal standards and
procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and efficient resolution of
personal injury claims arising out of asbestos exposure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Finding Solutions to the Asbestos Litigation Problem: The
Fairness in Asbestos Compensation Act of 1999 (S. 758)
S.Hrg. 106-0931
** HEARINGS FOR 19991006
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: Committee held hearings to review public policy
related to agricultural biotechnology, focusing on domestic approval process,
benefits of biotechnology and an emphasis on challenges facing farmers to
segregation of product, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Research and Development
S.Hrg. 106-0455
Hearings also held on 10/7/99
* Armed Services
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY: Committee held hearings on the national
security implications of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Treaty Doc.
105-28), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
S.Hrg. 106-0490
Hearings also held on 10/7/99
* Commerce
CRUISE SHIP TOURISM DEVELOPMENT: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1510, to
revise the laws of the United States appertaining to United States cruise
vessels, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1510, the United States Cruise Ship Tourism Development Act
of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-1065
* Environment
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Glenn L.
McCullough, Jr., of Mississippi, and Skila Harris, of Kentucky, each to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Gerald
V. Poje, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard
Investigation Board, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/28/99
Hearings also held on 4/28, 5/5, 9/23/99
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY: Committee concluded hearing on the role of the
Tennessee Valley Authority in a changing electric power industry, and S. 1323,
to amend the Federal Power Act to ensure that certain Federal power customers
are provided protection by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: TVA Consumer Protection Act (S. 1323)
S.Hrg. 106-0536
* Foreign Relations
NATO AIR CAMPAIGN IN YUGOSLAVIA: Committee continued hearings to examine the
United States policy regarding Kosovo, focusing on the conduct of the NATO air
campaign in the war against Yugoslavia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/20/99
Hearings also held on 4/20, 9/28/99
PEACE AND ANTI-DRUG EFFORTS IN COLOMBIA: Committee held hearings to examine
United States support for the peace process and anti-drug efforts in Colombia,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Crisis in Colombia: U.S. Support for Peace Process and
Anti-Drug Efforts
S.Hrg. 106-0299
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 10/5/99
Hearings also held on 10/5/99
* Judiciary
COMPUTER INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism,
and Government Information held hearings to examine the protection efforts
being made against foreign-based threats to United States critical computer
infrastructure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection: The Threat is
Real
S.Hrg. 106-0858
COLLEGE FINANCIAL AID FRAUD: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1455, to
enhance protections against fraud in the offering of financial assistance for
college education, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Solving the Problem of Scholarship Scams: The College
Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 1999 (S. 1455)
S.Hrg. 106-0916
** HEARINGS FOR 19991007
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: Committee concluded hearings to review public
policy related to agricultural biotechnology, focusing on domestic approval
process, benefits of biotechnology and an emphasis on challenges facing
farmers to segregation of product, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 10/6/99
Hearings also held on 10/6/99
* Armed Services
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY: Committee concluded hearings on the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Treaty Doc. 105-28), focusing on the
ability of the Stockpile Stewardship Program to adequately verify the safety
and reliability of the U.S. nuclear deterrent, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 10/6/99
Hearings also held on 10/6/99
* Energy
BARTLESVILLE LAND CONVEYANCE/MATERIALS CORRIDOR PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE:
Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation
concluded hearings on S. 1183, to direct the Secretary of Energy to convey to
the city of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the former site of the NIPER facility of
the Department of Energy, and S. 397, to authorize the Secretary of Energy to
establish a multiagency program in support of the Materials Corridor
Partnership Initiative to promote energy efficient, environmentally sound
economic development along the border with Mexico through the research,
development, and use of new materials, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Materials Corridor Partnership Act; and Conveying of
Land to the City of Bartlesville, OK (S. 397, S. 1183)
S.Hrg. 106-0377
* Environment
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 968, to authorize
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to make grants to
State agencies with responsibility for water source development, for the
purposes of maximizing the available water supply and protecting the
environment through the development of alternative water sources, S. 914, to
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to require that discharges from
combined storm and sanitary sewers conform to the Combined Sewer Overflow
Control Policy of the Environmental Protection Agency, and S. 1699, to amend
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize appropriations for State
water pollution control revolving funds, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Water Infrastructure (S. 968, S. 914, S. 1699)
S.Hrg. 106-0618
* Finance
WTO AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS: Subcommittee on International Trade held
hearings to examine the United States agricultural negotiating objectives for
the Seattle World Trade Ministerial Conference, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Agricultural Negotiating Objectives for the Seattle WTO
Ministerial Conference
S.Hrg. 106-0408
* Foreign Relations
COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY: Committee concluded hearings to review
the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (Treaty Doc.
105-28), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Final Review of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
(Treaty Doc. 105-28)
S.Hrg. 106-0262
* Governmental Affairs
POST OFFICE FACILITIES: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation
and Federal Services concluded hearings on S. 556, to amend title 39, United
States Code, to establish guidelines for the relocation, closing,
consolidation, or construction of post offices, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Guidelines for the Relocation, Closing, Consolidation or
Construction of Post Offices
S.Hrg. 106-0432
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: On Thursday, October 7, committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Richard Linn of Virginia, to be United States Circuit Judge for
the Federal Circuit, Ronald A. Guzman, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of Illinois, William Joseph Haynes, Jr., to be United
States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, Barbara M. Lynn,
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, Diana
E. Murphy, of Minnesota, Ruben Castillo, of Illinois, Sterling R. Johnson,
Jr., of New York, Elton J. Kendall, of Texas, Michael E. O'Neill, of Maryland,
William K. Sessions, III, of Vermont, and John R. Steer, of Virginia, each to
be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/13, 7/29, 9/14, 10/26, 11/10/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19991011
* Aging
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Boomers Are Coming: The Challenge of Family Caregiving (Field
hearing held in Monroe, LA)
S.Hrg. 106-0431
** HEARINGS FOR 19991012
* Foreign Relations
U.S. NORTH KOREA POLICY: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on the United States policy toward North Korea, focusing on
the findings and recommendations of the Perry Report, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19991013
* Armed Services
FLEET AND STRATEGIC LIFT OPERATIONS: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded
hearings on the force structure impacts on fleet and strategic lift
operations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Force Structure Impacts on Fleet and Strategic Lift Operations
S.Hrg. 106-0375
* Energy
NATIONAL PARKS/HISTORIC PRESERVATION/RECREATION: Subcommittee on National
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 167, to
extend the authorization for the Upper Delaware Citizens Advisory Council and
to authorize construction and operation of a visitor center for the Upper
Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, New York and Pennsylvania, S. 311, to
authorize the Disabled Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation to establish a
memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs, S. 497, to designate
Great Kills Park in the Gateway National Recreation Area as "World War II
Veterans Park at Great Kills", H.R. 592, to designate a portion of Gateway
National Recreation Area as "World War Veterans Park at Miller Field", S.
919, to amend the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage
Corridor Act of 1994 to expand the boundaries of the Corridor, H.R. 1619, to
amend the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act
of 1994 to expand the boundaries of the Corridor, S. 1296, to designate
portions of the lower Delaware River and associated tributaries as a component
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, S. 1366, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to construct and operate a visitor center for the
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River on land owned by New York State,
and S. 1569, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of
the Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for study for potential
addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Park Service Bills (S. 167, S. 311, S. 497, S.
919, S. 1296, S. 1366, S. 1569, H.R. 592, H.R. 1619)
S.Hrg. 106-0383
* Environment
FEDERAL WATER POLLUTION CONTROL: Committee concluded hearings on S. 188, to
amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to authorize the use of State
revolving loan funds for construction of water conservation and quality
improvements, S. 1706, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to
exclude from stormwater regulation certain areas and activities, and to
improve the regulation and limit the liability of local governments concerning
co-permitting and the implementation of control measures, and S. 669, to amend
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to ensure compliance by Federal
facilities with pollution control requirements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Water Act Issues (S. 188, S. 669, S. 1706)
S.Hrg. 106-0590
* Finance
FOSTER CARE SYSTEM: Subcommittee on Health Care held hearings on S. 1327, to
amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to provide States with
more funding and greater flexibility in carrying out programs designed to help
children make the transition from foster care to self-sufficiency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Health Needs of Children in the Foster Care System (S. 1327)
S.Hrg. 106-0473
* Foreign Relations
WTO ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded hearings
on the upcoming World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting agenda, focusing
on electronic commerce expansion between Europe and the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Health
PAIN MANAGEMENT AND END-OF-LIFE CARE: Committee concluded hearings to examine
pain management and improving end of life care issues, S. 1272, to amend the
Controlled Substances Act to promote pain management and palliative care
without permitting assisted suicide and euthanasia, and S. 941, to amend the
Public Health Service Act to provide for a public response to the public
health crisis of pain, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pain Management and Improving End-of-Life Care
S.Hrg. 106-0222
* Indian Affairs
NATIVE AMERICAN SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAMS: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1507, to authorize the integration and consolidation of alcohol and substance
programs and services provided by Indian tribal governments, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program Consolidation Act (S.
1507)
S.Hrg. 106-0239
* Year 2000
INTERNATIONAL Y2K ISSUES: Committee concluded hearings on international Year
2000 technology issues, focusing on security, economic, and humanitarian
implications, ...
Also, committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the status of
United States strategic assets worldwide ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19991014
* Agriculture
FARM RISK MANAGEMENT/CROP INSURANCE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1666,
to provide risk education assistance to agricultural producers, S. 1108, to
amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to improve crop insurance coverage and
administration, and S. 1580, to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act to assist
agricultural producers in managing risk, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Risk Management/Crop Insurance Legislation
S.Hrg. 106-0450
* Armed Services
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on the
lessons learned from the military operations conducted as part of Operation
Allied Force, and associated relief operations, with respect to Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 4/15, 7/1, 7/20, 10/21, 11/3/99
* Energy
ALASKA LAND CONSERVATION/ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS/U.S. TERRITORIES: Committee
concluded hearings on S. 1683, to make technical changes to the Alaska
National Interest Lands Conservation Act, S. 1686, to provide for the
conveyances of land interests to Chugach Alaska Corporation to fulfill the
intent, purpose, and promise of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and
S. 1702, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to allow shareholder
common stock to be transferred to adopted Alaska Native children and their
descendants, ...
Also, committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2841, to amend the Revised Organic
Act of the Virgin Islands to provide for greater fiscal autonomy consistent
with other United States jurisdictions, and H.R. 2368, to assist in the
resettlement and relocation of the people of Bikini Atoll by amending the
terms of the trust fund established during the United States administration of
the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Alaska, Virgin Islands and Bikini Atoll Bills
(S. 1683, S. 1686, S. 1702, H.R. 2368, H.R. 2841)
S.Hrg. 106-0414
PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
concluded hearings on S. 610, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to
convey certain land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in
Washakie County and Big Horn County, Wyoming, to the Westside Irrigation
District, Wyoming, S. 1218, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to issue
to the Landusky School District, without consideration, a patent for the
surface and mineral estates of certain lots, S. 408, to direct the Secretary
of the Interior to convey a former Bureau of Land Management administrative
site to the City of Carson City, Nevada, for use as a senior center, S. 1629,
to provide for the exchange of certain land in the State of Oregon, S. 1599,
to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of
certain administrative sites and other land in the Black Hills National Forest
and to use funds derived from the sale or exchange to acquire replacement
sites and to acquire or construct administrative improvements in connection
with Black Hills National Forest, and S. 1343, to direct the Secretary of
Agriculture to convey certain National Forest land to Elko County, Nevada, for
continued use as a cemetery, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Land Management Bills (S. 408, S. 610, S. 1218,
S. 1343, S. 1599, S. 1629)
S.Hrg. 106-0384
* Environment
AUTHORIZATION--CLEAN AIR ACT: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Clean Air Act, focusing on air and radiation, risk,
cost/benefit, and exposure issues, Maximum Achievable Control Technology
(MACT) process, acid rain program, and the effect of multiple regulations
directed at the same pollutants, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Air Act: Review and Oversight
S.Hrg. 106-0611
* Foreign Relations
PAKISTAN POLITICAL CRISIS: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs held hearings on issues related to the political crisis in Pakistan
and how the United States can promote its restoration of democracy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Crisis in Pakistan
S.Hrg. 106-0298
* Governmental Affairs
DIABETES RESEARCH: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded
hearings to examine the impact of diabetes on society and government
investment in diabetes research, focusing on scientific opportunities
available in diabetes research, treatment, prevention, and funding levels for
diabetes research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Conquering Diabetes: Are We Taking Full Advantage of the
Scientific Opportunities for Research?
S.Hrg. 106-0304
** HEARINGS FOR 19991015
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Donald Stuart
Hays, of Virginia, to be Representative of the United States of America to the
United Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador,
and James B. Cunningham, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Representative of the
United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of
Ambassador, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT QUALITY MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia held
hearings on issues relating to quality management in government at the Federal
level, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Quality Management at the Federal Level
S.Hrg. 106-0392
** HEARINGS FOR 19991019
* Armed Services
ATLANTIC FLEET WEAPONS TRAINING FACILITY: Committee concluded hearings to
examine future naval operations at the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training
Facility, and the report on the findings of the Special Panel on Military
Operations on Vieques, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 9/22/99
Hearings also held on 9/22/99
* Energy
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION: Committees concluded joint
oversight hearings on the Department of Energy's implementation of provisions
of the Department of Defense Authorization Act which create the National
Nuclear Security Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Nuclear Security Administration (Joint with
Governmental Affairs)
S.Hrg. 106-0451
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION: Subcommittee on
Forests and Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1608, to provide
annual payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands
managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California Railroad
and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed predominately by the
Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties in which the lands are
situated for the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other
public purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for cooperation
between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to
make necessary investments in federal lands, and reaffirm the positive
connection between Federal Lands counties and Federal Lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 10/05/99
Hearings also held on 10/05/99
* Environment
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water held hearings to examine how species listed under the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) benefit from conservation and mitigation measures required in
Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), focusing on negotiation and implementation,
appropriateness and adequacy of conservation measures, and the
Administration's no surprises policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 7/20/99
Hearings also held on 7/20, 7/21, 11/3/99
* Finance
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING: Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and
Debt Reduction held hearings on current-law tax provisions that may affect
transactions undertaken with respect to the restructuring of the electric
power industry, S. 386, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide
for tax-exempt bond financing of certain electric facilities, S. 1048 and
related provisions of S. 1047, measures to provide for a more competitive
electric power industry, related provisions of S. 1429 and H.R. 2488, measures
to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce individual income tax
rates, to provide marriage penalty relief, to reduce taxes on savings and
investments, to provide estate and gift tax relief, to provide incentives for
education savings and health care, and related provisions of H.R. 2038, to
amend section 468A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to
deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Tax Issues Relating to Restructuring of the Electric
Power Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0435
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Mary Carlin
Yates, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, John E.
Lange, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, and Michael
Edward Ranneberger, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
SMALL BUSINESS PAPERWORK REDUCTION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1378
and H.R. 391, bills to amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for
the purposes of facilitating compliance by small businesses with certain
Federal paperwork requirements, to establish a task force to examine the
feasibility of streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small
businesses, ...
PRINTED TITLE: H.R. 391 and S. 1378--The Small Business Paperwork Reduction
Act Amendments of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0347
* Small Business
Roundtable not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1111, National Conference on Small Business Act
(Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0380
** HEARINGS FOR 19991020
* Armed Services
JOINT MILITARY FORCES PREPARATION: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities concluded hearings on the efforts of the military services in
implementing joint experimentation to prepare for future challenges, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Efforts of the Military Services in Implementing Joint
Experimentation
S.Hrg. 106-0361
* Commerce
PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
effects of performance enhancing drugs on the health of athletes and
international athletic competition, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Effects of Performance Enhancing Drugs on the Health of
Athletes and Athletic Competition
S.Hrg. 106-1074
* Energy
LAND CONVEYANCE AND CONSERVATION: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded
hearings on S. 1167, to amend the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning
and Conservation Act to provide for expanding the scope of the Independent
Scientific Review Panel, S. 1694, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to
conduct a study on the reclamation and reuse of water and wastewater in the
State of Hawaii, S. 1612, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey
certain irrigation project property to certain irrigation and reclamation
districts in the State of Nebraska, S. 1474, providing conveyance of the
Palmetto Bend project to the State of Texas, S. 1697, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to refund certain collections received pursuant to
the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, S. 1723, to establish a program to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct
facilities to mitigate impacts associated with irrigation system water
diversions by local governmental entities in the Pacific Ocean drainage of the
States of Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho, S. 1178, to direct the
Secretary of the Interior to convey certain parcels of land acquired for the
Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal features of the Oahe Irrigation Project,
South Dakota, to the Commission of Schools and Public Lands of the State of
South Dakota for the purpose of mitigating lost wildlife habitat, on the
condition that the current preferential leaseholders shall have an option to
purchase the parcels from the Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pacific Northwest Electric Power; and Miscellaneous Water
Bills (S. 1167, S. 1178, S. 1474, S. 1612, S. 1694, S. 1697, S. 1723)
S.Hrg. 106-0406
* Foreign Relations
U.S.-SOUTH KOREA EXTRADITION TREATY: Senate concluded hearings on the
Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the Republic of Korea (hereinafter referred to as "the
Treaty"), signed at Washington on June 9, 1998 (Treaty Doc. 106-02), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN RESERVATION ROADS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Department of Transportation's implementation of provisions in the
Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) affecting the Indian
Reservation Roads program of the Federal Lands Highway Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Reservation Roads and the Transportation Equity Act of
the Twenty-First Century
S.Hrg. 106-0246
* Judiciary
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLEMENCY PROCESS: Committee held oversight hearings to
examine the Department of Justice clemency process, focusing on the recent
clemency decision for the FALN members, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 9/15/99
Hearings also held on 9/15/99
* Rules
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL OPERATIONS: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the operations of the Architect of the Capitol, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19991021
* Armed Services
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE: Committee resumed open and closed hearings on the
lessons learned from the military operations conducted as part of Operation
Allied Force, and associated relief operations, with respect to Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 4/15, 7/1, 7/20, 10/14, 11/3/99
* Commerce
NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE: Subcommittee on Science, Technology,
and Space concluded hearings to examine issues dealing with the Department of
Commerce's proposal to close the National Technical Information Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Technical Information Service
S.Hrg. 106-1043
* Energy
NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 1365, to amend the
National Preservation Act of 1966 to extend the authorization for the Historic
Preservation Fund and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, S. 1434,
to amend the National Historic Preservation Act to reauthorize that Act, and
H.R. 834, to extend the authorization for the National Historic Preservation
Fund, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Historic Preservation Fund (S. 1365, S. 1434, H.R.
834)
S.Hrg. 106-0387
* Finance
WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded
hearings to examine the United States trade negotiating objectives for
services at the Seattle World Trade Organization Ministerial meeting, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Trade Negotiating Objectives for Services at the Seattle
WTO Ministerial Meeting
S.Hrg. 106-0354
* Foreign Relations
CHILD LABOR ABUSE: Committee concluded hearings on Convention (No. 182)
Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the
Worst Forms of Child Labor, adopted by the International Labor Organization
Convention at its 87th Session in Geneva on June 17, 1999 (Treaty Doc.
106-05), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of John F.
Walsh, of Connecticut, and Legree Sylvia Daniels, of Pennsylvania, each to be
a Governor of the United States Postal Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of LeGree Daniels and John Walsh
S.Hrg. 106-0324
* Health
FDA MODERNIZATION: Committee concluded hearings on the implementation of the
Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (P.L.105-115), focusing on
provisions on pharmaceuticals and medical devices, ...
PRINTED TITLE: FDA Modernization Act: Implementation of the Law
S.Hrg. 106-0236
* Judiciary
UNITED STATES WORKFORCE NEEDS: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings
to examine workforce needs in the high technology industry and at smaller
companies, focusing on the need for additional H-1B visas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: America's Workforce Needs in the 21st Century
S.Hrg. 106-0929
** HEARINGS FOR 19991022
* Armed Services
PANAMA CANAL: Committee held open and closed hearings to examine issues of
security of the Panama Canal, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Security of the Panama Canal
S.Hrg. 106-0555
** HEARINGS FOR 19991025
* Small Business
HIGH-TECH FRAUD ON SMALL BUSINESS: Committee held hearings to examine
incidents of the high-tech fraud known as "cramming ", the inclusion of
unauthorized, misleading, or deceptive charges on a consumer's telephone bill,
focusing on fraudulent Internet Web site services affecting small business,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Internet Cramming: The Latest High-Tech Fraud on Small
Business
S.Hrg. 106-0457
** HEARINGS FOR 19991026
* Appropriations
PADUCAH GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on issues relating to the investigation into allegations of
the Department of Energy's failure to protect the safety of the workforce and
the environment at the Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Paducah, Kentucky, focusing
on accelerating cleanup, protecting worker safety, and identifying health
problems related to exposure to plutonium, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0415
* Armed Services
DOD REAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: Subcommittee on Readiness and
Management Support concluded hearings on the Department of Defense Real
Property Management Program and the maintenance of the historic homes and
senior officers' quarters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Real Property Maintenance Program and the Maintenance of
Historic Homes and Senior Officers' Quarters
S.Hrg. 106-0363
U.S. MILITARY READINESS: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues of
readiness of the United States military forces, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of U.S. Military Forces
S.Hrg. 106-0567
* Energy
ALASKA SUBSISTENCE MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the interpretation and implementation plans of subsistence
management regulations for public lands in Alaska, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Alaska Subsistence Management Regulations
S.Hrg. 106-0386
* Finance
MENTAL HOSPITAL SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT USE: Committee held hearings on the
improper use of seclusion and restraints in mental hospitals, and S. 736, to
amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to ensure that
individuals enjoy the right to be free from restraint and other abuse while in
a psychiatric hospital or other care facility or treatment center, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Use of Seclusion and Restraints in Mental Hospitals
S.Hrg. 106-0420
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of William A.
Halter, of Arkansas, to be Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security
Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of William A. Halter
S.Hrg. 106-0523
* Judiciary
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts held closed hearings to examine alleged Chinese espionage at United
States nuclear facilities and the transfer of United States technology to
China, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Ann Claire
Williams, of Illinois, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh
Circuit, Faith S. Hochberg, to be United States District Judge for the
District of New Jersey, Frank H. McCarthy, to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of Oklahoma, and Virginia A. Phillips, to be United
States District Judge for the Central District of California.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/13, 7/29, 9/14, 10/7, 11/10/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19991027
* Armed Services
AGRICULTURAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities concluded hearings on the agricultural biological weapons threat
to the United States, after receiving testimony in closed session ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Biological Weapons Threat to the United States
S.Hrg. 106-0583
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Gen. Joseph
W. Ralston, USAF, to be Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Forces Europe and Supreme
Allied Commander, Europe, Gen. Richard B. Myers, USAF, to be Vice Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Thomas A. Schwartz, USA, to be
Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/ Commander,
U.S. Forces, Korea, and Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart, USAF, to be
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Space Command, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 11/4/99
* Banking
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS: Committee concluded hearings on the
impact of electronic communications networks on the changing structure of the
national securities markets, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Changing Face of Capital Markets and the Impact of Electronic
Communications Networks [ECN's]
S.Hrg. 106-0557
* Foreign Relations
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the future of
U.S.-China relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Challenges Facing the Next U.S. Ambassador to the People's
Republic of China--(Includes Nomination Hearing of Adm. Joseph W. Prueher)
S.Hrg. 106-0266
Hearings also held on 10/28/99
TAX TREATIES AND PROTOCOL: Committee concluded hearings on the Tax Convention
With Estonia (Treaty Doc. 105-55), Tax Convention With Latvia (Treaty Doc.
105-57), Tax Convention With Venezuela (Treaty Doc. 106-3), Tax Convention
With Denmark (Treaty Doc. 106-12), Tax Convention With Lithuania (Treaty Doc.
105-56), Tax Convention With Slovenia (Treaty Doc. 106-9), Tax Convention With
Italy (Treaty Doc. 106-11), and the Protocol Amending The Tax Convention With
Germany (Treaty Doc. 106-13), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bilateral Tax Treaties and Protocol: Estonia--Treaty Doc.
105-55; Latvia--Treaty Doc. 105-57; Venezuela--Treaty Doc. 106-3;
Denmark--Treaty Doc. 106-12; Lithuania--Treaty Doc. 105-56; Slovenia--Treaty
Doc. 106-9; Italy--Treaty Doc. 106-11; Germany--Treaty Doc. 106-13
S.Hrg. 106-0356
* Indian Affairs
ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, focusing on Title IX, Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska
Native Education programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization
S.Hrg. 106-0248
* Judiciary
FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT: Committee held hearings to examine
proposals to further amend the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and
related terrorism issues, focusing on efforts to help families of the victims
of international terrorism receive compensation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Terrorism: Victims' Access to Terrorist Assets
S.Hrg. 106-0941
PARENTAL CHILD KIDNAPING: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
concluded hearings on the Justice Department's response to international
parental child kidnaping, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Justice Department's Response to International Parental
Kidnaping
S.Hrg. 106-0988
** HEARINGS FOR 19991028
* Armed Services
NATO STRATEGIC CONCEPT: Committee concluded hearings on the United States
national security implications of the 1999 NATO Strategic Concept, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. National Security Implications of the 1999 NATO Strategic
Concept
S.Hrg. 106-0840
* Commerce
MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY: Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness
concluded hearings to examine the current state of the machine tool industry,
focusing on the role the industry plays in national manufacturing and what can
be done to improve its international competitiveness, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Challenges Confronting the Machine Tool Industry
S.Hrg. 106-1064
GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
concluded hearings to examine the role of standards in the growth of global
economic commerce, focusing on the ability of systems built and operated by
different parties to exchange and process information, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Role of Standards in the Growth of Global Electronic Commerce
S.Hrg. 106-1062
* Energy
FEDERAL HYDROELECTRIC LICENSING PROCESS: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
hydroelectric licensing process, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Hydroelectric Licensing Process
S.Hrg. 106-0397
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Joseph W.
Prueher, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 10/27/99
Hearings also held on 10/27/99
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Martin S.
Indyk, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to Israel, and Edward S.
Walker, Jr., of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Joshua Gotbaum,
of New York, to be Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, Office
of Management and Budget, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Joshua Gotbaum
S.Hrg. 106-0331
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
VIACOM/CBS MERGER: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings on media competition and consolidation issues,
focusing on the proposed acquisition of CBS by Viacom, ...
PRINTED TITLE: VIACOM/CBS Merger: Media Competition and Consolidation in the
New Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0974
** HEARINGS FOR 19991029
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Joseph R.
Crapa, of Virginia, to be Assistant Administrator for Legislative and Public
Affairs, United States Agency for International Development, Willene A.
Johnson, of New York, to be United States Director of the African Development
Bank, and Alan Phillip Larson, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary of State for
Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19991102
* Banking
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS: Senate concluded hearings to examine the new Round of
international trade negotiations to be discussed at the upcoming World Trade
Organization Conference in Seattle, focusing on the services industries trade
agenda, ...
PRINTED TITLE: World Trade Organization: The Seattle Ministerial and
Millennium Negotiations
S.Hrg. 106-0736
* Energy
PROTECTION OF FOREST ROADLESS AREAS: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded hearings to examine the President's Memorandum for the
Secretary of Agriculture on the Protection of Forest Roadless Areas, and the
Forest Service's actions that are planned in response, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Protection of Roadless Areas
S.Hrg. 106-0416,pt.1
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Avis Thayer
Bohlen, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for
Arms Control, Robert J. Einhorn, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant
Secretary of State for Non-proliferation, J. Stapleton Roy, of Pennsylvania,
to be Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, Craig Gordon
Dunkerley, of Massachusetts, for the Rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Special Envoy for Conventional Forces in Europe, Norman A. Wulf, of
Virginia, to be a Special Representative of the President, with the rank of
Ambassador, Charles Taylor Manatt, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, and Anthony Stephen Harrington, of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
EXTREMIST MOVEMENTS: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
held hearings to examine the incidence of terrorism in the Middle East and
South Asia, focusing on how to combat the growing problem of extremism and its
by-product, terrorism, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Extremist Movements and Their Threat to the United States
S.Hrg. 106-0297
* Judiciary
BANKRUPTCY JUDGESHIP: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial
and Administrative Law to examine the process for requesting new judgeships,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
GOVERNMENT LAWSUITS: Committee held hearings to examine the spate of certain
government lawsuits filed against different industries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Big Government Lawsuits: Are Policy-Driven Lawsuits in the
Public Interest?
S.Hrg. 106-0979
** HEARINGS FOR 19991103
* Aging
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Nursing Home Residents Short-Changed by Staff Shortages
(Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0444
* Armed Services
OPERATION ALLIED FORCE: Committee concluded hearings on the lessons learned
from the military operations conducted as part of Operation Allied Force, and
associated relief operations, with respect to Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/99
Hearings also held on 2/25, 4/15, 7/1, 7/20, 10/14, 10/21/99
* Environment
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water concluded hearing to examine solutions to the policy concerns with
respect to Habitat Conservation Plans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 7/20/99
Hearings also held on 7/20, 7/21, 10/19/99
* Foreign Relations
PROMOTING U.S. INTERESTS: Subcommittee on International Operations held
hearings on issues relating to promoting United States national interests at
the United Nations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United Nations: Progress in Promoting U.S. Interests
S.Hrg. 106-0296
** HEARINGS FOR 19991104
* Aging
NURSING HOME CARE: Committee concluded hearings on certain initiatives to
improve nursing home quality of care, focusing on the Health Care Financing
Administration's regional offices and their ability to oversee state agencies
they contract with to ensure that nursing homes comply with federal quality
standards, ...
PRINTED TITLE: HCFA Regional Offices: Inconsistent, Uneven, Unfair
S.Hrg. 106-0485
* Appropriations
STEM CELL RESEARCH: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings to examine stem cell research funding issues,
focusing on the National Bioethics Advisory Commission report "Ethical Issues
in Human Stem Cell Research", ...
PRINTED TITLE: Stem Cell Research (Special hearing) (Part One of this
hearing is found at S.Hrg. 105-939)
S.Hrg. 106-0413,pt.2
* Armed Services
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Alphonso
Maldon, Jr., of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Force Management
Policy, and John K. Veroneau, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for
Legislative Affairs, both of the Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/99
Hearings also held on 3/2, 4/27, 5/4, 6/8, 7/21, 8/3, 9/9, 10/27/99
* Commerce
LOCAL PHONE COMPETITION: Committee concluded hearings on local voice and data
marketplace competition, examining how to increase consumer choice in local
telephone markets, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Local Competition in the Voice and Data Marketplace
S.Hrg. 106-1069
* Foreign Relations
CHECHNYA CONFLICT: Committee concluded hearings on the conflict in Chechnya
and its implications for United States relations with Russia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Chechnya: Implications for Russia and the Caucasus
S.Hrg. 106-0294
U.S./NIGERIA RELATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on United States
relations with Nigeria, focusing on Nigeria's transition to civilian rule,
democracy, and human rights, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nigerian Transition and the Future of U.S. Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0295
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN LAND OWNERSHIP AND LEASING: Joint Hearing: Committee on Indian Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Resources on S. 1586, to
reduce the fractionated ownership of Indian Lands, and S. 1315, to permit the
leasing of oil and gas rights on certain lands held in trust for the Navajo
Nation or allotted to a member of the Navajo Nation, in any case in which
there is consent from a specified percentage interest in the parcel of land
under consideration for lease, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Land Consolidation Act Amendments; and To Permit the
Leasing of Oil and Gas Rights on Navajo Allotted Lands (S. 1586, S. 1315, H.R.
3181) (Joint with Committee on Resources (House))
S.Hrg. 106-0282
* Judiciary
MCI WORLDCOM/SPRINT MERGER: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
possible affects the proposed merger of MCI WorldCom and Sprint would have on
competition and consumer choice in the telecommunications industry, and
S.1854, to reform the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976,
...
PRINTED TITLE: MCI WorldCom/Sprint Merger: A Competition Review (S. 1854)
S.Hrg. 106-0978
** HEARINGS FOR 19991105
* Banking
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Gregory A.
Baer, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial
Institutions, and Susan M. Wachter, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development and Research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of: Gregory A. Baer and Susan M. Wachter
S.Hrg. 106-0805
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Carol
Moseley-Braun, of Illinois, to be Ambassador to New Zealand, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to Samoa, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
ASIAN FINANCIAL CRISIS: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
relating to the International Monetary Fund reform, focusing on lessons
learned from the Asian financial crisis, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 19991108
* Aging
BABY BOOM GENERATION: Committee concluded hearings to examine the political,
social, and economic challenges that may face the United States as the baby
boomer generation approach retirement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Boomers Are Coming: Challenges of Aging in the New Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0445
* Commerce
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY MERGERS: Committee held hearings to examine the
impact of mergers on market competition in the telecommunications industry,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Mergers in the Telecommunications Industry
S.Hrg. 106-1083
** HEARINGS FOR 19991109
* Governmental Affairs
PRIVATE BANKING: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings to
examine the vulnerabilities of United States private banks to money
laundering, focusing on how they accept clientele, use shell corporations and
secrecy jurisdictions to open accounts and move funds, monitor clients and
transactions, and identify and respond to suspicious activity, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Private Banking and Money Laundering: A Case Study of
Opportunities and Vulnerabilities
S.Hrg. 106-0428
Hearings also held on 11/10/99
* Small Business
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Ensuring the Maximum Practicable Opportunity
S.Hrg. 106-0401
** HEARINGS FOR 19991110
* Foreign Relations
OVERSEAS PRESENCE ADVISORY PANEL: Subcommittee on International Operations
concluded hearings to examine the Overseas Presence Advisory Panel report,
focusing on the location, size, composition, and budget of overseas posts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Examining the Work of the Overseas Presence Review Panel
S.Hrg. 106-0402
* Governmental Affairs
PRIVATE BANKING: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded hearings
to examine the vulnerabilities of United States private banks to money
laundering, focusing on how they accept clientele, use shell corporations and
secrecy jurisdictions to open accounts and move funds, monitor clients and
transactions, and identify and respond to suspicious activity, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 11/9/99
Hearings also held on 11/9/99
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Thomas L.
Ambro, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit,
Kermit Bye, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth
Circuit, George B. Daniels, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of New York, Joel A. Pisano, to be United States District
Judge for the District of New Jersey, and Fredric D. Woocher, to be United
States District Judge for the Central District of California, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 6/16/99
Hearings also held on 6/16, 7/13, 7/29, 9/14, 10/7, 10/26/99
** HEARINGS FOR 19991115
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Childhood Lead Poisoning: Older Homes, Silent Hazard (Field
hearing held in Lewiston, ME)
S.Hrg. 106-0313
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Resurgence of Heroin Use and its Effect on Youth (Field
hearing held in New Castle, DE)
S.Hrg. 106-0982
** HEARINGS FOR 19991116
* Finance
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Deanna T. Okun,
of Idaho, to be a Member and Commissioner of the United States International
Trade Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Deanna T. Okun
S.Hrg. 106-0369
** HEARINGS FOR 19991130
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Education Reauthorization (S. 1767) (Field
hearing held in Kaunakakai, Molokai, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0385,pt.1
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Education Reauthorization (S. 1767) (Field
hearing held in Lihue, Kauai, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0385,pt.2
** HEARINGS FOR 19991201
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Education Reauthorization (S. 1767) (Field
hearing held in Hilo, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0385,pt.3
** HEARINGS FOR 19991203
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Donated Organ Allocation Policy (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0412
** HEARINGS FOR 19991213
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Mistakes (Special hearings) (Joint with Health,
Education, Labor, and Pensions; and Veterans' Affairs)
S.Hrg. 106-0847
Hearings also held on 1/25, 2/22/00
** HEARINGS FOR 19991214
* Aging
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Funerals, Burials and Consumers (Forum held in Clinton, IA,
and Cedar Rapids, IA)
S.Hrg. 106-0493
* Appropriations
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies,
Appropriations, Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4475, 5394 and S. 2720) (Department of
Transportation, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak),
Nondepartmental witnesses, Surface Transportation Board)
S.Hrg. 106-0921
Hearings also held on 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/9, 3/28, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1085
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: West Nile Virus (Field hearing held in Fairfield, CT)
S.Hrg. 106-0627
* Small Business
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Future of Small Business Exporting (Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0442
** HEARINGS FOR 20000107
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Everglades Restoration (Field hearing held 1/7/00 in Naples,
FL)
S.Hrg. 106-0729
Hearings also held on 5/11, 9/20/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000118
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson--Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1087
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Kalamaula, Molokai, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.1
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Lihue, Kauai, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.2
** HEARINGS FOR 20000119
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson--Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1086
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Kahuli, Maui, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.3
** HEARINGS FOR 20000120
* Foreign Relations
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Future of U.S.--U.N. Relations: A Dialogue Between the U.S.
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the U.N. Security Council (Address;
Field hearing held in New York, NY; Roundtable)
S.Hrg. 106-0777
Hearings also held on 1/21, 3/30/00
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Hilo, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.4
** HEARINGS FOR 20000121
* Foreign Relations
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [FUTURE OF
U.S.--U.N. RELATIONS]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/20/00
Hearings also held on 1/20, 3/30/00
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Honolulu, Oahu, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.5
** HEARINGS FOR 20000125
* Appropriations
PATIENT SAFETY: On Tuesday, January 25, 2000, Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and the Committee on Veteran Affairs
concluded joint hearings to examine reports and initiatives on patient safety,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/13/99
Hearings also held on 12/13/99, 2/22/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000126
* Banking
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Alan Greenspan,
of New York, to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Alan Greenspan
S.Hrg. 106-0526
* Budget
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: Committee concluded hearings on the economic and budget
forecasts of the Congressional Budget Office for fiscal years 2001-2010 ...
PRINTED TITLE: Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2001
S.Hrg. 106-0494
Hearings also held on 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Health
MEDICAL ERRORS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the incidence of
medical errors, focusing on the Institute of Medicine report on medical
safety, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Errors: A Look at the IOM Report
S.Hrg. 106-0396
** HEARINGS FOR 20000201
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURE CONCENTRATION: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine
the current structure and future operations of the Department of Agriculture's
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
Oversight
S.Hrg. 106-0663
* Banking
LOAN GUARANTEES AND RURAL TELEVISION SERVICE: Committee concluded hearings on
the issue of federal loan guarantees to promote satellite delivery of local
television signals to rural areas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Loan Guarantees and Rural Television Service
S.Hrg. 106-0833
Hearings also held on 2/9/00
* Budget
FEDERAL SPENDING PRIORITIES:
Committee concluded hearings to examine spending priorities of certain federal
laws and programs in order to maximize the government's performance and
accountability, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Health
MEDICAL ERRORS: Committee resumed hearings to examine the incidence of
medical errors, focusing on understanding adverse drug events, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Errors: Understanding Adverse Drug Events
S.Hrg. 106-0492
* Judiciary
U.S. COMPUTER NETWORK PROTECTION: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and
Government Information held hearings to examine the vulnerability of U.S.
systems to cyber attack, focusing on the Administration's National Plan for
Information Systems Protection and its implications regarding privacy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cyber Attacks: The National Protection Plan and its Privacy
Implications
S.Hrg. 106-0889
** HEARINGS FOR 20000202
* Armed Services
BOSNIA AND KOSOVO SECURITY: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine current security status in Bosnia and Kosovo following U.S. military
operations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Situation in Bosnia and Kosovo
S.Hrg. 106-0841
* Budget
INTERNET TAXATION: Committee concluded hearings to examine Internet taxation
issues, focusing on the implications of State and local government sales taxes
applied to purchases made over the Internet, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Finance
INS REFORM: Committee held hearings on the status of Internal Revenue Service
reform, focusing on the implementation of the Restructuring and Reform Act of
1998, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of IRS Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0439
* Health
GENE THERAPY SAFETY: Subcommittee on Public Health held hearings to examine
certain issues regarding patient safety in gene therapy clinical trials,
focusing on federal oversight procedures and guidelines for informing patients
and their families of potential risks and benefits of gene therapy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Gene Therapy: Is There Oversight for Patient Safety?
S.Hrg. 106-0447
* Intelligence
WORLD THREATS ASSESSMENT: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine worldwide threats to national security, focusing on traditional and
unconventional threats, including proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, state-sponsored terrorism, and non-state terrorists, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Current and Projected National Security Threats to the United
States
S.Hrg. 106-0580
** HEARINGS FOR 20000203
* Agriculture
LOAN GUARANTEES AND RURAL TELEVISION SERVICE: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the proposed loan guarantee program, focusing on rural satellite and
cable system delivery of local broadcast stations to viewers not having access
to local television stations, and the digital divide, focusing on the
disparity of access to the Internet in rural areas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Rural Satellite and Cable Systems Loan Guarantee Proposal and
the Digital Divide in Rural America
S.Hrg. 106-0697
* Appropriations
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest [APPROPRIATIONS -
TRANSPORTATION
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/10, 2/24, 3/9, 3/28, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government
concluded oversight hearings on the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Anti-Drug Media Campaign, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight Hearing on Office of National Drug Control Policy
Anti-Drug Media Campaign (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0636
* Armed Services
WORLDWIDE THREATS ASSESSMENT: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
examine worldwide threats to national security, focusing on traditional and
unconventional threats, including proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, state-sponsored terrorism, and non-state terrorists, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Worldwide Threats
S.Hrg. 106-0834
* Budget
FAA MODERNIZATION: Committee concluded joint hearings with the Committee on
Appropriation's Subcommittee on Transportation to examine Federal Aviation
Administration modernization, focusing on the safety, performance, and funding
of the National Airspace System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Environment
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Eric D.
Eberhard, of Washington, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris
K. Udall Scholarship & Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation,
and W. Michael McCabe, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations Considered During the Second Session of the 106th
Congress [Environment and Public Works Committee] (Eric D. Eberhard, W.
Michael McCabe, Ella Wong-Ruskinko, Arthur C. Campbell, James V. Aidala)
S.Hrg. 106-0745
Hearings also held on 6/13/00
* Finance
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of George L.
Farr, of Connecticut, Charles L. Kolbe, ofIowa, Nancy Killefer, of the
District of Columbia, Larry L. Levitan, of Maryland, Steve H. Nickles, of
North Carolina, Robert M. Tobias, of Maryland, and Karen Hastie Williams, of
the District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Internal Revenue Service
Oversight Board, Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of George L. Farr, Nancy Killefer, Larry R.
Levitan, Steve H. Nickles, Charles L. Kolbe, Robert M.Tobias, and Karen
Hastie Williams
S.Hrg. 106-0448
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
ADVANCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Oversight concluded hearings on the report of the Commission on the
Advancement of Federal Law Enforcement, focusing on the integration of issues
to strengthen the law enforcement fabric of the Federal Government while
protecting democracy and the rights of individual citizens, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Report of the Commission on the Advancement of Federal Law
Enforcement
S.Hrg. 106-1049
** HEARINGS FOR 20000208
* Aging
MEDICARE REFORM: PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE: Committee concluded hearings on
certain provisions of S. 1895, to amend the Social Security Act to preserve
and improve the medicare program, focusing on its overall restructuring plan,
and prescription drug coverage, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Right Medicine? Examining the Breaux-Frist Prescription for
Saving Medicare
S.Hrg. 106-0497
* Agriculture
DAIRY POLICY: Committee held hearings to examine the United States dairy
policy and programs, focusing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order, Northeast
Dairy Compact, Dairy Export Incentive Program, and S. 1930, to amend the
Agricultural Adjustment Act to provide for the termination of milk marketing
orders, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Dairy Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0721
Hearings also held on 2/9/00
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE/CBO: Subcommittee on Legislative
Branch concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001
for the Joint Economic Committee, and the Congressional Budget Office, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Legislative Branch Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R.
4516, 4577 and 5657/S. 2603) (Architect of the Capitol (except House items),
Congressional Budget Office, General Accounting Office, Government Printing
Office, Joint Committee on Taxation, Joint Economic Committee, Library of
Congress, Office of Compliance, U.S. Capitol Police Board, U.S. Senate)
S.Hrg. 106-0820
Hearings also held on 2/22, 2/29, 3/21/00
SUICIDE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education concluded hearings on suicide awareness and prevention
issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Suicide Awareness and Prevention (Special Hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0940
* Armed Services
DEFENSE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Status of
the U.S. Armed Forces, Military Posture, Service Secretaries, Service Chiefs,
Unified Commands, Department of Energy)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.1
Hearings also held on 2/10, 2/29, 3/1, 3/7, 3/9/00
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Second
Session, 106th Congress (de Leon, Dworkin, Rostker, Dahlberg, Creedon, Clark,
Gordon, Franks, Kernan, Mancuso, Kallock, Baker, Pace, Holland, Flowers,
Pirie)
S.Hrg. 106-0985
Hearings also held on 3/21, 4/11, 5/16, 5/24, 6/27, 7/26, 9/6, 10/3, 10/19/00
* Banking
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY STABILITY ACT: Subcommittee on Economic Policy
concluded hearings on S. 1879, to promote international monetary stability and
to share seigniorage with officially dollarized countries, ...
PRINTED TITLE: International Monetary Stability Act of 1999 -- S. 1879
S.Hrg. 106-0508
* Budget
2001 BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2001, focusing on education programs and tax
provisions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Finance
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Committee held hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2001 and related tax proposals, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget and Tax Proposals
S.Hrg. 106-0778
* Foreign Relations
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2001 for foreign assistance and to review U.S.
foreign policy around the world, ...
PRINTED TITLE: 2000 Foreign Policy Overview and the President's Fiscal Year
2001 Foreign Affairs Budget Requests
S.Hrg. 106-0599
Hearings also held on 2/9, 2/10, 2/24, 2/25, 2/29, 3/8, 3/23/00
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 2/9, 2/10/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000209
* Agriculture
FEDERAL DAIRY POLICY: Committee concluded hearings to examine United States
dairy policy and programs, focusing on the Federal Milk Marketing Order,
Northeast Dairy Compact, and Dairy Export Incentive Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8/00
* Banking
LOAN GUARANTEES AND RURAL TELEVISION SERVICE: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the proposed Federal loan guarantees for rural television service,
focusing on rural satellite and cable system delivery of local broadcast
stations to viewers not having access to local television stations, and the
digital divide, and the disparity of access to the Internet in rural areas,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/1/00
Hearings also held on 2/1/00
* Budget
2001 BUDGET: Committee continued hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2001, focusing on budget surpluses and debt reduction
issues, ...
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Commerce
AUTHORIZATION--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs,
Foreign Commerce, and Tourism concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Federal Trade Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
S.Hrg. 106-1088
* Foreign Relations
U.S. FOREIGN STRATEGY: Committee concluded hearings to examine United States
foreign policy strategy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10, 2/24, 2/25, 2/29, 3/8, 3/23/00
* Governmental Affairs
COLLEGE COST: Committee held hearings to examine the rising cost of college
tuition and the effectiveness of Government financial aid, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of
Government Financial Aid
S.Hrg. 106-0515
Hearings also held on 2/10/00
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT TO THE U.S.: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine the National
Intelligence Estimate on the ballistic missile threat to the United States,
...
PRINTED TITLE: National Intelligence Estimate on the Ballistic Missile Threat
to the United States
S.Hrg. 106-0671
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000210
* Agriculture
OVER-THE-COUNTER DERIVATIVES MARKETS: Committee concluded hearings to examine
the findings of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets' report on
Over the Counter Derivatives Markets and the Commodity Exchange Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Working Group Report of OTC Derivatives--CEA
Re-authorization
S.Hrg. 106-0826
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4461 and 5426/S. 2536) (Department
of Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, Nondepartmental witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0836
Hearings also held on 2/29, 3/7/00
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/3, 2/24, 3/9, 3/28, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
* Armed Services
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the
future years defense program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/29, 3/1, 3/7, 3/9/00
* Budget
2001 BUDGET: SPECTRUM AUCTIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001, focusing on certain
provisions relating to spectrum auctions and their impact on the digital
economy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Energy
LAND MANAGEMENT BILLS: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1797, to amend the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, to provide for a land conveyance to the
City of Craig, Alaska, S. 1925, to promote environmental restoration around
the Lake Tahoe basin, S. 1664/H.R. 2863, bills to clarify the legal effect on
the United States of the acquisition of a parcel of land in the Red Cliffs
Desert Reserve in the State of Utah, S. 1665/H.R. 2862, bills to direct the
Secretary of the Interior to release reversionary interests held by the United
States in certain parcels of land in Washington County, Utah, to facilitate an
anticipated land exchange, and S. 1936, to authorize the Secretary of
Agriculture to sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites
and other National Forest System land in the State of Oregon and use the
proceeds derived from the sale or exchange for National Forest System
purposes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Land Management Bills (S. 1664, S. 1665, S. 1797, S. 1925, S.
1936, H.R. 2862, H.R. 2863)
S.Hrg. 106-0421
* Finance
TRADE NEGOTIATIONS: Committee held hearings to assess the mission of the
World Trade Organization over the past five years, events of last year's
Ministerial Conference in Seattle, and forthcoming trade negotiations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Trade Agenda After the Seattle Ministerial
S.Hrg. 106-0628
* Foreign Relations
EAST TIMOR: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Foreign Relations'
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded joint hearings with
the House Committee on International Relations' Subcommittee on Asia and the
Pacific to examine the current situation in East Timor, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 2001 for foreign assistance programs, and the
priorities of the Agency for International Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/24, 2/25, 2/29, 3/8, 3/23/00
RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES: Committee concluded hearings on Russian
intelligence activities directed at the Department of State, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Russian Intelligence Activities Directed at the Department of
State
S.Hrg. 106-0565
* Governmental Affairs
COLLEGE COST: Committee concluded hearings to examine the rising cost of
college tuition and the effectiveness of Government financial aid, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/9/00
Hearings also held on 2/9/00
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9/00
* Judiciary
U.S. BORDER SECURITY: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings to
examine enhancements to United States border security, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Enhancing Border Security
S.Hrg. 106-1063
** HEARINGS FOR 20000211
* Budget
2001 BUDGET: On Friday, February 11, committee continued hearings on the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 3/1/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000214
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Prevention (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0846
* Energy
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Industry-Laboratory Partnerships, and National Laboratories
Partnership Improvement Act (S. 1756) (Field hearing held in Albuquerque, NM)
S.Hrg. 106-0433
** HEARINGS FOR 20000216
* Appropriations
INTERNET SECURITY: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearing on internet security issues, focusing on criminal
behavior and significant threats to our national security and economic
security, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cybercrime (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0600
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Asbestos Contamination in Libby, Montana (Field hearing held
in Libby,MT)
S.Hrg. 106-0950
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Errors: The Vermont Perspective (Field hearing held
in Montpelier, VT)
S.Hrg. 106-0427
** HEARINGS FOR 20000222
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/29, 3/21/00
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE'S ROADLESS POLICY: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded oversight hearings on the Administration's memorandum for
the Secretary of Agriculture on the protection of forest roadless area and the
Forest Service's actions that are planned in response, focusing on the review
of approximately 40 million acres of national forest lands for increased
protection, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Protection of Roadless Areas
S.Hrg. 106-0416,pt.2
Hearings also held on 3/30/00
* Foreign Relations
EAST ASIA: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded hearings
to examine U.S. foreign policy priorities and challenges likely to emerge in
East Asia in the year 2000, focusing on economic recovery and political
stability, ...
PRINTED TITLE: East Asia in 2000: Problems and Prospects In the Year of the
Dragon
S.Hrg. 106-0518
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN AND CHILDREN TRAFFICKING: Subcommittee on Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine the scope of
international trafficking in women and children, and S. 1842, to combat
trafficking of persons in the United States and countries around the world
through prevention, prosecution and enforcement against traffickers, and
protection and assistance to victims of trafficking, ...
PRINTED TITLE: International Trafficking in Women and Children
S.Hrg. 106-0705
Hearings also held on 4/4/00
* Health
MEDICAL ERRORS: Committee held joint hearings with Committee on
Appropriations' Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education to examine the Administration's and certain industries' responses to
the Institute of Medicine's report on medical errors, focusing patient safety
issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/13/99
Hearings also held on 12/13/99, 1/25/00
PRINTED TITLE: Medical Errors: Administration Response and Other
Perspectives (Joint with Appropriations)
S.Hrg. 106-0502
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 2/23, 2/24, 2/29/00
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Randolph D.
Moss, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal
Counsel, Julio M. Fuentes, of New Jersey, to be United States Circuit Judge
for the Third Circuit, and James D. Whittemore, to be United States District
Judge for the Middle District of Florida, all of the Department of Justice,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments
S.Hrg. 106-0399,pt.2
Hearings also held on 3/23, 4/27, 5/10/00
* Narcotics Control
U.S. ASSISTANCE TO THE ANDEAN REGION: United States Senate Caucus on
International Narcotics Control Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on Finance's Subcommittee on International Trade to examine U.S.
assistance options in support of the Andean Region anti-narcotic efforts,
focusing on Plan Columbia and the Andean Trade Preference Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United States Assistance Options For the Andes (Joint with
Finance)
S.Hrg. 106-0749
** HEARINGS FOR 20000223
* Agriculture
WATER QUALITY: Committee concluded hearings on water quality as it pertains
to agriculture and forestry, and related provisions of S. 2041, to amend the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act to exempt discharges from certain
silvicultural activities from permit requirements of the national pollutant
discharge elimination system, focusing on the Environmental Protection
Agency's proposed regulations with regard to the Total Maximum Daily Load
program and the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Water Quality
S.Hrg. 106-0699
* Armed Services
KOSOVO: Committee concluded closed hearings to examine the situation in
Kosovo, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Banking
MONETARY POLICY REPORT: Committee concluded hearings on the Monetary Policy
Report to Congress pursuant to the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of
1978, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for 2000
S.Hrg. 106-0545
* Commerce
AMTRAK: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded
oversight hearings on the financial outlook of the National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (Amtrak), focusing on the findings of the Amtrak Reform Council
report, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight Hearing on Amtrak
S.Hrg. 106-1101
* Economic
CYBER-THREATS AND THE ECONOMY: U.S. Committee concluded hearings to examine
the threat of cyber-terrorism and hackers to both the United States high-tech
infrastructure and private sector, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Energy
WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management held oversight hearings on the progress on revisions of the White
River National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, focusing on
biological diversity, recreation, travel management, roadless area,
management, special areas, and timber harvest, ...
PRINTED TITLE: White River National Forest
S.Hrg. 106-0495
* Environment
EPA BUDGET: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for the Environmental Protection
Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Environmental Protection Agency's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget
Request
S.Hrg. 106-0802
* Finance
CHINA WTO ACCESSION: Committee held hearings on the U.S.-China Bilateral
Trade Agreement on China's accession to the World Trade Organization, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Consideration of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with
China
S.Hrg. 106-0564
Hearings also held on 3/23, 4/6/00
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN PROGRAMS BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for Indian programs, focusing on
health care, housing, education, government, and law enforcement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Fiscal Year 2001 Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0478
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 2/24, 2/29/00
* Judiciary
UNBORN VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: Committee held hearings on S. 1673, to amend
titles 10 and 18, United States Code, to protect unborn victims of violence,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Protecting Our Silent Victims: The Unborn Victims of Violence
Act (S. 1673)
S.Hrg. 106-1067
** HEARINGS FOR 20000224
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001
for the Department of Commerce, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, The Judiciary,
and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4690)
S.Hrg. 106-0632
Hearings also held on 2/29, 3/2, 3/7, 3/21/00
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [APPROPRIATIONS -
FOREIGN OPERATIONS]
PRINTED TITLE: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs
Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4811 and 5526/S. 2522) (Department
of Defense, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Nondepartmental
witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0821
Hearings also held on 3/23, 4/4, 4/6, 4/11, 4/13/00
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001
for the Department of Transportation, focusing on safety initiatives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/3, 2/10, 3/9, 3/28, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
COLUMBIA SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST: Subcommittees on Foreign Operations, Defense,
and Military Construction concluded joint hearings on a proposed supplemental
request to assist the Government of Columbia in its counter-narcotics efforts,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Joint Hearing on Supplemental Request for Plan Colombia
(Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0621
* Armed Services
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on recruiting and
retention practices, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Personnel)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.6
Hearings also held on 3/2, 3/9/00
* Banking
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Kathryn Shaw,
of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Jay
Johnson, of Wisconsin, to be Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of: Kathryn L. Shaw and Jay W. Johnson
S.Hrg. 106-0942
HUD COMMUNITY BUILDERS: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation concluded
oversight hearings on the implementation of HUD's Community Builders' Program,
focusing on hiring procedures and practices, ...
PRINTED TITLE: HUD's Community Builders Program
S.Hrg. 106-0989
* Energy
FUEL PRICES: Committee concluded hearings to examine energy supply and demand
issues relating to crude oil, heating oil, and transportation fuels in light
of recent price escalations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Energy Supply and Demand
S.Hrg. 106-0535
Hearings also held on 3/8/00
MINERAL LEASING: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management held
hearings on S. 1722 and H.R. 3063, bills to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to
increase the maximum acreage of Federal leases for sodium that may be held by
an entity in any one State, and S. 1950, to amend the Mineral Leasing Act of
1920 to ensure the orderly development of coal, coalbed methane, natural gas,
and oil in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming and Montana, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Amend the Mineral Leasing Act (S. 1722, H.R. 3063, S. 1950)
S.Hrg. 106-0507
* Environment
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BUDGET: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for fiscal year 2001 for the Army Corps of Engineers, focusing on the Civil
Works Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Budget for Fiscal Year 2001
S.Hrg. 106-0809
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings to examine Medicare reform
proposals, focusing on cost containment and expanded benefits, including S.
1895, to amend the Social Security Act to preserve and improve the Medicare
program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicare Reform: Issues and Options
S.Hrg. 106-0884
* Foreign Relations
AFRICAN AIDS CRISIS: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded hearings to
examine the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and a related measure, S. 2026, to amend
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for HIV/AIDS
efforts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/25, 2/29, 3/8, 3/23/00
* Governmental Affairs
DAY TRADING: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings to
examine the practices of the day trading industry and its risks to investors,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Day Trading: Everyone Gambles But the House
S.Hrg. 106-0505
Hearings also held on 2/25/00
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 2/23, 2/29/00
* Small Business
SBA BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2001 for the Small Business Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: President's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the Small
Business Administration
S.Hrg. 106-0543
** HEARINGS FOR 20000225
* Armed Services
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: On Friday, February 25, Subcommittee on Strategic
concluded open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years
Defense Program, focusing on the Department of Energy's National Nuclear
Security programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Strategic)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.7
Hearings also held on 2/28, 2/29, 3/8/00
* Foreign Relations
ANTI-DRUG ASSISTANCE TO COLOMBIA: On Friday, February 25, Subcommittee on
Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings on
proposed emergency anti-drug assistance to Colombia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/24, 2/29, 3/8, 3/23/00
* Governmental Affairs
DAY TRADING: On Friday, February 25, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings to examine the practices of the day trading industry and
its risks to investors, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000228
* Armed Services
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on Ballistic Missile
Defense programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/00
Hearings also held on 2/25, 2/29, 3/8/00
EXPORT CONTROLS: Committee concluded hearings to examine national security
implications of export controls and related provisions of S. 1712, to provide
authority to control exports, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Security Implications of Export Controls
S.Hrg. 106-0816
Hearings also held on 3/23/00
* Banking
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Competitive Market Supervision Act, S. 2107
S.Hrg. 106-0937
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Air Act: New Source Review Regulatory Program (Field
hearing held in Cincinnati, OH)
S.Hrg. 106-0944
** HEARINGS FOR 20000229
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Agriculture, focusing on assistance to
producers and the farm economy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/10/00
Hearings also held on 2/10, 3/7/00
APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHITECT/GAO/OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE: Subcommittee on
Legislative Branch concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/22, 3/21/00
APPROPRIATIONS--JUSTICE: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001
for the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/2, 3/7, 3/21/00
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4577
and 5656/S. 2553)
S.Hrg. 106-0817
Hearings also held on 3/30/00
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: Subcommittee on Military Construction
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for Navy
and Defense Agencies military construction programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Military Construction Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001
(H.R. 4425/S. 2521)
S.Hrg. 106-0649
Hearings also held on 3/7/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the
Future Years Defense Program, focusing on military strategy and operational
requirements of the unified commands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10, 3/1, 3/7, 3/9/00
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on the Department of
Energy's Office of Environmental Management, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/25/00
Hearings also held on 2/25, 2/28, 3/8/00
* Banking
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Structure of Securities Markets
S.Hrg. 106-0939
hearings also held on 4/13, 5/8/00
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 2001, focusing on the U.S. Forest
Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the Forest
Service
S.Hrg. 106-0550
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE BUDGET: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget estimate for fiscal year 2001 for the operation of the National Park
Service system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the National Park
Service
S.Hrg. 106-0477
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee resumed hearings on certain Medicare reform
proposals, focusing on beneficiary premiums and the competitive implications
of health plan pricing rules, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Competition in the Medicare Program
S.Hrg. 106-0786
* Foreign Relations
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on
multilateral development bank reform proposals, focusing on the future of the
International Monetary Fund and International Financial Institutions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/24, 2/25, 3/8, 3/23/00
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 2/23, 2/24/00
* Judiciary
INTERNET DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS: Joint Hearing: Committee on the
Judiciary's Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight concluded joint
hearings with the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime to
examine recent Internet denial of service attacks and the federal response,
focusing on the challenges facing the Department of Justice in its fight
against cybercrime, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
AOL/TIME WARNER MERGER: Committee held hearings to examine the proposed
AOL/Time Warner merger, and its effects on competition and consumer choice in
broadband Internet services and technologies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: AOL/Time Warner Merger: Competition and Consumer Choice in
Broadband Internet Services and Technologies
S.Hrg. 106-1003
** HEARINGS FOR 20000301
* Agriculture
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: China Accession to the World Trade Organization
S.Hrg. 106-0754
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R.
4635 and 5482) (Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Corporation
for National and Community Service, Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Department of the Treasury, Department of Veterans Affairs,
Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Board, National Science
Foundation, Nondepartmental Witnesses, Office of Science and Technology
Policy.
S.Hrg. 106-0888
Hearings also held on 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/12, 4/13, 5/4/00
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE: Subcommittee on Interior concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Indian
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations
for Fiscal Year 2001 (H.R. 4578)
S.Hrg. 106-0887
Hearings also held on 3/22, 4/4, 4/5, 4/11/00
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY/MARINE CORPS: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Navy and Marine Corps programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2001
(H.R. 4576/S. 2593)
S.Hrg. 106-0743
Hearings also held on 3/6, 3/8, 3/29, 4/12, 4/25, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Armed Services
DEFENSE BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the
Future Years Defense Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10, 2/29, 3/7, 3/9/00
DEFENSE BUDGET: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities concluded
closed, followed by open hearings, on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense, focusing on cyber-security
and critical infrastructure protection, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Emerging
Threats and Capabilities)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.5
Hearings also held on 3/6, 3/21, 3/24, 4/4/00
* Budget
2001 BUDGET: ENERGY PROGRAMS: On Wednesday, March 1, Committee concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for
nuclear non-proliferation, stockpile stewardship, and other energy programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/26/00
Hearings also held on 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/11, 3/1/00
* Commerce
INTERNET PROGRAMS BUDGET: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space
concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year
2001, for the Next Generation Internet and Large Scale Networking programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 2046, Next Generation Internet in the President's Fiscal
Year 2001 Budget
S.Hrg. 106-1091
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of John Goglia,
of Massachusetts, and Carol Jones Carmody, of Louisiana, each to be a Member
of the National Transportation Safety Board.
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of John J. Goglia for Reappointment, and Carol J.
Carmody for Appointment as Members of the National Transportation Safety Board
S.Hrg. 106-1089
* Energy
INTERIOR BUDGET: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for Department of the Interior, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the Department of
the Interior
S.Hrg. 106-0525
* Environment
CLEAN WATER ACT: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water held
hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule
regarding total maximum daily loads and National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System permit programs pursuant to the Clean Water Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Rule Changes to the TMDL and NPDES Permit Programs
(Field hearings held (5/6) in Whitefield, NH, and (6/12) in Hot Springs, AR)
S.Hrg. 106-0971
Hearings also held on 3/23, 5/6, 6/12/00
* Foreign Relations
CHECHNYA: Committee concluded hearings to examine the current conflict,
focusing on the conduct of the Russian government, and the implications for
the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: War in Chechnya: Russia's Conduct, the Humanitarian Crisis,
and United States Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0500
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of N. Cinnamon
Dornsife, of the District of Columbia, to be United States Director of the
Asian Development Bank, with the rank of Ambassador, and Earl Anthony Wayne,
of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business
Affairs.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee met in closed session to consider pending
intelligence matters.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/2, 3/7, 3/8, 3/9/00
* Judiciary
CUBA'S GOVERNMENT: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of
Cuba's oppressive government on its citizens and the current plight of Elian
Gonzalez, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cuba's Oppressive Government and the Struggle for Justice
S.Hrg. 106-0992
CONTRACTUAL MANDATORY BINDING ARBITRATION: Subcommittee on Administrative
Oversight and the Courts concluded hearings to examine contractual mandatory
binding arbitration issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Overview of Contractual Mandatory Binding Arbitration
S.Hrg. 106-1066
* Veterans Affairs
DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS: Joint Meeting: Senate Committee on Veterans'
Affairs concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
on the legislative recommendations of the Disabled American Veterans, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000302
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF STATE: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice,
State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001 for the Department of State, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 2/29, 3/7, 3/21/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on the Defense
Health Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/9/00
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the
Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on
shipbuilding procurement and research and development programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Seapower)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.2
Hearings also held on 3/23/00
* Banking
BUSINESS COMBINATIONS ACCOUNTING: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
accounting of business combinations, focusing on the public policy
implications of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's pooling-of-interest
accounting regulation proposal, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pooling Accounting
S.Hrg. 106-1035
* Commerce
AOL/TIME WARNER MERGER: Committee held hearings to examine certain issues
relating to the proposed America Online/Time Warner merger, ...
PRINTED TITLE: AOL & Time Warner Merger
S.Hrg. 106-1090
* Energy
NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management held oversight hearings on the United States Forest Service's
proposed revisions to the regulation governing National Forest Planning and
wildlife population viability requirements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Forest Management
S.Hrg. 106-0552
Hearings also held on 5/10/00
ENERGY BUDGET: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the President's
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 2001, for the Department of Energy,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the Department of
Energy
S.Hrg. 106-0626
* Foreign Relations
SUDAN TERRORISM: Committee concluded closed hearings on terrorism issues
relating to Sudan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SECURITY: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
federal government's computer system vulnerabilities, focusing on how people
exploit those weaknesses and what federal agencies should be doing to
strengthen the management of its information systems, and S. 1993, to reform
Government information security by strengthening information security
practices throughout the Federal Government, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cyber Attack: Is the Government Safe?
S.Hrg. 106-0486
* Health
AUTHORIZATION--RYAN WHITE CARE ACT: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Ryan White Care Act,
focusing on the challenges of an evolving HIV/AIDS epidemic, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act
S.Hrg. 106-0509
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings to consider pending intelligence
matters.
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/7, 3/8, 3/9/00
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to
review the legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000303
* Armed Services
AIR FORCE DEPOT MAINTENANCE: On Friday, March 3, Subcommittee on Readiness
and Management Support concluded hearings to examine the management of Air
Force depot maintenance on fielded weapon systems, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Readiness
and Management Support)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.3
Hearings also held on 3/7, 3/10, 4/26/00
* Economic
FEBRUARY EMPLOYMENT: On Friday, March 3, Committee concluded hearings to
examine the employment-unemployment situation for February, focusing on the
current consumer and producer price indexes with respect to the inflation
outlook, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Employment Situation: February 2000 (at
Y4.Ec7:Em7/25/2000-3-3
S.Hrg. 106-0468
** HEARINGS FOR 20000306
* Aging
COLON CANCER PREVENTION: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
prevention and treatment of colon cancer, focusing on efforts to increase
awareness and screening procedures, including the use of Medicare-covered
screening and diagnostic services to prevent colorectal cancer and minimize
its effect on beneficiaries health status through early detection and
treatment, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Colon Cancer: Greater Use of Screenings Would Save Lives
S.Hrg. 106-0498
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/8, 3/29, 4/12, 4/25, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Armed Services
RUSSIAN THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and
Capabilities concluded closed and open hearings to examine U.S. programs to
reduce the threats that the former Soviet Union's weapons of mass destruction
pose to national security, focusing on the Department of Defense Cooperative
Threat Reduction programs and the Department of Energy Nonproliferation
programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/21, 3/24, 4/4/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000307
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY/AIR FORCE: Subcommittee on Military Construction
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for Army
and Air Force military construction programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/29/00
Hearings also held on 2/29/00
APPROPRIATIONS--FBI/DEA/INS: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 2/29, 3/2, 3/21/00
APPROPRIATIONS--FDA: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and
Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2001 for the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/10/00
Hearings also held on 2/10, 2/29/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on military strategy
and operational requirements of the unified and regional commands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10, 2/29, 3/1, 3/9/00
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program,
focusing on readiness programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/00
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/10, 4/26/00
* Commerce
MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SOURCING: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1755,
to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to regulate interstate commerce in the
use of mobile telephones, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1755, The Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act
S.Hrg. 106-1131
* Energy
2001 BUDGET--INTERIOR/ENERGY: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for
the Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of the Interior, and the
Bonneville Power Administration, the Southeastern Power Administration, the
Southwestern Power Administration, and the Western Area Power Administration,
all of the Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for the Bureau of
Reclamation and the Power Marketing Administrations
S.Hrg. 106-0606
* Finance
WTO AGRICULTURE NEGOTIATIONS: Subcommittee on International Trade held
hearings to examine agriculture trade negotiations in the World Trade
Organization after Seattle, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agriculture Negotiations in the WTO After Seattle
S.Hrg. 106-0510
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/2, 3/8, 3/9/00
* Judiciary
IDENTITY THEFT AND ASSUMPTION DETERRENCE: Subcommittee on Technology,
Terrorism, and Government Information held oversight hearings to examine the
effectiveness and funding for the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act
(P.L. 105-318), ...
PRINTED TITLE: ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen to Your Good Name
S.Hrg. 106-0885
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROCEDURE REFORM: Subcommittee on Administrative
Oversight and the Courts held hearings on S.2089, to amend the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to modify procedures relating to orders
for surveillance and searches for foreign intelligence purposes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Counterintelligence Reform Act of 2000 (S. 2089)
S.Hrg. 106-0993
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to
review the legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000308
* Agriculture
NATIONAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: Subcommittee on Forestry,
Conservation, and Rural Revitalization concluded hearings on issues relating
to the National Rural Development Partnership and the State Rural Development
Councils, focusing on the lack of consistency in funding and the lack of
legislative foundation providing policy guidance and direction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: National Rural Development Council
S.Hrg. 106-0756
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DOD MEDICAL PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Defense concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on certain medical programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/29, 4/12, 4/25, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on Army
transformation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for
Fiscal Year 2001 and the Future Years Defense Program (S. 2549) (Airland)
S.Hrg. 106-0609,pt.4
Hearings also held on 3/22/00
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Strategic concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on national security
space programs, policies, and operations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry on 2/25/00
Hearings also held on 2/25, 2/28, 2/29/00
* Commerce
INTERNET SECURITY: Subcommittee on Communications concluded hearings to
examine recent hacker attacks on popular websites, and examine the
coordination of federal and industry efforts to heighten Internet security,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Internet Security
S.Hrg. 106-1092
* Energy
FUEL PRICES: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine energy supply
and demand issues relating to crude oil, heating oil, and transportation fuels
in light of recent price escalations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24/00
NATIONAL PARKS/PRESERVATION/RECREATION: Subcommittee on National Parks,
Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 1705, to direct
the Secretary of the Interior to enter into land exchanges to acquire from the
private owner and to convey to the State of Idaho approximately 1,240 acres of
land near the City of Rocks National Reserve, Idaho, S. 972, to amend the Wild
and Scenic Rivers Act to improve the administration of the Lamprey River in
the State of New Hampshire, S. 1727, to authorize for the expansion annex of
the historic Palace of the Governors, a public history museum located, and
relating to the history of Hispanic and Native American culture, in the
Southwest, S. 1849, to designate segments and tributaries of White Clay Creek,
Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic
Rivers System, S. 1910, to amend the Act establishing Women's Rights National
Historical Park to permit the Secretary of the Interior to acquire title in
fee simple to the Hunt House located in Waterloo, New York, and H.R. 1615, to
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to extend the designation of a portion of
the Lamprey River in New Hampshire as a recreational river to include an
additional river segment, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Scenic Rivers and Land Exchange Bills (S. 972,
S. 1705, S. 1727, S. 1849, S. 1910, H.R. 1615)
S.Hrg. 106-0594
* Finance
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: Committee held hearings to examine penalty and
interest provisions in the Internal Revenue Code, and certain recommendations
to simplify penalty administration and reduce taxpayer burden, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Penalty and Interest Provisions in the Internal Revenue Code
S.Hrg. 106-0487
Hearings also held on 3/9/00
* Foreign Relations
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE BUDGET: Subcommittee on International Operations concluded
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for
foreign assistance, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/24, 2/25, 2/29, 3/23/00
* Indian Affairs
HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT: Committee concluded hearings on the proposed
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Health Care Improvement Act,
to implement Federal responsibility for the care and education of Indian
people by improving the services and facilities of Federal Indian health
programs and encouraging maximum participation of Indians in such programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (P.L.
94-437)
S.Hrg. 106-0491,pt.1
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/2, 3/7, 3/9/00
* Rules
NOMINATIONS: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Danny
Lee McDonald, of Oklahoma, and Bradley A. Smith, of Ohio, each to be a Member
of the Federal Election Commission. Prior to this action, committee concluded
hearings on the aforementioned nominations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations to the Federal Election Commission (Danny Lee
McDonald and Bradley A. Smith)
S.Hrg. 106-0391
** HEARINGS FOR 20000309
* Appropriations
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Transportation held
oversight hearings to examine major management issues facing the Department of
Transportation, focusing on Amtrak and rail infrastructure improvement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/28, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
MEDICARE REFORM: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings to examine issues dealing with Medicare reform,
focusing on the Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General's
report on Medicare Payment errors and waste, fraud and abuse reduction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicare Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0741
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the
Future Years Defense Program, focusing on the atomic energy defense activities
of the Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/10, 2/29, 3/1, 3/7/00
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on active and
reserve military and civilian personnel programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/2/00
* Banking
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTE ADVISORY COMMISSION: Committee concluded
hearings on the final report of the International Financial Institution
Advisory Commission, focusing on how should the international financial
institutions be restructured to meet current and prospective economic and
financial conditions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Final Report of the International Financial Institution
Advisory Commission
S.Hrg. 106-0579
* Economic
SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS AND THE U.S. ECONOMY: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the effect of the Joint Economic Committee's 1980 Plugging In The
Supply Side report, the impact of supply-side economics on the United States
economy over the past twenty years, and what remains to be done for a
successful economic future, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Supply-Side Revolution: 20 Years Later (at Y4.Ec7:R32/6)
S.Hrg. 106-0563
* Environment
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded oversight hearings on the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, focusing on the regulatory process in the nuclear
industry, enforcement and safety concerns, and possible reforms for more
effective oversight, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nuclear Regulatory Commission: Regulatory Reforms
S.Hrg. 106-1014
* Finance
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE: Committee continued hearings to examine the penalty
and interest provisions in the Internal Revenue Code, and certain
recommendations to simplify penalty administration and reduce taxpayer burden,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/8/00
Hearings also held on 3/8/00
* Foreign Relations
EUROPEAN SECURITY AND DEFENSE POLICY: Subcommittee on European Affairs
concluded hearings on issues relating to NATO's Defense Capabilities
Initiative and the European Union's European Security and Defense Program
issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: NATO and the EU's European Security and Defense Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0572
* Governmental Affairs
MANAGING HUMAN CAPITAL: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management,
Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings on management of
human capital, focusing on how to improve the federal government's approach to
managing its people, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Managing Human Capital in the 21st Century
S.Hrg. 106-0547
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/2, 3/7, 3/8/00
* Small Business
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Cybercrime: Can a Small Business Protect Itself? (Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0527
** HEARINGS FOR 20000310
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: [On Friday, March 10] Subcommittee on Readiness and
Management Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years
Defense Program, focusing on the Services' Infrastructure accounts and Real
Property Maintenance Programs and the National Missile Defense Construction
request, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/00
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/7, 4/26/00
* Energy
VALLES CALDERA PRESERVATION ACT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded hearings on S. 1892, to authorize the acquisition of the
Valles Caldera, to provide for an effective land and wildlife management
program for this resource within the Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Valles Caldera Perservation Act (S. 1892)
S.Hrg. 106-0577
** HEARINGS FOR 20000313
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: June 10, 1999 Olympic Pipe Line Accident (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1093
** HEARINGS FOR 20000314
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Economic Development in the Mississippi Delta (Special
hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0825
** HEARINGS FOR 20000315
* Aging
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Elder Fraud and Abuse: New Challenges in the Digital Economy
(Field hearing held in Portland, OR)
S.Hrg. 106-0587
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded
joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on the
legislative recommendations of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000316
* Appropriations
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Food Nutrition and Child Hunger (Field hearing held in Green
Bay, WI)
S.Hrg. 106-0946
* Indian Affairs
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 1929) (Field
hearing held in Kailua, Kona, HI)
S.Hrg. 106-0462,pt.6
** HEARINGS FOR 20000320
* Agriculture
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: CFTC Report Entitled "A New Regulatory Framework"
S.Hrg. 106-0907
** HEARINGS FOR 20000321
* Appropriations
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings to examine certain issues relating to Alzheimer's
Disease, focusing on research funding, care giver support, and the Alzheimer's
Disease Prevention Initiative, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Alzheimer's Disease, Part 2 (Special hearing) (Part One of
this hearing is found at S.Hrg. 105-555)
S.Hrg. 106-0864
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Energy and Water Development Appropriations for Fiscal Year
2001 (H.R. 4635, 4733, and 5483)
S.Hrg. 106-0831
Hearings also held on 3/28, 4/11/00
APPROPRIATIONS--FCC/SEC: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 2/29, 3/2, 3/7/00
APPROPRIATIONS--SENATE SoS/SAA: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/22, 2/29/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program,
focusing on the defense science and technology program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/24, 4/4/00
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Rudy deLeon,
of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Douglas A. Dworkin, of
Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 4/11, 5/16, 5/24, 6/27, 7/26, 9/6, 10/3, 10/19/00
* Banking
HUD PUBLIC HOUSING ASSESSMENT: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded oversight hearings on the Department of Housing and Urban
Development's Public Housing Assessment System (PHAS), ...
PRINTED TITLE: HUD's Public Housing Assessment System
S.Hrg. 106-1001
* Commerce
INTERACTIVE VIOLENCE IMPACT ON CHILDREN: Committee concluded hearings to
examine the impact of interactive violence on children, focusing on the
effects of violent content in movies, video games, and Internet sites, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Impact of Interactive Violence on Children
S.Hrg. 106-1096
* Environment
SUPERFUND REFORM: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk
Assessment concluded oversight hearings to examine the current status of
cleanup activities under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund
program, focusing on progress made to date, future improvements, and the
impact of administrative reform, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Superfund Program: Status of Cleanup Efforts
S.Hrg. 106-0980
CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND LEASING PROGRAM: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure concluded hearings on General Services Administration's
proposed fiscal year 2001 Capital Investment and Leasing Program, including
the courthouse construction program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: GSA's Fiscal Year 2001 Capital Investment and Leasing Program
S.Hrg. 106-0999
* Foreign Relations
U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY: Committee held hearings to examine
nonproliferation threats and U.S. policy formulation issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Formulation of Effective Nonproliferation Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0655
Hearings also held on 3/23, 3/28, 3/30/00
DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the current situation in the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea, focusing on the Administration's implementation of
recommendations contained in the Perry report on North Korea, ...
PRINTED TITLE: North Korea: Progress After Perry
S.Hrg. 106-0739
* Health
INTERNET PHARMACY REGULATION: Committee held hearings to examine the benefits
and risks of pharmaceutical sales over the Internet, focusing on public health
implications, law enforcement, and regulatory challenges, ...
PRINTED TITLE: E-Drugs: Who Regulates Internet Pharmacies?
S.Hrg. 106-0514
* Indian Affairs
TIMBISHA SHOSHONE TRIBE LAND BASE: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2102,
to provide to the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe a permanent land base within its
aboriginal homeland, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Timbisha Shoshone Homeland Act (S. 2102)
S.Hrg. 106-0540
* Narcotics Control
NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION PROCESS: Caucus concluded hearings to examine the
annual certification process which requires the President to submit to
Congress his assessment on international cooperation to control illegal drug
production and transit, and International Narcotics Control Strategy Report,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Review of the President's Annual Certification Process
S.Hrg. 106-0750
** HEARINGS FOR 20000322
* Agriculture
CABIN USER FEE FAIRNESS: Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural
Revitalization concluded hearings on S. 1938, to provide for the return of
fair and reasonable fees to the Federal Government for the use and occupancy
of National Forest System land under the recreation residence program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1938, Cabin-User-Fee Fairness Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-0788
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 4/4, 4/5, 4/11/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Airland concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on tactical
aviation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/8/00
Hearings also held on 3/8/00
* Banking
ELECTRONIC AND EQUITY FINANCIAL MARKETS: Subcommittee on Securities concluded
hearings to examine electronic communications networks and brokerage firms
efforts to meet investors' needs in the equity financial marketplace of the
future, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Trading Places: Markets for Investors
S.Hrg. 106-0700
* Commerce
NASA MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space held hearings
to examine recent program and management issues at the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: NASA Management Problems
S.Hrg. 106-1095
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Susan Ness, of
Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Susan Ness, to be a Member of the Federal
Communications Commission
S.Hrg. 106-1097
* Energy
WATER AND POWER: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded hearings on H.R.
862, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement the provisions of
the Agreement conveying title to a Distribution System from the United States
to the Clear Creek Community Services District, H.R. 992, to convey the Sly
Park Dam and Reservoir to the El Dorado Irrigation District, H.R. 1235, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with the
Solano County Water Agency, California, to use Solano Project facilities for
impounding, storage, and carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal,
industrial, and other beneficial purposes, S. 2091 and H.R. 3077, bills to
amend the Act that authorized construction of the San Luis Unit of the Central
Valley Project, California, to facilitate water transfers in the Central
Valley Project, and S. 1659, to convey the Lower Yellowstone Irrigation
Project, the Savage Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, and the
Intake Irrigation Project to the appurtenant irrigation districts, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Water, Title Transfer and Hydroelectric Project
Bills (S. 1659, S. 1836, S. 2091, H.R. 862, H.R. 992, H.R. 1235, H.R. 3077)
S.Hrg. 106-0607
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE: Committee resumed hearings to
examine the inclusion of a prescription drug benefit in the Medicare program,
focusing on current and supplemental drug coverage, beneficiary income
spending, benefit design, and cost controls, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Prescription Drug Benefit in the Medicare Program
S.Hrg. 106-0842
Hearings also held on 3/29/00
* Foreign Relations
IRAQ: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held hearings to
examine the impact of United Nations sanctions and United States policy on
Iraq, focusing on the proposed United Nations Resolution 1284 which re-affirms
that Iraq has not fulfilled its obligation under previous Security Council
resolutions to declare and destroy its weapons of mass destruction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Saddam's Iraq: Sanctions and U.S. Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0735
* Governmental Affairs
DOE GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANTS: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Department of Energy's management of health and safety issues surrounding the
DOE's gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Piketon, Ohio, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Energy's Management of Health and Safety Issues
at its Gaseous Diffusion Plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Piketon, Ohio
S.Hrg. 106-0570
* Indian Affairs
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Thomas N.
Slonaker, of Arizona, to be Special Trustee, Office of Special Trustee for
American Indians, Department of the Interior, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Thomas N. Slonaker
S.Hrg. 106-0544
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/23/00
* Judiciary
ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded oversight hearings on certain antitrust enforcement
issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Antitrust Oversight
S.Hrg. 106-0994
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee held hearings to examine certain
constitutional issues surrounding campaign finance reform, including certain
contributions made to a political party that do not come within the current
limits and restrictions imposed by the Federal Election Campaign Act, and
"phony issue ads", ...
PRINTED TITLE: Constitution and Campaign Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0522
Hearings also held on 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/26, 5/3, 5/17/00
* Veterans Affairs
VETERANS PROGRAMS: Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to
review the legislative recommendations of certain veterans organizations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000323
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Environmental
Protection Agency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/30, 4/6, 4/12, 4/13, 5/4/00
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE: Subcommittee on Treasury and
General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2001 for the Internal Revenue Service, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Treasury and General Government Appropriations for Fiscal Year
2001 (H.R. 4871/S. 2900) (Department of the Treasury, Executive Office of the
President, Nondepartmental Witnesses)
S.Hrg. 106-0712
Hearings also held on 3/30, 4/4, 4/6/00
HAITI: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded hearings to examine
recent developments in Haiti and the Administration's efforts to address the
challenges of promoting democracy, human rights, and economic recovery, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 4/4, 4/6, 4/11, 4/13/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on SeaPower concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program, focusing on Navy and Marine
Corps' seapower operational capability requirements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/00
Hearings also held on 3/2/00
EXPORT CONTROLS: Committee concluded hearings to examine the national
security implications of export controls, and related provisions of S. 1712,
Export Administration Act (pending on Senate Calendar), ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/28/00
Hearings also held on 2/28/00
* Commerce
RAIL MERGERS: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine
concluded oversight hearings on the Surface Transportation Board's moratorium
on major rail mergers and 15-month rulemaking proceeding on future mergers,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight Hearing on the STB's Moratorium on Major Rail
Mergers and 15-Month Rulemaking Proceeding on Future Mergers
S.Hrg. 106-1098
* Energy
D.C. AREA MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic
Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight hearings to examine the
status of monuments and memorials, and the new policies that have been adopted
for determining locations for future commemorative works in and around
Washington, D.C., ...
PRINTED TITLE: DC Area Monuments and Memorials
S.Hrg. 106-0578
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Thomas A. Fry,
III, of Texas, to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of
the Interior, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Thomas A. Fry III Nomination
S.Hrg. 106-0608
* Environment
WATER QUALITY REGULATION: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water resumed hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's
proposed rules regarding changes in the total maximum daily load and National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit programs pursuant to the Clean
Water Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 5/6, 6/12/00
* Finance
U.S./CHINA TRADE POLICY: Committee held hearings to examine trade with the
Peoples' Republic of China and its implications for United States national
security, economic, political, and religious interests, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/23/00
Hearings also held on 2/23, 4/6/00
* Foreign Relations
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [PRESIDENT'S
BUDGET]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/24, 2/25, 2/29, 3/8/00
U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY: Committee held hearings to examine the
nonproliferation objectives of the United States, focusing on recent global
and regional developments, including India, Pakistan, and North Korea, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/21/00
Hearings also held on 3/21, 3/28, 3/30/00
* Health
HEALTH CARE FOR THE UNINSURED: Subcommittee on Public Health concluded
hearings to examine the access of essential health care services for the
uninsured and medically underserved individuals, focusing on certain safety
net programs to reduce the barriers and increase health insurance access to
the uninsured, and the proposed Community Access to Health Care Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Health Care for the Uninsured: The Role of Safety Net
Providers
S.Hrg. 106-0519
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22/00
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Richard C.
Tallman, of Washington, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth
Circuit, John Antoon II, to be United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Florida, and Marianne O. Battani and David M. Lawson, each to be a
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 4/27, 5/10/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000324
* Armed Forces
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: On Friday, March 24, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats
and Capabilities concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years
Defense Program, focusing on DOD policies and programs to combat terrorism,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/21, 4/4/00
* Governmental Affairs
RISING OIL PRICES: On Friday, March 24, Committee concluded oversight
hearings to examine the status of the global crude oil market and its effects
on the U.S. heating oil, diesel fuel, and gasoline markets and prices, and
U.S. security implications, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Rising Oil Prices, Executive Branch Policy, and U.S. Security
Implications
S.Hrg. 106-0506
** HEARINGS FOR 20000327
* Aging
SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE FINANCING: Committee concluded hearings to
examine long-term financing challenges confronting Social Security and
Medicare programs, focusing on general income tax revenue transfers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Income Taxes: The Solution to the Social Security and
Medicare Crisis?
S.Hrg. 106-0588
* Appropriations
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Form of Real Estate Fraud Known as Flipping (Special Hearing)
(Field hearing held in Baltimore, MD)
S.Hrg. 106-0923
** HEARINGS FOR 20000328
* Appropriations
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings to examine issues dealing with complementary and
alternative medicine therapies, which are designed to complement traditional
healthcare approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Alternative Medicines (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0742
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
Department of Energy, focusing on defense programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/21/00
Hearings also held on 3/21, 4/11/00
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
oversight hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
Department of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/9, 4/4, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
* Armed Services
DRUG TRAFFICKING: Committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on
the impact of drug trafficking on the security of Columbia and neighboring
countries of the Andean Ridge from officials of the Central Intelligence
Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Commerce
RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS: Subcommittee on Communications concluded hearings to
examine the current state of deployment of hi-speed Internet technologies,
focusing on broadband communication service access in rural America, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Broadband Access in Rural America
S.Hrg. 106-1100
* Energy
U.S. DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL: Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on Foreign Relations to examine United States dependency on foreign
oil, focusing on oil import needs, diplomacy, strategic petroleum reserve, and
domestic oil production, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Dependency on Foreign Oil (Joint with Foreign Relations)
S.Hrg. 106-0581
* Environment
BUDGET--EPA/ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands,
Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 for the Environmental Protection
Agency's clean air programs and the Army Corps of Engineers wetlands programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: EPA's Clean Air Budget and the Corps of Engineers' Wetlands
Budget
S.Hrg. 106-0911
* Foreign Relations
IRAN AND IRAQ PROLIFERATION: Committee resumed hearings to examine issues
dealing with Iran and Iraq, focusing on the future of nonproliferation policy,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/21/00
Hearings also held on 3/21, 3/23, 3/30/00
* Governmental Affairs
HCFA SETTLEMENT POLICIES: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded
oversight hearings to examine Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA)
settlement policies, focusing on whether certain Medicare providers
settlements conform to HCFA regulations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight of HCFA's Settlement Policies: Did HCFA Give Three
Providers Special Treatment?
S.Hrg. 106-0521
* Health
INTERNET PREDATOR PROTECTION: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded
hearings on child safety on the Internet, focusing on online protection from
predators, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Keeping Children and Families Safe From Internet Predators
S.Hrg. 106-0638
* Judiciary
CYBER CRIMES: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government
Information concluded hearings to examine the incidence of cyber attacks on
the nation's information systems, focusing on removing roadblocks to
investigation and information sharing, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Cyber Attacks: Removing Roadblocks to Investigation and
Information Sharing
S.Hrg. 106-0839
* Small Business
OFFICE SUPPLY FRAUD: Committee held hearings to examine the effects of
certain office supply scams, including toner-phoner schemes on small business,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Swindling Small Businesses: Toner-Phoner Schemes and Other
Office Supply Scams
S.Hrg. 106-0516
** HEARINGS FOR 20000329
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--AIR FORCE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Air Force programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/8, 4/12, 4/25, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Commerce
AMATEUR SPORTS GAMBLING: Committee held hearings to examine issues dealing
with gambling in amateur sports, including related provisions of S. 2267, to
direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish a
program to support research and training in methods of detecting the use of
performance-enhancing substances by athletes (pending on Senate calendar), ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 2340, Amateur Sports Integrity Act and Gambling in Amateur
Sports
S.Hrg. 106-1103
* Energy
LAND CONVEYANCE AND MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded hearings on S. 1778, to provide for equal exchanges of
land around the Cascade Reservoir, S. 1894, to provide for the conveyance of
certain land to Park County, Wyoming, and S. 1969, to provide for improved
management of, and increases accountability for, outfitted activities by which
the public gains access to and occupancy and use of Federal land, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Land Bills (S. 1778, S. 1894, S. 1969)
S.Hrg. 106-0595
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM--PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE: Committee resumed hearings to
examine the inclusion of a prescription drug benefit in the Medicare program,
focusing on current and supplemental drug coverage, beneficiary income
spending, benefit design, and cost controls, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22/00
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Michelle
Andrews Smith, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Michelle A. Smith
S.Hrg. 106-0479
* Governmental Affairs
GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY: Committee concluded hearings to examine budget and
oversight issues to better position the federal government to meet current and
emerging challenges and shape a more efficient and effective government, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Meeting the Challenges of the Millennium
S.Hrg. 106-0538
* Indian Affairs
CHOCTAW INDIAN LAND TRUST: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1967, to make
technical corrections to the status of certain land held in trust for the
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, to take certain land into trust for that
Band, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of Certain Land Held in Trust for the Mississippi Band
of Choctaw Indians (S. 1967)
S.Hrg. 106-0553
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 3/30, 4/4, 4/6/00
* Judiciary
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts resumed oversight hearings on alleged Chinese espionage, focusing on
the handling of the investigation of Peter Lee, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Peter Lee Case
S.Hrg. 106-1013
Hearings also held on 4/5, 4/12/00
* Rules
CAMPAIGN REFORM: Committee resumed oversight hearings to examine issues
dealing with campaign finance reform, focusing on Presidential selection
process and campaign contribution limits, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 4/5, 4/12, 4/26, 5/3, 5/17/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000330
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 4/6, 4/12, 4/13, 5/4/00
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the National Institutes of Health, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/29/00
Hearings also held on 2/29/00
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY DEPARTMENT: Subcommittee on Treasury and General
Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/23/00
Hearings also held on 3/23, 4/4, 4/6/00
* Energy
CLIMATE CHANGE: Committee concluded hearings on S.882, to strengthen
provisions in the Energy Policy Act of 1992 and the Federal Nonnuclear Energy
Research and Development Act of 1974 with respect to potential Climate Change,
and S.1776, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 1992 to revise the energy
policies of the United States in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,
advance global climate science, promote technology development, and increase
citizen awareness, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Energy and Climate Policy Act and the Climate Change Energy
Policy Response Act (S. 882, S. 1776)
S.Hrg. 106-0653
FOREST SERVICE ROADLESS POLICY: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management resumed oversight hearings on the President's October 1999
announcement to review approximately 40 million acres of national forest lands
for increased protection, focusing on the Forest Services's Roadless Policy
announcement and its decision to not honor the requests of several states for
cooperating agency status under the National Environmental Policy Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22/00
* Environment
2001 BUDGET--EPA: Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control, and Risk
Assessment concluded oversight hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 2001 for programs of the Environmental Protection
Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, focusing on the current
status and future direction of the Superfund, Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act, Brownfields, and Underground Storage Tank programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: EPA's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget for Office of Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
S.Hrg. 106-0913
* Foreign Relations
UNITED NATIONS ROUNDTABLE: Committee met to discuss crucial issues before the
United Nations with [various countries' Permanent Representatives].
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/20/00
Hearings also held on 1/20, 1/21/00
U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY: Committee concluded hearings to examine
nonproliferation threats and U.S. policy formulation issues, focusing on the
prevention of further spread of weapons of mass destruction and the means to
deliver them, a U.S. Ballistic Missile Commission report, and a review of
North Korea policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/21/00
Hearings also held on 3/21, 3/23, 3/28/00
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Alan Craig
Kessler, of Pennsylvania, to be a Governor of the United States Postal
Service, and Carol Waller Pope, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of
the Federal Labor Relations Authority, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Alan C. Kessler and Carol Waller Pope
S.Hrg. 106-0554
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/29/00
Hearings also held on 3/29, 4/4, 4/6/00
* Judiciary
LAW ENFORCEMENT RACIAL PROFILING: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism,
and Property Rights concluded hearings on S. 821, to provide for the
collection of data on traffic stops, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Racial Profiling Within Law Enforcement Agencies
S.Hrg. 106-0996
* Rules
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
operations, activities, and proposed fiscal year 2001 budget of the Office of
the Architect of the Capitol, focusing on physical safety, customer services
delivery, building preservation, utility, and security, and staff development,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000331
* Energy
DOE GASEOUS DIFFUSION PLANT: On Friday, March 31, Subcommittee on Energy
Research, Development, Production and Regulation concluded oversight hearings
to examine the Department of Energy's findings at the Gaseous Diffusion Plant
in Paducah, Kentucky, and plans for cleanup at the site, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant
S.Hrg. 106-0604
** HEARINGS FOR 20000403
* Aging
OLDER WORKER EMPLOYMENT: Committee held hearings to examine employment demand
for older workers, focusing on obstacles hindering participation in the labor
market, flexibility in retirement programs, and phased retirement programs,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Hearing on NOW Hiring: The Rising Demand for Older Workers
S.Hrg. 106-0690
** HEARINGS FOR 20000404
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs and Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians, Department of
the Interior, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/22, 4/5, 4/11/00
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
Department of the Treasury, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/23/00
Hearings also held on 3/23, 3/30, 4/6/00
CHECHNYA/RUSSIA AID PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings on Chechnya, Russia and U.S. Policy and aid programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/23, 4/6, 4/11, 4/13/00
DRIVER'S PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded
hearings to examine the implementation of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act
of 1994, focusing on the positive notification requirement provisions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 12/14/99
Hearings also held on 12/14/99, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24, 3/9, 3/28, 7/25, 9/6, 9/12/00
* Armed Services
ANDEAN RIDGE COUNTER-NARCOTIC ACTIVITIES: Committee concluded hearings on
United States support for counter-narcotics activities in the Andean Ridge and
neighboring countries, and the impact of narco-trafficking on the stability of
the region, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United States Support for Counter-Narcotics Activities in the
Andean Ridge and Neighboring Countries and the Impact of Narcotrafficking on
the Stability of the Region
S.Hrg. 106-1122
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program,
focusing on joint requirements, capabilities, and experimentation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/21, 3/24/00
* Commerce
EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT: Committee held hearings on certain provisions of
S. 1712, to provide authority to control exports, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1712, Export Administration Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-1104
* Foreign Relations
INTERNATIONAL TRAFFICKING IN WOMEN AND CHILDREN: Subcommittee on Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine the international
trafficking of women and children, focusing on prosecution, testimonies, and
prevention issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22/00
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Donald Arthur
Mahley, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service
as Special Negotiator for Chemical and Biological Arms Control Issues, and
Gregory G. Govan, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of
service as Chief U.S. Delegate to the Joint Consultative Group, both of the
Department of State, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/29/00
Hearings also held on 3/29, 3/30, 4/6/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000405
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of the
Interior, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/22, 4/4, 4/11/00
* Energy
ARCTIC ENERGY POTENTIAL: Committee concluded hearings to examine the energy
potential of the 1002 Area of the Arctic Coastal Plain, the role this energy
could play in national security; the role this energy could play in reducing
U.S. dependence on imported oil, and S. 2214, to establish and implement a
competitive oil and gas leasing program that will result in an environmentally
sound and job creating program for the exploration, development, and
production of the oil and gas resources of the Coastal Plain, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Energy Potential of the 1002 Area; and the Arctic Coastal
Plain Domestic Energy Security Act of 2000 (S. 2214)
S.Hrg. 106-0605
* Finance
MEDICAID IN SCHOOLS: Committee concluded hearings to examine Medicaid
policies and practices related to school-based health services and
administrative activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Medicaid in Schools: A Pattern of Improper Payments
S.Hrg. 106-0899
* Foreign Relations
HOLOCAUST LEGACIES: Committee held hearings on legacies of the Holocaust,
focusing on providing a forum for discussion, exposing long-suppressed truths
about World War II and Holocaust-era assets, and to bring justice to survivors
and victims, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Legacies of the Holocaust
S.Hrg. 106-0551
UN PEACEKEEPING MISSIONS: Subcommittee on International Operations held
hearings on United Nations peacekeeping missions and their proliferation,
focusing on the principles underlying traditional U.N. peacekeeping, expansion
of peacekeeping into new and non-tradition fields after the end of the Cold
War, outcomes of recent missions, and the question of American interest
implications, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United Nations Peacekeeping Missions and Their Proliferation
S.Hrg. 106-0573
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION: Committee concluded hearings
on 612, to provide for periodic Indian needs assessments, and to require
Federal Indian program evaluations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation Act (S. 612)
S.Hrg. 106-0558
* Judiciary
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts resumed open and closed oversight hearings on alleged Chinese
espionage, focusing on the plea-bargain agreement reached in the case of Peter
Lee, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/29/00
Hearings also held on 3/29, 4/12/00
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the role of
political parties in America, focusing on campaign finance reform issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 3/29, 4/12, 4/26, 5/3, 5/17/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000406
* Agriculture
INTERSTATE SHIPMENT OF STATE-INSPECTED MEAT: Committee concluded hearings to
examine certain issues relating to the interstate shipment of State-inspected
meat and poultry, and S. 1988, to reform the State inspection of meat and
poultry in the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Interstate Shipment of State-Inspected Meat and Poultry
S.Hrg. 106-0784
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: Subcommittee on Foreign
Operations concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of the Treasury's international programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/23, 4/4, 4/11, 4/13/00
APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF DRUG CONTROL POLICY: Subcommittee on Treasury and
General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 2001 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/23/00
Hearings also held on 3/23, 3/30, 4/4/00
APPROPRIATIONS--VETERANS AFFAIRS: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001
for the Department of Veterans Affairs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 3/30, 4/12, 4/13, 5/4/00
* Armed Services
DOD SECURITY CLEARANCE PROCEDURE: Committee concluded hearings to examine
procedures and standards for the granting of security clearances at the
Department of Defense for military, civilian and contractor personnel,
focusing on the General Accounting Office's October 1999 DOD Personnel report,
the reinstatement of investigator David Kerno at the Defense Security Service,
and the reinvestigation of Commander Jack Daly, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Review Procedures and Standards for the Granting of Security
Clearances at the Department of Defense
S.Hrg. 106-0737
* Commerce
AVIATION SECURITY: Subcommittee on Aviation held oversight hearings to
examine issues dealing with aviation security, focusing on the Federal
Aviation Administration's efforts to implement and improve security in air
traffic control computer systems and airport passenger screening checkpoints,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight Hearing on Aviation Security
S.Hrg. 106-1136
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management concluded
oversight hearings to examine the Forest Service fiscal year 2000 revision of
its 1997 strategic plan to provide for cleaner water, better habitat,
healthier forests, and community stability and development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Forest Service's November 1999, Draft Strategic Plan
S.Hrg. 106-0610
* Finance
WTO CHINA ACCESSION: Committee concluded hearings to examine extending
Permanent Normal Trade Relations status to China and its accession to the
World Trade Organization, focusing on its impact on American employment,
export prospects of American farmers, trade and investment opportunities, and
the impact on reform in China, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/23/00
Hearings also held on 2/23, 3/23/00
* Foreign Relations
U.S.-CHINA TRADE RELATIONS: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Export and Trade Promotion and Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held joint hearings to examine issues relating to the granting of permanent
normal trade relations to China, and its impact on the United States high
technology sector, ...
PRINTED TITLE: China in the WTO: What Will It Mean For the U.S. High
Technology Sector?
S.Hrg. 106-0634
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/29/00
Hearings also held on 3/29, 3/30, 4/4/00
* Judiciary
FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
concluded oversight hearings to examine the operations of the Federal Bureau
of Prisons, focusing on inmate population growth, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
S.Hrg. 106-1004
** HEARINGS FOR 20000410
* Aging
FUNERAL AND BURIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION: Committee held hearings to examine
issues facing consumers when preplanning, arranging and conducting funeral and
burial activities, focusing on educating consumers about funeral-related
industries, exposing bad practices, and exploring the extent of consumer
satisfaction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Funerals and Burials: Protecting Consumers from Bad Practices
S.Hrg. 106-0672
Hearings also held on 4/11/00
* Commerce
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Field hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-1106
** HEARINGS FOR 20000411
* Aging
FUNERAL AND BURIAL CONSUMER PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings to
examine issues facing consumers when preplanning, arranging and conducting
funeral and burial activities, focusing on educating consumers about
funeral-related industries, exposing bad practices, exploring the extent of
consumer satisfaction, and law enforcement activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/10/00
Hearings also held on 4/10/00
* Agriculture
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Christopher A.
McLean, of Nebraska, to be Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, Department
of Agriculture, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Christopher A. McLean and Michael V. Dunn
S.Hrg. 106-0814
Hearings also held on 4/27/00
MTBE AND RENEWABLE FUELS: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
relating to alleged pollution of drinking water supplies by Methyl Tertiary
Butyl Ether (MTBE), the future of renewable fuels, and the Reformulated
Gasoline Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: MTBE Crisis and the Future of Renewable Fuels
S.Hrg. 106-0830
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department
of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/21/00
Hearings also held on 3/21, 3/28/00
APPROPRIATIONS--DOE: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/22, 4/4, 4/5/00
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN HEALTH ASSISTANCE: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for
foreign health assistance, focusing on the President's Millennium Initiative
to help combat infectious diseases, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/23, 4/4, 4/6, 4/13/00
* Armed Services
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Bernard
Daniel Rostker, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel
and Readiness, Gregory Robert Dahlberg, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of
the Army, and Madelyn R. Creedon, of Indiana, to be Deputy Administrator for
Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of
Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 3/21, 5/16, 5/24, 6/27, 7/26, 9/6, 10/3, 10/19/00
* Commerce
WTO CHINA ACCESSION: Committee concluded hearings to examine China's
accession into the World Trade Organization, focusing on granting Permanent
Normal Trade Relations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Permanent Normalized Trade Relations With the People's
Republic of China
S.Hrg. 106-1108
* Energy
ELECTRIC POWER: Committee held hearings on S. 2098, to facilitate the
transition to more competitive and efficient electric power markets, and to
ensure electric reliability, S. 2071, to benefit electricity consumers by
promoting the reliability of the bulk-power system, S. 1369, to enhance the
benefits of the national electric system by encouraging and supporting State
programs for renewable energy sources, universal electric service, affordable
electric service, and energy conservation and efficiency, S. 1284, to amend
the Federal Power Act to ensure that no State may establish, maintain, or
enforce on behalf of any electric utility an exclusive right to sell electric
energy or otherwise unduly discriminate against any consumer who seeks to
purchase electric energy in interstate commerce from any supplier, S. 1273, to
amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more competitive
and efficient electric power markets, S. 1047, to provide for a more
competitive electric power industry, S. 516, to benefit consumers by promoting
competition in the electric power industry, and S. 282, to provide that no
electric utility shall be required to enter into a new contract or obligation
to purchase or to sell electricity or capacity under section 210 of the Public
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 4/13, 4/27/00
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Carey
Cavanaugh, of Florida, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service
as Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and New Independent States Regional
Conflicts, Christopher Robert Hill, of Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Poland, and Thomas G. Weston, of Michigan, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Coordinator for Cyprus, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
U.S. CHINA POLICY: Committee held hearings on United States policy towards
the People's Republic of China, focusing on granting Permanent Normal Trade
Status and human rights conditions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Giving the People's Republic of China Permanent MFN:
Implications for U.S. Policy
S.Hrg. 106-0635
* Health
EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded
hearings to examine early childhood programs for low-income families, focusing
on federal and state funding and collaborative efforts and the effectiveness
of federal preschool and child care programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Early Childhood Programs for Low-Income Families:
Availability and Impact
S.Hrg. 106-0520
** HEARINGS FOR 20000412
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and
Independent Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001 for Independent Agencies, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13, 5/4/00
APPROPRIATIONS--MISSILE DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on missile defense programs, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/8, 3/29, 4/25, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Banking
INSURANCE AGENT LICENSING REFORMS: Subcommittee on Securities concluded
oversight hearings on multi-state insurance agent licensing reforms and the
creation of the National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Interstate Insurance Sales and the Outlook for NARAB
S.Hrg. 106-0987
* Commerce
INTERNET TAXATION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2255, to amend the
Internet Tax Freedom Act to extend the moratorium through calendar year 2006,
...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 2255, A Bill to Amend the Internet Tax Freedom Act to
Extend the Moratorium Through Calendar Year 2006
S.Hrg. 106-1107
* Economic
IMF/WORLD BANK REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
relating to reform of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reform of the IMF and World Bank (at Y4.Ec7:R25/2)
S.Hrg. 106-0575
* Energy
COLUMBIA RIVER HYDROPOWER OPERATIONS: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings to examine federal actions affecting hydropower
operations on the Columbia River system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Columbia River Hydropower Operations (Field hearing held 4/18
at Cascade Locks, OR)
S.Hrg. 106-0630
Hearings also held on 4/18/00
* Foreign Relations
RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS: Subcommittee on European Affairs held
hearings to examine issues dealing with the Russian presidential elections,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Russian Presidential Elections
S.Hrg. 106-0702
CASPIAN SEA ENERGY RESOURCES: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings on the status of infrastructure
projects for Caspian Sea energy resources, focusing on offshore drilling,
natural gas reserves, the Turkish market, and oil reserve development, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Status of Infrastructure Projects for Caspian Sea Energy
Resources
S.Hrg. 106-0875
* Governmental Affairs
WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT AND MULTILATERAL EXPORT: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the Wassenaar arrangement, a multilateral export control regime for
conventional arms and sensitive dual-use goods and technologies, and the
future of multilateral export controls, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Wassenaar Arrangement and the Future of Multilateral Export
Controls
S.Hrg. 106-0613
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN AFFAIRS MANAGEMENT REFORM: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the report of the National Academy of Public Administration on the Department
of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs management reform, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Bureau of Indian Affairs Management Reforms
S.Hrg. 106-0559
* Judiciary
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the
Courts resumed hearings on alleged Chinese espionage issues, focusing on the
plea-bargain agreement reached in the case of Peter Lee, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/29/00
Hearings also held on 3/29, 4/5/00
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on campaign finance
reform proposals, focusing on compelled political speech, First Amendment
protection, and federal labor law interpretations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/26, 5/3, 5/17/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000413
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for
Foreign Operations, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/24/00
Hearings also held on 2/24, 3/23, 4/4, 4/6, 4/11/00
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/12, 4/13, 5/4/00
IRS REFORM: Subcommittee on Treasury and General Government concluded
hearings to examine certain Internal Revenue Service reform issues, focusing
on paperless filing and the return-free tax filing system as it relates to the
Internal Revenue Service's mandate under the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act
of 1998, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Internal Revenue Service Progress on Initiatives Relating to
Paperless Filing, and the Feasibility of Implementing a Return-Free System for
Appropriate Taxpayers (Special Hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0541
NATIONAL READING PANEL: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings to examine the National Reading Panel report,
focusing on scientific research-based reading instruction and its readiness
for application in the classroom, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Report of the National Reading Panel (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0897
* Armed Services
DOD ANTHRAX VACCINE: Committee held hearings to examine issues relating to
the implementation of the Department of Defense anthrax vaccine immunization
program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
S.Hrg. 106-0886
Hearings also held on 7/12/00
* Banking
SECURITIES MARKETS STRUCTURE: Committee concluded hearings on the evolution
of the equity markets and the appropriate role of policymakers in this period
of rapid change, focusing on implications of technology changes and the role
of policymakers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/29/00
Hearings also held on 2/29, 5/8/00
* Commerce
NATURAL DISASTER PROTECTION AND INSURANCE: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1361, to amend the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 to provide for an
expanded Federal program of hazard mitigation, relief, and insurance against
the risk of catastrophic natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes,
and volcanic eruptions, ...
PRINTED TITLE: S. 1361, The Natural Disaster Protection and Insurance Act of
1999
S.Hrg. 106-1109
* Energy
ELECTRIC POWER: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2098, to facilitate the
transition to more competitive and efficient electric power markets, and to
ensure electric reliability, S. 2071, to benefit electricity consumers by
promoting the reliability of the bulk-power system, S. 1369, to enhance the
benefits of the national electric system by encouraging and supporting State
programs for renewable energy sources, universal electric service, affordable
electric service, and energy conservation and efficiency, S. 1284, to amend
the Federal Power Act to ensure that no State may establish, maintain, or
enforce on behalf of any electric utility an exclusive right to sell electric
energy or otherwise unduly discriminate against any consumer who seeks to
purchase electric energy in interstate commerce from any supplier, S. 1273, to
amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more competitive
and efficient electric power market, S. 1047, to provide for a more
competitive electric power industry, S. 516, to benefit consumers by promoting
competition in the electric power industry, S. 282, to provide that no
electric utility shall be required to enter into a new contract or obligation
to purchase or to sell electricity or capacity under section 210 of the Public
Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/11/00
Hearings also held on 4/11, 4/27/00
* Health
PENSION ASSETS PROTECTION: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues
dealing with protecting pension assets in personal bankruptcy, the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act, and on certain provisions of H.R. 833, to
amend title 11 of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Reform), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Protecting Pension Assets
S.Hrg. 106-0524
* Judiciary
MOTHER TERESA RELIGIOUS WORKERS ACT: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded
hearings on S. 2406, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide
permanent authority for entry into the United States of certain religious
workers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Mother Teresa Religious Workers Act
S.Hrg. 106-0995
** HEARINGS FOR 20000414
* Armed Services
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Defense Antibiological Warfare Agent Vaccine
Acquisition Program
S.Hrg. 106-1124
** HEARINGS FOR 20000418
* Agriculture
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: MTBE Crisis and the Future of Biofuels
S.Hrg. 106-0863
* Energy
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [COLUMBIA
RIVER HYDROPOWER OPERATIONS]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/12/00
Hearings also held on 4/12/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000420
* Appropriations
Special hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: How to Prevent Salmon Species from Disruption or Extinction
(Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0780
** HEARINGS FOR 20000421
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Cyber Attack: Improving Prevention and Prosecution (Field
hearing held in Scottsdale, AZ)
S.Hrg. 106-0838
** HEARINGS FOR 20000425
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Army, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/8, 3/29, 4/12, 4/26, 5/3/00
* Banking
FEDERAL MASS TRANSIT GRANT PROGRAM: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
examine issues relating to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century
(TEA-21) transit grant program, focusing on the Department of Labor's process
for issuing certifications for grant applications, the length of the process,
and its potential to delay or change mass transit projects, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Delays in Funding Mass Transit
S.Hrg. 106-1006
* Energy
ENDANGERED FISH RECOVERY: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded hearings
on S. 2239, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to provide cost sharing for
the endangered fish recovery implementation programs for the Upper Colorado
River and San Juan River basins, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Endangered Fish Recovery Implementation Programs (S. 2239)
S.Hrg. 106-0658
* Foreign Relations
U.S. EAST ASIA AID PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to examine issues relating to U.S. aid programs and
priorities in East Asia, focusing on how USAID is promoting U.S. national and
foreign policy interests, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Overview of USAID Programs and Priorities on East Asia
S.Hrg. 106-0645
* Judiciary
PAIN RELIEF PROMOTION: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2260 and S. 1272,
bills to amend the Controlled Substances Act to promote pain management and
palliative care without permitting assisted suicide and euthanasia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Pain Relief Promotion Act (H.R. 2260)
S.Hrg. 106-1005
** HEARINGS FOR 20000426
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/8, 3/29, 4/12, 4/25, 5/3/00
STEM CELL RESEARCH: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings on issues relating to stem cell research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Stem Cell Research (Special Hearings)
S.Hrg. 106-0413,pt.3
Hearings also held on 9/7, 9/14/00
* Armed Services
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years Defense Program,
focusing on acquisition reform efforts, the acquisition workforce, logistics
contracting and inventory management practices, and the Defense Industrial
Base, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/3/00
Hearings also held on 3/3, 3/7, 3/10/00
* Banking
SECURITIES INDUSTRY MARKET STRUCTURE: Subcommittee on Securities concluded
oversight hearings on the security industry market structure, focusing on
competition and transparency, the New York Stock Exchange Market Structure
Report, and the Intermarket Trading System, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Competition and Transparency in the Financial Marketplace of
the Future
S.Hrg. 106-1002
* Energy
LAND MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management held
hearings on S. 2273, to establish the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon
Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, and S. 2048, to establish the San
Rafael Western Legacy District in the State of Utah, ...
PRINTED TITLE: San Rafael Western Legacy District; and the Black Rock
Desert--High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area (S. 2048,
S. 2273)
S.Hrg. 106-0661
* Foreign Relations
U.S. INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING PRIORITIES: Subcommittee on International
Operations concluded hearings to examine the process for identifying the
priorities and impact of U.S. international broadcasting language services,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Broadcasting: The Review of Priorities
S.Hrg. 106-0617
* Health
HEALTH INFORMATION PRIVACY: Committee resumed hearings to examine issues
dealing with privacy of individually identifiable health information, focusing
on related provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Proposed Rule on the Privacy of Individually Identifiable
Health Information
S.Hrg. 106-0501
* Indian Affairs
AUTHORIZATION--AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act, focusing on American Indian education programs, including the
role of school boards in hiring educators, education standards, and
accountability issues, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
S.Hrg. 106-0560
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee resumed hearings on campaign finance
reform issues, focusing on citizen participation, the constitutional and
practical implications of updating campaign finance law, disproportionate
influence of interest groups, and perceived campaign finance abuses, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 5/3, 5/17/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000427
* Agriculture
AGRICULTURE OWNERSHIP CONCENTRATION: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation relating to agriculture concentration of ownership and competitive
issues, focusing on antitrust enforcement and the Department of Agriculture's
role in the agribusiness merger review process, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agriculture Concentration and Competition
S.Hrg. 106-0874
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Michael V.
Dunn, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm
Credit Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/11/00
Hearings also held on 4/11/00
* Banking
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REFORM: Subcommittee on International Trade and
Finance held oversight hearings on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
International Financial Institutions (IFI), focusing on institutional support
and reform, the Administration's IMF and World Bank reform agenda, and the IFI
Advisory Commission report, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reform of the International Monetary Fund
S.Hrg. 106-0614
* Energy
ELECTRIC POWER LEGISLATION: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2098, to
facilitate the transition to more competitive and efficient electric power
markets, and to ensure electric reliability, S. 2071, to benefit electricity
consumers by promoting the reliability of the bulk-power system, S. 1369, to
enhance the benefits of the national electric system by encouraging and
supporting State programs for renewable energy sources, universal electric
service, affordable electric service, and energy conservation and efficiency,
S. 1284, to amend the Federal Power Act to ensure that no State may establish,
maintain, or enforce on behalf of any electric utility an exclusive right to
sell electric energy or otherwise unduly discriminate against any consumer who
seeks to purchase electric energy in interstate commerce from any supplier, S.
1273, to amend the Federal Power Act, to facilitate the transition to more
competitive and efficient electric power markets, S. 1047, to provide for a
more competitive electric power industry, S. 516, to benefit consumers by
promoting competition in the electric power industry, and S. 282, to provide
that no electric utility shall be required to enter into a new contract or
obligation to purchase or to sell electricity or capacity under section 210 of
the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 4/11/00
Hearings also held on 4/11, 4/13/00
NATIONAL PARKS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND RECREATION: Subcommittee on
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S.
1438, to establish the National Law Enforcement Museum on Federal land in the
District of Columbia, S. 1921, to authorize the placement within the site of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial of a plaque to honor Vietnam veterans who died
after their service in the Vietnam war, but as a direct result of that
service, S. 2231 and H.R. 2879, bills to provide for the placement at the
Lincoln Memorial of a plaque commemorating the speech of Martin Luther King,
Jr., known as the "I Have A Dream" speech, S. 2343, to amend the National
Historic Preservation Act for the purposes of establishing a national historic
lighthouse preservation program, S. 2352, to designate portions of the Wekiva
River and associated tributaries as a component of the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System, H.R. 1749, to designate Wilson Creek in Avery and
Caldwell Counties, North Carolina, as a component of the National Wild and
Scenic Rivers System; and H.R. 3201, to authorize the Secretary of the
Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the Carter G.
Woodson Home in the District of Columbia as a National Historic Site, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Parks Bills (S. 1438, S. 1921, S. 2231, S. 2343,
S. 2352, H.R. 1749, H.R. 2879, H.R. 3201)
S.Hrg. 106-0666
* Foreign Relations
NAFTA: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and
Terrorism held hearings to examine issues relating to the North American Free
Trade Agreement and its impact on U.S. relations with the Americas, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Lessons of NAFTA for U.S. Relations With the Americas
S.Hrg. 106-0751
* Health
STATE WORKERS' COMPENSATION: Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training
concluded hearings on the relationship between the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration's proposed Ergonomic Program Standard and State Workers'
Compensation laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Ergonomics Rule: OSHA's Interference with State Workers'
Compensation
S.Hrg. 106-0529
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Kent J.
Dawson, to be United States District Judge for the District of Nevada,
Nicholas G. Garaufis, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of New York, Phyllis J. Hamilton, to be United States District Judge
for the Northern District of California, Roger L. Hunt, to be United States
District Judge for the District of Nevada, Gerard E. Lynch, to be a United
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and Donnie R.
Marshall, of Texas, to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement, Department of
Justice, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 3/23, 5/10/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000429
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Fort Peck Fish Hatchery Authorization Act of 2000 (S. 2027)
(Field hearing held in Glasgow, MT)
S.Hrg. 106-1037
** HEARINGS FOR 20000502
* Aging
SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
vulnerability of the Social Security Representative Payee Program, focusing on
solutions to prevent and detect representative payee abuses, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Inviting Fraud: Has the Social Security Administration
Allowed Some Payees to Deceive the Elderly and Disabled?
S.Hrg. 106-0593
* Environment
SUCCESSFUL STATE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on State environmental success stories and environmental protection
program improvements, focusing on the EPA's relationship with States,
enforcement, funding, inspections, administration, land recycling and
brownfields, data management, non-point source runoff, technology, and the
ECOS/EPA Regulatory Innovation Agreement, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Successful State Environmental Programs
S.Hrg. 106-0919
* Foreign Relations
INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST CORRUPTION: Committee concluded hearings on
Inter-American Convention Against Corruptions ("the Convention"), adopted and
opened for signature at the Specialized Conference of the Organization of
American States (OAS) at Caracas, Venezuela, on March 29, 1996. The Convention
was signed by the United States on June 27, 1996, at the twenty-seventh
regular session of the OAS General Assembly meeting in Panama City, Panama
(Treaty Doc. 105-39), ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to
examine the effectiveness of Federal employee incentive programs in achieving
high employee performance, focusing on recruitment and retention, monetary
incentives, work scheduling, leave flexibility, awards, motivation, and issues
relating to information technology, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Effectiveness of Federal Employee Incentive Programs
S.Hrg. 106-0586
* Indian Affairs
WATER RIGHTS: Committee concluded hearings on provisions of S. 2350, to
direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey to certain water rights to
Duchesne City, Utah, and S. 2351, to provide for the settlement of the water
rights claims of the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian tribe of Utah, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Duchesne City Water Rights Conveyance Act and Shivwits Band of
the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah Water Rights Settlement Act (S. 2350/H.R.
3468, S. 2351/H.R. 3291)
S.Hrg. 106-0562
* Judiciary
LABELLA MEMORANDUM: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
held hearings to examine Department of Justice activities about alleged
improprieties during the 1996 Presidential campaign cycle, focusing on the
LaBella Memorandum, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Charles La Bella Memorandum
S.Hrg. 106-1073
AIRLINE COMPETITION: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, and
Competition concluded hearings to examine issues dealing with the state of
competition in the deregulated airline industry and the application of related
antitrust laws, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Airline Competition: Clear Skies or Turbulence Ahead?
S.Hrg. 106-1052
** HEARINGS FOR 20000503
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense,
...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/6, 3/8, 3/29, 4/12, 4/25, 4/26/00
* Commerce
BOSTON CENTRAL ARTERY/TUNNEL PROJECT: Committee concluded hearings to examine
issues dealing with the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel project, focusing on
mismanagement, federal oversight, cost overruns, and outstanding federal
financial obligation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Oversight Hearing on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project
S.Hrg. 106-1110
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee resumed hearings on campaign finance
reform issues, focusing on Internet political speech, and S. 1747, to amend
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to exclude certain Internet
communications from the definition of expenditure, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/26, 5/17/00
* Taxation
IRS REFORM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the strategic plans and
fiscal year 2001 budget of the Internal Revenue Service, focusing on the
progress and problems in implementing the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of
1998, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
** HEARINGS FOR 20000504
* Agriculture
CARBON CYCLE RESEARCH AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Subcommittee on Production and
Price Competitiveness concluded hearings to examine carbon cycle research and
agriculture's role in mitigating greenhouse gases and reducing climate
changes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Carbon Cycle Research and Agriculture's Role in Reducing
Climate Change
S.Hrg. 106-0905
* Appropriations
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and
Independent Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 2001, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/12, 4/13/00
* Commerce
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearing on the nominations of J. Randolph
Babbitt, of Virginia, Robert W. Baker, of Texas, Edward M. Bolen, of Maryland,
Phil Boyer, of Maryland, Debbie D. Branson, of Texas, Geoffrey T. Crowley, of
Wisconsin, Robert A. Davis, of Washington, and Kendall W. Wilson, of the
District of Columbia, each to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management
Advisory Council, Department of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations to the Federal Aviation Management Advisory
Council
S.Hrg. 106-1111
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE STEWARDSHIP CONTRACTING PROGRAM: Subcommittee on Forests and
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the United States
Forest Service's use of current and proposed stewardship contracting
procedures, including authorities under section 347 of the FY 1999 Omnibus
Appropriations Act, and whether these procedures assist or could be improved
to assist forest management activities to meet goals of ecosystem management,
restoration, and employment opportunities on public lands, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Forest Service Stewardship Contracting Program
S.Hrg. 106-0670
* Finance
MEDICARE REFORM: Committee held hearings to examine the Health Care Financing
Administration's role and readiness in Medicare reform, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Health Care Financing Administration's Role and Readiness in
Medicare Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0844
* Foreign Relations
U.S. LIBYA POLICY: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
concluded hearings to examine U.S. foreign policy toward Libya, focusing on
economic issues, politics, foreign relations, the Great Man-Made River
project, and the indictments following Pan Am 103 and UTA 772 terrorist
explosion, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Libya
S.Hrg. 106-0740
* Governmental Affairs
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR REINVENTING GOVERNMENT: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded
hearings to examine the management reform efforts of the National Partnership
for Reinventing Government for the last seven years, including changes to
government management and programs that were proposed and implemented, and S.
2306, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Federal Government,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Has Government Been "Reinvented"?
S.Hrg. 106-0722
* Judiciary
AGRICULTURAL JOBS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND BENEFITS: Subcommittee on Immigration
concluded hearings on S. 1814, to establish a system of registries of
temporary agricultural workers to provide for a sufficient supply of such
workers and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to streamline
procedures for the admission and extension of stay of nonimmigrant
agricultural workers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Agricultural Job Opportunity Benefits and Security Act of 1999
S.Hrg. 106-1058
** HEARINGS FOR 20000506
* Environment
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [CLEAN WATER
ACT] Field hearing held in Whitefield, NH
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/1/00
Hearings also held on 3/1, 3/23, 6/12/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000508
* Banking
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [STRUCTURE OF
SECURITIES MARKETS]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/29/00
Hearings also held on 2/29, 4/13/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000509
* Banking
CHINA-WTO AGREEMENT: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain
implications relating to the U.S. decision to grant China Permanent Normal
Trade Relations and China's entry into the World Trade Organization, focusing
on initiatives to open foreign financial markets, ...
PRINTED TITLE: China's Readmission to the World Trade Organization:
Financial Services Agreement
S.Hrg. 106-0615
* Governmental Affairs
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Subcommittee on Oversight of
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded
hearings to examine performance management in the District of Columbia,
focusing on electrical and building permit processes, Citywide Call Center
launch, and drug activity reduction, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Performance Management in the District of Columbia: A
Progress Report
S.Hrg. 106-0598
* Judiciary
CARIBBEAN DRUG TRAFFICKING: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Oversight
concluded oversight hearings to examine Caribbean drug trafficking, focusing
on smuggling trends, law enforcement efforts and funding, and recent
enforcement successes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Caribbean Drug Trafficking: Return of the Caribbean Connection
S.Hrg. 106-1011
* Narcotics Control
DOMESTIC HEROIN USE: Caucus concluded hearings to examine issues relating to
the domestic effects of heroin use, focusing on prevention, community and
parental involvement, addiction research, juvenile residential treatment
programs, and the proposed Drug Treatment and Research Enhancement Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Domestic Consequences of Heroin Use
S.Hrg. 106-0646
** HEARINGS FOR 20000510
* Energy
NATIONAL FOREST PLANNING REGULATIONS: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land
Management concluded oversight hearings on the United States Forest Service's
proposed revisions to the regulations governing National Forest Planning, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/2/00
Hearings also held on 3/2/00
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Brian Dean
Curran, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, David N.
Greenlee, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay, Ronald D.
Godard, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana,
Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Venezuela,
Daniel A. Johnson, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname,
Rose M. Likins, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador,
Anne Woods Patterson, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Colombia, V. Manuel Rocha, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Bolivia, and James Donald Walsh, of California, to be Ambassador to Argentina,
...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
Hearings also held on 5/11/00
UNITED NATIONS REFORM: Subcommittee on International Operations concluded
hearings to examine the status of reforms to improve the United Nations,
focusing on restructuring leadership and operations, developing a
performance-based human capital system, and introducing results-oriented
programming and budgeting processes, ...
PRINTED TITLE: United Nations: The State of its Efficacy and Reform
S.Hrg. 106-0706
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Anna
Blackburne-Rigsby, Thomas J. Motley, and John McAdam Mott, each to be an
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, Thomas Motley, and John
Mott
S.Hrg. 106-0591
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT: Committee held hearings on S. 2526, to amend
the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to revise and extend such Act, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act (S. 2526)
S.Hrg. 106-0491,pt.2
* Intelligence
INTELLIGENCE: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Judiciary
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Allen R.
Snyder, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the District of
Columbia Circuit, James J. Brady, to be United States District Judge for the
Middle District of Louisiana, and Mary A. McLaughlin, Berle M. Schiller,
Richard Barclay Surrick, and Petrese B. Tucker, each to be a United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/22/00
Hearings also held on 2/22, 3/23, 4/27/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000511
* Banking
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Richard Court
Houseworth, of Arizona, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Nuria I. Fernandez, of Illinois, to
be Federal Transit Administrator, Department of Transportation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nominations of: Richard Court Houseworth, Nuria I. Fernandez,
Marjory E. Searing, and Robert S. Larussa
S.Hrg. 106-1042
Hearings also held on 7/21/00
* Commerce
PIPELINE SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation reauthorizing funds for programs of the Pipeline Safety Act,
focusing on the natural gas and hazardous liquid pipeline transportation
industry safety, federal regulation adequacy, and additional safeguards, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the Pipeline Safety Act
S.Hrg. 106-1114
* Energy
NATIONAL PARKS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND RECREATION: Subcommittee on
National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S.
1367, to amend the Act which established the Saint-Gaudens Historic Site, in
the State of New Hampshire, by modifying the boundary, S. 1617, to promote
preservation and public awareness of the history of the Underground Railroad
by providing financial assistance, to the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio,
S. 1670, to revise the boundary of Fort Matanzas National Monument, S. 2020,
to adjust the boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi, S. 2478, to
require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a theme study on the peopling
of America, and S. 2485, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to provide
assistance in planning and constructing a regional heritage center in Calais,
Maine, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Parks Bills (S. 1367, S. 1617, S. 1670, S. 2020,
S. 2478, S. 2485)
S.Hrg. 106-0693
* Environment
COMPREHENSIVE EVERGLADES RESTORATION PLAN: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2437, to approve the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan by providing
for the conservation and development of water and related resources, and
authorizing the Secretary of the Army to construct various projects for
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 1/7/00
Hearings also held on 1/7, 9/20/00
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATIONS: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Edward
William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be Ambassador to Australia, John R. Dinger,
of Florida, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, Douglas Alan Hartwick, of
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Susan S.
Jacobs, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, and to serve
concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to Solomon
Islands, and as Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, and Michael J. Senko,
of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall
Islands, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as
Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 5/10/00
Hearings also held on 5/10/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000512
* Governmental Affairs
NOMINATION: On Friday, May 12, committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Amy L. Comstock, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of Government
Ethics, Office of Personnel Management, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Nomination of Amy L. Comstock
S.Hrg. 106-0571
** HEARINGS FOR 20000515
* Health
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Department of Energy Employee Compensation Plan (Field
hearing held in Columbus, OH)
S.Hrg. 106-0532
* Judiciary
Field hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: School Crime Prevention Programs (Field hearing held in New
Castle, DE)
S.Hrg. 106-1010
** HEARINGS FOR 20000516
* Armed Services
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Adm. Vernon E.
Clark, to be Chief of Naval Operations, United States Navy, and appointment to
the grade of Admiral, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 3/21, 4/11, 5/24, 6/27, 7/26, 9/6, 10/3, 10/19/00
* Banking
HUD SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY DISPOSITION: Subcommittee on Housing and
Transportation concluded oversight hearings on the Department of Housing and
Urban Development's implementation of its single family management and
marketing contracts, focusing on property maintenance and security, evaluation
and monitoring efforts, property inventory, and contractor incentives, ...
PRINTED TITLE: HUD's Management and Marketing Contracts
S.Hrg. 106-1000
* Commerce
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 2001 for the Maritime Administration, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Reauthorization of the U.S. Maritime Administration
S.Hrg. 106-1113
* Energy
FOREST SERVICE ROAD MANAGEMENT POLICY: Subcommittee on Forests and Public
Land Management concluded oversight hearings on the United States Forest
Service's proposed road management policy, focusing on safety, public and
agency needs, environmental soundness, cost, and management efficiency, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Forest Service's Road Management Policy Draft Rule
S.Hrg. 106-0669
* Environment
ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS PROJECTS: Subcommittee on Transportation and
Infrastructure held hearings on the Army Corps of Engineers backlog of
authorized projects and the future of the Army Corps of Engineers mission,
focusing on the Civil Works program, construction backlog, navigational and
water resources, flood control, the Mississippi Valley, and the nation's
coastline, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Backlog of Authorized Projects
and Future of the Corps' Mission
S.Hrg. 106-0951
* Foreign Relations
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: Committee concluded hearings to examine the
Annual Report of the United States Commission on International Religious
Freedom, focusing on Russia, China, and Sudan, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: Findings
on Russia, China, and Sudan; and Religious Persecutions in the World
S.Hrg. 106-0662
Hearings also held on 9/7/00
* Governmental Affairs
LONG-TERM CARE SECURITY: Subcommittee on International Security,
Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings on S. 2420, to amend
title 5, United States Code, to provide for the establishment of a program
under which long-term care insurance is made available to Federal employees,
members of the uniformed services, and civilian and military retirees, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Long-Term Care Insurance for Federal Employees
S.Hrg. 106-0533
* Judiciary
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER THREAT: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Oversight concluded hearings to examine threats to Federal law enforcement
officers, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Threats to Federal Law Enforcement Officers
S.Hrg. 106-1009
** HEARINGS FOR 20000517
* Commerce
GLOBAL WARMING: Committee held hearings to examine global warming issues,
focusing on science and technology programs, including the U.S. Global Change
Research Program, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Science Behind Global Warming
S.Hrg. 106-1115
* Energy
MONTANA FLATHEAD IRRIGATION PROJECT: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded oversight hearings on the operation, by the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, of the Flathead Irrigation Project in Montana, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Montana Flathead Irrigation Project
S.Hrg. 106-0688
* Environment
CLEAN AIR ACT AUTHORIZATION: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private
Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for programs of the Clean Air Act, focusing on an
incentive-based utility emissions reduction approach, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Clean Air Act: Incentive-Based Utility Emissions Reductions
S.Hrg. 106-0975
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN LAND PROJECTS: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1148, to provide for
the Yankton Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska certain
benefits of the Missouri River Basin Pick-Sloan project, and S. 1658, to
authorize the construction of a Reconciliation Place in Fort Pierre, South
Dakota, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Yankton Sioux Tribe and Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska
Development Trust Fund Act and to Authorize the Construction of a
Reconciliation Place in Fort Pierre, SD (S. 1148, S. 1658)
S.Hrg. 106-0566
INDIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS ACT: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
Department of the Interior's implementation of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act
(P.L. 101-644), focusing on counterfeiting and misrepresentation, law
enforcement, and Indian arts and crafts programs and activities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Indian Arts and Crafts (P.L. 101-644)
S.Hrg. 106-0568
* Rules
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1816, to amend
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide meaningful campaign
finance reform through requiring better reporting, decreasing the role of soft
money, and increasing individual contribution limits, S. 2565, to reform the
financing of Federal elections, S. 1502, to amend the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 to require mandatory spending limits for Senate
candidates and limits on independent expenditures, to ban soft money, and
certain provisions of S.J. Res. 6, proposing an amendment to the Constitution
of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to
affect elections, ...
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 3/22/00
Hearings also held on 3/22, 3/29, 4/5, 4/12, 4/26, 5/3/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000518
* Appropriations
LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education concluded hearings on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research (ALS),
also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, focusing on a cure-directed research
initiative that will identify and support ALS research, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Special hearing)
S.Hrg. 106-0855
* Banking
"I LOVE YOU" VIRUS: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions concluded hearings
to examine the attack of the "I Love You" virus and its impact on United
States financial services industry, ...
PRINTED TITLE: "Iloveyou" Virus and Its Impact on the U.S. Financial Services
Industry
S.Hrg. 106-0659
* Energy
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mildred Spiewak
Dresselhaus, of Massachusetts, to be Director of the Office of Energy
Research, Department of Energy, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Dresselhaus Nomination
S.Hrg. 106-0683
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA INTERTIE SYSTEM: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2439,
to authorize the appropriation of funds for the construction of the
Southeastern Alaska Intertie system, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Southeast Alaska Intertie System (S. 2439)
S.Hrg. 106-0696
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: Snowmobile Activities in the National Park System and
Miscellaneous National Heritage Bills (Hearing and Workshop)
S.Hrg. 106-0731
Hearings also held on 5/25/00
* Environment
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL: Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking
Water held hearings on S. 2417, to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act to increase funding for State nonpoint source pollution control programs.
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Governmental Affairs
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE TRAINING: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to
examine the status of Federal employee development and training, focusing on
Federal programs to train and educate employees throughout their careers to
maintain their skills and productivity, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Training Federal Employees to be Their Best
S.Hrg. 106-0682
* Health
MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: Committee held hearings to examine mental health parity
issues, including S. 796, to provide for full parity with respect to health
insurance coverage for certain severe biologically-based mental illnesses and
to prohibit limits on the number of mental illness-related hospital days and
outpatient visits that are covered for all mental illnesses, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Mental Health Parity
S.Hrg. 106-0582
* Small Business
Forum not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest.
PRINTED TITLE: B2B: An Emerging E-Frontier for Small Business (Forum)
S.Hrg. 106-0707
** HEARINGS FOR 20000519
* Governmental Affairs
COUNTERFEIT IDENTIFICATION ON THE INTERNET: Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations concluded oversight hearings to examine the use of the Internet
to manufacture and market counterfeit identification documents and
credentials, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Phony IDs and Credentials Via the Internet: An Emerging
Problem
S.Hrg. 106-0574
** HEARINGS FOR 20000523
* Armed Services
STRATEGIC NUCLEAR FORCE: Committee concluded open and closed hearings on
United States strategic nuclear force requirements, ...
PRINTED TITLE: U.S. Strategic Nuclear Force Requirements
S.Hrg. 106-0738
* Banking
HUD HOMELESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation
concluded hearings to examine the consolidation of HUD's homeless assistance
programs, focusing on the requirements and administration of the Emergency
Shelter Grants program, the Supportive Housing program, the Shelter Plus Care
program, and the Section 8 Single-Room Occupancy program and the potential
need for program consolidation, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Consolidation of HUD's Homeless Assistance Programs
S.Hrg. 106-1032
* Energy
HYDROELECTRIC LICENSING PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 740, to amend the Federal Power Act to improve the
hydroelectric licensing process by granting the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission statutory authority to better coordinate participation by other
agencies and entities, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Hydroelectric Licensing Process Improvement Act of 1999 (S.
720)
S.Hrg. 106-0686
* Environment
WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
concluded hearings to examine programs related to the proposed Water Resources
Development Act of 2000, include the Puget Sound Restoration Project, the Port
of New York and New Jersey Project, the Ohio River Project, Brownfields
revitalization, and the National Shore Protection Act of 1996, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Water Resources Development Act of 2001
S.Hrg. 106-0976
* Foreign Relations
IMF AND WORLD BANK REFORM: Committee concluded hearings on International
Monetary Fund and World Bank reform issues, focusing on the International
Financial Institution Advisory Commission report, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Meltzer Commission: The Future of the IMF and World Bank
S.Hrg. 106-0657
* Small Business
IRS RESTRUCTURING: Committee held hearings on Internal Revenue Service
restructuring issues, focusing on IRS efforts to reduce the taxpayer burden of
the small business community, ...
PRINTED TITLE: IRS Restructuring: A New Era for Small Business
S.Hrg. 106-0561
** HEARINGS FOR 20000524
* Armed Services
Hearing not listed in Congressional Record's Daily Digest. [NOMINATIONS]
PRINTED TITLE: See entry at 2/8/00
Hearings also held on 2/8, 3/21, 4/11, 5/16, 6/27, 7/26, 9/6, 10/3, 10/19/00
* Energy
WATER AND POWER: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded hearings on S.
2163, to provide for a study of the engineering feasibility of a water
exchange in lieu of electrification of the Chandler Pumping Plant at Prosser
Diversion Dam, Washington, S. 2396, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to enter into contracts with the Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, Utah,
to use Weber Basin Project facilities for the impounding, storage, and
carriage of nonproject water for domestic, municipal, industrial, S. 2248, to
assist in the development and implementation of projects to provide for the
control of drainage water, storm water, flood water, and other water as part
of water-related integrated resource management, environmental infrastructure,
and resource protection and development projects in the Colusa Basin
Watershed, California, S. 2410, to increase the authorization of
appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978, and S. 2425, to
authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the planning, design,
and construction of the Bend Feed Canal Pipeline Project, Oregon, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Miscellaneous Water Bills (S. 2163, S. 2248, S. 2396, S. 2410,
S. 2425)
S.Hrg. 106-0703
* Environment
COASTAL CONSERVATION AND REINVESTMENT PROGRAMS: Committee concluded hearings
on proposed legislation that would use revenue generated from Outer
Continental Shelf oil and gas production to fund coastal conservation and
restoration, and related activities, including related provisions of S. 25, to
provide Coastal Impact Assistance to State and local governments, to amend the
Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, the Land and Water
Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery Act, and
the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act (commonly referred to as the
Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to meet the outdoor conservation
and recreation needs of the American people, S. 2123, to provide Outer
Continental Shelf Impact assistance to State and local governments, to amend
the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, the Urban Park and
Recreation Recovery Act of 1978, and the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration
Act (commonly referred to as the Pittman-Robertson Act) to establish a fund to
meet the outdoor conservation and recreation needs of the American people, and
S. 2181, to amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to provide full
funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to provide dedicated
funding for other conservation programs, including coastal stewardship,
wildlife habitat protection, State and local park and open space preservation,
historic preservation, forestry conservation programs, and youth conservation
corps, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Conservation and Reinvestment Act
S.Hrg. 106-0935
* Foreign Relations
NOMINATION: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Marc Grossman,
of Virginia, to be Director General of the Foreign Service, Department of
State, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Unprinted as of October 18, 2004.
* Indian Affairs
INDIAN FEDERAL RECOGNITION ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 611, to provide for administrative procedures to extend
Federal recognition to certain Indian groups, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Federal Recognition (S. 611)
S.Hrg. 106-0569
* Judiciary
CAMPAIGN FINANCE: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
concluded oversight hearings on the 1996 campaign finance investigations
relating to the Independent Counsel Act and its application to campaign
financing matters, ...
PRINTED TITLE: 1996 Campaign Finance Investigations
S.Hrg. 106-1059
Hearings also held on 6/6, 6/21/00
** HEARINGS FOR 20000525
* Banking
COMPETITION AND INNOVATION IN CREDIT CARD INDUSTRY: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions concluded hearings on competition and innovation in the credit
card industry at the consumer and network level, ...
PRINTED TITLE: Competition and Innovation in the Credit Card Industry at the
Consumer and Network Level
S.Hrg. 106-1020
* Commerce
INTERNET PRIVACY POLICIES: Committee held hearings to examine a Federal Trade
Commission report of Internet privacy policies issues, including collection
and use of consumers' personal information by commercial sites on the World
Wide Web, and begin the process of developing consensus about the best way to
enable consumers to protect their privacy online, ...
PRINTED TITLE: To Review the Federal Trade Commission's Survey of Privacy
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