Volume 145, No. 41 covering the 1st Session of the 106th Congress (1999 - 2000) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D278-D281 on March 16, 1999.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lawrence J. Wilker, President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; Earl A. Powell, III, Director, National Gallery of Art; I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; and Lee H. Hamilton, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
APPROPRIATIONS--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for the Immigration and Naturalization, after receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice.
BIOTERRORISM
Committee on Appropriations: 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, after receiving testimony from Kenneth W. Kizer, Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health; Margaret A. Hamburg, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; Henry L. Hinton, Jr., Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Donald A. Henderson, Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, Baltimore, Maryland; and Robert C. Myers, BioPort Corporation, Lansing, Michigan.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: 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, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Catherine E. Woteki, Under Secretary for Food Safety, and Dennis Kaplan, Deputy Director, Budget, Legislative and Regulatory Systems, both of the Department of Agriculture; and Jane Henney, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, and Jeffrey P. Koplan, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
APPROPRIATIONS--NAVY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2000 for Navy shore infrastructure and military construction, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment; Rear Adm. Ralph E. Suggs, Deputy Commander in Chief, United States Special Operations Command; Rear Adm. Thomas F. Carrato, Chief Operating Officer, Tricare Management Activity, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Frederick N. Baillie, Executive Director of Resources, Planning, and Performance, Defense Logistics Support Command, Defense Logistics Agency; and Gail H. McGinn, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Personnel Support, Families and Education.
ALLEGED CHINESE ESPIONAGE
Committee on Armed Services/Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committees concluded joint closed hearings on alleged Chinese espionage at the Department of Energy laboratories, after receiving testimony from William B. Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: 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, after receiving testimony from William B. Richardson, Secretary of Energy.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: 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, after receiving testimony from Gen. Robert T. Marsh, USAF (Ret.), Chairman, President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection; Michael A. Vatis, Deputy Assistant Director and Chief, National Infrastructure Protection Center, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Arthur L. Money, Senior Civilian Official, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence; and Maj. Gen. John Campbell, USAF, Director, Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense.
AUTHORIZATION--EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 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, after receiving testimony from John P. Barker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Export Controls; R. Roger Majak, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Patricia Dedik, Director, Nuclear Transfer and Supplier Policy Division, Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation, Department of Energy; Dan Hoydysh, Unisys Corporation, on behalf of the Computer Coalition for Responsible Exports, Paul Freedenberg, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Administration, on behalf of the Association for Manufacturing Technology, and John W. Douglass, Aerospace Industries Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Stephen D. Bryen, Silver Spring, Maryland, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
BUDGET 2000
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to mark up a proposed concurrent resolution setting forth the fiscal year 2000 budget for the Federal Government, but did not complete consideration thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
FOREST SERVICE BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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, after receiving testimony from Ronald E. Stewart, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
EPA'S RISK MANAGEMENT PLAN
Committee on Environment and Public Works: 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, after receiving testimony from Timothy Fields, Jr., Acting Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Robert M. Burnham, Chief, Domestic Terrorism Section, National Security Division, and Robert M. Blitzer, former Section Chief, Domestic Terrorism/Counterterrorism Planning Section, both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Dean Kleckner, Rudd, Iowa on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; James E. Bertelsmeyer, Heritage Propane, Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Propane Gas Association; Thomas M. Susman, Ropes & Gray, and Thomas E. Natan, Jr., National Environmental Trust, both of Washington, D.C.; Paula R. Littles, Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Energy Workers International Union, Fairfax, Virginia; and Ben Laganga, Union County Office of Emergency Management, Westfield, New Jersey.
SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM: PERSONAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS
Committee on Finance: 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, receiving testimony from David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom, former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, and Robert D. Reischauer, Brookings Institution, former Director, Congressional Budget Office, both of Washington, D.C.; Sam Beard, Economic Security 2000, New Castle, Delaware; Martin S. Feldstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Bureau on Economic Research; and Sylvester J. Schieber, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Bethesda, Maryland.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--EDUCATING THE DISADVANTAGED
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, focusing on Title I, education programs for the disadvantaged, after receiving testimony from Wayne Riddle, Specialist in Education Finance, Domestic Social Policy Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; David Baroudi, State Director (Montpelier, Vermont), Title 1 Programs, Department of Education; Lula M. Ford, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; William L. Taylor, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.; and Terry Bergeson, Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia, on behalf of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on the President's fiscal year 2000 budget request for the Small Business Administration, including the HUBZone Empowerment Contracting program, receiving testimony from Aida Alvarez, Administrator, Small Business Administration; Mark Barbash, Columbus Countywide Development Corporation, Columbus Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Development Companies; Agnes Noonan, Women's Economic Self-Sufficiency Team, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Deryl K. Schuster, Mid-America Division, Business Loan Center, Inc. Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders; and Max E. Summers, Missouri Small Business Development Centers, Columbia, on behalf of the Association of Small Business Development Centers.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
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