Volume 146, No. 121 covering the 2nd 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 D1021-D1022 on Oct. 3, 2000.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Robert B. Pirie, Jr., of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of the Navy, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
INTERNET PRIVACY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings on 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, S. 2606, to protect the privacy of American consumers, and S. 2928, to protect the privacy of consumers who use the Internet, after receiving testimony from Scott Cooper, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center, both of Washington, D.C.; George Vradenberg III, America Online, Dulles, Virginia; Paul Rubin, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; and Simson Garfinkel, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
ENVIRONMENTAL THREAT ASSESSMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's use of comparative assessment to evaluate and compare risks posed by certain environment threats, and EPA's Science Advisory Board report on EPA's method for comparing risk, focusing on lessons learned from the application of comparative risk analysis in defining strategic goals for the environment and setting priorities at the Federal, State, and local level, after receiving testimony from Al McGartland, Assistant Administrator, Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation, Environmental Protection Agency; Peter F. Guerrero, Director, Environmental Protection Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Katherine Hartnett, New Hampshire Comparative Risk Project, Concord; Michael J. Pompili, Columbus Health Department, Columbus, Ohio; J. Clarence Davies, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.; and Elizabeth L. Anderson, Sciences International, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the progress and challenges of performance management in the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from J. Christopher Mihm, Director, Strategic Issues, General Accounting Office; and Mayor Anthony A. Williams, and Deputy-Mayor John Koskinen, both of Washington, D.C.
WEN HO LEE INVESTIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts resumed oversight hearings to examine certain decisions that were made in the investigation and prosecution of the Wen Ho Lee case, receiving testimony from Stephen M. Younger, Associate Laboratory Director for Nuclear Weapons, John Richter, Consultant, and Ron Wilkins, Computer Network Specialist, all of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Department of Energy; Robert S. Vrooman, Bozeman, Montana, former Chief, Los Alamos National Lab Counterintelligence; and Notra Trulock III, Falls Church, Virginia, former Director of Intelligence, Department of Energy.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded oversight hearings to examine the financial and performance accountability of the Office of Justice Programs in preventing and controlling illegal drug use, particularly among young people, after receiving testimony from Mary Lou Leary, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice; Judge Michael E. McMaken, District Court of Alabama, Mobile; Associate Judge Richard S. Gebelein, Superior Court of Delaware, Wilmington; Steven Belenko, Columbia University National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, New York, New York; and John S. Goldkamp, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues relating to the energy crisis and high fuel cost impact on low-income families, the effectiveness of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to provide heating assistance to those in need, and a proposed increase in LIHEAP funding, after receiving testimony from Olivia A. Golden, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families; Richard H. Moffi, Vermont Agency of Human Services, Waterbury; Jerry McKim, Iowa Department of Human Rights, Des Moines; John Howat, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Mark Seetin, New York Mercantile Exchange, Washington, D.C.; Callie Parker, Little Deer Isle, Maine; and Cathy Duncan, Johnson, Vermont.
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