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trafficking on the security of Columbia and neigh- Committee Meetings boring countries of the Andean Ridge from officials (Committees not listed did not meet) of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. APPROPRIATIONS—DEFENSE Committee recessed subject to call. Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy BUSINESS MEETING and Water Development concluded hearings on pro- Committee on the Budget: posed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Committee began markup of Department of Energy, focusing on defense pro- an original concurrent resolution setting forth the grams, after receiving testimony from Rose E. fiscal year 2001 budget for the Federal Government, Gottemoeller, Acting Deputy Administrator for De- but did not complete action thereon, and will meet fense Nuclear Nonproliferation, Department of En- again tomorrow. ergy; Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, USAF, Retired Di- RURAL BROADBAND ACCESS rector, Office of Security and Emergency Operations; Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Sub- Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Gioconda, USAF, Acting committee on Communications concluded hearings Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs and to examine the current state of deployment of hi- Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Military speed Internet technologies, focusing on broadband Application, National Nuclear Security Administra- communication service access in rural America, after tion; and Adm. Frank L. Bowman, USN, Director, receiving testimony from Representative Tauzin; Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. Montana Public Service Commissioner Bob Rowe, on ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Utilities Commissioners, and John S. Fitzpatrick, Health and Human Services, and Education con- Touch America, Inc., both of Helena, Montana; Roy cluded hearings to examine issues dealing with com- Neel, United States Telecom Association, and Tim- plementary and alternative medicine therapies, which othy J. Regan, Corning Incorporated, both of Wash- are designed to complement traditional healthcare ington, D.C.; Stephen C. Gray, McLeodUSA, Inc., approaches, such as surgery and drug therapy, after Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and David M. Woodrow, Cox receiving testimony from Stephen Straus, Director, Communications, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. National Center for Complementary and Alternative U.S. DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee of Health and Human Services; Andrew Weil, Uni- concluded joint hearings with the Committee on versity of Arizona College of Medicine Program in Integrative Medicine, Tucson; Mary Jo Kreitzer, Foreign Relations to examine United States depend- University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and ency on foreign oil, focusing on oil import needs, di- Healing, Minneapolis; Herbert Benson, Harvard plomacy, strategic petroleum reserve, and domestic University Medical School/Mind/Body Medical Insti- oil production, after receiving testimony from Rich- tute, Boston, Massachusetts; Dean Ornish, University ard Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for of California School of Medicine/Preventive Medicine International Security, American Enterprise Institute, Research Institute, San Francisco; James M. Cassidy, Washington, D.C.; Denise A. Bode, Oklahoma Cor- Andover, Massachusetts; Kristen Magnacca, Welles- poration Commission, Oklahoma City; and Virginia ley, Massachusetts; and Walter Czapliewicz, Pitts- Lazenby, Bretagne G.P., Nashville, Tennessee, on be- burgh, Pennsylvania. half of the Independent Petroleum Association of America. APPROPRIATIONS—TRANSPORTATION BUDGET—EPA/ARMY CORPS OF Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Trans- ENGINEERS portation concluded oversight hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2001 for the Depart- Committee on Environment and Public Works: Sub- ment of Transportation, after receiving testimony committee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Prop- from Kenneth M. Mead, Inspector General, and erty, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings on the Peter J. Basso, Assistant Secretary for Budget and President’s proposed budget request for fiscal year Programs and Chief Financial Officer, both of the 2001 for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Department of Transportation. clean air programs and the Army Corps of Engineers wetlands programs, after receiving testimony from DRUG TRAFFICKING Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator, Office of Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agen- session to receive a briefing on the impact of drug cy; and Michael L. Davis, Deputy Assistant Secretary March 28, 2000 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — DAILY DIGEST D273 of the Army for Civil Works, United States Army Technology Association of America, Arlington, Vir- Corps of Engineers, Department of Defense. ginia; and Richard D. Pethia, CERT Centers Car- IRAN AND IRAQ PROLIFERATION negie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed INTERNET PREDATOR PROTECTION hearings to examine issues dealing with Iran and Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Iraq, focusing on the future of nonproliferation pol- Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded icy, receiving testimony from Anthony H. hearings on child safety on the Internet, focusing on Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International online protection from predators, after receiving tes- Studies, Washington, D.C.; and Rolf Ekeus, Ambas- timony from Kenneth Neu, Assistant Section Chief, sador of Sweden, Washington, D.C., and Richard Violent Crimes Major Offenders Section, and Wil- Butler, Diplomat in Residence, Council on Foreign liam Hagmaier, Unit Chief, Child Abduction Serial Relations, both of the United Nations Special Com- Murder Investigative Resources Center, both of the mission on Iraq (UNSCOM). Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Jus- Hearings continue on Thursday, March 30. tice; Donna Rice Hughes, Phoenix Financial and Ad- HCFA SETTLEMENT POLICIES visory Services, Vienna, Virginia, on behalf of the Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Sub- Child Online Protection Commission; Mary Anne committee on Investigations concluded oversight Layden, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Er- hearings to examine Health Care Financing Admin- nest E. Allen, National Center for Missing and Ex- istration’s (HCFA) settlement policies, focusing on ploited Children, Washington, D.C.; John Ryan, whether certain Medicare providers settlements con- America Online, Inc., Ashburn, Virginia; Tim form to HCFA regulations, after receiving testimony Remsburg, Nashua, New Hampshire; and Teresa from Robert H. Hast, Acting Assistant Comptroller Strickland, Opelika, Alabama. General for Special Investigations, Office of Special OFFICE SUPPLY FRAUD Investigations, General Accounting Office; and Charles R. Booth, Director, Financial Services Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings Group, Office of Financial Management, Jean Ohl, to examine the effects of certain office supply scams, Technical Health Insurance Specialist, Tony Seubert, including toner-phoner schemes on small business, Payment Specialist, and Bruce C. Vladeck, former receiving testimony from Jodie Bernstein, Director, Administrator, all of the Health Care Financing Ad- Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Com- ministration, Department of Health and Human mission; Joan Bailey, Brownstone Real Estate Com- Services. pany, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Linda Easton-Saunders, Prospect Associates, Silver Spring, Maryland; George CYBER CRIMES Everding, Feed My People, St. Louis, Missouri; Peter Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Tech- Grosfeld, American Flyers, Miami, Florida; William nology, Terrorism, and Government Information R. Duffy, Imaging Supplies Coalition for Inter- concluded hearings to examine the incidence of cyber national Intellectual Property Protection, Inc., Lex- attacks on the nation’s information systems, focusing ington, Kentucky; and Tricia Burke, Office Equip- on removing roadblocks to investigation and infor- ment Company, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf mation sharing, after receiving testimony from Louis of the Independent Office Products and Furniture J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Dealers Association. Department of Justice; Harris N. Miller, Information Hearings recessed subject to call. h House of Representatives H.R. 3519, to provide for negotiations for the cre- Chamber Action ation of a trust fund to be administered by the Bills Introduced: 15 public bills, H.R. International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- H4094–4108, and 1 resolution, H. Con. Res. 294, ment of the International Development Association were introduced. Page H1476 to combat the AIDS epidemic, amended (H. Rept. Reports Filed: Reports were filed today as follows: 106–548); and