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Union Calendar No. 484 ACTIVITIES 1 Union Calendar No. 484 105TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105±843 "! ACTIVITIES OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS 1997±1998 (Pursuant to House Rule XI, 1(d)) JANUARY 2, 1999.ÐCommitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 53±106 CC WASHINGTON : 1999 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York HENRY A. WAXMAN, California J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois TOM LANTOS, California CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut MAJOR R. OWENS, New York STEVEN H. SCHIFF, New Mexico 10 EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York CHRISTOPHER COX, California PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida GARY A. CONDIT, California JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota 3 STEPHEN HORN, California CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York JOHN L. MICA, Florida THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin THOMAS M. DAVIS III, Virginia ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington, DAVID M. MCINTOSH, Indiana DC MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida TIM HOLDEN, Pennsylvania 7 JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio MARSHALL ``MARK'' SANFORD, South ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois Carolina DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois 4 ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., MARYLAND 5 JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts 4 KEVIN BRADY, Texas 2 JIM TURNER, Texas 4 JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine 4 PETE SESSIONS, Texas HAROLD E. FORD, JR., Tennessee 8 MICHAEL PAPPAS, New Jersey ÐÐÐ VINCE SNOWBARGER, Kansas BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont BOB BARR, Georgia 1 (Independent) ROB PORTMAN, Ohio 6 DAN MILLER, Florida 9 RON LEWIS, Kentucky 11 KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director DANIEL R. MOLL, Deputy Staff Director DAVID A. KASS, Deputy Counsel and Parliamentarian CARLA J. MARTIN, Chief Clerk PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director 1 Elected to committee January 21, 1997 (H.Res. 32). 2 Resigned from committee February 5, 1997 by communication to the Speaker. 3 Resigned from committee February 5, 1997 by communication to the Speaker. 4 Elected to committee February 5, 1997 (H.Res. 36). 5 Resigned from committee March 19, 1997 by communication to the Speaker. 6 Elected to committee April 9, 1997 (H.Res. 108). Resigned from committee November 13, 1997 by communication to the Speaker. 7 Resigned from committee April 17, 1997 by communication to the Speaker. 8 Elected to committee April 17, 1997 (H.Res. 120). 9 Elected to committee November 13, 1997 (H.Res. 331). 10 Deceased March 25, 1998. 11 Elected to committee May 13, 1998 (H.Res. 429). (II) LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC, January 2, 1999. Hon. JEFF TRANDAHL, Clerk of the House of Representatives Washington, DC. DEAR MR. TRANDAHL: I am pleased to submit the enclosed report entitled, ``Activities of the House Committee on Government Re- form and Oversight, 105th Congress, First and Second Sessions.'' This report follows the committee's past practice of publishing its activities report annually as an interim report at the end of each first session of a Congress and as a separate final report at the end of a full Congress. The present report includes matters required by Rule XI, 1(d) to be reported to the House not later than January 2, 1999, on the activities of the committee and in carrying out its duty under Rule X to ``review and study, on a continuing basis, the application, ad- ministration, execution, and effectiveness'' of laws whose subject matter is within the jurisdiction of the committee. The present report describes fully the committee's jurisdiction and organization, and details its activities. Of particular note, in a productive Congress, are committee efforts in the following areas: the year 2000 computer crisis (Y2K); the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; the Persian Gulf war veterans illness; oversight and implementation of the Results Act; the investigation of political fundraising improprieties; and, review of the Food and Drug Ad- ministration and its regulations respecting terminally ill patients and their ability to access desired treatments. Sincerely yours, DAN BURTON, Chairman (iii) C O N T E N T S Page Part One. General statement of organization and activities ............................... 1 I. Jurisdiction, authority, powers, duties ........................................................ 1 II. Historical background ................................................................................... 9 III. Organization ................................................................................................... 15 A. Subcommittees ..................................................................................... 15 B. Rules of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight ..... 16 IV. Activities, 105th Congress ............................................................................. 25 A. Investigative reports ............................................................................ 25 B. Legislation ............................................................................................ 26 C. Reorganization plans ........................................................................... 37 D. Committee prints ................................................................................. 38 E. Committee action on reports of the Comptroller General ................ 38 Part Two. Report of committee activities .............................................................. 41 I. MATTERS OF INTEREST, FULL COMMITTEE A. General ................................................................................................. 41 1. Oversight Plans of the Committees of the U.S. House of Representatives ........................................................................... 41 2. Views and Estimates for Fiscal Year 1999 .............................. 44 3. Investigations ............................................................................. 44 a. Oversight of Implementation of the Government Per- formance and Results Act of 1993 .................................. 44 b. Review of the Federal Government Acquisition Strategy Regarding the Federal Telecommunications System 2001 Program ................................................................... 45 c. The Committee's Investigation of Political Fundraising Improprieties and Possible Violations of Law ............... 46 d. The Committee's Oversight of the Department of Jus- tice Campaign Finance Investigation ............................. 50 e. Review of the Food and Drug Administration and its Regulations and Activities Respecting Terminally Ill Patients and their Ability to Access Desired Treat- ments ................................................................................. 53 f. Review of the Food and Drug Administration's Human Subject Protection Guidelines, Informed Consent Doc- uments, and the Use of Children and Patients with Mental Illness in Clinical Trials ..................................... 54 g. Inquiry into Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer Research at the National Institutes of Health . 55 h. Review of the Food and Drug Administration's Pro- posed Changes to Structure/Function Rules and Regu- lations Relating to the Dietary Supplements and Health Education Act ...................................................... 57 i. Elimination of Section 1555 of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 [FASA] (Public Law 103± 355) .................................................................................... 57 j. The Sale of Body Parts by the People's Republic of China ................................................................................. 57 4. Legislation .................................................................................. 58 1. H.R. 1553, a bill to amend the President John F. Ken- nedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 ...... 58 2. H.R. 1836, the Federal Employees Health Care Protec- tion Act of 1997 ................................................................ 59 (V) VI Page A. GeneralÐContinued 4. LegislationÐContinued 3. H.R. 3166, the Federal Employees Health Care Free- dom of Choice Act ............................................................. 59 4. H.R. 2883, the Government Performance and Results Act Technical Amendments ............................................. 60 5. Cost Accounting Standards in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program ................................................. 63 6. S. 1364, the Federal Reports Elimination Act of 1998, Public Law 105±362 ......................................................... 64 7. H.R. 1057, a bill to designate the building in Indianap- olis, Indiana, which houses the operations of the Indi- anapolis Main Post Office as the Andrew Jacobs, Jr., Post Office Building ......................................................... 64 8. H.R. 1058, a bill to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service under construction at 150 West Mar- garet Drive in Terre Haute, Indiana, as the John T. Myers Post Office Building .............................................. 64 9. H.R. 3630, a bill to designate the facility of the U.S. Postal Service located at 9719 Candelaria Road, NE, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and known as the Eldo- rado Station Post Office as the Steve Schiff Post Of- fice ....................................................................................
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