[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 175 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1315-D1316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management held hearings on S. 590, to compensate a named 
individual for alleged losses incurred on a claim for a placer mine 
near the Frank Church wilderness area on the Middle Fork of the Salmon 
River in Idaho, S. 985, to provide for the exchange of certain lands in 
Gilpin County, Colorado, S. 1196, to transfer certain National Forest 
System lands adjacent to the Townsite of Cuprum, Idaho, and S. 1371, to 
provide for the exchange to the Sun Valley Company certain National 
Forest System lands adjacent to the Snowbasin Ski Resort in Salt Lake 
City, Utah to facilitate certain events at the 2002 Winter Olympics, 
receiving testimony from former Senator Garn; Gray F. Reynolds, Deputy 
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Wallace Huffman, Sun 
Valley Company, Sun Valley, Idaho; and G. Frank Joklik, Salt Lake 
Olympic Organizing Committee, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of Phillip A. Singerman, of Pennsylvania, to be 
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, and 

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Rear Adm. John Carter Albright, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Singerman was introduced by Senators Santorum and 
Lieberman.
CONTINGENCY FEE ABUSES
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
contingency fee abuses and their effect on the tort system, receiving 
testimony from William Fry, Helping to Abolish Legal Tyranny (HALT), 
and Richard Vuernick, Citizen Action, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Herbert M. Kritzer, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN LANDS/AMERICAN INDIAN POLICY INFORMATION CENTER
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
an amendment, S. 1341, to provide for the transfer of certain lands to 
the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and the city of 
Scottsdale, Arizona.
  Also, committee concluded hearings on S. 1159, authorizing funds for 
fiscal years 1996 through 2000 to establish an American Indian Policy 
Information Center to provide for a centralized source of information 
and data to aid in developing Indian policy and to provide certain 
information to tribes, after receiving testimony from Ada E. Deer, 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Gary Kimble, 
Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Administration for 
Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; W. Ron 
Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington, on behalf of the 
National Indian Policy Center; John Sunchild, Sr., Chippewa Cree Tribe 
of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, Box Elder, Montana; Alvino 
Lucero, Pueblo of Isleta, Isleta, New Mexico; Charles Gourd, Cherokee 
Nation of Oklahoma, Tahlequah; Roy Bernal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and 
Regis Pecos, Cochiti Pueblo, Cochiti, New Mexico, both on behalf of the 
All Indian Pueblo Council; and Charles Blackwell, Chickasaw Nation, 
Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate Whitewater Development Corporation and 
Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine certain issues 
relative to the President's involvement with the Whitewater Development 
Corporation, receiving testimony from Lloyd Bentsen, former Secretary 
of the Treasury; and John J. Adair, Inspector General, Patricia Black, 
Counsel, Steven A. Switzer, Deputy Inspector General, and Clark W. 
Blight, Assistant Inspector General for Investigation, all of the 
Resolution Trust Corporation.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.