[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D36-D37]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
CLEAN AIR ACT--MONTREAL PROTOCOL IMPACT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment held a 
hearing on the Implementation and Enforcement of the Clean Air Act 
Amendments of 1990, focusing on Title VI and the Impact of the Seventh 
Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol. Testimony was heard 
from Rafe Pomerance, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Environment and 
Development, Department of State; Larry Elworth, Special Assistant 
Pesticide Policy Natural Resources and Environment, USDA; and Mary D. 
Nichols, Assistant Administrator, Air and Radiation, EPA.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held a hearing on the 
Growing Threat of International Organized Crime. Testimony was heard 
from Jim E. Moody, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative 
Division, FBI, Department of Justice; and public witnesses.
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC CAPABILITIES
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Research and 
Development, the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the 
Committee on Science and the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and 
Oceans of the Committee on Resources held a joint hearing on leveraging 
national oceanographic capabilities. Testimony was heard from Neal F. 
Lane, Director, NSF; James Baker, Administrator, NOAA, Department of 
Commerce; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, 
Department of the Navy; RAdm. Paul G. Gaffney, II, USN, Commander, 
Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Command, Stennis Space Center, 
NASA; Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences; and 
public witnesses.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to 
consider pending business.

Joint Meetings
POSTAL SERVICE REFORM
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs' Subcommittee 
on Post Office and Civil Service and House Committee on Government 
Reform 

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and Oversight's Subcommittee on Postal Service concluded joint hearings 
on reforming the future operation of the United States Postal Service, 
focusing on the restructuring of certain international postal 
administrations, after receiving testimony from Michael E. Motley, 
Associate Director, and James T. Campbell, Assistant Director, both for 
Government Business Operations Issues, General Government Division, 
General Accounting Office; Graeme T. John, Australian Postal 
Corporation, Canberra; Georges Clermont, Canada Post Corporation, 
Ottawa; Elmar Toime, New Zealand Post Limited, Wellington; Ulf Dahlsten 
and Tommy Persson, both of the Sweden Post AB (Ltd), Stockholm; and 
James A. Waddell and David E. Treworgy, both of Price Waterhouse LLP, 
Arlington, Virginia.