[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 35 (Thursday, March 14, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D199-D200]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the Department 
of Defense and the future years defense program, receiving testimony 
from Shelia E. Widnall, Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Ronald R. 
Fogleman, Chief of Air Force Staff.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19.
MILITARY READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings to 
examine current and future military readiness as the Armed Forces 
prepare for the 21st Century, receiving testimony from Gen. Dennis J. 
Reimer, USA, Chief of Army Staff; Adm. Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of 
Naval Operations; Gen. Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, Chief of Air Force 
Staff; and Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC, Commandant of the Marine 
Corps.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 21.
IMPACT OF SPECTRUM ESTIMATES ON BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
budgetary and economic implications of certain proposals to auction the 
electromagnetic radio frequency spectrum, focusing on the current plan 
at the Federal Communications Commission to manage a transition from 
existing broadcast television technology to a new technology, after 
receiving testimony from David H. Moore, Senior Analyst, Natural 
Resources and Commerce Division, Congressional Budget Office; Larry 
Irving, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and 
Information; Mike Burgess, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Howard 
Shrier, Nebraska Broadcasters Association, Lincoln; Jerry A. Hausman, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Tom Hazlett, 
University of California, Davis, on behalf of the American Enterprise 
Institute.
INTERNATIONAL AVIATION RELATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation held hearings to examine United States policy with regard to 
international aviation relations, receiving testimony from Charles A. 
Hunnicutt, Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Aviation, 
and Patrick Murphy, Deputy

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Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, both of the 
Department of Transportation; John Anderson, Director, Transportation 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Frederick W. Smith, Federal Express 
Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee; Dan Kasper, Coopers & Lybrand, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Joseph Schwieterman, Chaddick Aviation Institute/
DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RIGHT-OF-WAY CLAIMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1425, to recognize the validity of rights-of-way for the 
construction of highways over public lands, not reserved for public 
uses, granted under section 2477 of the Revised Statutes, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Stevens; John D. Leshy, Solicitor, 
Department of the Interior; Alaska Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth 
J. Barry, and Alaska State Senator Loren Leman, both of Juneau; Chip 
Dennerlien, National Parks and Conservation Association, Anchorage, 
Alaska; Scott Groene, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, Cedar City; 
and Barbara Hjelle, Washington County, Utah.
WETLAND MITIGATION BANKING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine basic concepts underlying wetland 
mitigation banking, current practice and trends, Administration's 
recent Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of 
Mitigation Banks, and related proposals, including H.R. 961, Clean 
Water Amendments/Comprehensive Wetlands Conservation and Management 
Act, after receiving testimony from H. Martin Lancaster, Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Robert Perciasepe, Assistant 
Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas R. 
Hebert, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and 
the Environment; John R. Dorney, North Carolina Department of 
Environment, Health and Natural Resources, Raleigh; Steve Gordon, Lane 
Council of Governments, Eugene, Oregon; John H. Ryan, Land and Water 
Resources, Inc., Rosemont, Illinois; Denver J. Stutler, Jr., ECOBANK, 
Winterpark, Florida; Robert D. Sokolove, U.S. Wetland Services, Inc., 
Bethesda, Maryland; William J. Mitsch, Ohio State University, and 
Charles J. Ruma, on behalf of the National Association of Home 
Builders, both of Columbus, Ohio; Leonard Shabman, Virginia Water 
Resources Research Center/Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; Jan Goldman-
Carter, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C.; and Curtis C. 
Bohlen, Center for Estuarine and Environmental Studies/University of 
Maryland, Solomons, Maryland.
POSTAL SERVICE REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Post Office and 
Civil Service held hearings on proposals to reform the United States 
Postal Service, receiving testimony from Ian D. Volner, Advertising 
Mail Marketing Association, John F. Sturm, Newspaper Association of 
America, and Tonda F. Rush, National Newspaper Association, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Cary Baer, Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 
Pleasantville, New York, Christopher McCormick, L.L. Bean, Inc., 
Freeport, Maine, and Jonah Gitlitz, Washington, D.C., all on behalf of 
the Direct Marketing Association; Hamilton Davison, Paramount Cards, 
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Jack Mayer, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, 
Missouri, and Jeff Weiss, American Greetings Corporation, Cleveland, 
Ohio, all on behalf of the Greeting Card Association; and Timothy J. 
May, Patton, Boggs, and Blow, Washington, D.C., M. Jerome Jensen, Jr., 
Fingerhut Companies, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Chris Rebello, 
Current, Inc., Colorado Springs, Colorado, all on behalf of the Parcel 
Shippers Association.
  Hearings continue on Monday, March 18.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued markup of S. 269, to 
increase control over immigration to the United States by increasing 
border patrol and investigator personnel, improving the verification 
system for employer sanctions, increasing penalties for alien smuggling 
and for document fraud, reforming asylum, exclusion, and deportation 
law and procedures, instituting a land border user fee, and reducing 
the use of welfare by aliens, and S. 1394, to reform the legal 
immigration of immigrants and nonimmigrants to the United States, but 
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, 
March 20.