[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D449-D450]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INS/BUREAU OF PRISONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
the Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1997, receiving testimony in behalf of funds 
for their respective activities from Kathleen M. Hawk, Director, Bureau 
of Prisons, and Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Labor, 
receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--FTA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1997 for the Federal Transit Administration, receiving testimony from 
Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, 
Department of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 16.
1997 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget 
for the United States Government.
GASOLINE PRICE INCREASES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine recent supply shortfalls in crude oil and gasoline, their 
price impacts, the Administration's response, and long-term efforts to 
reduce future supply disruptions and price increases, after receiving 
testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; James R. 
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum 
Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; Lew Blackwell, 
Chevron Products Co., San Francisco, California; Thomas L. Robinson, 
Robinson Oil Company, Inc., San Jose, California, representing the 
Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the Petroleum 
Marketers Association of America; Robert S. Beadle, Diamond Shamrock, 
Inc., San Antonio, Texas; and Charles T. Walz, Texaco Refining and 
Marketing, Inc., Universal City, California.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service 
tax information system, receiving testimony from Lynda D. Willis, 
Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General Government 
Division, and Rona Stillman, Chief Scientist, Office of Computers and 
Telecommunications, Accounting and Information Management Division, 
both of the General Accounting Office; and Michael P. Dolan, Deputy 
Commissioner, Judy Van Alfen, Associate Commissioner for Modernization, 
and Jim Donelson, Chief Taxpayer Service and Acting Chief Compliance 
Officer, all of

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the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of William A. Fletcher, of California, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Walker D. Miller, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Colorado, Nina Gershon, to be 
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, 
Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the 
Southern District of Ohio, W. Craig Broadwater, to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, Mary Ann 
Vial Lemmon, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern 
District of Louisiana, and Dean D. Pregerson, to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and 
Families concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the 
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Dodd, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Family and Medical Leave; 
Geri D. Palast, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Congressional and 
Intergovernmental Affairs; Libby Sartain, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, 
Texas, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource Management; Cynthia 
Graham, Southern States Utilities, Apopka, Florida; and Elizabeth M. 
Carlson and Joseph Tully, both of National Futures Association, 
Chicago, Illinois.
FLORIDA INDIAN GAMING DECISION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the impact of the United States Supreme Court decision in Seminole 
Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 116 S. Ct. 1114 (1996), on the Indian 
Gaming Regulatory Act, after receiving testimony from Seth P. Waxman, 
Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; John D. 
Leshy, Solicitor, and John Duffy, Counselor to the Secretary, both of 
the Department of the Interior; Wisconsin State Attorney General James 
E. Doyle, Madison; California State Special Assistant Attorney General 
Thomas F. Gede, Sacramento; Alex Tallchief Skibine, University of Utah 
College of Law, Salt Lake City; Richard B. Collins, University of 
Colorado School of Law, Boulder; and Franklin Ducheneaux, Ducheneaux, 
Taylor & Associates, Douglas B.L. Endreson, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & 
Endreson, and Jerry C. Straus, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, all of 
Washington, D.C.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation 
and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine certain 
matters relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving 
testimony from Patsy Thomasson, Deputy Assistant to the President and 
Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, The White House; and J. 
Wesley Strange, First Ozark National Bank/Mercantile Bank of North 
Central Arkansas, Edward Penick, and Margaret Davenport Eldridge, all 
of Little Rock, Arkansas.
  Committee recessed subject to call.