[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 68 (Wednesday, May 15, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D476-D477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FUTURES MARKETS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine price levels and volatility in United 
States grain markets, after receiving testimony from John E. Tull, Jr., 
Acting Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Patrick H. 
Arbor, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago, Illinois; Michael Braude, 
Kansas City Board of Trade, Kansas City, Missouri; Kendell W. Keith, 
National Grain and Feed Association, Washington, D.C.; J. William 
Uhrig, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana; Roger G. Ginder, Iowa 
State University, Ames; and C. Richard Stark, Jr., Fort Dodge, Iowa.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIST/CENSUS BUREAU
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 the National Institute of Standards and Technology from Mary Lowe 
Good, Under Secretary for Technology, and Arati Prabhakar, Director, 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, and in behalf of funds 
for the Census Bureau from Everett M. Ehrlich, Under Secretary for 
Economic Affairs and Administrator, all of the Department of Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
STRIKE FIGHTER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed 
session to receive a briefing on the F-22, F-18 and Joint Strike 
Fighter Programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from 
Lt. Gen. George K. Muellner, Principal Deputy, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition); Vice Adm. John A. Lockard, 
Commander, Naval Air Systems Command; and Rear Adm. Craig E. Steidle, 
Director, Joint Advanced Strike Technology/Joint Strike Fighter 
Program, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RDA).
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 22.
APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1997 for the Department of the Interior, after receiving testimony 
from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior.
APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service 
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1997, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their 
respective activities from Frank Reeder, Director, and Jurg E. Hochuli, 
Associate Director of Financial Management Division, both of the Office 
of Administration, Executive Office of the President; and James B. 
King, Director, Office of Personnel Management.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 13.
NIGERIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings to review United States policy toward Nigeria, and 
on S. 1419, to impose sanctions against Nigeria, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Moseley-Braun; Representative Donald Payne; 
Peter Tarnoff, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Gay J. 
McDougall, International Human Rights Law Group, Pauline Baker, Fund 
for Peace, and David Miller, Corporate Council on Africa, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Jean Herskovits, State University of New York, 
Purchase.
RUSSIAN ORGANIZED CRIME
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the growing threat of and 
Federal and State efforts to combat Russian organized crime in America, 
receiving testimony from George Weise, Commissioner, United States 
Customs Service, and Edward L. Federico, Jr., Director, National 
Operations Division, Criminal Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, 
both of the Department of the Treasury; Jim E. Moody, Deputy Assistant 
Director, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; Igor Nikolayevich Kozhevnikov, 
Russian Ministry of Interior Affairs, Moscow; Daniel Mackey and Ralph 
Cefarello, both of the New York City Police Department, New York, New 
York; William Pollard, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 
California; Michael Franzese, an incarcerated witness; and certain 
anonymous witnesses.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1729, to 
further protect victims of stalking, the implementation and enforcement 
of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, and to discuss society's 
role in combatting domestic violence, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Hutchison; Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of Justice; 
Denise Brown, Nicole Brown Simpson Charitable Foundation, Dana Point, 
California; Beverly C. Dusso, Harriet Tubman Center, Inc., Minneapolis, 
Minnesota; John C. Nelson, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the 
American Medical Association; Kenneth J. Novack, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, 
Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, Boston, Massachusetts; Deborah E. Tjaden, Du 
Pont (E.I.) de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware; and Kathryn 
J. Rodgers, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, New York.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on 
proposals to amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide 
for a voluntary system of spending limits and partial public financing 
of Senate primary and general election campaigns, to limit 
contributions by multicandidate political committees, and to reform the 
financing of Federal elections and Senate campaigns, including sections 
102 and 103 of S. 1219, relating to free and reduced rate broadcast 
time in the general election to an eligible Senate candidate from 
broadcast stations within the State or an adjacent State, receiving 
testimony from Gregory M. Schmidt, LIN Television Corporation, 
Washington, D.C., and Al Bramstedt, Jr., KTUU-TV, Anchorage, Alaska, 
both on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters; Jan Ziska 
Crawford, Jan Crawford Communications, Paris, Virginia; Paul Taylor, 
Free TV for Straight Talk Coalition, Bethesda, Maryland; Benjamin R. 
Barber, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; P. Cameron 
DeVore, Davis White Tremaine Law Offices, Seattle, Washington; and 
Henry Geller, Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to 
consider pending intelligence matters.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
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 Gaines Norton and Charles James, both of Little Rock, 
Arkansas.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.