[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 21, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D507-D508]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Brooksley Elizabeth Born, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Chairman, and David D. Spears, of Kansas, 
to be a Commissioner, both of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Spears was introduced by Senator Dole and Representative 
Roberts.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on international financial institutions, 
receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 23.
ROLE OF ABA IN JUDICIAL SELECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
role of the American Bar Association in the selection of Federal 
judges, after receiving testimony from Richard Thornburgh, former 
Attorney General of the United States; Judge Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, 
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Portland, Oregon; 
Judge John M. Walker, Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the 
Second Circuit, New York, New York; Daniel E. Troy, Wiley, Rein & 
Fielding, Washington, D.C.; Nancy L. Iredale, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky 
& Walker, Los Angeles, California; Daniel J. Meador, University of 
Virginia, Charlottesville, on behalf of the Miller Center Commission; 
and Roberta Cooper Ramo, Albuquerque, New Mexico, N. Lee Cooper, 
Birmingham, Alabama, and William E. Willis, Sullivan & Cromwell, New 
York, New York, all on behalf of the American Bar Association.
VOLUNTARY ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on S. 582, to provide that certain 
voluntary disclosures of violations of Federal laws made pursuant to an 
environmental audit shall not be subject to discovery or admitted into 
evidence during a Federal

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judicial or administrative proceeding, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Hatfield and Brown; Steven A. Herman, Assistant Administrator, 
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Veronica Coleman, United States Attorney for the 
Western District of Tennessee, Memphis; Colorado State Senator Don 
Ament, on behalf of the American Legislative Exchange Council, and 
Patricia Bangert, Colorado Department of Law, both of Denver; Tom Gehl, 
Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin; John Riley, Texas Natural Resource 
Conservation Commission, Austin; Victor S. Johnson, Judicial District 
of Tennessee, Nashville, on behalf of the National District Attorney's 
Association; Jerry O. Richartz, Oregon Steel Mills, Inc., Portland; and 
Mark Woodall, Sierra Club, Woodland, Georgia.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on activities of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, after receiving testimony from former Senator Wofford, Chief 
Executive Officer, and Luise S. Jordan, Inspector General, both of the 
Corporation for National and Community Service; Lynn Thornton, Georgia 
Commission for National and Community Service, Atlanta; Michelle 
Engler, Michigan Community Service Commission, Lansing; Larry W. 
Albert, Arthur Andersen and Company, Washington, D.C.; Stephen M. 
Johnson, AmeriCares, New Canaan, Connecticut; Doug Bandow, Cato 
Institute, Springfield, Virginia; and Rev. Timothy R. Scully, 
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the 
Alliance for Catholic Education.
IRANIAN ARMS SHIPMENTS TO BOSNIA
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
United States policy with regard to Iranian and other arms transfers to 
Bosnia, receiving testimony from Richard Holbrooke, former Assistant 
Secretary of State.
  Hearings will continue on Thursday, May 23.