[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 4, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D559]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on the chemical demilitarization program, receiving 
testimony from Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary of 
Defense (Atomic Energy); Theodore Prociv, Deputy Assistant to the 
Secretary of Defense (Chemical/Biological Matters); Maj. Gen. Robert D. 
Orton, Program Manager, Chemical Demilitarization, Office of Assistant 
Secretary of the Army (Research, Development, and Acquisition); and 
Richard Magee, Chairman, Subcommittee on Alternative Technologies, 
National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
OIL SPILL PREVENTION AND RESPONSE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1730, to strengthen and improve provisions of the Oil Pollution 
Act of 1990, and to ensure that citizens and communities injured by oil 
spills are promptly and fully compensated, after receiving testimony 
from Rear Adm. James C. Card, Chief of Marine Safety and Environmental 
Protection, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation; Douglas K. 
Hall, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere/
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Douglas C. Wolcott, 
Chair, Committee on the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Section 4115) 
Implementation Review, National Research Council; Sidney H. Holbrook, 
Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, Hartford; Thomas A. 
Allegretti, American Waterways Operators, Arlington, Virginia; John 
Torgan, Save the Bay, Providence, Rhode Island; Richard Du Moulin, 
Marine Transport Lines, Inc., Secaucus, New Jersey, on behalf of the 
International Association of Independent Tanker Owners; George J. 
Savastano, Ocean City Department of Public Works, Ocean City, New 
Jersey; and Richard H. Hobbie, III, New York, New York, on behalf of 
the Water Quality Insurance Syndicate and the American Institute of 
Marine Underwriters.
ROMANIA MFN TRADE STATUS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings 
S. 1644, to authorize permanent extension of most-favored-nation trade 
status to Romania, receiving testimony from Senator Brown; 
Representatives Funderburk (former U.S. Ambassador to Romania), and 
Lantos; Marshall F. Adair, Deputy Assistant Secretary of European and 
Canadian Affairs, Department of State; Jeffrey M. Lang, Deputy United 
States Trade Representative; Martin M. Albanese, Lockheed Martin Ocean, 
Radar and Sensor Systems/Lockheed Martin Corporation, Syracuse, New 
York; Laszlo Hamos, Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, New York, New 
York; and Armand A. Scala, Congress of Romanian Americans, McLean, 
Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.N. WORLD CONFERENCES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the purpose and results of recent United Nations international 
conferences, after receiving testimony from Representative Christopher 
Smith; Timothy E. Wirth, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; 
Penny Nance, Concerned Women for America, and Suzanne Kindervatter, 
Commission on the Advancement of Women, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
Christine Vollmer, Latin American Alliance for the Family, Caracas, 
Venezuela.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1237, to 
revise certain provisions of law relating to child pornography, after 
receiving testimony from Kevin V. Di Gregory, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Jeffrey J. Dupilka, 
Deputy Chief Postal Inspector for Criminal Investigations, United 
States Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Postal Service; Dee Jepsen, 
Enough is Enough, and Bruce A. Taylor, National Law Center for Children 
and Families, both of Fairfax, Virginia; Frederick Schauer, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Judith F. Krug, American Library 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Victor Cline, University of Utah, 
Salt Lake City.