[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 90 (Tuesday, June 18, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D626-D627]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LIVESTOCK MARKET
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on 
Research, Nutrition, and General Legislation concluded hearings to 
examine current cattle market developments, focusing on recent reports 
issued by a Department of Agriculture Advisory Committee to investigate 
market concentration (a condition in which a few firms possess a large 
share) in the agriculture industry, and pricing and procurement methods 
currently used by major meatpackers, and Administration initiatives to 
provide feed assistance and stabilize cattle markets, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Burns and Thomas; Michael V. Dunn, Assistant 
Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; J. 
Patrick Boyle, American Meat Institute, Arlington, Virginia; George 
Swan, Rogerson, Idaho, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef 
Association; Wayne D. Purcell, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg; 
and Carl Jensen, Iowa Cattlemen's Association, Everly.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
on H.R. 3610, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, after receiving testimony 
from numerous public witnesses.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 3540, 
making appropriations for foreign operations, export financing, and 
related programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
APPROPRIATIONS--NIH
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 National Institutes of 
Health, receiving testimony from Harold Varmus, Director, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, who was 
accompanied by several of his associates.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, July 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction 
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 3517, 
making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and 
base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the Federal Communications Commission 
implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, after receiving 
testimony from Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, and James H. Quello, Susan 
Ness, and Rachelle B. Chong, each a Commissioner, all of the Federal 
Communications Commission; Kenneth McClure, Missouri Public Service 
Commission, and Martha S. Hogerty, Missouri Office of the Public 
Counsel, both of Jefferson City; Laska Schoenfelder, South Dakota 
Public Utilities Commission, Pierre; Sharon L. Nelson, Washington 
Utilities and Transportation Commission, Olympia; and Julia Johnson, 
Florida Public Service Commission, Tallahassee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began markup of 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, S. 1636, to designate the United 
States Courthouse under construction at 1030 Southwest 3rd Avenue, 
Portland, Oregon, as the ``Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse'', 
H.R. 3364, to designate the Federal building and United Sates 
courthouse located at 235 North Washington Avenue in Scranton, 
Pennsylvania, as the ``William J. Nealon Federal Building and United 
States Courthouse'', H.R. 1772, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior to acquire certain interests in the Waihee Marsh for inclusion 
in the Oahu National Wildlife Refuge Complex, H.R. 2660, to increase 
the amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the 
Interior for the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana, 
H.R. 2679, to revise the boundary of the North Platte National Wildlife 
Refuge in Nebraska, H.R. 2982, to direct the Secretary of the Interior 
to convey the Carbon Hill National Fish Hatchery to the State of 
Alabama, S. 1802, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 
certain property containing a fish and wildlife facility to the State 
of Wyoming, and S. 1871, to expand the Pettaquamscutt Cove National 
Wildlife Refuge in

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Rhode Island, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject 
to call.
FEDERAL WITNESS SECURITY PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the effectiveness of the Department of Justice witness security program 
created under the Organized Crime Act of 1970 to protect witnesses who 
testify against traditional organized crime figures, after receiving 
testimony from John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney General, 
Criminal Division, Eugene L. Coon, Jr., Acting Assistant Director, 
United States Marshals Service, Patrick H. Nemoyer, United States 
Attorney for the Western District of New York, and Peter M. Carlson, 
Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, all of the Department of 
Justice; Steven P. Wood, Delaware Deputy Attorney General, and Alisa 
Pennington, both of Wilmington, Delaware; James Peter Basile and George 
Taylor, both former program participants; and a current program 
participant.
ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine the role of the Federal Depository Library Program of the 
Government Printing Office in ensuring public access to Government 
information, receiving testimony from Wayne P. Kelley, Superintendent 
of Documents, Government Printing Office; Daniel P. O'Mahony, Brown 
University Library, Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the Federal 
Depository Library Council; Betty J. Turock, Rutgers University, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey, on behalf of the American Library Association, 
American Association of Law Libraries, Association of Research 
Libraries, and the Special Libraries Association; and Christie D. 
Vernon, Yorktown, Virginia.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.