[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 26, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D675-D678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PUHCA REPEAL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 
1317, to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 
establish a limited regulatory framework covering public utility 
holding companies, and eliminate duplicative regulation.
COMMERCE ONLINE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space resumed hearings on S. 1726, to promote 
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commerce by facilitating the use of privacy-enhancing technologies, 
receiving testimony from Representative Goodlatte; Philip Zimmermann, 
Pretty Good Privacy, Boulder, Colorado; Whitfield Diffie, Sun 
Microsystems Computer Company, Mountain View, California; Philip Karn, 
Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, California; Marc Rotenberg, Electronic 
Privacy Information Center, and Jerry Berman, Center for Democracy and 
Technology, both of Washington, D.C.; Matthew Blaze, AT&T Research, 
Murray Hill, New Jersey; and Barbara Simons, IBM-Santa Teresa 
Laboratories, and Robert G. Gargus, Atalla Corporation, both of San 
Jose, California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. TERRITORY ASSISTANCE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1804, to make technical and other changes to the laws dealing 
with the territories and freely associated states of the United States, 
after receiving testimony from Representative Underwood; Allen P. 
Stayman, Director, Office of Insular Affairs, Department of the 
Interior; Seth P. Waxman, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and T. 
Alexander Aleinikoff, Executive Associate Commissioner, Immigration and 
Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice; John R. 
Fraser, Deputy Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of 
Labor; Paul J. Seligman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Studies, 
and Martin Blume, Deputy Director, Brookhaven National Laboratory, both 
of the Department of Energy; Virgin Islands Governor Roy L. Schneider, 
Charlotte Amalie; Virgin Islands Delegate Victor Frazer and Virgin 
Islands Lieutenant Governor Kenneth E. Mapp, both of St. Croix; Guam 
Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez, Agana; Jesse B. Marehalau, on behalf of 
the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia, Banny deBrum, on 
behalf of the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Juan 
N. Babauta, on behalf of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, all of Washington, D.C.; Bikini Senator Henchi Balos, and 
Nitijela Senator Ismael John, both of Majuro, Marshall Islands; 
Sebastian Aloot and Samuel F. McPhetres, both on behalf of the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan; and Mark L. 
Pollot, Boise, Idaho.
INDIAN LAND CLAIMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1889, to authorize the exchange of certain lands conveyed to the 
Kenai Natives Association pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, and to make adjustments to the National Wilderness 
System, after receiving testimony from Robert Shallenberger, Chief, 
Division of Refuges, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, and W. 
Hord Tipton, Assistant Director for Resource Use and Protection, Bureau 
of Land Management, both of the Department of the Interior; and Diana 
L. Zirul, Kenai Natives Association, Inc., Kenai, Alaska.
BUDGET RECONCILIATION: WELFARE AND MEDICAID REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee completed its review of certain 
spending reductions and revenue increases with regard to welfare and 
Medicaid reform to meet reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. 
Con. Res. 178, establishing the congressional budget for the United 
States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate 
budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and 
agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee 
on the Budget.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  The International Natural Rubber Agreement, 1995, done at Geneva on 
February 17, 1995 (Treaty Doc. 104-27), with one declaration;
  The Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United 
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December, 1982 Relating 
to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly 
Migratory Fish Stocks, with annexes (Treaty Doc. 104-24), with one 
declaration;
  H.R. 2070, to provide for the distribution within the United States 
of the United States Information Agency film entitled ``Fragile Ring of 
Life'';
  H.R. 3121, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms 
Export Control Act to make improvements to certain defense and security 
assistance provisions under those Acts, and to authorize the transfer 
of naval vessels to certain foreign countries, with amendments;
  H. Con. Res. 160, congratulating the people of the Republic of Sierra 
Leone on the success of their recent democratic multiparty elections;
  An original resolution (S. Res. 271) expressing the sense of the 
Senate with respect to the international obligation of the People's 
Republic of China to allow an elected legislature in Hong Kong after 
June 30, 1997; and
  The nominations of Leslie M. Alexander of Florida, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Ecuador, Avis T. Bohlen, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bulgaria, Wendy Jean 
Chamberlin, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Lao People's 
Democratic Republic, James Francis Creagan, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Honduras, Harold W. Geisel, of Illinois, 
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serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to 
the Republic of Seychelles, Lino Gutierrez, of Florida, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua, John F. Hicks, Sr., of North 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea, Thomas C. Hubbard, 
of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines and 
to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador 
to the Republic of Palau, Dennis C. Jett, of New Mexico, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, John Christian Kornblum, of 
Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian 
Affairs, Madeleine May Kunin, of Vermont, to be Ambassador to 
Switzerland, Barbara Mills Larkin, of North Carolina, to be Assistant 
Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, Marisa R. Lino, of Oregon, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Albania, Gerald S. McGowan, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas 
Private Investment Corporation, Alan R. McKee, of Maryland, to be 
Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr., of Texas, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, Donald J. Planty, of New 
York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guatemala, Glen Robert Rase, 
of Florida, to be Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam, Arlene Render, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, A. Vernon Weaver, 
of Arkansas, to be the Representative of the United States to the 
European Union, with the rank and status of Ambassador; and three 
Foreign Service Officers' Promotion lists.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs continued hearings to examine prospects for peace in 
Afghanistan, receiving testimony from Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, Embassy 
of Pakistan; Ambassador Halil Ugur, Embassy of Turkmenistan; Anwar 
Ahady, Afghan Social Democratic Party, North Providence, Rhode Island; 
Rawan Farhadi, United Nations Ambassador of Afghanistan, and Mohammed 
Andkhoie, National Islamic Movement, both of New York, New York; Martin 
F. Miller, UNOCAL, Houston, Texas; Rona Popal, Afghan Women's 
Association Int'l, Hayward, California; Nasir Shansab, Democracy 
International, Herndon, Virginia; Bashir A. Zikria, Columbia University 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Norwood, New Jersey; M. Hassan 
Nouri, Council of Cooperation for Afghan National Organizations, Laguna 
Hills, California; Zieba Shorish-Shamley, Association for Peace and 
Democracy for Afghanistan, and Sara Amiryar, Council for Cooperation 
for Afghan National Organizations, both of Washington, D.C.; Omar 
Samad, Afghanistan Information Center, and Suraya Sadeed, Help the 
Afghan Children, Inc., both of Arlington, Virginia; Nake M. Kamrany, 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Mohammad 
Aman, Society of Afghan Engineers, Clifton, Virginia; Syed Ishaq 
Gailani, Council for Understanding and National Unity of Afghanistan, 
Naim Majrooh, Afghan Information Center, and Abdul Haq, all of 
Peshawar, Pakistan; Zaid Haidary, RDA Associates, Islamabad, Pakistan; 
Seema Samar, Hezbi-Wahdat, Quetta, Pakistan; Tawab Assifi, Orange, 
California; Kurt Lohbeck, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mohammad Sharif 
Faiz, Herat, Afghanistan.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE REOPENING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. Res. 
254, to express the sense of the Senate that the President should order 
the immediate permanent reopening to vehicular traffic of Pennsylvania 
Avenue in front of the White House, restoring the Avenue to its 
original state, receiving testimony from Senator Grams; Representative 
Norton; Eljay B. Bowron, Director, United States Secret Service, 
Department of the Treasury; Gary L. Abrecht, Chief, United States 
Capitol Police; Larry King, Director, District of Columbia Department 
of Public Works; John J. Strauchs, Systech Group, Inc., Reston, 
Virginia; and Arthur Cotton Moore, Arthur Cotton Moore and Associates, 
on behalf of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, and J. Bruce 
Brown, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1221, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 2000 for 
the Legal Services Corporation;
  S. 1400, to require the Secretary of Labor to issue guidance as to 
the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 
to insurance company general accounts, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute; and
  The nominations of Victor H. Ashe, of Tennessee, to be a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community 
Service, Reginald Earl Jones, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Equal 
Employment Opportunity Commission, Levar Burton, of California, to be a 
Member of the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, 
Luis Valdez, of California, to be a Member of the National Council on 
the Arts, and Doris B. Holleb, of Illinois, to be a Member of the 
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Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, Alan G. Lowry, of 
California, to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the James 
Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, Reynaldo F. Macias, of 
California, and Marciene S. Mattleman, of Pennsylvania, each to be a 
Member of the National Institute for Literacy Advisory Board, and two 
lists for the regular corps of the Public Health Service.
FEC AUTHORIZATION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for the 
Federal Election Commission, and 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, receiving testimony from Lee 
Ann Elliott, Chairman, and Scott E. Thomas, Chairman, and Joan D. 
Aikens, Vice Chairman, both of the Finance Committee, all of the 
Federal Election Commission; and Becky Cain, St. Albans, West Virginia, 
on behalf of the League of Women Voters of the United States.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
INDIAN CHILD WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to 
reform the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, focusing on the adoption 
process of Indian children, receiving testimony from Senator Glenn; 
Representatives Faleomavaega, Geren, Pryce, Solomon, and Don Young; 
Seth P. Waxman, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of 
Justice; Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Deborah J. Doxtator, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, 
Oneida; Mary V. Thomas, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; 
W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington State, Sequim, on 
behalf of the National Congress of American Indians; Michael J. 
Walleri, Tanana Chiefs Conference, Inc., Fairbanks, Alaska; Marc 
Gradstein, Burlingame, California; and Jane A. Gorman, Tustin, 
California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.