[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D690-D691]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[D27JN6-B83]D690 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN OPERATIONS
[D27JN6-B84]D690 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute, H.R. 3540, making appropriations 
for foreign operations, export financing, and related programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
[D27JN6-B85]D690 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
[D27JN6-B86]D690 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on District of Columbia held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the 
government of the District of Columbia, focusing on the District of Columbia 
public school system, receiving testimony from Karen Shook, President, Jay 
Silberman, Member At Large, Franklin L. Smith, Superintendent of Schools, 
and Shelia Handy, Deputy Superintendent for Educational Accountability, 
Assessment, and Information, all of the District of Columbia Board of 
Education; and Christopher Cross, Council for Basic Education, Roberts 
Jones, National Alliance of Business, and Mark Root, Tech Corps, all of 
Washington, D.C.
[D27JN6-B87]D690 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
[D27JN6-B88]D690 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
[D27JN6-B89]D690 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1997 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, receiving 
testimony from Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug 
Control Policy.
[D27JN6-B90]D690 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
[D27JN6-B91]D690 NOMINATION
NOMINATIONS
[D27JN6-B92]D690 Committee
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 983 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
[D27JN6-B93]D690 FEDERAL AS
FEDERAL ASSISTED HOUSING
[D27JN6-B94]D690 Committee
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing 
Opportunity and Community Development concluded hearings on a proposal to 
restructure the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Federal 
Housing Administration insured and assisted multifamily housing portfolio 
that receives project-based rental assistance, after receiving testimony 
from Nicolas Retsinas, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner; Patricia J. Payne, Maryland State 
Department of Housing and Community Development, Crownsville, Maryland, on 
behalf of the National Council of State Housing Agencies; John K. McIlwain, 
National Housing Conference, and Benson F. Roberts, Local Initiatives 
Support Corporation, both of Chevy Chase, Maryland; Eugene F. Ford, Mid-City 
Financial Corporation, and Michael Bodaken, National Housing Trust, both of 
Bethesda, Maryland; John J. Koelemij, Tallahassee, Florida, on behalf of the 
National Association of Home Builders; and Billy Easton, New York State 
Tenants and Neighbors Coalition, Albany.
[D27JN6-B95]D690 FEDERAL LA
FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT
[D27JN6-B96]D690 Committee
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on proposals to 
improve the management and organization of Federal natural resources and 
environmental functions, receiving testimony from Senator Craig; Michael 
Gryszkowiec, Director of Planning and Reporting, and Charles S. Cotton, 
Assistant Director, and Chester Joy, Senior Evaluator, both of Energy, 
Resources and Science Issues, all of the Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, and Susan Irving, Associate Director, Budget Issues, 
Accounting Information Management Division, all of the General Accounting 
Office; Alan L. Dean, National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, 
D.C.; and Robert H. Nelson, University of Maryland, College Park, on behalf 
of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
[D27JN6-B97]D690 Hearings w
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
[D27JN6-B98]D690 NOMINATION
NOMINATIONS
[D27JN6-B99]D690 Committee
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Arthur Gajarsa, of Maryland, to be United States Circuit 
Judge for the Federal Circuit, Joan B. Gottschall to be United States 
District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Robert L. Hinkle, to 
be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Florida, 
Lawrence E. Kahn, to be United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of New York, Margaret M. Morrow, to be United States District Judge 
for the Central District of California, and Frank R. Zapata, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of Arizona.
[D27JN6-B100]D691 CHURCH BUR

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CHURCH BURNINGS
[D27JN6-B101]D691 Committee
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the Federal 
response to recent incidents of church burnings in predominantly black 
churches across the South, after receiving testimony from Senators Faircloth 
and Kennedy; Deval L. Patrick, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, 
Department of Justice, and James E. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement, Department of the Treasury, both on behalf of the National 
Church Arson Task Force; Mac Charles Jones, National Council of Churches, 
New York, New York; Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Christian Coalition, Chesapeake, 
Virginia; and Jonathan Monzan, Manning, South Carolina.