[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 9, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D711-D712]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and Judiciary approved for full Committee action the Commerce, Justice, 
State, and Judiciary appropriations for fiscal year 1997.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held a hearing on GAO Reports. Testimony was heard from Gregory M. 
Holloway, Director, Government Wide Audits, GAO.
TRAVEL REFORM AND SAVINGS ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on 
H.R. 3637, Travel Reform and Savings Act of 1996. Testimony was heard 
from Jack L. Brock, Jr., Director, Information Resources Management/
General Government Issues, Accounting and Information Division, GAO; 
John Hamre, Comptroller, Department of Defense; G. Martin Wagner, 
Associate Administrator, Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation, GSA; 
Donald K. Charney, Chief Financial Officer, AID, U.S. International 
Development Cooperation Agency; and a public witness.
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Rights held a hearing on International Broadcasting. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the USIA: Joseph D. 
Duffey, Director; and Geoffrey Cowan, Director, Voice of America; David 
W. Burke, Chairman, Broadcasting Board of Governors; Kevin Klose, 
President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; and Richard Richter, 
President, Asia Pacific Network.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and 
Lands held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 3155, to amend the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Wekiva River, Seminole 
Creek, and Rock Springs Run in the State of Florida for study and 
potential addition to the national wild and scenic rivers system; H.R. 
3568, to designate 51.7 miles of the Clarion River, located in 
Pennsylvania, as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System; and H.R. 3405, Sudbury, Assabet and Concord Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act. Testimony was heard from Representative Clinger; Denis P. 
Galvin, Associate Director, Planning and Development, National Park 
Service. Department of the Interior; Gray Reynolds, Deputy Chief, 
Forest Service, USDA; and public witnesses.
LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, an open rule providing 2 
hours of debate on H.R. 3755, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for the

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fiscal year ending September 30, 1997. The rule waives clause 2(l)(6) 
of rule XI (3 day availability of committee reports), clause 7 of rule 
XXI (3 day availability of printed hearings), or section 302 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (prohibiting consideration of 
legislation which exceeds a committee's allocation of new entitlement 
authority), or section 308 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
(requiring a cost estimate in committee report on new entitlement 
authority) against consideration of the bill. The rule waives clause 2 
of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations and legislation on 
general appropriations bills) and clause 6 of rule XXI (prohibiting 
reappropriations) against provisions in the bill.
  The rule provides for priority in recognition for those amendments 
that are pre-printed in the Congressional Record. The rule allows the 
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole to postpone votes during 
consideration of the bill, and to reduce voting time to 5 minutes on a 
postponed question if the vote follows a 15 minute vote. The rule 
provides that a motion to rise and report the bill to the House with 
such amendments as may have been adopted shall have precedence over a 
motion to amend, if offered by the Majority Leader or a designee after 
the reading of the final lines of the bill. Finally, the rule provides 
one motion to recommit, with or without instructions. Testimony was 
heard from Representatives Porter, Campbell, and Obey.
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a modified closed rule 
providing 1 hour of debate on H.R. 3754, making appropriations for the 
Legislative Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997. The 
rule waives clause 2(l)(6) of rule XI (3 day availability of reports), 
clause 7 of rule XXI (3 days availability of printed hearings), or 
section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (prohibiting 
consideration of legislation which exceeds a committee's allocation of 
new entitlement authority) or section 308 of the Congressional Budget 
Act of 1974 (requiring a cost estimate in committee report on new 
entitlement authority) against consideration of the bill. The rule 
waives clause 2 of rule XXI (prohibiting unauthorized appropriations 
and legislation on general appropriations bills) and clause 6 of rule 
XXI (prohibiting reappropriations) against the bill.
  The rule makes in order only the amendments printed in the report on 
the rule, to be offered only in the order printed, by the Member 
specified, and debatable for the time specified in the report. The 
amendments are considered as read and are not subject to amendments 
except as specified in the report or a demand for a division of the 
question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. All points of 
order are waived against the amendments. The rule provides that the 
Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone records votes on 
any amendment and that the chairman may reduce voting time on postponed 
questions to 5 minutes, provided that the vote immediately follows 
another recorded vote and that the voting time on the first in a series 
of votes is not less than 15 minutes. Finally, the rule provides one 
motion to recommit, with or without instructions. Testimony was heard 
from Representatives Packard, Campbell, Smith of Michigan, Gutknecht, 
Souder, Fazio, and Thornton.
NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAM
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a hearing on National Reconnaissance Program. Testimony was heard 
from departmental witnesses.