[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 102 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D725-D726]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 3603, making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, 
Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, with amendments; and
  H.R. 3666, making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent 
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1997, with amendments.
ABSTINENCE EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held hearings on proposed funding levels for 
the Department of Health and Human Service's Adolescent Family Life 
Program and other abstinence education programs, receiving testimony 
from William Devlin, Philadelphia Family Policy Council, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; Allan Carlson, Rockford, Illinois; Kathleen Sullivan, 
Project Reality, Glenview, Illinois; David Hager, Women's Care Center, 
Lexington, Kentucky; and Gracie Hsu, Family Research Council, 
Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, July 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--SECRETARY OF SENATE/SERGEANT AT ARMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate; and Howard 
O. Greene, Sergeant At Arms.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for energy and water development for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1997.
ATM FEES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1800, to limit fees charged by financial institutions 
for the use of automatic teller machines, after receiving testimony 
from Janice C. Shields, on behalf of the Consumer Finance Project, and 
Edmund Mierzwinski, both of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, 
and Robert R. Davis, America's Community Bankers, all of Washington, 
D.C.; Paul Green, Massachusetts Cooperative Bank of Dorchester, on 
behalf of the Community Bank League of New England; Patrick G. Calhoun, 
State Employees Federal Credit Union, Albany, New York, on behalf of 
the New York State Credit Union League; Phillip Hudson, First Security 
Service Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the American 
Bankers Association; Thomas J. Sheehan, Grafton State Bank, Grafton, 
Wisconsin, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; 
David W. Black, Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., Dallas, Texas; and 
Neil Marcous, EDS, Morris Plains, New Jersey.

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PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to review the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
recently issued electric utility restructuring rules to require open 
access transmission by all public utilities and to provide for recovery 
of stranded costs to foster wholesale competition, after receiving 
testimony from Elizabeth A. Moler, Chair, and Vicky A. Bailey, James J. 
Hoecker, William L. Massey, and Donald F. Santa, Jr., each a 
Commissioner, all of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Cheryl 
L. Parrino, Wisconsin Public Service Commission, Madison, on behalf of 
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Craig A. 
Glazer, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Columbus; Susan F. Clark, 
Florida Public Service Commission, Tallahassee; Wayne Shirley, New 
Mexico Public Utility Commission, Santa Fe; Charles A. Falcone, 
American Electric Power Company, on behalf of the Edison Electric 
Institute, David W. Penn, American Public Power Association, and John 
A. Anderson, Electricity Consumers Resources Council, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Steven D. Burton, Sithe/Energies Group, New York, 
New York, on behalf of the National Independent Energy Producers.
BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA ACCESS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forest and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1738, to provide for 
improved access to and use of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness 
along the Minnesota and Ontario border, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Feingold and Harkin; Representatives Vento and Oberstar; Gray 
Reynolds, Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, 
Department of Agriculture; John Calhoun Wells, Director, and Maureen 
Labenski, Regional Director, both of the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service; Minnesota State Senator Douglas J. Johnson, Cook; 
Sharon Hahn, Lake County Board of Commissioners, Two Harbors, 
Minnesota; Mayor Ed Steklasa, and Gary Gotchnik, both of Ely, 
Minnesota; Minnesota State Representative Dee Long, Kevin Proescholdt, 
Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, and Becky Rom, Wilderness 
Society, all of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Wisconsin State Representative 
Spencer Black, Madison; Iowa State Representative William Witt, Cedar 
Falls; Bruce Kerfoot, Grand Marais, Minnesota, on behalf of the 
Gunflint Trail Resort Association, Gunflint Trail Outfitters 
Association, and the Professional Paddlesports Association of America; 
and William Hansen, Sawbill Canoe Outfitters, Inc., Tofte, Minnesota.
WOMEN IN AFRICA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine the emerging role of women in Africa, 
focusing on barriers to their full participation in their rapidly 
changing societies, after receiving testimony from Prudence Bushnell, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, and Judith Ann Mayotte, 
Special Advisor on Refugee Policy, Bureau of Population, Refugees and 
Migration, both of the Department of State; Carol Peasley, Senior 
Deputy Assistant Administrator/Bureau for Africa, Agency for 
International Development; Michaela Walsh, Women's Asset Management, 
New York, New York; and Lisa VeneKlasen, Center for Population and 
Development Activities, and Jane Wanjiro Muigai, International Human 
Rights Law Group, both of Washington, D.C.
DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 1740, to 
defend and protect the institution of marriage, receiving testimony 
from Senator Nickles; Lynn Wardle, Brigham Young University, Provo, 
Utah; Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, 
Illinois; Mitzi Henderson, Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and 
Gays (PFLAG), Menlo Park, California; Gary Bauer, Family Research 
Council, Washington, D.C.; and David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of 
America, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to the call.