[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 105 (Wednesday, July 17, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D753-D755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS FRAUD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1009, to prohibit the fraudulent production, sale, 
transportation, or possession of fictitious items purporting to be 
valid financial instruments of the United States, foreign governments, 
States, political subdivisions, or private organizations, and to 
increase the penalties for counterfeiting violations, after receiving 
testimony from Michael C. Stenger, Special Agent in Charge, Financial 
Crimes Division, United States Secret Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Charles L. Owens, Section Chief, Criminal Investigative 
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
William R. McLucas, Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities 
and Exchange Commission; Herbert A. Biern, Deputy Associate Director, 
Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Board; 
George M. Donahue, New York County Assistant District Attorney, New 
York, New York; Albert M. Pennybacker, National Council of the Churches 
of Christ in the U.S.A., Washington, D.C.; Donald C. Bell, Salvation 
Army, Alexandria, Virginia; and Richard Furr, Central Carolina Bank and 
Trust Company, Durham, North Carolina.
FAA SAFETY OVERSIGHT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine Federal Aviation Administration safety procedures 
and certain issues relating to the Department of Transportation's 
oversight of the commercial airline ValuJet, receiving testimony from 
Federico Pena, Secretary, and David R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal 
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Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; A. Mary 
Schiavo, former Inspector General, Department of Transportation; and 
Lewis H. Jordan, ValuJet Airlines, Atlanta, Georgia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXTRADITION AND MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Extradition Treaty with Hungary (Treaty Doc. 104-5), the Extradition 
Treaty with Belgium (Treaty Doc. 104-7), the Supplementary Extradition 
Treaty with Belgium (Treaty Doc. 104-8), the Extradition Treaty with 
Switzerland (Treaty Doc. 104-9), the Extradition Treaty with the 
Philippines (Treaty Doc. 104-16), the Extradition Treaty with Bolivia 
(Treaty Doc. 104-22), the Extradition Treaty with Malaysia (Treaty Doc. 
104-26), the Treaty with the Republic of Korea on Mutual Legal 
Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 104-1), the Treaty with the 
United Kingdom on Mutual Legal Assistance on Criminal Matters (Treaty 
Doc. 104-2), the Treaty with the Philippines on Mutual Legal Assistance 
in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 104-18), the Treaty with Hungary on 
Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 104-20), and the 
Treaty with Austria on Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty 
Doc. 104-21), after receiving testimony from Jamison S. Borek, Deputy 
Legal Adviser, Department of State; and Mark M. Richard, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
NATIONAL FINE CENTER
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the status and role of the Administrative Office of United States 
Courts' National Fine Center in processing and tracking information to 
assist the Department of Justice in its criminal debt collection 
efforts, receiving testimony from Clarence A. Lee, Jr., Associate 
Director for Management and Operations, Administrative Office of the 
United States Courts; Debra Cohn, Special Counsel, Office of the Deputy 
Attorney General, Department of Justice; William Stanley Hawthorne, 
Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, McLean, Virginia; and David Beatty, 
National Victim Center, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management held oversight hearings on the implementation of 
the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, receiving 
testimony from Christopher Hoenig, Director, Information Resources 
Management Policies and Issues, Accounting and Information Management 
Division, General Accounting Office; John Koskinen, Deputy Director for 
Management, Office of Management and Budget; Emmett Paige, Jr., Chief 
Information Officer, Department of Defense; Steven M. Yohai, Chief 
Information Officer and Director, Office of Information Technology, 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; Joe M. Thompson, Chairman, 
Chief Information Officers Working Group, General Services 
Administration; Alan Hald, MicroAge Inc., Arlington, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Computing Technology Industry Association; Stephen M. 
Smith, Andersen Consulting, Washington, D.C.; and Milton E. Cooper, 
Computer Sciences Corporation, Falls Church, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CRIME TECHNOLOGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to assess 
national efforts to develop and integrate databases necessary to give 
national law enforcement the access to criminal history information, 
ballistics information, and DNA data, and related provisions of S. 816, 
Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act, after receiving testimony from 
Charles W. Archer, Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Information 
Services Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Randall S. 
Murch, Chief, Scientific Analysis Section, FBI Laboratory, both of the 
Department of Justice; Kentucky Deputy Secretary of Justice Michael 
Hulesmann, Frankfort; John Farrell, Prince George's County Police 
Department, Palmer Park, Maryland; Joseph Bonino, Los Angeles Police 
Department, Los Angeles, California; James V. Martin, South Carolina 
Law Enforcement Division, Columbia, on behalf of SEARCH; Ted Almay, 
Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification, London; and A. James Walton, 
Jr., Vermont Department of Public Safety, Montpelier.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following measures:
  S. Con. Res. 52, to recognize and encourage the convening of a 
National Silver Haired Congress; and
  S. 1897, to authorize funds for certain programs of the National 
Institutes of Health, with amendments.
INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Central Intelligence Agency policy on the use of 
journalists, clergy, Peace Corps volunteers and others as cover for 
United States intelligence operations, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Coverdell; John M. Deutch, Director, Central Intelligence 
Agency; Kenneth L. Adelman, Washington Times, Arlington, Virginia; Ted

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Koppel, ABC News, Washington, D.C.; Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & 
World Report, Sister Claudette La Verdiere, Maryknoll Sisters, Rodney 
Page, Church World Service, on behalf of the National Council of 
Churches, and Terry Anderson, all of New York, New York; Don Argue, 
National Association of Evangelicals, Carol Stream, Illinois; and John 
Orme, Wheaton, Illinois.
INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.