[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 106 (Thursday, July 18, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D766-D767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION/LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  H.R. 3675, making appropriations for the Department of Transportation 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, 
with amendments; and
  H.R. 3754, making appropriations for the Legislative Branch for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, with amendments.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the 
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor 
Marion S. Barry, Jr., David Clarke, Chairman, District of Columbia 
Council, and Andrew Brimmer, Chairman, District of Columbia Financial 
Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, all of Washington, 
D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the performance of the United States economy and 
the conduct of monetary policy, after receiving testimony from Alan 
Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
NATURAL DISASTER PROTECTION AND INSURANCE ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1043, to provide for an expanded Federal program of 
hazard mitigation, relief, and insurance against the risk of 
catastrophic natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and 
volcanic eruptions, after receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, 
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Mary Griffin, Consumers Union, on 
behalf of the Consumer Federation of America, and Jordan Clark, United 
Homeowners Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Leonard Schulte, on 
behalf of the Florida State House of Representatives, Tallahassee; and 
Anthony R. O'Neill, National Fire Protection Association, Arlington, 
Virginia.
OREGON INLET PROTECTION/VOYAGEURS NATIONAL PARK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 988, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative 
jurisdiction over certain land to the Secretary of the Army to 
facilitate construction of a jetty and sand transfer system, and S. 
1805, to provide for the management of Voyageurs National Park, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Helms; Representative Jones; George T. 
Frampton, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks, and 
Denis P. Galvin, Associate Director, National Park Service, both of the 
Department of the Interior; H. Martin Lancaster, Assistant Secretary of 
the Army for Civil Works; Wilma B. Liebman, Deputy Director, and 
Maureen Labenski, Regional Director, both of the

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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; North Carolina Governor 
James B. Hunt, Jr., North Carolina State Senator Marc Basnight, and 
Col. Daniel E. McDonald, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Ret.), all of 
Raleigh; Minnesota State Senators Steve Morse, Gene Merriam, and Bob 
Lessard, Minnesota State Representative Dee Long, and Martin N. 
Kellogg, UFE Incorporated, all of St. Paul; Mike Forsman, St. Louis 
County Board of Commissioners, Ely, Minnesota; Wade Pavleck, 
Koochiching County Board of Commissioners, on behalf of the Northern 
Counties Land-Use Coordinating Board, and Don Parmeter, both of 
International Falls, Minnesota; John J. Vogel, St. Louis County Land 
Department, John Pastor, University of Minnesota, and David F. Zentner, 
all of Duluth, Minnesota; John F. Thornton, National Parks and 
Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.; Katharine Dixon, Duke 
University, Durham, North Carolina; Clarence P. Skinner, Dare County 
Board of Commissioners, John P. Newbold, North Carolina Beach Buggy 
Association, and Harry B. Schiffman, all of Manteo, North Carolina; and 
Carol Selsaas, Cohasset, Minnesota.
HONG KONG
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs resumed hearings to examine United States' interests in the 
future economic and political stability of Hong Kong after it reverts 
to the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China on July 1, 1997, 
receiving testimony from Winston Lord, Assistant Secretary of State for 
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Merle Goldman, Fairbank Center for East 
Asian Research/Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; Andrew Y. Au, 
Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States, Gaithersburg, 
Maryland; Sidney Jones, Human Rights Watch Asia, New York, New York; 
and Douglas Henck, American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WHITE HOUSE INFORMATION ACCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings in open and 
closed session to examine the dissemination of Federal Bureau of 
Investigation background investigation reports and other information to 
the White House. Present but not testifying was Anthony B. Marceca, 
former White House Office of Personnel Security Staff.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
YOUTH VIOLENCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and 
Families concluded hearings to examine the role of the Federal 
Government and nongovernment organizations in establishing solutions 
for combatting juvenile crime, after receiving testimony from Gerald P. 
Regier, Oklahoma Department of Juvenile Justice, Oklahoma City, and 
former Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention, Department of Justice; James Fox, Northeastern University, 
and Eugene Rivers, Azusa Christian Community, on behalf of the Ten 
Point Coalition, both of Boston, Massachusetts; John Dilulio, Princeton 
University, Princeton, New Jersey, on behalf of the Brookings 
Institution; Jimmy Gurule, University of Notre Dame School of Law, 
South Bend, Indiana; Edward Humes, Seal Beach, California; and Dale and 
Doreen Robie, Sovona, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1264, to provide for certain benefits of the Missouri River basin 
Pick-Sloan project to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1834, to authorize funds for the Indian Environmental General 
Assistance Program Act of 1992; and
  S. 1869, to make certain technical corrections to the Indian Health 
Care Improvement Act, and to authorize funds through fiscal year 2000 
for the California Contract Health Services Demonstration Program, 
Medicare and Medicaid Demonstration Program, Gallop Alcohol and 
Substance Abuse Center, Substance Abuse Counselor Education 
Demonstration Program, and Home and Community-Based Care Demonstration 
Program.
INDIAN LANDS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on 
H.R. 2464, to provide additional lands within the State of Utah for the 
Goshute Indian Reservation, and S. 1893, to provide for the settlement 
of issues and claims related to the trust lands of the Torres-Martinez 
Desert Cahuilla Indians of California, after receiving testimony in 
behalf of H.R. 2464 from Maitland Sharpe, Assistant Director for 
Resources, Planning and Assessment, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; John Paul Kennedy, on behalf of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation, Ibapah, Utah; and John 
A. Harja, School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, Salt 
Lake City, Utah; and after receiving testimony in behalf of S. 1893 
from Representative Bono; Michael J. Anderson, Deputy Secretary for 
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; and Mary Belardo, Torres-
Martinez Desert Cahuilla Tribe of Indians, Thermal, California.