[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D812-D813]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)

COMMERCE ONLINE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1726, to promote electronic commerce by facilitating the 
use of privacy-enhancing technologies, after receiving testimony from 
Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department 
of Justice; William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export 
Administration; William P. Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security 
Agency; James Barksdale, Netscape Communications, Mountain View, 
California; Roel Pieper, Tandem Computers, Inc., Cupertino, California; 
and Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform, and Michael Skol, 
Diplomatic Resolutions, both of Washington, D.C.

NATIONAL PARKS/SITES

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 1699, to 
require the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Cave 
and Karst Research Institute in the vicinity and outside the boundaries 
of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico, and S. 1809, entitled 
``Aleutian World War II National Historic Sites Act'', after receiving 
testimony from John Reynolds, Deputy Director, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; and Brad Gilman, Ounalashka Corporation, 
Unalaska, Alaska.

WORLD BANK PROJECTS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
nature of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corp and its role in 
administering World Bank projects in Xinjiang, China, receiving 
testimony from David Lipton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for 
International Affairs; Jeffrey L. Fiedler, Washington, D.C., and Harry 
Wu, Milpitas,

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California, both of the Laogai Research Foundation, Washington; Teresa 
Buczacki, Falls Church, Virginia; Mohammed Ferhat, Munich, Germany; and 
Abulajiang Baret, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.

  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:

  The nomination of Franklin D. Raines, of the District of Columbia, to 
be Director, Office of Management and Budget;

  S. 1376, to terminate unnecessary and inequitable Federal corporate 
subsidies, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

  S. 1931, to provide that the United States Post Office building that 
is to be located at 9 East Broad Street, Cookeville, Tennessee, shall 
be known and designated as the ``L. Clure Morton Post Office and 
Courthouse'', with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and

  S. 1718, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1997 for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the 
Community Management Account, and for the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System, with an amendment.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:

  S. 1237, to revise certain provisions of law relating to child 
pornography, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

  S. 1887, to make improvements in the operation and administration of 
the Federal courts, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and

  S. 1556, to prohibit economic espionage, and to provide for the 
protection of United States proprietary economic information in 
interstate and foreign commerce, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.

GENETICS RESEARCH

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine recent developments in genetics research, public policy issues 
with regard to access to and use of genetic information, and the impact 
of genetic technologies on certain sectors of industry, health care 
delivery system, and the public, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Mack and Domenici; Francis S. Collins, Director, National 
Center for Human Genome Research, National Institutes of Health, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Karen H. Rothenberg, 
University of Maryland School of Law, and Neil A. Holtzman, Johns 
Hopkins Medical Institutions, both of Baltimore, Maryland; Patricia D. 
Murphy, OncorMed, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland; Kate T. Christensen, 
Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, California; Judy E. Garber, Dana-
Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard University Medical School, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Wendy L. McGoodwin, Council for Responsible 
Genetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.