[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D839-D840]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary approved for full committee consideration, with 
amendments, H.R. 3814, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
FOREST HEALTH CONDITIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded oversight hearings to examine the 
conditions that have made the National Forests of the Southwest 
susceptible to catastrophic fires and disease, and to explore solutions 
and new management techniques, after receiving testimony from Jack Ward 
Thomas, Chief, Chip Cartwright, Regional Forester, Southwestern Region, 
and Mary Jo Lavin, Director, Fire and Aviation Management Staff, all of 
the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Peter Coppelman, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; John Hafterson, 
Arizona State Land Department, Phoenix; Tom Kolb, Northern Arizona 
University, Dennis R. Kingsberry, Stone Forest Industries, and Charles 
Babbitt, Southwest Forest Alliance, all of Flagstaff, Arizona; William 
R. Murray, American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, D.C.; 
Fred Cheever, University of Denver College of Law, Denver, Colorado; 
and Arthur N. Lee, Apache County Board of Supervisors, Eager, Arizona.
DRUG TRAFFICKING IMPACT ON ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade resumed 
hearings in conjunction with the Caucus on International Narcotics 
Control to examine how drug trafficking and money laundering may

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pose threats to United States trade and financial systems, and efforts 
to combat international drug trafficking and money laundering, 
receiving testimony from Senators Domenici and Gramm; Jeffrey M. Lang, 
Deputy United States Trade Representative; Stanley E. Morris, Director, 
Office of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and George J. Weise, 
Commissioner, United States Customs Service, both of the Department of 
the Treasury; Jonathan M. Winer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State 
for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Alan S. Abel, 
Coopers and Lybrand, and Robert S. Leiken, New Moment, Inc., both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Michael M. Miles, Rudolph Miles and Sons, Inc./
The Miles Group, Inc., El Paso, Texas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIBERTAD ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and 
Peace Corps Affairs held hearings on the implementation of the Cuban 
Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (Libertad) (P.L. 104-114) and its 
impact on international law, receiving testimony from Jeffrey Davidow, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Jennifer A. 
Hillman, General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade 
Representative; and Monroe Leigh, Steptoe & Johnson, Alberto Mora, 
Holland & Knight, Brice Clagett, Covington & Burling, and Robert L. 
Muse, Muse and Associates, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ACCESS TO MEDICAL TREATMENT ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 1035, to permit an individual to be treated by a health care 
practitioner with any method of medical treatment such individual 
requests, after receiving testimony from Senator Daschle; former 
Representative Berkley Bedell, Spirit Lake, Iowa; Jerold Mande, 
Executive Assistant to the Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration, 
and Wayne B. Jonas, Director, Office of Alternative Medicine, National 
Institutes of Health, both of the Department of Health and Human 
Services; Woodson C. Merrell, Columbia University College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York, New York; James S. Gordon, Center for Mind-Body 
Medicine, Washington, D.C.; and Shawn and Zachary McConnell, Fountain 
Hills, Arizona.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1983, to amend the Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act to provide for Native Hawaiian organizations; and
  S. 1973, to provide for the settlement of the Navajo-Hopi land 
dispute, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
ELDERLY SUICIDE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
incidence of suicide among the elderly, focusing on the factors that 
put elderly persons at risk and strategies and interventions that can 
prevent elderly suicides from occurring, after receiving testimony from 
Jane L. Pearson, Chief, Clinical and Developmental Psychopathology 
Program, Mental Disorders of the Aging Research Branch, National 
Institute of Mental Health, and Mark Rosenberg, Director, National 
Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; 
David C. Clark, Center for Suicide Research and Prevention/Rush-
Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois; Eric D. 
Caine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York; Ira 
R. Katz, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, on 
behalf of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry; Joseph 
Richman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York; Ray 
Raschko, Spokane Community Mental Health Center, and Hy and Esther 
Nelson, all of Spokane, Washington; Betty Munley, Senior Connection 
Program/Crisis Call Center, Reno, Nevada; Daryl J. Workman, Richmond, 
Virginia; and Paige Warfield Garber, Kensington, Maryland.