[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 116 (Thursday, August 1, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D858-D859]
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: Committee ordered favorably reported, 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.
BOSNIA MISSION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine United 
States participation in the NATO Implementation Force Mission in 
Bosnia, receiving testimony from Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy; Rear Adm. Charles W. Moore, Jr., USN, Deputy 
Director of Operations, Joint Staff; and Lt. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, 
USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on proposals to develop and implement aviation security 
measures, receiving testimony from Senators Cohen, Campbell, and 
Lautenberg, Representative Burton; Federico Pena, Secretary, and David 
R. Hinson, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, both of the 
Department of Transportation; Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller 
General, and John K. Harper, Assistant Director, both of the Resources 
Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; 
Edward A. Merlis, Air Transport Association, and David Plavin, Airports 
Council International North America, both of Washington, D.C.; Morris 
Busby, DGI Incorporated, Arlington, Virginia; and Richard Everitt, BAA 
plc, London, England.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EMERGENCY TIMBER SALVAGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to 
examine the Secretary of Agriculture directive to the Forest Service 
concerning the implementation of the emergency timber salvage program, 
designed to respond to the widespread forest fires of 1994, as 
authorized in section 2001 of Public Law 104-19, Omnibus Appropriations 
and Rescissions Act, receiving testimony from Daniel R. Glickman, 
Secretary, James R. Lyons, Under Secretary, and Jack Ward Thomas, 
Chief, Forest Service, all of the Department of Agriculture.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PROPRIETY OF A COMMERCIAL LEASE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Oversight 
and Investigations concluded oversight hearings to review the propriety 
of a commercial lease issued by the Bureau of Land Management at Lake 
Havasu, Arizona, including its consistency with the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act and Department of the Interior land use management 
policies, after receiving testimony from Edward B. Cohen, Deputy 
Solicitor, Department of the Interior; and Mat Millenbach, Deputy 
Director, Joe Liebhauser, Havasu Resource Area Manager, and Rich 
Greenfield, Phoenix, Arizona Field Solicitor, all of the Department of 
the Interior.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Nils J. Diaz, of Florida, and Edward 
McGaffigan, Jr., of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Nuclear 
Regulatory Commission.
U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review 
the role for the United States in the world and other foreign policy 
issues, after receiving testimony from Warren Christopher, Secretary of 
State.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1952, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1997 through 2000 for 
programs of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act; and
  S. 982, to develop safeguards to protect the national information 
infrastructure, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

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TERRORISM
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on the threat 
of terrorism in the United States, focusing on recent terrorist 
incidents, U.S. policy response to terrorism, and the role of the U.S. 
intelligence community, receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, 
Director, and Robert M. Bryant, Assistant Director, National Security 
Division, both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice; Caspar Weinberger, former Secretary of Defense; and James R. 
Schlesinger, former Director of Central Intelligence.
  Committee recessed subject to call.