[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 123 (Tuesday, September 10, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D913-D914]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education approved for full committee consideration, with 
amendments, H.R. 3755, making appropriations for

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the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to consider pending military 
nominations, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject 
to call.
FAIR HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD 
Oversight and Structure concluded oversight hearings on the 
implementation and enforcement of the Fair Housing Act (P.L. 100-430), 
after receiving testimony from Elizabeth K. Julian, Assistant Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal 
Opportunity.
AMTRAK PASSENGER SERVICE ROUTE CHANGES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings to 
examine Amtrak's planned passenger service route restructuring and its 
impact on the continuity of the national rail passenger system, after 
receiving testimony from Senators Bumpers and Gramm; Representative 
Hutchinson; Thomas M. Downs, President and Chairman, National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); Delaware Governor Thomas C. Carper, 
Wilmington; Mayor Celia Boswell, Mineola, Texas; Mayor Jim Dailey, 
Little Rock, Arkansas; Mayor Larry Griffith, Baker City, Oregon; Mayor 
Audrey Kariel, Marshall, Texas; Neal A. McCaleb, Oklahoma Department of 
Transportation, Oklahoma City; Richard Tankerson, VIA Transit, San 
Antonio, Texas; and Ross B. Capon, National Association of Railroad 
Passengers, Washington, D.C.
BOSNIA PEACE PROCESS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
status of United States policy toward Bosnia, implementation of the 
Dayton Peace Agreement and Operation Joint Endeavor, receiving 
testimony from John C. Kornblum, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, William Montgomery, Special 
Advisor to the President and Special Advisor to the Bosnian Peace 
Implementation, and James Pardew, Special Coordinator for Interagency 
Office on Arming and Training, all of the Department of State; Thomas 
K. Longstreth, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Strategy and Requirements and Director, DOD Bosnia Task Force; Dawn T. 
Calabia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Anthony 
Kozlowski, American Refugee Committee, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Diane 
Paul, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, New York, New York; and Susan 
Woodward, Brookings Institution, and John Fox, Open Society Institute, 
both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service 
tax information system, focusing on technical and management issues, 
receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, 
and Rona B. Stillman, Chief Scientist, Computers and 
Telecommunications, both of the Accounting and Information Management 
Division, and Lynda Willis, Associate Director for Tax Policy and 
Administration, all of the General Accounting Office; Michael Dolan, 
Deputy Commissioner, Arthur Gross, Chief Information Officer, and David 
Mader, Chief of Management and Administration, all of the Internal 
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Robert P. Claggett, 
Chairman, Committee on Continued Review of the Tax Systems 
Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service, National Research 
Council; John Gioia, Robbins-Gioia, Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert M. 
Tobias, Bethesda, Maryland, and Steve Herrington, Columbus, Ohio, both 
on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, 
and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the constitutionality 
of the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, 
Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, 
opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on 
January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after receiving testimony from 
Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, 
Development, and Acquisition; Richard Shiffron, Office of Legal 
Counsel, Department of Justice; John C. Yoo, University of California, 
Berkeley; Roger Pilon, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Barry 
Kellman, DePaul University College of Law, DePaul, Illinois.