[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 125 (Thursday, September 12, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D928-D930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with 
amendments, H.R. 3755, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
COUNTERTERRORISM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary and Related

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Agencies concluded open and closed hearings on Administration 
counterterrorism strategies, focusing on a proposed funding initiative 
to reduce the threat of terrorism both nationally and abroad, after 
receiving testimony from Janet Reno, Attorney General, Department of 
Justice.
IRAQ
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to examine the 
current situation in Iraq, receiving testimony from James A. Baker, 
former Secretary of State; and Anthony Cordesman, Center for Strategic 
and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
DOD INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings to examine the practices and procedures of the investigative 
services of the Department of Defense and the military departments 
concerning investigations into the deaths of military personnel which 
may have resulted from self-inflicted causes, after receiving testimony 
from Representatives Pallone and Brownback; Eleanor Hill, Inspector 
General, Brig. Gen. Daniel A. Doherty, Commanding General, United 
States Army Criminal Investigation Command, Roy D. Nedrow, Director, 
Naval Criminal Investigative Service, and Brig. Gen. Francis X. Taylor, 
Commander, Air Force Office of Special Investigations, all of the 
Department of Defense; and certain public witnesses.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  H.R. 531, to designate the Great Western Scenic Trail as a study 
trail under the National Trails System Act;
  H.R. 1091, to improve the National Park System in the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1844, to amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act to direct 
a study on the opportunities for enhanced water based recreation, with 
an amendment;
  H.R. 1786, to regulate fishing in certain waters in Alaska;
  S. 1010, to amend the ``unit of general local government'' definition 
for Federal payments in lieu of taxes to include unorganized boroughs 
in Alaska, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1889, to authorize the exchange of certain lands conveyed to the 
Kenai Natives Association pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, to make adjustments to the National Wilderness System, 
with an amendment;
  S. 1804, to make technical and other changes to the laws dealing with 
the territories and Freely Associated States of the United States, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 655, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1996 through 1998 for 
hydrogen research, development, and demonstration programs of the 
Department of Energy, with an amendment;
  S. 1809, entitled ``Aleutian World War II National Historic Sites Act 
of 1996'';
  S. 608, to establish the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park 
in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with an amendment;
  S. 695, to provide for the establishment of the Tallgrass Prairie 
National Preserve in Kansas, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 902, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assist in the 
construction of a building to be used jointly by the Secretary for park 
purposes and by the city of Natchez, Mississippi, as an intermodal 
transportation center, with an amendment;
  S. 951, to commemorate the service of First Ladies Jacqueline Kennedy 
and Patricia Nixon to improving and maintaining the Executive Residence 
of the President and to authorize grants to the White House Endowment 
Fund in their memory to continue their work, with an amendment;
  S. 1127, to establish the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in the 
State of Washington, with an amendment;
  S. 1699, to establish the National Cave and Karst Research Institute 
in the State of New Mexico;
  S. 1706, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for 
assistance for highway relocation with respect to the Chickamauga and 
Chattanooga National Military Park in the State of Georgia;
  H.R. 3198, to authorize funds to establish a national cooperative 
geologic mapping program between the United States Geological Survey 
and State geological surveys;
  S. 1649, to extend contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and 
irrigation districts in Kansas and Nebraska, with an amendment;
  S. 1719, to require the Secretary of the Interior to offer to sell to 
certain public agencies the indebtedness representing the remaining 
repayment balance of certain Bureau of Reclamation projects in Texas, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1921, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to transfer 
certain facilities at the Minidoka project to the Burley Irrigation 
District in the State of Idaho, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1986, to provide for the completion of the Umatilla Basin Project 
in the State of Oregon, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;

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  S. 2015, to convey certain real property located within the Carlsbad 
Project in the State of New Mexico to the Carlsbad Irrigation District;
  S. 2033, to repeal requirements for unnecessary or obsolete reports 
from the Department of Energy, with an amendment; and
  H.R. 2636, to transfer jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal 
real property located in the District of Columbia.
NATIONAL PARKS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 1965, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to assess up to $2 per person 
visiting the Grand Canyon or other national parks to secure bonds for 
capital improvements to the park, after receiving testimony from 
Senator McCain; Roger G. Kennedy, Director, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; Robert Koons, Grand Canyon Fund and Grand 
Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, Arizona; Aubrey C. King, Travel and 
Tourism Government Affairs Council, and James D. Maddy, National Park 
Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert Everidge, National Tour 
Association, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and Barbara Basser-Bigio, 
Goldman, Sachs and Company, New York, New York.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the status of United States-North 
Korea relations, after receiving testimony from Representative Tony 
Hall; Mark Minton, Director, Office of Korean Affairs, Department of 
State; RAdm. William Wright, Director, Office of Asia/Pacific Affairs, 
Bureau of International Security Affairs, Department of Defense; 
Stanley O. Roth, Director of Research and Studies, United States 
Institute of Peace; James R. Lilley, American Enterprise Institute, 
Robert L. Galucci, Georgetown University, and William J. Taylor, Jr., 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, all of Washington, 
D.C.; and Donald P. Gregg, Korea Society, and Stephen W. Bosworth, 
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, both of New York, New 
York.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, September 11, committee 
met in closed session to consider pending committee business, but made 
no announcements, and recessed subject to call.