[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 128 (Tuesday, September 17, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D952]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 6,238 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
AVIATION SECURITY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
closed hearings to examine aviation security challenges, after 
receiving testimony from David R. Hinson, Administrator, Adm. Cathal L. 
Flynn, Associate Administrator for Civil Aviation Security, both of the 
Federal Aviation Administration, and Adm. Paul E. Busick, Director of 
Intelligence and Security, all of the Department of Transportation; 
Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller General for the Resources 
Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; 
Robert M. Blitzer, Section Chief, National Security Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Carol Hallett, Air 
Transport Association of America, and John O. Klinkenberg, Northwest 
Airlines, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine issues 
relating to computational biology, after receiving testimony from David 
L. Kingsbury, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; John C. 
Mazziotta, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles; 
Ingrid C. Burke, Colorado State University, Fort Collins; Robert J. 
Swenson, Montana State University, Bozeman; and Mary E. Clutter, 
National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to examine the Administration's policy with regard 
to global climate change, after receiving testimony from Timothy E. 
Wirth, Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Sallie Baliunas, 
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and W. David Montgomery, 
Charles River Associates Incorporated, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University 
of California at San Diego; and John P. Weyant, Stanford University, 
Stanford, California.
CONGRESSIONAL/PRESIDENTIAL/JUDICIAL PENSION FORFEITURE ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 1794, 
to provide for the forfeiture of retirement benefits in the case of any 
Member of Congress, congressional employee, or Federal justice or judge 
who is convicted of an offense relating to official duties of that 
individual, and for the forfeiture of the retirement allowance of the 
President for such a conviction, receiving testimony from Senators 
Gregg and Reid; John Landers, Chief, Retirement Policy Division, Office 
of Personnel Management; John C. Keeney, Acting Assistant Attorney 
General for the Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and Judge S. 
Jay Plager, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the activities and progress of the National Labor Relations 
Board, after receiving testimony from William B. Gould IV, Chairman, 
and Fred Feinstein, General Counsel, both of the National Labor 
Relations Board; Dan Yager, Labor Policy Association, and Charles 
Craver, George Washington University Law School, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and G. Roger King, Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, Alexandria, 
Virginia, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource Management.
INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
how to foster economic growth and development on Indian reservations, 
focusing on the role of Federal policy, tribal policy, and private 
sector development and jobs, after receiving testimony from Joseph P. 
Kalt, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development/Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Phillip Martin, Mississippi Band 
of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Ivan Makil, Salt River 
Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Peter J. 
Ferrara, Americans for Tax Reform, and Richard Cowden, American 
Association of Enterprise Zones, both of Washington, D.C.