[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 130 (Thursday, September 19, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D971-D972]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL INVASIVE SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries and Wildlife concluded hearings on S. 1660, to 
authorize funds for and expand the programs of the Nonindigenous 
Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990, focusing on 
efforts to reduce the threat posed by nonindigenous aquatic nuisance 
species originating from ballast water discharge, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Glenn; Rowan W. Gould, Deputy Assistant Director 
of the Interior for Fisheries; Commander Richard M. Gaudiosi, Chief, 
Plans and Preparedness Division, Marine Safety and Environmental 
Protection Office of Response, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of 
Transportation; James T. Carlton, Maritime Studies Program/Williams 
College and Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut; Ann P. Swanson, 
Chesapeake Bay Commission, Annapolis, Maryland; Stephen Hall, 
Association of California Water Agencies, Sacramento; and Joseph J. 
Cox, United States Chamber of Shipping, Washington, D.C.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
promotion of economic freedom through development aid, receiving 
testimony from

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Nicholas N. Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, Bryan T. Johnson, 
Heritage Foundation, Richard E. Messick, Freedom House, and David F. 
Gordon, Overseas Development Council, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAQ
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the current situation in Iraq, focusing on the recent U.S. cruise 
missile strikes on Iraq, after receiving testimony from Kathryn C. 
Porter, Human Rights Alliance, Fairfax, Virginia; and Rend Rahim 
Francke, Iraq Foundation, Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University, and 
Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, all of 
Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Columbia, and Alan H. Flanigan, of 
Virginia, to be Deputy Director for Supply Reduction, office of 
National Drug Control Policy; and
  S. 389, for the relief of Nguyen Quy An and his daughter, Nguyen Ngoc 
Kim Quy.
JUDICIAL TAXATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on S. 1817, to limit the authority of 
Federal courts to fashion remedies that require local jurisdictions to 
assess, levy, or collect taxes, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Thurmond; Representative Manzullo; Mary M. Cheh, George Washington 
University Law School, and Roger Pilon, Center for Constitutional 
Studies/Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Alfred A. Lindseth, 
Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, Atlanta, Georgia; and William R. 
Neblock, Rockford, Illinois.
HERBICIDE EXPOSURE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
implementation of the Agent Orange Act (P.L. 102-4), focusing on the 
medical and scientific bases for compensating Vietnam veterans and 
their children with diseases which may have been caused by exposure to 
herbicides, including Agent Orange, after receiving testimony from 
Jesse Brown, Secretary of Veterans Affairs; William H. Farland, 
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of 
Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency; Joel E. 
Michalek, Principal Investigator of the Air Force Health Study/
Armstrong Laboratory/Human Systems Center/Brooks Air Force Base, Texas; 
Daniel Wartenberg, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences 
Institute/UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New 
Jersey; David Tollerud, Allegheny University School of the Health 
Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, representing the Committee to 
Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to 
Herbicides; Ellen K. Silbergeld, University of Maryland Medical School, 
Baltimore; Michael Gough, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Raoul 
Frevel, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Atlanta, Georgia.
IRAQ
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings to examine 
the situation in Iraq, focusing on security issues with regard to the 
Middle East, receiving testimony from John M. Deutch, Director of 
Central Intelligence.