[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 133 (Tuesday, September 24, 1996)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D992-D994]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
HATCH ACT AND RELATED LAW VIOLATIONS
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, 
Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture held a hearing to review the Hatch 
Act and related

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law violations. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the 
USDA: Grant Buntrock, Administrator; Randy Weber, Associate 
Administrator; Willie Cook, Director, Civil Rights and Small Business 
Development Staff, Chris Niedermayer, Assistant to the Deputy 
Administrator, Farm Programs, and Eric Shrader, Assistant to the 
Director, Management Services Division, all with the Farm Service 
Agency; Eugene Moos, Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural 
Services; and Wardell Townsend, Assistant Secretary, Administration; 
Ronald Blackley, Senior Advisor, Bureau of Legislative and Public 
Affairs, AID, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency; K. 
Rashid Nuri, Senior Advisor, Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, 
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce; the 
following officials of the Department of Justice: John C. Keeney, 
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division; and William 
Reukauf, Associate Special Counsel, Prosecution, Office of Special 
Counsel.
CITIZENSHIP USA
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on National 
Security, International Affairs, and Criminal Justice held a hearing on 
Citizenship USA. Testimony was heard from the following officials of 
the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice: 
Louis D. Crocetti, Associate Commissioner, Examinations; Tom Conklin, 
Deportations, Chicago, Diane Dobberfuhl, Ethel Ware and Joyce Woods, 
all with Adjudications, Chicago; James Humble-Snachez, Los Angeles and 
Nell Jacobs, Dallas, both with Investigations; Cora Miller, 
Adjudications, Las Vegas; Robin Lewis, Adjudications, Oklahoma City; 
and David Rosenberg, Director, Citizenship USA Programs.
TRADE PROMOTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE--ANNUAL REPORT
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Economic Policy and Trade held an oversight hearing on the Annual 
Report of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee. Testimony was 
heard from Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary, International Trade, 
Department of Commerce.
UN: OFFICE OF SECRETARY GENERAL AND PROSPECTS FOR REFORM
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights held a hearing on United Nations: the 
Office of Secretary General and the Prospects for Reform. Testimony was 
heard from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former Permanent U.S. Representative 
to the United Nations; and public witnesses.
NATIONAL GUARD YOUTH CHALLENGE PROGRAM
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Personnel held 
a hearing on the National Guard Youth Challenge Program. Testimony was 
heard from Col. Maynard K. Bean, (Ret.), Army National Guard Director, 
Commonwealth Challenge, State of Virginia; Col. Bill Crowson, Director, 
National Guard Youth Challenge and The Challenge Academy, State of 
Mississippi; Lt. Col. Michael D. Bedwell, Director, Youth Challenge 
Program, State of Oklahoma; Bob Hughes, Acting Director, Youth 
Challenge Program, State of Georgia; and public witnesses.
CONFERENCE REPORT--INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a rule waiving all points 
of order against the conference report on H.R. 3259, Intelligence 
Authorization Act for Fiscal year 1997, and against its consideration. 
The rule provides that the conference report shall be considered as 
read. Testimony was heard from Chairman Combest and Representative 
Dicks.
CONFERENCE REPORT--IMMIGRATION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST ACT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a rule waiving all points 
of order against the conference report on H.R. 2202, Immigration in the 
National Interest Act of 1996, and against its consideration. The rule 
also provides that the conference report shall be considered as read. 
Testimony was heard from Representatives Smith of Texas and Bryant of 
Texas.
IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT AMENDMENT
Committee on Rules: Granted, by voice vote, a closed rule on H.R. 4134, 
authorizing States to deny public education benefits to certain aliens 
not lawfully present in the United States, providing for consideration 
in the House for one hour equally divided between the chairman and 
ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary or their 
designees. The rule provides one moment to recommit. Testimony was 
heard from Representative Gallegly.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES AND RESOLUTIONS
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Public 
Buildings and Grounds approved for full Committee action the following 
bills: S. 1931, to provide that the U.S. Post Office building that is 
to be located at 9 East Broad Street, Cookeville, TN, shall be known 
and designated as the ``L. Clure Morton Post Office and Courthouse'';

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H.R. 4042, to designate the U.S. courthouse located at 500 Pearl Street 
in New York City, NY, as the ``Ted Weiss United States Courthouse''; 
H.R. 4119, to designate the Federal building and U.S. courthouse 
located at 475 Mulberry Street in Macon, GA, as the ``William Augustus 
Bootle Federal Building and United States Courthouse''; and H.R. 4113, 
to designate the United States courthouse to be constructed at the 
corner of Superior and Huron Roads, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the ``Carl 
B. Stokes, United States Courthouse.''
  The Subcommittee also approved for full Committee action the 
following resolutions: 2 11(b); 7 construction; and 17 lease.

Joint Meetings
IMMIGRATION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST ACT
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the Senate- and House-
passed versions of H.R. 2202, to amend the Immigration and Nationality 
Act to improve deterrence of illegal immigration to the United States 
by increasing border patrol and investigative personnel, by increasing 
penalties for alien smuggling and for document fraud, by reforming 
exclusion and deportation law and procedures, by improving the 
verification system for eligibility for employment, and through other 
measures, to reform the legal immigration system and facilitate legal 
entries into the United States.