[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 6 (Thursday, January 23, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D46]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings to 
examine the role of the Federal Government in assisting certain 
students improve their academic standing, focusing on approaches to 
improving English language skills and the use of ebonics, after 
receiving testimony from Representative Waters; Carolyn M. Getridge, 
Oakland Unified School District, and Toni Cook and Michael Lampkins, 
both of the Oakland Board of Education, all of Oakland, California; 
Amos C. Brown, National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc., San Francisco, 
California; Orlando L. Taylor, Howard University Graduate School of 
Arts and Sciences, and Michael Casserly, Council of the Great City 
Schools, both of Washington, D.C.; Robert L. Williams, Washington 
University, St. Louis, Missouri; William Labov, University of 
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Armstrong Williams, Los Angeles, 
California.
MEDICARE REFORM
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on proposals to reform 
the Medicare system and budget implications of Medicare policy, 
receiving testimony from Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Director, Office of 
Management and Budget; Gail R. Wilensky, Project HOPE, Bethesda, 
Maryland, former Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration; 
H. Edward Frech III, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Karen 
Davis, Commonwealth Fund, New York, New York.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, January 28.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original resolution requesting $4,362,646 for operating expenses for 
the period from March 1, 1997 through February 28, 1998, and $4,480,028 
for operating expenses for the period from March 1, 1998 through 
February 28, 1999.
  Also, committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 105th 
Congress.