[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 13 (Wednesday, February 5, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D79-D81]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BREAST CANCER SCREENING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education and Related Agencies held hearings to examine 
the recommendation of the National Institutes of Health Consensus 
Development Conference on Breast Cancer Screening in Women Ages 40-49, 
receiving testimony from Richard D. Klausner, Director, National Cancer 
Institute, and Susan J. Blumenthal, Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Health/Assistant Surgeon General, both of the Department of Health and 
Human Services; David G. Hoel, Medical University

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of South Carolina, Charleston; Marilyn Leitch, University of Texas 
Southwestern Medical School, on behalf of the American Cancer Society, 
and Susan Braun and Diana Rowden, both of the Susan G. Komen Breast 
Cancer Foundation, all of Dallas, Texas; Frances M. Visco, National 
Breast Cancer Coalition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Barbara 
Monsees, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Federico Pena, of Colorado, to be Secretary of Energy, 
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Janet L. Yellen, of California, to be a 
Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, after the nominee, who was 
introduced by Senator Boxer, testified and answered questions in her 
own behalf.
EDUCATION REFORM AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings on the President's 
budget request for education for fiscal year 1998 and to examine the 
Federal role in educational reform, receiving testimony from Marshall 
S. Smith, Under Secretary of Education; Eric A. Hanushek, University of 
Rochester, Rochester, New York; and Caroline Minter Hoxby, Harvard 
University, Westborough, Massachusetts.
  Committee will meet again on Friday, February 7.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nomination of Rodney E. Slater, of Arkansas, to 
be Secretary of Transportation.
  Also, committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on Aviation: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Stevens, Burns, 
Lott, Hutchison, Ashcroft, Frist, Snowe, Brownback, Ford, Hollings, 
Inouye, Bryan, Rockefeller, Breaux, Dorgan, and Wyden.
  Subcommittee on Communications: Senators Burns (Chairman), Stevens, 
Gorton, Lott, Ashcroft, Hutchison, Abraham, Frist, Brownback, Hollings, 
Inouye, Ford, Kerry, Breaux, Rockefeller, Dorgan, and Wyden.
  Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Foreign Commerce and Tourism: 
Senators Ashcroft (Chairman), Gorton, Abraham, Burns, Brownback, 
Breaux, Ford, and Bryan.
  Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness: Senators Abraham 
(Chairman), Snowe, Ashcroft, Frist, Brownback, Bryan, Hollings, Dorgan, 
and Rockefeller.
  Subcommittee on Oceans and Fisheries: Senators Snowe (Chairman), 
Stevens, Gorton, Hutchison, Kerry, Inouye, and Breaux.
  Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Frist 
(Chairman), Burns, Hutchison, Stevens, Abraham, Rockefeller, Kerry, 
Bryan, and Dorgan.
  Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine: Senators 
Hutchison (Chairman), Stevens, Burns, Snowe, Frist, Abraham, Ashcroft, 
Inouye, Breaux, Dorgan, Bryan, and Wyden.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 104, to reform United States policy with regard to the management 
and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, 
after receiving testimony from Thomas P. Grumbly, Under Secretary of 
Energy; Jared L. Cohon, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, on 
behalf of the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board; Emmit J. George, 
Jr., Iowa Utilities Board, Des Moines, on behalf of the National 
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Susan F. Clark, 
Florida Public Service Commission, Tallahassee, on behalf of the 
Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition; Michael Mariotte, Nuclear Information 
Resource Service, Washington, D.C.; and James T. Rhodes, Virginia 
Power, Richmond.
CLEAN AIR--OZONE EXPOSURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety held oversight hearings 
on science issues with regard to the Environmental Protection Agency 
proposed revisions to the ozone and particulate matter national ambient 
air quality standards, receiving testimony from George T. Wolff, 
General Motors Company, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf of EPA's Clean Air 
Scientific Advisory Committee's Panels on Ozone and Particulate Matter; 
Morton Lippman, New York University Medical Center, and George D. 
Thurston, New York University School of Medicine, both of New York, New 
York; Daniel B. Menzel, University of California, Irvine; Roger O. 
McClellan, Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology, Research Triangle 
Park, North Carolina; Anne E. Smith, Decision Focus Incorporated, 
Mountain View, California; Joel Schwartz, Harvard University Medical 
School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Ronald E. Wyzga, Electric Power 
Research Institute, Palo Alto, California.
  Hearings will continue on Wednesday, February 12.

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AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND TAX REINSTATEMENT ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill (S. 279) to reinstate the Airport and Airway Trust Fund excise 
taxes.
JUDGESHIP ALLOCATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings to examine the appropriate allocation 
of judgeships in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth 
Circuit, after receiving testimony from J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Chief 
Judge, and Sam J. Ervin, III, Circuit Judge, both of the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; Gerald Bard Tjoflat, Circuit 
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; and 
Julia Smith Gibbons, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the 
Western District of Tennessee, on behalf of the Committee on Judicial 
Resources of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee continued hearings to 
receive testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of 
resolutions requesting funds for operating expenses of their respective 
committees for periods from March 1, 1997 through February 28, 1998, 
and from March 1, 1998 through February 28, 1999, as follows:
  Committee on Appropriations: (S. Res. 33), Senator Stevens;
  Committee on Small Business: (S. Res. 40), Senators Bond and Kerry;
  Committee on the Judiciary: (S. Res. 43), Senators Hatch and Leahy;
  Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 20), 
Senators Lugar and Harkin;
  Committee on Armed Services: (S. Res. 38), Senators Warner and Levin; 
and
  Committee on Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 45), Senators Specter and 
Rockefeller.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held open and closed 
hearings to examine current and projected national security threats to 
the United States, receiving testimony from Toby T. Gati, Assistant 
Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research; Lt. Gen. Patrick M. 
Hughes, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and George J. 
Tenet, Acting Director of Central Intelligence.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.