[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 14 (Thursday, February 6, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D87-D88]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to 
examine current and projected national security threats to the United 
States, after receiving testimony from George J. Tenet, Acting Director of 
Central Intelligence; and Lt. Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, Director, Defense 
Intelligence Agency.
U.S. TERRITORIES AND FREELY ASSOCIATED STATES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 210, to make technical and other changes to the Organic Act of Guam, the 
Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, and the Compact of Free 
Association Act, and to return excess Federal land to the people of Guam, 
after receiving testimony from Allen P. Stayman, Director, Office of Insular 
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Governor Roy L. Schneider, and Delegate 
Donna M. Christian-Green, both of the Virgin Islands; and Governor Carl T.C. 
Gutierrez, and Delegate Robert A. Underwood, both of Guam.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration:: Committee concluded 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 Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 26), Senators Chafee 
and Baucus;
  Committee on Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 39), Senators Thompson and 
Glenn;
  Select Committee on Intelligence: (S. Res. 30), Senators Shelby and 
Kerrey;
  Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 34), Senators 
Murkowski and Bumpers;
  Committee on Finance: (S. Res. 27), Senators Roth and Moynihan; and
  Committee on Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 37), Senators Helms and Biden.
HOME-BASED BUSINESSES
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings to examine certain 
home-based business issues, focusing on independent contractors, home-office 
deductions, deductibility of health-care costs, and the experience of women 
business owners in seeking investment capital and federal procurement 
contracts, receiving testimony from Carolyn A. Stradley, C & S Paving, Inc., 
Marietta, Georgia; Susan Peterson, Susan Peterson Productions Inc., 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Foundation for Women Business 
Owners; Phyllis Hill Slater, Hill Slater, Inc., Great Neck, Long Island, New 
York, on behalf

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of the National Association of Women Business Owners and the Women Business 
Owners Corporation; Andrea C. Silbert, Center for Women and Enterprise, 
Boston, Massachusetts; Bill D. Trembly, Trembly Associates, Inc., 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the Manufacturers' Agents National 
Association and the Small Business Legislative Council on Independent 
Contractor Classification Issues; Bonny Filandrinos, Staffing Solutions, 
Inc., Clayton, Missouri; Sal Risalvato, Riverdale Texaco and Precision 
Alignment Center, Riverdale, New Jersey; and Carole Wiedorfer, Carole 
Wiedorfer CPA, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National Association 
for the Self-Employed.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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