[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 31 (Wednesday, March 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D224-D226]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of Justice, 
receiving testimony from Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United 
States, Department of Justice.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on the ballistic missile defense program, receiving 
testimony from Lt. Gen. Lester L. Lyles, USAF, Director, Ballistic 
Missile Defense Organization, Department of Defense.

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  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 
for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, 
focusing on Army Force XXI initiatives and Army modernization programs, 
receiving testimony from Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition; and Gen. William W. 
Hartzog, USA, Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine 
Command.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel resumed hearings 
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
military compensation and quality of life programs, receiving testimony 
from Frederick F.Y. Pang, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force 
Management Policy; Lt. Gen. Frederick E. Vollrath, USA, Deputy Chief of 
Staff for Army Personnel; Vice Adm. Daniel T. Oliver, USN, Chief of 
Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. Carol A. Mutter, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine 
Corps Staff for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Michael D. 
McGinty, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Air Force Personnel; and 
Michael F. Ouellette, Non-Commissioned Officers Association of the 
U.S.A., Sydney Hickey, National Military Family Association, and Col. 
Paul W. Arcari, USAF (Ret.), Retired Officers Association, all of 
Alexandria, Virginia.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 
for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, 
focusing on U.S. national security space programs and policies, 
receiving testimony from Gen. Howell M. Estes, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, U.S. Space Command; Gil I. Klinger, Acting Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Space; and Keith R. Hall, Acting Director, 
National Reconnaissance Office.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
INDIAN HOUSING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs/Committee on Indian 
Affairs: Committees concluded joint hearings to review the operation of 
Indian housing programs of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, focusing on allegations of abuse, mismanagement, and fraud 
and the implementation of the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act (P.L. 104-330), after receiving testimony from 
Judy A. England-Joseph, Director, Housing and Community Development 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, 
General Accounting Office; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, Kevin 
Marchman, Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, and 
Dominic Nessi, Director, Office of Native American Programs, all of the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development; W. Ron Allen, Jamestown 
S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, Washington, on behalf of the National Congress 
of American Indians; and Jacqueline L. Johnson, Tlingit-Haida Indian 
Housing Authority, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American 
Indian Housing Council.
UNIVERSAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:Committee held 
hearings to examine the Federal Communications Commission 
implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, focusing on 
efforts to implement universal telephone service reform and FCC 
proposals to assess new per-minute fees on Internet service providers, 
receiving testimony from Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, Federal 
Communications Commission; William P. Barr, GTE Corporation, Stamford, 
Connecticut; Anne K. Bingaman, LCI International/LCI Local 
Telecommunications Division, McLean, Virginia, on behalf of the 
Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel); Gail McGovern, 
AT&T Corp., Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Roy Neel, United States 
Telephone Association, Washington, D.C.; and Anthony Wong, Cecil County 
Public Schools, Elkton, Maryland, on behalf of the Education and 
Library Networks Coalition and the National School Boards Association.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began mark up of 
S. 104, to reform United States policy with regard to the management 
and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste, 
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the 
President's fiscal year 1998 graduate medical education training 
proposals and the New York Graduate Medical Education demonstration 
project,

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receiving testimony from Bruce C. Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care 
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Don 
E. Detmer, Co-Chairman, Committee on the U.S. Physician Supply, 
Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, on behalf of the 
Association of Academic Health Centers; Robert A. Crittenden, 
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Spencer Foreman, 
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, on behalf of the Greater 
New York Hospital Association; and Ralph W. Muller, University of 
Chicago Hospitals and Health System, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of 
the Association of American Medical Colleges.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SECURITY ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion concluded hearings on the 
Administration's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1998 for 
security assistance, after receiving testimony from Thomas E. McNamara, 
Assistant Secretary of State for Political/Military Affairs; and Lt. 
Gen. Thomas G. Rhame, USA, Director, Defense Security Assistance 
Agency, Department of Defense.
INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS THREAT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine 
Mexican and American responses to the international narcotics threat, 
after receiving testimony from Senators D'Amato, Feinstein, Grassley, 
and Hutchison; Robert S. Gelbard, Assistant Secretary of State for 
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Thomas A. 
Constantine, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department 
of Justice; Barry McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; Tim Nelson, National Narcotic Officers' Association, 
Greenville, North Carolina; and George R. Vickers, Washington Office on 
Latin America, Washington, D.C.
  Prior to this action, committee met in closed session to receive a 
briefing on Mexican and American responses to the international 
narcotics threat from a former senior law enforcement official in 
Mexico.
CLONING TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Public Health 
and Safety concluded hearings to examine the ethical, legal and social 
implications of recent discoveries in cloning, after receiving 
testimony from Senators Bond and Domenici; Harold Varmus, Director, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
Ian Wilmut, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland; R. Alta Charo, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison, on behalf of the National Bioethics 
Advisory Commission; George J. Annas, Boston University School of 
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Karen H. Rothenberg, University 
of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore; John Wallwork, Papworth Hospital, 
Cambridge, England; Leonard Bell, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., New 
Haven, Connecticut; and James A. Geraghty, Genzyme Transgenics, 
Framingham, Massachusetts.
SMITHSONIAN/WOODROW WILSON CENTER/KENNEDY CENTER
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings to review the operations of the Smithsonian Institution, the 
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the John F. 
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, after receiving testimony from 
I. Michael Heyman, Secretary, Constance B. Newman, Under Secretary, and 
J. Dennis O'Connor, Provost, all of the Smithsonian Institution; 
Charles Blitzer, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for 
Scholars; and Kenneth M. Duberstein, Vice Chairman, and Alma Johnson 
Powell, Vice Chairman, both of the Board of Trustees, and Lawrence J. 
Wilker, President, all of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued hearings on the 
nomination of Anthony Lake, of Massachusetts, to be Director of Central 
Intelligence, where the nominee further testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.