[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 32 (Thursday, March 13, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D235-D237]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for agricultural 
research, education, and extension programs of the 1996 Farm Bill, 
receiving testimony from Catherine E. Woteki, Acting Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics; Mary E. Clutter, 
Assistant Director for the Biological Sciences, National Science 
Foundation; Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director for Extramural Research, 
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; 
James F. Decker, Deputy Director for Energy Research, Department of 
Energy; Robert A. Robinson, Director, Food and Agricultural Issues, 
Resources, Community, and Economic Division, General Accounting Office; 
David Lineback, University of Idaho, Moscow, on behalf of the Council 
for Agricultural Science and Technology; Martin A. Apple, Council for 
Scientific Society Presidents, Washington, D.C.; and Louis Sherman, on 
behalf of the American Society of Plant Physiologists, and S. Suzanne 
Nielson, on behalf of the Institute for Food Technologists, both of 
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 18.
NATIONAL CHEESE EXCHANGE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings to explore alternatives 
to the National Cheese Exchange as part of the dairy pricing system, 
receiving testimony from Senator Feingold; Daniel R. Glickman, 
Secretary, Michael Dunn, Assistant Secretary for Marketing and 
Regulatory Programs, and Keith Collins, Chief Economist, all of the 
Department of Agriculture; Alan T. Tracy, Wisconsin Department of 
Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Madison; E. Linwood 
Tipton, International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C.; Edward 
T. Coughlin, National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Virginia; 
Harold J. Howrigan, St.

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Albans Cooperative Creamery, Inc., Fairfield, Vermont; Buckey M. Jones, 
Mid-America Dairymen, Inc., Smithdale, Mississippi; Arden Tewksbury, 
Progressive Agriculture Organization, Meshoppen, Pennsylvania; Bill 
Brey, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Sturgeon Bay, on behalf of the National 
Farmers Union; and Kenneth E. Zurin, Kenburn Farms, Mount Joy, 
Pennsylvania.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18.
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE
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 Commerce, 
receiving testimony from William M. Daley, Secretary of Commerce.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1998 for the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from Federico 
Pena, Secretary of Energy.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 10.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee 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 
strategies and operational requirements of the unified commands, 
receiving testimony from Gen. Howell M. Estes, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, U.S. Space Command; Gen. Eugene E. Hablger, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; Gen. Walter Kross, USAF, Commander-in-
Chief, U.S. Transportation Command; and Gen. John J. Sheehan, USMC, 
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18.
AMTRAK
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine held hearings to examine the 
financial condition of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak), receiving testimony from Phyllis F. Scheinberg, Associate 
Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Thomas M. Downs, 
President and CEO, National Railroad Passenger Corporation; and Donald 
M. Itzkoff, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, 
Department of Transportation.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, with amendments, S. 104, to reform United States policy with 
regard to the management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-
level radioactive waste.
ELECTRIC UTILITIES DEREGULATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight 
hearings to discuss proposals to advance the goals of deregulation and 
competition in the electric power industry, receiving testimony from 
Joseph Dickey, Chief Operating Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority; 
Richard Munson, Northeast-Midwest Institute, Washington, D.C.; Robert 
Claussen, Alabama Municipal Electric Agency, Montgomery; Roy 
Hemmingway, Oregon Northwest Energy, Portland, on behalf of the 
Northwest Energy Review Transition Board; Glenn English, National Rural 
Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Virginia; Gary Zarker, 
Seattle City Light, Seattle, Washington, on behalf of the American 
Public Power Association; Missy Mandell, Lower Colorado River 
Authority, Austin, Texas, on behalf of the Large Public Power Council; 
Dick Snell, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona; and 
Don Meiners, Entergy Mississippi, Jackson, on behalf of TVA Watch.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 20.
NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation held hearings to examine 
the future of the National Park System and to identify the needs, 
requirements, and innovative programs that will improve and enhance the 
operations of the Park Service, receiving testimony from Jim Maddy, 
President, National Park Foundation; James M. Ridenour, Eppley 
Institute/University of Indiana, Bloomington; W. James Host, National 
Tour Association, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky; Charles M. Clusen, Natural 
Resources Defense Council, and Paul C. Pritchard, National Parks and 
Conservation Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Deanne Adams, 
Association of National Park Rangers, Seattle, Washington.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, March 20.
AUTHORIZATION--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing

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funds for programs of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency 
Act of 1991, receiving testimony from Senators Roth, Jeffords, and 
Biden; Michael P. Huerta, Associate Deputy Secretary of Transportation/
Director, Office of Intermodalism, Department of Transportation; Thomas 
M. Downs, President and CEO, National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
(Amtrak); Leslie White, C-Tran, Vancouver, Washington, on behalf of the 
American Public Transit Association; and Karen Borlaug Phillips, 
Association of American Railroads, William E. Loftus, American Short 
Line Railroad Association, and Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking 
Associations, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19.
CAPITAL GAINS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of 
capital gains taxation on the cost of capital, saving and investment, 
and economic growth, receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, former 
Chairman, Federal Reserve System, and Allen Sinai, Primark Decision 
Economics, Inc., both of New York, New York; Jack Kemp, Empower 
America, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Mark 
Bloomfield, American Council for Capital Formation, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health Care resumed hearings to 
examine the financial soundness of the Medicare program and its long-
term status, receiving testimony from Guy King, Ellicott City, 
Maryland, former Chief Actuary, Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; John C. Goodman, National 
Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Texas; David B. Kendall, 
Progressive Policy Institute, and Richard J. Davidson, American 
Hospital Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and Daniel H. Johnson, 
Jr., Metairie, Louisiana, on behalf of the American Medical 
Association.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ACDA/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations concluded hearings on the President's proposed budget 
request for fiscal year 1998 for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament 
Agency and certain international organizations and conferences, after 
receiving testimony from John D. Holum, Director, U.S. Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency; and Princeton N. Lyman, Acting Assistant Secretary 
of State for International Organization Affairs.
NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine issues with regard to the deployment of a national missile 
defense system by the United States and reductions to strategic 
offensive weapons in both the United States and Russia, after receiving 
testimony from Max M. Kampelman, Vice Chairman, U.S. Institute of 
Peace; and Keith B. Payne, Georgetown University School of Foreign 
Service, Washington, D.C., and Andrei Kortunov, Moscow Public Science 
Foundation, Russia, both on behalf of the National Institute for Public 
Policy.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began markup of S. 4, 
to provide private sector employees the same opportunities for time-
and-a-half compensatory time off, biweekly work programs, and flexible 
credit hour programs to help balance the demands and needs of work and 
family, and to clarify the provisions relating to exemptions of certain 
professionals from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, but did not complete action thereon, 
and recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued hearings in open 
and closed session 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 on Tuesday, March 18.