[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 36 (Wednesday, March 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D268-D270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--SEC
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 Securities and Exchange 
Commission, receiving testimony from Arthur Levitt, Chairman, 
Securities and Exchange Commission.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for defense 
intelligence programs, receiving testimony from George J. Tenet, Acting 
Director, and Nora Slakin, Executive Director, both of the Central 
Intelligence Agency; and Gen. Patrick M. Hughes, USA, Director, Defense 
Intelligence Agency, Gen. Kenneth A. Minihan, USAF, Director, National 
Security Agency, and Keith R. Hall, Acting Director, National 
Reconnaissance Office, all of the Department of Defense.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
held hearings to examine the status of acquisition reform in the 
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from Paul G. Kaminski, Under 
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology; John W. Douglass, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and 
Acquisition; Lt. Gen. George Muellner, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; Kenneth Oscar, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement; Thomas J. Madden, 
Venable, Baetjer, Howard, and Civiletti, and Karen L. Wilson, Allied 
Signal, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; John Delane, DELJEN, Inc., 
Rolling Hills Estates, California; and Bert M. Concklin, Professional 
Services Council, Vienna, Virginia.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--MILITARY READINESS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, focusing on 
military readiness accounts, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Thomas 
A. Braaten, USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Programs and 
Resources, Headquarters Marine Corps; Rear Adm. James S. Amerault, USN, 
Director, Office of Budget/Fiscal Management Division; Maj. Gen. Roger 
G. Thompson, Jr., USA, Director of Army Budget, Office of Assistant 
Secretary of the Army for Financial Management; and Maj. Gen. George T. 
Stringer, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget, Office of 
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force/Financial Management Comptroller.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower held hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Department of Defense and the future years defense program, receiving 
testimony from John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for 
Research, Development and Acquisition; and Gen. Charles C. Krulak, 
Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  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 Department of Energy weapons programs, receiving testimony 
from Victor H. Reis, Assistant Secretary, Defense Program, Department 
of Defense; Gen. Eugene E. Habiger, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. 
Strategic Command; Sigfried S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National 
Laboratory, C. Paul Robinson, President, Sandia National Laboratories, 
and Bruce Tarter, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, all 
of the Department of Energy; Ambrose Schwallie, Westinghouse/Savannah 
River Corporation, Aiken, South Carolina; Karen K. Clegg, Allied 
Signal, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; F.P. Gustavson, Lockheed Martin 
Energy Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and William Weinreich, Mason 
Hanger/Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

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1998 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee met to discuss certain functions of 
the proposed fiscal year 1998 budget resolution.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
PRO-CODE ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on S. 377, to promote electronic commerce by facilitating the 
use of strong encryption, receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, 
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; 
William P. Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency, 
Department of Defense; William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary, Bureau of 
Export Administration, Department of Commerce; David L. Aaron, United 
States Permanent Representative to the Organization for Economic 
Cooperation and Development; James Barksdale, Netscape Communications, 
Inc., Mountain View, California; Edward J. Black, Computer 
Communications Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; and Joseph R. 
Kretz, FMC Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
UNIVERSAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications 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 Gene Kimmelman, Consumers Union, 
Washington, D.C.; Jay Kitchen, Personal Communications Industry 
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Joan Mandeville, Montana Telephone 
Association, Great Falls; and Donn Wonnell, Pacific Telcom, Inc., 
Vancouver, Washington.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure resumed hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Intermodal Surface 
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, focusing on environmental 
programs and statewide and metropolitan planning, receiving testimony 
from Jane F. Garvey, Acting Administrator, Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation; David M. Gardiner, 
Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Evaluation, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas Walker, Wisconsin Road Builders 
Association, Madison, on behalf of the American Road and Transportation 
Builders Association; Hal Hiemstra, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Meg 
Maguire, Scenic America, and Hank Dittmar, Surface Transportation 
Policy Project, all of Washington, D.C.; Leon S. Kenison, New Hampshire 
Department of Transportation, Concord; Lawrence D. Dahms, Oakland 
Metropolitan Transportation Commission, Oakland, California; M. Michael 
Cooke, Board of Douglas County Commissioners, Castle Rock, Colorado; 
Guillermo V. Vidal, Colorado Department of Transportation, Denver; and 
Timothy S. Stowe, Anderson and Associates, Blacksburg, Virginia, on 
behalf of the American Consulting Engineers Council.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE CHOICES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine proposals to 
improve choices under the Medicare program, receiving testimony from 
Bruce C. Vladeck, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Michael J. Thompson, Price 
Waterhouse, on behalf of the American Academy of Actuaries, and Diane 
Archer, Medicare Rights Center, both of New York, New York; and Mary 
Lou Martin, Blue Cross of California, Long Beach, on behalf of the 
Health Insurance Association of America and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield 
Association.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee announced the following 
subcommittee assignments:
  Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal 
Services: Senators Cochran (Chair), Stevens, Collins, Domenici, 
Nickles, Specter, Levin, Akaka, Durbin, Torricelli, and Cleland.
  Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and 
the District of Columbia: Senators Brownback (Chair), Roth, Specter, 
Lieberman, and Cleland.
  Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Collins (Chair), 
Roth, Stevens, Brownback, Domenici, Cochran, Nickles, Specter, Glenn, 
Levin, Lieberman, Akaka, Durbin, Torricelli, and Cleland.
JUVENILE CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
efforts by private individuals, community organizations, and religious 
groups to prevent juvenile crime, after receiving testimony from Steve 
Young, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the Sport, Education & 
Values Foundation; Kery Oldroyd and Amador Guzman, both of the Boys & 
Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Utah; Rev. Jeffrey L. 
Brown, Union Baptist Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the

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Ten Point Coalition of Boston; Mary Lyman Jackson, Exodus Youth 
Services, Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland; and Father Joseph Del Vecchio, 
Archdiocese of Washington, Washington, D.C.
INTERNET CRIMES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the scope of 
Internet crimes affecting consumers and the Federal response, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Leahy; Robert S. Litt, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Charles L. Owens, 
Chief, Financial Crimes Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both 
of the Department of Justice; Michael C. Stenger, Special Agent in 
Charge, Financial Crimes Division, U.S. Secret Service, Department of 
the Treasury; and Wisconsin Attorney General James E. Doyle, Madison.
FDA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on 
proposals to reform the performance, efficiency, and use of resources 
of the Food and Drug Administration, receiving testimony from Michael 
A. Friedman, Lead Deputy Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner for 
Operations, D. Bruce Burlington, Director, Center for Devices and 
Radiological Health, Fred R. Shank, Director, Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition, Stephen F. Sundlof, Director, Center for 
Veterinary Medicine, Janet Woodcock, Director, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research, and Kathryn C. Zoon, Director, Center for 
Biologics Evaluation and Research, all of the Food and Drug 
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.