[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 40 (Tuesday, April 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D301-D302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1998, receiving testimony in behalf of funds 
for their respective activities from Dallas R. Smith, Acting Under 
Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Bruce R. Weber, 
Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency, August Schumacher, 
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Christopher E. Goldthwait, 
General Sales Manager, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Acting Administrator, Risk 
Management Agency, and Dennis Kaplan, Deputy Director for Budget, 
Legislative, and Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of 
Agriculture.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine 
child pornography issues, focusing on the sexual exploitation of 
children through the Internet and on-line services, after receiving 
testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Wade B. Houk, Assistant 
Director in Charge of Finance, and Robert M. Bryant, Assistant 
Director,

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Criminal Investigative Division, all of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, Department of Justice; and Ernest E. Allen, National 
Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Arlington, Virginia.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1998 for the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from 
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, EPA.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings on S. 450, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, focusing 
on active and reserve military and civilian personnel programs and the 
Defense Health Program, after receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, 
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Sara E. Lister, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; 
Bernard Rostker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and 
Reserve Affairs; and Rodney A. Coleman, Assistant Secretary of the Air 
Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Installations and Environment.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower held hearings on 
S. 450, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, focusing on 
submarine development and procurement programs and global submarine 
threat, receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; John W. Douglass, 
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and 
Acquisition; Vice Adm. Donald L. Pilling, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval 
Operations, Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments; Rear Adm. 
Robert E. Frick, USN, Program Executive Officer for Submarines; and 
Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer, USN, Director of Naval Intelligence.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the 
Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling 
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for 
signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 
(Treaty Doc. 103-21), receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, 
Secretary of State; and Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, and Caspar 
Weinberger, each a former Secretary of Defense.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
RUSSIA-NATO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs 
concluded closed hearings to examine the Russia-Nato relationship after 
the Helsinki Summit, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, 
Deputy Secretary of State; and Jan M. Lodal, Principal Deputy Under 
Secretary of Defense for Policy.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN JUVENILE JUSTICE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 through 2001 to 
provide assistance to Indian tribes for juvenile justice and 
delinquency prevention programs under the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, after receiving testimony from 
Thomas L. LeClaire, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of 
Justice; Thomas S. Begich, Washington, D.C., and Larry Blackhair, Fort 
Duchesne, Utah, both on behalf of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice; 
and Mary V. Thomas, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona.