[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 42 (Thursday, April 10, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D319-D321]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
FEDERAL AGRICULTURE IMPROVEMENT AND REFORM ACT IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Risk Management and Specialty 
Crops held a hearing to review the implementation of the risk 
management provisions in the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform 
Act of 1996. Testimony was heard from Brooksley Born, Chairperson, 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Kenneth D. Ackerman, Acting 
Administrator, Risk Management Agency, USDA; and public witnesses.
COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State 
and Judiciary held a hearing on the Census and Statistical Programs, 
Commerce Department, and on the Immigration and Border Security. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of 
Commerce: Everett M. Ehrlich, Under Secretary, Economic Affairs, and 
Martha Farnsworth Riche, Director, Bureau of Census; the following 
officials of the Department of Justice: Doris Meissner, Commissioner, 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Anthony C. Moscato, 
Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review; and Mary A. Ryan, 
Assistant Secretary, Consular Affairs, Department of State.
INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on 
the National Park Service and on the Indian Health Service. Testimony 
was heard from Denis P. Galvin, Acting Deputy Director, National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior; and Michael H. Trujillo, M.D., 
Assistant Surgeon General and Director, Indian Health Service, 
Department of Health and Human Services.
LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held a hearing on Enforcement Agencies (OSHA, 
MSHA, ESA); Office of Inspector General, on the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics and on the Pension Agencies (PBGC and PWBA). Testimony was 
heard from the following officials of the Department of Labor: Gregory 
R. Watchman, Acting Assistant Secretary, OSHA; J. Davitt McAteer, 
Assistant Secretary, Mine Safety and Health Administration; Bernard E. 
Anderson, Assistant Secretary, Emergency Standards Administration; A. 
Charles C. Masten, Inspector General; Patricia A. Dalton, Deputy 
Inspector General; F. M. Broadway, Assistant Inspector General, 
Investigation; John J. Getek, Assistant Inspector General, Audit; 
Sylvia T. Horowitz, Assistant Inspector General, Management and 
Counsel; Katharine G. Abraham, Commissioner, and William G. Barron, 
Jr., Deputy Commissioner, both with the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and 
Kenneth V. Dalton, Associate Commissioner, Prices and Living 
Conditions; Daniel J. Lacey, Associate Commissioner, Administration; 
Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary, Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration; and James E. McMullen, Deputy Assistant Secretary, 
Budget; and John Seal, Acting Executive Director, Pension Benefit 
Guaranty Corporation.
NATIONAL SECURITY APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on National Security met in 
executive session to hold a hearing on the National Reconnaissance 
Program. Testimony was heard from Keith Hall, Director, National 
Reconnaissance Program, Department of Defense.
VA-HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent 
Agencies held a hearing on the NSF. Testimony was heard from Neal Lane, 
Director, NSF.
COMMON CENTS STOCK PRICING ACT
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials 
held a hearing on H.R. 1053, Common Cents Stock Pricing Act of 1997. 
Testimony was heard from Steven M.H. Wallman, Commissioner, SEC; and 
public witnesses.
  Hearings continue April 16.
EPA'S PROPOSED OZONE AND PARTICULATE MATTER NAAQS REVISIONS
Committee on Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and Environment and the 
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a joint hearing on 
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EPA's Proposed Ozone and Particulate Matter NAAQS Revisions. Testimony 
was heard from public witnesses.
  Hearings continue April 17.
PROTOCOL FOR DOCUMENTS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Approved a Document 
Protocol setting forth the procedures to be followed by the Committee 
and its Subcommittees, for obtaining, storing and releasing of 
documents and other materials. This Protocol shall apply only to 
Committee and Subcommittee investigation of political fund-raising 
improprieties and possible violations of law by persons or entities 
within the Committee's oversight jurisdiction and to documents and 
materials obtained during the investigation by Committee subpoena or 
letter request. The Protocol shall not apply to any other oversight 
conducted by the Committee or any Subcommittee unless specifically 
adopted by decision of the Chairman or by vote of the Committee.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD EGYPT
Committee on International Relations: Held a hearing on U.S. Policy 
toward Egypt. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.
FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION
Committee on International Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations and Human Rights approved for full Committee action amended 
H.R. 1253, Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1998 and 
1999.
OVERSIGHT--PRODUCT LIABILITY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Held an oversight hearing regarding Product 
Liability Reform. Testimony was heard from Representative Campbell; Tom 
Miller, Attorney General, State of Iowa; and public witnesses.
MORALE, WELFARE AND RECREATION SYSTEM
Committee on National Security: Morale, Welfare and Recreation Panel 
held a hearing on the morale, welfare and recreation system. Testimony 
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: 
Frederick F.Y. Pang, Assistant Secretary (Force Management Policy); 
Brig. Gen. Evan R. Gaddis, USA, Commander, U.S. Army Community and 
Family Support Center; Rear Adm. Larry R. Marsh, USN, Assistant Chief 
of Naval Personnel, Personnel Readiness and Community Support; Arthur 
Myers, Deputy Director, Services and Director of Resources Management 
and Oversight, DCS Installations and Logistics, U.S. Air Force; and 
Mike Tharrington, Acting Director, MWR Program, U.S. Marine Corps.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION REQUIREMENTS
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Installations 
and Facilities held a hearing on the long-term planning for military 
construction requirements. Testimony was heard from John Hamre, Under 
Secretary (Comptroller), Department of Defense.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION REQUEST
Committee on National Security: Subcommittee on Military Procurement 
held a hearing on the fiscal year 1998 Department of Energy 
authorization request and related matters. Testimony was heard from the 
following officials of the Department of Defense: Federico R. Pena, 
Secretary-Designate; Victor H. Reis, Assistant Secretary, Defense 
Programs; Alvin L. Alm, Assistant Secretary, Environmental Management; 
and Kenneth E. Baker, Acting Director, Office of Nonproliferation and 
National Security; Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National 
Laboratories; C. Paul Robinson, President and Laboratories Director, 
Sandia National Laboratories; Bruce C. Tarter, Director, Lawrence 
Livermore National Laboratory; and public witnesses.
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Resources: Held a hearing on H.R. 478, to amend the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 to improve the ability of individuals 
and local, State, and Federal agencies to comply with that act in 
building, operating, maintaining, or repairing flood control projects, 
facilities, or structures. Testimony was heard from Michael L. Davis, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Army (Civil Works) Policy and Legislation, 
Department of Defense; John R. Garamendi, Deputy Secretary, Department 
of the Interior; and public witnesses.
INTERNATIONAL DOLPHIN CONSERVATION
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife, and Oceans approved for full Committee action H.R. 408, to 
amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 to support the 
International Dolphin Conservation Program in the eastern tropical 
Pacific Ocean.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, and Public 
Lands approved for full Committee action amended H.R. 449, to provide 
for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands in Clark County,

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NV, and to provide for the acquisition of environmentally sensitive 
lands in the State of Nevada.
  The Subcommittee also held a hearing on the following bills, H.R. 
765, to ensure maintenance of wild horses in Cape Lookout National 
Seashore; and H.R. 136, to amend the National Parks and Recreation Act 
of 1978 to designate the Majority Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and to 
amend the Everglades National Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989 
to designate the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center. Testimony was heard from 
Maureen Finnerty, Associate Director, Park Operations and Education, 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and public 
witnesses.
NASA AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics concluded 
hearings on fiscal year 1998 NASA Authorization: Science Programs. 
Testimony was heard from the following officials of NASA: Wesley T. 
Huntress, Jr., Associate Administrator, Office of Space Science; 
Arnauld E. Nicogossian, Associate Administrator, Office of Life and 
Microgravity Sciences and Applications; and Neal Pellis, Head, 
Biotechnology Program, Johnson Space Center; Eugene Shoemaker, 
Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; 
and public witnesses.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY FUNDING NEEDS
Committee on Science: Subcommittee on Technology concluded hearings on 
funding needs for the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Part 2. Testimony was heard from Allen Li, Associate Director, Energy, 
Resources, and Science Issues, GAO; and public witnesses.
FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS
Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing to examine the proposed 
redrafting of Section 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). 
Testimony was heard from Steven Kelman, Administrator, Office of 
Federal Procurement Policy, OMB; Jere Glover, Chief Counsel for 
Advocacy, SBA; and public witnesses.
ETHICS REFORM
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Task Force on Ethics Reform 
met in executive session to continue discussions on Ethics Reform.
SUPERFUND REAUTHORIZATION AND REFORM
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure: Subcommittee on Water 
Resources and Environment held a hearing on Superfund Reauthorization 
and Reform: Perspectives of Interested Parties. Testimony was heard 
from the following officials of the EPA: Steven A. Herman, Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance; and 
Timothy Fields, Jr., Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid 
Waste and Emergency Response; James C. Coleman, Assistant Commissioner, 
Waste Site Cleanup, Department of Environmental Protection, State of 
Massachusetts; Douglas H. Palmer, Mayor, Trenton, New Jersey; and 
public witnesses.
REHABILITATION AND LONG-TERM HOSPITALS PAYMENTS
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on 
Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Hospitals Payments. Testimony was 
heard from Representative LoBiondo; Barbara O. Wynn, Acting Director, 
Bureau of Policy Development, Health Care Financing Administration, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Joseph P. Newhouse, Chairman, 
Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; and public witnesses.
FUTURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security continued 
hearings on the Future of Social Security for this Generation and the 
Next. Testimony was heard from Jane L. Ross, Director, Income Security 
Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services Division, GAO; David 
Koitz, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare 
Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and 
public witnesses.
BUDGET--ANALYSIS AND PRODUCTION
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to 
hold a Budget hearing--Analysis and Production. Testimony was heard 
from departmental witnesses.