[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 44 (Tuesday, April 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D334-D337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[D15AP7-13]D334 NOMINATION
NOMINATIONS
[D15AP7-14]D334 Committee
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of Lowell Lee Junkins, of Iowa, to be a 
Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage 
Corporation, Farm Credit Administration, and Ann Jorgenson, of Iowa, to be a 
Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board.
[D15AP7-15]D334 IRS USE OF
IRS USE OF TAXPAYERS' FILES
[D15AP7-16]D334 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government held hearings to examine alleged Internal Revenue Service 
employees misuse of taxpayers' files, receiving testimony from Senator 
Glenn; Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary, Valerie Lau, Inspector 
General, and Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner, Internal Revenue 
Service, all of the Department of the Treasury; and Rona B. Stillman, Chief 
Scientist for Computers and Telecommunications, General Accounting Office.
[D15AP7-17]D334 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 17.
[D15AP7-18]D334 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
[D15AP7-19]D334 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, 
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1998 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf 
of funds for their respective activities from Jill Long Thompson, Under 
Secretary for Rural Development, Wally Beyer, Administrator, Rural Utilities 
Service, Jan E. Shadburn, Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service, 
Dayton J. Watkins, Administrator, Rural Business Cooperative Service, W. 
Bruce Crain, Executive Director, Alternative Agricultural Research and 
Commercialization Corporation, and Dennis Kaplan, Budget Officer, all of the 
Department of Agriculture.
[D15AP7-20]D334 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22.
[D15AP7-21]D334 APPROPRIAT
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY CORPS/BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
[D15AP7-22]D334 Committee
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Army 
Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, focusing on the Bonneville 
Power Administration, receiving testimony from Randy Hardy, Administrator, 
Bonneville Power Administration; Brig. Gen. Robert H. Griffin, North Pacific 
Division Commander of the Army Corps of Engineers; and John Keys, Pacific 
Northwest Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior.
[D15AP7-23]D334 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22.
[D15AP7-24]D334 AUTHORIZAT
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
[D15AP7-25]D334 Committee
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Acquisition and Technology 
resumed 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 the 
trends in the industrial and technology base supporting national defense, 
receiving testimony from Representative Christopher Smith; Robert Pitofsky, 
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; John B. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary 
(Industrial Affairs and Installations), and Eleanor R. Spector, Director of 
Defense Procurement, Office of the Under Secretary (Acquisition and 
Technology), both of the Department of Defense; David E. Cooper, Associate 
Director for Defense Acquisition Issues, National Security-Foreign Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; Pierre Chao, Morgan Stanley Equity 
Research, New York, New York; and Danielle Brian, Project on Government 
Oversight, and Don Fuqua, Aerospace Industries Association, both of 
Washington, D.C.
[D15AP7-26]D334 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
[D15AP7-27]D334 AUTHORIZAT
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
[D15AP7-28]D334 Committee
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness resumed 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, and S. 451, to authorize 
construction at certain military installations for fiscal year 1998, and for 
other military construction authorizations and activities of the Department 
of Defense, focusing on

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environmental and military construction issues, receiving testimony from 
Sherri W. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary for Environmental Security, and 
John S. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary for Industrial Affairs and 
Installations, both of the Department of Defense; Jan B. Reltman, Staff 
Director, Environment and Safety, HQ Defense Logistics Agency; Raymond J. 
Fatz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Occupational 
Health, and Paul Johnson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations, 
Logistics and Environment, both for the Department of the Army; Robert B. 
Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installation and 
Environment; and Thomas W. McCall, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for 
Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health, and Jimmy G. Dishner, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary for Installations, both for the Air Force.
[D15AP7-29]D335 Subcommitt
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 17.
[D15AP7-30]D335 CHEMICAL W
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
[D15AP7-31]D335 Committee
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on the 
ratification of 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 William 
A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Bruce 
Merrifield, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce; Frederick Webber, 
Chemical Manufacturers Association, and Kevin L. Kearns, United States 
Business and Industrial Council, both of Washington, D.C.; Malcolm S. 
Forbes, Jr., Forbes, Inc., New York, New York; Wayne Spears, Spears 
Manufacturing Company, Burbank, California; Ralph V. Johnson, Dixie Chemical 
Company, Inc., Houston, Texas; and Kathleen C. Bailey, University of 
California, Livermore.
[D15AP7-32]D335 Hearings w
  Hearings will resume on Thursday, April 17.
[D15AP7-33]D335 U.S.-JAPAN
U.S.-JAPAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP
[D15AP7-34]D335 Committee
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the United States' bilateral 
relationship with Japan, after receiving testimony from Robert C. Reis, 
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific 
Affairs; Kurt M. Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian 
and Pacific Affairs; Nathaniel B. Thayer, Johns Hopkins University, Michael 
H. Armacost, Brookings Institution, and Arthur J. Alexander, Japan Economic 
Institute of America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Ira Wolf, Eastman Kodak 
Company, Tokyo, Japan, on behalf of the American Chamber of Commerce in 
Japan.
[D15AP7-35]D335 IMMIGRANT
IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS
[D15AP7-36]D335 Committee
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded hearings 
to examine the contributions to the United States from legal immigrants, 
focusing on how immigrants increase consumer spending and job growth and 
create jobs through entrepreneurship, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Hatch; Ovidiu Colea, Colbar Art, Inc., Long Island, New York; John Tu and 
Gary D. MacDonald, Kingston Technology Company, Fountain Valley, California; 
Mara M. Letica, Letica Corporation, Rochester, Michigan; Adrian A. Gaspar, 
Adrian A. Gaspar and Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Jimy M. Sanders, 
University of South Carolina at Columbia.
[D15AP7-37]D335 FEDERAL JO
FEDERAL JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS
[D15AP7-38]D335 Committee
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and 
Training resumed oversight hearings to review the effectiveness of Federal 
job training programs and changes needed to meet the skill demands in a 
competitive marketplace, focusing on innovations in adult job training, 
receiving testimony from Jacki Bessler-Perasso, Oregon Job Training 
Partnership Administration, Salem; Donald W. Ingwerson, Los Angeles County 
Office of Education, Downey, California; Peter McLaughlin, Hennepin County 
Commission, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National Association of 
Counties and the Association of Minnesota Counties; Daniel Berry, Cleveland 
Growth Association, Cleveland, Ohio; Ronald C. Foster, Washington, D.C., and 
Pamela Denise Brown, New York, New York, both of United Parcel Service; and 
Kenneth E. Tully and Marlene Gray, both of Marriott International, Inc., and 
Kristin Watkins, Wider Opportunities for Women, all of Washington, D.C.
[D15AP7-39]D335 Hearings w
  Hearings will resume on Thursday, April 17.
[D15AP7-40]D336 SENATE ELE

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SENATE ELECTIONS
[D15AP7-41]D336 Committee
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings to 
review certain petitions filed in connection with a contested United States 
Senate election held in Louisiana in November 1996, after receiving 
testimony from Mark K. Seifert, Washington, D.C.; Louis Jenkins, Baton 
Rouge, Louisiana; and G. Anthony Gelderman, III, Tarcza and Gelderman, and 
Scott R. Bickford, Martzell and Bickford, both of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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                        House of Representatives

[D15AP7-43]D337 Chamber Ac
Chamber Action
Bills Introduced: 20 public bills, H.R. 1321-1340; 1 private bill, H.R. 
1341; and 3 resolutions, H.J. Res. 71 and H. Con. Res. 61-62, were 
introduced.
  Pages H1541-42
Reports Filed: No reports were filed today.
Recess: The House recessed at 10:51 a.m. and reconvened at 12:00 noon. 
                                                                  Page H1459
Suspensions: The House voted to suspend the rules and pass the following 
measures:
  Taxpayer Browsing Protection Act: H.R. 1226, amended, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prevent the unauthorized inspection of tax 
returns or tax return information (passed by a yea-and-nay vote of 412 yeas 
with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 76);
  Pages H1461-67, H1490
  Family Tax Relief: H. Res. 109, expressing the sense of the House of 
Representatives that American families deserve tax relief (agreed to by a 
yea-and-nay vote of 412 yeas with none voting ``nay'', Roll No. 77); 
                                                    Pages H1467-71, H1490-91
  Terms of Health Care Commissions: H.R. 1001, to extend the term of 
appointment of certain members of the Prospective Payment Assessment 
Commission and the Physician Payment Review Commission; and
  Page H1471
  Lawsuits Against Terrorist States: H.R. 1225, to make a technical 
correction to title 28, United States Code, relating to jurisdiction for 
lawsuits against terrorist states.
  Page H1472
Presidential Message--Argentina: Read a message from the President wherein 
he transmits his determination that Argentina fails to provide effective 
means under its laws for foreign nationals to secure, exercise, and enforce 
exclusive rights in intellectual property; and his resultant determination 
to withdraw benefits for 50 percent (approximately $260 million) of 
Argentina's exports under the Generalized System of Preference (GSP) 
program--referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered printed (H. 
Doc. 105-66).
  Pages H1472-73
Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment: By a yea-and-nay vote of 233 yeas 
to 190 nays with two-thirds required for passage, Roll No. 78, the House 
failed to pass H.J. Res. 62, as amended pursuant to the rule, proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States with respect to tax 
limitations.
  Pages H1480-90, H1491-H1506
[D15AP7-44]D337 H. Res. 11
  H. Res. 113, the rule providing for consideration of the joint resolution, 
was agreed to earlier by a voice vote. The rule provided that an amendment 
in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text recommended by the 
Committee on the Judiciary now printed in H.J. Res. 62 (H. Rept. 105-50) and 
modified by the amendment specified in the report (H. Rept. 105-54) of the 
Committee on Rules accompanying H. Res. 113 shall be considered as adopted. 
                                                              Pages H1473-80
Committee Resignation: Read a letter from Representative Jones wherein he 
resigns from the Committee on Small Business.
  Page H1506
Quorum Calls--Votes: Three yea-and-nay votes developed during the 
proceedings of the House today and appear on pages H1490, H1490-91, and 
H1506. There were no quorum calls.
Adjournment: Met at 10:30 a.m. and adjourned at 11:20 p.m.
[D15AP7-45]D337 Committee