[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 45 (Wednesday, April 16, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D342-D344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for defense programs, 
focusing on the Department of the Army, receiving testimony from Togo 
D. West, Jr., Secretary, and Gen. Dennis J. Reimer, Chief of Staff, 
both of the Department of the Army.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 23.

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APPROPRIATIONS--FCC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1998 for the Federal Communications Commission, receiving 
testimony from Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, Federal Communications 
Commission.
  Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related 
Agencies held hearings on aviation safety and security issues, 
receiving testimony from Carl Vogt, White House Commission on Aviation 
Safety and Security; James E. Hall, Chairman, National Transportation 
Safety Board; and Barry L. Valentine, Acting Administrator, Susan 
Kurland, Airports, Cathal Flynn, Civil Aviation Security, Monte Belger, 
Deputy Administrator, George Donahue, Research and Acquisitions, and 
Guy Gardner, Regulation and Certification, all of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, Department of Transportation.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1998 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony 
from Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education; Nevada Governor Bob 
Miller, Carson City; Ohio Governor George Voinovich, Columbus; Robert 
Reiner, Castle Rock Entertainment, Hollywood, California; and Bruce 
Perry, Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces 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 tactical aircraft modernization plans, receiving testimony from 
Cindy L. Williams, Assistant Director, National Security Division, 
Congressional Budget Office; George R. Schneiter, Director, Strategic 
and Tactical Systems, and William J. Lynn III, Director, Program 
Analysis and Evaluation, both of the Department of Defense; Arthur L. 
Money, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition; and Norman 
R. Augustine, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces held open 
and closed 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 information warfare programs, policies, and issues, 
receiving testimony from Joan A. Dempsey, Acting Principal Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, 
and Intelligence; Lt. Gen. Peter Pace, USMC, Director for Operations, 
(J-3), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Douglas D. 
Buchholz, USA, Director for Command, Control, Communications, and 
Computers (J-6), Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Kenneth 
A. Minihan, USAF, Director, National Security Agency; and Maj. Gen. 
David J. Kelly, USA, Vice Director, Defense Information Systems Agency.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's 
proposed budget for fiscal year 1998 for Federally-funded research and 
development projects and to examine associated trends, receiving 
testimony from John H. Gibbons, Assistant to the President for Science 
and Technology and Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy; 
Albert Teich, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 
Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Lewis M. Branscomb, Harvard University, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EDUCATION TAX REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine certain higher 
education tax incentives as contained in the President's proposed 
budget request for fiscal year 1998, and related provisions of S. 1, S. 
127, and S. 559, receiving testimony from Senators Coverdell, Graham, 
McConnell, and Biden; Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the 
Treasury; Mississippi State Treasurer Marshall G. Bennett, Jackson, on 
behalf of the National Association of State Treasurers; Jennifer Long, 
State University of New York at Buffalo, on behalf of the American 
Association of Dental Schools and the American Dental Association; C. 
Tyler Mathisen, Money Magazine, New York, New York; John S. Barry, 
Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.; David W. Breneman, University of 
Virginia, Charlottesville; Michael S. McPherson, Macalester College, 
St. Paul, Minnesota; and Kathleen Thompson, Tracor, Inc., Rockville,

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Maryland, on behalf of the American Electronics Association and the 
Society for Human Resource Management.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CENSUS 2000
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to examine 
the constitutionality of the Census Bureau's current plans for 
estimating the year 2000 census, receiving testimony from Stuart M. 
Gerson, former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department 
of Justice; Wisconsin Attorney General James E. Doyle, Madison; 
Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and 
Charles L. Schultze, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to discuss the influence of certain television 
programming on children's language development, reading skills, 
attention span, and attitudes toward violence, sexuality, and other 
behaviors, and the Federal Government's role in improving the content 
of programming, after receiving testimony from Senator DeWine; Dale 
Kunkel, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jeffrey I. Cole, UCLA 
Center for Community Policy, Los Angeles, California; Helen K. 
Liebowitz, National PTA Board of Directors, Chicago, Illinois; Whitney 
G. Vanderwerff, National Alliance for Non-violent Programming, 
Greensboro, North Carolina; Michael Brody, American Academy of Child 
and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington, D.C.; and David Walsh, National 
Institute on Media and the Family, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
CRIME VICTIMS RIGHTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S.J. Res. 6, 
proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
protect the rights of crime victims, receiving testimony from 
Representatives Scott and Pryce; Janet Reno, Attorney General, 
Department of Justice; Wisconsin Attorney General James E. Doyle, 
Madison; Kansas Attorney General Carla J. Stovall, Topeka; Barbara 
LaWall, Office of the Pima County Attorney, Tucson, Arizona; Robert J. 
Humphreys, Office of the Commonwealth Attorney for Virginia Beach, 
Virginia, on behalf of the Virginia Association of Commonwealth's 
Attorneys; Paul G. Cassell, University of Utah College of Law, Salt 
Lake City; Donna F. Edwards, National Network to End Domestic Violence, 
Washington, D.C.; John Walsh, ``America's Most Wanted'', Arlington, 
Virginia; Marsha A. Kight, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Lynne 
Henderson, Bloomington, Indiana.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
JUVENILE CRIME
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
hearings to examine the trend in violent juvenile crime and certain 
issues regarding the juvenile justice system, focusing on the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation's role in identifying juveniles and providing 
criminal history record information to criminal justice agencies, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Ashcroft; Charles W. Archer, Assistant 
Director, Criminal Justice Information Services Division, Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; John F. Butler, Circuit 
Judge, Juvenile Division, Juvenile Court of Mobile County, Alabama; 
Melvin Brown, Jr., Montgomery County Probation Department, Montgomery 
County, Texas; James Wootton, Safe Streets Coalition, Washington, D.C.; 
Vicki L. Wright, Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, Austin; Sheriff 
Edmund M. Sexton, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; and Kenneth W. Sukhia, 
Tallahassee, Florida.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Higher 
Education Act, focusing on how colleges and universities are using new 
technologies to extend the classroom beyond their campuses (distance 
learning), receiving testimony from Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt, 
Salt Lake City, on behalf of the Western Governors University; William 
H. Graves, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Muriel 
Oaks, Washington State University, Pullman, both on behalf of the 
American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the American 
Council on Education, and the National Association of State 
Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; William A. Wulf, National Academy 
of Engineering, Washington, D.C.; and David B. House, Saint Joseph's 
College of Maine, Standish.
  Hearings will resume on Wednesday, April 23.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.