[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 50 (Thursday, April 24, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D382-D383]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration of the Department of Commerce, after 
receiving testimony from D. James Baker, Under Secretary of Commerce 
for Oceans and Atmosphere.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS/BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1998 for programs of the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of 
Reclamation, after receiving testimony from H. Martin Lancaster, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; Lt. Gen. Joe N. 
Ballard, Chief, and Maj. Gen. Russell L. Fuhrman, Director for Civil 
Works, both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Patricia J. 
Beneke, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Eluid L. 
Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, both of the Department 
of the Interior.
APPROPRIATIONS--ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1998, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Jane Alexander, Chairman, National Endowment for the 
Arts; and Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, National Endowment for the 
Humanities.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 1.
NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE ACT
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S. 7, to establish a United States policy for the deployment of a 
national missile defense system; and
  2,449 military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air 
Force.
ISTEA AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Intermodal 
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, focusing on truck safety issues, 
receiving testimony from Rodney E. Slater, Secretary of Transportation; 
Mayor Louis Bronaugh, Lufkin, Texas, on behalf of the Coalition Against 
Bigger Trucks; Warren Hoemann, Traffic Safety Alliance, Burlingame, 
California; Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking Associations, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Lisa Irwin, Michigan State Police, Lansing, on 
behalf of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance; and Steven 
Wellington, Mesa, Arizona, on behalf of Citizens for Reliable and Safe 
Highways (CRASH).
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--NASA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), after receiving testimony 
from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, Edward A. Frankle, General 
Counsel, and Malcolm Peterson, Comptroller, all of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Marcia Smith, Specialist in 
Aerospace and Telecommunications Policy, and Dave Radzanowski, Analyst 
in Aerospace Policy, both of the Congressional Research Service, 
Library of Congress; Kenneth F. Galloway, Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tennessee; and Jerry Grey, American Institute of Aeronautics 
and Astronautics, Reston, Virginia.
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety held hearings to examine 
the Environmental Protection Agency implementation and health effects 
of proposed revisions to the national ambient air quality standards for 
ozone and particulate matters, receiving testimony from Mary D. 
Nichols, Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, Environmental 
Protection Agency; Kenneth W. Chilton, Center for the Study of American 
Business/Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Thomas B. Starr, 
ENVIRON International Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina; Susan E. 
Dudley, Economists Incorporated, Alan J. Krupnick, Resources for the 
Future, and Paul C. Kerkhoven,

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American Highway Users Alliance, all of Washington, D.C.; Carl M. Shy, 
University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill; 
Morton Lippmann, New York University Medical Center, New York, New 
York; Benjamin Y. Cooper, Printing Industries of America, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Pat Leyden, South Coast Air Quality Management District, 
Diamond Bar, California; and Beverly Hartsock, Texas Natural Resource 
Conservation Commission, Austin.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 29.
HONG KONG
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine United States interests and 
policies toward Hong Kong, after receiving testimony from Jeffrey A. 
Bader, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs; William H. Overholt, Bankers Trust Company, Hong Kong; Andrew 
Y. Au, Alliance of Hong Kong Chinese in the United States, Greenbelt, 
Maryland; and Mike Jendrzejczyk, Human Rights Watch/Asia, Washington, 
D.C.
NOAA MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
resumed hearings on proposals to reorganize the Department of Commerce, 
focusing on management reforms at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, receiving testimony from Diana Josephson, Deputy Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere/National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration; Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Information 
Resources Management, Accounting and Information Management Division, 
General Accounting Office; Bryan J. Logan, Photo Science, Inc., 
Gaithersburg, Maryland, and John M. Palatiello, Reston, Virginia, both 
on behalf of the Management Association for Private Photogrammetric 
Surveyors; Kenneth S. Johnson, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories/
California State University, Moss Landing, on behalf of the University-
National Oceanographic Laboratory System; and Joel N. Myers, 
AccuWeather, Inc., State College, Pennsylvania.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the status of vocational education assistance and its role 
in workforce development and the Administration's views on reforming 
the Federal investment in vocational education, after receiving 
testimony from Patricia W. McNeil, Assistant Secretary of Education for 
Vocational and Adult Education; David Stern, University of California, 
Berkeley; Harris N. Miller, Information Technology Association of 
America, Arlington, Virginia; Paul F. Cole, American Federation of 
Teachers, Loudonville, New York; Rick Theders, Clark-Theders Insurance 
Group, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the American Vocational 
Association; Dan Hull, Center for Occupational Research and 
Development, Waco, Texas; and Larry Rosenstock, New Urban High School 
Project, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
GPO REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
review legislative recommendations on certain revisions to Title 44 of 
the U.S. Code which authorizes the Government Printing Office to 
provide permanent public access to Federal government information, 
receiving testimony from Michael F. DiMario, Public Printer, and George 
E. Lord, Chairman, Joint Council of Unions, both of the Government 
Printing Office; Royce C. Lamberth, United States District Judge for 
the District of Columbia; and William J. Boarman, Communications 
Workers of America, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 30.
SBA'S NON-CREDIT PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held oversight hearings on the 
success and failures of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) non-
credit and business development programs and the future direction of 
such programs, including initiatives in training young people for 
careers as entrepreneurs, receiving testimony from Jeanne Sclater, 
Acting Associate Deputy Administrator for Economic Development, Small 
Business Administration; Jean M. Buckley, Junior Achievement, Colorado 
Springs, Colorado; Terry Jarchow, Junior Achievement Mississippi 
Valley, Inc., Hazelwood, Missouri; Reginald G. Harmon, The Dream Team, 
St. Louis, Missouri; Marilyn L. Kourilsky, Ewing Marion Kauffman 
Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri; Michael D. Case, Case Custom 
Painting, Norborne, Missouri; Frederic W. Thomas, Service Corps of 
Retired Executives Association (SCORE), and Susan Eckerly, National 
Federation of Independent Business, both of Washington, D.C.; Sam 
Males, Nevada Small Business Development Center, Reno, on behalf of the 
Association of Small Business Development Centers; S. Terry Neese, 
Terry Neese Personnel Services and Terry Neese Temporaries, Oklahoma 
City, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National Association of Women Business 
Owners; Robert T. Creighton, Lynnfield, Massachusetts; Douglas P. 
Schoen, Ballwin, Missouri; Katie Sullivan, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Casey 
Collier, Shawnee, Kansas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.