[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 29, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D399-D401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY ACT REPEAL
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings on S. 621, to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 
1935 and transfer residual regulatory authority from the Securities and 
Exchange Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and 
State public service commissions, receiving testimony from Senator 
Murkowski; Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., Commissioner, Securities and Exchange 
Commission; Susan Tomasky, General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, Department of Energy; Robert W. Gee, Public Utility 
Commission of Texas, Austin, on behalf of the National Association of 
Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Ronald J. Tanski, National Fuel Gas 
Distribution Corporation, Buffalo, New York; Ferd. C. Meyer, Jr., 
Central and South West Corporation, Dallas, Texas; Les E. LoBaugh, Jr., 
Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, California; Mark N. Cooper, Consumer 
Federation of America, Washington, D.C.; and Larry A. Frimerman, Ohio 
Consumers' Counsel,

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Columbus, on behalf of the National Association of State Utility 
Consumer Advocates.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIR BAG SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine automobile air bag safety issues, after receiving 
testimony from James E. Hall, Chairman, Elaine B. Weinstein, Chief, 
Safety Studies Division, Office of Research and Engineering, and Barry 
M. Sweedler, Director, Office of Safety Recommendations, all of the 
National Transportation Safety Board; and Ricardo Martinez, 
Administrator, Philip R. Recht, Deputy Administrator, and James H. 
Hedlund, Traffic Safety Programs, all of the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation.
TONGASS LAND MANAGEMENT PLAN
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings to review a General Accounting Office evaluation of 
the Tongass National Forest land management planning process as 
implemented by the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, after 
receiving testimony from Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, and Charles 
Cotton, Assistant Director, both of Energy, Resources, and Science 
Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, Angela 
Sanders, Program Evaluator (Seattle, Washington), and Ned Smith, 
Program Evaluator, all of the General Accounting Office.
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety resumed oversight 
hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency implementation 
and health and economic effects of proposed revisions to the national 
ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matters, 
receiving testimony from Mayor Emma Jean Hull, Benton Harbor, Michigan; 
Mayor Richard P. Homrighausen, Dover, Ohio; Maryland Delegate Leon G. 
Billings, Annapolis; New Hampshire State Senator Richard L. Russman, 
Exeter; John Selph, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, on behalf of the National 
Association of Regional Councils; Robert C. Junk, Jr., Pennsylvania 
Farmers Union, Harrisburg, on behalf of the National Farmers Union; Bob 
L. Vice, California Farm Bureau Federation, Sacramento, on behalf of 
the American Farm Bureau Federation; Paul Hansen, Izaak Walton League 
of America, Gaithersburg, Maryland; Kevin P. Fennelly, National Jewish 
Medical and Research Center, Denver, Colorado; Christopher M. Grande, 
International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society, Baltimore, 
Maryland; Harry C. Alford, National Black Chamber of Commerce, and 
Jeffrey C. Smith, Institute of Clean Air Companies, Inc., both of 
Washington, D.C.; Frank Herhold, Marine Industries Association of South 
Florida, Ft. Lauderdale, on behalf of the National Marine Manufacturers 
Association; and Glenn Heilman, Heilman Pavement Specialties, Inc., 
Freeport, Pennsylvania.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FLANK DOCUMENT TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
ratification of the Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the 
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 
1990, adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996 (``the Flank Document'') 
(Treaty Doc. 105-5), after receiving testimony from Lynn E. Davis, 
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security 
Affairs; Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; 
Brig. Gen. Gary M. Rubus, USAF, Deputy Director for International 
Negotiations, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Sherman Garnett, Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace, and Paul A. Goble, Radio Free 
Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Joel I. Klein, of the District of Columbia, to be an 
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senator D'Amato and District of Columbia Delegate 
Norton, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
AUTHORIZATION--ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Endowment for 
the Arts and the Humanities, focusing on the educational programs of 
the endowments, after receiving testimony from Senator Hutchison; 
Sheldon Hackney, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, and 
Jane Alexander, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts, both of the 
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; Alicia B. 
Dandridge, Marie Reed Community Learning Center, Washington, D.C.; Jeff 
Hooper, Mad River Theater Works, West Liberty, Ohio; Victor R. Swenson, 
Vermont Council on the Humanities, Morrisville; and Edward L. Ayers, 
University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

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NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS ACT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
459, to authorize funds for and extend certain programs of the Native 
American Programs Act of 1974, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute.
SAN CARLOS APACHE WATER RIGHTS SETTLEMENT
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the 
implementation of the San Carlos Apache Water Rights Settlement Act of 
1992 (P.L. 102-575), receiving testimony from David J. Hayes, Counselor 
to the Secretary, Department of the Interior; Mayor David A. Franquero, 
Globe, Arizona; Mayor Van Talley, Safford, Arizona; and J. Steven 
Whisler and Timothy R. Snider, both of Phelps Dodge Mining Company, and 
John F. Sullivan, Salt River Project, all of Phoenix, Arizona.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MEDICARE/MEDICAID REFORM: CHRONIC HEALTH CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to examine how 
to improve the administration of health care services to elderly 
Americans with chronic conditions who are eligible for both Medicare 
and Medicaid, after receiving testimony from William J. Scanlon, 
Director, Health Financing and Systems Issues, Health, Education, and 
Human Services Division, General Accounting Office; Karin von Behren, 
Orange, California, on behalf of the Alzheimer's Association; Richard 
G. Bennett, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore; 
Lucy Nonnenkamp, Kaiser Permanente Health Plan, Portland, Oregon; 
Jeanne Lally, Fairview Hospital and Healthcare Services, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the National Chronic Care Consortium; Bruce 
Bullen, Massachusetts Division of Medical Assistance, Boston, on behalf 
of the American Public Welfare Association; Pamela J. Parker, Minnesota 
Senior Health Options/Minnesota Department of Human Services, St. Paul; 
Barbara Markham Smith, George Washington University Medical Center, 
Washington, D.C.; and Sue Paul, Augusta, Maine.