[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 57 (Tuesday, May 6, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D432-D433]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for foreign 
assistance programs, focusing on Russia and the New Independent States, 
receiving testimony from Richard L. Morningstar, Coordinator of U.S. 
Assistance to the New Independent States, Department of State; and 
Thomas A. Dine, Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New 
Independent States, Agency for International Development.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--JOINT COMMITTEES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch 
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998, 
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities 
from Senator Warner, Chairman, Joint Committee on Printing; 
Representative Archer, Chairman, Joint Committee on Taxation; and 
Representative Saxton, Chairman, Joint Economic Committee.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 20.
APPROPRIATIONS--NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1998 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving 
testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 13.
HOLOCAUST DOCUMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues surrounding the shredding of certain 
Holocaust-era documents by the Union Bank of Switzerland, after 
receiving testimony from Israel Singer, World Jewish Congress, New 
York, New York; and Christophe Meili, Bern, Switzerland.
NOMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Elizabeth Anne Moler, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Energy, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in her own behalf.
IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs held hearings to examine issues with regard to Iran's 
acquisition of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and the United 
States response to countering Iranian efforts in acquiring such 
weapons, receiving testimony from Gary Bertsch, University of Georgia, 
Athens; Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on 
behalf of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control; and W. Seth 
Carus, Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

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JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Youth Violence concluded 
hearings to examine the core requirements of the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 and their impact on the increase in 
youth violence or juvenile crime, and S. 10, to reduce violent juvenile 
crime, promote accountability by juvenile criminals, and punish and 
deter violent gang crime, after receiving testimony from Shay Bilchik, 
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 
Department of Justice; Arizona State Senator John Kaites, Phoenix; 
Judge W. Don Reader, Ohio Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial District, 
Canton; Patricia L. West, Virginia Department of Public Safety, 
Richmond; Earl L. Dunlap, Richmond, Kentucky, on behalf of the National 
Juvenile Detention Association; Gwendolyn C. Chunn, North Carolina 
Department of Human Resources, Raleigh; Mark I. Soler, Youth Law 
Center, Washington, D.C.; Bill Franklin, Elmore County, Alabama; Carol 
Crump, Casper, Wyoming; and Judy Nish, Marion, Iowa.
IMMUNIZATION GRANT PROGRAM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Public Health 
and Safety concluded hearings on proposed authorizations for the 
immunization grant program (section 317(j)(1)) of the Public Health 
Service Act, focusing on grants to States for purchase of vaccine and 
support of the vaccine delivery infrastructure, after receiving 
testimony from Senator Bumpers; Walter A. Orenstein, Director, National 
Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
Department of Health and Human Services; Christopher G. Atchison, Iowa 
Department of Public Health, Des Moines, on behalf of the Association 
of State and Territorial Health Officials; Thomas F. Tonniges, Elk 
Grove Village, Illinois, on behalf of the American Academy of 
Pediatrics; and Peter Paradiso, Wyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics, 
Rochester, New York.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held hearings on the 
nomination of George John Tenet, of Maryland, to be Director of Central 
Intelligence, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators 
D'Amato, Moynihan, Sarbanes, and Mikulski and former Senator Boren, 
testified and answered question in his own behalf.
  Hearings continue tomorrow in closed session.