[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 62 (Tuesday, May 13, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D470-D471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERTERRORISM
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings in open and 
closed sessions to examine the Administration's counterterrorism 
policy, the threat of terrorism in the United States, and Federal 
efforts to prevent and combat terrorism in the United States, after 
receiving testimony from Janet Reno, Attorney General, and Louis J. 
Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the 
Department of Justice; and George J. Tenet, Acting Director, Central 
Intelligence Agency.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Department of 
Defense, focusing on environmental programs, receiving testimony from 
Robert M. Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations, 
Logistics and Environment); Robert Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy (Installations and Environment); and Rodney A. Coleman, 
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, 
Installations and Environment).
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 21.
APPROPRIATIONS--HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
year 1998 for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, after 
receiving testimony from Andrew M. Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development.
AIRLINE COMPETITION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation held hearings to examine issues with regard to maintaining 
competition in United States domestic airline service, focusing on how 
barriers to entry in the airline industry limit benefits of airline 
deregulation, receiving testimony from Charles A. Hunnicutt, Assistant 
Secretary, and Patrick Murphy, Deputy Assistant Secretary, both for 
Aviation and International Affairs, Department of Transportation; John 
H. Anderson, Jr., Director, and Tim Hennigan, Assistant Director, both 
of the Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; John A. Edwardson, 
United Airlines, Elk Grove Village, Illinois; William A. Franke, 
America West Holdings Corporation, Phoenix, Arizona; Paul Stephen 
Dempsey, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of Frontier 
Airlines, Inc. and the Air Carrier Association of America; Duane 
Woerth, Air Line Pilots Association, International, Washington, D.C.; 
and H. Hugh Davis, Jr., and William H. Tittle, III, both of the 
Metropolitan Chattanooga Airport Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 417, to extend energy conservation programs under the Energy 
Policy and Conservation Act through September 30, 2002, S. 416, to 
extend the expiration dates of existing authorities and enhance United 
States participation in the energy emergency program of the 
International Energy Agency, S. 186, to amend the Energy Policy and 
Conservation Act with respect to purchases from the Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve by entities in the insular areas of the United States, and S. 
698, to authorize the Secretary of Energy, by lease or otherwise, to 
store in underutilized Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities petroleum 
products owned by foreign governments or their representatives, after 
receiving testimony from Federico Pena, Secretary of Energy; John P. 
Ferriter, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency; 
William F. Martin, Washington Policy and Analysis, Inc., Washington, 
D.C., former Deputy Secretary of Energy; Kenneth W. Haley, Chevron 
Corporation, San Francisco, California; and George M. Yates, Harvey E. 
Yates Company, Roswell, New Mexico, on behalf of the Independent 
Petroleum Association of America.

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TIBET
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the situation in Tibet and the impact of China's occupation policies on 
the people of Tibet, after receiving testimony from former Senator 
Pell; Jeffrey A. Bader, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East 
Asian and Pacific Affairs; Jeane M. Kirkpatrick, American Enterprise 
Institute, Maura Moynihan, Refugees International, and Lodi Gyari, 
International Campaign for Tibet, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert 
A. F. Thurman, Columbia University, New York, New York.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the President's proposed National Capital 
Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Plan and alternative 
approaches to reorganize the government of the District of Columbia, 
after receiving testimony from G. Edward DeSeve, Controller, Office of 
Management and Budget; and Mayor Marion Barry, and Linda W. Cropp, 
Acting Chair, District of Columbia City Council, both of Washington, 
D.C.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposals 
to implement the obligations of the United States under the Convention 
on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use 
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, known as ``the Chemical 
Weapons Convention'' and opened for signature and signed by the United 
States on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), and a related measure 
S. 610, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Shiffrin, Deputy 
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of 
Justice; Ronald D. Rotunda, University of Illinois College of Law, 
Champaign; D. Bruce Merrifield, Pridtronics, Arlington, Virginia; and 
Barry Kellman, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois.
INDIAN EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAMS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the implementation of the Indian Employment Training and Related 
Services Demonstration Act (P.L. 102-477), after receiving testimony 
from Ada E. Deer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; Russell D. Mason, Sr., Three Affiliated Tribes Business 
Council, New Town, North Dakota; James E. Billie and Maureen Vass, both 
of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hollywood; Leroy Bingham, Cook Inlet 
Tribal Council, Anchorage, Alaska, on behalf of the 477 Tribal Work 
Group; Sharon Olsen, Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, Juneau; 
Gerald Heminger, Jr., Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Council, Agency 
Village, South Dakota; and Norm DeWeaver, Indian and Native American 
Employment and Training Coalition, Washington, D.C.