[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 63 (Wednesday, May 14, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D479-D480]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF DRUG CONTROL POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Services, 
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1998 for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 
receiving testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
COMMERCE MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine certain management and program areas in need of 
reform to improve efficiency and effectiveness at the Department of 
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Frank DeGeorge, Inspector 
General, and Raymond G. Kammer, Jr., Acting Chief Financial Officer and 
Assistant Secretary for Administration, both of the Department of 
Commerce; and L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal Management and 
Workforce Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting 
Office.
DOLPHIN CONSERVATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Oceans and Fisheries held hearings on S. 39, to implement the 
Declaration of Panama, an agreement signed by the United States and 
certain other nations on October 4, 1995, to protect dolphins, tunas, 
and other species involved in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna 
fishery, receiving testimony from Senators Boxer and Biden; Eileen B. 
Claussen, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International 
Environmental and Scientific Affairs; D. James Baker, Under Secretary 
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; James Joseph, Inter-American 
Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, California; and Suzanne Iudicello, 
Center for Marine Conservation, and Jeffrey R. Pike, Dolphin Safe/Fair 
Trade Campaign, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  The nomination of Elizabeth Anne Moler, of Virginia, to be Deputy 
Secretary of Energy;
  S. 430, to protect the permanent trust funds of the State of New 
Mexico from erosion due to inflation and modify the basis on which 
distributions are made from those funds; and
  H.J. Res. 32, to consent to certain amendments enacted by the 
Legislature of the State of Hawaii to the Hawaiian Homes Commission 
Act, 1920.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine the campaign finance system for Presidential elections, 
focusing on the growth of soft money and other effects on political 
parties and candidates, receiving testimony from former Senator 
McCarthy; Lamar Alexander Jr., former Secretary of Education; Larry J. 
Sabato, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Bradley A. Smith, 
Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Cato 
Institute.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SBA FINANCE PROGRAMS
Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed oversight hearings on 
the management of Small Business Administration finance programs, 
focusing on the 504 Development Company Loan Program and the Small 
Business Investment Company program, receiving testimony from Aida 
Alvarez, Administrator, Small Business Administration; Deryl K. 
Schuster, Business Loan Center, Wichita, Kansas, and Anthony R. 
Wilkinson, Stillwater, Oklahoma, both on behalf of the National 
Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders, Inc.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on 
the nomination of George John Tenet, of Maryland, to be Director of 
Central Intelligence, where the nominee further testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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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.