[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D555]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings to examine the management of Federal 
research and development investment in advanced information 
technologies, focusing on the President's proposed Next Generation 
Internet initiative and related programs to accelerate the development 
of a high-speed, high-quality information infrastructure in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from Henry C. Kelly, Acting Associate 
Director for Technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy; Neal 
F. Lane, Director, National Science Foundation; Ken Kennedy, Rice 
University, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the Presidential Advisory 
Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information 
Technology, and the Next Generation Internet; Gwen A. Jacobs, Montana 
State University, Bozeman; Bonnie Neas, North Dakota State University, 
Fargo; Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University, Corvallis; and Douglas 
E. Van Houweling, Internet 2 Project, Washington, D.C.
UNIVERSAL TELEPHONE SERVICE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings to examine the Federal Communications 
Commission implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 
focusing on efforts to implement universal telephone service reform and 
FCC proposals to assess new per-minute fees on Internet service 
providers, after receiving testimony from Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, and 
Rachelle B. Chong, James H. Quello, and Susan Ness, each a 
Commissioner, all of the Federal Communications Commission; Jay 
Kitchen, Personal Communications Industry Association, Alexandria, 
Virginia; Roy Neel, United States Telephone Association, and Jonathan 
B. Sallet, MCI Communications Corporation, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Bob Rowe, Montana Public Service Commission, Helena, on behalf of the 
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and Ronald E. 
Spears, Citizen Utilities Company, Stanford, Connecticut.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nomination of Robert S. LaRussa, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary 
of Commerce for Import Administration.
FAST-TRACK TRADE AUTHORITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine whether to 
extend the President's fast-track negotiating authority to continue to 
fully participate in the World Trade Organization, receiving testimony 
from Charlene Barshefsky, United States Trade Representative; Duane L. 
Burnham, Abbott Laboratories, on behalf of the Emergency Committee for 
American Trade, C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International 
Economics, and Richard L. Trumka, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; and 
Mark Van Putten, National Wildlife Federation, Vienna, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S.-HONG KONG AGREEMENT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and 
the Government of Hong Kong for the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders 
signed at Hong Kong on December 20, 1996 (Treaty Doc. 105-3), after 
receiving testimony from Jamison S. Borek, Deputy Legal Advisor, 
Department of State; and Mark M. Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney 
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GRANT PROGRAMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the merits of the Department of Commerce 
Advanced Technology Program and other corporate subsidies to private 
industry to develop civilian technologies, after receiving testimony 
from Mary Lowe Good, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology; Robert 
M. White, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, former 
Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology; T.J. Rodgers, Cypress 
Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, California; Tim Draper, Draper 
Fisher Associates, Redwood City, California; Stephen Moore, Cato 
Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Dwight D. Carlson, Perceptron, Ann 
Arbor, Michigan.