[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 74 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D557-D558]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was 
heard from Members of Congress.
FINANCIAL MODERNIZATION
Committee on Banking and Financial Services: Continued hearings on 
Financial Modernization, including H.R. 10, Financial Services 
Competitiveness Act of 1997. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of

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the Department of the Treasury: Robert E. Rubin, Secretary; and John D. 
Hawke, Jr., Under Secretary.
GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AND RESULTS ACT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on 
Government Performance and Results Act: Status and Prospects of the 
Results Act. Testimony was heard from John Koskinen, Deputy Director, 
Management, OMB; and L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal Management and 
Workforce Issues, General Government Division, GAO.
FEDERAL PROPERTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on 
Government Management, Information, and Technology held a hearing on 
H.R. 404, to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949 to authorize the transfer to State and local governments of 
certain surplus property for use for law enforcement or public safety 
purposes. Testimony was heard from Senator Feinstein; Representatives 
Calvert and Bono; Gordon Creed, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Public 
Buildings Service, GSA; and public witnesses.
PRIVATE CLAIMS AND IMMIGRATION MEASURES
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims met 
and considered private claims and immigration measures.
OVERSIGHT-INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Resources: Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, 
Wildlife and Oceans held an oversight hearing on the CITES (Convention 
on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) 
meeting. Testimony was heard from David J. Barry, Acting Assistant 
Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of the Interior.
FOREIGN RELATIONS AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FY 1998-99 AND EUROPEAN 
SECURITY ACT OF 1997
Committee on Rules: Granted, by a vote of 9 to 4, an open rule 
providing for the consideration of H.R. 1757, to consolidate 
international affairs agencies and to authorize appropriations for the 
Department of State and related agencies for fiscal years 1998 and 
1999. The rule provides one hour of general debate equally divided and 
controlled between the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on International Relations. The rule provides for 
consideration of the bill for amendment under the five-minute rule. The 
rule allows the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole to postpone 
votes during consideration of the bill and to reduce to five minutes on 
a postponed question if the vote follows a fifteen minute vote. The 
rule also provides one motion to recommit, with or without 
instructions. Section 2 of the rule provides for consideration in the 
House of H.R. 1758, to ensure that the enlargement of the North 
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) proceeds in a manner consistent 
with United States interests, to strengthen relations between the 
United States and Russia, and to preserve the prerogatives of the 
Congress with respect to certain arms control agreements under a closed 
rule. The rule provides one hour of debate equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee 
on International Relations. The rule provides one motion to recommit 
which may include instructions. Section 3 of the rule provides that in 
the engrossment of H.R. 1757, the Clerk shall await the disposition of 
H.R. 1758 pursuant to section 2 of the rule; add the test of H.R. 1758, 
as passed by the House, as a new matter of the end of H.R. 1757; and 
make conforming and designation changes to the titles within the 
engrossment. Section 3 also provides that upon the addition of the text 
of H.R. 1758 to the engrossment of H.R. 1757, H.R. 1758 shall be laid 
on the table. Testimony was heard from Chairman Gilman, Representatives 
Goodling, Smith of New Jersey, Rohrabacher, Kim, Fox of Pennsylvania, 
Packard, Callahan, Kolbe, Hefley, Cox of California, Stearans, Lazio, 
Mica, Miller of Florida, Scarborough, Weldon of Florida, Snowbarger, 
Hamilton, Vento, Frank of Massachusetts, Kennedy of Massachusetts, 
Traficant, Pallone, Condit, Engel, Moran of Virginia, Barcia, Brown of 
Florida, and Jackson-Lee of Texas.