[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 76 (Thursday, June 5, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D570-D572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SCHOOL LUNCH SAFETY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues with regard to the recent outbreak of 
Hepatitis A as a result of the consumption of contaminated frozen 
strawberries in school lunches in the State of Michigan, and the 
Department of Agriculture response, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Abraham; Representative Nick Smith; Mary Ann Keeffe, Acting 
Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, and Lon 
Hatamiya, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, both of the 
Department of Agriculture; David R. Johnson, Michigan Department of 
Community Health, Lansing; Thomas W. Schimm, Bay City, Michigan; and 
Susan Doneth, Marshall, Michigan.
NEUROLOGICAL AND COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to 
examine progress reports on research with regard to neurological and 
communication disorders, after receiving testimony from Geraldine Fox, 
National Organization for Hearing Research, Narberth, Pennsylvania; 
Josef Miller, Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 
Christopher Reeve, West Chester, New York; and Caitlin Parton, New 
York, New York.
APPROPRIATIONS--LOC/GPO/GAO
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 James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress; Michael F. DiMario, 
Public Printer, Government Printing Office; James F. Hinchman, Acting 
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; 
and former Representative Bill Orton and Janet S. Zagorin, Stroock & 
Stroock & Lavan, New York, New York, both on behalf of the Standing 
Committee on the Law Library of Congress.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 10.
GENDER INTEGRATED BASIC TRAINING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 
hearings to examine the extent to which military services have 
integrated men and women in basic training services and the effect this 
has on their performance, after receiving testimony from Gen. William 
W. Hartzog, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Training and 
Doctrine Command; Vice Adm. Patricia A. Tracey, USN, Chief of Naval 
Education and Training; Lt. Gen. Paul K. Van Riper, USMC, Commanding 
General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command; Gen. Lloyd W. Newton, 
USAF, Commander, Air Education and Training Command; Staff Sgt. Mary M. 
Wilson, USMC; Sgt. First Class Allison Smith, USA;

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Staff Sgt. John F. McNeirney, USA; Senior Master Sgt. Harry E. Creacy, 
Jr., USAF (Ret.); Donna Carson, Woodbridge, Virginia; and Michelle 
Danko, Newport News, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 621, to repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 and 
transfer residual regulatory authority from the Securities and Exchange 
Commission to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and State public 
service commissions, with an amendment; and
  The nominations of James A. Harmon, of New York, to be President, and 
Jackie M. Clegg, of Utah, to be First Vice President, both of the 
Export-Import Bank of the United States.
CHINA-UNITED STATES TRADE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine emerging trade issues in China, focusing on United 
States-China trade imbalances and China's restrictive trade practices 
and the renewal of China's Most-Favored-Nation status, receiving 
testimony from Henry Kissinger, New York, New York, former National 
Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 797, to authorize the design and construction of additions to the 
parking garage and certain site improvements at the John F. Kennedy 
Center in Washington, D.C.;
  S. 289, to designate the United States courthouse to be constructed 
at the corner of Superior Road and Huron Road in Cleveland, Ohio, as 
the ``Carl B. Stokes United States Courthouse'';
  S. 347, to designate the Federal building located at 100 Alabama 
Street NW, in Atlanta, Georgia, as the ``Sam Nunn Federal Center'';
  S. 478, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 475 Mulberry Street in Macon, Georgia, as the 
``William Augustus Bootle Federal Building and United States 
Courthouse'';
  S. 628, to designate the United States courthouse to be constructed 
at the corner of 7th Street and East Jackson Street in Brownsville, 
Texas, as the ``Reynaldo G. Garza United States Courthouse'';
  S. 681, to designate the Federal building and United States 
courthouse located at 300 Northeast First Avenue in Miami, Florida, as 
the ``David W. Dyer Federal Courthouse'';
  S. 715, to redesignate the Dublin Federal Courthouse building located 
in Dublin, Georgia, as the ``J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse'';
  S. 819, to designate the United States courthouse at 200 South 
Washington Street in Alexandria, Virginia, as the ``Martin V.B. 
Bostetter, Jr. United States Courthouse''; and
  The nominations of Brig. Gen. Robert Bernard Flowers, USA, to be a 
Member and President of the Mississippi River Commission, and Michael 
J. Armstrong, of Colorado, to be an Associate Director of the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency.
SMALL BUSINESS TAXATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight held 
hearings on S. 460, to increase the deduction for health insurance 
costs of self-employed individuals, to provide clarification for the 
deductibility of expenses incurred by a taxpayer in connection with the 
business use of the home, and to clarify the standards used for 
determining that certain individuals are not employees, and S. 570, to 
exempt certain small businesses from the mandatory electronic fund 
transfer system, receiving testimony from Senators Bond and Snowe; 
Donald C. Lubick, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax 
Policy; Stephen Kenda, KENDA Systems, Inc., Salem, New Hampshire; Randy 
Mason, Mason Mechanical Laboratories, Inc., Salem, Virginia; Susan 
Thomas, Best of Service and Sales International, Annandale, Virginia, 
on behalf of the National Association for the Self-Employed; Debbi-Jo 
Horton, DJ Horton & Associates, East Providence, Rhode Island; John 
Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Counsel, and Deborah Walker, 
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and Frederick S. Oyer, International Piping Systems, Inc., 
Schiller Park, Illinois, on behalf of the Mechanical/Electrical/Sheet 
Metal Alliance.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RUSSIAN WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine cases of Russian weapons proliferation, focusing on Russia's 
exports of weapons of mass destruction components and technologies and 
missile delivery systems to certain countries, including Iran, Iraq, 
and India, after receiving testimony from Robert J. Einhorn, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation/Bureau of Political-
Military Affairs; William C. Potter, Monterey Institute of 
International Studies, Monterey, California; and Richard H. Speier, 
McLean, Virginia.

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ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded 
hearings to examine challenges for treating Alzheimer's disease, 
focusing on biomedical research options, after receiving testimony from 
Richard J. Hodes, Director, National Institute on Aging, National 
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Zaven S. 
Khachaturian, Potomac, Maryland, on behalf of the Alzheimers' 
Association Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute; Allen D. Roses, 
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Sam Sisodia, 
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; 
Stephen Gracon, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and 
Eric B. Larson, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle.
CHILD BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and 
Families concluded hearings to examine the status of medical and 
scientific findings into prenatal and postnatal brain development and 
implications that federal policies have on childhood development, after 
receiving testimony from Harry Chugani, Children's Hospital of 
Michigan/Wayne State University, Detroit; Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., 
Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Anthony 
DeCasper, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Diane Fisher, 
Kensington, Maryland, on behalf of the Independent Women's Forum; 
Carlie Sorensen Dixon, Lawyers at Home and Mothers First, Arlington, 
Virginia; and Edward Zigler, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.