[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 80 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D589-D590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUDGET RECONCILIATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee completed 
its review of certain spending reductions and revenue increases to meet 
reconciliation expenditures as imposed by H. Con. Res. 84, establishing 
the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal 
year 1998 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal 
years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and agreed on recommendations which 
it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch 
concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998, 
after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective 
activities from Glen Nager, Chairman of the Board, and Ricky Silberman, 
Executive Director, both of the Senate Office of Compliance; Gregory S. 
Casey, Senate Sergeant at Arms; Gary Sisco, Secretary of the Senate; 
and Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on AirLand Forces met in 
closed session and approved for full committee consideration those 
provisions which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee of S. 
450, proposed National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1998 
and 1999.
WATER AND POWER PROJECTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on the following measures:
  S. 439, to provide for Alaska State jurisdiction over small 
hydroelectric projects, to address voluntary licensing of hydroelectric 
projects on fresh waters in the State of Hawaii, and to provide an 
exemption for portion of a hydroelectric project located in the State 
of New Mexico, H.R. 651 and H.R. 652, bills to extend the deadline 
under the Federal Power Act for the construction of a hydroelectric 
project located in the State of Washington, and S. 846, to remove the 
jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to license 
projects on fresh waters in the State of Hawaii, after receiving 
testimony from Susan Tomasky, General Counsel, Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy; Percy Frisby, Alaska 
Division of Energy, Juneau; Robert S. Grimm, Alaska Power and Telephone 
Company, Port Townsend, Washington; Jack Hession, Sierra Club, and 
Charles Y. Walls, Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, both of 
Anchorage,

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Alaska; and Mona Janopaul, Trout Unlimited, Arlington, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Hydropower Reform Coalition;
  S. 736, to convey certain real property within the Carlsbad Project 
in New Mexico to the Carlsbad Irrigation District, and S. 744, to 
authorize the construction of the Fall River Water Users District Rural 
Water System and authorize financial assistance to the Fall River Water 
Users District, a non-profit corporation, in the planning and 
construction of the water supply system, after receiving testimony from 
Eluid Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; and Bruce C. Driver, Boulder, Colorado. Testimony was also 
received on S. 736 (listed above) from Tom Davis, Carlsbad Irrigation 
District, Carlsbad, New Mexico, and S. 744 (listed above) from Leonard 
Benson, Fall River Water Users District, Fall River, South Dakota; and
  S. 538, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
facilities of the Minidoka project in Idaho to the Burley Irrigation 
District, after receiving testimony from Mr. Martinez (listed above); 
and Roger D. Ling, Ling, Nielsen and Robinson, Rupert, Idaho.
ENFORCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the relationship between the Federal and State 
governments in the enforcement of environmental laws, after receiving 
testimony from Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, 
Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; 
Steven H. Herman, Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and 
Compliance Assistance, and Nikki L. Tinsley, Acting Inspector General, 
both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Connecticut Assistant 
Attorney General Joseph Rubin, Hartford; Mark Coleman, Oklahoma 
Department of Environmental Quality, Oklahoma City, on behalf of the 
Environmental Council of States; Becky Norton Dunlop, Virginia 
Department of Natural Resources, Richmond; Patricia S. Bangert, Office 
of the Attorney General for the State of Colorado, Denver; Christophe 
A.G. Tulou, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental 
Control, Dover; Todd E. Robins, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, 
Washington, D.C.; Robert R. Kuehn, Tulane Law School, New Orleans, 
Louisiana; and Robert E. Harmon, Harmon Industries, Blue Springs, 
Missouri.
CHINA MFN TRADE STATUS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on issues with regard to 
the Administration's renewal of the Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) trade 
status with China and U.S. trade policies with China, receiving 
testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State; Charlene 
Barshefsky, United States Trade Representative; T. Kumar, Amnesty 
International USA, and Barbara Shailor, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, 
D.C.; Nick Liang, China Society, San Francisco, California; Lawrence 
Pemble, U.S.-China Industrial Exchange, Inc. (CHINDEX), Bethesda, 
Maryland; and Edvard P. Torjesen, Evergreen Family Friendship Service, 
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the impact of organized labor's technique of salting whereby 
union organizers apply for jobs while at the same time advising their 
prospective employers that they are union organizers and intend to 
organize the employer's employees, and S. 328, to amend the National 
Labor Relations Act to provide that nothing in specified prohibitions 
against unfair labor practices shall be construed as requiring an 
employer to employ any person who seeks or has sought employment with 
the employer in furtherance of the objectives of an organization other 
than the employer, after receiving testimony from George E. Smith, 
Little Rock Electrical Contractors, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas; Don O. 
Mailman, Bay Electric Company, Inc., Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Roselyn F. 
Nyeholt, Nyeholt Steel Company, Holt, Michigan; Terrance G. Korthof, 
Wright Electric, Inc., Plymouth, Minnesota; Charles Fletcher, Corey 
Delta Constructors, Benicia, California, on behalf of the Associated 
General Contractors of America; Robert A. Georgine, Building and 
Construction Trades Department (AFL-CIO), and Clifford R. Oviatt, Jr., 
McGuire, Woods, Battle, and Boothe, both of Washington, D.C.; Michael 
T. Manley, Blake and Uhlig, Kansas City, Kansas, on behalf of the 
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, 
Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers (AFL-CIO); and Thomas J. Cook, Omega 
Electric Construction Company, Inc., Williston, Vermont.