[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 82 (Thursday, June 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D608-D610]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the 
Federal Aviation Administration, focusing on aviation safety issues and 
the adequacy of air traffic controller staffing, after receiving 
testimony from Senator D'Amato; Representatives King and Molinari; Dan 
Donovan, Staten Island Borough, Staten Island, New York; Monte Belger, 
Acting Deputy Administrator, Ron Morgan, Director, Air Traffic Service, 
Raymond D. Maldonado, Air Traffic Controller (Newark International 
Airport), and Tom Monaghan, Air Traffic Controller (John F. Kennedy 
International Airport), all of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
Department of Transportation; Barry Krasner, National Air Traffic 
Controllers Association, David A. Barger,

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Continental Airlines, Inc., and Edward M. Bolen, General Aviation 
Manufacturers Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Jack Johnson, 
Washington, D.C., and Henry Brown, New York, New York, both on behalf 
of the Professional Airways System Specialists; Charles M. Barclay, 
Alexandria, Virginia, on behalf of the American Association of Airport 
Executives and the Airports Council International-North America; and 
Philip B. Boyer, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Frederick, 
Maryland.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session and 
ordered favorably reported the following bills:
  An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1998 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
for defense activities of the Department of Energy, and to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces;
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 1998'';
  An original bill entitled ``Military Construction Act for Fiscal Year 
1998''; and
  An original bill entitled ``Department of Energy National Security 
Act for Fiscal Year 1998''.
ELECTRIC UTILITIES DEREGULATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met to further 
discuss proposals to advance the goals of deregulation and competition 
in the electric power industry focusing on the benefits and risks to 
consumers and communities, receiving testimony from John L. McManus, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Association of 
Retired Persons; Robert K. Johnson, Electric Consumers' Alliance, 
Indianapolis, Indiana; David R. Nevius, North American Electric 
Reliability Council, Princeton, New Jersey; G.A. Julin III, Morlin 
Management Corporation, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the 
Building Owners and Managers Association International; David Fletcher, 
Bristol Virginia Utilities Board, Bristol, Virginia; Joe Brooks, 
Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Vann E. 
Prater, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Electricity Consumers 
Resource Council and Amoco; and Carol Everman, Oregon State Grange, 
Rainier, on behalf of the National Grange.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, June 24.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an 
original bill to authorize funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for 
foreign assistance programs of the Department of State, to abolish the 
United States Information Agency and the United States Arms Control and 
Disarmament Agency, and to reform United Nations operations.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued in evening 
session to discuss the issuance of subpoenas and the granting of 
immunity to certain individuals with regard to the special 
investigation on campaign financing.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Margaret M. Morrow, to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, and John D. Trasvina, of 
California, to be Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair 
Employment Practices, Department of Justice;
  S. Res. 63, proclaiming the week of October 19, 1997 through October 
25, 1997, as ``National Character Counts Week''; and
  S. Res. 92, designating July 2, 1997, and July 2, 1998, as ``National 
Literacy Day''.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 10, to reduce violent juvenile 
crime, promote accountability by juvenile criminals, and punish and 
deter violent gang crime, but did not complete action thereon, and 
recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--HIGHER EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the Higher 
Education Act, focusing on those programs which provide support 
services and scholarships for disadvantaged students, including 
institutional aid to colleges and universities, receiving testimony 
from Moses Griffin, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio; R. Vic 
Morgan, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas, on behalf of the 
Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities; Linda Shiller, 
Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, Winooski; and Ann Coles, 
Education Resources Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the 
National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SBA MICROLOAN PROGRAM
Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on the future of 
the Small Business Administration's Microloan Demonstration program, 
focusing on the Federal Government's role in the program's 
continuation, receiving testimony from Prathiba Mathews-Wheeler, Center 
for Business Innovation, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Joseph Kriesberg, 
Massachusetts

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Association of Community Development Corporations, Boston, on behalf of 
the Massachusetts Microenterprise Coalition; Katharine W. McKee, Center 
for Community Self-Help, Durham, North Carolina; Ellen Golden, Coastal 
Enterprises, Inc., Wiscasset, Maine, on behalf of the Association for 
Enterprise Opportunity; Angela Fair, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and George 
White, Helena, Arkansas, both on behalf of the Arkansas Enterprise 
Group; and John F. Else, Institute for Social and Economic Development, 
Iowa City, Iowa.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
H.J. Res. 75, to confer status as an honorary veteran of the United 
States Armed Forces on Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope.
  Also, 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.