[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 85 (Wednesday, June 18, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D629-D631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORT POLICY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine United States agricultural trade policy issues and 
the importance of trade to U.S. economic prosperity, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel R. Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; and 
Charlene Barshefsky, United States Trade Representative.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations 
approved for full committee consideration

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an original bill making appropriations for foreign assistance programs 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill (S. 936) authorizing 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 personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed 
Forces; and
  S. 858, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and 
intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the 
Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency 
Retirement and Disability System.
RECONCILIATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: 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.
CHINA-UNITED STATES TRADE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed 
hearings to examine emerging trade issues in China, focusing on United 
States-China trade imbalances and the renewal of China's Most-Favored-
Nation status, receiving testimony from Stuart E. Eizenstat, Under 
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs; and Robert B. Zoellick, Fannie 
Mae, and Alan Tonelson, United States Business and Industrial Council, 
both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings to examine the 
current status and goals of the International Space Station program of 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after receiving 
testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, and Malcolm L. 
Peterson, Comptroller, both of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration; Thomas J. Schulz, Associate Director, Defense 
Acquisition Issues, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; Marcia S. Smith, Specialist in 
Aerospace and Telecommunications Policy, Science Policy Research 
Division, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and 
Lawrence J. DeLucas, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
LAND EXCHANGE AND BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 587, to provide for an 
exchange of lands located in Hinsdale County, Colorado, S. 588, to 
provide for the expansion of the Eagles Nest Wilderness within the 
Arapaho National Forest and the White River National Forest in 
Colorado, to include land known as the State Creek Addition, S. 589, to 
provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving the 
Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest in Colorado, to correct 
the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys, S. 590, to provide for a 
land exchange within the Routt National Forest in Colorado, S. 591, to 
transfer the Dillon Ranger District in the Arapaho National Forest to 
the White River National Forest in Colorado, S. 541, to provide for an 
exchange of lands with the city of Greeley, Colorado, and the Water 
Supply and Storage Company to eliminate private inholdings in 
wilderness areas, S. 750, to consolidate certain mineral interests in 
the National Grasslands in Billings County, North Dakota, through the 
exchange of Federal and private mineral interests to enhance land 
management capabilities and environmental and wildlife protection, S. 
785, to convey certain land to the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, and S. 
881, to provide for a land exchange involving the Warner Canyon Ski 
Area and other land in Oregon, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Allard; Mat Millenbach, Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; Robert C. Joslin, Deputy Chief, National 
Forest Systems, and Ellie Towns, Director of Lands, both of the Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Vern Nelson, Greeley, 
Colorado; Paul Schray, City of Grants Pass, Oregon; and Richard 
Domingue, Trout Unlimited, Morrison, Colorado.
RECONCILIATION/NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: 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.
  Also, committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Kevin 
L. Thurm, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary, and Richard J. Tarplin, 
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York, to be Assistant Secretary, both of the Department of Health and 
Human Services.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on S. 314, to require the Federal Government to 
procure from the private sector the goods and services necessary for 
the operations and management of certain Government agencies, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Thomas; Representative Duncan; John A. 
Koskinen, Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; L. Nye 
Stevens, Director, Federal Management and Workforce Issues, General 
Government Division, General Accounting Office; Capt. Burton Streicher, 
CEC, USN, Director, Navy Outsourcing Support Office; Charles S. Davis 
III, Chamberlain, Davis, Rutan & Valk, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, former 
Associate Administrator for Operations, General Services 
Administration; Samuel D. Klienman, Center for Naval Analyses, 
Alexandria, Virginia; and John N. Sturdivant, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings to examine the scope of human rights violations in China and 
the United States response to these abuses, including proposed changes 
in U.S. immigration law and related provisions of S. 810, proposed 
China Sanctions and Human Rights Advancement Act, after receiving 
testimony from James R. Lilley, University of Maryland, College Park; 
and Wu Xuecan, China Strategic Institute, T. Kumar, Amnesty 
International USA, and Kim R. Holmes, Heritage Foundation, all of 
Washington, D.C.
FDA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported, S. 830, to improve the regulation of food, drugs, devices, 
and biological products, and to authorize funds for prescription drug 
user fees, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.