[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 86 (Thursday, June 19, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D641-D643]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 FOREST ECOSYSTEM HEALTH
 Committee on Agriculture:  Held a hearing on forest ecosystem health 
in the Inland West and Northeast. Testimony was heard from Michael 
Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service, USDA; Jim Hubbard, State Forester, 
Forest Service, State of Colorado; Phil Bryce, State Forester, Division 
of Forest and Lands, State of New Hampshire; Chuck Gadzik, State 
Forester, Forest Service, State of Maine; and public witnesses.

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 FINANCIAL MODERNIZATION
 Committee on Banking and Financial Services:  Continued markup of 
Financial Modernization legislation.
   Will continue tomorrow.
 ELECTRICITY: RELIABILITY AND COMPETITION
 Committee on Commerce:  Subcommittee On Energy and Power held a 
hearing on Electricity: Reliability and Competition. Testimony was 
heard from Susan F. Clark, Commissioner, Public Service Commission, 
State of Florida; and public witnesses.
 NIH--CONTINUED MANAGEMENT CONCERNS
 Committee on Commerce:  Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations 
held a hearing on Continued Management Concerns at the National 
Institutes of Health. Testimony was heard from the following officials 
of the NIH, Department of Health and Human Services: Harold E. Varmus, 
M.D., Director; and Francis Collins, M.D., Director, National Human 
Genome Research Institute.
 HIGHER EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS
 Committee on Education and the Workforce:  Subcommittee on 
Postsecondary Education, Training and Life-Long Learning continued 
hearings on H.R. 6, Higher Education Act Amendments of 1998. Testimony 
was heard from Richard R. Riley, Secretary of Education.
   Hearings continue June 26th.
 NATIONAL CAPITAL REVITALIZATION AND SELF-GOVERNMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT
 Committee on Government Reform and Oversight:  Subcommittee on the 
District of Columbia approved for full Committee action the National 
Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997.
 MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
 Committee on the Judiciary:  Subcommittee on Commercial and 
Administrative Law approved for full Committee action the following 
bills: H.R. 1596, Bankruptcy Judgeship Act of 1997; and H.R. 1953, to 
clarify State authority to tax compensation paid to certain employees.
   Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1596. 
Testimony was heard from David R. Thompson, Judge, U.S. Court of 
Appeals, Ninth Circuit and Chairman, Committee on the Administration of 
the Bankruptcy System, Judicial Conference; Tina L. Brozman, Chief, 
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of New York; Frank W. Koger, 
Chief, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge, Western District of Missouri; and public 
witnesses.
 OVERSIGHT--BLM'S HARD ROCK MINING BONDING REGULATIONS
 Committee on Resources:  Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources 
held an oversight hearing on Bureau of Lane Management's hard rock 
mining bonding regulations. Testimony was heard from the following 
officials of the Department of the Interior: John Leshy, Solicitor; and 
David Alberswerth, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary, Land 
and Minerals Management; and Jere Glover, Chief Counsel, Office of 
Advocacy, SBA.
 MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
 Committee on Resources:  Subcommittee on National Parks and Public 
Lands approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 822, 
amended, to facilitate a land exchange involving private land within 
the exterior boundaries of Wenatchee National Forest in Chelan County, 
WA; H.R. 951, to require the Secretary of the Interior to exchange 
certain lands located in Hinsdale, Colorado; H.R. 960, amended, to 
validate certain conveyances in the city of Tulare, Tulare County, 
California; H.R. 1110, Sudbury, Asssabet, and Concord Wild and Scenic 
Rivers Act; and H.R. 1198, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
convey land to the City of Grants Pass, Oregon.
 SPECIAL INVESTIGATIVE AUTHORITIES--COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND 
OVERSIGHT
 Committee on Rules:  Ordered reported, by a record vote of 9 to 3, H. 
Res. 167, providing special investigative authorities for the Committee 
on Government Reform and Oversight.
 COMPUTER SECURITY ENHANCEMENT ACT
 Committee on Science:  Subcommittee on Technology held a hearing on 
Computer Security Enhancement Act of 1997. Testimony was heard from 
Gary Bachula, Acting Under Secretary, Technology, Technology 
Administration, Department of Commerce; and public witnesses.
 BUDGET SCORING RULES--REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS
 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure:  Subcommittee on 
Public Buildings and Economic Development held a hearing to review the 
Budget scoring rules as they relate to real estate transactions. 
Testimony was heard from Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Director, OMB.

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 PERSIAN GULF WAR VETERANS--VETERANS' AFFAIRS' TREATMENT
 Committee on Veterans' Affairs:  Subcommittee on Health held a hearing 
on the Veterans' Affairs' provision of treatment for Persian Gulf war 
veterans with difficult to diagnose and ill-defined conditions. 
Testimony was heard from Stephen P. Backhus, Director, Veterans' 
Affairs and Military Health Care Issues, GAO; Maj. Charles C. Engel, 
Jr., M.D., USA, Chief, Gulf War Health Center, Walter Reed Army Medical 
Center, Department of the Army; Kenneth Kizer, M.D., Under Secretary, 
Health, Department of Veterans Affairs; representatives of veterans 
organizations; and a public witness.