[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D676-D677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--U.S. FIRE ADMINISTRATION/COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed 
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1998 for the United 
States Fire Administration and the Office of the Associate 
Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation, after receiving 
testimony from Carrye B. Brown, Administrator, United States Fire 
Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Patricia Grace 
Smith, Acting Associate Administrator for Commercial Space 
Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of 
Transportation; and Keith Calhoun-Senghor, Director, Office of Air and 
Space Commercialization, Technology Administration, Department of 
Commerce.

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NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Christopher Droney, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Connecticut, Katharine Sweeney Hayden, to be United 
States District Judge for the District of New Jersey, Anthony W. Ishii, 
to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
California, Henry Harold Kennedy Jr., to be United States District 
Judge for the District of Columbia, and Clarence J. Sundram, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Droney was introduced by Senators Lieberman and Dodd, Ms. 
Hayden was introduced by Senator Lautenberg, Mr. Ishii was introduced 
by Senator Boxer and Representative Radanovich, Mr. Kennedy was 
introduced by Senator Thurmond and District of Columbia Delegate 
Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Mr. Sundram was introduced by Senator 
Moynihan.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on 
campaign finance reform proposals, focusing on whether union political 
contributions are made with voluntarily-paid dues money, and S. 9, to 
protect individuals from having their money involuntarily collected and 
used for politics by a corporation or labor organization, receiving 
testimony from Senators Nickles and Wellstone; Victoria L. Bor, 
Sherman, Dunn, Cohen, Leifer & Yellig, on behalf of the International 
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and James B. Coppess, on behalf of 
the Communications Workers of America, both of Washington, D.C.; 
Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., National Right to Work Legal Defense 
Foundation, Springfield, Virginia, on behalf of the National Right to 
Work Committee; Bob Williams, Evergreen Freedom Foundation, Olympia, 
Washington; David Stewart, Transport Workers Union of America, Tulsa, 
Oklahoma; and Cindy Omlin, Mead, Washington.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
GULF WAR ILLNESSES
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine 
the United States Government's response with regard to the disclosure 
of information on the possible exposure of United States and allied 
troops to chemical and biological weapons during the Persian Gulf War 
and the handling of health care concerns of U.S. veterans, focusing on 
a related General Accounting Office report, receiving testimony from 
Donna Heivilin, Director of Planning and Reporting, National Security 
and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.