[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 95 (Tuesday, July 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D708-D709]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ELECTRIC UTILITY RESTRUCTURING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the effects of potential electricity deregulation 
on rural America and the Rural Utilities Service electric loan program, 
after receiving testimony from Wally Beyer, Administrator, Rural 
Utilities Service, Department of Agriculture; Robert E. Robertson, 
Associate Director,

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Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic 
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Cynthia A. Marlette, 
Associate General Counsel, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
Department of Energy; Cody L. Graves, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on 
behalf of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; Glenn English, National 
Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Virginia; David K. 
Owens, Edison Electric Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Robert Haug, 
Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, Ankeny.
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full 
committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water 
Development approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for energy and water development programs for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
CONGO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs held 
hearings to examine United States policy and the prospects for a stable 
democracy with regard to recent developments within the Democratic 
Republic of the Congo, receiving testimony from William H. Twaddell, 
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Richard 
McCall, Chief of Staff, United States Agency for International 
Development; Peter Rosenblum, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, 
Massachusetts; and Chester Crocker, Georgetown University, former 
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Kirpatrick J. 
Day, Refugees International, both of Washington, D.C.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NORTH KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings on the future stability of North Korea, 
after receiving testimony from Charles Kartman, Acting Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Kurt M. 
Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asian and 
Pacific Affairs; Charles K. Armstrong, Columbia University, New York, 
New York; and Andrew S. Natsios, World Vision, and Marcus Noland, 
Institute for International Economics, both of Washington, D.C.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings to examine 
certain matters with regard to the committee's special investigation on 
campaign financing.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
MILITARY SURPLUS DISPOSAL
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded oversight hearings of the Federal Government's 
administrative process for disposing of surplus military parts and 
equipment, after receiving testimony from Bonni Tischler, Assistant 
Commissioner, Office of Investigations, Lee Dolan, Senior Special 
Agent, and John Hensley, Special Agent in Charge, all of the United 
States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Capt. Randle D. 
Bales, USN, Associate Executive Director for Materiel Management, and 
Jack W. Blackway, DOD Demilitarization Program Manager, both of the 
Defense Logistics Agency, Department of Defense; and David B. 
Barrington, Memphis, Tennessee, former Criminal Investigator, Trade 
Security Control Branch, Criminal Investigations Activity, Defense 
Logistics Agency.