[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 96 (Wednesday, July 9, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D717-D718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, to be Commander-in-Chief, 
United States European Command, and Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, to 
be Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command.
  Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings in open and 
closed sessions on the aforementioned nominations, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COMPREHENSIVE MORTGAGE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief and the Subcommittee on 
Housing Opportunity and Community Development held joint hearings to 
examine problems surrounding the mortgage origination process, the 
goals and objectives of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and 
the Truth In Lending Act, and the need for comprehensive mortgage 
reform legislation, receiving testimony from Janice M. Hix, National 
Association of Mortgage Brokers, McLean, Virginia; Ron McCord, American 
Mortgage and Investment Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of 
the Mortgage Bankers Association of America; Russell K. Booth,

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Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the National Association of 
Realtors; Joseph M. Parker, Jr., Parker Title Insurance Agency, Inc., 
Winston Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Land Title 
Association; and Margot Saunders, National Consumer Law Center, and 
Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, July 15.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued to examine 
certain matters with regard to the committee's special investigation on 
campaign financing, receiving testimony from Richard Sullivan, Perkins 
Coie, Washington, D.C., former Deputy Finance and Finance Director, 
Democratic National Committee.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
certain issues with regard to the use of encryption technology and its 
application in the information age, focusing on its impact on U.S. 
industries, privacy protection, and national security, including 
related measure S. 376 and related provisions of S. 909, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey; Louis J. Freeh, Director, 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; William P. 
Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Kenneth W. Dam, 
Chair, Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy, National 
Research Council; Michael MacKay, Novell, Inc., Orem, Utah, on behalf 
of the Business Software Alliance and the Software Publishers 
Association; Peter G. Neumann, SRI International, Menlo Park, 
California; and Raymond Ozzie, Iris Associates, Westford, 
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Business Software Alliance.
SENATE ELECTIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met in open and closed 
sessions to receive a briefing on the status of the investigation 
concerning petitions filed in connection with a contested U.S. Senate 
election held in Louisiana in November 1996 from Thomas J. Jurkiewicz, 
Accounting and Information Management Division, and John J. Butler, 
Office of General Counsel, both detailed to the committee from the 
General Accounting Office; Robert F. Bauer, Perkins Coie, Washington, 
D.C.; and George P. Terwilliger III, McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe, 
Richmond, Virginia.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, July 16.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.