[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 100 (Tuesday, July 15, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D756-D757]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE/JUSTICE/STATE/JUDICIARY/TREASURY/POSTAL 
SERVICE/LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998;
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the 
Treasury, United States Postal Service, Executive Office of the 
President, and independent agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1998; and
  An original bill (S. 1019) making appropriations for the Legislative 
Branch for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural 
Development, and Related Agencies approved for full committee 
consideration an original bill making appropriations for the Department 
of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1998.
APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation approved 
for full committee consideration an original bill making appropriations 
for the Department of Transportation and related agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998.
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies approved for full committee consideration an original bill 
making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1998.
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 concluded 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, after receiving testimony from Laurence H. Meyer, 
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and Nicholas 
P. Retsinas, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for 
Housing/Federal Housing Administration Commissioner.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of A. Peter Burleigh, of California, to be the Deputy 
Representative of the United States to the United Nations, with the 
rank and status of Ambassador, David J. Scheffer, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, Richard Sklar, of 
California, to be Representative of the United States to the United 
Nations for U.N. Management and Reform, with the rank of Ambassador, 
Linda Jane Zack Tarr-Whelan, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador 
during her tenure of service as United States Representative to the 
Commission on the Status of Women of the Economic and Social Council of 
the United Nations, James Franklin Collins, of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, John 
Christian Kornblum, of Michigan, to be Ambassador to the Federal 
Republic of Germany, Stephen R. Sestanovich, of the District of 
Columbia, as Ambassador at Large and Special Adviser to the Secretary 
of State for the New Independent States, and Gordon D. Giffin, of 
Georgia, to be Ambassador to Canada, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Grossman was introduced by 
Senator Robb, Mr. Sestanovich was introduced by Senator Moynihan, and 
Mr. Giffin was introduced by Senators Cleland and Robb, and former 
Senator Nunn.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine certain matters with regard to the committee's special 
investigation on campaign financing, receiving testimony from Harold 
Arthur, Lippo Bank, San Francisco, California; Juliana Utomo, Rosemead, 
California, formerly associated with Hip Hing Holdings (a Lippo Group 
Entity); and Thomas Hampson, Chicago, Illinois.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed mark up of S. 10, to 
reduce violent juvenile crime, promote accountability by juvenile 
criminals, and punish and deter violent gang crime, but did not 
complete action thereon, and will continue on Thursday, July 17.

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JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights resumed hearings to examine issues with 
regard to the constitutional role of federal judges to decide cases and 
controversies, focusing on the problem and impact of judicial activism, 
whereby federal judges' decisions are based on policy preferences, 
receiving testimony from Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, 
Montgomery; Marc L. Fleischaker, Arent Fox Kitner Plotkin and Kahn, 
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights 
Under Law; Terry L. Stewart, Arizona Department of Corrections, 
Phoenix; Gail Heriot, University of San Diego Law School, San Diego, 
California; Barry Friedman, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 
Nashville, Tennessee; and Rob Tier, Center for the Community Interest, 
Dallas, Texas.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.