[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 101 (Wednesday, July 16, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D766-D767]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the importance of alternative fuels in addressing 
future national security concerns, focusing on agriculture's 
vulnerability to energy price volatility, the contribution of home-
grown renewable alternative fuels, and the role of new technologies in 
making agriculture more energy efficient while increasing yields, after 
receiving testimony from Roger K. Conway, Director, Office of Energy 
and New Uses, Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture; 
Joseph J. Romm, Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Energy Efficiency 
and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy; Henry C. Kelly, Acting 
Associate Director for Technology, Office of Science and Technology 
Policy; and John B. Campbell, Ag Processing Inc., Omaha, Nebraska.
  Also, committee received a briefing on the international energy 
security situation from officials of the Central Intelligence Agency.
APPROPRIATIONS--DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia 
resumed hearing on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for 
the government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in 
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Margaret A. Moore, 
Director, Department of Corrections, and Larry D. Soulsby, Chief of 
Police, Metropolitan Police Department, both of the District of 
Columbia.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, July 23.
NOMINATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nomination of Jamie Rappaport Clark, of Maryland, to be Director 
of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the 
Interior, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own 
behalf.
DRUG VIOLENCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded hearings to examine new 
drug smuggling methods and the number and violence of certain incidents 
involving drug cartels targeting United States officials in retaliation 
for U.S. counterdrug efforts, after receiving testimony from Richard 
Hoglund, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Investigations, 
United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Michael T. 
Horn, Chief of International Operations, Drug Enforcement 
Administration, Department of Justice; Cochise County Sheriff Larry A. 
Dever, Bisbee, Arizona; Samuel C. Scott, Fontana Police Department, 
Fontana, California; and a certain protected witness.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings, in open 
and closed sessions, to examine certain matters with regard to the 
committee's special investigation on campaign financing, receiving 
testimony from Paul A. Buskirk, Acting Director, Office of Security, 
Robert P. Gallagher, Director, Office of Intelligence Liaison, and 
Jeffrey Garten, former Under Secretary for International Trade, all of 
the Department of Commerce; Gary A. Christopherson, former Associate 
Director of White House Personnel; William H. McNair, Information 
Officer/Director of Operations, Central Intelligence Agency; and John 
H. Dickerson, a protected witness.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
terms and parameters of the proposed Global Tobacco Settlement which 
will mandate a total reformation and restructuring of how tobacco 
products are manufactured, marketed and distributed in America, 
focusing on its long-term impact on children and the public health, and 
its legal and constitutional ramifications, receiving testimony from 
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Hartford; Minnesota 
Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, St. Paul; Colorado Attorney 
General Gale A. Norton, Denver; Richard F. Scruggs, Scruggs, Millette, 
Lawson, Bozeman & Dent, Pascagoula, Mississippi; Stanley M. Chesley, 
Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Cincinnati, Ohio; Laurence H. 
Tribe, Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and 
Robert A. Levy, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TELEVISION IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights, 
and Competition concluded hearings on S. 539, to exempt agreements 
relating to voluntary guidelines governing telecast material from the 
applicability of the antitrust laws, after receiving testimony from 
Senators Lieberman and Brownback; Reed E. Hundt, Chairman, Federal 
Communications Commission; Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, 
Jr., Baltimore; and Cass

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R. Sunstein, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois.