[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 29, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D846-D847]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL PRICE VOLATILITY
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the impact of the Federal Agriculture Improvement 
and Reform Act (P.L. 104-127) on price and income volatility in 
agricultural markets and the Federal Government's role to manage 
volatility, after receiving testimony from Keith Collins, Chief 
Economist, Department of Agriculture; Leland H. Swenson, National 
Farmers Union, Aurora, Colorado; Michael R. Dicks, Oklahoma State 
University, Stillwater; Ken Rulon, Rulon Enterprises, Cicero, Indiana; 
Duane Fischer, Scoular Company, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of the 
National Grain and Feed Association; N. Alan Bair, Pennsylvania State 
University, Middletown; Edward T. Coughlin, National Milk Producers 
Federation, Arlington, Virginia; and Gary A. Corbett, Dean Foods 
Company, Rockford, Illinois, on behalf of the International Dairy Foods 
Association.
ATM NETWORKS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine automated teller machine (ATM) network operations 
and the practice of surcharging by banks and thrifts with regard to 
ATMs, and S. 885, to limit fees charged by financial institutions for 
the use of automatic teller machines, after receiving testimony from 
Donald I. Baker, Baker & Miller, G. Henry Mundt, III, Cirrus System, 
Inc., and Anthony N. McEwen, PLUS ATM/Visa U.S.A., all of Washington, 
D.C.; Thomas M. Caron, Easton Cooperative Bank, Easton, Massachusetts, 
on behalf of the Community Bank League of New England; Allen I. Olson, 
Independent Community Bankers of Minnesota, Eagan; and John G. Bascom, 
Magic Line, Inc., Dearborn, Michigan.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine commerce related issues with regard to the proposed 
Global Tobacco Settlement which will mandate a total reformation and 
restructuring of how tobacco products are manufactured, marketed, and 
distributed in America, and its long-term impact on children and the 
public health, receiving testimony from C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon 
General of the Public

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Health Service, and David A. Kessler, former Commissioner of Food and 
Drugs, both of the Department of Health and Human Services, both on 
behalf of the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health; 
Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H. Humphrey III, St. Paul; Arizona 
Attorney General Grant Woods, Phoenix; Washington Attorney General 
Christine Gregoire, Olympia; and Mississippi Attorney General Mike 
Moore, Jackson.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ALASKA LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the following bills:
  S. 967, to make certain technical changes to the Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
to benefit Alaska Natives and rural residents, after receiving 
testimony from Deborah L. Williams, Special Assistant to the Secretary 
of the Interior for Alaska; William P. Horn, Washington, D.C., on 
behalf of the Alaska Professional Hunters Association and the Alaska 
Professional Sportfish Coalition; Matthew Nicolai, Calista Corporation, 
and Allen E. Smith, Wilderness Society, both of Anchorage, Alaska; 
Michael Sheldon, Southeast Alaska ANCSA Land Acquisition Coalition 
(SAALAC), Petersburg; and Bart Koehler, Southeast Alaska Conservation 
Council, and Robert W. Loescher, Sealaska Corporation, both of Juneau, 
Alaska; and
  S. 1015, to provide for the exchange of lands within Admiralty Island 
National Monument in Alaska, after receiving testimony from Janice 
McDougle, Associate Deputy Chief, and Eleanor Towns, Director of Lands, 
both of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Mayor Peter 
Hallgren, and Charles E. Horan, Horan, Corak and Co., both of Sitka, 
Alaska; and James F. Clark, Alaska Pulp Corporation, Juneau, Alaska.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Philip Lader, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Felix George 
Rohatyn, of New York, to be Ambassador to France, Keith C. Smith, of 
California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania, Richard Dale 
Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina, James W. Pardew Jr., of Virginia, for the Rank of 
Ambassador during his tenure of service as U.S. Special Representative 
for Military Stabilization in the Balkans, Anne Marie Sigmund, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, and 
Daniel V. Speckhard, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Belarus, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Lader was introduced by Senator Thurmond.
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 Jerome 
Campane, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of 
Justice, detailed to the Committee as a Special Investigator; and Yue 
F. Chu and Xi Ping Wang, both of Gaithersburg, Maryland.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine certain 
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, focusing on proposals to ensure that the Federal 
courts are kept within their proper constitutional role, including S.J. 
Res. 26, proposing a constitutional amendment to establish limited 
judicial terms of office, after receiving testimony from Senator Robert 
Smith; Representatives Delahunt and Canady; Timothy E. Flanigan, Great 
Falls, Virginia, former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 
Counsel, Department of Justice; and Thomas L. Jipping, Center for Law 
and Democracy, and Elliot M. Mincberg, People for the American Way, 
both of Washington, D.C.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposals to improve educational opportunities for low-income children, 
including provisions of S. 847, to provide scholarship assistance for 
District of Columbia elementary and secondary school students, after 
receiving testimony from Texas State Representative Glenn Lewis, Fort 
Worth; Dolores Fridge, Minnesota Department of Human Rights, St. Paul; 
Howard Fuller, Institute for the Transformation of Learning/Marquette 
University, Alex Molnar, University of Wisconsin, and Zakiya Courtney, 
Parents for School Choice, all of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Barbara S. 
Lewis, Families Organized for Real Choice in Education, Indianapolis, 
Indiana; Alieze Stallworth, District of Columbia Parent Teachers 
Association, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Parent 
Teachers Association; Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University Department 
of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Pam Ballard, Cleveland, 
Ohio.