[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 110 (Wednesday, July 30, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D854-D857]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  An original bill to ensure that federally funded agricultural 
research, extension, and education address high-priority concerns with 
national or multistate significance, and to reform, extend, and 
eliminate certain agricultural research programs; and
  The nominations of August Schumacher Jr., of Massachusetts, to be 
Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and a Member 
of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, 
Catherine E. Woteki, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary 
for Food Safety, I. Miley Gonzalez, of New Mexico, to be Under 
Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics, and Shirley Robinson 
Watkins, of Arkansas, to be Under

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Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services and a Member of 
the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation, all of the 
Department of Agriculture.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Maj. Gen. Robert H. Foglesong, USAF, Maj. Gen. John M. 
Pickler, USA, and Maj. Gen. Michael J. Byron, USMC, each to be a 
Lieutenant General.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:Subcommittee on 
Financial Services and Technology resumed hearings to review computer 
systems and information processing challenges of the Year 2000 for 
certain financial institutions, receiving testimony from Edward W. 
Kelly, Jr., Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; 
Eugene A. Ludwig, Comptroller of the Currency, and Nicolas P. Retsinas, 
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, both of the Department of the 
Treasury; Arthur Levitt, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; and 
Andrew C. Hove, Acting Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE REFORM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings on the regulation of satellite-based 
telecommunications technology, focusing on the restructuring process of 
INTELSAT and Inmarsat satellite systems, after receiving testimony from 
Peter Cowhey, Chief, International Bureau, Federal Communications 
Commission; Jack Gleason, Acting Associate Administrator, Office of 
International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Steven W. Lett, Deputy United 
States Coordinator, International Communications and Information 
Policy, Department of State; Irving Goldstein, INTELSAT, Washington, 
D.C.; James W. Cuminale, PanAmSat Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut; 
and Betty Alewine, COMSAT Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 360, to require adoption of a management plan for the Hells Canyon 
National Recreation Area that allows appropriate use of motorized and 
nonmotorized river craft in the recreation area;
  S. 783, to increase the accessibility of the Boundary Waters Canoe 
Area Wilderness, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 590, to provide for a land exchange involving certain land within 
the Routt National Forest in the State of Colorado;
  H.R. 1198, to convey certain land to the City of Grants Pass, Oregon;
  H.R. 1944, to provide for a land exchange involving the Warner Canyon 
Ski Area and other land in the State of Oregon;
  S. 308, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study 
concerning grazing use of certain land within and adjacent to Grand 
Teton National Park, Wyoming, and to extend temporarily certain grazing 
privileges, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 871, to establish the Oklahoma City National Memorial at the site 
of the bombing incident at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, to 
designate the memorial a unit of the National Park System, and 
establish the Oklahoma City Memorial Trust to oversee the development 
and operation of the memorial;
  H.R. 63, to designate the reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the 
Central Valley project, California, as ``Trinity Lake'';
  S. 931, to designate the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness and the 
Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center; and
  S. 965, to extend the authorization of appropriations in title II of 
the Hydrogen Future Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-271).
NATIONAL PARK CONCESSION MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded oversight 
hearings to review the management and operations of concession programs 
within the National Park System, after receiving testimony from Maureen 
Finnerty, Associate Director of Operations, National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior; David L. Brown, America Outdoors, 
Knoxville, Tennessee; Philip H. Voorhees, National Parks and 
Conservation Association, Curtis E. Cornelssen, Landauer Associates, 
and Allan T. Howe, National Park Hospitality Association, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Craig Mackey, Outward Bound USA, Golden, 
Colorado.
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1059, to improve the

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management of the National Wildlife Refuge System, after receiving 
testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; Gary J. 
Taylor, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and 
James R. Waltman, Wilderness Society, both of Washington, D.C.; and 
James A. Mosher, Izaak Walton League of America, Gaithersburg, 
Maryland.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America and 
the Government of Hong Kong for the Surrender of Fugitive Offenders 
signed at Hong Kong on December 20, 1996 (Treaty Doc. 105-3), with two 
understandings, two declarations, an interpretation, and a proviso;
  S. 1082, to authorize funds to pay for United States' contributions 
to certain international financial institutions;
  S. Con. Res. 39, expressing the sense of the Congress that the German 
Government should expand and simplify its reparations system, provide 
reparations to Holocaust survivors in Eastern and Central Europe, and 
set up a fund to help cover the medical expenses of Holocaust 
survivors;
  S. Con. Res. 45, commending Dr. Hans Blix for his distinguished 
service as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 
on the occasion of his retirement;
  An original concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 46) expressing the 
sense of the Senate regarding the terrorist bombing in the Jerusalem 
market on July 30, 1997; and
  The nominations of David Andrews, of California, to be Legal Adviser, 
Department of State, James Franklin Collins, of Illinois, to be 
Ambassador to the Russian Federation, Bonnie R. Cohen, of the District 
of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of State for Management, Edward 
William Gnehm, Jr., of Georgia, to be Director General of the Foreign 
Service, Department of State, Marc Grossman, of Virginia, to be 
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, Maura 
Harty, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Paraguay, 
Richard Dale Kauzlarich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, John Christian Kornblum, of Michigan, to be 
Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany, Philip Lader, of South 
Carolina, to be Ambassador to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Northern Ireland, James F. Mack, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the 
Cooperative Republic of Guyana, 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, Felix George 
Rohatyn, of New York, to be Ambassador to France, Stanley O. Roth, of 
Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs, James P. Rubin, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of 
State for Public Affairs, 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, Wendy Ruth Sherman, of 
Maryland, to be Counselor of the Department of State, and to have the 
rank of Ambassador during her tenure of service, Anne Marie Sigmund, of 
the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, 
Keith C. Smith, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Lithuania, and Daniel V. Speckhard, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Belarus.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings to 
examine certain matters with regard to the committee's special 
investigation on campaign financing, receiving testimony from Michael 
H. Cardozo, Presidential Legal Expense Trust, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings to examine the 
terms and parameters of the proposed settlement between State Attorneys 
General and tobacco companies to 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 Senator Lautenberg; Dianne Castano, Castano v. 
American Tobacco Co., New Orleans, Louisiana; John R. Seffrin, American 
Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia; Robert A. Falise, Manville Personal 
Injury Settlement Trust, Fairfax, Virginia; David Schultz, MCA, 
Massillon, Ohio, on behalf of the Point-of-Purchase Advertising 
Institute and the Freedom to Advertise Coalition; Jeffrey E. Harris, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brookline, Massachusetts; Duncan 
Thomas, Q-Marts Inc., Richmond, Virginia, on behalf of the National 
Association of Convenience Stores; and Lonnie R. Bristow, San Pablo, 
California.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 
569, to amend the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 to provide for 
retention by an Indian tribe of exclusive jurisdiction over child 
custody proceedings involving Indian children and other

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related requirements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INDIAN TRUST FUND STRATEGIC PLAN
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the 
Special Trustee for American Indians' Strategic Plan for Indian trust 
fund accounting and asset management improvement, pursuant to the 
American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act (P.L. 103-412), 
receiving testimony from Linda M. Calbom, Director, Civil Audits, 
Accounting and Information Management Division, General Accounting 
Office; Donald R. Lasher, Chief Information Officer, and Paul M. Homan, 
Special Trustee for American Indians, both of the Department of the 
Interior; Pearl Capoeman-Baller, Quinault Indian Nation, Taholah, 
Washington; Ivan Makil, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, 
Scottsdale, Arizona; Elouise C. Cobell, Blackfeet Reservation 
Development Fund, Inc., Browning, Montana; Mary A. Benedict, 
Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds, Juneau, 
Alaska; and W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Sequim, 
Washington, on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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.