[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 115 (Thursday, September 4, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D897-D898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL AGRICULTURAL CREDIT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the availability of credit in rural America, 
focusing on the performance of rural financial markets and the safety 
and soundness of the Farm Credit System, after receiving testimony from 
Marsha Pyle Martin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Farm Credit 
Administration; Susan E. Offutt, Administrator, Economic Research 
Service, and Dayton J. Watkins, Administrator, Rural Business-
Cooperative Service, both of the Department of Agriculture; David 
Hemingway, Member of the Board of Directors, Federal Agricultural 
Mortgage Corporation; Mark Drabenstott, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas 
City, Kansas City, Missouri; Mark A. Edelman, Iowa State University, 
Ames; Dennis Everson, First Dakota National Bank, Yankton, South 
Dakota, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Terry Jorde, 
Towner County State Bank, Cando, North Dakota, on behalf of the 
Independent Bankers Association of America; and Jerold L. Harris, Farm 
Credit Bank of Wichita, Wichita, Kansas, on behalf of the Farm Credit 
Council.
NATIONAL EDUCATION TESTING
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings to examine the 
Administration's proposed initiative to develop voluntary national 
standards to measure academic achievement in reading and mathematics, 
after receiving testimony from

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Representative Goodling; Richard W. Riley, Secretary of Education; and 
Marshall Smith, Acting Deputy Secretary of Education.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on 
S. 8, to revise and authorize funds for fiscal years 1998 through 2002 
for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and 
Liability Act (Superfund), receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, 
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; Nebraska Governor E. 
Benjamin Nelson, Lincoln, on behalf of the National Governors' 
Association; Mayor James P. Perron, Elkhart, Indiana, on behalf of the 
United States Conference of Mayors; New York State Assistant Attorney 
General Gordon J. Johnson, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
National Association of Attorneys General; and Wilma Subra, Subra 
Company, New Iberia, Louisiana.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nomination of Peter L. Scher, of the District of Columbia, for the rank 
of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Trade Negotiator, 
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Baucus, testified and 
answered questions in his own behalf.
CAMBODIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine the current political situation 
in Cambodia and the policy taken by the United States in response to 
Hun Sen's seizure of power in Cambodia, after receiving testimony from 
former Representative Thomas H. Andrews; Stanley O. Roth, Assistant 
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Sichan Siv, 
former Deputy Assistant to President Bush; Frederick Z. Brown, 
Southeast Asian Studies School of Advanced International Studies/Johns 
Hopkins University, Washington, D.C.; and Brad Adams, United Nations 
Human Rights Center, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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 Venerable 
Man-Ho, Venerable Yi Chu, and Venerable Man Ya, all of Hsi Lai Temple, 
Hacienda Heights, California.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT LIABILITY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine how to 
combat the risk of copyright infringement facing online and internet 
service providers, and S. 1146, to provide limitations on copyright 
liability relating to material on-line, receiving testimony from Fritz 
E. Attaway, Motion Picture Association of America, Cary H. Sherman, 
Recording Industry Association of America, Roy Neel, United States 
Telephone Association, and Robert L. Oakley, Georgetown University Law 
Center, on behalf of the American Association of Law Libraries, all of 
Washington, D.C.; Daniel Burton, Novell, Orem, Utah, on behalf of the 
Business Software Alliance and the Software Publishers Association; and 
George Vradenburg III, America OnLine, Inc., Dulles, Virginia, on 
behalf of the Ad Hoc Copyright Coalition.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
JUDGESHIP ALLOCATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings to examine the allocation of 
judgeships in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and 
Eighth Circuits, after receiving testimony from Richard S. Arnold, 
Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit 
(Little Rock, Arkansas); Ralph K. Winter, Chief Judge, United States 
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New Haven, Connecticut); Jon 
O. Newman, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second 
Circuit (Hartford, Connecticut); and Lawrence L. Piersol, District 
Judge, United States District Court (Sioux Falls, South Dakota).