[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 117 (Monday, September 8, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DC SCHOOL REFORM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on the current condition of the District of Columbia 
school system, and S. 847, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 
through 2002 to provide scholarship assistance for certain District of 
Columbia elementary and secondary school students, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Armey; and Julius W. Becton, Jr., Chief 
Executive Officer-Superintendent, and Bruce K. MacLaury, Chairman, 
Emergency Transitional Education Board of Trustees, both of the 
District of Columbia Public Schools, Jeanne Allen, Center for Education 
Reform, Nina Shokraii, Heritage Foundation, and Kent B. Amos, Urban 
Family Institute, all of Washington, D.C.
NATIONAL DROUGHT POLICY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings on S. 222, to establish an advisory commission to 
provide advice and recommendations on the creation of an integrated, 
coordinated Federal policy designed to prepare for and respond to 
serious drought emergencies, after receiving testimony from Tom Hebert, 
Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Conservation; North Dakota 
Governor Edward T. Schafer, Bismarck, on behalf of the Western 
Governors' Association; Jennifer A. Salisbury, New Mexico Energy, 
Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Santa Fe; John Hofmann, 
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, and Robert C. Brown, 
Farm Credit Bank of Texas, on behalf of the Farm Credit Council, both 
of Austin; and John Van Sweden, New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, 
Las Cruces, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation.