[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 121 (Friday, September 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D940-D941]
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 Foreign Relations: Committee met to discuss the history of 
Presidential nominees not receiving confirmation hearings.
  Committee recessed subject to call.
REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 981, 
to provide for the analysis of major regulatory rules by Federal 
agencies, receiving testimony from Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; 
L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal Management and Workforce Issues, 
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; James L. 
Martin, National Governors' Association, C. Boyden Gray, Wilmer, Cutler 
& Pickering, former Counsel to the Presidential Task Force on 
Regulatory Relief, David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council, 
Paul R. Portney, Resources for the Future, and David C. Vladeck, Public 
Citizen Litigation Group, all of Washington, D.C.; Sal Risalvato, 
Riverdale Texaco, Morris County, New Jersey, on behalf of the National 
Federation of Independent Business; Thomas F. Walton, General Motors 
Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf of Alliance USA; Ernest 
Gellhorn, George Mason University School of Law, Fairfax, Virginia; and 
John D. Graham, Center for Risk Analysis/Harvard University School of 
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
RELIGIOUS WORKERS IMMIGRATION VISAS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings on proposals to permanently extend the expiring provisions of 
current immigration law which provides special immigrant visas for 
religious workers sponsored by religious organizations in the United 
States, after receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Archbishop Adam 
Cardinal Maida, Detroit, Michigan; Peter Borgdorff,

[[Page D941]]

Christian Reformed Church in North America, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and 
David Grunblatt, Agudath Israel of America, and Ralston H. Deffenbaugh, 
Jr., Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, both of New York, New 
York.