[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 125 (Thursday, September 18, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D970-D972]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

 Committee Meetings
 (Committees not listed did not meet)
 GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
 Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry:  Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the terms and parameters of the proposed 
settlement between State

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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 impact on tobacco growers, 
after receiving testimony from Indiana Attorney General Jeffrey A. 
Modisett, Indianapolis; Tommy Irvin, Georgia Department of Agriculture, 
Atlanta; A. Blake Brown, North Carolina State University, W.B. Jenkins, 
North Carolina Farm Bureau, and Arnold Hamm, Flue-Cured Tobacco 
Cooperative Stabilization Corporation, all of Raleigh, North Carolina; 
Bruce L. Gardner, University of Maryland, College Park; William R. 
Sprague, Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation, Louisville; and William M. 
Snell, University of Kentucky, Rod Kuegel, Burley Tobacco Growers 
Cooperative, and Karen Armstrong-Cummings, Commodity Growers 
Cooperative Association, all of Lexington, Kentucky.
 NOMINATIONS
 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:  Committee 
concluded hearings on the nominations of Robert L. Mallett, of Texas, 
to be Deputy Secretary, and W. Scott Gould, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary, both 
of the Department of Commerce, after the nominees testified and 
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Mallett was introduced by 
Senator Hutchison and Representative Jackson-Lee, and Mr. Gould was 
introduced by Senator Kerry.
 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
 Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:  Subcommittee on 
Science, Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the current status 
of the International Space Station Program of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, focusing on recent developments in cost 
analysis, scheduling, operation and management of the space station, 
after receiving testimony from Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, Malcolm 
L. Peterson, Comptroller, and Frank Culbertson, Phase I Shuttle Mir 
Program Manager, Johnson Space Center (Houston, Texas), all of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Allen Li, Associate 
Director, and Frank Degnan, Assistant Director, both of Defense 
Acquisitions Issues, National Security and International Affairs 
Division, General Accounting Office; and Douglas C. Stone, Boeing 
Company, Houston, Texas.
 NOMINATIONS
 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources:  Committee concluded 
hearings on the nominations of Ernest J. Moniz, of Massachusetts, to be 
Under Secretary, Mary Anne Sullivan, of the District of Columbia, to be 
General Counsel, Robert Wayne Gee, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary 
for Policy, Planning, and Program Evaluation, Dan Reicher, of Maryland, 
to be Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 
John C. Angell, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Michael Telson, of the 
District of Columbia, to be Chief Financial Officer, all of the 
Department of Energy, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf.
 NOMINATIONS
 Committee on Foreign Relations:  Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Wyche Fowler, Jr., of Georgia, to be Ambassador to the 
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Martin S. Indyk, of the District of Columbia, 
to be Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara K. 
Bodine, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen, Robin 
Lynn Raphel, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of 
Tunisia, and Johnny Young, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the State 
of Bahrain, after the nominees testified and answered questions in 
their own behalf. Mr. Fowler was introduced by Senator Cleland, Mr. 
Indyk was introduced by Senators Moynihan and Lieberman, and Mr. Young 
was introduced by Senator Sarbanes.
 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 Jerome 
Campane, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
Department of Justice (detailed to the Committee as Special 
Investigator); Charles Kyle Simpson, Senior Policy Adviser to the 
Secretary of Energy; John Carter, former Senior Advisor to the Deputy 
Secretary of Energy; and Roger E. Tamraz, New York, New York.
   Hearings continue tomorrow.
 BUSINESS MEETING
 Committee on the Judiciary:  Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
   The nominations of Marjorie O. Rendell, of Pennsylvania, to be 
United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Richard A. Lazzara, 
to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida, 
and Christina A. Snyder, to be United States District Judge for the 
Central District of California;
   H.R. 1086, to codify without substantive change laws related to 
transportation and to improve the United States Code;
   S. 493, to improve the ability of law enforcement to investigate and 
prosecute individuals engaged in the activity of cloning cellular phone 
paraphernalia, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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   S. 170, to provide for a process to authorize the use of clone 
pagers (defined as a numeric display device that receives 
communications intended for another numeric display paging device); and
   S. Res. 122, declaring September 26, 1997, as ``Austrian-American 
Day''.
 SENATE ELECTION
 Committee on Rules and Administration:  Committee resumed hearings, in 
open and closed session, to review certain petitions filed in 
connection with a contested United States Senate election held in 
Louisiana in November 1996, after receiving testimony from numerous 
public witnesses.
   Committee recessed subject to call.
 CHINA
 Select Committee on Intelligence:  Committee held hearings on 
intelligence matters with regard to China, focusing on certain aspects 
of internal Chinese political and economic developments, Chinese 
foreign and military policy, and Chinese intelligence activities that 
affect United States national security and challenge U.S. intelligence 
collection and analysis, receiving testimony from Michael Pillsbury, 
Associate Fellow, National Defense University (Fort McNair, Washington, 
D.C.), Department of Defense; Harry Wu, Hoover Institute, Stanford, 
California; James R. Lilley, American Enterprise Institute for Public 
Policy Research, former U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of 
China, and Peter W. Rodman, Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, both of 
Washington, D.C.; and Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law 
School, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms 
Control.
   Also, committee held closed hearings on related intelligence 
matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence 
community.
   Committee recessed subject to call.