[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 127 (Monday, September 22, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D983]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine the availability of long range ballistic missile technology 
throughout the world, after receiving testimony from William R. Graham, 
former Science Advisor to President Reagan and former Deputy 
Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and W. 
Seth Carus, National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington, D.C.
MICRO-CAP STOCK FRAUD
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations held hearings to examine the incidence and extent of 
fraud in the micro capital and penny stock markets in the United States 
and certain efforts to combat such fraud, receiving testimony from 
Arthur Levitt, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 
Joseph P. Borg, Alabama Securities Commission, Montgomery, on behalf of 
the North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.; Barry 
R. Goldsmith, NASD Regulation, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Helen Sprecher, 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Louis Poggi, Pembroke, New Hampshire; and 
Emile Murnan, St. Louis, Missouri.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
BANKRUPTCY CODE'S EFFECT ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM/BANKRUPTCY JUDGESHIPS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on proposed legislation to amend 
Section 548 of Title II of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code) to 
exempt certain contributions to religious or other charitable 
organizations from being subject to recovery by trustees in bankruptcy 
proceedings, and to review the need for additional federal bankruptcy 
judgeships, after receiving testimony from Judge David R. Thompson, 
Chairman, Committee on the Administration of the Bankruptcy System, 
Judicial Conference of the United States; Richard M. Stana, Acting 
Associate Director, Administration of Justice Issues, General 
Government Division, General Accounting Office; Kenneth D. Whitehead, 
Falls Church, Virginia, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, 
on behalf of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights; 
Stephen Paul Goold, Crystal Evangelical Free Church, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota; Richard E. Flint, Pearson & Price, Corpus Christi, Texas; 
Steven T. McFarland, Christian Legal Society's Center for Law and 
Religious Freedom, Annandale, Virginia; Douglas Laycock, University of 
Texas Law School, Austin; Todd J. Zywicki, Mississippi College School 
of Law, Jackson; Donald S. Bernstein, Davis, Polk & Wardwell, New York, 
New York, on behalf of the National Bankruptcy Conference.