[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 24, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D997-D999]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE BOARD
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded oversight 
hearings on the operation of the Federal Housing Finance Board, which 
oversees the administration and enforcement of the Federal Home Loan 
Bank Act, after receiving testimony from Bruce A. Morrison, Chairman, 
Federal Housing Finance Board.
AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Manufacturing and Competitiveness concluded hearings to examine the 
economic impact of the Environmental Protection Agency's revisions to 
the particulate matter and ozone ambient standards on certain 
manufacturers, jobs, and competitiveness in the United States, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Inhofe; Representatives Dingell, 
Upton, and Shays; Jeffrey C. Smith, Institute of Clean Air Companies, 
Inc., Washington, D.C.; Scott Holman, Sr., Bay Cast Technologies, Bay 
City, Michigan; B.J. Mason, Mid-Atlantic Finishing, Capitol Heights, 
Maryland, on behalf of the American Electroplaters and Surface 
Finishers Society, the National Association of Metal Finishers, and the 
Metal Finishing Suppliers' Association; Benjamin E. Ramsey, Indiana 
Building and Construction Trades Council, Indianapolis; Arland 
Stephens, Norwich, Kansas, on behalf of the Kansas Farm Bureau; Jason 
Grumet, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, Boston, 
Massachusetts; and Art McGee, United Automobile, Aerospace and 
Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Flint, Michigan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 967, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to benefit Alaska 
natives and rural residents, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1158, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding 
the Huna Totem Corporation public interest land exchange, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1159, to amend the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, regarding 
the Kake Tribal Corporation public interest land exchange, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1092, to provide for a transfer of land interests in order to 
facilitate surface transportation between the cities of Cold Bay, 
Alaska, and King Cove, Alaska;
  S. 1015, to provide for the exchange of lands within Admiralty Island 
National Monument, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 846, to amend the Federal Power Act to remove the jurisdiction of 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to license projects on fresh 
waters in the State of Hawaii;
  S. 439, to provide for Alaska State jurisdiction over small 
hydroelectric projects, to address voluntary licensing of hydroelectric 
projects on fresh waters in the State of Hawaii, and to provide an 
exemption for a portion of a hydroelectric project located in the State 
of New Mexico, with amendments;
  S. 587, to require the Secretary of the Interior to exchange certain 
lands located in Hindsdale, Colorado, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the amendment 
incorporates provisions of H.R. 951, House companion measure.);
  S. 588, to provide for the expansion of the Eagles Nest Wilderness 
within the Arapaho National Forest and the White River National Forest 
in Colorado, to include land known as the Slate Creek Addition, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, 
the amendment incorporates provisions of H.R. 985, House companion 
measure.);
  S. 589, to provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance 
involving the Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest in 
Colorado, to correct the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys, 
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the 
committee, the amendment incorporates provisions of H.R. 1019, House 
companion measure.);
  S. 591, to transfer the Dillon Ranger District in the Arapaho 
National Forest to the White River National Forest in the State of 
Colorado, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved 
by the committee, the amendment incorporates provisions of H.R. 1020, 
House companion measure.);
  S. 750, to consolidate certain mineral interests in the National 
Grasslands in Billings County North Dakota, through the exchange of 
Federal and private mineral interests in order to enhance land 
management capabilities and environmental and wildlife protection, with 
an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

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  S. 660, to provide for the continuation of higher education through 
the conveyance of certain public lands in the State of Alaska to the 
University of Alaska, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 
and
  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.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported H.R. 2443, to designate the Federal Building located at 601 
Fourth Street, N.W., in the District of Columbia, as the ``Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office Memorial Building'', 
in honor of William H. Christian, Jr., Martha Dixon Martinez, Michael 
J. Miller, Anthony Palmisano, and Edwin R. Woodriffe.
AUTHORIZATION--ENDANGERED SPECIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1180, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 through 2003 for 
programs of the Endangered Species Act, after receiving testimony from 
former Senator James McClure, on behalf of the National Endangered 
Species Act Reform Coalition; Duane L. Shroufe, Arizona Game and Fish 
Department, Phoenix, on behalf of the International Association of Fish 
and Wildlife Agencies; and W. Henson Moore, on behalf of the American 
Forest and Paper Association and the Endangered Species Coordinating 
Council, Mark Van Putten, National Wildlife Federation, and Michael J. 
Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, all of Washington, D.C.
IRS REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to examine the 
current state of the Internal Revenue Service, focusing on its 
practices and procedures and its enforcement authorities to collect 
delinquent taxes, receiving testimony from Jennifer Long, Agent, Darren 
Larsen, former Assistant District Counsel, Lawrence G. Lilly, former 
District Counsel, David Patnoe, former Revenue Officer, Bruce A. 
Strauss, former Senior Division Chief, Collections Division, and 
Shelley L. Davis, former Historian, all of the Internal Revenue 
Service, Department of the Treasury; Monsignor Lawrence F. Ballweg, New 
York, New York; Nancy Jacobs, Bakersfield, California; Katherine Lund 
Hicks, Apple Valley, California; David Burnham, Washington, D.C.; 
Robert S. Schriebman, Los Angeles, California; and Tom Savage, Lewes, 
Delaware.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  An original bill (S. 1211) to provide permanent authority for the 
administration of au pair programs;
  An original bill to interpret the term ``kidnapping'' in extradition 
treaties to which the United States is a party;
  S. Con. Res. 51, expressing the sense of the Congress regarding 
elections for the legislature of the Hong Kong Administrative Region;
  H. Con. Res. 99, expressing concern over recent events in the 
Republic of Sierra Leone in the wake of the recent military coup d'etat 
of that country's first democratically elected President;
  An original resolution (S. Res. 123) honoring the memory of former 
Peace Corps Director Loret Miller Ruppe; and
  The nominations of Barbara K. Bodine, of California, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Yemen, Corinne Claiborne Boggs, of Louisiana, to be 
Ambassador to the Holy See, R. Nicholas Burns, of Virginia, to be 
Ambassador to Greece, Brian Dean Curran, of Florida, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Mozambique, Thomas J. Dodd, of the District of 
Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica, Timberlake 
Foster, of California, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of 
Mauritania, Thomas M. Foglietta, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to 
Italy, Donna Jean Hrinak, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic 
of Bolivia, Curtis Warren Kamman, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, Tom McDonald, of Ohio, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, Mark Robert Parris, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey, Nancy Jo Powell, 
of Iowa, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda, Robin Lynn Raphel, 
of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Tunisia, Susan E. 
Rice, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of State 
for African Affairs, Peter L. Scher, of the District of Columbia, for 
the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as Special Trade 
Negotiator, Amelia Ellen Shippy, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Malawi, Edward E. Shumaker, III, of New Hampshire, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad

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and Tobago, Johnny Young, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the State of 
Bahrain, Nancy Dorn, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the 
Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, Harold C. Pachios, 
of Maine, and Paula Dobrianksy, of Maryland, each to be a Member of the 
United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, and a Foreign 
Service Officer promotion list received by the Senate on September 4, 
1997.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Thomas S. Foley, of Washington, to be Ambassador to 
Japan, Alphonse F. La Porta, of New York, to be Ambassador to Mongolia, 
and Stephen W. Bosworth, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Korea, after the nominees testified and answered questions 
in their own behalf. Mr. Foley was introduced by Senators Gorton and 
Murray and Representative Hyde.
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 Ann 
McBride and Donald J. Simon, both of Common Cause, Norman J. Ornstein, 
American Enterprise Institute, Thomas E. Mann, Brookings Institution, 
Douglas C. Berman, Campaign Reform Project, Becky Cain, League of Women 
Voters, Edward H. Crane, CATO Institute, Curtis B. Gans, Committee for 
the Study of the American Electorate, and Ellen S. Miller, Public 
Campaign, all of Washington, D.C.; and Leo Troy, Rutgers University, 
Newark, New Jersey.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1186, to reform Federal job training, vocational education, and 
adult education programs, with amendments; and
  A list of nominations in the Public Health Service Commissioned 
Corps.