[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 130 (Thursday, September 25, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1007-D1008]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 7,400 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
BUSINESS MEETING--ISTEA AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported an original bill authorizing funds for the transit 
provisions of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act 
(ISTEA).
MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 852, to establish nationally uniform requirements 
regarding the titling and registration of salvage, nonrepairable, and 
rebuilt vehicles, after receiving testimony from William L. Brauch, 
Iowa Department of Justice, Des Moines, on behalf of the National 
Association of Attorneys General; Bernard E. Brown, Kansas City, 
Missouri, on behalf of the Consumer Federation of America; R. B. 
Dossett, Jr., Dossett Big 4, Tupelo, Mississippi, on behalf of the 
National Automobile Dealers Association; Peg Echols, State Farm 
Insurance Companies, Bloomington, Illinois; and Marcia McAllister, 
Schaumberg, Illinois, on behalf of the American Salvage Pool 
Association.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
to examine the implementation of the Federal agency energy management 
provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, after receiving testimony 
from John B. Goodman, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Industrial 
Affairs and Installations; John Archibald, Acting Director, Federal 
Energy Management Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable 
Energy, Department of Energy; Glenn Skovholt, Honeywell, Inc., 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National Association of Energy 
Service Companies; Richard Frost, ICRC Energy Inc., Anchorage, Alaska; 
Jerry Hathaway, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Chugach Alaska 
Corporation; and James P. Kovalcik, PNM Energy Partners, Washington, 
D.C., on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 799, to transfer eighty

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acres of public land in Big Horn County, Wyoming, to the estate of Mr. 
Fred Steffens, S. 814, to transfer forty acres of public land in Big 
Horn County, Wyoming, to John R. and Margaret J. Lowe, and H.R. 960, to 
extinguish the Federal government's right of reversion to lands 
encumbered by a railroad right-of-way within Tulare, California, after 
receiving testimony from Mat Millenbach, Deputy Director, Bureau of 
Land Management, Department of the Interior.
IRS REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded 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, after receiving testimony from Michael P. Dolan, 
Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Department of the Treasury; 
Lynda D. Willis, Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, 
General Government Division, General Accounting Office; and certain 
protected witnesses.
SUDAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs 
concluded hearings to examine the incidence of religious persecution 
and human rights violations in Sudan, after receiving testimony from 
Gare A. Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State/Bureau of Democracy, 
Human Rights and Labor; House of Lords Deputy Speaker Caroline Cox, 
London, England, on behalf of the Christian Solidarity International; 
Marc R. Nikkel, Episcopal Church of Sudan/Diocese of Bor, Nairobi, 
Kenya; and Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch, Washington, D.C.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
Treaty of Maritime Boundaries between the United States and the United 
Mexican States, signed at Mexico City, May 4, 1978 (Treaty Doc. 96-6), 
the Protocol Between the United States and Canada Amending the 1916 
Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds in Canada and the 
United States, with a related exchange of notes, signed at Washington 
on December 14, 1995 (Treaty Doc. 104-28), the Protocol Between the 
Government of the United States and the Government of the United 
Mexican States Amending the Convention for the Protection of Migratory 
Birds and Game Mammals, signed at Mexico City on May 5, 1997 (Treaty 
Doc. 105-26), after receiving testimony from Senator Murkowski; Alaska 
Lt. Governor Fran Ulmer, Juneau; Mary Beth West, Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of State for Oceans, Science and Technology/Bureau of Oceans, 
and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Jamie Clark, 
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; 
Myron Naneng, Sr., Native Migratory Birds Working Group/Association of 
Village Presidents, Anchorage, Alaska; and Roger Holmes, Minnesota 
Department of Natural Resources, St. Paul.
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 Lawrence 
M. Noble, General Counsel, and Trevor Potter, former Chairman, both of 
the Federal Election Commission; Anthony Corrado, Colby College, 
Waterville, Maine; Daniel R. Ortiz, University of Virginia, 
Charlottesville; Burt Neuborne, New York University School of Law, New 
York, New York; and Roger Pilon, CATO Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, September 30.
GLOBAL TOBACCO SETTLEMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed hearings to 
examine the scope and depth of the proposed settlement between State 
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 the need to prevent young 
people from using tobacco products and other public health goals, 
receiving testimony from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and 
Human Services.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, September 30.
CAPITOL SECURITY
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to 
examine the security needs of the United States Capitol complex, 
receiving testimony from Gregory S. Casey, Senate Sergeant at Arms, 
Wilson Livingood, House Sergeant at Arms, Alan M. Hantman, Architect of 
the Capitol, and Gary L. Abrecht, Chief, U.S. Capitol Police, all on 
behalf of the U.S. Capitol Police Board.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: On Wednesday, September 24, committee 
approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 126) authorizing 
supplemental expenditures by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.