[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 131 (Friday, September 26, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1017-D1018]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
MEDICAL DEVICE REGULATORY MODERNIZATION ACT
Committee on Commerce: Ordered reported amended H.R. 1710, Medical 
Device Regulatory Modernization Act of 1997.
OVERSIGHT
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Subcommittee on the 
District of Columbia held an oversight hearing on the District of 
Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and the Booz-Allen MOC. 
Testimony was heard from Larry D. Soulsby, Chief, Metropolitan Police 
Department, District of Columbia; Eugene N. Hamilton, Chief Judge, 
Superior Court, District of Columbia; Mary Lou Leary, Acting United 
States Attorney, District of Columbia; and Gary Mathers, Senior Vice-
President, Booz-Allen and Hamilton.
MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES
Committee on International Relations: Ordered reported H. Res. 188, 
urging the executive branch to take action regarding the acquisition by 
Iran of C-802 cruise missiles.
  The Committee also began markup of H.R. 967, to prohibit the use of 
United States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese 
officials in international conferences, programs, and activities and to 
provide that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive 
visas and be excluded from admission to the United States.
  Will continue September 29.
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON RESTRUCTURING THE IRS
Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight continued 
hearings on the Recommendations of the National Commission on 
Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service with regard to taxpayer 
protections and rights. Testimony was heard from Representative 
Kingston; the following officials of the Department of the Treasury: 
Donald C. Lubick, Acting Assistant Secretary, Tax Policy; Michael P.

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Dolan, Acting Commissioner, Stuart Brown, Chief Counsel, and Lee R. 
Monks, Taxpayer Advocate, all with the IRS; James R. White, Associate 
Director, Tax Policy and Administration, GAO; and public witnesses.

Joint Meetings
APPROPRIATIONS--VA/HUD
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-
passed versions of H.R. 2158, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry 
independent agencies, commissions, corporations, and offices for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, but did not complete action 
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, September 30.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-
passed versions of H.R. 2264, making appropriations for the Departments 
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1998, but did not 
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.