[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 21, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1110-D1111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATO ENLARGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
costs of enlarging NATO membership to include Poland, Hungary, and the 
Czech Republic and the impact of enlargement on Department of Defense 
readiness, receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of 
State; and William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
AIRLINE DEREGULATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held 
oversight hearings to review the status of competition in the airline 
industry as a result of airline deregulation and its related impact on 
consumers, focusing on certain restrictions to free market competition 
among airlines in America, receiving testimony from Patrick V. Murphy, 
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs, and 
Jeff Griffith, Planning Director, Air Traffic Operations, Federal 
Aviation Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; Fred 
C. Allvine, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; Steven A. 
Morrison, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Jay U. 
Sterling, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FINANCIAL SERVICE INDUSTRIES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded oversight 
hearings to review the condition of the banking and thrift industries, 
including the Bank Insurance Fund and the Savings Association Insurance 
Fund, focusing on the trend of consolidation and integration among 
banks, thrifts, and other financial services providers, developments 
that pose risks to insured institutions, and computer compliance in the 
Year 2000, after receiving testimony from Andrew C. Hove, Jr., Acting 
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Nicolas Retsinas, 
Director, Office of Thrift Supervision, Department of the Treasury.
EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to examine the 
economic and monetary union in Europe and its implications for the 
United States economy, receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, 
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; Giovanni Ravasio, European 
Commission, Brussels, Belgium; and C. Randall Henning, American 
University and the Institute for International Economics, Washington, 
D.C.
  Committee will meet again on Thursday, October 23.
DOMESTIC CRUISE AND SHIP TRADE INDUSTRIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings on S. 
803, to permit the transportation of passengers between United States 
ports by certain foreign-flag vessels and to encourage United States-
flag vessels to participate in such transportation, S. 668, to provide 
an exemption to United States coastwise passenger trade laws for 
Alaska, and related issues, after receiving testimony from Senators 
Thurmond and Murkowski; Helen Hill, Charleston Area Convention and 
Visitors Bureau, Charleston, South Carolina; Peter Blute, Massachusetts 
Port Authority, Boston; Thomas Garrett, Alaska Division of Tourism, 
Juneau; Michael A. Spinelli, American Society of Travel Agents, Lowell, 
Massachusetts; David F. Lauth, Cruising America Coalition, El Cajone, 
California; and Frank Pecquex, Maritime Trades Department/AFL-CIO, both 
of Washington, D.C.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Steven J. Green, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the 
Republic of Singapore, Lange Schermerhorn, of New Jersey, to be 
Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Brenda Schoonover, of Maryland, 
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, and William H. Twaddell, of

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Rhode Island, to be Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own 
behalf. Mr. Green was introduced by Senators Mack, Graham, and Breaux.
NORTH KOREAN MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine threats posed by North Korea's efforts to acquire weapons of 
mass destruction and to export both ballistic missile systems and 
production technology, after receiving testimony from Col. Joo-Hwal 
Choi, formerly of the North Korea Ministry of the People's Army, and 
Young-Hwan Ko, formerly of the North Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 
both of the Research Institute for North Korean Affairs, Seoul.
BANKRUPTCY REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings to examine the recommendations of the 
National Bankruptcy Review Commission to reform the federal bankruptcy 
code, after receiving testimony from Brady C. Williamson, Madison, 
Wisconsin, M. Caldwell Butler, Woods Rogers and Hazelgrove, Roanoke, 
Virginia, Edith Hollan Jones, United States Court of Appeals for the 
Fifth Circuit, Houston, Texas, Robert E. Ginsberg, Chicago, Illinois, 
Jay Alix, Jay Alix & Associates, Southfield, Michigan, James I. 
Shepard, Fresno, California, Babette A. Ceccotti, Cohen, Weiss & Simon, 
New York, New York, and John A. Gose, Preston Gates & Ellis, Seattle, 
Washington, all on behalf of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission.
WORKPLACE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on 
S. 1124, to revise certain provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
to modify the definition of religion to include all aspects of 
religious observance, practice, and belief, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Kerry; Richard Foltin, American Jewish Committee, on 
behalf of the Coalition for Religious Freedom in the Workplace, and 
Lawrence Z. Lorber, Verner Liipfer Bernhard McPherson & Hand, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Roberto Corrada, University of Denver College of Law, 
Denver, Colorado; Kathleen Pielech, East Tauton, Massachusetts; 
Patricia Reed, Berkely, Massachusetts; Aston A. Beadle, Columbia, 
Maryland; John Kalwitz, South Bend, Indiana; and Anjum Smith, Quinton, 
Virginia.
MISSISSIPPI SIOUX JUDGMENT FUND
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 976, 
to provide for the disposition of certain funds appropriated to pay 
judgment in favor of the Mississippi Sioux Indians, after receiving 
testimony from Michael Anderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Indian Affairs; Andrew Grey, Sr., Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux 
Tribe, Agency Village, South Dakota; Michael Abourezk, Abourezk Law 
Firm, Rapid City, South Dakota; and Ambrose McBride, Crow Creek Sioux 
Tribe, Fort Thompson, South Dakota.