[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 145 (Friday, October 24, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1141]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL EXPORT STRATEGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to review the fifth annual report of the Trade Promotion 
Coordinating Committee (TPCC) on the status of our national export 
strategy and the steps taken by TPCC agencies to implement the U.S. 
trade promotion agenda, after receiving testimony from William M. 
Daley, Secretary of Commerce; and James A. Harmon, President, Export-
Import Bank of the United States.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Carolyn Curiel, of Indiana, to be Ambassador to Belize, 
Victor Marrero, of New York, to be the Permanent Representative of the 
United States to the Organization of American States, with the rank of 
Ambassador, Christopher C. Ashby, of Connecticut, to be Ambassador to 
the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, Timothy Michael Carney, of 
Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti, and Stanley 
Louis McLelland, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Jamaica, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
TAX COMPENSATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on H.R. 
1953, to clarify State authority to tax compensation paid to certain 
employees and to provide that the income of certain employees at three 
specific Federal facilities located astride State boundaries is to be 
taxed by the State of which the employee is a resident, receiving 
testimony from Senator Gregg; Representative Bryant; Maine Attorney 
General Andrew Ketterer, Augusta; New Hampshire Attorney General Philip 
T. McLaughlin, Concord; William M. Remington, Delaware State Division 
of Revenue, Dover, on behalf of the Federation of Tax Administrators; 
James Charles Smith, University of Georgia, Athens; George W. Kaelin, 
on behalf of the concerned Citizens of Tennessee, Edwin M. Wilson, and 
Dorothy J. Smith, all of Clarksville, Tennessee; Gary W. York, Gavins 
Point Dam, Yankton, South Dakota; and Roger Hays, on behalf of the 
United Power Trades Organization, Kennewick, Washington.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.