[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 151 (Monday, November 3, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1196-D1197]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
POSTMASTER GENERAL REPORT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine the current state of the United States Postal Service, focusing 
on proposed increases in postage rates, after receiving testimony from 
Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General

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and Chief Executive Officer, United States Postal Service.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT: INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on 
Investigations concluded hearings to review activities of the 
Department of the Treasury's Office of the Inspector General, focusing 
on the Office of Inspector General's involvement in the initiation and 
management of an investigation involving certain Secret Service 
officials regarding their 1996 testimony before the House Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight on the process by which the White House 
access list is maintained and updated, after receiving testimony from 
Richard J. Gallo, Senior Special Agent, Office of Inspector General, 
Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Federal Law Enforcement 
Officers Association; and Valerie Lau, Inspector General, James M. 
Cottos, Senior Technical Advisor to the Inspector General, and Emily P. 
Coleman, Regional Inspector General for Investigations (Eastern 
Region), all of the Department of the Treasury.
TELEPHONE SLAMMING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings to examine issues with regard to 
telephone slamming which is the unauthorized switching of a consumer's 
phone carrier without their authorization, after receiving testimony 
from Robert W. Spangler, Acting Chief, Enforcement Division, Common 
Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; William H. Smith, 
Jr., Iowa Utilities Board, Ankeny; Geryl Kramer, Kramer Associates, 
Inc., Chicago, Illinois; and Linda F. Golodner, National Consumers 
League, Wayne Huyard, MCI Communications Corporation, Susan R. 
Lichtenstein, Ameritech, and James M. Smith, Excel Communications, 
Inc., all of Washington, D.C.
INDIAN JUDGMENT FUNDS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
provisions of H.R. 1604, to provide for the division, use, and 
distribution of judgment funds of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of 
Michigan, after receiving testimony from Representative Kildee; Michael 
J. Anderson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian 
Affairs; and Arthur L. LeBlanc, Bay Mills Indian Community, Brimley, 
Michigan.