[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 154 (Thursday, November 6, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1226-D1227]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
EDUCATION FUNDING
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
current state of the national education system, focusing on the 
development and effectiveness of Federal compensatory education 
programs, after receiving testimony from Carlotta C. Joyner, Director, 
Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services 
Division, General Accounting Office; Maris A. Vinovskis, University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, former Research Advisor, Department of Education; 
Madeleine Will, Community Options, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, former 
Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education and 
Rehabilitative Services; and Carley Ochoa, Riverside Unified School 
District, Riverside, California.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1287, to assist in the conservation of Asian elephants by 
supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation 
programs of nations within the range of Asian elephants and projects of 
persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of Asian 
elephants, with an amendment; and
  H.R. 1787, to assist in the conservation of Asian elephants by 
supporting and providing financial resources for the conservation 
programs of nations within the range of Asian elephants and projects of 
persons with demonstrated expertise in the conservation of Asian 
elephants.
CHINA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the commercial activities of China's People's Liberation Army and the 
impact of those activities on United States national security and U.S.-
China military relations, after receiving testimony from Susan L. 
Shirk, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs; Kurt Campbell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian 
and Pacific Affairs; Dolores F. Harrod, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for International Operations; Jeffrey L. Fiedler, Food and 
Allied Service Trades Department (AFL-CIO),

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Washington, D.C.; Victor Kiam, Remington Products Company and ITI China 
Holdings, Inc., New York, New York; and James Mulvenon, RAND 
Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
UNITED NATIONS REFORM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations held hearings on proposals to reform the management and 
financial control of the United Nations, receiving testimony from 
Richard Sklar, United States Representative to the United Nations for 
Management and Reform; Joseph E. Connor, United Nations Under-
Secretary-General for Management; and John G. Ruggie, United Nations 
Assistant Secretary-General.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MUSIC VIOLENCE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of 
Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia 
concluded hearings to examine the impact of violent music lyrics on 
youth behavior in the District of Columbia and across the nation, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Lieberman; Frank Palumbo, on behalf of 
the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Hilary Rosen, Recording 
Industry Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.; C. Delores 
Tucker, National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc., Silver 
Spring, Maryland; Donald F. Roberts, Stanford University, Stanford, 
California; and Raymond Kuntz, Burlington, North Dakota.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Seth Waxman, of the District of Columbia, to be 
Solicitor General of the United States, Department of Justice, Stanley 
Marcus, of Florida, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh 
Circuit, Lynn S. Adelman, to be United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Wisconsin, Ann L. Aiken, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of Oregon, Charles R. Breyer, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, 
A. Richard Caputo, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Pennsylvania, Frank C. Damrell, Jr., to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern District of California, Jerome B. 
Friedman, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District 
of Virginia, Martin J. Jenkins, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of California, Bruce C. Kauffman, to be United 
States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Michael 
P. McCuskey, to be United States District Judge for the Central 
District of Illinois, G. Patrick Murphy, to be United States District 
Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, Frederica A. Massiah-
Jackson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, Norman K. Moon, to be United States District Judge for 
the Western District of Virginia, Rodney W. Sippel, to be United States 
District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, James 
William Blagg, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of 
Texas, and G. Douglas Jones, to be United States Attorney for the 
Northern District of Alabama;
  H.R. 2610, authorizing funds for the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, and to expand the responsibilities and powers of the Director 
of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  S. 508, to provide for the relief of Mai Hoa ``Jasmin'' Salehi;
  S. 857, to provide for the relief of Roma Salobrit;
  S. 1304, to provide for the relief of Belinda McGregor;
  S. 1336, to provide for the relief of Roy Desmond Moser;
  S. 1337, to provide for the relief of John Andre Chalot;
  S. 1371, to establish felony violations for the failure to pay legal 
child support obligations;
  S. 191, to require a mandatory minimum sentence for any violent or 
drug trafficking felon having a firearm in his or her possession during 
the commission of a heinous crime, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute; and
  S. Res. 93, designating the week beginning November 23, 1997, and the 
week beginning on November 22, 1998, as ``National Family Week''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Robert S. Warshaw, of New York, to be Associate 
Director, and Thomas J. Umberg, of California, to be Deputy Director 
for Supply Reduction, both of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Warshaw was introduced by Senators D'Amato and Moynihan 
and Representative Slaughter, and Mr. Umberg was introduced by Senators 
Feinstein and Boxer.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.