[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 159 (Wednesday, November 12, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1261]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Barry G. Silverman, of Arizona, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Carlos R. Moreno, to be United 
States District Judge for the Central District of California, Richard 
W. Story, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District 
of Georgia, and Christine O. C. Miller, of the District of Columbia, to 
be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, after the 
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Moreno was introduced by Senator Feinstein, and Mr. Story was 
introduced by Senator Cleland.
BROADCAST SIGNALS COPYRIGHT LICENSING REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine 
recommendations of the Copyright Office to reform compulsory copyright 
licensing regimes governing the retransmission of over-the-air radio 
and television broadcast signals by cable systems, satellite carriers, 
and other multichannel video providers, including a proposed extension 
of the Satellite Home Viewer Act which expires in 1999, receiving 
testimony from Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, Copyright 
Office, Library of Congress; Fritz Attaway, Motion Picture Association 
of America, and Decker Anstrom, National Cable Television Association, 
both of Washington, D.C.; William F. Sullivan, Cordillera 
Communications, Missoula, Montana; and Charles C. Hewitt, Satellite 
Broadcasting and Communications Association, Arlington, Virginia.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.