[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 7 (Thursday, February 5, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D64]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TELEMARKETING FRAUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, 
and the Judiciary concluded hearings to examine the scope of 
telecommunications fraud and abuse and its victimization of the 
elderly, after receiving testimony from Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, 
Federal Trade Commission; Walter L. Maroney, New Hampshire Attorney 
General's Office of Consumer Protection, Concord; Harold Phillips, 
Charleston County Sheriff's Department, Charleston, South Carolina; and 
Helen Boosalis, Lincoln, Nebraska, on behalf of the American 
Association of Retired Persons.
NOMINATIONS/AUTHORIZATION--DOD
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
nominations of Gen. Joseph W. Ralston, USAF, for appointment as the 
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and for appointment to the 
grade of General, Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Case, USAF, for appointment in 
the United States Air Force to the grade of Lieutenant General, Col. 
Michael J. Squier, USA, for appointment in the Reserve of the Army to 
the grade of Brigadier General, and Col. Robert L. Echols, USA, for 
appointment in the Reserve of the Army to the grade of Brigadier 
General.
  Also, committee resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
funds for fiscal year 1999 for the Department of Defense and the future 
years defense program, receiving testimony from John H. Dalton, 
Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jay L. Johnson, USN, Chief of Naval 
Operations; and Gen. Charles C. Krulak, USMC, Commandant of the Marine 
Corps.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 10.
IRS REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals and 
recommendations to restructure and reform the Internal Revenue Service, 
including related measures S.1096 and H.R. 2676, focusing on increasing 
Congressional and Executive Branch oversight of the IRS, receiving 
testimony from Richard B. Calahan, Deputy Inspector General, Department 
of the Treasury; Lynda D. Willis, Director, Tax Policy and 
Administration Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting 
Office; Bruce A. Strauss, Jacksonville, Florida, former Division Chief, 
Collection Division, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; Nina E. Olson, Community Tax Law Project, Richmond, Virginia; 
Michael I. Saltzman, White & Case, New York, New York; and Robert S. 
Schriebman, Rolling Hills Estates, California.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 11.