[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 10 (Wednesday, February 11, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D83-D84]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BANKRUPTCY REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief concluded hearings on 
proposals to reform current bankruptcy law and provide for consumer 
bankruptcy protection, including related provisions of S. 1301, H.R. 
3150, H.R. 3146, and H.R. 2500, after receiving testimony from Robert 
Ginsburg, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of 
Illinois, on behalf of the National Bankruptcy Review Commission; James 
E. Smith, Union State Bank and Trust, Clinton, Missouri, on behalf of 
the American Bankers Association; Robert R. Davis, America's Community 
Bankers, Washington, D.C.; Dorinda Simpson, American Partners Federal 
Credit Union, Reidsville, North Carolina, on behalf of the Credit Union 
National Association; Bruce L. Hammonds, MBNA Corporation, Wilmington, 
Delaware; Oakley Orser, Belk Stores Services, Inc., Charlotte, North 
Carolina, on behalf of the National Retail Federation; Mark Lauritano, 
Wharton Economics Forecasting Associates Group, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania; Lawrence M. Ausubel, University of Maryland, College 
Park; William E. Brewer, Jr., Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of the 
National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys; and Gary Klein, 
National Consumer Law Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
EDUCATION REFORM
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the 
Federal role in education reform, focusing on broad education reform 
strategies, including charter schools, vouchers and private management 
and specific reforms to the current federal education establishment, 
after receiving testimony from Susan S. Westin, Associate Director, 
Advanced Studies and Evaluation Methodology, General Government 
Division, General Accounting Office; Chester E. Finn, Jr., Hudson 
Institute, Washington, D.C., former Assistant Secretary of Education; 
Chris Whittle, Edison Project, New York, New York; Eugene W. Hickok, 
Pennsylvania Department of Education, Harrisburg, on behalf of the 
Education Leaders Council; David L. Brennan, HOPE Academies, Cleveland, 
Ohio; and Henry R. Marockie, West Virginia Department of Education, 
Charleston, on behalf of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Donald J. Barry, of Wisconsin, to be 
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife, and Margaret 
Hornbeck Greene, of Kentucky, to be a Member of the Board of Directors 
of the United States Enrichment Corporation.
NATIONAL DISCOVERY TRAILS/HISTORIC LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on S. 1069, to provide for the establishment of the American Discovery 
Trail as a component of the National Trails System, and S. 1403, to 
provide for the establishment of a national historic lighthouse 
preservation program, after receiving testimony from Katherine H. 
Stevenson, Associate Director, Cultural Resource Stewardship and 
Partnerships, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Gloria 
Manning, Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture; Rear Adm. John T. Tozzi, USCG, 
Assistant Commandant, Coast Guard Systems, United States Coast Guard, 
Department of Transportation; Gordon S. Creed, Deputy Assistant 
Commissioner, Office of Property Disposal, Public Buildings Service, 
General Services Administration; Reese F. Lukei, Jr., American 
Discovery Trail Society, Virginia Beach, Virginia; David Lillard, 
American Hiking Society, Silver Spring, Maryland; John Viehman, 
Anyplace Wild Television, Camden, Maine; and Richard L. Moehl, Great 
Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association, Dearborn, Michigan.
IRS REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on proposals and 
recommendations to restructure and reform the Internal Revenue Service, 
including a related measure H.R. 2676, focusing on proposals to reform 
the innocent spouse tax rules, receiving testimony from Richard Beck, 
New York Law School, Elizabeth Cockrell, and Svetlana Pejanovic, all of 
New York, New York; David Keating, National Taxpayers Union, 
Alexandria, Virginia; Marjorie

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O'Connell, O'Connell & Associates, Washington, D.C.; Karen Andreasen, 
Tampa, Florida; and Josephine Berman, South Orange, New Jersey.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
KYOTO PROTOCOL--GLOBAL WARMING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
results of the recent Kyoto Conference and implications of the proposed 
Kyoto Protocol on global warming, focusing on the President's climate 
change technology initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 
receiving testimony from Stuart E. Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State 
for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--AGENCY FOR HEALTH CARE POLICY AND RESEARCH
Committee on Labor and Human Services: Subcommittee on Public Health 
and Safety concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, focusing on the 
current activities and recent products relating to the need for health 
care quality improvement, after receiving testimony from John M. 
Eisenberg, Administrator, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 
Department of Health and Human Services; David Edwards, Eastman Kodak 
Company, Rochester, New York; Cary Sennett, National Committee for 
Quality Assurance, and Stuart Butler, Heritage Foundation, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Barry Greene, Medical Group Management Association, 
Denver, Colorado; Paul D. Clayton, Columbia University, New York, New 
York, on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association; and 
William M. Tierney, Indiana University School of Medicine, 
Indianapolis.
CLASSIFIED DISCLOSURES
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and 
ordered favorably reported an original bill to encourage the disclosure 
to Congress of certain classified and related information.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings to examine the 
constitutionality of certain classified disclosures to Congress as 
contained in Public Law 105-107, Intelligence Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 1998, after receiving testimony from Louis Fisher, Senior 
Specialist, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and 
Randolph Moss, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal 
Counsel, Department of Justice.