[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 35 (Wednesday, March 25, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D300-D302]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PERSIAN GULF
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to examine 
the United States strategy in the Persian Gulf, after receiving 
testimony from Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze 
School of Advanced International Studies, former Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy, and Anthony H. Cordesman, Georgetown University 
Center for Strategic and International Studies, both of Washington, 
D.C.; and David A. Kay, Science Applications International Corporation, 
McLean, Virginia.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Airland Forces resumed 
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1999 
for the Department of Defense and the future years defense program, 
focusing on tactical aviation modernization, receiving testimony from 
John Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, 
Development and Acquisition; Arthur Money, Assistant Secretary of the 
Air Force for Acquisition; Philip Coyle, Director, Operational Test and 
Evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense; and Louis Rodrigues, 
Director, Defense Acquisitions, General Accounting Office.
  Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Arthur Levitt Jr., of New York, to be a 
Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, after the nominee, 
who was introduced by Senator Moynihan, testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications held hearings on the implementation of Section 271 of 
the Telecommunications Act (P.L. 104-104), relating to the application 
process for local telephone companies desiring to provide long distance 
service, and S. 1766, to permit Bell operating companies to provide 
interstate and intrastate telecommunications services, receiving 
testimony from William E. Kennard, Chairman, and Susan Nell, Harold W. 
Furchtgott-Roth, Michael K. Powell, and Gloria Tristani, each a 
Commissioner, all of the Federal Communications Commission; Jay A. 
Blossman, Louisiana Public Service Commission, Mandeville; Pat Wood, 
Public Utilities Commission of Texas, Austin; Anne K. Bingaman, LCI 
Local Services Division, McLean, Virginia; Sid Boren, BellSouth 
Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; Lisa Rosenblum, Cablevision Systems 
Corporation, Woodbury, New York; William E. Taylor, National Economic 
Research Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; and John 
Windhausen, Jr., Competition Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LAND EXCHANGE AND BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 890, to dispose of 
certain Federal properties located in Dutch John, Utah, to assist the 
local government in the interim delivery of basic services to the Dutch 
John community, S. 1109, to make a minor adjustment in the exterior

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boundary of the Devils Backbone Wilderness in the Mark Twain National 
Forest, Missouri, to exclude a small parcel of land containing 
improvements, S. 1468, to provide for the conveyance of one acre of 
land from the Santa Fe National Forest to the Village of Jemez Springs, 
New Mexico, as the site of a fire sub-station, S. 1469, to provide for 
the expansion of the historic community cemetery of El Rito, New 
Mexico, through the special designation of five acres of Carson 
National Forest adjacent to the cemetery, S. 1510, to convey certain 
lands to the county of Rio Arriba, New Mexico, S. 1683, to transfer 
administrative jurisdiction over part of the Lake Chelan National 
Recreation Area in the State of Washington from the Secretary of the 
Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture for inclusion in the Wenatchee 
National Forest, S. 1719, to provide for the exchange of land and other 
assets including certain timber harvest rights with the Big Sky Lumber 
Company for inclusion in the Gallatin National Forest and Deerlodge 
National Forest in the State of Montana, S. 1752, to convey certain 
administrative sites and use the proceeds for the acquisition of office 
sites and the acquisition, construction, or improvement of offices and 
support buildings for the Coconino National Forest, Kaibab National 
Forest, Prescott National Forest, and Tonto National Forest in Arizona, 
S. 1807, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels 
of public domain land in Lake County, Oregon, to facilitate management 
of the land, H.R. 1439, to facilitate the sale of certain land in Tahoe 
National Forest in the State of California to Placer County, 
California, and H.R. 1663, to clarify the intent of the Congress in 
Public Law 93-632 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to continue 
to provide for the maintenance of 18 concrete dams and weirs that were 
located in the Emigrant Wilderness at the time the wilderness area was 
designated as wilderness in that Public Law, after receiving testimony 
from Senators Bennett and Baucus; Representative Doolittle; Eleanor 
Towns, Director of Lands Staff, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; Steven Richardson, Director, Office of Policy and External 
Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Chad Reed, 
Daggett County Commission, Milila, Utah; Deborah Sliz, on behalf of the 
Colorado River Energy Distributors Association, and Michael A. Francis, 
Wilderness Society, both of Washington, D.C.; Mike Atwood, RY Timber 
Company, Livingston, Montana; Kurt Alt, Montana Department of Fish, 
Wildlife and Parks, Helena; Michael Scott, Greater Yellowstone 
Coalition, and Vito Quatrero, Headwaters Fish and Game Association, 
Inc., both of Bozeman, Montana; Kevin Kelleher, Citizens of Gallatin 
Canyon, Big Sky, Montana; Ken Marks, Tuolumne County Board of 
Supervisors/District 3, and Matt Bloom, Kennedy Meadows Pack Station 
and Resort, on behalf of the Tuolumne County Sportsmen's Association, 
both of Sonora, California; Steve Brougher, Wilderness Watch, Twain 
Harte, California; and Loenzo Valdez, Espanola, New Mexico.
AUTHORIZATION--SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued markup 
of S. 8, to revise and authorize funds for fiscal year 1998 through 
2002 for programs of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Liability, and Compensation Act (Superfund), but did not complete 
action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
ECONOMIC SANCTIONS REFORM
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export and Trade Promotion held hearings on S. 1413, to provide 
a framework for consideration by the legislative and executive branches 
of unilateral economic sanctions, receiving testimony from Senator 
Lugar; Representative Hamilton; Clayton K. Yeutter, Hogan & Hartson, 
former U.S. Trade Representative and former Secretary of Agriculture, 
and William C. Lane, Caterpillar Inc., on behalf of USA Engage, both of 
Washington, D.C.; Dean Kleckner, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation; and Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch, 
New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT SECRECY ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
712, to provide for a system to classify information in the interests 
of national security and a system to declassify such information, after 
receiving testimony from Edmund Cohen, Director of Information 
Management, Central Intelligence Agency; J. William Leonard, Director 
of Security Programs, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for 
Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence; A. Bryan Siebert, 
Director, Office of Declassification, Office of Nonproliferation and 
National Security, Department of Energy; Steven Garfinkel, Director, 
Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records 
Administration; T. Jeremy Gunn, Executive Director and General Counsel, 
John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board; and Steven 
Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C.
U.S. FLAG PROTECTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution, 
Federalism, and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the 
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protecting the United States Flag, and S.J. Res. 40, proposing an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress 
to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States, 
after receiving testimony from Wisconsin State Senator Roger Breske, 
Madison; Idaho Attorney General Alan G. Lance, Sr., Boise; Stephen B. 
Presser, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois; 
Robert Justin Goldstein, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan; 
Adrian Cronauer, Burch & Cronauer, Washington, D.C.; Patrick H. Brady, 
Citizens Flag Alliance, Sumner, Washington; Rose E. Lee, Gold Star 
Wives of America, Arlington, Virginia; Mary Frost, Selective Learning 
Network, Kansas City, Missouri; Francis J. Sweeney, Steamfitters Local 
Union 449, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Bruce Fein, McLean, Virginia; Stan 
Tiner, Mobile, Alabama; and Keith A. Kreul, Fennimore, Wisconsin.
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on 
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1999 for the 
Federal Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Scott E. 
Thomas, Vice Chairman, and Lee Ann Elliott, Commissioner, both of the 
Federal Election Commission.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.