[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 41 (Thursday, April 2, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D362-D363]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ANIMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings on S. 1323, to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations for 
the protection of the environment and public health, after receiving 
testimony from Robert Perciasepe, Assistant Administrator for Water, 
Environmental Protection Agency; Craig Cox, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of 
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Maryland Governor Parris 
N. Glendening, Annapolis; Mayor M. Susan Savage, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Patrick A. 
Takasugi, Idaho State Department of Agriculture, Boise; C. Dewey Botts, 
North Carolina Department of Environmental and Natural Resources, Raleigh; 
Michelle B. Nowlin, Southern Environmental Law Center, Chapel Hill, North 
Carolina; Jim Moseley, Infinity Pork and AgRidge Farms, Clarks Hill, 
Indiana, on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council; Harry Knobee, 
West Point, Nebraska, on behalf of the National Cattlemen's Beef 
Association; and Tim Maupin, Rocco, Inc., Harrisonburg, Virginia, on behalf 
of the National Turkey Federation and the National Broiler Council.
CREDIT UNION MEMBERSHIP
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine implications of the recent Supreme Court decision 
concerning credit union membership, after receiving testimony from 
Representatives LaTourette and Kanjorski; Michael S. Vadala, Summit Federal 
Credit Union, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the National Association of 
Federal Credit Unions; Peggy Lents, Azalea City Credit Union, Mobile, 
Alabama, on behalf of the Credit Union National Association; K. Reid 
Pollard, Randolph Bank and Trust Company, Asheboro, North Carolina, on 
behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; Neil Mahoney, 
Woronoco Savings Bank, Westfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of the America's 
Community Bankers; and Scott Jones, Goodhue County National Bank, Red Wing, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the American Bankers Association.

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PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met to discuss the 
political status in Puerto Rico, focusing on S. 472, to provide for 
referenda in which the residents of Puerto Rico may express democratically 
their preferences regarding the political status of the territory, and H.R. 
856, to provide a process leading to full self-government for Puerto Rico, 
after receiving testimony from Governor Pedro Rossello, former Governor Luis 
A. Ferre, on behalf of the New Progressive Party, Ruben Berrios Martinez, 
Independence Party, and Anibal Acevedo Vila, Popular Democratic Party, all 
of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Ivan L.R. Lemelle, to be United States District Judge 
for the Eastern District of Louisiana, A. Howard Matz, to be United States 
District Judge for the Central District of California, George Caram Steeh, 
III and Arthur J. Tarnow, each to be a United States District Judge for the 
Eastern District of Michigan, Richard H. Deane, Jr., to be United States 
Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and Stephen C. Robinson, to 
be United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel C. 
Byrne, to be the United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York;
  S. 1723, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to assist the United 
States to remain competitive by increasing the access of the United States 
firms and institutions of higher education to skilled personnel and by 
expanding educational and training opportunities for American students and 
workers, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. Res. 201, to commemorate and acknowledge the dedication and sacrifice 
made by the men and women who have lost their lives while serving as law 
enforcement officers.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the 
Courts approved for full committee consideration the following bills:
  S. 1301, to amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for consumer 
bankruptcy protection, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1352, to amend Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to 
restore the stenographic preference for depositions, with an amendment.
CHLOROFLUOROCARBON PROPELLANTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Federal role in the implementation of Title VI of the Clean Air 
Act as it relates to the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in metered-dose 
inhalers (MCI), and an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to phase out 
essential-use exemptions for CFC-based MDIs, after receiving testimony from 
John Jenkins, Director, Pulmonary Drug Products Division, Center for Drug 
Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health 
and Human Services; Paul Stolopman, Director, Office of Atmospheric 
Programs, Environmental Protection Agency; Sharon Hipkins, Asthma and 
Allergy Foundation of America, Washington, D.C.; Nancy Sander, Allergy and 
Asthma Network/Mothers of Asthmatics, Inc., Fairfax, Virginia; Henry L. 
Dorkin, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the 
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation; Brian Dunkiel, Friends of the Earth, Burlington, 
Vermont; and Dennis M. Williams, University of North Carolina School of 
Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, on behalf of the American Pharmaceutical Association.