[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 51 (Thursday, April 30, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D435-D437]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the role that transportation plays in allowing U.S. 
producers to retain their position in global food and agricultural 
markets, after receiving testimony from Representative Nick Smith; Dan 
Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture; John Bratton, Central Soya Company, 
Inc., Fort Wayne, Indiana, on behalf of the National

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Grain and Feed Association; Gary Hall, Kansas Farm Bureau, Manhattan, 
on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; Charles D. Rosas, 
Farmland Industries, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the 
Fertilizer Institute; Allen Anderson, Harvest States Cooperative, St. 
Paul, Minnesota, on behalf of the National Council of Farmer 
Cooperatives and the Midwest Area River Coalition 2000; and Thomas A. 
Allegretti, American Waterways Operators, Arlington, Virginia.
APPROPRIATIONS--CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for 
fiscal year 1999 for the United States Customs Service, focusing on 
programs to deter pornography on the Internet, receiving testimony from 
Samuel Banks, Acting Commissioner, United States Customs Service, 
Department of the Treasury; and Ernie Allen, National Center for 
Missing and Exploited Children, Arlington, Virginia.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
APPROPRIATION--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent 
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 
1999 for the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from 
Carol M. Browner, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,288 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
CREDIT UNION MEMBERSHIP ACCESS ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered 
favorably reported H.R. 1151, to amend the Federal Credit Union Act to 
clarify existing law and ratify the longstanding policy of the National 
Credit Union Administration Board with regard to field membership of 
Federal credit unions, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following business items:
  S. 1325, to authorize appropriations for the Technology 
Administration of the Department of Commerce for fiscal years 1998, 
1999, and 2000, with amendments; and
  The nominations of Vice Adm. James M. Loy, USC, to be Commandant, 
Vice Adm. James C. Card, USC, to be Vice Commandant, Rear Adm. Thomas 
H. Collins, USC, to be Commander, Pacific Area, and a promotion list, 
all of the United States Coast Guard.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the 
aforementioned nominations of Messrs. Loy and Card, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Loy was 
introduced by Senators Inouye and Stevens.
AUTHORIZATION--FAA
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Aviation held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for 
programs of the Federal Aviation Administration and on implementation 
of the recommendations of the National Civil Aviation Review 
Commission, recessing testimony from Jane F. Garvey, Administrator, 
Federal Aviation Administration.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management resumed hearings on S. 1253, to provide to the 
Federal land management agencies the authority and capability to manage 
effectively the federal lands in accordance with the principles of 
multiple use and sustained yield, receiving testimony from John R. 
McGuire, Gaithersburg, Maryland, R. Max Peterson, Washington, D.C., F. 
Dale Robertson, Sedona, Arizona, and Jack Ward Thomas, Florence, 
Montana, each a former Chief, Forest Service, Department of 
Agriculture; and Cy Jamison, Washington, D.C., former Director, Bureau 
of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
  Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 5.
PARK CONCESSIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation held hearings on proposals 
to improve the management of concession operations at national parks, 
focusing on title IV of S. 1693, to renew, reform, reinvigorate, and 
protect the National Park System, and S. 624, to establish a 
competitive process for the awarding of concession contracts in units 
of the National Park System, receiving testimony from Denis P. Galvin, 
Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; 
William J. Bissett, Delaware North Companies, Inc., Buffalo, New York; 
Philip H. Voorhees, National Parks and Conservation Association, and 
David L. Brown, America Outdoors, both of Washington, D.C.; Andrew N. 
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Aurora, Colorado, on behalf of the National Parks Hospitality 
Association; Craig Mackey, Outward Bound USA, Golden, Colorado; Curtis 
E. Cornelssen, Horwath Landauer, Boston, Massachusetts; and Robert J. 
Gersack, First Interstate Bank of Commerce, Livingston, Montana.
  Hearings continue on Thursday, May 7.
IRS
Committee on Finance: Committee continued oversight hearings on the 
operation of the Internal Revenue Service, focusing on ethics and 
allegations of abuses and improper conduct by high-level agency 
officials, receiving testimony from former Senator Howard H. Baker, 
Jr.; former Representative James H. Quillen; Tommy A. Henderson, 
Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division, Michael Ayala, Analyst 
(Georgia District), Minh Thi Johnson, Revenue Agent (Los Angeles, 
California District), Maureen O'Dwyer, International Examiner, and 
Ginger Mary Jarvis, Acting Team Coordinator (both of the Manhattan, New 
York District), and Patricia J. Gernt, former Special Agent, and 
Barbara Latham, former Tax Fraud Investigative Aide, both of the 
Criminal Investigation Division (both of the Nashville, Tennessee 
District), all of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the 
Treasury; and David Crockett, First District Attorney General of 
Tennessee.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items: The nominations of Susan Oki Mollway, to be 
United States District Judge for the District of Hawaii, and Arthur A. 
McGiverin, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the 
State Justice Institute;
  S. Res. 175, to designate the week of May 3, 1998 as ``National 
Correctional Officers and Employees Week''; and
  An original bill to amend title 17, U.S. Code, to implement the WIPO 
Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, to 
provide limitations on copyright liability relating to material online.
TOBACCO INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
impact on the tobacco industry of proposed legislation relating to the 
increase in the price of tobacco products, focusing on whether new 
opportunities for the black market would be prevalent if tobacco prices 
rise, receiving testimony from Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of 
the Treasury; John W. Hough, Senior Assistant Attorney General, 
Olympia, Washington; Ron J. Martelle, FIA Specialist Investigations 
Group Inc., Cornwall, Ontario, Canada; David J. Adelman, Morgan Stanley 
Dean Witter, New York, New York; and David Sweanor, Smoking and Health 
Action Foundation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: 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 
Agency's contribution to technology assessment and 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 A. Kindig, University of Wisconsin, 
Madison, on behalf of the Association for Health Services Research; 
Elizabeth A. McGlynn, RAND, Santa Monica, California; Gerben DeJong, 
National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center, Washington, D.C.; 
Phil B. Fontanarosa, Northwestern University Medical School, and J. 
Dunkin Moore, Jr., on behalf of the Association of Health Care 
Journalists, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Susan Dentzer, Chevy Chase, 
Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Tuesday, May 5.