[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 75 (Thursday, June 11, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D620-D621]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/VA-HUD/MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  Original bill (S. 2159) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies 
programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999;
  Original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans 
Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent 
agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1999; and
  Original bill (S. 2160) making appropriations for military 
construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the 
Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999.
RECREATIONAL FEE COLLECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded 
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Recreational Fee 
Demonstration Program, designed to authorize the Forest Service, 
National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish and Wildlife 
Service to establish fee collection programs at sites that they manage, 
after receiving testimony from John Berry, Assistant Secretary of the 
Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; Lyle Laverty, Regional 
Forester, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; David Brown, 
America Outdoors, Knoxville, Tennessee; Adena Cook, Blue Ribbon 
Coalition, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Dunham Gooding, Outdoor Recreation 
Coalition of America, Boulder, Colorado;

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and Arthur M. Peterson, Kampgrounds of America, Inc., Billings, 
Montana.
OIL VALUATION REGULATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy 
Research, Development, Production and Regulation concluded oversight 
hearings to examine the status of the Department of the Interior 
Minerals Management Service efforts to revise regulations for valuing 
crude oil produced from Federal leases, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Boxer; Robert Armstrong, Assistant Secretary of the Interior 
for Land and Minerals Management; Tom White, Vision Resources, on 
behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and James 
Svenvold, SPN, Ltd., both of Houston, Texas; and M. Brian McMahon, 
McMahon & Spiegel, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the City of 
Long Beach and the State of California.
U.S. TRADE DEFICIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the causes of 
the United States trade deficit and its implications for the American 
economy, receiving testimony from Senator Dorgan; Robert E. Rubin, 
Secretary of the Treasury; Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Council of Economic 
Advisers; Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute, and Daniel T. 
Griswold, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Murray Weidenbaum, 
Center for the Study of American Business, St. Louis, Missouri, former 
Chair, Council of Economic Advisers; and Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations 
of Raymond W. Kelly, of New York, to be Commissioner of Customs, James 
E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary for Enforcement, and 
Elizabeth Bresee, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the 
Department of the Treasury, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kelly was introduced by Senator 
D'Amato.
CHINESE MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the 
Administration's policy of promoting commercial satellite launches from 
China, focusing on Chinese ballistic and cruise missile proliferation, 
receiving testimony from Gordon Oehler, Arlington, Virginia, former 
Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for 
Nonproliferation; and Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law 
School, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms 
Control.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of E. William Crotty, of Florida, to be Ambassador to 
Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation 
as Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, to the Commonwealth of Dominica, 
to Grenada, to St. Kitts and Nevis, to Saint Lucia, and to Saint 
Vincent and the Grenadines, John O'Leary, of Maine, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Chile, and Arthur Louis Schechter, of Texas, to be 
Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Crotty was 
introduced by Senators Mack, Graham, and Harkin, Mr. O'Leary was 
introduced by Senators Snowe and Collins and Representatives Baldacci 
and Allen, and Mr. Schechter was introduced by Senator Hutchison and 
Representative Lee.
INS REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings 
on proposals to reform the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 
focusing on its ability to provide services to immigrants, visitors, 
and prospective citizens, receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, 
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of 
Justice; Margaret H. McCormick, American Immigration Lawyers 
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Sana Atisha, West Bloomfield, 
Michigan.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD LABOR
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and 
Training concluded hearings to examine the Department of Labor efforts 
and proposals to combat abusive child labor, after receiving testimony 
from John R. Fraser, Acting Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, 
Department of Labor; California State Labor Commissioner Jose Millan, 
Sacramento; Thomas K. Zaucha, National Grocers Association, Reston, 
Virginia; Rafael I. Lissack, Wynnewood Food Fare, Wynnewood, 
Pennsylvania; Barbara Mainster and Lourdes Villanueva, both of the 
Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Immokalee, Florida; and Linda 
Dianne Mull, Association of Farmworker Opportunities Programs, 
Arlington, Virginia.