[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 77 (Monday, June 15, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D637]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FEDERAL AGENCY COMPLIANCE ACT/10TH CIRCUIT JUDGESHIPS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight 
and the Courts concluded hearings on S. 1166, to require a Federal 
agency, in administering a statute, rule, regulation, program, or 
policy (statute) within a judicial circuit, to adhere to the existing 
precedent respecting the interpretation and application of such 
statute, as established by the decisions of the United States Court of 
Appeals for that circuit, with exceptions, after receiving testimony 
from Senator Campbell; Representative Gekas; Arthur J. Fried, General 
Counsel, Social Security Administration; Ronald G. Bernoski, 
Administrative Law Judge (Assigned to the Office of Hearings and 
Appeals/Social Security Administration), on behalf of the Association 
of Administrative Law Judges, Inc.; James F. Allsup, Allsup 
Incorporated, Belleville, Illinois; John Bowman, Bowman and DePree, 
Davenport, Iowa; and Lynn Conforti, Denver, Colorado.
  Also, subcommittee concluded hearings to examine the state of the 
Federal courts in the Tenth Circuit, focusing on the need to fill 
existing vacancies or create new judgeships in certain district courts 
within the circuit, after receiving testimony from Stephanie K. 
Seymour, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth 
Circuit.