[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D650-D651]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held 
hearings on H.R. 10, to enhance competition in the financial services 
industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of 
banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, 
receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; 
and Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
JUNK E-MAIL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on 
Communications concluded hearings on S. 2107, to enhance electronic 
commerce by promoting the reliability and integrity of commercial 
transactions through establishing authentication standards for 
electronic communications, and related proposals to regulate the 
transmission of unsolicited commercial electronic mail, including S. 
771, after receiving testimony from Senator Murkowski and Torricelli; 
Sheila Anthony, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission; Randall Boe, 
America Online, Dulles, Virginia; and Jerry Cerasale, Direct Marketing 
Association, Ray Everett-Church, Coalition Against Unsolicited 
Commercial Email, and Dierdre Mulligan, Center for Democracy and 
Technology, all of Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded 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, after receiving testimony from James 
R. Lyons, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the 
Environment; Fran Cherry, Acting Assistant Director for Renewable 
Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
Interior; Mary Munson, Defenders of Wildlife, Rene Voss, Earth Island 
Institute, and Steve Holmer, Western Ancient Forest Campaign, all of 
Washington, D.C.; and Bethanie Walder, Wildlands Center for Preventing 
Roads, Missoula, Montana.
AFRICAN GROWTH AND OPPORTUNITY ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on H.R. 1432 and S. 778, 
bills to authorize a new trade and investment policy for sub-Saharan 
Africa, receiving testimony from Senator Lugar; Representatives Crane 
and Rangel; Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State; William M. 
Daley, Secretary of Commerce; Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of 
the Treasury; J. Patrick Danahy, Cone Mills Corporation, Greensboro, 
North Carolina, on behalf of the American Textile Manufacturers 
Institute; Karen Fedorko, MAST Industries, Inc., Andover, 
Massachusetts; Robert Johnson, Black Entertainment Television, 
Washington, D.C.; and Mark Levinson, AFL-CIO, New York, New York.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
1868, to express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to 
strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted 
for their faith worldwide; to authorize United States actions in 
response to religious persecution worldwide; to establish an Ambassador 
at Large on International Religious Freedom within the Department of 
State, a Commission on International Religious Persecution, and a 
Special Adviser on International Religious Freedom within the National 
Security Council, after receiving testimony from Richard Land, Southern 
Baptist Convention, Nashville, Tennessee; Felice D. Gaer, Jacob 
Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights/American Jewish 
Committee, New York, New York; John N. Akers, East Gates Ministries 
International, Montreat, North Carolina; William R. O'Brien, Global 
Center/Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama; and Rt. Rev. Munawar 
Rumalshah, Beshawar, Pakistan.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following business items:
  S. 2176, to amend sections 3345 through 3349 of title 5, United 
States Code (commonly referred to as

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the ``Vacancies Act'') to clarify statutory requirements relating to 
vacancies in and appointments to certain Federal offices, with 
amendments;
  S. 712, to provide for a system to classify information in the 
interests of national security and a system to declassify such 
information, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 2675, to require that the Office of Personnel Management submit 
proposed legislation under which group universal life insurance and 
group variable universal life insurance would be available under 
chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3096, to make a technical correction to a provision relating to 
the termination of benefits for convicted persons;
  H.R. 930, to require Federal employees to use Federal travel charge 
cards for all payments of expenses of official Government travel, to 
amend title 31, United States Code, to establish requirements for 
prepayment audits of Federal agency transportation expenses, to 
authorize reimbursement of Federal agency employees for taxes incurred 
on travel or transportation reimbursements, and to authorize test 
programs for the payment of Federal employee travel expenses and 
relocation expenses, with amendments;
  S. 2071, to extend a quarterly financial report program administered 
by the Secretary of Commerce through September 30, 2005; and
  The nominations of G. Edward DeSeve, of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy 
Director for Management, and Deidre A. Lee, of Oklahoma, to be 
Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, both of the 
Office of Management and Budget.
  Also, committee began markup of S. 389, to improve congressional 
deliberation on proposed Federal private sector mandates, but did not 
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
TEENAGE DRUG ABUSE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the 
causes and effects of illegal drug use by teenagers, receiving 
testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug 
Control Policy; Nancy J. Auer, Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington, 
on behalf of the American College of Emergency Physicians; Sushma Jani, 
Devereux Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and certain protected witnesses.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, 
and Property Rights approved for full committee consideration S.J. Res. 
40 and H.J. Res. 54, measures proposing an Amendment to the 
Constitution of the United States authorizing Congress to Prohibit the 
Physical Desecration of the Flag of the United States.
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 Wednesday, June 24.