[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 80 (Thursday, June 18, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D659-D660]
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 resumed 
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 James F. Higgins, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter 
and Company, on behalf of the Securities Industry Association, John H. 
Biggs, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, on behalf of the 
American Council of Life Insurance and the American Insurance 
Association, and Robert A. Miller, New York State Association of Life 
Underwriters, on behalf of the Independent Insurance Agents of America, 
Inc., all of New York, New York; Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company 
Institute, and John G. Heimann, Merrill Lynch and Company, on behalf of 
the Financial Services Council, both of Washington, D.C.; William A. 
Fitzgerald, Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of 
America's Community Bankers; William T. McConnell, Park National 
Corporation, Newark, Ohio, on behalf of the American Bankers 
Association; Richard M. Kovacevich, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, 
Minnesota, on behalf of the Bankers Roundtable; and William L. 
McQuillian, City National Bank, Greeley, Nebraska, on behalf of the 
Independent Bankers Association of America.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL RIVERS AND TRAILS SYSTEMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on the 
following bills:
  S. 469, to designate a portion of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord 
Rivers as a component of the National Wild and Scenic River System, 
after receiving testimony from William H. Sullivan, Study Committee on 
Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers, Concord, Massachusetts;
  S. 1665, to authorize funds for the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation 
Canal National Heritage Corridor Act, after receiving testimony from 
Gerald R. Bastoni, Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National 
Heritage Corridor Commission, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
  S. 2039, to designate El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro as a National 
Historic Trail, after receiving testimony from Liddie Martinez, El 
Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Committee, Alcalde, New Mexico; and
  H.R. 2186, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide 
assistance to the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in 
Casper, Wyoming, after receiving testimony from Fran Cherry, Acting 
Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior, and Dorothy Perkins, National 
Historic Trails Center, Casper, Wyoming.
  Testimony was also received on S. 469, S. 1665, S. 2039 (all listed 
above), and S. 1016, to authorize funds for the Coastal Heritage Trail 
Route in New

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Jersey, from Destry Jarvis, Assistant Director for External Affairs, 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine recent changes in congressional 
views of the bilateral relationship between the United States and the 
People's Republic of China, and H.R. 967, to prohibit the use of United 
States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese 
officials in international conferences, programs, and activities and to 
provide that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive 
visas and excluded from admission to the United States, H.R. 2358, to 
provide for improved monitoring of human rights violations in the 
People's Republic of China, H.R. 2386, to implement the provisions of 
the Taiwan Relations Act concerning the stability and security of 
Taiwan and United States cooperation with Taiwan on the development and 
acquisition of defensive military articles, H.R. 2570, to condemn those 
officials of the Chinese Communist Party, the Government of the 
People's Republic of China, and other persons who are involved in the 
enforcement of forced abortions by preventing such persons from 
entering or remaining in the United States, and H.R. 2605, to require 
the United States to oppose the making of concessional loans by 
international financial institutions to any entity in the People's 
Republic of China, after receiving testimony from Stanley O. Roth, 
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and 
Robert A. Kapp, United States-China Business Council, and Nicholas R. 
Lardy, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.
SATELLITE EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services held hearings to examine 
whether the Department of Commerce's commercial satellite export 
control policy and process toward China is adequate to prevent 
technology transfers which pose a threat to United States security, 
receiving testimony from William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Export Administration; Jan M. Lodal, Principal Deputy 
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and John D. Holum, Acting Under 
Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following measures:
  H.R. 1211, for the relief of Global Exploration and Development 
Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, and Kerr-McGee Chemical 
Corporation, with amendments; and
  S. Res. 176, proclaiming the week of October 18 through October 24, 
1998, as ``National Character Counts Week''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of John D. Kelly, of North Dakota, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Kim McLean Wardlaw, of 
California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, 
Raner Christercunean Collins, to be United States District Judge for 
the District of Arizona, Robert G. James, to be United States District 
Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, Dan A. Polster, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and 
Ralph E. Tyson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle 
District of Louisiana, after the nominees testified and answered 
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kelly was introduced by Senators 
Conrad and Dorgan and Representative Pomeroy, Ms. Wardlaw was 
introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Mr. Collins was introduced 
by Senator Kyl, Messrs. James and Tyson were introduced by Senators 
Breaux and Landrieu, and Mr. Polster was introduced by Senators DeWine 
and Glenn.
INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus 
concluded hearings to examine current international drug-consumption 
trends and how the United States and the international community are 
addressing the problem of the increasing demand for illegal drugs, 
after receiving testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of 
National Drug Control Policy; R. Rand Beers, Acting Assistant Secretary 
of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; 
Robert L. DuPont, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., Rockville, 
Maryland; Thomas J. Gleaton, Parents Resource Institute on Drug 
Education, and Sue Rusche, National Families in Action, both of 
Atlanta, Georgia; J. Paul Molloy, Oxford House, Inc., Silver Spring, 
Maryland; and Ernst W. Aeschbach, Association for the Advancement of 
Psychological Understanding of Human Nature, Zurich, Switzerland.