[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 84 (Wednesday, June 24, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D697-D698]
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 Mary Griffin, on behalf of Consumers Union and 
the Consumer Federation of America, Edmund Mierzwinski, U.S. Public 
Interest Research Group, Allen J. Fishbein, Center for Community 
Change, John E. Taylor, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, and 
Ralph Nader, all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following bills:
  S. 1695, to establish the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site 
in the State of Colorado, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 1418, to promote the research, identification, assessment, 
exploration, and development of methane hydrate resources, with 
amendments;
  H.R. 2217, to extend the deadline for the commencement of 
construction of a FERC hydroelectric project located in San Miguel, 
Colorado to January 30, 2002;
  H.R. 2165, to extend the deadline for the commencement of 
construction of a FERC hydroelectric project located in Scott County, 
Iowa for up to three consecutive 2-year periods;
  H.R. 2841, to extend the deadline for the commencement of 
construction of a FERC hydroelectric project located in Bracken County, 
Kentucky for up to three consecutive 2-year periods;
  H.R. 449, to provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal 
lands in Clark County, Nevada, and to provide for the acquisition of 
environmentally sensitive lands in the State of Nevada; and
  S. 890, to dispose of certain Federal properties located in Dutch 
John, Utah, and to assist the local government in the interim delivery 
of basic services to the Dutch John community, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
ASIAN FINANCIAL CONDITION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic 
Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion held hearings to examine the state 
of certain Asian economies and currencies, receiving testimony from 
Lawrence H. Summers, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
KOSOVO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held 
hearings to examine the current state of human rights violations and 
United States policy in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo, receiving 
testimony from Senator D'Amato; former Senator Dole, on behalf of the 
International Commission on Missing Persons in the Former Yugoslavia; 
and Morton I. Abramowitz, International Crisis Group, Washington, D.C., 
former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
GOVERNMENT COMPUTER SECURITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the state of computer security within Federal, State and local 
agencies, focusing on certain risks related to computer-communication 
technology and efforts to reduce them, after receiving testimony from 
George J. Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence; and Lt. Gen. Kenneth 
A. Minihan, Director, National Security Agency, Department of Defense.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following measures:
  S.J. Res. 40, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States authorizing Congress to prohibit the physical desecration 
of the flag of the United States; and
  H.J. Res. 54, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the 
United States authorizing the Congress to prohibit the physical 
desecration of the flag of the United States.
AGRICULTURE GUESTWORKER PROGRAM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded 
hearings to examine the implementation and the ability of the H-2A 
agricultural guestworker program (which provides a way for U.S. 
agricultural employers to bring nonimmigrant foreign workers into the 
United States to perform seasonal agricultural work on a temporary 
basis when domestic workers are unavailable) to meet the needs of the 
agricultural industry, after receiving testimony from Senators Graham, 
Gorton, Craig, Coverdell, Wyden, and Gordon Smith; Representatives 
Berman and Robert Smith; Carlotta C. Joyner, Director,

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Education and Employment Issues, Health, Education, and Human Services 
Division, General Accounting Office; Howard Kelly, Michigan Farm 
Bureau, Lansing; Juanita Santana, Oregon Child Development Coalition, 
Wilsonville; Leo C. Polopolus, University of Florida, Gainesville; 
Walter Kates, Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, Orlando, on 
behalf of the National Council of Agricultural Employers; and Robert A. 
Williams, Florida Legal Services, Inc., Tallahassee.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported S. 2206, to make improvements to and authorize funds for 
programs of the Head Start Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance 
Act of 1981, and the Community Services Block Grant Act, and to 
establish demonstration projects that provide an opportunity for 
persons with limited means to accumulate assets, with amendments.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  S. 1925, to make certain technical corrections in laws relating to 
Native Americans, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1998, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish the 
Four Corners Interpretive Center within the boundaries of the Four 
Corners Monument Tribal Park using land designated and made available 
by the Navajo Nation or the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
INDIAN WATER RIGHTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded joint hearings with 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Water 
and Power on the following bills:
  S. 1899, to approve and ratify the Water Rights Compact entered into 
on April 14, 1997, by the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's 
Reservation and the State of Montana, after receiving testimony from 
Robert T. Anderson, Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior; Roger 
St. Pierre, Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation, Box 
Elder, Montana; and Chris D. Tweeten, Montana Reserved Water Rights 
Compact Commission, Helena; and
  S. 1771, to provide for a final settlement of the claims of the 
Colorado Ute Indian Tribes, after receiving testimony from Senator 
Allard; Eluid Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department 
of the Interior; Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton, Denver; New 
Mexico State Engineer Thomas C. Turney, Santa Fe; Clement Frost, 
Southern Ute Tribal Council, Ignacio, Colorado; Judy Knight-Frank, Ute 
Mountain Ute Tribal Council, Towaoc, Colorado; James C. Decker, 
Taxpayers for the Animas River, and Sage Remington, Southern Ute 
Grassroots Organization, both of Durango, Colorado; Mark Duncan, San 
Juan Water Commission, Farmington, New Mexico; and Lori Potter, Kelly, 
Haglund, Garnsey & Kahn, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Sierra 
Club.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.