[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 93 (Tuesday, July 14, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D753-D755]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION/TREASURY/POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following bills:
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of 
Transportation and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1999; and
  An original bill making appropriations for the Department of the 
Treasury, United States Postal Service, Executive Office of the 
President, and certain independent agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 1999.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered 
favorably reported the following bills:
  S. 2279, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1999 through 2002 for 
programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 268, to promote air safety and restore or preserve natural quiet 
in national parks by establishing minimum flight altitudes and 
prohibiting overflights below such minimum altitudes in any national 
park, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  S. 1353, to provide assistance and slots with respect to air carrier 
service between high density airports and airports that do not receive 
sufficient air service, and to improve jet aircraft service to 
underserved markets, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
PUERTO RICO
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings 
on H.R. 856, to provide a process leading to full self-government for 
Puerto Rico, and S. 472, to provide for referenda in which the 
residents of Puerto Rico may express democratically their preferences 
regarding the political status of the territory, receiving testimony 
from Puerto Rico Attorney General Jose A. Fuentes-Agostini, Puerto

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Rico Speaker of the House of Representatives Edison Misla Aldarondo, 
Anibal Acevedo Vila and Jorge Adolfo de Castro Font, both of the 
Popular Democratic Party of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Fernando 
Martin, Puerto Rican Independence Party, Hermenegildo Ortiz Quinones, 
Accion Democratica Puertorriquena, Arturo J. Guzman, Institute for the 
Development, Equality and Advancement of Puerto Rico (I.D.E.A. of 
Puerto Rico, Inc.), and Marco Antonio Rigau, all of San Juan, Puerto 
Rico; Mayor William Miranda Marin, Caguas, Puerto Rico; Miriam J. 
Ramirez de Ferrer, Puerto Ricans in Civic Action, Mayaguez, Puerto 
Rico; Joaquin A. Marquez, Puerto Rican American Foundation, Arlington, 
Virginia; Jose Rivera, Republican National Hispanic Assembly, and 
Charles J. Cooper, Cooper, Carin & Rosenthal, both of Washington, D.C.; 
David Matta, National Puerto Rican Bar Association, Flushing, New York; 
and Diego Hernandez, former Admiral, United States Navy.
  Hearings continue tomorrow.
WATER AND POWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on the following bills:
  S. 1515, to amend laws relating to the Garrison Diversion Unit, North 
Dakota of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, to increase 
authorization levels for State and Indian tribal, municipal, rural, and 
industrial water supplies, to meet current and future water quantity 
and quality needs of the Red River Valley, to deauthorize certain 
project features and irrigation service areas, and to enhance natural 
resources and fish and wildlife habitat, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Conrad; Representative Pomeroy; North Dakota Governor Edward T. 
Schafer, and North Dakota State Senator Joel Heitkamp, North Dakota 
State Representative John Dorso, and Jim Miller, Wildlife Society, all 
of Bismarck, North Dakota; Mayor Bruce W. Furness, Fargo, North Dakota; 
Jack Olin, North Dakota Water Users Association, Dickinson; Russell 
Mason, Three Affiliated Tribes, Newtown, North Dakota; Norman Haak, 
Garrison Diversion Conservancy District, Oakes, North Dakota; Daniel P. 
Beard, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.; and Patricia 
Storhoff, Nome, North Dakota;
  S. 2111, to establish the conditions under which the Bonneville Power 
Administration and certain Federal agencies may enter into a memorandum 
of agreement concerning management of the Columbia/Snake River Basin, 
to direct the Secretary of the Interior to appoint an advisory 
committee to make recommendations regarding activities under the 
memorandum of understanding, after receiving testimony from Jack 
Robertson, Deputy Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, 
Department of Energy; Oregon Governor John A. Kitzhaber, Salem; David 
J. Hayes, Counselor to the Secretary of the Interior; Glenn Vanselow, 
Pacific Northwest Waterways Association, Vancouver, Washington; Craig 
Smith, Northwest Food Processors Association, Jeff Curtis, Trout 
Unlimited, Robert G. Walton, Public Power Council, and Ted Strong, 
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, on behalf of the 
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, all of 
Portland, Oregon; and
  S. 2117, authorizing grants for the planning and construction of the 
Perkins County Rural Water System in South Dakota, after receiving 
testimony from Terry Haggart, Perkins County Rural Water System, Inc., 
Perkins County, South Dakota; and Brad Wheeler, Wheeler Manufacturing, 
South Dakota;
  Testimony was also received on S. 1515 and S. 2117 (both listed 
above) from Eluid L. Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, 
Department of the Interior.
AUTHORIZATION--ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure concluded hearings on S. 1647, 
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1999 through 2002 for the Economic 
Development Administration, after receiving testimony from William M. 
Daley, Secretary, and Phillip A. Singerman, Assistant Secretary for 
Economic Development, both of the Department of Commerce; Robert W. 
Burchell, Center for Urban Policy Research/Rutgers University, New 
Brunswick, New Jersey; R. Scott Fosler, National Academy of Public 
Administration, Washington, D.C.; and Pulaski County Judge Floyd G. 
Villines, former Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, and Eric P. Thompson, 
Lower Savannah Council of Governments and the National Association of 
Development Organizations, Aiken, South Carolina, both on behalf of the 
Coalition for Economic Development.
JAPAN ECONOMIC RECOVERY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine Japan's role 
in the international trading system and the prospects for market 
liberalization and economic reform, focusing on United States-Japan 
trade and economic relations and the state of Japan's economy, 
receiving testimony from Mitsuhiro Fukao, Keio University, Yasuo 
Kanzaki, Nikko Research Center, Ltd., Akio Mikuni, Mikuni & Co., Ltd., 
and Robert Alan Feldman, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (Japan), all of 
Tokyo, Japan; Robert D. Hormats, Goldman Sachs (International), and 
Roger M. Kubarych, Kaufman & Kubarych Advisors, both of

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New York, New York; and L. William Seidman, CNBC Business News, W. 
Henson Moore, American Forest and Paper Association, and Alan F. 
Holmer, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, all of 
Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
KOREAN PENINSULA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs concluded hearings to examine United States policy toward North 
Korea, focusing on the efforts of the Korean Peninsula Energy 
Development Organization (KEDO) and the Agreed Nuclear Framework to 
increase stability in Korea, after receiving testimony from Rust M. 
Deming, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific 
Affairs; Desaix Anderson, Korean Peninsula Energy Development 
Organization (KEDO), New York, New York; and Robert Gallucci, 
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the nomination of L. Britt Snider, of Virginia, to be Inspector 
General, Central Intelligence Agency.