[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 124 (Thursday, September 17, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D996-D998]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held 
hearings to examine United States policy regarding the transfer of 
satellite and missile technology to China, focusing on United States 
space infrastructure, receiving testimony from Representative Weldon; 
John D. Holum, Acting Under Secretary of State for International 
Security Affairs; Franklin C. Miller, Principal Deputy Assistant 
Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction; William A. 
Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; 
Katherine V. Schinasi, Associate Director, Defense Acquisitions Issues, 
National Security and International Affairs Division, General 
Accounting Office; and Paul Wolfowitz, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced 
International Studies/Johns Hopkins University, Paul Freedenberg, Baker 
& Botts, and Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 
all of Washington, D.C.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings 
on the nominations of Gregory H. Friedman, of Colorado, to be Inspector 
General, and T. J. Glauthier, of California, to be Deputy Secretary, 
both of the Department of Energy, and Charles G. Groat, of Texas, to be 
Director of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the 
Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their 
own behalf. Mr. Groat was introduced by Senator Breaux.
PARKS/HISTORIC SITES/RECREATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 
1175, to reauthorize the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area 
Citizen Advisory Commission for 10 additional years, S. 1641, to direct 
the Secretary of the Interior to study alternatives for establishing a 
national historic trail to commemorate and interpret the history of 
women's rights in the United States, S. 1960, to allow the National 
Park Service to acquire certain land for addition to the Wilderness 
Battlefield, as previously authorized by law, by purchase or exchange 
as well as by donation, S. 2086, to revise the boundaries of the George 
Washington Birthplace National Monument, S. 2133, to designate former 
United States Route 66 as ``America's Main Street'' and authorize the 
Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance, S. 2239, to revise the 
boundary of Fort Matanzas National Monument, S. 2240, to establish the 
Adams National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, S. 
2241, to provide for the acquisition of lands formerly occupied by the 
Franklin D. Roosevelt family at Hyde Park, New York, and for other 
purposes, S. 2246, to amend the Act which established the Frederick Law 
Olmsted National Historic Site, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
by modifying the boundary, S. 2247, to permit the payment of medical 
expenses incurred by the U.S. Park Police in the performance of duty to 
be made directly by the National Park Service, S. 2248, to allow for 
waiver and indemnification in mutual law enforcement agreements between 
the National Park Service and a state or political subdivision, when 
required by state law, S. 2285, to establish a commission, in honor of 
the 150th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, to further 
protect sites of importance in the historic efforts to secure equal 
rights for women, S. 2297, to provide for the distribution of certain 
publications in units of the National Park System under a sales 
agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and a private 
contractor, S. 2309, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
enter into an agreement for the construction and operation of the 
Gateway Visitor Center at Independence National Historical Park, S. 
2401, to authorize the addition of the Paoli Battlefield site in 
Malvern, Pennsylvania, to Valley Forge National Historical Park, H.R. 
2411, to provide for a land exchange involving the Cape Cod National 
Seashore and to extend the authority for the Cape Cod National Seashore 
Advisory Commission, after receiving testimony from Destry Jarvis, 
Assistant Director, External Affairs, National Park Service, Department 
of the Interior.

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FEDERAL BUILDINGS POLICY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
on the proposed General Services Administration's Capital Investment 
and Leasing Program request for fiscal year 1999, the proposed Judicial 
Conference of the United States courthouse construction request for 
fiscal year 1999, and S. 2481, to improve the process of constructing, 
altering, and acquiring public buildings, after receiving testimony 
from Robert A. Peck, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, General 
Services Administration; Judge Norman H. Stahl, United States Court of 
Appeals for the First Circuit, on behalf of the Judicial Conference of 
the United States; A. Peter Burleigh, Acting United States 
Representative to the United Nations, on behalf of the United States 
Mission to the United Nations; Judge Michael A. Ponsor, United States 
District Court for the District of Massachusetts; and Judge B. Avant 
Edenfield, United States District Court for the Southern District of 
Georgia.
STATE DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International 
Operations concluded joint hearings with the Committee on the Budget's 
International Affairs Task Force to examine management and budget 
operations of the Department of State, after receiving testimony from 
Bonnie R. Cohen, Under Secretary for Management, David G. Carpenter, 
Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, and Patrick Kennedy, 
Assistant Secretary for Administration, all of the Department of State; 
Benjamin F. Nelson, Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, 
National Security and International Affairs Division, General 
Accounting Office; and Nicholas A. Rey, former United States Ambassador 
to the Republic of Poland.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Kenneth Prewitt, of New York, to be Director of the 
Census, Department of Commerce, and Robert M. Walker, of Tennessee, to 
be Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, after 
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. 
Prewitt was introduced by Senator Moynihan, and Mr. Walker was 
introduced by Senator Byrd.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of Robert Bruce King, of West Virginia, to be United 
States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, William B. Traxler, Jr., 
of South Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth 
Circuit, Richard M. Berman, Alvin K. Hellerstein, Colleen McMahon, and 
William H. Pauley, III, each to be a United States District Judge for 
the Southern District of New York, H. Dean Buttram, Jr., to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, Donovan W. 
Frank, to be United States District Judge for the District of 
Minnesota, Inge Prytz Johnson, to be United States District Judge for 
the Northern District of Alabama, Thomas J. Whelan, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of California, Robert Bruce 
Green, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Oklahoma, Scott Richard Lassar, to be United States attorney for the 
Northern District of Illinois, and James A. Tassone, to be United 
States Marshal for the Southern District of Florida;
  H.R. 3303, to authorize funds for the Department of Justice, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2392, to encourage the disclosure and exchange of information 
about computer processing problems and related matters in connection 
with the transition to the Year 2000, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 1727, to authorize the comprehensive independent study of the 
effects on trademark and intellectual property rights holders of adding 
new generic top-level domains and related dispute resolution 
procedures, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1637, to expedite State review of criminal records of applicants 
for bail enforcement officer employment, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 3494, to amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to 
violent sex crimes against children, with an amendment in the nature of 
a substitute; and
  S. Res. 256, to refer S. 2274 entitled ``A bill for the relief of 
Richard M. Barlow of Santa Fe, New Mexico'' to the chief judge of the 
United States Court of Federal Claims for a report thereon.
ADVANCES IN TEACHING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the extent of learning disabilities and implications for 
developing and enhancing teacher training opportunities, after 
receiving testimony from M. Susan Burns, Study Director, Committee on 
the Prevention of Reading Difficulties in Young Children, National 
Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; MacLean Gander, Landmark 
College, Putney, Vermont; Sally L. Smith, Lab

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School of Washington, Washington, D.C.; and Kettner Grizwold, 
Kensington, Maryland.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: On Wednesday, September 16, committee 
held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from 
officials of the intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, September 23.
YEAR 2000 READINESS: PENSIONS AND MUTUAL FUNDS
Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the Year 2000 readiness of the securities 
industry, focusing on pensions and mutual funds, after receiving 
testimony from Laura S. Unger, Commissioner, U.S. Securities and 
Exchange Commission; Alan D. Lebowitz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Labor for Program Operations/Pension and Welfare Benefits 
Administration; Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company Institute, 
Washington, D.C.; Donald Kittell, Securities Industry Association, and 
James A. Wolf, Corporate Management Information Systems, on behalf of 
the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement 
Equities Fund, both of New York, New York; Eugene F. Maloney, Federated 
Investors, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Vincent P. Brown, California 
Public Employees' Retirement System, Sacramento; Bert E. McConnell, 
Fidelity Investments, and John R. Towers, State Street Corporation, 
both of Boston, Massachusetts; Thomas M. Rowland, Capital Group 
Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, California; and Michael A. Waterford, DST 
Systems, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri.