[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 140 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1129-D1131]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
                  (Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,731 
routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
DOE POSITION ELEVATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review the 
recommendation to elevate the position of the Director, Office of Non-
Proliferation and National Security of the Department of Energy, after 
receiving testimony from Rose E. Gottemoeller, Director, Office of Non-
Proliferation and National Security of the Department of Energy.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs:Committee ordered 
favorably reported the nominations of William C. Apgar, Jr., of 
Massachusetts, to be Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal 
Housing Administrator, Saul N. Ramirez, Jr., of Texas, to be Deputy 
Secretary, Cardell Cooper, of New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary for 
Community Planning and Development, Harold Lucas, of New Jersey, to be 
Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian Housing, and Ira G. 
Peppercorn, of Indiana, to be Director of the Office of Multifamily 
Housing Assistance Restructuring, all of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Ashish Sen, of Illinois, to be Director 
of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Department of 
Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by

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Representative Danny Davis, testified and answered questions in his own 
behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works:Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Robert W. Perciasepe, of Maryland, to be an 
Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation of the Environmental 
Protection Agency, Isadore Rosenthal, of Pennsylvania, and Andrea Kidd 
Taylor, of Michigan, both to be Members of the Chemical Safety and 
Hazard Investigation Board, and William Clifford Smith, of Louisiana, 
to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission.
  Prior to this action, committee concluded hearings on the nomination 
of Mr. Perciasepe, after the nominee testified and answered questions 
in his own behalf.
COLUMBIA/SNAKE RIVER SYSTEM SALMON RECOVERY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife concluded oversight hearings to examine 
scientific and engineering issues relating to Columbia/Snake River 
system salmon recovery, after receiving testimony from Col. Eric 
Mogren, Deputy Commander, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; Danny Consenstein, Columbia Basin Coordinator, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration, Department of Commerce; Daniel D. Roby, Oregon 
Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, U.S. Geological Survey-
Biological Resources Division, and Department of Fisheries and 
Wildlife/Oregon State University, Corvallis; Joseph Cloud, Department 
of Biological Sciences/University of Idaho, Moscow; and Richard K. 
Fisher, Jr., Voith Hydro, Inc., York, Pennsylvania.
AFGHANISTAN
Committee on Foreign Relations:Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South 
Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine recent events in 
Afghanistan, after receiving testimony from Karl Frederick Inderfurth, 
Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs; A. Abdallah, 
Representative of the Islamic State of Afghanistan to the United 
States; Zalmay Khalilzad, RAND Corporation, Washington, DC; and Barnett 
Rubin, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary:Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  The nominations of David O. Carter, to be United States District 
Judge for the Central District of California, William J. Hibbler, to be 
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, 
Yvette Kane, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District 
of Pennsylvania, Robert S. Lasnik, to be United States District Judge 
for the Western District of Washington, Norman A. Mordue, to be United 
States District Judge for the Northern District of New York, James M. 
Munley, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of 
Pennsylvania, Alex R. Munson, to be Judge for the District Court for 
the Northern Mariana Islands, Margaret B. Seymour, to be United States 
District Judge for the District of South Carolina, Aleta A. Trauger, to 
be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, 
Francis M. Allegra, of Virginia, Lawrence Baskir, of Maryland, Lynn 
Jeanne Bush, of the District of Columbia, Edward J. Damich, of 
Virginia, Nancy B. Firestone, of Virginia, and Emily Clark Hewitt, of 
Massachusetts, each to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal 
Claims, Margaret Ellen Curran, to be United States Attorney for the 
District of Rhode Island, Byron Todd Jones, to be United States 
Attorney for the District of Minnesota, Harry Litman, to be United 
States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Denise E. 
O'Donnell, to be United States Attorney for the Western District of New 
York, and Donnie R. Marshall, of Texas, to be Deputy Administrator of 
the Drug Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice;
  S. 2024, to increase the penalties for trafficking in methamphetamine 
in order to equalize those penalties with the penalties for trafficking 
in crack cocaine;
  S. Con. Res. 83, remembering the life of George Washington and his 
contributions to the Nation;
  S. Res. 257, expressing the sense of the Senate that October 15, 
1998, should be designated as ``National Inhalant Abuse Awareness 
Day'';
  S. Res. 271, designating October 16, 1998, as ``National Mammography 
Day''; and
  S. Res. 260, expressing the sense of the Senate that October 11, 
1998, should be designated as ``National Children's Day''.
NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and 
Government Information concluded hearings to examine the use of 
classified evidence in certain immigration exclusion case proceedings, 
after receiving testimony from Paul W. Virtue, General Counsel, 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Warren 
Marik, Information for Democracy, former Central Intelligence Agency 
Case Office, and R. James

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Woolsey, Shea & Gardner, former Director of Central Intelligence, both 
of Washington, D.C.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee recessed subject to call.