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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D885 on Sept. 4, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1678, to abolish the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from Representative Tiahrt; Charles B. Curtis, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Harold P. Smith, Jr., Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Nuclear and Chemical and Biological Defense Programs); Victor S. Rezendes, Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Capt. John W. Crawford, Jr., USN (Ret.), Member, Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board; Caspar Weinberger, Forbes Magazine, Washington, D.C.; Shelby T. Brewer, S. Brewer Enterprises, Inc., Simsbury, Connecticut; Carole Keeton Rylander, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin; and Egidio V. Silveri, Go-Tane Service Stations, Inc., Melrose Park, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TEEN DRUG USE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain issues with regard to the recent rise in teenage drug use, after receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; and John P. Walters, New Citizen Project, Washington, D.C.
