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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D913-D914 on Sept. 10, 1996.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, H.R. 3755, making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to consider pending military nominations, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
FAIR HOUSING IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on HUD Oversight and Structure concluded oversight hearings on the implementation and enforcement of the Fair Housing Act (P.L. 100-430), after receiving testimony from Elizabeth K. Julian, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
AMTRAK PASSENGER SERVICE ROUTE CHANGES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings to examine Amtrak's planned passenger service route restructuring and its impact on the continuity of the national rail passenger system, after receiving testimony from Senators Bumpers and Gramm; Representative Hutchinson; Thomas M. Downs, President and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); Delaware Governor Thomas C. Carper, Wilmington; Mayor Celia Boswell, Mineola, Texas; Mayor Jim Dailey, Little Rock, Arkansas; Mayor Larry Griffith, Baker City, Oregon; Mayor Audrey Kariel, Marshall, Texas; Neal A. McCaleb, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma City; Richard Tankerson, VIA Transit, San Antonio, Texas; and Ross B. Capon, National Association of Railroad Passengers, Washington, D.C.
BOSNIA PEACE PROCESS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the status of United States policy toward Bosnia, implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement and Operation Joint Endeavor, receiving testimony from John C. Kornblum, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, William Montgomery, Special Advisor to the President and Special Advisor to the Bosnian Peace Implementation, and James Pardew, Special Coordinator for Interagency Office on Arming and Training, all of the Department of State; Thomas K. Longstreth, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Requirements and Director, DOD Bosnia Task Force; Dawn T. Calabia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Anthony Kozlowski, American Refugee Committee, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Diane Paul, Human Rights Watch/Helsinki, New York, New York; and Susan Woodward, Brookings Institution, and John Fox, Open Society Institute, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service tax information system, focusing on technical and management issues, receiving testimony from Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General, and Rona B. Stillman, Chief Scientist, Computers and Telecommunications, both of the Accounting and Information Management Division, and Lynda Willis, Associate Director for Tax Policy and Administration, all of the General Accounting Office; Michael Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, Arthur Gross, Chief Information Officer, and David Mader, Chief of Management and Administration, all of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; Robert P. Claggett, Chairman, Committee on Continued Review of the Tax Systems Modernization of the Internal Revenue Service, National Research Council; John Gioia, Robbins-Gioia, Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert M. Tobias, Bethesda, Maryland, and Steve Herrington, Columbus, Ohio, both on behalf of the National Treasury Employees Union.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights concluded hearings to examine the constitutionality of the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after receiving testimony from Gilbert F. Decker, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition; Richard Shiffron, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; John C. Yoo, University of California, Berkeley; Roger Pilon, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Barry Kellman, DePaul University College of Law, DePaul, Illinois.
