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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D620-D621 on June 11, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE/VA-HUD/MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
Original bill (S. 2159) making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999;
Original bill making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999; and
Original bill (S. 2160) making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realignment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999.
RECREATIONAL FEE COLLECTION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program, designed to authorize the Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Fish and Wildlife Service to establish fee collection programs at sites that they manage, after receiving testimony from John Berry, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Management and Budget; Lyle Laverty, Regional Forester, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; David Brown, America Outdoors, Knoxville, Tennessee; Adena Cook, Blue Ribbon Coalition, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Dunham Gooding, Outdoor Recreation Coalition of America, Boulder, Colorado; and Arthur M. Peterson, Kampgrounds of America, Inc., Billings, Montana.
OIL VALUATION REGULATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development, Production and Regulation concluded oversight hearings to examine the status of the Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service efforts to revise regulations for valuing crude oil produced from Federal leases, after receiving testimony from Senator Boxer; Robert Armstrong, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management; Tom White, Vision Resources, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, and James Svenvold, SPN, Ltd., both of Houston, Texas; and M. Brian McMahon, McMahon & Spiegel, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the City of Long Beach and the State of California.
U.S. TRADE DEFICIT
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the causes of the United States trade deficit and its implications for the American economy, receiving testimony from Senator Dorgan; Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury; Janet L. Yellen, Chair, Council of Economic Advisers; Robert E. Scott, Economic Policy Institute, and Daniel T. Griswold, Cato Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Murray Weidenbaum, Center for the Study of American Business, St. Louis, Missouri, former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers; and Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Raymond W. Kelly, of New York, to be Commissioner of Customs, James E. Johnson, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary for Enforcement, and Elizabeth Bresee, of New York, to be an Assistant Secretary, all of the Department of the Treasury, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kelly was introduced by Senator D'Amato.
CHINESE MISSILE PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine the Administration's policy of promoting commercial satellite launches from China, focusing on Chinese ballistic and cruise missile proliferation, receiving testimony from Gordon Oehler, Arlington, Virginia, former Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Nonproliferation; and Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf of the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of E. William Crotty, of Florida, to be Ambassador to Barbados, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, to the Commonwealth of Dominica, to Grenada, to St. Kitts and Nevis, to Saint Lucia, and to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, John O'Leary, of Maine, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chile, and Arthur Louis Schechter, of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Crotty was introduced by Senators Mack, Graham, and Harkin, Mr. O'Leary was introduced by Senators Snowe and Collins and Representatives Baldacci and Allen, and Mr. Schechter was introduced by Senator Hutchison and Representative Lee.
INS REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration held hearings on proposals to reform the Immigration and Naturalization Service, focusing on its ability to provide services to immigrants, visitors, and prospective citizens, receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Margaret H. McCormick, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Washington, D.C.; and Sana Atisha, West Bloomfield, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHILD LABOR
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and Training concluded hearings to examine the Department of Labor efforts and proposals to combat abusive child labor, after receiving testimony from John R. Fraser, Acting Administrator, Wage and Hour Division, Department of Labor; California State Labor Commissioner Jose Millan, Sacramento; Thomas K. Zaucha, National Grocers Association, Reston, Virginia; Rafael I. Lissack, Wynnewood Food Fare, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania; Barbara Mainster and Lourdes Villanueva, both of the Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Immokalee, Florida; and Linda Dianne Mull, Association of Farmworker Opportunities Programs, Arlington, Virginia.
