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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D647-D648 on June 20, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE/MILITARY CONSTRUCTION/FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the following bills:
An original bill (S. 1894) making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997; and
H.R. 3517, making appropriations for military construction for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, with amendments; and
Also, committee completed its review of subcommittee allocations of budget outlays and new budget authority allocated to the committee in H. Con. Res. 178, establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 1997 and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002.
APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 27.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs/Committee on Indian Affairs: Committees concluded joint hearings on Title VII, Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act provisions of H.R. 2406, proposed United States Housing Act, after receiving testimony from Henry G. Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; A. Brian Wallace, Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, Gardnerville, Nevada; Joyce C. Dugan, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Cherokee, North Carolina; Roland E. Johnson, All Indian Pueblo Council, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico; and W. Ron Allen, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington State, Sequim, on behalf of the National Congress of American Indians; and Jacqueline L. Johnson, Juneau, Alaska, on behalf of the National American Indian Housing Council.
SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings to examine the use and management of the electromagnetic radio frequency spectrum, focusing on certain issues regarding the assignment of spectrum for digital or high definition television, receiving testimony from Senator Coats; Representatives Ehlers; Robert C. Wright, National Broadcasting Company, Inc., New York, New York; Ray Rodriguez, Univision Television Network, Miami, Florida; William Sullivan, KPAX-
TV/Cordillera Communications, Missoula, Montana; James M. Keelor, Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, Greenville, South Carolina; Craig Mundie, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington; J. Peter Bingham, Philips Electronics Corporation, Briarcliff Manor, New York; Robert Stearns, Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, Texas; and Rob Hummell, Dreamworks, Universal City, California, on behalf of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Hearings continue in closed session on Tuesday, June 25.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 1730, to strengthen and improve provisions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, and to ensure that citizens and communities injured by oil spills are promptly and fully compensated, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 1636, to designate the United States courthouse under construction at 1030 Southwest 3rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon, as the ``Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse'';
H.R. 3364, to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 235 North Washington Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the ``William J. Nealon Federal Building and United States Courthouse'';
H.R. 1772, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain interests in the Waihee Marsh for inclusion in the Oahu National Wildlife Refuge Complex;
H.R. 2660, to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated to the Department of the Interior for the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana;
H.R. 2679, to revise the boundary of the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge in Nebraska;
H.R. 2982, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the Carbon Hill National Fish Hatchery to the State of Alabama;
S. 1802, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain property containing a fish and wildlife facility to the State of Wyoming; and
S. 1871, to expand the Pettaquamscutt Cove National Wildlife Refuge in Rhode Island, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INTERNATIONAL NATURAL RUBBER AGREEMENT/LAW OF THE SEA CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the following treaties:
The International Natural Rubber Agreement (Treaty Doc. 104-27), after receiving testimony from Senator Glenn; Jeffrey M. Lang, Deputy United States Trade Representative; and Thomas E. Cole, Rubber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C.; and
The Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, with annexes (Treaty Doc. 104-24), after receiving testimony from David A. Colson, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of John F. Hicks, Sr., of North Carolina, to be Ambassador to the State of Eritrea, Alan R. McKee, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Swaziland, Tibor P. Nagy, Jr., of Texas, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea, and Arlene Render, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Zambia, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
WHITE HOUSE INFORMATION ACCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine the dissemination of Federal Bureau of Investigation background investigation reports and other information to the White House, receiving testimony from Richard S. Miller, Assistant Director for Protective Operations, United States Secret Service, Department of the Treasury; Howard M. Shapiro, General Counsel, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Billy Ray Dale, former Director of the White House Travel Office; Anita McBride, former Director, and Mary Kate Downham Carroll, former Personnel Assistant, both of the White House Personnel Office; Graven W. Craig, former Intern, White House Office of Public Liaison; and Ellen J. Gober, former Staff Assistant, White House Office of Legislative Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
