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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1043-D1044 on Oct. 1, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the findings of a National Cancer Institute report on radioactive fallout from atomic weapons tests conducted by the United States government in the 1950s, and the incidence of thyroid cancer in the State of Iowa, receiving testimony from Richard Klausner, Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Andrea Holden McGuire, Staff Physician, VA Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa), Department of Veterans Affairs; Joseph L. Lyon, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Jan Beyea, Consulting in the Public Interest, Lambertville, New Jersey; and Timothy J. Connor, Energy Research Foundation, Spokane, Washington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Jacques Gansler, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of William E. Kennard, of California, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Moseley-Braun, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
NATIONAL MEMORIAL/WILD HORSES PRESERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on S. 940, to provide for a study of the establishment of Midway Atoll as a national memorial to the Battle of Midway, and H.R. 765, to ensure maintenance of a herd of wild horses in Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina, after receiving testimony from Senator Helms; Representative Jones; Maureen Finnerty, Associate Director for Park Operations and Education, National Park Service, and John Rogers, Deputy Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, both of the Department of the Interior; Daniel I. Rubenstein, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; James M. D'Angelo, Rockville, Maryland, and Rear Adm. Edward Feightner, USN (Ret.), Arlington, Virginia, both on behalf of the International Midway Memorial Foundation, Inc.; and Randall Davis, Midway Phoenix Corporation, Cartersville, Georgia; and Edward Feightner, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following measures:
An original bill to extend tariff proclamation authority and fast track procedures for congressional consideration of trade agreements; and
An original bill to expand the existing Caribbean Basin Initiative by providing for additional tariff preferences on certain products not previously covered by the program.
ALGERIA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs concluded hearings to examine the current situation in Algeria, including recent human rights violations, after receiving testimony from Ronald E. Newmann, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; Mary-Jane Deeb, Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Lisa Anderson, Columbia University, New York, New York.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine Congress' constitutional role in protecting religious liberty in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in the case of City of Boerne v. Flores in which the court held the Religious Freedom Restoration Act unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment as applied to the States, receiving testimony from Douglas Laycock, University of Texas, Austin; Michael Stokes Paulsen, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis; Erwin Chemerinsky, University of Southern California Law Center, Los Angeles, California; and Daniel O. Conkle, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain efforts to expand health insurance coverage, and S. 729, to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide new portability, participation, solvency, and other health insurance protections and freedoms for workers in a mobile workforce, to increase the purchasing power of employees and employers by removing barriers to the voluntary formation of association health plans, to increase health plan competition providing more affordable choice of coverage, and to expand access to health insurance coverage for employees of small employers through open markets, after receiving testimony from Representative Fawell; Olena Berg, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefits; Glenn Pomeroy, North Dakota Department of Insurance, Bismarck, on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; Patricia C. Gagne, Claim Technologies Incorporated, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the Boys and Girls Club Workers Association; and Dale Gilliland, American Foam Center, Arlington, Virginia; and W. David Helms, Alpha Center, Dan Danner, National Federation of Independent Business, Judith G. Waxman, Families USA Foundation, and Mary Nell Lehnhard, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, all of Washington, D.C.
SENATE ELECTION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met in open and closed session and agreed to a committee motion to terminate the committee's investigation of issues with regard to petitions filed in connection with a contested United States Senate election held in Louisiana in November 1996.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Lt. Gen. John A. Gordon, USAF, to be Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Ashcroft and Bond, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
