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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Justice was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D717-D718 on July 9, 1997.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of Gen. Wesley K. Clark, USA, to be Commander-in-Chief, United States European Command, and Lt. Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, USMC, to be Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings in open and closed sessions on the aforementioned nominations, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
COMPREHENSIVE MORTGAGE REFORM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Relief and the Subcommittee on Housing Opportunity and Community Development held joint hearings to examine problems surrounding the mortgage origination process, the goals and objectives of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Truth In Lending Act, and the need for comprehensive mortgage reform legislation, receiving testimony from Janice M. Hix, National Association of Mortgage Brokers, McLean, Virginia; Ron McCord, American Mortgage and Investment Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America; Russell K. Booth, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the National Association of Realtors; Joseph M. Parker, Jr., Parker Title Insurance Agency, Inc., Winston Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Land Title Association; and Margot Saunders, National Consumer Law Center, and Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, July 15.
CAMPAIGN FINANCING INVESTIGATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued to examine certain matters with regard to the committee's special investigation on campaign financing, receiving testimony from Richard Sullivan, Perkins Coie, Washington, D.C., former Deputy Finance and Finance Director, Democratic National Committee.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain issues with regard to the use of encryption technology and its application in the information age, focusing on its impact on U.S. industries, privacy protection, and national security, including related measure S. 376 and related provisions of S. 909, after receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey; Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; William P. Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Kenneth W. Dam, Chair, Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy, National Research Council; Michael MacKay, Novell, Inc., Orem, Utah, on behalf of the Business Software Alliance and the Software Publishers Association; Peter G. Neumann, SRI International, Menlo Park, California; and Raymond Ozzie, Iris Associates, Westford, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Business Software Alliance.
SENATE ELECTIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met in open and closed sessions to receive a briefing on the status of the investigation concerning petitions filed in connection with a contested U.S. Senate election held in Louisiana in November 1996 from Thomas J. Jurkiewicz, Accounting and Information Management Division, and John J. Butler, Office of General Counsel, both detailed to the committee from the General Accounting Office; Robert F. Bauer, Perkins Coie, Washington, D.C.; and George P. Terwilliger III, McGuire Woods Battle & Boothe, Richmond, Virginia.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, July 16.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
