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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D659-D660 on June 18, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on H.R. 10, to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, receiving testimony from James F. Higgins, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter and Company, on behalf of the Securities Industry Association, John H. Biggs, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, on behalf of the American Council of Life Insurance and the American Insurance Association, and Robert A. Miller, New York State Association of Life Underwriters, on behalf of the Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc., all of New York, New York; Matthew P. Fink, Investment Company Institute, and John G. Heimann, Merrill Lynch and Company, on behalf of the Financial Services Council, both of Washington, D.C.; William A. Fitzgerald, Commercial Federal Bank, Omaha, Nebraska, on behalf of America's Community Bankers; William T. McConnell, Park National Corporation, Newark, Ohio, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Richard M. Kovacevich, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Bankers Roundtable; and William L. McQuillian, City National Bank, Greeley, Nebraska, on behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL RIVERS AND TRAILS SYSTEMS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 469, to designate a portion of the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers as a component of the National Wild and Scenic River System, after receiving testimony from William H. Sullivan, Study Committee on Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers, Concord, Massachusetts;
S. 1665, to authorize funds for the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor Act, after receiving testimony from Gerald R. Bastoni, Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal National Heritage Corridor Commission, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
S. 2039, to designate El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro as a National Historic Trail, after receiving testimony from Liddie Martinez, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Committee, Alcalde, New Mexico; and
H.R. 2186, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance to the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center in Casper, Wyoming, after receiving testimony from Fran Cherry, Acting Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, and Dorothy Perkins, National Historic Trails Center, Casper, Wyoming.
Testimony was also received on S. 469, S. 1665, S. 2039 (all listed above), and S. 1016, to authorize funds for the Coastal Heritage Trail Route in New Jersey, from Destry Jarvis, Assistant Director for External Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs concluded hearings to examine recent changes in congressional views of the bilateral relationship between the United States and the People's Republic of China, and H.R. 967, to prohibit the use of United States funds to provide for the participation of certain Chinese officials in international conferences, programs, and activities and to provide that certain Chinese officials shall be ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission to the United States, H.R. 2358, to provide for improved monitoring of human rights violations in the People's Republic of China, H.R. 2386, to implement the provisions of the Taiwan Relations Act concerning the stability and security of Taiwan and United States cooperation with Taiwan on the development and acquisition of defensive military articles, H.R. 2570, to condemn those officials of the Chinese Communist Party, the Government of the People's Republic of China, and other persons who are involved in the enforcement of forced abortions by preventing such persons from entering or remaining in the United States, and H.R. 2605, to require the United States to oppose the making of concessional loans by international financial institutions to any entity in the People's Republic of China, after receiving testimony from Stanley O. Roth, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Robert A. Kapp, United States-China Business Council, and Nicholas R. Lardy, Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.
SATELLITE EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services held hearings to examine whether the Department of Commerce's commercial satellite export control policy and process toward China is adequate to prevent technology transfers which pose a threat to United States security, receiving testimony from William A. Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration; Jan M. Lodal, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and John D. Holum, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following measures:
H.R. 1211, for the relief of Global Exploration and Development Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation, and Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation, with amendments; and
S. Res. 176, proclaiming the week of October 18 through October 24, 1998, as ``National Character Counts Week''.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of John D. Kelly, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Kim McLean Wardlaw, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Raner Christercunean Collins, to be United States District Judge for the District of Arizona, Robert G. James, to be United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, Dan A. Polster, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and Ralph E. Tyson, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of Louisiana, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Kelly was introduced by Senators Conrad and Dorgan and Representative Pomeroy, Ms. Wardlaw was introduced by Senators Feinstein and Boxer, Mr. Collins was introduced by Senator Kyl, Messrs. James and Tyson were introduced by Senators Breaux and Landrieu, and Mr. Polster was introduced by Senators DeWine and Glenn.
INTERNATIONAL DRUG CONTROL
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control: Caucus concluded hearings to examine current international drug-consumption trends and how the United States and the international community are addressing the problem of the increasing demand for illegal drugs, after receiving testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; R. Rand Beers, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Robert L. DuPont, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc., Rockville, Maryland; Thomas J. Gleaton, Parents Resource Institute on Drug Education, and Sue Rusche, National Families in Action, both of Atlanta, Georgia; J. Paul Molloy, Oxford House, Inc., Silver Spring, Maryland; and Ernst W. Aeschbach, Association for the Advancement of Psychological Understanding of Human Nature, Zurich, Switzerland.
