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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D353-D355 on April 17, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
CROP INSURANCE REFORM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Federal Crop and Revenue Insurance program of the Department of Agriculture, focusing on the adequacy of the administrative expense reimbursement paid by the Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to participating insurance companies for selling and servicing crop insurance and the comparative cost to the government of delivering catastrophic crop insurance through the Department of Agriculture and the private sector, and to discuss alternative means to reimburse companies' administrative expenses for delivering crop insurance, after receiving testimony Robert A. Robinson, Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Kenneth D. Ackerman, Administrator, Risk Management Agency, Department of Agriculture; John Joyce, National Crop Insurance Services, West Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the American Association of Crop Insurers; Richard C. Gibson, American Agrisurance, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Robert E. Fulwider, West Liberty, Iowa, on behalf of the Independent Insurance Agents of America; Alan S. Walter, Agricultural Risk Management North America, Inc., Overland Park, Kansas; Frank Beurskens, Frank Beurskens Consulting, Inc., Bloomington, Illinois, on behalf of the National Grain and Feed Association; and David Lehman, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago, Illinois.
APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/JUDICIARY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Supreme Court of the United States and the Judiciary, receiving testimony from Anthony M. Kennedy, and David H. Souter, each an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; and John G. Heyburn II, United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for foreign assistance programs, focusing on Korea, Burma, and Hong Kong, receiving testimony from Charles Cartman, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 6.
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Forest Service, receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, and Michael P. Dombeck, Chief, Forest Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 24.
APPROPRIATIONS--LAW ENFORCEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for law enforcement programs of the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from Raymond W. Kelly, Under Secretary for Enforcement, George Weise, Commissioner, United States Customs Service, John W. Magaw, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Charles F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Stanley E. Morris, Director, Office of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Eljay B. Bowron, Director, United States Secret Service, and Valerie Lau, Inspector General, all of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness resumed hearings on S. 450, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for military activities of the Department of Defense, and to prescribe military personnel strengths for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, focusing on the status of operational readiness of United States military forces, receiving testimony from Gen. Ronald H. Griffith, USA, Vice Chief of the Army; Adm. Harold W. Gehman, Jr., USN, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Thomas S. Moorman, USAF, Vice Chief of the Air Force; Gen. Richard I. Neal, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps; Lt. Gen. Thomas S. Schwartz, USA, Commanding General, III Corps and Fort Hood; Vice Adm. Herbert A. Browne, Jr., USN, Commanding Admiral, III Fleet; Lt. Gen. Carl E. Franklin, USAF, Commanding General, 9th Air Force; and Lt. Gen. Charles E. Wilhelm, USMC, Commanding General, II Marine Expeditionary Force.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call. REVENUE RAISING PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine certain revenue raising provisions of the Administration's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1998, receiving testimony from Donald C. Lubick, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Martin D. Ginsburg, Georgetown University Law Center, Fred T. Goldberg, Jr., Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, Gary C. Hufbauer, Institute for International Economics, and C. Ellen MacNeil, Arthur Andersen, all of Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, opened for signature and signed by the United States at Paris on January 13, 1993 (Treaty Doc. 103-21), after receiving testimony from Representative Goss; Ronald F. Lehman, former Director, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Edward J. O'Malley, former Assistant Director of Counterintelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Gen. William Odom, former Director, National Security Agency, Department of Defense.
IRAN WEAPONS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs held hearings to examine United States policy with regard to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile programs in Iran, receiving testimony from Senator D'Amato; David Welch, Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, and Robert J. Einhorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs, both of the Department of State; R. James Woolsey, former Director of Central Intelligence; and Leonard S. Spector, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CHINESE ARMS PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings in closed session to examine China's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related technologies, missile delivery systems, and advanced conventional weapons, after receiving testimony from Gordon Oehler, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Nonproliferation and Director, DCI's Nonproliferation Center.
D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to discuss improvement opportunities for public education in the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from Julius W. Becton, Jr., Chief Executive Officer/Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools; Bruce K. MacLaury, Chairman, District of Columbia Emergency Transitional Education Board of Trustees; Kevin P. Chavous, Chairman/Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation, District of Columbia City Council; A. Lamar Alexander, Jr., former Secretary of Education; former Mayor Edward I. Koch, New York, New York; Jay P. Greene, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; and Jeanne Allen, Center for Education Reform, Kathleen Sylvester, Progressive Policy Institute, and Mark E.P. Roberts, all of Washington, D.C.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following business items:
S. 506, to clarify and make technical corrections to certain copyright provisions;
S. 568, to make a technical correction to title 28, United States Code, relating to jurisdiction for lawsuits against terrorist states; and
The nominations of Donald M. Middlebrooks, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Jeffrey T. Miller, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of California, and Robert W. Pratt, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa.
JOB TRAINING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and Training concluded hearings to examine innovations in youth job training, focusing on Federal programs to assist at-risk youth improve their preparation for a career, after receiving testimony from Mary H. Silva, National Director, Office of Job Corps, Department of Labor; Allyson Peerman, Advanced Mirco Devices, and Richard Halpin, American Institute for Learning, both of Austin, Texas; Ralph DiBattista, Vinnell Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota; Carmen Placido, Center for Employment Training, San Jose, California; Lorenzo D. Harrison, East Harlem Employment Service/STRIVE, New York, New York; and Jerome Ryan, Boston Alternative Education Alliance, Boston, Massachusetts.
SENATE ELECTION INVESTIGATION
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution authorizing an investigation into alleged illegal and improper activities affecting the outcome of a United States Senate election held in the State of Louisiana in November 1996.
GULF WAR ILLNESSES
Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the United States Government's response with regard to the disclosure of information on the possible exposure of United States and allied troops to chemical and biological weapons during the Persian Gulf War and the handling of health care concerns of U.S. veterans, after receiving testimony from Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.).
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee will meet again on Wednesday, April 23.
