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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D449-D450 on May 9, 1996.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--INS/BUREAU OF PRISONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Kathleen M. Hawk, Director, Bureau of Prisons, and Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, both of the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 14.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS--FTA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1997 for the Federal Transit Administration, receiving testimony from Gordon J. Linton, Administrator, Federal Transit Administration, Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 16.
1997 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government.
GASOLINE PRICE INCREASES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to examine recent supply shortfalls in crude oil and gasoline, their price impacts, the Administration's response, and long-term efforts to reduce future supply disruptions and price increases, after receiving testimony from Hazel R. O'Leary, Secretary of Energy; James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Energy; John H. Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; Lew Blackwell, Chevron Products Co., San Francisco, California; Thomas L. Robinson, Robinson Oil Company, Inc., San Jose, California, representing the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America and the Petroleum Marketers Association of America; Robert S. Beadle, Diamond Shamrock, Inc., San Antonio, Texas; and Charles T. Walz, Texaco Refining and Marketing, Inc., Universal City, California.
IRS MODERNIZATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to examine the status of the modernization of the Internal Revenue Service tax information system, receiving testimony from Lynda D. Willis, Director, Tax Policy and Administration Issues, General Government Division, and Rona Stillman, Chief Scientist, Office of Computers and Telecommunications, Accounting and Information Management Division, both of the General Accounting Office; and Michael P. Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, Judy Van Alfen, Associate Commissioner for Modernization, and Jim Donelson, Chief Taxpayer Service and Acting Chief Compliance Officer, all of the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of William A. Fletcher, of California, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Walker D. Miller, to be United States District Judge for the District of Colorado, Nina Gershon, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Edmund A. Sargus, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio, W. Craig Broadwater, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and Dean D. Pregerson, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California.
FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children and Families concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, after receiving testimony from Senator Dodd, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Family and Medical Leave; Geri D. Palast, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs; Libby Sartain, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Society for Human Resource Management; Cynthia Graham, Southern States Utilities, Apopka, Florida; and Elizabeth M. Carlson and Joseph Tully, both of National Futures Association, Chicago, Illinois.
FLORIDA INDIAN GAMING DECISION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact of the United States Supreme Court decision in Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida, 116 S. Ct. 1114 (1996), on the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, after receiving testimony from Seth P. Waxman, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; John D. Leshy, Solicitor, and John Duffy, Counselor to the Secretary, both of the Department of the Interior; Wisconsin State Attorney General James E. Doyle, Madison; California State Special Assistant Attorney General Thomas F. Gede, Sacramento; Alex Tallchief Skibine, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City; Richard B. Collins, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder; and Franklin Ducheneaux, Ducheneaux, Taylor & Associates, Douglas B.L. Endreson, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse & Endreson, and Jerry C. Straus, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, all of Washington, D.C.
WHITEWATER
Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters: Committee resumed hearings to examine certain matters relative to the Whitewater Development Corporation, receiving testimony from Patsy Thomasson, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel, The White House; and J. Wesley Strange, First Ozark National Bank/Mercantile Bank of North Central Arkansas, Edward Penick, and Margaret Davenport Eldridge, all of Little Rock, Arkansas.
Committee recessed subject to call.
