Volume 143, No. 40 covering the 1st Session of the 105th Congress (1997 - 1998) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D301-D302 on April 8, 1997.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Dallas R. Smith, Acting Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, Bruce R. Weber, Acting Administrator, Farm Service Agency, August Schumacher, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Christopher E. Goldthwait, General Sales Manager, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Acting Administrator, Risk Management Agency, and Dennis Kaplan, Deputy Director for Budget, Legislative, and Regulatory Systems, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15.
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings to examine child pornography issues, focusing on the sexual exploitation of children through the Internet and on-line services, after receiving testimony from Louis J. Freeh, Director, Wade B. Houk, Assistant Director in Charge of Finance, and Robert M. Bryant, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division, all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Ernest E. Allen, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Arlington, Virginia.
APPROPRIATIONS--EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1998 for the Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from Carol M. Browner, Administrator, EPA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Personnel concluded 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 active and reserve military and civilian personnel programs and the Defense Health Program, after receiving testimony from Edwin Dorn, Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness; Sara E. Lister, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Bernard Rostker, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; and Rodney A. Coleman, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Installations and Environment.
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on SeaPower held 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 submarine development and procurement programs and global submarine threat, receiving testimony from Senator Chafee; John W. Douglass, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm. Donald L. Pilling, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments; Rear Adm. Robert E. Frick, USN, Program Executive Officer for Submarines; and Rear Adm. Michael W. Cramer, USN, Director of Naval Intelligence.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on 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), receiving testimony from Madeleine K. Albright, Secretary of State; and Donald Rumsfeld, James Schlesinger, and Caspar Weinberger, each a former Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
RUSSIA-NATO
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded closed hearings to examine the Russia-Nato relationship after the Helsinki Summit, after receiving testimony from Strobe Talbott, Deputy Secretary of State; and Jan M. Lodal, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
AUTHORIZATION--INDIAN JUVENILE JUSTICE
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1998 through 2001 to provide assistance to Indian tribes for juvenile justice and delinquency prevention programs under the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, after receiving testimony from Thomas L. LeClaire, Director, Office of Tribal Justice, Department of Justice; Thomas S. Begich, Washington, D.C., and Larry Blackhair, Fort Duchesne, Utah, both on behalf of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice; and Mary V. Thomas, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona.
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