February 1997 February 12, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on The Future of Nuclear Deterrence. Witnesses: The Honorable Walter B. Slocombe, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Department of Defense; General Andrew J. Goodpaster, USA (Ret.), Co-Chair, The Atlantic Council of the United States; The Honorable Richard Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute. February 13, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on S. 207, the Corporate Subsidy Reform Commission Act of 1997. Witnesses: Senator John McCain (R-AZ); Senator John Kerry (D-MA); Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI); Thomas Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste; Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform; Courtney Cuff, Green Scissors Campaign Director, Friends of theEarth; Dean Stansel, Fiscal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute. February 25, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on the nomination of David Barram to be the Administrator of the General Services Administration. March 1997 March 5, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on Lasting Solutions to High Risk Programs Witnesses: John Koskinen, Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget; Gene Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller, General Accounting and Information Management Division, United States General Accounting Office; Dwight Robinson, Deputy Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Susan Gaffney, Inspector General, Department of Housing and Urban Development. March 6, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Federal Tax Policy for the District of Columbia. Witnesses: The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, United States Congresswoman (D-DC); Jack Kemp, Co-Director, Empower America; The Honorable Marion Barry, Mayor, District of Columbia; Dan Mitchell, McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, Heritage Foundation; William Niskanen, Chairman, Cato Institute. March 10, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Overview of Management Issues for the Department of Commerce. Witnesses: Frank DeGeorge, Inspector General, Department of Commerce; Raymond Kammer, Jr., Acting Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary, Department of Commerce. March 11, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on The Financial Crisis Facing the District of Columbia Today. Witnesses: Mayor Susan Golding (R), San Diego, CA; Mayor Stephen Goldsmith (R), Indianapolis, IN; Mayor Patrick McCrory (R), Charlotte, NC; Mayor Edward Rendell (D), Philadelphia, PA; Mayor Knox White (R), Greenville, SC. March 11, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on Census 2000. Witnesses: The Honorable William Daley, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; The Honorable Everett Ehrlich, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, U.S. Department of Commerce; The Honorable Martha Riche, Director, Bureau of the Census. March 13, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on National Missile Defense and Prospects for U.S. - Russia ABM Treaty Accommodation. Witnesses: Ambassador Max Kampelman, Vice Chairman, U.S. Institute of Peace; Dr. Keith Payne, President, National Institute for Public Policy; Dr. Andrei Kortunov, President, Moscow Public Science. Foundation. March 13, 1997 - Joint hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia and the House Government Reform and Oversight Subcommittee on the District of Columbia. Witnesses: The Honorable Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, DC; The Honorable Charlene Drew Jarvis, Chairwoman, Pro tempore, D.C. City Council; The Honorable Andrew Brimmer, Chairman, D.C. City Control Board; Mr. Anthony Williams, Chief Financial Officer, Washington, D.C. March 20, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on The Role of the Department of Commerce in the United States Trade Policy, Promotion and Regulation, and Opportunities for Reform and Consolidation. Witnesses: The Honorable John Mica, U.S. Representative (R-FL); The Honorable Rick White, U.S. Representative (R-WA); Professor William Lash, III, Director of the Law and Economics Center and Associate Dean of George Mason University School of Law; Dr. Ed Hudgins, The Cato Institute, Ed Black, President, Computer and Communications Industry Association; Timothy Hauser, Deputy Under Secretary, The International Trade Administration, The Department of Commerce. April 1997 April 7, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on the nomination of James B. King to be Director, Office of Personnel Management. April 9, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on The Role of the Department of Commerce in Federal Statistical Gathering, Analysis and Dissemination, and Opportunities for Reform and Consolidation. Witnesses:The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan, United States Senator (D-NY); Janet Norwood, Urban Institute; Vince Barabba, General Motors Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development; Nye Stevens, General Accounting Office; Maurine Haver, National Association of Business Economists; Leonard I. Nakamura, Economic Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; The Honorable Stephen Horn, U.S. Representative (R-CA). April 10, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on IRS and the Taxpayer at Risk. Witnesses:The Honorable Lawrence Summers, Deputy Secretary of Treasury, Department of Treasury; Michael Dolan, Deputy Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; Dr. Rona Stillman, Chief Scientist, Office of Computers and Telecommunications Accounting and Information Management Division, United States General Accounting Office; Donald C. Alexander (Former IRS Commissioner) Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. April 10, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on Proliferation: Chinese Case Studies. Witnesses:Mr. Robert Einhorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State; Ambassador James Lilley, Director, Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland; Mr. Gary Milhollin, Director, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control. April 16, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Government and Television: Improving Programming Without Censorship. Witnesses:The Honorable Mike DeWine, United States Senator (R-OH); Dale Kunkel, Associate Professor, Department of Communications, UC-Santa Barbara; Jeffrey Cole, Director, UCLA Center for Communication Policy; Helen K. Liebowitz, Member, National PTA Board of Directors; Whitney Vanderwerff, National Alliance for Non-violent Programming; Michael Brody, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Media Committee; David Walsh, Executive Director, National Institute on Media and the Family. April 16, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on Census 2000. Witnesses:The Honorable James E. Doyle, Attorney General, State of Wisconsin; The Honorable Stuart M. Gerson, Former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Dr. Lawrence D. Brown, Miers Busch Professor of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Charles L. Schultze, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institute. April 17, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on Proliferation: Chinese Case Studies, Part II (Closed Session). Witnesses: Dr. Gordon Oehler, Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence for Nonproliferation and Director, DCI's Nonproliferation Center. April 17, 1997- Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Improvement Opportunities for the Public Schools in the District of Columbia. Witnesses:General Julius W. Becton, Jr., CEO District of Columbia Public Schools; Dr. Bruce MacLaury, Chairman, Emergency Transition Education Board of Trustees; The Honorable Lamar Alexander, Former U.S. Secretary of Education; The Honorable Ed Koch, Former Mayor of New York; Dr. Jay P. Greene, University of Houston; Ms. Jeanne Allen, President, The Center for Education Reform; Ms. Kathy Sylvester, Vice President of Domestic Policy, Progressive Policy Institute; D.C. Council Member Kevin Chavous, Chairman, Committee on Education, Libraries and Recreation; Mr. Mark Roberts, Parent of Student in D.C. Public Schools; Ms. Zakiya Courtney, President, Parents for School Choice, Milwaukee, WI. April 23, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on S. 261, Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act. Witnesses:Franklin D. Raines, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Charles J. Whalen, Senior Economist, Institute for Industry Studies, Cornell University; Susan J. Irving, Associate Director, Budget Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, United States General Accounting Office; Louis Fisher, Senior Specialist in Separation of Powers, CRS. April 24, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Opportunities for Management Reforms at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Witnesses:The Honorable Diana Josephson, Deputy Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, NOAA; Bryan Logan, President, Photo Sciences, Inc.; John Palatiello, Executive Director, Association for Private Photogrammetric Surveyors; Ken Johnson, Chairman, University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System; Joel Willemssen, GAO, Joel Myers, President, Accuweather. April 30, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on Fighting Crime and Violence in the District of Columbia: Capital Punishment as a Deterrent. Witnesses:The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator (R-TX); Mrs. Tracie Gibson, Widow of District of Columbia Officer Brian Gibson; Stephen Harlan, Vice Chairman, D.C. Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority; Gary Mather, Senior Vice President, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.; James Stewart, Principal, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Inc.; Larry D. Soulsby, Chief of Police, D.C. Police Department; The Honorable Eugene N. Hamilton, Chief Judge, Superior court of District of Columbia; Dr. Robert Moffit, Deputy Director for Domestic Policy Studies, The Heritage Foundation; C. Stephen Wallis, Washington, D.C. Area School Administrator; The Honorable Carol Schwartz, D.C. City Coucil Member; Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr., Senior Minister, Metropolitan Baptist Church. May 1997 May 1, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on National Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty. Witnesses:The Honorable John D. Holum, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. May 1, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on the Department of Defense At Risk. Witnesses:Henry Hinton, Assistant Comptroller General for National Security and International Affairs, United States General Accounting Office; The Honorable R. Noel Longuemare, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, Department of Defense; John F. Phillips, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics, Department of Defense; The Honorable Emmett Paige, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence, Department of Defense; The Honorable John J. Hamre, Under Secretary of Defense and Comptroller, Department of Defense. May 7, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on Government Secrecy. Witnesses:The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (D-NY), Chairman, Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy; The Honorable Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator (R-NC), Member, Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy; The Honorable Larry Combest, U.S. Representative (R-TX), Vice Chairman, Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy; The Honorable Lee Hamilton, U.S. Representative (D-IN), Member, Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy; The Honorable Lawrence Eagleburger, Former Secretary of State; Mr. David Wise, Author and Journalist; Mr. Alden V. Munson, Jr., Senior Vice President and Group Executive, Information Systems Group, Litton Industries, Inc., Woodland Hills, Ca. May 8, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia second hearing on Government and Television: Improving Programming Without Censorship. Witnesses:L. Brent Bozell, III, Chairman, Media Research Center; Robert Lichter, Co-Director, Center for Media and Public Affairs; Dr. Jane Brown, Professor, University of North Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Dr. Laurie Lee Humphries, Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Dr. Mary Anne Layden, Director of Education, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Therapy; Sarah Brown, Director, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy; Elayne Bennett, President and Founder, The Best Friends Foundation; Sheila Johnson, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Black Entertainment Television (BET). May 13, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on The President's Proposal and Alternative Approaches for the District of Columbia. Witnesses:The Honorable G. Edward DeSeve, Controller, Office of Federal Financial Management, U.S. Office of Management and Budget; The Honorable Marion Barry, Mayor, District of Columbia; The Honorable Linda W. Cropp, Acting Chair, District of Columbia City Council. June 1997 June 3, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on The Department of Commerce's Technology Grant Programs. Witnesses:Dr. Mary L. Good, Under Secretary of Technology, Department of Commerce; Professor Robert White, Carnegie Mellon University; Dr. TJ Rodgers, President and CEO, Cypress Semiconductor, Inc.; Mr. Tim Draper, Draper Fisher Associates; Mr. Stephen Moore, The Cato Institute; Mr. Dwight Carlson, Perception, Inc. June 5, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on Proliferation: Russian Case Studies. Witnesses:Mr. Robert Einhorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nonproliferation, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State; Dr. William C. Potter, Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies; Dr. Richard H. Speier, Independent Consultant. June 11, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on Proliferation and U.S. Export Controls. Witnesses:Mr. William Reinsch, Under Secretary for Export Administration, Department of Commerce; Dr. Mitchel Wallerstein, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterproliferation, Department of Defense; Dr. Stephen Bryen, President, Delta Tech; Dr. William Schneider, Fellow, Hudson Institute. June 23, 1997 - Joint hearing with the Senate Appropriations Committee on Implementation of the Government Performance and Results Act. Witnesses:The Honorable Franklin D. Raines, Director, Office of Management and Budget; The Honorable James F. Hinchman, Acting Comptroller General of the United States, United States General Accounting Office (written testimony). July 1997 July 21, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on the Compliance Review Process and Missile Defense. Witnesses:Dr. Kent Stansberry, Deputy Director for Arms Control Implementation and Compliance, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology). July 28, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on the nomination of George Omas to the Postal Rate Commission, and Janice Lachance as Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management. September 1997 September 8, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on "A Progress Report on the Reforms in D.C. Public Schools." Witnesses:The Honorable Richard K. Armey, Majority Leader, United States House of Representatives; Jeanne Allen, President, Center for Education Reform; Nina Shokraii, Education Policy Analyst, Domestic Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation; Kent Amos, President, Urban Family Institute; General Julius W. Becton, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, District of Columbia Public Schools; Dr. Bruce MacLaury, Chairman, Emergency Transition Education Board of Trustees. September 12, 1997 - Full Committee hearing on S. 981, The Regulatory Improvement Act of 1997. Witnesses: L. Nye Stevens, Director, Federal Management and Workforce Issues, General Government Division, General Accounting Office; The Honorable Sally Katzen, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; James L. Martin, Director, Office of State-Federal Relations, National Governors Association; Sal Risalvato, Small Business Owner on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business; Thomas F. Walton, Director, Economic Policy, General Motors Corporation on behalf of Alliance USA; Ernest Gellhorn, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; Dr. John Graham, Director, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis; C. Boyden Gray, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Former White House Counsel and Counsel to the Presidential Task Force on Regulatory Relief; David Hawkins, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council; Paul Portney, President, Resources for the Future; David Vladeck, Director, Public Citizen Litigation Group. September 22, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on Missile Proliferation in the Information Age. Witnesses:Dr. William R. Graham, Former Science Advisor to President Reagan and Former Deputy Administrator of NASA; Dr. W. Seth Carus, Visiting Fellow, National Defense University. September 22, 1997 - Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on Fraud in the Micro-Capital Markets, including Penny Stock Fraud. Securities Industry. Witnesses:The Honorable Arthur Levitt, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Mrs. Helen Sprecher, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mr. Louis Poggi, Pembroke, New Hampshire; Mr. Emile Murnan, St. Louis, Missouri; Mr. Joseph P. Borg, Director, Alabama Securities Commission, Member, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc. (NASAA); Mr. Barry R. Goldsmith, Executive Vice President, NASD Regulation, Inc. October 1997 October 21, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on North Korean Missile Proliferation. October 24, 1997 - Full Committee hearing concerning state taxation of individuals working at certain Federal facilities straddling state borders. Witnesses: The Honorable Ed Bryant, United States Representative, (R-TN); George Kaelin, Clarksville, TN on behalf of the Concerned Citizens of Tennessee; Ed Wilson, Clarksville, Tennessee; Dorothy Smith, Clarksville, Tennessee; Gary York, Yankton, South Dakota; Roger Hays, Kennewick, Washington; William M. Remington, Director of Delaware Division of Revenue, on behalf of the Federation of Tax Administrators; James Smith, Professor of Law, University of Georgia; The Honorable Judd Gregg, United States Senator, (R-NH); Andrew Ketterer, Attorney General, State of Maine; Phil McLaughlin, Attorney General, State of New Hampshire. October 27, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on the Safety and Reliability of the U.S. Nuclear Deterrent. Witnesses: Dr. James R. Schlesinger; The Honorable Vic Reis, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; Dr. Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. October 30, 1997 - Full Committee Nomination hearing on the following: Anita Marie Josey and John MacLaughlin Campbell, to be Associate Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. November 1997   November 3, 1997 - Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation and Federal Services hearing on the Annual Report of the Postmaster General. Witnesses: The Honorable Marvin Runyon, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer, United States Postal Service. November 3, 1997 - Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Oversight Review of the Treasury Department's Inspector General. November 4, 1997 - Full Committee Nomination hearing on the following: Ermnesta Ballard to be a Member, Postal Board of Governors; Dale Cabaniss, to be a Member, Federal Labor Relations Authority; Susanne Marshall, to be a Member, Merit Systems Protection Board. November 6, 1997 - Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia hearing on the Social Impact of Music Violence.