12 July 1997 Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressional Record: July 9, 1997 (Digest)] [Page D715-D718] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:cr09jy97-1] Wednesday, July 9, 1997 [[Page D715]] Daily Digest [Excerpts] ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine certain issues with regard to the use of encryption technology and its application in the information age, focusing on its impact on U.S. industries, privacy protection, and national security, including related measure S. 376 and related provisions of S. 909, after receiving testimony from Senator Kerrey; Louis J. Freeh, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; William P. Crowell, Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Kenneth W. Dam, Chair, Committee to Study National Cryptography Policy, National Research Council; Michael MacKay, Novell, Inc., Orem, Utah, on behalf of the Business Software Alliance and the Software Publishers Association; Peter G. Neumann, SRI International, Menlo Park, California; and Raymond Ozzie, Iris Associates, Westford, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Business Software Alliance. INTELLIGENCE Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Congressional Record: July 9, 1997 (Senate)] [Page S7042-S7048] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:cr09jy97-117] NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Roberts). Under the previous order, the Senate will now resume consideration of S. 936, which the clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 936) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. [Excerpts] Mr. KERREY. Mr. President, I rise to comment on one of the most important authorization bills to be debated by the Senate each year, the defense authorization bill. In fact, if you consider that the first duty of government is to assure the life and freedom of its people, then this is the most important authorization bill we will take up this year. ... Every human environment is a potential military target or theater of conflict, and that includes the new environment of cyberspace, an environment which is essential to our national security and yet is an environment without international borders or government controls. If we are to defend our communications systems, our transportation systems, our power transmission systems, our medical care delivery systems, we must defend our national information environment, our public networks. Robust encryption is an essential part of the defense of this environment as well as its assured, secure use by consumers, the private sector, and Government. The Secure Public Networks Act, which Senator McCain and I and others have introduced, aims to make set a global as well as a national standard for secure public networks. Our bill serves national defense as well as our commercial interest, and I commend it to my colleagues. ... Mr. THURMOND. Mr. President, I commend the able Senator from Nebraska, who incidentally is the only Member of Congress who is a Congressional Medal of Honor winner, for the excellent statement he just made. It will be very beneficial to the country to hear a statement like that. ... Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, while the Senator from Nebraska is still on the floor, I want to add my voice to my good friend, the chairman of our committee, for his comments about the Senator's remarks. I only wish that every Member of the U.S. Senate could have been here to hear the Senator from Nebraska. It is a comprehensive statement. It is thorough. It is intellectually solid. It is based, most importantly, on experience. There are some times theoretical statements that we hear that do not have that kind of a base and experience. The Senator talked about old values of this country and new threats. He set forth what these new challenges and new threats are. But he also underpinned our commitment as we hope to reflect in this bill with his help the old values which he has so superbly represented throughout his life. I just simply want to thank the Senator from Nebraska for his commitment, for his dedication, for his patriotism, and for taking the time to set forth in a document, as he did this morning, and in speeches he gave this morning, some of the most critical challenges that this Nation faces. ... Mr. GRAMM. Mr. President, let me not miss this opportunity to join our chairman and ranking member in saying good things about our dear friend from Nebraska. I am glad I was over and got to hear part of his speech. ... ---------- For full Kerrey speech and other remarks on S.936: http://jya.com/s936-amend3.txt