98th Congress (1983 - 1984)

January 3, 1983 - November 18, 1983

House Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests, permanent edition, from OCR files

Meeting records for 1983-84 have not yet been added to the U.S. Congressional Committee Meetings Index (4/08).

1983/01/03
Daily Digest - Monday, January 3, 1983; pages D1 - D4 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.



1983/01/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 6, 1983; pages D4 - D6 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.



1983/01/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 25, 1983; pages D6 - D8 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on the Budget: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Education and Labor: Met for organizational purposes. 

LOSS OF HEALTH INSURANCE DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: On January 24, the Committee held a hearing
on loss of health insurance due to unemployment. Testimony was from Alice M.
Rivlin, Director, CBO and witnesses. 



1983/01/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 26, 1983; pages D8 - D10 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings
 
EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT 

Committee on Education and Labor: Held a hearing on H.R. 30, Emergency
Mathematics and Science Education Act. Testimony was heard from
Representatives McCurdy, Wortley, Fuqua and Walgrel public witnesses.
 
Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT 

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Held an oversight hearing on the
programs and policies of the Department of the Interior. Testimony heard from
James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Rules: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight met for organizational
purposes.



1983/01/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 27, 1983; pages D10 - D13 (Bound vol.)

Committee meetings 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
 
Committee on Appropriations: Met for organizational purposes.
 
EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT 

Committee on Education and Labor: Continued hearings on H.R. 30, Emergency
Mathematics and Science Education Act. Testimony was heard from Representative
LaFalce; Floretta McKenzie, Superintendent, Public Schools, District of
Columbia; John Casteen, Secretary of Education, State of Virginia and public
witnesses. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met for organizational purposes.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health met for organizational
purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation met for organizational purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures met for
organizational purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security met for
organizational purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade met for organizational
purposes. 



1983/01/31
Daily Digest - Monday, January 31, 1983; pages D13 - D16 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings 

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT 

Committee on Education and Labor: Concluded hearings on H.R. 30, Emergency
Mathematics and Science Education Act. Testimony was heard from Representative
Dymally; Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education; from the following officials
of the Department of Education, State of Kentucky: Raymon Barber,
Superintendent of Public Instruction and Alice McDonald, Deputy Superintendent
of Public Instruction and public witnesses. 

On January 28, the Committee continued hearing on this legislation. Testimony
was heard from Representative Skelton and public witnesses. 

OVERSIGHT--IMPACT OF UNEMPLOYMENT ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
 
Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor Standards held an
oversight hearing on th impact of unemployment on children and families.
Testimony was heard from Dr. Bailus Walker, Director, Department of Public
Health, State of Michigan; Judge Charles B. Schudson, Children's Court
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and public witnesses.



1983/02/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 1, 1983; pages D16 - D20 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings 

OVERVIEW--FISCAL YEAR 1984 BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Held an overviewing on fiscal year 1984 budget.
Testimony was from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and
Budget; Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury and Martin B. Feldstein,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Met for organizational purposes.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES 

Committee on Education and Labor: Held a hearing on unemployment and its
underlying causes, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1036,
to provide employment opportunities to long-term unemployed individuals in
high unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate vitally needed
community facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R.
999, to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, and improvement of
natural and cultural resources located on public or Indian lands, and H.R.
116, Job Opportunity and Business Stimulation Act. Testimony was heard from a
public witness. 

Hearings continue February 3.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on House Administration: Met for organizational purposes.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
 
Committee on the Judiciary: Met for organizational purposes.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime met for organizational
purposes.

SELECT COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
 
Committee on Rules: Ordered reported H. Res. 16, to establish the Select
Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Miller of California, Mikulski and Boggs.
 
SELECT COMMITTEE ON NARCOTICS ABUSE AND CONTROL
 
Committee on Rules: Ordered reported H. Res. 49, to establish the Select
Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Rangel and Gilman.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Met for organizational purposes.
 
FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Committee on Ways and Means: Held a hearing on proposals to address the
financing problems of the Social Security System. Testimony was heard from
Alan Greenspan, Chairman, and various Commissioners of the National Commission
on Social Security Reform.
 
Hearings continue tomorrow.



1983/02/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 2, 1983; pages D21 - D25 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Consumer Product Safety Commission; Office of Consumer affairs and
Consumer Information Center. Testimony was heard from departmental and agency
witnesses.
 
DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW
 
Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing to review the annual Defense
posture review and to discuss the Defense authorization request for fiscal
year 1984. Testimony was heard from Caspar W. Berger, Secretary of Defense and
Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
 
INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS
 
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Held a hearing on
International Financial Markets and Related Problems. Testimony was heard from
Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Federal Reserve System.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
 
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Met for organizational
purposes.
 
BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984
 
Committee on the Budget: Held a hearing to receive the Administration's view
on President Reagan's budget proposals for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was
heard from Donald T. Regan, Secretary Treasury and Martin Feldstein, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
 
Committee on Energy and Commerce: Met for organizational purposes.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST 

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on recent developments in the Middle East. Testimony was heard from
Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, Department of State. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Met for organizational purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations met for organizational purposes.
 
BANKRUPTCY COURT ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law
concluded hearings on H.R. 3, Bankruptcy Court Act of 1983. Testimony was
heard from Edward C. Schmults, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice;
Judge Elmo B. Hunter, U.S. District Court, Kansas City, Missouri, who is a
member of the Judicial Conference of the United States, and public witnesses.
 
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Met for organizational purposes. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Science and Technology: Met for organizational purposes. 

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM 

Committee on Ways and Means: Continued hearings on proposals to address the
financing problems of the Social Security System. Testimony was heard from
Senators Dole, Heinz and Moynihan; Representatives Wright and Pepper; other
members of the National Commission on Social Security Reform and a public
witness. 

Hearings continue tomorrow.



1983/02/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 3, 1983; pages D25 - D29 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Agriculture: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary held a hearing on Federal Communications Commission, the Federal
Trade Commission, the Marine Mammal Commission and on the Federal Maritime
Commission. Testimony was heard from James C. Miller, III, Chairman, FTC;
James Nofziger, Chairman, Marine Mammal Commission; Alan Green, Jr., Chairman,
Federal Maritime Commission and Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, FCC.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Office of Revenue Sharing and the National Credit Union
Administration. Testimony was heard from Michael Hill, Director, Office of
Revenue Sharing, Department of the Treasury and Edgar F. Callahan, Chairman,
National Credit Union Administration Board.

SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES AND TRENDS

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
briefing on Soviet military capabilities and trends. The Committee was briefed
by John T. Hughes, Deputy Director for Intelligence and External Affairs,
Defense Intelligence Agency.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Investigations met for
organizational purposes.

LESSONS OF THE FALKLANDS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials held a hearing on lessons of the Falklands. Testimony was
heard from John F. Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. William N. Small, Vice
Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. Paul X. Kelly, Assistant Commandant of the
Marine Corps and Capt. John W. Walker, USN, Study Coordinator, Office of
Program Appraisal.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy held a hearing on the role of Monetary Policy in Promoting
Economic Recovery and Employment. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings to receive the Administration's
view on President Reagan's budget proposals for fiscal year 1984. Testimony
was heard from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.

Hearings continue February 8.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on the District of Columbia: Met for organizational purposes.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES; COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Education and Labor: Continued hearings on unemployment and its
underlying causes, including 1036, to provide employment opportunities to
longterm unemployed individuals in high unemployment areas in projects to
repair and renovate vitally needed community facilities; H.R. 777, Full
Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R. 999, to provide for the conservation,
rehabilitation, and improvement of natural and cultural resources located on
public or Indian lands, and H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business Stimulation
Act. Testimony was heard from a public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

The Committee also approved its budget for the first session of the 98th
Congress.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Government Operations: Met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Water Resources
met for organizational purposes.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Science and Technology: Held posture hearings on Office of
Science and Technology Policy fiscal year 1984 budget request and on the NASA
fiscal year 1984 budget request. Testimony was heard from Dr. George Keyworth,
Science Advisor to the President and Director, Office of Science Technology
Policy and the following officials of NASA: James M. Beggs, Administrator and
Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Administrator.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Small Business: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 861,
amended, to extend through fiscal year 1985 SBA pilot programs under section 8
of the Small Business Act and H.R. 1043, to amend section 8(e) of the Small
Business Act.

Prior to this action, the Committee met for organizational purposes.

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Committee on Ways and Means: Concluded hearings on Health and Human Services:
Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary; Robert J. Rubin, Assistant Secretary and John
A. Svahn, Commissioner of Social Security.



1983/02/07
Daily Digest - Monday, February 7, 1983; pages D29 - D32 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Budget Overview and on General Agricultural Outlook. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the USDA: Stephen Dewhurst, Budget Officer and Dr.
William Lesher, Assistant Secretary for Economics.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on Maritime Administration and
on Department of Commerce: International Trade Administration. Testimony was
heard from Harold E. Shear, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department
of Transportation and Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary for International Trade,
Department of Commerce.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Chief of Engineers. Testimony was heard from William R. Gianelli,
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works); Lt. Gen. J. K. Bratton, Chief,
Corps of Engineers and Maj. Gen. John F. Wall, Director of Civil Works.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 4, the Subcommittee on Legislative
held a hearing on the House of Representatives and Joint Items (excluding
Joint Committees).  Testimony was heard from the following officers of the
House of Representatives: Benjamin J. Guthrie, Clerk; Jack Russ, Sergeant at
Arms; James T. Malloy, Doorkeeper and Robert.  V. Rota, Postmaster.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES

Committee on Education and Labor: Continued hearings on unemployment and its
underlying causes, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1036,
to provide employment opportunities to longterm unemployed individuals in high
unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate vitally needed community
facilities: H.R. 777, Full Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R. 999, American
Conservation Corps Act of 1983; H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business
Stimulation Act; H.R. 1060, to provide employment opportunities to long-term
unemployed individuals in high-unemployment areas in conjunction with job
training in occupations and skilled trades which are essential to rebuilding
or maintenance of the national infrastructure or which are necessary to or
related to defense preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend the Public Works and
Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act
of 1965. Testimony was heard from a public witness.

On February 4, the Committee continued hearings on this subject. Testimony was
heard from a public witness.

EL SALVADOR CERTIFICATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: On February 4, the Subcommittee on Western
Hemisphere Affairs held a hearing on El Salvador Certification. Testimony was
heard from Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State.

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security continued
hearings on proposals to address the financing problems of the Social Security
System. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

On February 4, the Subcommittee began hearings on this matter. Testimony was
heard from Representatives Schulze, Walker, Conyers, Whitehurst, Bedell,
Oakar, Ferraro, Stenholm, Tauke, Daub, Wyden, Clarke, Evans of Illinois and
Smith of Florida.



1983/02/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 8, 1983; pages D32 - D35 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture met for organizational purposes.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Farm Credit Administration. Testimony was heard from Donald E. Wilkinson,
Governor, Farm Credit Administration.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on Securities and Exchange
Commission, on International Trade Commission and on Board fo International
Broadcasting. Testimony was heard from John S. R. Shad, Chairman, SEC; Alfred
X. Eckes, Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission and Frank Shakespeare,
Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1984 Defense Posture. Testimony was heard from Caspar W. Weinberger,
Secretary of Defense and Gen. John W. Vessey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on Corps of Engineers, in particular on Lower Mississippi
Valley Division. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. William E. Read, Division
Engineer.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on the Veterans' Administration. Testimony was heard from Harry
Walters, Administrator, VA.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held hearings on Fine
Arts Commission, on the National Gallery of Art, on the National Capital
Planning Commission and on the Office of Federal Inspector. Testimony was
heard from J. Carter Brown, Chairman, Fine Arts Commission and Director,
National Gallery of Art; Helen Scharf, Chairman, National Capital Planning
Commission and John T. Rhett, Federal Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislation held a hearing on GAO
and CBO. Testimony was heard from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, GAO
and Alice M. Rivlin, Director, CBO.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Continued hearings on
International Financial Markets and Related Problems. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings to receive the Administration's
view on President Reagan's budget proposals for fiscal year 1984. Testimony
was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

Committee on the District of Columbia: Held a hearing on Washington
Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority and bus reliability in the District
of Columbia. Testimony was heard from Thomas Downs, Director, Public Works,
District of Columbia; Richard Page, Director, Washington Metropolitan Area
Transportation Authority and a public witness.

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT; UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS
UNDERLYING CAUSES

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported H.R. 1310, to provide
assistance to improve elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education in
mathematics and science, to provide a national policy for engineering,
technical, and scientific personnel, to provide for cost-sharing by the
private sector in training such personnel.

The Committee also continued hearings on unemployment and its underlying
causes, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1036, to provide
employment opportunities to long-term unemployed individuals in high
unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate vitally needed community
facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R. 999, American
Conservation Corps Act of 1983; H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business
Stimulation Act; H.R. 1060, to provide employment opportunities to long-term
unemployed individuals in high-unemployment areas in conjunction with job
training in occupations and skilled trades which are essential to rebuilding
or maintenance of the national infrastructure or which are necessary to or
related to defense preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend the Public Works and
Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act
of 1965. Testimony was heard from a public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
an oversight hearing on institutional accreditation. Testimony was heard from
Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education and public witnesses.

Hearings continue February 10.

THIRD WORLD DEBT SITUATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on the Third World Debt
Situation. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

AMERICAN CONSERVATION CORPS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee action H.R. 999, American
Conservation Corps Act of 1983.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Richard R. Hite, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Policy Budget, and Administration, Department of the Interior;
Jerome A. Miles, Deputy Chief for Administration, Forest Service, USDA; Thomas
Ripley, Manager, Office of Natural Resources, TVA and public witnesses.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight met for organizational purposes.

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Water Resources
held a hearing on proposed Corps of Engineers Water Resources Projects.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers: Maj. Gen. John F. Wall, Director of Civil Works; Col. William T.
Kirkpatrick, Assistant Director of Civil Works, Atlantic; Col. Charles T.
Myers, Assistant Director of Civil Works, Lower Mississippi and Gulf, and Col.
Dwayne G. Lee, Assistant Director of Civil Works, Upper Mississippi Basin.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Rules: Approved Committee budget for the first session of the
98th Congress.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Science and Technology: Continued posture hearings, with emphasis
on fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy budget request. Testimony was heard
from Donald Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications and the Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation and Materials
held a joint hearing on NASA authorization for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of NASA: C. Thomas Newman, Comptroller; S.
Neil Hosenball, General Counsel; Billie J. McGarvey, Director of Facilities
and Walter B. Olstad, Associate Administrator for Management.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials met for organizational purposes.

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ISSUES

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation held a hearing on unemployment compensation issues
and legislative proposals pertaining to the expiration of the Federal
Supplemental Benefits program and the solvency of State and Federal
unemployment trust funds. Testimony was heard from John Cogan, Assistant
Secretary for Policy, Department of Labor; Representatives Oberstar, Oakar and
Eckart and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security continued hearing
on proposals to address the financing problems of the Social Security System.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met for organizational purposes.



1983/02/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 10, 1983; pages D35 - D39 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN AGRICULTURE; ADMINISTRATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Agriculture: On February 9, the Committee held a hearing to
review economic conditions in agriculture and Administration proposals for the
fiscal year 1984 Department of Agriculture budget. Testimony was heard from
John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Agriculture
held a hearing on Inspector General Overview and on Office of the Inspector
General. Testimony was heard from John Graziano, Inspector General, USDA.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Commerce,
Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on Department
of Justice; Drug Enforcement Administration; on Chrysler Loan Guarantee
Program (Admin. Expen.); on Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
and on Department of State. Testimony was heard from Representative Fascell,
Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe; Lacklan W. Seward,
Director, Office of Chrysler Finance, Chrysler Loan Guarantee Program; from
the following officials of the Department of State: William L. Slayton, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Foreign Buildings Operations; Nicholas A. Veliotes,
Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Thomas M.
Tracy, Assistant Secretary for Administration, and Francis J. Mullen, Acting
Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on World-wide Intelligence Overview. Testimony was heard
from William Casey, Director, CIA.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on Corps of Engineers, in particular on South Atlantic
Division. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen. Forrest T. Gay, III, Division
Engineer.

On February 9, the Subcommittee continued hearings on this subject. Testimony
was heard from Brig. Gen. Scott B. Smith, Division Engineer, North Central
Division; Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Sands, Division Engineer, North Atlantic
Division and Col. Carl B. Sciple, Division Engineer, New England Division.

Hearings continue February 14.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 9, the Subcommittee on
HUD-Independent Agencies concluded hearings on the Veterans' Administration.
Testimony was heard from Harry Walters, Administrator, VA.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on Energy
Information Administration-Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from
Erich Evered, Administrator, Energy Information Administration, Department of
Energy.

On February 9, the Subcommittee held hearings on Pennsylvania Avenue
Corporation and on Woodrow Wilson International Center, for Scholars.
Testimony as heard from Henry Berliner, Chairman of the Board, Pennsylvania
Avenue Corporation and James H. Billington, Director, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and
Education approved for full Committee action the Department of Labor Urgent
Supplemental, fiscal year 1983.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the Supplemental
request. Testimony was heard from William Lewis, Administrator of Employment,
Office of Security, Department of Labor.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Legislative
held a hearing on Library of Congress. Testimony was heard from Daniel J.
Boorstin, Librarian of Congress.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on fiscal year 1984 Defense Budget Overview. Testimony was heard from
John R. Quetsch, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller).

On February 9, the Subcommittee held a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Military
Construction Overview. Testimony was heard from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant
Secretary of Defense; Joel E. Bonner, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army;
Chapman B. Cox, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Tidal W. McCoy,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.

On February 9, the Subcommittee also met in executive session to hold a
hearing on Intelligence Overview/Soviet Threat. Testimony was heard from
representatives of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

TREASURY APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on Supplemental Requests for fiscal year 1983 for
the following: Office of Personnel Management; Office of Management and
Budget; Merit Systems Protection Board and GSA.

Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

On February 9, the Subcommittee held a hearing on U.S. Postal Service.
Testimony was heard from William F. Bolger, Postmaster General.

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MARKETS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: On February 9, the Committee
concluded hearings on International Financial Markets and Related Problems.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy met for organizational purposes.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings on the Administration's budget
proposals for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Representative Ford
of Michigan and public witnesses.

On February 9, the Committee continued hearings on this subject, with emphasis
on appropriate levels of defense spending in fiscal year 1984 and beyond.
Testimony was heard from Gen. David C. Jones (Ret.), former Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue February 16.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES

Committee on Education and Labor: Continued hearings on unemployment and its
underlying causes, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1036,
to provide employment opportunities to longterm unemployed individuals in high
unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate vitally needed community
facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R. 999, American
Conservation Corps Act of 1983; H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business
Stimulation Act; H.R. 1060, to provide employment opportunities to long-term
unemployed individuals in high-unemployment areas in conjunction with job
training in occupations and skilled trades which are essential to rebuilding
or maintenance of the national infrastructure or which are necessary to or
related to defense preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend the Public Works and
Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act
of 1965. Testimony was heard from Ray Marshall, former Secretary of Labor.

On February 9, the Committee continued hearings on this subject. Testimony was
heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue February 23.

ASBESTOS VICTIMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor Standards held a
hearing on the effect of the bankruptcy cases of several asbestos companies on
the compensation of asbestos victims. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education,
continued oversight hearings on institutional accreditation. Testimony was
heard from Gordon M. Amback, Commissioner of Education, State of New York and
public witnesses.

On February 9, the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held an oversight
hearing on the truth-in-lending provisions of the Student Financial Assistance
Technical Amendments Act of 1982. Testimony was heard from Dr. Edward
Elmerdorf, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, Department of
Education and public witnesses.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Commerce: On February 9, the Committee approved the
Committee budget for the first session of the 98th Congress.

NATURAL GAS PRICE INCREASES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
held a hearing on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's authority to
restrain natural gas price increases. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy:
C. M. Butler, III, Chairman; David Hughes, Anthony Sousa and Oliver G.
Richard, III all Commissioners.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
met in executive session for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice and Agriculture met for organizational purposes.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Office Systems met to
consider pending business.

COMMITTEE BUDGET; AMERICAN CONSERVATION CORPS ACT; WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported H.R. 999, American
Conservation Corps Act of 1983.

The Committee also approved a resolution regarding certain wilderness study
areas Administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

On February 9, the Committee approved the Committee budget for the first
session of the 98th Congress. The Committee also began consideration of a
resolution regarding certain wilderness study areas Administered by the Bureau
of Land Management.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining, Forest
Management, and Bonneville Power Administration held an oversight hearing on
Department of Interior Energy and Minerals Programs and Plans, and Impacts on
Domestic Companies from International Monetary Fund Loans. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of the Interior: Daniel Miller,
Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals; Robert Horton, Director, Bureau
of Mines and Dallas Peck, Director, U.S. Geological Survey and Tom Dawson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations, Department of the Treasury.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Administrative
Law and Governmental Relations held an oversight hearing on Air Disaster
Litigation legislation. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Civil and
Constitutional Rights held an oversight hearing on the Secret Service and
their use of the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of Justice: Theodore Olson,
Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel and David F. Nemecek,
Chief, National Crime Information Center, FBI; Jerry S. Parr, Assistant
Director, Protective Research, U.S. Secret Service, Department of the Treasury
and a public witness.

Hearings continue February 16.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Immigration,
Refugees and International Law met for organizational purposes.

BANKRUPTCY COURT ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commerical Law
approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 3, Bankruptcy Court Act of
1983.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION; COMMITTEE BUDGET; REPORT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: On February 9, the Committee met
for organizational purposes; approved Committee budget for the first session
of the 98th Congress, and approved an oversight report entitled, "Clarifying
Government Cargo Preference Laws."

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation met in executive session for organizational purposes.

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: On February 9, the Subcommittee
on Water Resources continued hearings on proposed Corps of Engineers Water
Resources Projects. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Col. Charles T. Myers, Assistant Director of
Civil Works, Lower Mississippi and Gulf and Col. James P. Oppenheim, Assistant
Director of Civil Works, Pacific.

Hearings continue February 15.

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Science and Technology: On February 9, the Committee held a
hearing on H.R. 1310, to provide assistance to improve elementary, secondary,
and postsecondary education in mathematics and science, to provide a national
policy for engineering, technical, and scientific personnel, to provide for
cost-sharing by the private sector in training such personnel. Testimony was
heard from Representatives Simon and Perkins.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: On February 9, the Subcommittee on
Investigations and Oversight met in executive session for organizational
purposes.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications held a hearing on NASA authorization fiscal year 1984. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of NASA: Robert Smylie, Associate
Administrator, Office of Space Tracking and Data Systems; Jack Kerrebrock,
Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology; Robert
Allnutt, Associate Administrator, Office of External Affairs and Ronald
Phillips, Director, Technology Utilization and Industry Affairs Division.

NASA AERONAUTICS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: On February 9, the Subcommittee on
Transportation, Aviation and materials held a hearing on NASA Aeronautics
authorization fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Jack Kerrebrock,
Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology, NASA.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight met for organizational
purposes.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORMS AND SSI RECIPIENTS; UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ISSUES

Committee on Ways and Means: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Public
Assistance and Unemployment Compensation held a hearing on elements in the
Report of the National Commission on Social Security Reform that affect SSI
Recipients. Testimony was heard from the following members of the National
Commission on Social Security Reform: Representative Pepper and Robert Ball,
and Louis D. Enoff, Deputy to the Deputy Commissioner of Social Security,
Department of Health and Human Services.

On February 9, the Subcommittee concluded hearings on unemployment
compensation issues and legislative proposals pertaining to the expiration of
the Federal Supplemental Benefits program and the solvency of State and
Federal unemployment trust funds. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Bliley and Wise; James Blanchard, Governor of Michigan; Dick Thornburgh,
Governor of Pennsylvania and public witnesses.

FINANCING PROBLEMS OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

Committee on Ways and Means: On February 9, the Subcommittee on Social
Security concluded hearings on proposals to address the financing problems of
the Social Security System. Testimony was heard from Representative Florio and
public witnesses.



1983/02/14
Daily Digest - Monday, February 14, 1983; pages D39 - D41 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Corps of Engineers, Southwestern Division, and North Pacific
Division. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Hugh G. Robinson, Division
Engineer, and Brig. Gen. James W. Van Loben Sels, Division Engineer.

COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on the commodity distribution
program. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining, Forest, and
Bonneville Power Administration held a hearing on the Bonneville Power
Administration. Testimony was heard from Peter Johnson, Administrator, BPA,
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OREGON WILDERNESS LANDS

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held a hearing on H.R. 1149, to designate certain National
Forest System and other lands in the State of Oregon for inclusion in the
National Wilderness Preservation System. Testimony was heard from
Representatives AuCoin and Wyden, John Crowell Jr., Assistant Secretary for
Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Agriculture, and public
witnesses.

PAYMENT SYSTEMS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health held a hearing on medicare
hospital prospective payment systems. Testimony was heard from Representative
Wyden and public witnesses.



1983/02/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 15, 1983; pages D41 - D45 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

USDA BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on Agriculture: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the Budget met to consider
the 1984 budget proposals for the Department of Agriculture and related
agencies. Testimony was heard from officials of the USDA.

Will continue tomorrow.

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: On February 14, the Subcommittee on Conservation,
Credit, and Rural Development held a hearing on H.R. 1190, Emergency
Agricultural Credit Act. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
USDA: Frank Naylor, Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development
and Charles Schuman, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, and Terry
Frederickson, Senior Deputy Governor, Farm Credit Administration.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture continued hearings on
Agriculture appropriations. Testimony was heard from John R. Block, Secretary
of Agriculture.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1984 Air Force Budget. Testimony was heard from the following officials
of the U.S. Air Force: Verne Orr, Secretary and Gen. Charles A. Gabriel, Chief
of Staff.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on Corps of Engineers. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen.
R. S. Kem, Division Engineer, Ohio River Division and Brig. Gen. Mark J.
Sisinyak, Division Engineer, Missouri River Division.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Office of Science and Technology Policy and on National Science
Foundation. Testimony was heard from Dr. George A. Keyworth II, Director,
Office of Science and Technology Policy and Dr. Edward Knapp, Director, NSF.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
following: Resource Management; Bureau of Land Management; Fish and Wildlife
Service; National Park Service; Forest Service; Smithsonian, Land and Water
Conservation Fund and Historic Preservation. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative held a hearing on
Architect of the Capitol; Botanic Garden. Testimony was heard from George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on military posture and the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Army: John 0. Marsh, Jr.,
Secretary and Gen. E. C. Meyer, Chief of Staff.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the commodity
distribution program. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

BOXING SAFETY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and
Tourism held a hearing on boxing safety. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

WORLD FOOD SITUATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on World Food Situation,
Agriculture Export Promotion and Public Law 480. Testimony was heard from John
R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture.

U.S. POLICY TOWARD NAMIBIA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing on U.S.
Policy Toward Namibia and Regional Destabilization in Southern Africa.
Testimony was heard from Representative Gray and Chester A. Crocker, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State.

BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining, Forest
Management, and Bonneville Power Administration continued oversight hearings
on the Bonneville Power Administration and also considered proposed
legislation creating a special investigator to investigate BPA's involvement
with Washington Public Power Supply System. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee action as amended the following
bills: H.R. 1213, to amend certain provisions of law relating to units of the
national park system and other public lands; and H.R. 174, "Gladys Noon
Spellman Parkway."

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on these measures.
Testimony was heard from Representative Hoyer; Gary E. Cargill, Associate
Deputy Chief, National Forest System, Forest Service, USDA; from the following
officials of the Department of the Interior: Russell Dickenson, Director,
National Park Service, James M. Parker, Associate Director, Bureau of Land
Management, and Manus J. Fish, Regional Director, National Capital Region,
National Park Service and a public witness.

BANKRUPTCY COURT ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported amended H.R. 3, Bankruptcy Court
Act of 1983.

EPA ADMINISTRATION OF THE SUPERFUND LAW

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Held a hearing on the EPA's
Administration of the Superfund Law. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of EPA: John E. Daniel, Chief of Staff; Robert M. Perry, Associate
Administrator and General Counsel; Albert Brashear, Chief, News Media
Relations Branch, Richard C. Hoffman, Deputy Chief, News Media Relations
Branch and Christian Rice, Public Information Officer, all with the Office of
Public Affairs.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT AND APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development held a hearing on H.R. 10, and related bills, to amend the Public
Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional
Development Act of 1965. Testimony was heard from Carlos C. Campbell,
Assistant Secretary for Economic Development, Department of Commerce and
public witnesses.

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Water Resources
continued hearings on proposed Corps of Engineers Water Resources Projects.
Testimony was heard from Representative Wise and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

PAYMENT SYSTEMS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health concluded hearings on
medicare hospital prospective payment systems. Testimony was heard from
Representative Gephardt; Carolyne K. Davis, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and public
witnesses.

CUSTOMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on U.S.
Customs authorization for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from
departmental and public witnesses.



1983/02/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 16, 1983; pages D45 - D50 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

USDA BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on Agriculture. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the Budget approved
recommendations to the full Committee on the fiscal year 1984 budget proposals
for the Department of Agriculture and related agencies.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Food Safety and Inspection Service. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of USDA: John Ford, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Marketing and
Inspection Service and Donald L. Houston, Administrator, Food Safety and
Inspection Service.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1984 Army Budget. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of the Army: John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary and Gen. E. C. Meyer,
Chief of Staff.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
concluded hearings on Corps of Engineers. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen.
John F. Wall, Director of Civil Works; Brig. Gen. Homer Johnstone, Division
Engineer, South Pacific Division and Brig. Gen. Robert M. Bunker, Division
Engineer, Pacific Ocean Division.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on National Science Foundation. Testimony was heard from
Dr. Edward Knapp, Director, NSF.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Department of Energy Strategic Petroleum Reserve fiscal year 1983 deferral.
Testimony was heard from William Vaughan, Assistant Secretary, Environmental
Protection Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

The Subcommittee also continued hearings on the following: Resource
Management; Bureau of Land Management; Fish and Wildlife Service; National
Park Service; Forest Service; Smithsonian, Land and Water Conservation Fund
and Historic Preservation. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative held a hearing on
Joint Committee on Taxation and GPO. Testimony was heard from Representative
Rostenkowski, Chairman, Joint Committee on Taxation and Danford Sawyer, Public
Printer, GPO.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction met in
executive session to hold a hearing on facilities access, South West Area.
Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Richard V. Secord, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense; Maj. Gen. Click D. Smith, Jr., Office of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff and Brig. Gen. Joseph Ahearn, U.S. Air Force.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on pending reprogrammings., Testimony was
heard from Alan M. Carton, Office, Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army; Capt.
Richard Lowery, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, U.S. Navy and Brig. Gen.
Joseph Ahearn, U.S. Air Force.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
worldwide intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by William J.
Casey, Director, CIA.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on military posture and the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the economic
outlook as it pertains to the Defense budget. Testimony was heard from Alice
M. Rivlin, Director, CBO.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings on the Administration's budget
proposals for fiscal year 1984, with emphasis on proposals for DOD. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Caspar W.
Weinberger, Secretary and Gen. John Vessey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

STATE OF WORLD AND FOREIGN AID REQUEST

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on State of World and Foreign Aid
Request. Testimony was heard from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.

CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Compensation and
Employee Benefits held a hearing on the Civil Service Retirement System.
Testimony was heard from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.

Hearings continue March 3.

EPA ADMINISTRATION OF THE SUPERFUND LAW

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Continued hearings on the EPA's
Administration of the Superfund Law. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the EPA: Robert M. Perry, Associate Administrator and General
Counsel; Albert Brashear, Chief, News Media Relations Branch, Office of Public
Affairs; Richard C. Hoffman, Deputy Chief, News Media Relations Branch, Office
of Public Affairs; Christian Rice, Public Information Officer, Office of
Public Affairs; Michael Kosakowski, Acting Chief, Compliance Branch, Office of
Waste Programs Enforcement and Fred Stiehl, Deputy Associate Enforcement
Counsel.

BUDGET ESTIMATES; COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds held a hearing on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from George M. White, Architect of the Capitol; Richard O.
Haase, Commissioner, Public Building Service, GSA; Phillip S. Hughes, Under
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; Russell E. Dickenson, Director, National
Park Service, Department of the Interior; Thomas R. Kendrick, Director of
Operations, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the following
officials of the Department of the Treasury: J. Robert McBrien, Deputy for
Security Affairs and Crisis Management, Office of Enforcement and Operations
and Harvey Pryor, Chief, Secret Service Uniformed Division.

Prior to this hearing, the Subcommittee met for organizational purposes.

WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Water Resources
continued hearings on proposed Corps of Engineers Water Resources Projects.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Brooks, Edwards of Alabama, Lehman of
Florida and Bethune and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Science and Technology: Held a hearing on H.R. 1310, Emergency
Mathematics and Science Education Act. Testimony was heard from Representative
Goodling, Wirth and Corrada and public witnesses.

VETERANS' BENEFITS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care held
a hearing on per diem rates payable by the VA to State Veterans Homes and on
the provision of health care for eligible veterans in Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands. Testimony was heard from Representatives Sawyer and Corrada;
Everett Alvarez, Deputy Administrator, VA and representatives of various
service organizations.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation began markup of unemployment issues and SSI.

Will continue tomorrow.



1983/02/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 17, 1983; pages D50 - D55 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on military posture and the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the economic
outlook as it pertains to the Defense budget. Testimony was heard from John
Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Gen. Robert H. Barrow, Commandant of the Marine
Corps and Adm. J. D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations.

Hearings continue February 23.

U.S. EMPLOYMENT IN THE 80's

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a hearing on U.S. Employment Picture in the 80's. Testimony
was heard from Janet Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings on the Administration's budget
proposals for fiscal year 1984, with emphasis on proposals for DOD. Testimony
was heard from the following: Gen. Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army;
Adm. J. D. Watkins, Chief, Naval Operations; Gen. Charles A. Gabriel, Chief of
Staff, U.S. Air Force; Gen. Robert H. Barrow, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue February 23.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on migrant education. Testimony
was heard from public witnesses.

STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
held a hearing on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and associated energy
emergency planning. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Energy: William Vaughan, Assistant Secretary for Environmental
Protection, Safety, and Emergency Preparedness; Richard Furega, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for SPR and Ronald L. Winkler, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Energy Emergencies; RAdm. W. J. Ryan, Defense Fuel Supply Center, Cameron
Station; Kevin Boland, Senior Associate Director for Energy and Minerals, GAO
and public witnesses.

NUCLEAR ARMS CONTROL

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on Nuclear Arms Control.
Testimony was heard from James George, Acting Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency; Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary for International
Security Policy, Department of Defense; RAdm. Jonathan T. Howe, Director,
Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment held an oversight hearing on Office of Surface Mining budget:
Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund. Testimony was heard from John D. Rockefeller,
IV, Governor, State of West Virginia; Ed Herschler, Governor, State of
Wyoming; James R. Harris, Director, Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement, Department of Interior and public witnesses.

OREGON WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1149, Oregon
Wilderness Act of 1983.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held an oversight hearing on
coordination of drug enforcement efforts. Testimony was heard from Senator
Biden; Representative Bennett; Dr. Carlton Turner, Director, Drug Abuse Policy
Office, The White House and William J. Anderson, Director, General Government
Division, GAO.

VA BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Held a hearing on the proposed VA budget for
fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Harry Walters, Administrator, VA
and representatives of veterans' organizations.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation approved an extension of the Federal Supplemental
Compensation program.

The Subcommittee also continued markup of SSI.



1983/02/21
Daily Digest - Monday, February 21, 1983; pages D55 - D56 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.



1983/02/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 22, 1983; pages D56 - D62 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

PESTICIDE PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture held a hearing to review the pesticide program report.
Testimony was heard from Dr. John A. Todhunter, Assistant Administrator for
Pesticides and Toxic Substances, EPA; Dr. Edward N. Brandt, Assistant
Secretary for Health, Department of Health and Human Services and a public
witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Testimony was heard from
J. Dawson Ahalt, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Secretary of the Interior; Bureau of Reclamation; Delaware River
Basin Commission; Susquehanna River Basin Commission and the Interstate
Commission on the Potomac River Basin. Testimony was heard from James G. Watt,
Secretary of the Interior; R. N. Broadbent, Commissioner, Bureau of
Reclamation, Department of the Interior; George J. Kanuck, U.S. Commissioner,
Delaware River Basin Commission; Warner M. Depuy, U.S. Commissioner,
Susquehanna River Basin Commission and Joseph D. Gebhardt, Federal
Commissioner and Chairman, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on American Battle Monuments Commission and Cemeterial Expenses, Army.
Testimony was heard from agency witnesses.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor HHS and Education held a
hearing on Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; Occupational
Safety and Health Review Commission and Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Testimony
was heard from Robert A. Roland, Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health
Review Commission; Rosemary Collyer, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health
Review Commission and Lt. Gen. George H. McKee, Governor, Soldiers' and
Airmen's Home.

NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials held a hearing on H.R. 33, to transfer management of the
national defense stockpile to the Secretary of Defense. Testimony was heard
from Dr. John D. Morgan, Chief Staff Officer, Bureau of Mines, Department of
the Interior; Richard E. Donnelly, Director, Industrial Resources, Department
of Defense; John R. Brinkerhoff, Acting Associate Director for National
Preparedness Program, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Carroll F. Jones,
Commissioner, Federal Property Resources Service, GSA and public witnesses.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance held a hearing on mortgage
foreclosures. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AMERICAN CONSERVATION CORPS ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 999,
American Conservation Corps Act of 1983.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on the impact of the
Administration's fiscal year 1984 budget proposals on the Indian Education
Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety held on
oversight hearing on the Mine Safety and Health Act. Testimony was heard from
a public witness.

Hearings continue March 1.

PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN INSURANCE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and
Tourism held a hearing on H.R. 100, to prohibit discrimination in insurance on
the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Testimony was
heard from Representatives Dingell and Schroeder; from the following officials
of the Department of Labor: Timothy Ryan, Jr., Solicitor; Diane Berkeley,
Special Assistant to the Solicitor and Dr. Marguerite Connerton, Economist,
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue February 24.

NATURAL GAS PURCHASE CONTRACT RENEGOTIATIONS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
held a hearing on natural gas purchase contract renegotiations: near-term gas
price and supply projections. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
met in executive session to receive testimony from EPA employees.

FOREIGN MILITARY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on the Executive Branch request
for foreign military assistance. Testimony was heard from Caspar W.
Weinberger, Secretary of Defense.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations held an
oversight hearing on the UNISPACE and International Telecommunications Union
Conferences. Testimony was heard from Diana Lady Dougan, Coordinator Designate
for International Telecommunications and Information Policy, Department of
State; James M. Beggs, Administrator, NASA; Kalmann Schaeffer, Assistant to
the Chairman for International Communications, FCC and a public witness.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 and 1985 budget
requests for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Testimony was heard from
Nunzio Palladino, Chairman, and the following Commissioners of the NRC: Victor
Gilinsky, John F. Ahearne, Thomas M. Roberts, and James K. Asselstine; and a
public witness.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held an oversight hearing on the fiscal year 1984 budget
requests for the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the Pennsylvania
Avenue Development Corporation and the Building Museum. Testimony was heard
from Robert Garvey, Jr., Executive Director, Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation; Thomas J. Regan, Jr., Executive Director, Pennsylvania Avenue
Development Corporation; David Childs, President, Board of Directors, National
Building Museum and Bates Lowry, Director, National Building Museum.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Water and Power
Resources met for organizational purposes.

BUDGET BRIEFING

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment held a budget briefing on the
National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Testimony was heard from
William G. Gordon, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine
Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce; Robert A Jantzen, Director, Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Science and Technology: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1310,
Emergency Mathematics and Science Education Act.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production began hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy budget
request, with emphasis on Nuclear Fission Overview, Breeder Reactor Program
and Nuclear Fuel Cycle R&D. Testimony was heard from Shelby T. Brewer,
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications continued hearings on NASA Authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of NASA: Bert Edelson,
Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications and Gen. Lew Allen,
Director, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURE

Committee on Ways and Means: Began markup of Social Security financing
legislation.

Will continue tomorrow.

GATT MINISTERIAL MEETING

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on the
results of the GATT ministerial meeting and the future of the multilateral
trading system. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, U.S. Trade
Representative.



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Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 23, 1983; pages D62 - D69 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Agriculture: Approved budget recommendations for March 15 report
to the Committee on the Budget.

PESTICIDE PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture concluded hearings to review the pesticide program report.
Testimony was heard from Edwin L. Johnson, Director, Office of Pesticide
Programs, EPA and public witnesses.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Agricultural Research Service. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of USDA: Orville G. Bentley, Assistant Secretary, Science and
Education and Terry B. Kinney, Administrator, Agricultural Research Service.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on Energy and Water Development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Donald Paul Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD/ Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and on Selective Service.
Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, Director, Selective
Service System.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on Bureau
of Indian Affairs. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor HHS and Education held a
hearing on Corporation for Public Broadcasting; on National Labor Relations
Board and on National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Testimony was heard from Sharon Rockeller, Chairman of the Board, Corporation
for Public Broadcasting and other departmental witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on Quality of Life in the Military, and on Energy Conservation,
Pollution Abatement, Safety, and Medical Programs. Testimony was heard from
Lt. Gen. R. D. Tice, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; Maj. Gen. Charles
C. Rogers, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, U.S. Army, Europe; Sgt. Major
of the Army, William A. Connelly; Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy,
Billy C. Sanders; Sgt. Major of the Marine Corps, Leland D. Crawford; Chief
Master Sgt. of the Air Force, Arthur L. Andrews; Capt. Mary J. Mayer,
Executive Secretary of Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service;
Warrant Officer Dorothy J. Cummings, Administrative Chief for Military
Personnel Center, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; Robert A. Stone, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; Maj. Gen. Norman G.
Delbridge, Jr., Assistant Chief of Army Engineers; RAdm. William M. Zobel,
Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command and Maj. Gen. C. D. Wright,
Director for Engineering and Services, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
Transportation appropriations. Testimony was heard from Elizabeth Dole,
Secretary of Transportation.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on military posture and the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the U.S. Air Force: Verne Orr, Secretary and Gen.
Charles A. Gabriel, Chief of Staff.

MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions Supervision, Regulation and Insurance concluded hearings on
mortgage foreclosures. Testimony was heard from Richard T. Pratt, Chairman,
Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Edgar F. Callahan, Chairman, National Credit
Union Administration and. Preston Martin, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve
Board.

RURAL HOUSING PROGRAMS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development held a hearing on the Administration's proposed changes
in the operations of the rural housing programs administered by the Farmers
Home Administration. Testimony was heard from Charles Shuman, Administrator,
Farmers Home Administration, USDA.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings on the Administration's budget
proposals for fiscal year 1984, with emphasis on Administration's budget
proposals for Department of Defense. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Defense: Paul Thayer, Deputy Secretary and
Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary and public witnesses.

UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES

Committee on Education and Labor: Continued hearings on unemployment and its
underlying causes, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 1036,
to provide employment opportunities to longterm unemployed individuals in high
unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate vitally needed community
facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work Opportunity Act; H.R. 116, Job
Opportunity and Business Stimulation Act; H.R. 1060, to provide employment
opportunities to long-term unemployed individuals in high-unemployment areas
in conjunction with job training in occupations and skilled trades which are
essential to rebuilding or maintenance of the national infrastructure or which
are necessary to or related to defense preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend
the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian
Regional Development Act of 1965. Testimony was heard from Representative Wise
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 9.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
an oversight hearing on draft registration regulations and student financial
assistance. Testimony was heard from Representatives Edgar, Schroeder and
Foglietta; Edward Elmendorf, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education,
Department of Education and Maj. Gen. Thomas K. Turnage, Director, Selective
Service System.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SUBPENA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power voted to issue a subpena to the Power Authority of the State of New
York, John Dyson, Chairman.

ENERGY CONSERVATION DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on H.R. 1398, the Energy Conservation Daylight Savings
Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Richard F. Walsh, Director, Office of
Economics, Department of Transportation; Larry Eads, Chief, Audio Services
Division, Mass Media Bureau, FCC and public witnesses.

NIH REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on NIH reauthorization. Testimony was heard from Representative
Pepper; Dr. Edward N. Brandt, Assistant Secretary for Health, Department of
Health and Human Services and public witnesses.

ALASKA NORTH SLOPE CRUDE OIL PRODUCERS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
held a hearing on the windfall profit tax and product marketing consequences
of the wellhead pricing practices of Alaska North Slope crude oil producers.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH AUTHORIZATION REQUESTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on the Executive Branch
authorization requests for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from M. Peter
McPherson, Administrator, AID and Loret M. Ruppe, Director, Peace Corps.

MILITARY AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO ASIA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's proposed military and economic assistance for
Asia. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of
State: Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific
Affairs and Howard Schaeffer, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near
Eastern and South Asian Affairs; Charles Greenleaf, Assistant Administrator
for Asia, AID and Commodore Stewart Ring, Director, East Asian Affairs,
Department of Defense.

AUTHORIZATION REQUESTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations held a
hearing on authorization requests for fiscal year 1984 and 1985 for the
Department of State, the USIA, the Board of International Broadcasting and the
Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was heard from George P. Schultz,
Secretary of State.

CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRANSFER POLICY

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs held a hearing to review worldwide conventional arms
transfer policy. Testimony was heard from Representative Hall of Ohio and
public witnesses.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Met and considered pending business.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met and considered
funding resolutions for the following Committees: House Administration; Armed
Services; Interior and Insular Affairs and Public Works and Transportation.

GLADYS NOON SPELLMAN PARKWAY; PUBLIC LANDS AND NATIONAL PARKS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported as amended the
following bills: H.R. 174, the Gladys Noon Spellman Parkway and H.R. 1213,
Public Lands and National Parks Act of 1983.

The Committee also began markup of H.R. 1149, Oregon Wilderness Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations held an oversight hearing on the Foreign Claims
Settlement Commission. Testimony was heard from David Rogers, General Counsel,
Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on correctional policy.
Testimony was heard from Norman A. Carlson, Director, Bureau' of Prisons,
Department of Justice, and public witnesses.

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held a hearing on H.R. 1338,
Justice Assistance Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Stanley E. Morris,
Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, and public
witnesses.

Hearings continue March 9.

VESSEL DAMAGE CLAIMS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer
Continental Shelf held a hearing to review the Panama Canal Commission's
recommendations for settlement on three vessel damage claims submitted to the
Congress. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Panama Canal
Commission: Mike Rhode, Jr., Secretary and Dwight McKabney, General Counsel
and public witnesses.

FAA AND CAB BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation held a
hearing on the fiscal year 1984 administration budget proposals for the FAA
and the CAB. Testimony was heard from J. Lynn Helms, Administrator, FAA, and
Elizabeth E. Bailey, Vice-Chairman, CAB.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight met in executive session to consider pending business.

GAO REPORT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight and the Subcommittee on Water Resources held a joint hearing on
the contents of a GAO Report entitled, "Water Project Construction Backlog--A
Serious Problem With No Easy Solution." Testimony was heard from J. Dexter
Peach, Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, GAO
and William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary (Civil Works), Department of the
Army.

BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held a hearing on the Administration's budget proposals.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of
Transportation: Arthur E. Teele, Jr., Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation
Administration; Raymond Peck, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and Lester Lamm, Deputy Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration and public witnesses.

WATER QUALITY STANDARDS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Water Resources
held a hearing on EPA's proposed regulations for the establishment of Water
Quality Standards. Testimony was heard from Frederic A. Eidsness, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator for Water, EPA.

PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE STAFF

Committee on Rules: Ordered reported H. Res. 58, providing for permanent
professional and clerical staff of the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence. Testimony was heard from Representatives Boland, Robinson and
Young of Florida.

AMERICAN NOBEL LAUREATES; NSF POSTURE

Committee on Science and Technology: Held a hearing to receive the views on
Science Policy of the American Nobel Laureates of 1982. Testimony was received
from public witnesses.

The Committee also held a posture hearing on NSF. Testimony was heard from Dr.
Edward A. Knapp, Director, NSF.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production began hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy budget
request, with emphasis on Breeder Reactor Program. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications continued hearings on NASA Authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials held a hearing on fiscal year 1984 DOE Transportation Programs
Authorization. Testimony was heard from Dr. Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant
Secretary, Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy, Department of Energy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

VA TRAINING PROGRAMS; VA LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training, and
Employment held a hearing on VA on-the-job and apprenticeship training
programs and VA legislative recommendations on education programs for fiscal
year 1984. Testimony was heard from Harry Walters, Administrator, VA; William
C. Plowden, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and
representatives of veterans' organizations.

PAYMENT IN KIND PROGRAM

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures approved
for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1296, to amend the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954 to allow any taxpayer to elect to treat for income tax purposes
any crop received under a Federal program for removing land from agricultural
production as produced by the taxpayer, to allow any taxpayer to elect to
defer income on any cancellation under such a program of any price support
loan, and to provide that participation in such a program shall not disqualify
the taxpayer for the special use valuation of farm real property under section
2032A of such Code.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Foley, Hance, Harkin, Bedell, Smith
of Nebraska, Stenholm, Evans of Iowa and Durbin; John E. Chapoton, Deputy
Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy), Department of the Treasury; Richard C. Lyng,
Deputy Secretary, USDA and public witnesses.

SOCIAL SECURITY MEASURE

Committee on Ways and Means: Approved for full Committee action
recommendations on Social Security financing legislation.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Select Committee on Aging: Met for organizational purposes.

OLDER AMERICANS ACT BUDGET CUTS

Select Committee on Aging: Subcommittee on Human Services held a hearing on
Older Americans Act budget cuts. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Health and Human Services: Dorcas R. Hardy,
Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services; Dr. Lennie Marie Tolliver,
Commissioner, Administration on Aging; Michio Suzucki, Deputy Commissioner for
Program Operations, Administration on Aging and public witnesses.



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Daily Digest - Thursday, February 24, 1983; pages D69 - D77 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural
Development approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1190, Emergency
Agricultural Credit Act of 1983.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Cooperative State Research Service; on Extension Service and on National
Agricultural Library. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
USDA: Orville G. Bentley, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education;
Walter I. Thomas, Administrator, Cooperative State Research Service and Denzel
O. Clegg, Associate Administrator, Extension Service.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Power Marketing Administrators. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Energy: Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant
Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Robert J. Cross,
Administrator, Alaska Power Administration; Harry C. Geisinger, Administrator,
Southeastern Power Administration; Richard B. Risk, Jr., Administrator,
Southwestern Power Administration; Robert L. McPhail, Administrator, Western
Area Power Administration and Peter T. Johnson, Administrator, Bonneville
Power Administration.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on Selective Service System. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued hearings on
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor HHS and Education held a
hearing on Action and on Railroad Retirement Board. Testimony was heard from
Thomas W. Pauken, Director, Action and the following members of the Railroad
Retirement Board: Charles J. Chamberlain and Earl Oliver.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on fiscal year 1984 Army Military Construction Program. Testimony was
heard from Maj. Gen. Norman G. Delbridge, Jr., Assistant Chief of Army
Engineers.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
Interstate Commerce Commission. Testimony was heard from Reese H. Taylor, Jr.,
Chairman, ICC.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on Bureau of Government Financial Operations and on
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Testimony was heard from agency witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel and
Compensation began hearings on the manpower portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from Lawrence J. Korb,
Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of
Defense.

FOREIGN NAVAL DEVELOPMENTS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials met in executive session to receive a classified briefing
on foreign naval developments and U.S. naval strategy as they relate to the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. The Subcommittee was briefed
by RAdm. John L. Butts, Director, Naval Intelligence, Office of the Chief of
Naval Operations; Como. Dudley L. Carlson, Deputy Director, Strategic Plans
and Policy Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and VAdm. Arthur
S. Moreau, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Plans, Policies and Operations.

ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND THE CONDUCT OF MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy held a hearing on Economic Recovery and the Conduct of
Monetary Policy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Education and Employment held a hearing
on Administration's fiscal year 1984 Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational
Education budget proposals. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

MEDICARE AND MEDICAID BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and
Indexing held a hearing on Administration's fiscal year 1984 Medicare and
Medicaid budget proposals. Testimony was heard from Representatives Waxman and
Pepper and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
concluded oversight hearings on draft registration regulations and student
financial assistance. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

PROHIBIT DISCRIMINATION IN INSURANCE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and
Tourism concluded hearings on H.R. 100, to prohibit discrimination in
insurance on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Schroeder and Richardson; Clarence
Thomas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Edward I. Koch,
Mayor, City of New York; Donald M. Halperin, member, State Senate, New York
and public witnesses.

LOW INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power, the Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels, the Subcommittee on
Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor and the Subcommittee
on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation of the Committee on Ways
and Means held a joint hearing, on Low Income Energy Assistance: Energy Costs
and the New Poor. Testimony was heard from Linda McMahon, Assistant
Commissioner, Office of Family Assistance, Department of Health and Human
Services; Erick Evered, Administrator, Energy Information Administration,
Department of Energy; William Butz, Associate Director for Demographic Fields,
Department of Commerce and public witnesses.

MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS AND THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on the International Financial
Situation and the Executive 3ranch Request for Multilateral Development Banks
and the International Monetary Fund. Testimony was heard from Donald T. Regan,
Secretary of the Treasury.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade held a hearing m extension and revision of the Export Administration
Act of 1979. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on accounts met and considered
funding resolutions or the following Committees: Science and Technology;
Government Operations; Ways and Means and standards of Official Conduct.

OREGON WILDERNESS ACT; OVERSIGHT--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported as amended H.R.
1149, Oregon Wilderness Act.

The Committee also held an oversight hearing on he fiscal year 1984 budget
request for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Interior: Ken Smith, Assistant
Secretary of Indian Affairs and John Fritz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Indian Affairs and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Insular Affairs
held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 budget request for the U.S.
Territoies. Testimony was heard from Pedro Sanjuan, Asistant Secretary for
Territorial and International Afairs, Department of the Interior; Pedro
Coleman, Governor, American Samoa; Galea' I P. Poumele, Senate President,
American Samoa; Tuanaitau F. Tuia, Speaker, Legislature of American Samoa;
Ricardo J. Bordallo, Governor, Guam; Carl T. C. Guierrez, Speaker,
Legislature, Guam; Al Lamorena, Senator, Guam; Juan Luis, Governor, Virgin
Islands; sent Lawaetz, Senator, Virgin Islands; Pedro Tenorio, Governor,
Northern Marianas; Benigno Fitial, Speaker, Northern Marianas Legislature
(House) and Edward D. L. G. Pangelinan, Washington Rep., Northern Marianas.

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE BUDGET REQUEST

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 budget request
for the National Park Service. Testimony was heard from Representative
Oberstar; the following officials of the Department of the Interior: G. Ray
Arnett, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks and Russell
Dickenson, Director, National Park Service and public witnesses.

FBI UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on FBI undercover operations in Cleveland. Testimony
was heard from the following Judges of the Cleveland Municipal Court: Charles
W. Fleming, Presiding and Administrative Judge; Lillian Burke; Theodore
Williams and Sara J. Harper.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice continued oversight hearings on correctional policy.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held an oversight hearing on
proposed drug enforcement activities of the Department of Justice for fiscal
year 1984. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department
of Justice: Jeffrey Harris, Deputy Associate Attorney General; Jack Lawn,
Acting Deputy Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration and Floyd
Clark, Deputy Assistant Director, Administrative Services Division, FBI.

NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARIES PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography and
the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
held a joint hearing on the reauthorization of the National Marine Sanctuaries
Program, title III of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act of
1972, as amended. Testimony was heard from Peter Tweedt, Acting Director,
Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, Department of Commerce and
public witnesses.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Human Resources
met for organizational purposes.

HAZARDOUS WASTES CONTAMINATION OF WATER RESOURCES

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight held a hearing on hazardous wastes contamination of water
resources. Testimony was heard from Rita M. Lavelle, former Assistant
Administrator, EPA.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications held a hearing on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the Department
of Energy. Testimony was heard from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of
Energy Research, Department of Energy.

Hearings continue March 2.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings xi the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
Budget request, with emphasis on nuclear waste disposal research and
development programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Energy: Dr. Shelby T. Brewer, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear
Energy; Dr. Franklin E. Coffman, Director, Office of Terminal Waste
Disposition and Remedial Action and Robert Morgan, Director, Nuclear Waste
Policy Act Project Office.

Hearings continue March 2.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications continued hearings on NASA Authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 1.

DOE TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials concluded hearings on fiscal year 1984 DOE Transportation
Programs Authorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Approved budget recommendations for March 15
report to the Committee on the Budget.

HOSPITAL REIMBURSEMENT

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health approved for full
Committee action as amended the Administration's proposals on perspective
payments for hospitals.

UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation approved for full Committee action legislation to
extend with modifications the Federal Supplemental Compensation program and to
make modifications in the SSI program.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization held a hearing in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue March 1.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families: Met for organizational
purposes.



1983/02/25
Daily Digest - Friday, February 25, 1983; pages D77 - D80 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY JOBS BILL

Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported a bill to provide emergency
expenditures to meet national needs.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on Bureau of the Public Debt, U.S. Savings Bond
Division. Testimony was heard from officials of the Department of the
Treasury.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Education and Employment held a hearing
on the Administration's fiscal year 1984 Higher Education Budget proposals.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

MILITARY AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO ASIA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
continued hearings on the Administration's proposed military and economic
assistance for Asia. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT BUDGET REQUEST

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 budget request
for the Bureau of Land Management. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of the Interior: Garrey Carruthers, Assistant
Secretary, Land and Water Resources and Robert Burford, Director, Bureau of
Land Management and public witnesses.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Public Water and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight met in executive session to consider pending business.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on NSF Authorization. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of NSF: Edward A. Knapp, Director and Lewis M. Branscomb,
Chairman, National Science Board and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 1.


1983/02/28
Daily Digest - Monday, February 28, 1983; pages D80 - D85 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Rural Electrification Administration. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the USDA: Frank Maylor, Under Secretary, Small Community and
Rural Development and Harold Hunter, Administrator, Rural Electrification
Administration.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Testimony was heard
from C. M. Butler III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Department of Energy.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Holocaust Memorial Council. Testimony was heard from Mark Talisman, Vice
Chairman, Holocaust Memorial Council.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National
Mediation Board. Testimony was heard from agency witnesses.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRINCIPLES

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems met in executive session to receive a classified briefing regarding
nuclear weapons principles. The Subcommittee was briefed by representatives of
the Department of Energy.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
met in executive session to receive testimony from EPA employees.

Will continue March 2.

U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on U.S.-China relations 11 years after the Shanghai Communique.
Testimony was heard from Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East
Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR ISRAEL

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on the fiscal year 1984 foreign assistance request for Israel.
Testimony was heard from Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State; Col. Homer D.
McKalip, Chief, Near East/South Asia Division Operations Directorate, Defense
Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense and Russell Misheloff, Desk
Officer/Israel, Office of Middle East Affairs, Bureau for Near East, AID.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs and
the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations held a joint
hearing on U.S. policy in El Salvador (Part II). Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining, Forest
Management, and the Bonneville Power Administration held an oversight hearing
on the Department of Interior fiscal year 1984 budgets for Bureau of Mines,
Geological Survey, and Minerals Management Service. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the Department of the Interior: Robert Horton,
Director, Bureau of Mines; Dallas Peck, Director, Geological Survey and Harold
Doley, Director, Minerals Management Service and Dale Robertson, Associate
Chief, Forest Service, USDA.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 budget request
for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Interior: Pedro Sanjuan,
Assistant Secretary for Territorial and International Affairs and Janet McCoy,
The High Commissioner of the Trust Territory; Erhart Aten, Governor of Truk,
Federated States of Micronesia and Epel Ilon, Representative, Federated States
of Micronesia Representative Office.

FEDERAL LEASING PRACTICES

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing on the
impact of Federal leasing practices. Testimony was heard from Senator
Metzenbaum; Representatives Pease and Dyson; Werner Grosshans, Deputy Director
for Procurement, Logistics and Readiness Division, GAO; J. Gregory Ballentine,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis, Department of the Treasury; Allan
Beres, Associate Administrator for Acquisition Policy, GSA; William Long,
Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition Management, Department of Defense;
Everett Pyatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Shipbuilding and
Logistics, Department of the Navy; Lloyd Mosemann, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Logistics and Communications, U.S. Air Force and Donald Sowle, Director,
Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Off ice of Management and Budget.



1983/03/01
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 1, 1983; pages D85 - D93 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

GRAIN ELEVATOR BANKRUPTCIES

Committee on Agriculture: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Grain Elevator Bankruptcy
held a hearing to review grain elevator bankruptcies. Testimony was heard from
Representative Smith of Nebraska and Coleman of Missouri; a departmental and a
public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Foreign Agricultural Service, the General Sales Manager/P.L. 480. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the USDA: Alan Tracy, Deputy
Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; Richard Smith,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service and Melvin Sims, General Sales
Manager.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission; on the Civil Rights Commission; on the Japan-U.S.
Friendship Commission and on the U.S. Information Agency. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission: Dr.
Robert E. Ward, Chairman and Richard A. Ericson, Executive Director; Clarence
Thomas, Chairman, EEOC; Clarence Pendleton, Jr., Chairman, Civil Rights
Commission and Charles Z. Wick, Director, USIA.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1984 Navy Budget. Testimony was heard from John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary
of the Navy; Adm. James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations and Gen. P. X.
Kelley, Assistant Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Department of Energy: General Science Activities. Testimony
was heard from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency. Testimony was heard from Ann
McGill Burford.

DEFERRAL RESOLUTION; INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior approved a deferral
resolution of disapproval for Strategic Petroleum Reserves.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on the National Park Service. Testimony
was heard from Russell Dickenson, Director, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on LaborHHS and Education held a
hearing on Education appropriations. Testimony was heard from Terrl H. Bell,
Secretary of Education.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative held a hearing on
the Copyright Royalty Tribunal and on the Office of Technology Assessment.
Testimony was heard from Edward W. Ray, Commissioner, Copyright Royalty
Tribunal and John Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on Transportation appropriations. Testimony was heard from Joseph P. Welsch,
Inspector General, Department of Transportation.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government continued appropriations hearings. Testimony was heard from Donald
T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by representatives of the
Defense Intelligence Agency.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities held an overview hearing on the fiscal year 1984 military
construction authorization request. Testimony was heard from Lawrence J. Korb,
Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of
Defense.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel and
Compensation continued hearings on the manpower portions of the fiscal year
1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of the Army: William D. Clark, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and Lt. Gen. Maxwell R. Thurman,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems began hearings in executive session on the fiscal year 1984 Department
of Energy national security programs authorization request. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Donald Paul
Hodel, Secretary; Herman E. Roser, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs
and Maj. Gen. William W. Hoover, Director, Office of Military Application, and
Richard L. Wagner, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy).

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOD AUTHORIZATION--SHIPBUILDING PORTIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials began hearings on the shipbuilding portion of the fiscal
year 1984 Defense authorization request, with an overview of shipbuilding
programs and surface ship programs. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of the Navy: George A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary
for Shipbuilding and Logistics; VAdm. R. L. Walters, Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Surface Warfare) and VAdm. Earl Fowler, Commander, Naval Sea
Systems Command.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development held a hearing on the Administration's legislative
proposals relating to housing and community development. Testimony was heard
from Samuel Pierce, Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development.

HIGHER EDUCATION AND INNOVATION IN THE U.S. ECONOMY; PRESIDENT'S BUDGET:
PERSPECTIVE FROM THE STATE HOUSE

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Energy and Technology and the Task
Force on Education and Employment held a joint hearing on Higher Education and
Innovation in the U.S. Economy and on the President's fiscal year 1984 Budget:
Perspective from the State House. Testimony was heard from Scott Matheson,
Governor, Utah; James Thompson, Governor, Illinois; and Richard Lamm,
Governor, Colorado.

NON-MEANS-TESTED ENTITLEMENT REFORM PROGRAMS

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and
Indexing held a hearing on non-means-tested entitlement reform programs.
Testimony was heard from Richard H. Fulton, Mayor, Nashville, Tennessee and
public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on the Administration's budget
proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from Mary
Jarratt, Assistant Secretary for Nutrition and Consumer Affairs, USDA.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety held an
oversight hearing on the health and safety of our Nation's coal miners.
Testimony was heard from Ford B. Ford, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and
Health, Department of Labor.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
an oversight hearing on the impact of the Administration's fiscal year 1984
budget proposals, title IV of the Education Act. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on H.R. 1646, to amend the Railroad Retirement Act
of 1974 and the Railroad Retirement Tax Act to assure sufficient resources to
pay current and future benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, to
make technical changes. Testimony was heard from David A. Stockman, Director,
Office of Management and Budget and public witnesses.

INDIAN POINT POWER STATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing regarding the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's procedure
for the conduct of an inquiry into the safety of the Indian Point Power
Station. Testimony was heard from John Dyson, Chairman, Power Authority, State
of New York.

SUBPENAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
met in executive session and voted to issue ten additional subpenas concerning
the EPA investigation and also voted to send a letter to the President
regarding the investigation.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade and the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means
held a joint hearing on extension and revision of the Export Administration
Act of 1979: Implementation and Enforcement of National Security Controls.
Testimony was heard from Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary for International
Trade, Department of Commerce; Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary for
International Security Policy, Department of Defense; William Schneider, Jr.,
Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, Department of
State; D. Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice;
Theodore Wu, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Department of
Commerce and William von Raab, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department
of the Treasury.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations held a
hearing on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the
Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for International
Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of State: Jerome Van Gorkom, Under
Secretary for Management; Roger Feldman, Comptroller and Thomas Tracy,
Assistant Secretary for Administration.

Hearings continue March 3.

ECONOMIC AND SECURITY ASSISTANCE REQUESTS FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held
a hearing to review proposed economic and security assistance requests for
Latin America and the Caribbean. Testimony was heard from Thomas O. Enders,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Otto Reich, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Latin American and the Caribbean, AID and Nestor
Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense.

OMB PROPOSED CIRCULAR

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on OMB proposed Circular A-122. Testimony was heard
from Representatives Frank, Levine, Towns and Schroeder; Joseph R. Wright,
Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget; Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General, GAO and public witnesses.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met and considered
funding resolutions for the following Committees: Agriculture; Banking,
Finance and Urban Affairs; Public Works and Transportation and Education and
Labor.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Contracts and Printing met
to consider pending business.

OVERSIGHT--INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Held an oversight hearing on fiscal
year 1984 budget request for the Indian Health Service. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of Health and Human Services:
Robert Graham. Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration;
Dr. Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service; John Manoney, Chief
Budget Branch, Public Health Service and Dr. Louis Steele, Director, In-Med
Program and public witnesses.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law held a hearing on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives Edwards of California,
Garcia, Wright, Brown of Colorado, Shaw, Towns and Lujan, and William French
Smith, Attorney General.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OCEAN AND COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FUND

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography held
a hearing on H.R. 5, Ocean and Coastal Resources Management and Development
Block Grant Act. Testimony was heard from James B. Hunt, Jr., Governor, North
Carolina and public witnesses.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT AND APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development and the Subcommittee on Economic Stabilization of the Committee on
Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs held a joint hearing on H.R. 10, and
related bills, to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965
and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965. Testimony was heard from
William F. Winter, Governor, Mississippi, and States' Co-Chairman of the
Appalachian Regional Commission; John Y. Brown, Governor, Kentucky and John D.
Rockefeller, IV, Governor, West Virginia.

EMERGENCY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing two hours of debate on H.R.
1310, Emergency Mathematics and Science Education Act. Testimony was heard
from Chairmen Perkins and Fuqua and Representatives Simon, Walgren, Goodling
and Winn.

NATIONAL OCEANIC ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION POSTURE HEARING

Committee on Science and Technology: Held a posture hearing on National
Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. Testimony was heard from John Byrne,
Administrator, NOAA, Department of Commerce.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on NSF authorization. Testimony was heard from Dr.
Edward A. Knapp, Director, NSF and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 8.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications continue hearings on NASA authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of NASA: Lt. Gen. James A.
Abrahamson, Associate Administrator, Office of Space Flight and John Hodge,
Director, Space Station Task Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SBA BUDGET REQUEST

Committee on Small Business: Held a hearing on the SBA budget request for
fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from James Sanders, Administrator, SBA.

VETERANS' LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Held a hearing on the legislative programs of
the Paralyzed Veterans Association, Veterans of World War I, Military Order of
the Purple Heart, and Regular Veterans Association. Testimony was heard from
representatives of the veterans' organizations.

PAYMENT IN KIND PROGRAM; SOCIAL SECURITY AMENDMENTS

Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1296, to amend
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to allow any taxpayer to elect to treat for
income tax purposes any crop received under a Federal program for removing
land from agricultural production as produced by the taxpayer, to allow any
taxpayer to elect to defer income on any cancellation under such a program of
any price support loan, and to provide that participation in such a program
shall not disqualify the taxpayer for the special use valuation of farm real
property under section 2032A of such Code.

The Committee also began markup of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

OLDER AMERICANS ACT BUDGET CUTS

Select Committee on Aging: Subcommittee on Human Services concluded hearings
on Older Americans budget cuts. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue March 3.



1983/03/02
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 2, 1983; pages D94 - D102 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

GRAIN ELEVATOR BANKRUPTCIES

Committee on Agriculture: Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Grain Elevator Bankruptcy
continued hearings to review grain elevator bankruptcies. Testimony was heard
from Representative Albosta and public witnesses.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the USDA: C. W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary, Marketing and
Inspection Service and J. 0. Lee, Acting Administrator, Animal Plant Health
Inspection Service.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency and on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Testimony was heard from James L. George, Acting Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency and John V. Byrne, Administrator, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on
Unified/Specified Command Contingency Fund of $100 million. Testimony was
heard from Brig. Gen. Harry D. Penzler, U.S. Army, Deputy Director for
Operational Plans and Capabilities, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Subcommittee also met in executive session to hold a hearing on tactical
intelligence and related activities. Testimony was heard from Donald C.
Latham, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Department of Energy: Uranium Supply and Enrichment
Activities. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department
of Energy: Shelby T. Brewer, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy and
William R. Voigt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment and
Assessment.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on EPA. Testimony was heard from Ann McGill Burford. 

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on
National Park Service. Testimony was heard from Russell Dickenson, Director,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Compensatory Education for the Disadvantaged; Special Programs;
Impact Aid and Bilingual Education. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative held a hearing on the
Joint Committee on Printing and on the Joint Economic Committee. Testimony was
heard from the following members of the Joint Committee on Printing:
Representative Hawkins, Chairman and Senator Mathias and the following members
of the Joint Economic Committee: Senator Jepsen, Chairman and Representatives
Hamilton and Wylie and public witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on Planning and Design and on Contractor Change Orders. Testimony was
heard from Patrick J. Meehan, Jr., Director, Facility Requirements and
Resources, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations)
and representatives of the services.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Civil Aeronautics Board. Testimony was heard from Dan McKinnon, Chairman,
CAB.

CIVIL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities held an overview hearing on the fiscal year 1984 civil defense
authorization request. Testimony was heard from Dave McLoughlin, Deputy
Associate Director, State and Local Programs and Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel and
Compensation continued hearings on the manpower portions of the fiscal year
1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from J. Donald Denney,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs,
Department of the Navy; VAdm. Lando W. Zech, Jr., Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Manpower, Personnel and Training) and Chief of Naval Personnel,
U.S. Navy; Lt. Gen. Charles G. Cooper, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps and VAdm. J. William Cox, Director, Naval
Medicine and Surgeon General of the Navy.

NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on the fiscal year 1984
Department of Energy national security programs authorization request.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy:
Herman E. Roser, Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs; Dr. F. Charles
Gilbert, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Materials and James W.
Culpepper, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Security Affairs.

Hearings continue March 4.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness held a hearing on the
operation and maintenance portions of the fiscal year 1984 Defense
authorization request, with overview of Service Special Operations Force
components' roles, missions, organization, training, and readiness. Testimony
was heard from Maj. Gen. Robert L. Schweitzer, Director, Strategic Plans and
Policy Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, U.S.
Army.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development began
hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions of the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from
Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, Department
of Defense.

DOD AUTHORIZATION--SHIPBUILDING PORTIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with overview of submarine
programs. Testimony was heard from Representative Whitehurst and the following
officials of the U.S. Navy: VAdm. N. R. Thunman, Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Submarine Warfare) and Adm. K. R. McKee, Commander, Nuclear
Propulsion Directorate, Naval Sea Systems Command.

DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a briefing to review the Defense Production Act of 1950.
The Subcommittee was briefed by representatives of the Congressional Research
Service and the Federal Emergency Management agency.

EXPORT FINANCING ISSUES AND FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on International Finance and Trade held a
hearing on Export Financing Issues and Foreign Assistance. Testimony was heard
from William H. Draper III, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank; M.
Peter McPherson, Administrator, AID; William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary
for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, Department of State and a
public witness.

ADMINISTRATION'S CONTINGENCY TAX PLAN AND ALTERNATIVES

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Tax Policy held a hearing on the
Administration's Contingency Tax Plan and Alternatives. Testimony was heard
from John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, Department of the
Treasury and public witnesses.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Education and Labor: Approved budget recommendations for March 15
report to the Committee on the Budget.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the Administration's
budget proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from
Dr. Roseanne Langhan, Administrator, Nutrition Section, Office of Health
Service and Environmental Quality, Department of Health and Human Services,
State of Louisiana and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
continued oversight hearings on the impact of the Administration's fiscal year
1984 budget proposals, impact on Higher Education generally. Testimony was
heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to hear testimony from EPA employees.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held an oversight hearing on the National Highway
Traffic Safety Commission's defect and recall procedures. Testimony was heard
from Oliver Krueger, Associate Director, Resources Community and Economic
Development Division, GAO; Raymond A. Peck, Jr., Administrator, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation and public
witnesses.

ARMS CONTROL RESOLUTIONS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on Arms Control resolutions.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Stratton, Carney, Gore, Brown of
California, Markey and AuCoin.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met and considered
funding resolutions for the following Committees: Judiciary; Post Office and
Civil Service and Government Operations.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported the following
bills: S. 271, to amend the National Trails System Act by designating
additional national scenic and historic trails, and H.R. 1071, for the
acquisition by the United States by exchange of certain native-owned lands or
interest in lands in Alaska.

The Committee also approved budget recommendations for March 15 report to the
Committee on the Budget. 

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on the Parole Commission
and the U.S. Marshal's Office. Testimony was heard from Benjamin F. Baer,
Chairman, U.S. Parole Commission and William Hall, Director, U.S. Marshals
Service, Department of Justice.

FEDERAL ANTI-TAMPERING ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Held a hearing on H.R. 1337, Federal
Anti-Tampering Act, and related bills. Testimony was heard from Senator Leahy;
Representative Collins; Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice and public witnesses.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law continued hearings on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives Roybal, Hughes,
de la Garza, Leland, Mica, Daub and Fauntroy; Diego Asencio, Assistant
Secretary for Bureau of Consular Affairs, Department of State and Alan C.
Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of
Justice.

Hearings continue March 9.

MARITIME PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on the authorization of maritime programs of the Department of
Transportation for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Adm. Harold
Shear, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation
and VAdm. Kent Carroll, Commander, Military Sealift Command, Department of the
Navy and public witnesses.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Approved budget recommendations
for March 15 report to the Committee on the Budget.

EPA SUPERFUND DOCUMENTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight met in executive session to review EPA Superfund documents.

EMERGENCY EXPENDITURES TO MEET NATIONAL NEEDS

Committee on Rules:  Granted a modified rule providing two hours of debate on
H.R. 1718, making appropriations to provide emergency expenditures to meet
neglected urgent needs, to protect and add to the national wealth, resulting
in not make-work but productive jobs for women and men and to help provide for
the indigent and homeless for the fiscal year 1983. Testimony was heard from
Chairman Whitten and Representatives Obey, Dingell, Howard, Ottinger, Edgar,
Waxman, Oakar, Vento, Levin, Mollohan, Morrison, Nelson, Richardson, Wise,
Conte, Coughlin, Walker, Gekas and Shaw.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request, with emphasis on Nuclear Waste Disposal R&D. Testimony was
heard from Dr. Thomas A. Cotton, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology
Assessment and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 8.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications continued hearings on NASA authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from Edward Aldridge, Under Secretary of the Air Force and
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Small Business: Approved budget recommendations for March 15
report to the Committee on the Budget.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Ways and Means: Continued markup of the Social Security Act
Amendments of 1983.

MEDICARE

Select Committee on Aging: Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care held a
hearing on Medicare. Testimony was heard from Robert J. Rubin, Assistant
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services
and public witnesses.



1983/03/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 3, 1983; pages D102 - D109 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFERRAL RESOLUTIONS; BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Appropriations: Ordered reported the following resolutions: H.
Res. 73, to disapprove the business loan and investment fund deferral; H. Res.
74, to disapprove the economic development assistance programs deferral; H.
Res. 75, to disapprove the operations and administration, International Trade
Administration deferral; H. Res. 76, to disapprove the pollution control
equipment contract guarantees revolving fund deferral; H. Res. 77, to
disapprove the surety bond guarantees revolving fund deferral; H. Res. 80, to
disapprove the strategic petroleum reserve deferral; and H. Res. 90,
disapproving the deferral of certain budget authority (D83-36) relating to the
Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service.

The Committee also approved budget recommendations for March 15 report to the
Committee on the Budget.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies continued appropriations hearings. Testimony
was heard from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Department of Energy: Solar and Renewables. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Joseph J.
Tribble, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Howard S.
Coleman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable
Energy and Robert L. San Martin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable
Energy.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency. Testimony was heard
from Ann McGill Burford.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Minerals Management Service. Testimony was heard from Daniel N. Miller, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary, Energy and Minerals, Department of the Interior.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on New Unilateral Bases Overseas. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Defense: Richard N. Perle, Assistant
Secretary for Internal Security Policy and James R. Blaker, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Policy Analysis, and Leslie H. Brown,Deputy Director, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State.

BUDGET REPORT; PROCUREMENT COST OVERRUNS

Committee on Armed Services: Approved budget recommendations for March 15
report to the Committee on the Budget.

The Committee also held a hearing on studies of procurement cost overruns and
the long-term cost of the Administration's five-year procurement request.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Defense:
David S. C. Chu, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation and Francis
Spinney, Defense Analyst, Program Analysis and Evaluation.

DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on the Budget: Met in executive session to receive a Defense
Intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by departmental witnesses.

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and
Indexing held a hearing on Administration's Proposals concerning Federal
employees. Testimony was heard from Representatives Barnes and Hoyer; Donald
Devine, Director, Office of Personnel Management and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the Administration's
budget proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 8.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
held a hearing on job creation proposals. Testimony was heard from
Representative Martin of Illinois and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 7.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
continued oversight hearings on the impact of the Administration's fiscal year
1984 budget proposals, impact on Higher Education generally. Testimony was
heard from Frank Hodson, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; William
Bennett, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities and public witnesses.

RAILROAD RETIREMENT SOLVENCY ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1646,
Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Approved budget recommendations for March 17
report to the Committee on the Budget.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE FOR EGYPT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on fiscal year 1984 foreign assistance request for Egypt. Testimony
was heard from W. Antoinette Ford, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Near
East, AID; Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs, Department of State and Maj. Gen. Richard Secord,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Department of Defense.

U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations held a hearing to review U.S. human rights policy, including
1982 country reports on human rights practices. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of State: Elliott Abrams, Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and Charles
Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian
Affairs.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade held a hearing on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
continued hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from Charles Wick, Director, U.S. Information Agency and Ambassador
Gerald Helman, Department of State.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE LEGISLATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs held a hearing on foreign assistance legislation for fiscal
year 1984: review of security assistance programs worldwide and the Reagan
Administration conventional arms transfer policy. Testimony was heard from
William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and
Technology, Department of State; Lt. Gen. Philip C. Gast, USAF, Director,
Defense Security Assistance Agency and Archelaus S. Turrentine, Acting
Assistant Director, Nuclear Weapons and Control Bureau, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.

PAYMENT-IN-KIND PROGRAM

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice and Agriculture held a hearing on implementation of USDA
payment-in-kind program. Testimony was heard from Kenneth Gideon, Chief
Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, Dawson Ahalt,
Acting Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity
Programs, USDA, and a public witness.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met and considered
funding resolutions for the following committees: Energy and Commerce, Foreign
Affairs; Aging and Small Business.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Held a hearing on H.R. 1010, to
amend the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 with respect to the movement of coal,
including the movement of coal over public lands. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Bereuter, Evans of Iowa and Bedell and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal and the Copyright Office. Testimony was heard from David L. Ladd,
Register, U.S. Copyright Office, Library of Congress and Edward W. Ray,
Chairman, Copyright Tribunal.

CONSTRUCTION DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDIES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on payback of construction differential subsidies. Testimony
was heard from Charles Swinburn, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and
Program Development, Department of Transportation and public witnesses.

CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Committee on Post Office and Civil Services: Subcommittee on Compensation and
Employment Benefits continued hearings on President Reagan's fiscal year 1984
budget proposals to change the Federal pay system, the Federal employees
health benefits program, and the Civil Service Retirement System. Testimony
was heard from Representative Vento and public witnesses.

DEFERRAL RESOLUTION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Ordered reported H. Res. 97,
disapproving the proposed deferral of budget authority for the Mass
Transportation Capital Fund.

DEFERRAL RESOLUTION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation approved for full committee action H. Res. 97, disapproving the
proposed deferral of budget authority for the Mass Transportation Capital
Fund.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 8.

DOE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on Department of Energy
Authorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications concluded hearings on NASA authorization for fiscal year 1984.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

VA HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOR FEMALE VETERANS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care held
a hearing on the current status and projected need for inpatient and
outpatient services provided for female veterans through the VA's Department
of Medicine and Surgery and establishment of the VA Advisory Committee on
Women Veterans. Testimony was heard from Robert A. Peterson, Senior Associate
Director, Human Resources Division, GAO; Dr. Donald L. Custis, Chief Medical
Director, VA; representatives of veterans' organizations and public witnesses.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported H.R. 1900, Social Security Act
Amendments of 1983.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue March 8.



1983/03/07
Daily Digest - Monday, March 7, 1983; pages D109 - D114 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Economic Research Service; on the Statistical Reporting Service and on the
World Agricultural Outlook Board. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of USDA: William G. Lesher, Assistant Secretary for Economics; John
E. Lee, Jr., Administrator, Economic Research Service; William E. Kibler,
Administrator, Statistical Reporting Service; J. Dawson Ahalt, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Economics, and James R. Donald, Chairman, World
Agricultural Outlook Board.

On March 4, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the Packers and Stockyards
Administration. Testimony was heard from the following officials of USDA: C.
W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary, Marketing and Inspection Services and B. H.
Jones, Administrator, Packers and Stockyards Administration.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: On March 4, the Subcommittee on
Commerce-Justice-State-the Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on
the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration; the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration and on the Minority Business Development
Agency. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of
Commerce: Peter McCoy, Under Secretary for Travel and Tourism; Victor M.
Rivera, Director, Minority Business Development Agency and Susan G. Stuebing,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Department of Energy: Nuclear Fission and Waste Management.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy:
Shelby T. Brewer, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy and Michael J.
Lawrence, Director of Storage, Nuclear Waste Policy Act Project Office.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Student Financial Assistance and on Guaranteed Student Loans.
Testimony was heard from Edward Elmendorf, Assistant Secretary for
Postsecondary Education, Department of Education.

On March 4, the Subcommittee held a hearing on Education for the Handicapped
and on Rehabilitation Services and Handicapped Research. Testimony was heard
from George Conn, Acting Assistant Secretary for Special Education and
Rehabilitation Services, Department of Education.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
Research and Special Programs Administration. Testimony was heard from Howard
Dugoff, Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration,
Department of Transportation.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service-General
Government held a hearing on GSA-Information Resource Management and on the
National Archives and Records Service. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

On March 4, the Subcommittee held a hearing on U.S. Tax Court; GSA: Operating
Expenses; on GSA: Inspector General, General Management and Allowances for
former Presidents. Testimony was heard from Theodore Tannenwald, Jr., Chief
Judge, U.S. Tax Court and departmental witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION; NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems held a hearing on the procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from Louis Conti, Chairman,
Reserve Forces Policy Board, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of Defense and from representatives
of the National Guard, Reserve Associations and service components.

On March 4, the Subcommittee concluded hearings on the fiscal year 1984
Department of Energy national security programs authorization request.
Testimony was heard from Adm. Kinnaird R. McKee, Deputy Assistant Secretary.
for Naval Reactors, Department of Energy.

Hearings continue March 9.

EFFECTS OF ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET ON TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Education and Employment held a hearing
on the effects of Administration's fiscal year 1984 Budget on Training and
Employment Programs. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on International Finance and Trade held a
hearing on International Monetary Fund and Multilateral Banks and on
International Monetary Fund Quota Increase. Testimony was heard from Donald
Regan, Secretary of the Treasury and public witnesses.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
continued hearings on job creations proposals, including the following bills:
H.R. 1036, to provide employment opportunities to long-term unemployed
individuals in high unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate
vitally needed community facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work
Opportunity Act; H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business Stimulation Act; H.R.
1060 to provide employment opportunities to longterm unemployed individuals in
high-unemployment areas in conjunction with job training in occupations and
skilled trades which are essential to rebuilding or maintenance of the
national infrastructure or which are necessary to or related to defense
preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend the Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.
Testimony was heard from Dan Whitehurst, Mayor, Fresno, California; Melvin
Takaki, Mayor, Pueblo, Colorado; John Fedo, Mayor, Duluth, Minnesota; John
Bourg, Mayor, Joliet, Illinois and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 15.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
held a hearing concerning problems within EPA. Testimony was heard from Robert
M. Perry, Associate Administrator for Legal and Enforcement Counsel, EPA.

On March 4, the Subcommittee continued to meet in executive session to hear
testimony from EPA employees.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN EUROPE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on recent developments in Europe. Testimony was heard from Richard
R. Burt, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs and
the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations continued
joint hearings on U.S. Policy in El Salvador (Part III). Testimony was heard
from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment held an oversight hearing on fiscal year 1984 budget request for
the Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from Donald Paul Hodel,
Secretary of Energy.

CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: On March 4, the Subcommittee on
Public Lands and National Parks held a hearing on H.R. 1437, California
Wilderness Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representative Bosco, Shumway
and Chappie; John B. Crowell, Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and
Environment, USDA; Bill Coates, Country Supervisor, Plumas County, California
and public witnesses.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Approved budget recommendations
for March 15 report to the Committee on the Budget.

OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY CONVERSION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: On March 4, the Subcommittee on
Oceanography held a hearing on H.R. 1381, to amend the Ocean Thermal Energy
Conservation Act of 1980 to provide for additional authorizations. Testimony
was heard from Jim Lawless, Chief, Office of Ocean Minerals and Energy
Division, Office of Ocean and Coastal Programs, NOAA, Department of Commerce
and public witnesses.

EPA ADMINISTRATION OF SUPERFUND

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: On March 4, the Subcommittee on
Investigations and Oversight held a hearing regarding EPA administration of
Superfund. Testimony was heard from the following officials of EPA: William N.
Hedeman, Jr., Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response and Gene
Lucero, Director, Office of Waste Programs Enforcement.

Hearings continue March 8.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade approved for the full
Committee budget recommendations for March 15 report to the Committee on the
Budget.



1983/03/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 8, 1983; pages D114 - D121 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Human Nutrition Information Service and on the Food and Nutrition Service.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the USDA: Isabel Wolf,
Acting Administrator, Human Nutrition Information Service; Mary Jarratt,
Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, and Robert E. Leard,
Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Department of Commerce:
General Administration; on Economic Development Administration; on the
Economic and Statistical Analysis, and on the Bureau of the Census. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Commerce: Carlos
C. Campbell, Assistant Secretary for Economic Development; Bruce K. Chapman,
Director, Bureau of the Census, and Robert G. Dederick, Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Reserve
Components Overview and on Army Guard and Reserve Programs. Testimony was
heard from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs and Logistics; Kenneth P. Bergquist, Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple,
Director, Army National Guard and Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman, Chief, Army
Reserve.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water met in executive
session to hold a hearing on Department of Energy: Atomic Energy Defense
Activities. Testimony was heard from Herman E. Roser, Assistant Secretary for
Defense Programs and Richard L. Wagner, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
(Atomic Energy).

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued appropriations
hearings. Testimony was heard from Donald Paul Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Higher Education; Higher Education Facilities Loans and Insurance;
College Housing Loans; Vocational Education; Education Research and
Statistics, and Education and Research Overseas. Testimony was heard from
departmental witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on the Persian Gulf Program and Review of Pending Report on Ras Banas.
Testimony was heard from Francis J. West, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense
(International Security Affairs) and Ambassador David Schneider, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Coast Guard. Testimony was heard from Adm. James S. Gracey, Commandant,
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service-General
Government held a hearing on the IRS. Testimony was heard from Roscoe L.
Egger, Jr., Commissioner, IRS, Department of the Treasury.

ENLISTMENT AND REENLISTMENT BONUSES; POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Ordered reported H.R. 1936, to amend title 37,
United States Code, to extend certain expiring enlistment and reenlistment
bonuses for the Armed Forces.

The Committee also continued hearings on military posture and the fiscal year
1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from Adm. Robert L. J.
Long, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific; Gen. Robert W. Sennewald, USA,
Commander in Chief, United Nations Command, Commander of Combined Forces,
Korea and Lt. Gen. Charles L. Donnelly, Jr., USAF, Commander, U.S. Forces
Japan.

Hearings continue March 10.

ENLISTMENT AND REENLISTMENT BONUSES

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel and
Compensation approved for full Committee action H.R. 1936, to amend title 37,
United States Code, to extend certain expiring enlistment and reenlistment
bonuses for the Armed Forces.

EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development approved for full Committee action a clean bill to be
introduced in lieu of H.R. 1330, Emergency Housing Assistance Act.

BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1984

Committee on the Budget: Continued hearings on the Administration's budget
proposals for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Senator Jepsen;
Representatives Hamilton, Edgar and McKinney, and Paul A. Volcker, Chairman,
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the Administration's
budget proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
held an oversight hearing on development in labor law as it affects the
construction industry. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety continued
oversight hearings on the Mine Safety and Health Act. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

FTC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on FTC authorization. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the FTC: James C. Miller III, Chairman; Michael
Pertschuk, David A. Clanton and Patricia P. Bailey, all Commissioners; and
public witnesses.

EXPANDED DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power approved for full Committee action H.R. 1398, to promote energy
conservation by providing for daylight saving time on an expanded basis.

NUCLEAR FREEZE RESOLUTION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Ordered reported as amended H.J. Res. 13,
calling for a mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in nuclear
weapons.

FOREIGN AID--SOUTH ASIA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's proposed foreign aid program for South Asia
(excepting Pakistan). Testimony was heard from Howard B. Schaffer, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs,
Department of State and Eugene Staples, Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Asia, AID.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued hearings on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979. Testimony was heard from Frank Kapper, Acting
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Technology Transfer, Department of
Defense and public witnesses.

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE RADIO CONFERENCE

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice and Agriculture held a hearing on U.S. preparation for the 1983
Regional Administrative Radio Conference (Direct Broadcast Satellites).
Testimony was heard from Lowell Dodge, Associate Director, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development, GAO; Ambassador Abbott Washburn,
Chairman, U.S. Delegation 1983 Regional Administrative Radio Conference,
Direct Broadcast Satellites; Kalmann, Schaefer, Assistant to the Chairman for
International Communications, FCC and Diana Lady Dougan, Coordinator-Designate
for International Communication and Information Policy, Department of State.

MANAGEMENT OF AERONAUTICAL DEPOT MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on Management of Aeronautical Depot Maintenance
Activities by DOD. Testimony was heard from Werner Grosshans, Deputy Director,
Procurement, Logistics and Readiness Division, GAO; Dr. Richard B. Webster,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Material Management
and Brig. Gen. Monroe T. Smith, Deputy Chief of Staff. for Maintenance, Air
Force Logistics Command, Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met and considered
funding resolutions for the following committees: House Information Systems;
Merchant Marine and Fisheries; District of Columbia; Select Committee on
Narcotics Abuse and Control; Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families
and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment held an oversight hearing on the licensing process at Diablo
Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Testimony was heard from the following officials
of the NRC: Nunzio J. Pallidino, Chairman; Victor Gilinsky, John F. Ahearne,
Thomas M. Roberts and James K. Asselstine, all Commissioners; John Van De
Kamp, Attorney General, State of California and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and
International Law held an oversight hearing on Immigration and Naturalization
Service authorization. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Justice: Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and
Naturalization Service; David L. Milhollan, Director, Executive Office of
Immigration Review and William R. Robie, Chief Immigration Judge and public
witnesses.

SPORT FISHING AND BOATING ENHANCEMENT ACT

Committee on Merchant Marine Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife
Conservation and the Environment held a hearing on H.R. 1724, to provide
additional revenues for projects relating to sport fish restoration and
management. Testimony was heard from Robert A. Jantzen, Director, Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior and public witnesses.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Approved budget recommendations
for March 15 report to the Committee on the Budget.

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Rules: Granted a modified closed rule providing four hours of
debate on H.R. 1900, Social Security Act Amendments of 1983. Testimony was
heard from Chairman Rostenkowski and Representatives Pickle, Jacobs, Florio,
Oberstar, Oakar, Panetta, Skelton, Vento, Ratchford, Foglietta, Wyden,
Morrison of Connecticut, Gejdenson, Conable, Broyhill, Stangeland, Parris and
Daub.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Energy: Jan Mares, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy and
Joseph Tribble, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request. Gordon L. Chipman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Breeder
Reactor Systems, Department of Energy; Dr. Jack L. Kerrebrock, Associate
Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology, NASA and public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on NSF authorization. Testimony was heard from Dr.
Edward Knapp, Director, NSF and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 10.

VFW LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Held a hearing to receive the legislative
program of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Testimony was heard from James R.
Currieo, Commander-in-Chief, VFW.

SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREES

Select Committee on Aging: Held a hearing on threats today against tomorrow's
Social Security retirees. Testimony was heard from Representatives Pepper and
Thomas of California and public witnesses.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue March 10.



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Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 9, 1983; pages D121 - D130 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Began markup of H.R. 1190, Emergency Agricultural
Credit Act of 1983. 

Will continue tomorrow.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Soil Conservation Service. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
the USDA: John B. Crowell, Assistant Secretary, Natural Resources and
Environment and Peter C. Myers, Chief, Soil Conservation Service.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Legal Services
Corporation and on the SBA. Testimony was heard from Donald Bogard, President,
Legal Services Corporation and James C. Sanders, Administrator, SBA.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Cost
Estimating for Weapons Systems. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Defense: David S. C. Chu, Director, Program
Analysis and Evaluation and Franklin C. Spinney, Staff Analyst, Program
Analysis and Evaluation.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued to meet in executive session to hold hearings on Department of
Energy: Atomic Energy Defense Activities. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Energy: Herman E. Roser, Assistant
Secretary for Defense Programs and Adm. Kinnaird T. McKee, Director, Naval
Nuclear Propulsion Program.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on international disaster assistance. Testimony was heard from Martin Howell,
Director, International Disaster Assistance, AID.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Fish and Wildlife Service. Testimony was heard from Robert A. Jantzen,
Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on the fiscal year 1984 Navy/Marine Corps Military Construction
Program. Testimony was heard from RAdm. William M. Zobel, Commander, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command and Brig. Gen. L. H. Buehl, Director,
Facilities and Services Division, Installations and Logistics Department,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on the Coast Guard. Testimony was heard from Adm. James S. Gracey, Commandant,
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on the Bureau of the Mint and GSA-Federal Property
Resources Service-Stockpile Operations. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel and
Compensation continued hearings on the manpower portions of the fiscal year
1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on reserve manpower
programs. Testimony was heard from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary for
Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of Defense; Dr. Edward J.
Philbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Reserve Affairs, Department of
Defense; Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard; Maj.
Gen. John B. Conaway, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. William R.
Berkman, Chief, Army Reserve; RAdm. Robert F. Dunn, Chief, Naval Reserve; Maj.
Gen. S. G. Olmstead, Deputy Chief of Staff for Reserve Affairs, Headquarters,
U.S. Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill, Chief, Air Force Reserve; RAdm.
James C. Irwin, Chief, Office of Reserve, U.S. Coast Guard and representatives
of reserve associations.

Hearings continue March 15.

NUCLEAR FREEZE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems held a hearing on arms control and nuclear weapons freeze. Testimony
was heard from Richard Burt, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs
and Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Policy.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions
of the fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard
from Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering.

The Subcommittee also continued hearings on this subject in executive session.
Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Grayson D. Tate, Jr., Program Manager,
Ballistic Missile Defense, Department of the Army and John L. Gardner,
Director, Defensive Systems, Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for
Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces, Department of Defense.

Hearings continue March 15.

STATE USURY LAWS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs and Coinage held a hearing on the extension of Federal override of
State usury laws and the effects of high interest rates on businesses and
farmers. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT EXTENSION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a hearing on the extension of the Defense Production Act of
1950. Testimony was heard from representatives of the Department of Commerce,
the Department of Defense and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

OVERSIGHT--NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on General
Oversight and Renegotiation held an oversight hearing on proposals to
establish a National Development Bank. Testimony was heard from Senator Byrd;
Thomas K. Kean, Governor, State of New Jersey; John E. Fedo, Mayor, Duluth,
Minnesota and a public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUDGET EFFECTS ON CHILDREN AND YOUTH

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and
Indexing held a hearing on the effects of the Administration's fiscal year
1984 budget on children and youth. Testimony was heard from Linda McMahon,
Associate Commissioner, Office of Family Assistance, Department of Health and
Human Services; Robert Leard, Director, Food and Nutrition Service, USDA and
public witnesses.

OVERVIEW OF ADMINISTRATION'S POLICIES

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Federalism/ State-Local Relations held
a hearing on overview of Administration's Policies and related issues.
Testimony was heard from Willard Frederick, Mayor, Orlando, Florida; John
Fedo, Mayor, Duluth, Minnesota; Beverly Burnsed, member, State Legislature,
Florida and Kenneth Buzbee, member, State Senate, Illinois.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the Administration's
budget proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from a
public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT ACT AUTHORIZATION; GRANDPARENTS'
VISITATION RIGHTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Select Education approved
for full Committee action the following measures: H.R. 1904, amended, to
extend and improve the provisions of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment
Act and the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of
1978, and H. Con. Res. 45, expressing the sense of the Congress that a uniform
State act should be developed and adopted which provides grandparents with
adequate rights to petition State courts for privileges to visit their
grandchildren following the dissolution (because of divorce, separation, or
death) of the marriage of such grandchildren's parents.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 1904. Testimony
was heard from Dorcas Hardy, Assistant Secretary for Human Development,
Department of Health and Human Services.

COMPREHENSIVE SMOKING PREVENTION EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on H.R. 1824, to establish a national program to increase the
availability of information on the health consequences of smoking, to amend
the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act to change the label
requirements for cigarettes. Testimony was heard from the following officials
of the Department of Health and Human Services: Edward N. Brandt, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Health; Dr. William Pollin, Director, National
Institute on Drug Abuse; Dr. Joanne Luoto, Director, Office on Smoking and
Health; Dr. Mortimer B. Lipsett, Director, National Institute of Child Health
and Human Development; Dr. Claude J. M. Lenfant, Director, National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute; Dr. Jane Henney, Deputy Director, National Cancer
Institute and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 17.

ASSISTANCE FOR PAKISTAN

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's proposed security and economic assistance
program for Pakistan. Testimony was heard from Representative Wilson; Howard
Schaffer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs; Philip Mayhew, Director, Near East and South Asia, Department of
Defense; Charles Greenleaf, Assistant Administrator for Asia, Agency for
International Development and public witnesses.

ASSISTANCE FOR KOREA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's proposed security and economic assistance
program for Korea. Testimony was heard from Thomas P. Shoesmith, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, East Asian and
Pacific Affairs and a public witness.

ASSISTANCE FOR LEBANON

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on economic and military assistance requests for Lebanon. Testimony
was heard from Gen. Philip C. Gast, Director, Defense Security Assistance
Agency, Department of Defense; Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State and W.
Antoinette Ford, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Near East, AID.

FOREIGN AID AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade held a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Foreign Assistance authorization
request: Bureau for Private Enterprise and Trade and Development Program.
Testimony was heard from Elise du Pont, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for
Private Enterprise, AID; Christian Holmes, Director, Trade and Development
Program, International Development Cooperation Agency and public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations and the
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere held a joint hearing on authorizing
appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the
U.S. Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, and the
Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
the Department of State: Thomas M. Tracy, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Administration and Powell Moore, Assistant Secretary for Congressional
Relations and Peter Bell, Chairman, Inter-American Foundation.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

U.S. POLICY IN GUATEMALA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held
a hearing on U.S. Policy in Guatemala. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported the following
measures: H.R. 982, amended, Mashantucket Pequot Indian Claims Settlement Act;
H.J. Res. 158, amended, to make technical corrections in the act of January
25, 1983 (Public Law 97-459); S. 143, amended, to authorize the Twenty-nine
Palms Band of Luiseno 'Mission Indians to lease for ninety-nine years certain
lands held in trust for such band; S. 419, to provide that per capita payments
to Indians may be made by tribal governments, and H.R. 1102, to provide for
the designation of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon as the beneficiary
of a public domain allotment and to provide that all interests in public
domain allotments in Harney County, Oreg., which are held by Indian allottees
who die intestate and without heirs shall escheat to the United States to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Burns Paiute Indian Colony of Oregon and
added to the Burns Paiute Indian Reservation.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations held an oversight hearing on Department of Justice
Authorization, Civil Division. Testimony was heard from J. Paul McGrath,
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on First Amendment effect of OMB's proposal on use
of Federal grant monies. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law continued hearings on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives Sensenbrenner,
Kazen and Coleman of Texas and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law held
an oversight hearing on Department of Justice Authorization, Antitrust
Division. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment held a hearing on the following
bills: H.R. 1723, to authorize appropriations through fiscal year 1986 for the
Great Dismal Swamp, Minnesota Valley, Sailors' Snug Harbor, and San Francisco
Bay National Wildlife Refuges; and H.R. 1935, to ratify an exchange agreement
concerning national wildlife refuge system lands located on Matagorda Island
in Texas. Testimony was heard from Eugene Hester, Deputy Director, Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Civil Service held
a hearing on the operations of the Office of Personnel and Management, the
Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the
Office of Special Counsel.  Testimony was heard from Donald J. Devine,
Director, Office of Personel Management; Ronald W. Haughton, Chairman, Federal
Labor Relations Authority and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

EPA ADMINISTRATION OF SUPERFUND

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight continued hearings regarding EPA administration of Superfund.
Testimony was heard from Robert M. Perry, Associate Administrator and General
Counsel, EPA.

NASHVILLE UNION STATION PROPERTY; PROSPECTUS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds held a hearing to review the future use of the Union Station
property in Nashville, Tennessee. Testimony was heard from Senator Sasser;
Representative Boner; Robert R. Garvey, Executive Director, Advisory Council
on Historic Preservation; Gary Wilburn, Counsel, National Trust for Historic
Preservation and Richard O. Haase, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service,
GSA.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on a pending prospectus. Testimony was
heard from Representative Ottinger; David Ornstein, Commissioner of Planning,
White Plains, New York; Robert W. Page, Jr., District Executive, Southern
District Federal Court of New York; Richard O. Haase, Commissioner, Public
Building Service, GSA and a public witness.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from Dr. Alvin Trivelpiece,
Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of Energy; from the following
representatives of the Office of Technology Assessment: Dr. Richard Rowberg,
Energy Program Manager and Dr. James Ryan and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request. Testimony was heard from Dr. Shelby T. Brewer, Assistant
Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOAA AUTHORIZATION 

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on NOAA authorization.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.



1983/03/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 10, 1983; pages D130 - D137 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Continued markup of H.R. 1190, Emergency
Agricultural Credit Act of 1983.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Federal Grain Inspection Service. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the USDA: C. W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary, Marketing and
Inspection Service and Kenneth A. Gilles, Administrator, Federal Grain
Inspection Service.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Department of Commerce:
General Administration, on the Scientific and Technical Research and Services
and on the Patent and Trademark Office. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Commerce: David S. Nathan, Controller, General
Administration; Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of
Patents and Trademarks and Ernest Ambler, Director, National Bureau of
Standards.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on National Foreign Intelligence Program. Testimony was
heard from William J. Casey, Director, CIA.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Department of Energy: Fusion, Basic Energy Sciences and
Supporting Technology Environment. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Energy: Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office
of Energy Research and William A. Vaughan, Assistant Secretary, Environmental
Protection, Safety and Emergency Preparedness.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on economic and military supplemental request for Lebanon. Testimony was heard
from Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs, Department of State; W. Antoinette Ford, Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Near East, AID and Gen. Philip C. Gast, Director,
Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Bureau of Mines. Testimony was heard from William Perry Pendley, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals, Department of the Interior.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education continued
appropriations hearings. Testimony was heard from Raymond J. Donovan,
Secretary of Labor.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on the Fiscal Year 1984 Defense Agencies Military Construction Program
and on the Fiscal Year 1984 Reserve Components' Military Construction Program.
Testimony was heard from Duncan Holaday, Assistant Director for Family
Requirements and Resources, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Col. Christ F.
Potamos, Defense Logistics Agency; Dr. Beth Stephens, Department of Defense
Dependents Schools; David Rickard, Defense Nuclear Agency; Maj. Gen. Herbert
R. Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman,
Chief, Army Reserve; RAdm. Howard Roop, Deputy Director, Naval Reserve; Brig.
Gen. Wess P. Chambers, Deputy Director, Air National Guard and Brig. Gen.
James C. Wahleithner, Deputy to the Chief, Air Force Reserve.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Barriers Board and on the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
Testimony was heard from Bradford Reynolds, Chairman, Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board and Richard Page, General Manager,
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service-General
Government held a hearing on the General Services Administration. Testimony
was heard from Gerald P. Carmen, Administrator, GSA.

POSTURE HEARINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Continued hearings on military posture and the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request. Testimony was heard from Gen.
Bernard W. Rogers, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command and Adm.
Wesley L. McDonald, Commander in Chief, Atlantic.

EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Ordered reported H.R. 1983,
Emergency Housing Assistance Act of 1983.

STATE USURY LAWS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs and Coinage continued hearings on the extension of Federal override of
State usury laws and the effects of high interest rates on businesses and
farmers. Testimony was heard from Nancy H. Teeters, Governor, Federal Reserve
System; Larry Edwards, Deputy Governor, Office of Supervision, Farm Credit
Administration; Frank S. Swain, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business
Administration and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT--MONETARY CONTROL ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy held an oversight hearing on Sec. 14(b)(1) of the Federal
Reserve Act as amended by Sec. 105(b)(2) of the Monetary Control Act of 1980.
Testimony was heard from J. Charles Partee, Governor, Federal Reserve System
and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT--NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on General
Oversight and Renegotiation concluded oversight hearings on proposals to
establish a National Development Bank. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Wright and Pepper and public witnesses.

SOCIAL EFFECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Education and Employment held a hearing
on related social effects of unemployment. Testimony was heard from Dennis
Carey, Secretary of Labor, State of Delaware and public witnesses.

ADMINISTRATION'S ENTITLEMENT POLICIES

Committee on the Budget: Task Force on Entitlements, Uncontrollables, and
Indexing held a hearing on the Administration's entitlement policies.
Testimony was heard from Dr. Carolyne Davis, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and public
witnesses.

EMERGENCY COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1513,
Emergency Commodity Distribution Act.

OVERSIGHT--CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the Administration's
budget proposals for the child nutrition programs. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
continued oversight hearings on the impact of the Administration's fiscal year
1984 budget proposals on higher education. Testimony was heard from Terrel H.
Bell, Secretary of Education and public witnesses.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign. Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on foreign assistance requests for Jordan, Yemen, Oman, and American
schools and hospitals abroad. Testimony was heard from the following officials
at the Agency for International Development: Charles Johnson, Director, Office
of Development Planning, Bureau for Near East and David A. Santos, Director,
Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, Bureau for Food for Peace and
Voluntary Assistance; James A. Placke, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State, and Col. Homer D.
McKalip, Chief, Near East/South Asia Division, Operations Directorate, Defense
Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations and the
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere continued joint hearings on authorizing
appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the
U.S. Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, and the
Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was heard from Representative Barnes and
from the following officials of the Department of State: Ambassador Jeane J.
Kirkpatrick, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Jim
Purcell, Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs.

SECURITY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs held a hearing on security assistance. Testimony was heard
from Frank Conahan, Director, International Division, GAO; Thomas C. Dawson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Developing Nations, Department of the Treasury;
Herbert Morris, Comptroller, Defense Security Assistance Agency and Leslie
Brown, Deputy Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of
State.

CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee action H.R. 1437, California
Wilderness Act of 1983.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on Community Relations Service authorization.
Testimony was heard from Gilbert Pompa, Director, Community Relations Service,
Department of Justice and a public witness.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on Department of Justice
authorization, Office of U.S. Attorneys, Office of Legislative Affairs and
Office of Legal Policy. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
the Department of Justice: Robert A. McConnell, Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legislative Affairs; Jonathan C. Rose, Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legal Policy and William P. Tyson, Director, Executive Office of
U.S. Attorney.

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime concluded hearings on H.R.
1338, Justice Assistance Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice held an oversight
hearing on Exclusionary Rule. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law continued hearings on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 14.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law
continued oversight hearings on Department of Justice Authorization, Antitrust
Division. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department
of Justice: William F. Baxter, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division
and Theodore B. Olson, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel.

OCEAN AND COASTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT FUND

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography
concluded a hearing on H.R. 5, Ocean and Coastal Resources Management and
Development Block Grant Act. Testimony was heard from Peter Tweedt, Acting
Director, Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management, NOAA, Department of
Commerce and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Civil Service
concluded hearings on the operations of the Office of Personnel and
Management, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Merit Systems
Protection Board and the Office of Special Counsel. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the Merit Systems Protection Board: Herbert
Ellingwood, Chairman and K. William O'Connor, Office of Special Counsel;
Clarence Thomas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Thomas
McFee, Assistant Secretary for Personnel Management, Department of Health and
Human Services; Michael Rudd, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Personnel and
Labor Relations, VA and Raymond J. Sumser, Director for Civilian Personnel,
Department of the Army.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 15.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request. Testimony was heard from William Voigt, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Uranium Enrichment Activities and Assessment, EPA.

EPA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on EPA authorization.
Testimony was heard from Dr. Courtney Riordon, Assistant Administrator
Designee, Office of Research and Development, EPA.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology concluded hearings on NSF authorization. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications approved for full Committee action a clean bill to be introduced
in lieu of H.R. 1954, to authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration for research and development, construction of
facilities, and research and program management.

NASA AND DOE AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials approved for full Committee action as amended fiscal year 1984
authorizations for NASA (Aeronautical Programs) and DOE (Transportation
Programs).

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Health approved for the full
Committee budget recommendations for March 15 report to the Committee on the
Budget.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Public Assistance and
Unemployment Compensation approved for the full Committee budget
recommendations for March 15 report to the Committee on the Budget.

U.S.-JAPAN BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS

Committee on Ways and. Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on
U.S.-Japan bilateral trade relations. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Stark and Gephardt and public witnesses.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue March 24.



1983/03/11
Daily Digest - Friday, March 11, 1983; pages D137 - D140 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Office of International Cooperation and Development. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the USDA: Alan Tracy, Deputy Under Secretary,
International Affairs and Joan S. Wallace, Administrator, Office of
International Cooperation and Development.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and. Education held a
hearing on Libraries; Departmental Management, including Office for Civil
Rights and Office of Inspector General, on the American Printing House for the
Blind; Gallaudet College; National Technical Institute for the Deaf; Howard
University. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on the procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request, with emphasis on procurement procedures and
cost management and control initiatives. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Defense: Richard D. DeLauer, Under
Secretary for Research and Engineering; Vincent Puritano, Assistant Secretary
(Comptroller) and David S. C. Chu, Director, Program Analysis and Evaluation.

Hearings continue March 15.

FTC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism continued hearings on FTC authorization. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to hear testimony from EPA employees.

Hearings will continue March 14.



1983/03/14
Daily Digest - Monday, March 14, 1983; pages D140 - D144 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the USDA: Frank W. Naylor, Under Secretary, Small Community and
Rural Development and Merritt Sprague, Manager, Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on Courts of Appeals, District
Courts, and other Judiciary Services and on International Organizations,
Department of State. Testimony was heard from Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Gregory J. Newell, Assistant
Secretary for International Organization Affairs, Department of State.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on Indian
Education and on Navajo-Hopi Relocation Commission. Testimony was heard from
Lawrence Davenport, Assistant Secretary, Elementary and Secondary Education,
Department of Education and Ralph Watkins, Chairman, Navajo-Hopi Relocation
Commission.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Labor/Management Services, Administration; Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation. Testimony was heard from Ronald J. St. Cyr, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Labor-Management Relations, Department of Labor and Edwin M.
Jones, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to hear testimony from EPA employees.

Hearings continue March 16.

AID FOR THAILAND

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's foreign aid request for Thailand. Testimony
was heard from Dan O'Donohue, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asian and
Pacific Affairs, Department of State; Richard Armitage, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of Defense; Eugene
Staples, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia, AID and public witnesses.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE REQUESTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on foreign assistance requests. Testimony was heard from
departmental witnesses.

COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts approved for full
Committee action as amended H. Res. 127, providing amounts from the contingent
fund of the House for expenses of investigations and studies by standing and
select committees of the House in the 1st session of the 98th Congress.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law continued hearings on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 16.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications and the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production held a
joint hearing on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy authorization.
Testimony was heard from Martha O. Hesse, Assistant Secretary, Management and
Administration, Department of Energy.



1983/03/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 15, 1983; pages D145 - D152 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Office of Rural Development Policy and on the Farmers Home Administration.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the USDA: Frank W. Naylor,
Under Secretary, Small Community and Rural Development; Charles W. Shuman,
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration and Willard Phillips, Jr.,
Director, Office of Rural Development Policy.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on Supreme Court of the United
States, on United States Court of International Trade, on U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit, on Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, and
on Federal Judicial Center. Testimony was heard from the following Justices of
the U.S. Supreme Court: Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and Sandra Day O'Connor; Edward
E. Re, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade; Howard T. Markey, Chief
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; William E. Foley,
Director, Administrative Office of U.S. Courts and A. L. Levin, Director,
Federal Judicial Center.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Navy-Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation (RDT&E). Testimony was heard from Melvyn R. Paisley, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Federal Emergency Management Agency. Testimony was heard from Louis
O. Giuffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Mine Safety and Health Administration; Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Labor:
Ford B. Ford, Assistant Secretary and Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner of Labor
Statistics.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Testimony was heard from
Raymond A. Peck, Jr., Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, Department of Transportation.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service-General
Government held a hearing on U.S. Secret Service; Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of the Treasury: John R. Simpson, Director, Secret Service and John
Walker, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and Operations.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities held a hearing on H.R. 1816, Military Construction Authorization
Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Norman G. Delbridge, Jr.,
Assistant Chief of Engineers, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of
the Army.

Hearings continue March 17.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on the procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request, with emphasis on Army force requirements and
Army aircraft procurement programs. Testimony was heard from representatives
of the Department of the Army.

Hearings continue March 17.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
the operation and maintenance portions of the fiscal year 1984 Defense
authorization request with emphasis on the Defense Agencies O&M request and
the Army O&M request. Testimony was heard from L. Paul Dube, Director for
Operations, Office of the Assistant Secretary (Comptroller), Department of
Defense and Lt. Gen. Ernest D. Peixotto, Comptroller, Department of the Army.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions
of the fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on Air
Force strategic offensive systems. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of the Air Force: Dr. Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics and Lt.
Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition.

Hearings continue March 17.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety continued
oversight hearings on the Mine Safety and Health Act. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

LIBRARY SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
a hearing on reauthorization of the Library Services and Construction Act.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SERVICE INDUSTRIES COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on H.R. 794, Service Industries Commerce
Development Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

ENERGY CONSERVATION PROGRAMS AND JOBS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on energy conservation programs and jobs. Testimony was
heard from Representative Wise and public witnesses.

HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
began markup of H.R. 1555, Health Research Extension Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

U.S. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations held a hearing on U.S. Voluntary Contributions to International
Organizations. Testimony was heard from Gregory Newell, Assistant Secretary
for International Organization Affairs, Department of State; J. William
Middendorf, II, U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS and public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTNG AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
continued hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of State: Diego C.
Asencio, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs; Gregory J. Newell,
Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs and James Nolan,
Director, Office of Foreign Missions.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CONFLICT IN THE WESTERN SAHARA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs and the Subcommittee on Africa held a joint hearing to
review U.S. policy toward the conflict in the Western Sahara. Testimony was
heard from Representative Simon; David T. Schneider, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Department of State
and a public witness.

HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held
a hearing on U.S. policy in Honduras and Nicaragua. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

ADEQUACY OF FEDERAL SUPERVISION--UNITED AMERICAN BANK FAILURE

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and
Monetary Affairs held a hearing on the adequacy of Federal supervision in the
failure of the United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee. Testimony was
heard from William M. Isaac, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
H. Joe Selby, Senior Deputy Comptroller for National Operations, Office of
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury and William C. Adams,
Commissioner, Banking Commission, State of Tennessee.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CENTRALIZED MAIL DELIVERY

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice, and Agriculture held a hearing on the Postal Service's move toward
centralized mail delivery. Testimony was heard from Representative Watkins;
Eugene Hagburg, Assistant Postmaster General, Delivery Service Department and
public witnesses.

STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources held a hearing on H.R. 1930, State and Local
Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983, and related bills. Testimony was heard
from Arthur R. Goldbeck, Associate Director, General Government Division, GAO
and Edward I. Koch, Mayor, New York City.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTIONS; COMMITTEE FUNDING

Committee on House Administration: Ordered reported the following resolutions:
H. Res. 83, authorizing the printing as a House document of the report
entitled "Give Yourself Credit (Guide to Consumer Credit Laws)"; H. Res. 98,
authorizing the printing as a House document of the committee print entitled
"Older Americans Act; A Staff Summary", and H. Res. 127, amended, providing
amounts from the contingent fund of the House for expenses of investigations
and studies by standing and select committees of the House in the 1st session
of the 98th Congress.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Held an oversight hearing on the Department of
Justice authorization. Testimony was heard from William French Smith, Attorney
General.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on Judicial Conference of
the United States. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Judicial Conference: Judge Elmo B. Hunter, Chairman, Committee on Court
Administration; Judge Otto R. Skopil, Jr., Chairman, Committee on the
Administration of the Magistrates System and Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat,
Chairman, Committee on the Administration of the Probation System.

OCEAN DUMPING AMENDMENTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography and
the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
held a joint hearing on H.R. 1761, Ocean Dumping Amendments Act of 1983.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of EPA: F. A. Eidsness, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator for Water and Dave Davis, Director, Sludge Task Force;
William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Office of
the Secretary of the Army and public witnesses.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT AND APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 10, to amend
the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian
Regional Development Act of 1965.

NUCLEAR FREEZE RESOLUTION

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing three hours of debate on
H.J. Res. 13, calling for a mutual and verifiable freeze on and reductions in
nuclear weapons. Testimony was heard from Chairman Zablocki and
Representatives Stratton, Levitas, Markey, Broomfield, Solomon, Martin of
North Carolina and Carney.

OREGON WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Representatives Seiberling, Weaver,
AuCoin, Wyden, Denny Smith and Robert F. Smith but took no action on H.R.
1149, Oregon Wilderness Act of 1983.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

EARTHQUAKE REDUCTION ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on authorization of the Earthquake Reduction Act of
1977. Testimony was heard from Richard Krimm, Associate Director, Office of
Natural and Technological Hazards, Federal Emergency Management Agency; from
the following officials of the U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the
Interior: Dr. Dallas Peck, Director and Darrell Herd, Deputy Director, Plans
and Programs, Office of Earthquakes, Volcanos and Engineering; Richard Wright,
Director for Building Technology, National Bureau of Standards, Department of
Commerce; Dr. Jack Sanderson, Assistant Director for Engineering, NSF and
public witnesses.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met to consider pending business.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Ways and Means: Approved budget recommendations for March 15
report to the Committee on the Budget.

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION

Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control: Met for organizational
purposes.



1983/03/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 16, 1983; pages D152 - D161 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Continued markup of H.R. 1190, Emergency
Agricultural Credit Act of 1983. 

Committee will continue tomorrow.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Testimony was heard from Philip McBride
Johnson, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Attorney General; on
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement; on General Administration and on Fees and
Expenses of Witnesses. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Justice: William French Smith, Attorney General; Rudolph
Giuliani, Associate Attorney General; and Kevin D. Rooney, Assistant Attorney
General for Administration.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Air Force, RDT&E and was heard from
Thomas Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for R&D; and Dr. Robert S.
Cooper, Director of DARPA.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Department of Energy: Departmental Administration. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Martha Hesse,
Assistant Secretary, Management and Administration; R. Tenney Johnson, General
Counsel; Robert Odle, Assistant Secretary, Congressional, Intergovernmental
and Public Affairs; George Bradley, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
International Affairs; J. Hunter Chiles, Director, Policy, Planning and
Analysis, Ross Lee Douglas, Director, Office of Minority Economic Impact and
James Richards, Inspector General.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operation held a hearing
on El Salvador and Central America. Testimony was heard from George P. Shultz,
Secretary of State.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on Federal Emergency Management Agency. Testimony was heard
from Louis O. Giuffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Smithsonian Institution. Testimony was heard from S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Employment and Training Administration; Departmental Management;
Special Foreign Currency Program. Testimony was heard from Betty Bowden,
Departmental Management, Department of Labor, and William Aughtner,
Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on National Highway Administration.  Testimony was heard from Raymond A. Peck,
Jr., Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Ray
Barnhart, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, both with the
Department of Transportation.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service-General
Government held a hearing on the Department of the Treasury: Office of the
Secretary, International Affairs. Testimony was heard from Cora Beebee,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by representatives of the
Defense Intelligence Agency.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
the operation and maintenance portions of the fiscal year 1984 Defense
authorization request, with emphasis on the status of the A-76 contracting out
program and major issues involving its implementation by the Department of
Defense. Testimony was heard from Donald Sowle, Administrator, Office of
Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget; Robert A. Stone,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Installations, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of Defense;
Lt. Gen. Ernest D. Peixotto, Comptroller, Department of the Army; Capt. Bernie
W. Cook, Head, Commercial Activities Program, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations, Department of the Navy and Col. Paul Signet, Chief, Plans and
Utilization Division, Directorate of Manpower and Organization, Office of the
Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel, Department of the Air Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT EXTENSION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 12, to extend
by 7 months the expiration date of the Defense Production Act of 1950.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Began consideration of the First. Concurrent Budget
Resolution for fiscal year 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

EDUCATION CONSOLIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education held a hearing on H.R. 1035, to make certain technical
amendments to improve implementation of the Education Consolidation and
Improvement Act of 1981. Testimony was heard from Lawrence Davenport,
Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of
Education and public witnesses.

OLDER AMERICANS VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Human Resources held a
hearing on H.R. 1719, Older Americans Volunteer Programs Amendments of 1983.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of ACTION: Thomas Pauken,
Director and Betty Brake, Deputy Director; from the following officials of the
State of New York: Barbara Hawes, Associate Commissioner of Statewide
Services, Office of Developmental Disabilities; and Lou Glasse, Director,
Office for the Aging and public witnesses.

LIBRARY SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
continued hearings on reauthorization of the Library Services and Construction
Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on the Department of Energy budget request. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Donald Hodel,
Secretary; Shelby Brewer, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy and Joseph
Tribble, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
held a hearing on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform Amendments
of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural gas
legislation. Testimony was heard from Donald Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
continued markup of H.R. 1555, Health Research Extension Act of 1983.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to receive testimony from EPA
employees.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CHILDREN AND TV

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held a hearing on children and TV. Testimony was heard
from Henry M. Rivera, Commissioner, FCC and public witnesses

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE REQUESTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East held
a hearing on foreign assistance requests for Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Spain,
and Portugal. Testimony was heard from Richard R. Burt, Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of European Affairs, Department of State; Richard N. Perle, Assistant
Secretary for International Security Policy, Department of Defense and Russell
Misheloff, Director, European Affairs and Special Program, Bureau for Near
East, AID.

ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCE PROGRAMS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations and the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade
held a joint hearing on fiscal year 1984 foreign assistance authorization
request for environment and natural resource programs. Testimony was heard
from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, AID and public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
continued hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from Frank Shakespeare, Chairman, Board for International Broadcasting;
Dominick DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters,
Department of State.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CENTRAL AMERICAN AID; U.S. POLICY TOWARD ARGENTINA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held
a hearing on special Central American aid request. Testimony was heard from
Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on U.S. policy toward Argentina.
Testimony was heard from N. Shaw Smith, Director of Southern Cone Affairs,
Department of State and public witnesses.

ADEQUACY OF FEDERAL SUPERVISION UNITED AMERICAN BANK FAILURE

Committee on Governmental Operations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer and
Monetary Affairs continued hearings on the adequacy of Federal supervision in
the failure of the United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee, Testimony was
heard from public witnesses.

OPEC AND U.S. ENERGY POLICY

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and
Natural Resources held a hearing on OPEC and U.S. energy policy. Testimony was
heard from Charles Schotta, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Affairs,
Department of the Treasury and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on International Relations
and Human Resources continued hearings on H.R. 1930, State and Local Fiscal
Assistance Amendments of 1983, and related bills. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Schneider and Wolpe; Dr. Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., Chairman,
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.. Ordered reported as amended H.R.
1437, California Wilderness Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations approved for full Committee action the following bills:
H.R. 594, to amend section 1 of the Act of June 5, 1920, as amended, to
authorize the Secretary of Commerce to settle claims for damages of less than
$2,500 arising by reason of acts for which the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration is responsible; H.R. 596, to transfer
responsibility for furnishing certified copies of Miller Act payment bonds
from the Comptroller General to the officer that awarded the contract for
which the bond was given; and H.R. 1142, to recognize the organization known
as the National Association of State Directors of Veterans' Affairs, Inc.

The Subcommittee considered private claims bills.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on H.R. 1650, to extend the authorization
of appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics for 5 years. Testimony
was heard from David R. Scott, thing Director, Office of Government. Ethics,
Office of Personnel Management; Rosslyn Kleemer, Assistant Director, Federal
Personnel and Compensation Division GAO, and a public witness.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on GAO report on cost of FBI Undercover Operations.
Testimony was heard from the following representatives of the GAO: William
Anderson, Director, General Government Division; Michael Burnett, Senior
Evaluator, General Government Division; Brian Grady, Evaluator and Jeffrey
Jacobson, Attorney Advisor.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime approved for full Committee
action clean bills to be introduced in lieu of the following bills: H.R. 1338,
Justice Assistance Act of 1983, and H.R. 1337, Federal Anti-Tampering Act.

INSANITY DEFENSE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice held a hearing on
H.R. 1280, to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts, and related
bills. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and
International Law concluded hearings on H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives Coelho, Scheuer,
Roybal and Owens; Robert Searby, Deputy Under Secretary for International
Labor Affairs, Department of Labor; A. James Barnes, General Counsel, USDA and
public witnesses.

PANAMA CANAL MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer
Continental Shelf held a hearing on authorization of appropriations for fiscal
year 1984 for maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal. Testimony was
heard from William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)
and Chairman, Panama Canal Commission, and Dennis P. McAuliffe, Administrator,
Panama Canal Commission.

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation held a
hearing on H.R. 1707, to authorize appropriations for the National
Transportation Safety Board for fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986. Testimony
was heard from James E. Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety
Board.

EPA ADMINISTRATION OF SUPERFUND

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight continued hearings regarding EPA administration of Superfund.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the EPA: Dr. John W.
Hernandez, Jr., Acting Administrator; John E. Daniel, Chief of Staff; Joseph
A. Cannon, Associate Administrator for Policy and Resource Management; William
N. Hedeman, Jr., Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response, and
Michael A. Brown, Enforcement Counsel, Office of Legal and Enforcement
Counsel.

U.S. CAPITOL WEST FRONT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds held a hearing on proposals for restoration or extension of the
West Front of the U.S. Capitol. Testimony was heard from Representative
Stratton; Russell V. Keune, Senior Vice President, National Trust for Historic
Preservation; William L. Ensign, Assistant Architect of the U.S. Capitol, and
public witnesses.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 budget for the
Department of Energy. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production continued hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request, with emphasis on Magnetic Fusion Energy Program. Testimony was
heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FEDERAL FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAM

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on Federal Fire Prevention and Control Program.
Testimony was heard from Fred Villella, Associate Director, Federal Emergency
Management Agency; Dr. John Lyons, Director, National Engineering Laboratory,
National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, and public witnesses.

VA MEDICAL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care held
a hearing on the Veterans' Administration medical construction program.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Hightower and Holt; Everett Alvarez,
Deputy Administrator, VA, and representatives of various veterans'
organizations.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on options
to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from Representative
Shannon; Mike Smith, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Lionel H. Olmer, Under
Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce; Alfred Eckes,
Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HOME HEALTH CARE

Select Committee on Aging: Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care held a
hearing on home health care. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.



1983/03/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 17, 1983; pages D161 - D170 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1190, Emergency
Agricultural Credit Act of 1983.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on the
Food and Drug Administration. Testimony was heard from the following officials
of the Department of Health and Human Services: Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr.,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration and Dr. Edward N. Brandt, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Health.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on Federal Prison System; on
Immigration and Naturalization Service; and on Office of Justice Assistance.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Justice:
Norman Carlson, Director, Federal Prison System; Alan Nelsen, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service and Robert Diegelman, Assistant
Director, Office of Justice Assistance Research and Statistics.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Army, RDT&E. Testimony was heard from
Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and
Acquisition.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on fiscal year 1984 Defense Budget
Overview. Testimony was heard from Vincent Puritano, Assis ant Secretary of
Defense (Comptroller).

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the NRC: Nunzio J. Pallidino, Chairman; Victor
Gilinsky, John F. Ahearne, Thomas M. Roberts and James K. Asselstine, all
Commissioners.

FOREIGN APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations continued
hearings on El Salvador with testimony from public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Inspector General-Department of the Interior and on Solicitor of Interior.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of the
Interior: Richard W. Mulberry, Office of the Inspector General and J. Robinson
West, Assistant Secretary.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education held a
hearing on Employment Standards Administration; Office of the Inspector
General and on Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Labor: William B.
Lewis, Administrator, Office of Employment Services and Albert A. Angrisani,
Assistant Secretary of Labor.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on Federal Highway Administration. Testimony was heard from Ray Barnhart,
Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government appropriations held a hearing on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department
of the Treasury: John Walker, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Operations and Stephen Higgins, Acting Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Commodore John C. Fraser,
Deputy Commander for Planning, Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Department of the Navy and Brig. Gen. L. H. Buehl, Director of Facilities and
Services Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and
Logistics, U.S. Marine Corps.

Hearings continue March 23.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on the procurement portions of
the fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on Army air
defense procurement programs. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. James
Maloney, Commander, U.S. Army Air Defense Center and School, Ft. Bliss, Texas;
Brig. Gen. Richard Kenyon, Director, Weapon Systems, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, Department of the
Army and other representatives of the Department of the Army.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
the operation and maintenance portions of the fiscal year 1984 Defense
authorization request with emphasis on the Air Force O&M request. Testimony
was heard from Brig. Gen. Charles Metcalf, Deputy Director for Operating
Appropriations, Directorate of the Budget, Office of the Comptroller,
Department of the Air Force.

Hearings continue March 23.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on ed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development concluded
hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions of the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the
following: Navy strategic offensive systems; space-based systems RDT&E
request, and on the Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I)
RDT&E. Testimony was heard from RAdm. Frank B. Kelso, III, Director, Strategic
Submarine Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the
Navy; Dr. Robert S. Cooper, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. B. P. Randolph, Director, Space
Systems and Command, Control, Communications, Department of the Air Force, and
Donald C. Latham, Deputy Under Secretary for Command, Control, Communications,
and Intelligence (C3I), Department of Defense.

DOD AUTHORIZATION--SHIPBUILDING PORTIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on Navy weapons
procurement and other Navy procurement portions. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Navy: RAdm. J. W. Nyquist,
Director, Surface Combat Systems Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Surface Warfare) and RAdm. R. A. Miller, Director, Fiscal
Management Division, Office of Navy Program Planning.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Ordered reported First Concurrent Budget Resolution
for fiscal year 1984.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on consumer and homemaking
education. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
continued hearings on job creations proposals, including the following bills:
H.R. 1036, to provide employment opportunities to long-term unemployed
individuals in high unemployment areas in projects to repair and renovate
vitally needed community facilities; H.R. 777, Full Employment Work
Opportunity Act; H.R. 116, Job Opportunity and Business Stimulation Act; H.R.
1060, to provide employment opportunities to longterm unemployed individuals
in high-unemployment areas in conjunction with job training in occupations and
skilled trades which are essential to rebuilding or maintenance of the
national infrastructure or which are necessary to or related to defense
preparedness, and H.R. 1046, to amend the Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

LIBRARY SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
concluded hearings on reauthorization of the Library Services and Construction
Act. Testimony was heard from Donald J. Senese, Assistant Secretary for
Educational Research and Improvement, Department of Education and public
witnesses.

ADMINISTRATION'S CANCER POLICY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on the Administration's cancer policy. Testimony
was heard from John W. Hernandez, Acting Administrator, EPA and public
witnesses.

DOE'S NUCLEAR PROGRAMS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on the Department of Energy's nuclear programs. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Shelby
Brewer, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy; William Voight, Jr., Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment and Assessment; Franklin E.
Coffman, Director, Office of Terminal Waste Disposal and Remedial Action and
Robert L. Morgan, Project Director, Nuclear Waste Policy Act Project Office,
and public witnesses.

COMPREHENSIVE SMOKING PREVENTION EDUCATION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on H.R. 1824, Comprehensive Smoking Prevention Educatin Rogers
and public witnesses.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to hear testimony from EPA employees.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

ASSISTANCE TO AFRICA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing on U.S.
foreign assistance to Africa for fiscal year supplemental 1983 and fiscal year
1984. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
continued hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the U.S. Information Agency: Dr. Ron
Trowbridge, Associate Director for Broadcasting; Kenneth Tomlinson, Associate
Director for Broadcasting; Scott Thompson, Associate Director for Programs;
James Hackett, Associate Director for Administration; Jack Sloat, General
Counsel, and Stanley Silverman, Comptroller; Virginia Taylor, Acting Director,
Family Liaison Office, Department of State and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 22.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations and the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs held a joint
hearing on U.S. policy in El Salvador. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

OPEC AND U.S. ENERGY POLICY

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and
Natural Resources continued hearings on OPEC and U.S. energy policy. Testimony
was heard from Donald Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources continued hearings on H.R. 1930, State and Local
Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983, and related bills. Testimony was heard
from Resident Commissioner Corrada and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
continued oversight hearings on GAO report on cost of FBI Undercover
Operations. Testimony was heard from Floyd I. Clarke, Deputy Assistant
Director, Criminal Division, FBI, Department of Justice.

INSANITY DEFENSE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice continued
hearings on H.R. 1280, to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts,
and related bills. Testimony was heard from D. Lowell Jensen, Assistant
Attorney General, Department of Justice; John Maynard, Assistant Attorney
General, State of Montana and a public witness.

OVERSIGHT--COAST GUARD BUDGET

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and
Navigation held an oversight hearing on the Coast Guard's fiscal year 1984
budget. Testimony was heard from Adm. James S. Gracey, Commandant, U.S. Coast
Guard and a public witness.

EMERGENCY HOUSING ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing two hours of debate on H.R.
1983, Emergency Housing Assistance Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Gonzalez, Vento, Wylie and McKinney.

OREGON WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
1149, Oregon Wilderness Act.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production concluded hearings on the fiscal year 1984 Department of Energy
budget request. The Subcommittee heard testimony on the budget request for
Electric Energy Systems, Energy Storage Systems and Small Scale Hydroelectric
power programs from Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant Secretary, Conservation and
Renewable Energy, Department of Energy and public witnesses.

The Subcommittee also heard testimony on the budget request for the
Department's Magnetic Fusion Energy Program from Representative Stark; Dr.
Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of
Energy and public witnesses.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
options to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.



1983/03/18
Daily Digest - Friday, March 18, 1983; pages D170 - D174 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Office of the Secretary-Departmental Administration. Testimony was heard from
John J. Franke, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, USDA.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies met in executive session on the Federal Bureau
of Investigations. Testimony was heard from William H. Webster, Director, FBI,
Department of Justice.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on the procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request, with emphasis on other Army procurement
programs. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen. Phillip H. Mason, Director,
Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research,
Development and Acquisition, Department of the Army.

Hearings continue March 21.

DIOXINS IN MICHIGAN RIVES; EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
held a hearing on dioxins in Michigan rivers. Testimony was heard from Valdas
V. Adamkus, Administrator, region V, EPA.

The Subcommittee also continued to meet in executive session to hear testimony
from EPA employees.

ILLICIT NARCOTICS SITUATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the illicit narcotics situation in Asia and the U.S. response.
Testimony was heard from Dominick DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary of State,
International Narcotics Matters and Charles Greenleaf, Assistant Administrator
for Asia, AID.

FOREIGN AID REQUEST FOR INDONESIA AND PHILIPPINES

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on the Administration's foreign aid request for Indonesia and the
Philippines. Testimony was heard from Dan O'Donohue, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State, East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Fraser Meade, Deputy
Director for Southeast Asia, Department of Defense; Charles Greenleaf,
Assistant Administrator for Asia, AID and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on Canadian film and Foreign Agents Registration
Act. Testimony was heard from D. Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General,
Criminal Division, Department of Justice and public witnesses.

DOMESTIC WATERBORNE COMMERCE

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on H.R. 1076, to strengthen the domestic waterborne commerce of
the United States (Third Proviso). Testimony was heard from public witnesses.



1983/03/21
Daily Digest - Monday, March 21, 1983; pages D174 - D178 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture continued hearings on
agriculture appropriations. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce-Justice-State-The
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on Department of Justice:
Antitrust Division, on Legal Activities, on U.S. Attorneys and Marshals and
Support of U.S. Prisoners. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
the Department of Justice: William F. Baxter, Assistant Attorney General;
Edward C. Schmults, Deputy Attorney General; William P. Tyson, Director,
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys; William E. Hall, Director, U.S. Marshal
Service and Quinlan J. Shea, Director and Counsel, Executive Office for U.S.
Trustees.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Tennessee Valley Authority. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the TVA: Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman; S. David
Freeman and Richard M. Freeman, both Directors.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, and
Emergency Preparedness. Testimony was heard from William Vaughan, Assistant
Secretary for Environment Protection Safety and Emergency Preparedness,
Department of Energy.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on the Procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request, with emphasis on tri-service ammunition
programs. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen. Phillip H. Mason, Director,
Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research,
Development and Acquisition, Department of the Army; RAdm. Bruno A. Pomponio,
Director, Materiel Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Logistics), Department of the Navy; Brig. Gen. Alfred G. Hansen, Director,
Logistics, Plans and Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Logistics and Engineering, Department of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Peter G.
Burbules, Deputy Executive Director for Conventional Ammunition, U.S. Army
Materiel Development and Readiness Command (DARCOM), Department of the Army
and Brig. Gen. Gerald G. Watson, Director, Nuclear and Chemical Directorate,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Department of the Army.

Hearings continue March 24.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Select Education held an
oversight hearing on the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

CIGARETTE SAFETY ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on H.R. 1880, Cigarette Safety Act. Testimony was heard from
Representative Moakley; Stuart M. Statler, Commissioner, Consumer Product
Safety Commission and public witnesses.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
approved for full Committee action a resolution recommending that Rita M.
Lavelle be cited for contempt of Congress.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on Rules: Granted and ordered reported a modified closed rule
providing for the consideration of H. Con. Res. 91, First Concurrent
Resolution on the Budget for fiscal year 1984; providing ten hours of debate,
six hours general debate and four hours debate on economic goals and policies;
waiving section 305(a)(1) of the Budget Act against consideration of the
resolution; making in order an amendment in the nature of a substitute printed
in the Congressional Record of March 22, 1983 by and if offered by,
Representative Latta which shall not be subject to amendment but debatable for
one hour divided between Representative Latta and the chairman of the Budget
Committee; providing that said substitute shall be in order only if a CBO cost
estimate is available by 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, 1983; making in
order technical amendments necessary to achieve mathematical consistency;
providing that upon adoption of the budget resolution, the clerk shall prepare
an engrossment of only one joint resolution on the debt limit, and waiving
Rule XLIX against engrossment; providing that the last two sentences of clause
1 of Rule XLIX apply to said joint resolution; and providing that the debt
limit set in the House adopted budget resolution shall be the dollar amount
set in said joint resolution. Testimony was heard from Chairman Jones of
Oklahoma and Representatives Panetta, Perkins, Dingell, Ford of Michigan,
Howard, Conyers, Hutto, Leath of Texas, Roemer, Savage, Ireland, Montgomery,
Barnard, Ralph M. Hall, Chappell, Gramm, and Dannemeyer.



1983/03/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 22, 1983; pages D179 - D186 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer
Relations, and Nutrition held a hearing on H.R. 1590, to provide emergency
food assistance to low-income and unemployed persons and to improve the
commodity distribution program. Testimony was heard from Representative
Kaptur; John Bode, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Service,
USDA; Laverne Ausman, Secretary of Agriculture, State of Wisconsin and public
witnesses.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture continued hearings on
agriculture appropriations. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on American Institute in Taiwan;
on International Water and Boundary Commission, U.S. and Mexico; on
International Joint Commission; on International Fisheries Commission,
Bilateral Science and Technology Agreements, and on Protection of U.S.
Consulates. Testimony was heard from agency witnesses.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on Army Tactical Aircraft. Testimony was heard from Brig.
Gen. Richard D. Kenyon, Director of Weapon Systems, Office, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on Independent Research and Development.
Testimony was heard from Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering and a public witness.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on Appalachian Regional Commission. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Appalachian Regional Commission: William Winter,
Governor, State of Mississippi and State Co-Chairman; Winifred Pizzano,
Federal Co-Chairman and Francis Moravitz, Executive Director.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations met in
executive session to hold a hearing on El Salvador. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on NASA. Testimony was heard from James M. Beggs, Administrator, NASA.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Forest Service. Testimony was heard from John C. Crowell, Jr., Assistant
Secretary, USDA.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction met in
executive session to hold a hearing on NATO program. Testimony was heard from
Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations) and T.
J. Loveland, Director, Infrastructure and Logistics, U.S. Mission to NATO.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
Panama Canal Commission. Testimony was heard from Dennis P. McAuliffe,
Administrator, Panama Canal Commission.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on U.S. Customs Service. Testimony was heard from
William von Raab, Commissioner of Customs, Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury.

STRATEGIC CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
strategic capability assessment briefing. The Committee was briefed by Gen. B.
L. Davis, Commander in Chief, Strategic Air Command and Director, Strategic
Target Planning, Director, Strategic Connectivity, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

ICBM BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met to receive a briefing on the reason for a new
land-based Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). The Committee was
briefed by Brig. Gen. John A. Shaud, Deputy Director of Plans, Headquarters,
U.S. Air Force.

CREDIT FLOWS AND CAPITAL AVAILABILITY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a hearing on credit flows and capital availability in U.S.
markets. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

EDUCATION CONSOLIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education approved for full Committee action as amended, H.R. 1035,
to make certain technical amendments to improve implementation of the
Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981.

SOVIET-EASTERN EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND TRAINING ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
a hearing on H.R. 601, Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of
1983. Testimony was heard from Representative Hamilton; Maj. Gen. William E.
Odom, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, U.S. Army and public
witnesses.

RESOURCE CONSERVATION RECOVERY ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on reauthorization of Resource Conservation
Recovery Act. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the EPA:
Steven J. Durham, Administrator, Region VIII, Denver, Colorado and Peter N.
Bibko, Administrator, Region III, Philadelphia, Pa., and public witnesses.

Hearings continue March 24.

NRC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on NRC authorization. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the NRC: Nunzio J. Pallidino, Chairman; John F.
Ahearne, Thomas M. Roberts and James K. Asselstine, all Commissioners.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform
Amendments of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural
gas legislation. Testimony was heard from Representatives Gephardt, Glickman
and Skelton and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
continued markup of H.R. 1555, Health Research Extension Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

UNIVERSAL TELEPHONE SERVICE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held a hearing on prospects for universal telephone
service. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

ASSISTANCE TO AFRICA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa held a hearing on foreign
assistance to Africa. Testimony was heard from Chester A. Crocker, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs and Frank S. Ruddy, Assistant
Administrator for Africa, AID.

MIA-POW's IN INDOCHINA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held a
hearing on New Information on U.S. MIA-POW's in Indochina. Testimony was heard
from Dan O'Donohue, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asian and Pacific
Affairs, Department of State; Richard Armitage, Deputy Assistant Secretary,
East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of Defense; RAd. A. G. Paulson,
Assistant Vice Director for Collection Management, Defense Intelligence
Agency; Col. James Gritz, U.S. Army (retired) and a public witness.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
continued hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of State: Thomas Enders,
Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs; Ambassador H. Eugene Douglas,
U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs and Elinor Constable, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs; Alan Nelson, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice and Phillip
Hawkes, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and
Human Services.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Personnel and Police met in
executive session to consider pending business.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Water and Power
held a hearing on H.R. 71, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the
Interior to engage in a special study of the potential for groundwater
recharge  in the High Plains States; and H.R. 1652, to an end the Reclamation
Safety of Dams Act of 19 8. Testimony was heard from Robert N. Broadbent,
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

SHIPPING ACT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on H.R. 1878, Shipping Act of 1983, and a similar bill, S. 47.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of
Transportation: Elizabeth Dole, Secretary; Harold E. Shear, Administrator,
Maritime Administration and James Carey, Commissioner, Federal Maritime
Commission and public witnesses.

PROSPECTUSES

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds approved nineteen lease prospectuses.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on pending lease
prospectuses. Testimony was heard from Richard O. Haase, Commissioner, Public
Building Services, GSA.

DEPARTMENT QF ENERGY BUDGET REQUEST

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Production approved for full Committee action fiscal year 1984 Department of
Energy budget request.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology held a hearing on H.R. 1996, to authorize appropriations to the
Secretary of Commerce for the programs of the National Bureau of Standards for
fiscal years 1984 and 1985. Testimony was heard from the following officials
of the Department of Commerce: Dr. Bruce Merrifield, Assistant Secretary for
Productivity, Technology and Innovation and from Dr. Ernest Ambler, Director,
Dr. John W. Lyons, Director, National Engineering Laboratory, Dr. Donald R.
Johnson, Acting Director, National Measurement Laboratory and James Burrows,
Director, Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, all with the
National Bureau of Standards.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHTFAA

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials held an oversight hearing on FAA research and development.
Testimony was heard from J. Lynn Helms, Administrator, FAA, Department of
Transportation.



1983/03/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 23, 1983; pages D186 - D194 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture continued hearings on
agriculture appropriations. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing in executive session on
Secretary of State. Testimony was heard from George P. Shultz, Secretary of
State.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold hearings on Role of Military in Space and on Ammunition Programs.
Testimony was heard from Dr. Robert S. Cooper, Director, Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency; Maj. Gen. Bernard Randolph, USAF, Director of Space
Systems and Command, Control and Communications; Dr. Mac C. Adams, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Tactical Warfare Programs and representatives
of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on energy and water development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concluded hearings on NASA. Testimony was heard from James M. Beggs,
Administrator, NASA.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded hearings on
the Forest Service. Testimony was heard from John C. Crowell, Jr., Assistant
Secretary, USDA.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on fiscal year 1984 Air Force Military Construction Program. Testimony
was heard from Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright, USAF, Director, Engineering and
Services, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
National Transportation Safety Board. Testimony was heard from James E.
Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Robert A. Stone, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations), Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics).

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
the operation and maintenance portions of the fiscal year 1984 Defense
authorization request with emphasis on the Navy and Marine Corps O&M request.
Testimony was heard from Como. G. L. Riendeau, Deputy Director, Fiscal
Management Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Lt. Gen. H.
A. Hatch, Deputy Chief of Staff (Installations and Logistics), Headquarters,
U.S. Marine Corps.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
concluded hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions
of the fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the
Army RDT&E request. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of the Army: Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary for Research,
Development and Acquisition; Lt. Gen. J. H. Merryman, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Research, Development and Acquisition and Maj. Gen. Louis C. Wagner, Jr.,
Director of Requirements, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
and Plans.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DOD AUTHORIZATION--SHIPBUILDING PORTIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of the
fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the Coast
Guard's role in mobilization. Testimony was heard from Adm. James S. Gracey,
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard.

Hearings continue April 5.

SPECIAL MILK PROGRAM

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held a hearing on H.R. 904, to amend the Child Nutrition
Act of 1966 to eliminate certain restrictions on the eligibility of schools to
participate in the special milk program. Testimony was heard from
Representative Traxler and a public witness.

STUDENT AID BENEFITS--DRAFT REGISTRATION LAWS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
approved for full Committee action H.R. 2145, to delay the effective date for
the denial of Federal educational assistance to students who have failed to
comply with registration requirements under the Military Selective Service Act
from July 1, 1983, to February 1, 1984.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Gary Jones, Under Secretary for Education, Department
of Education and public witnesses.

REHABILITATION ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Select Education approved
for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2177, to extend the authorization of
appropriations for the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Gary Bauer, Deputy Under Secretary, Office of
Planning, Budget and Evaluation, Department of Education and public witnesses.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform
Amendments of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural
gas legislation. Testimony was heard from John D. Rockefeller, IV, Governor,
State of West Virginia; John Carlin, Governor, State of Kansas; Lt. Gov. John
M. Mutz, State of Indiana and Winfield C. Moses, Jr., Mayor, Fort Wayne,
Indiana.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1555, Health Research
Extension Act of 1983.

EPA

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
continued to meet in executive session to receive testimony from EPA
employees.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ISSUES AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND RELATED INDUSTRIES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held a hearing on International Trade Issues and
Telecommunications and Related Industries. Testimony was heard from Malcolm
Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; Kalmann Schaefer, Special
Assistant/International Affairs, FCC and public witnesses.

FOREIGN AID FOR ASIA

Committee of Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs
approved for full Committee action foreign aid request for Asia.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
concluded hearings on authorizing appropriations for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation. Testimony was
heard from Stephen W. Bosworth, Director, Foreign Affairs Policy Planning
Council, the following officials of the Department of State: Stephen W.
Bosworth, Director, Foreign Affairs Policy Planning Council and Andre J.
Navez, Deputy Director, Equal Employment Opportunity Office; Deirdre Mead
Ryan, Director, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, U.S. Information
Agency and Mosina H. Jordan, Director, Equal Opportunity Programs, AID.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs approved recommendations for full Committee action on
fiscal year 1984 foreign assistance legislation.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Contracts and Printing met
to consider pending business.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Began markup of H.R. 1010, Coal
Pipeline Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

MILITARY CLAIMS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations held a hearing on H.R. 597, to amend sections 2733,
2734, and 2736 of title 10, United States Code, and section 715 of title 32,
United States Code, to increase the maximum amount of a claim against the
United States that may be paid administratively under those sections and to
allow increased delegation of authority to settle and pay certain of those
claims. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen. Ronald M. Holdaway, Assistant
Judge Advocate General of the Army for Civil Law, Department of the Army, and
Dave Bryant, Group Director, Accounting and Financial Management Division,
GAO.

SHIPPING ACT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Ordered reported as amended H.R.
1878, Shipping Act of 1983.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT AND APPALACHIAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Ordered reported as amended H.R.
10, to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the
Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965.

DOE BUDGET

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Energy Development and
Applications approved for full Committee action Department of Energy budget.

WORK SHIFT SCHEDULES

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight held a hearing on the health, safety, and productivity effects of
work shift schedules. Testimony was heard from Dr. Thomas A. Wehr, Acting
Chief, Clinical Psychology Branch, National Institute of Mental Health,
Department of Health and Human Services and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DIOXIN CONTAMINATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on dioxin contamination in
Michigan. Testimony was heard from the following officials of Region V,
Chicago, Ill., EPA: Valdas V. Adamkus, Administrator; Dr. Karl E. Bremer,
Chief, Toxic Substances Section and Dr. Milton J. Clark, Health Effects
Specialist; from the following officials of the Department of Health and Human
Services: Dr. Vernon Houk, Acting Director, Center for Environmental Health in
the Centers for Disease Control and Dr. Larry Edmonds, Center for Disease
Control and public witnesses.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology concluded hearings on H.R. 1996, to authorize appropriations to the
Secretary of Commerce for the programs of the National Bureau of Standards for
fiscal years 1984 and 1985. Testimony was heard from Representatives Barnes
and Bedell; George Stuart, Jr., State Senator and Chairman, Joint Select
Committee on Electronic Data Processing, State of Florida and public
witnesses.

SMALL BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM FOR VETERANS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training and
Employment held a hearing to review the Small Business Loan Program for
veterans. Testimony was heard from Dorothy Starbuck, Chief Benefits Director,
VA; Heriberto Herrera, Deputy Administrator, SBA and representatives of
veterans' organizations.



1983/03/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 24, 1983; pages D194 - D201 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NATIVE LATEX ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture and the Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
of the Committee on Science and Technology held a joint hearing to review
Native Latex Mt reauthorization. Testimony was heard from Dr. Orville Bentley,
Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, USDA; Dr. Eloise E. Clark,
Assistant Director for Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences, NSF;
Richard Donnelly, Director, Office of Industrial Resources, Department of
Defense; Paul K. Krueger, Assistant Associate Director for Resources
Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Terry Chambers, Special
Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Commerce and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer
Relations, and Nutrition approved for full Committee as amended, H.R. 1590, to
provide emergency food assistance to low-income and unemployed persons and to
improve the commodity distribution program.

DAIRY PRICE SUPPORT

Committee on Agriculture: On March 23, the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy,
and Poultry held a hearing to review dairy price support program legislation.
Testimony was heard from Senators Leahy and Baucus; Representatives Oberstar,
Moore, Spratt, Bennett, Akaka, Corrada and Stangeland, officials of various
State governments, and public witnesses.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Agricultural Marketing Service, Office of Transportation, and Agricultural
Cooperative Service. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
USDA: Vern Highley, Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service; C. W.
McMillan, Assistant Secretary, Marketing and Inspection Services; Martin
Fitzpatrick, Director, Office of Transportation and Jack Armstrong, Deputy
Administrator, Agricultural Cooperative Service.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Navy
Tactical Aircraft (except F-18). Testimony was heard from VAdm. R. F.
Schoultz, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare and Lt. Gen.
W. H. Fitch, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Marine Aviation.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on energy and water development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Members of Congress and Public witnesses.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held a
hearing on Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Testimony was heard from Richard T.
Pratt, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on Caribbean Basin Program. Testimony was heard from Nestor D.
Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Inter-American Affairs).

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
St. Lawrence Seaway and on U.S. Railway Association. Testimony was heard from
William H. Kennedy, Acting Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation and
Stephen Berger, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Railway Association.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple,
Jr., Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman, Chief, Army
Reserve; RAdm. Howard Roop, Deputy Director, Naval Reserve; Brig. Gen. Wes P.
Chambers, Deputy Chief, Air Force Reserve.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on the procurement portions of the fiscal year 1984
Defense authorization request, with emphasis on strategic and tactical
command, control and communication procurement programs. Testimony was heard
from Donald C. Latham, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Command, Control,
Communications and Intelligence, Office of the Under Secretary for Research
and Engineering; VAdm. G. R. Nagler, Director, Command and Control, Office of
the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy; Maj. Gen. Bernard P.
Randolph, Director, Space Systems and Command, Control, and Communications,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition,
Department of the Air Force; Maj. Gen. Gerald L. Prather, Director, Command,
Control, and Telecommunications, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans
and Operations, Department of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Alfred G. Hansen,
Director, Logistics, Plans and Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Logistics and Engineering, Department of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. James
C. Cercy, Deputy Director, Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy Chief
of Staff, Research, Development and Acquisition, Department of the Army, and
Col. Fletcher Maffett, Chief, Command Control and Surveillance Systems
Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition, Department of the Army.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
concluded hearings on the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation portions
of the fiscal year 1984 Defense authorization request, with emphasis on the
Navy and Marine Corps RDT&E request. Testimony was heard from Melvyn R.
Paisley, Assistant Secretary for Research, Engineering and Systems, Department
of the Navy; VAdm. Robert R. Monroe, Director, Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy
and Brig. Gen. E. B. Russell, Deputy Chief of Staff (Research, Development and
Systems), USMC.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported the following measures:
H.R. 1035, amended, to make certain technical amendments to improve
implementation of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981, and
H. Con. Res. 45, expressing the sense of the Congress that a uniform State act
should be developed and adopted which provides grandparents with adequate
rights to petition State courts for privileges to visit their grandchildren
following the dissolution (because of divorce, separation, or death) of the
marriage of such grandchildren's parents.

HIGHER EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS; SOVIET-EASTERN EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND TRAINING
ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
approved for full Committee action as amended the following bills: H.R. 2144,
to amend part C of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish
an endowment program for developing institutions and H.R. 601, Soviet-Eastern
European Research and Training Act of 1983.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 2144. Testimony
was heard from Ron Kimberling, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education, Department of Education and public witnesses.

RESOURCE CONSERVATION RECOVERY ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism continued hearing on reauthorization of Resource Conservation
Recovery Act. Testimony was heard from the Representatives Breaux and
Sundquist; from the following officials of the EPA: Lee M. Thomas, Acting
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response and Gene
Lucero, Director, Office of Waste Programs Enforcement, and public witnesses.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform
Amendments of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural
gas legislation. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

FOREIGN AID

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on fiscal year 1984 foreign aid
request. Testimony was heard from Representative Levin; Frederick W. Schieck,
Deputy Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, AID and
public witnesses.

ACDA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs held a hearing on Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
authorization for fiscal years 1984 and 1985. Testimony was heard from Frank
C. Conahan, Director, International Division, GAO.

COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Manpower and Housing held
a hearing on Office of Personnel Management, Elimination of Organizations from
Combined Federal Campaign. Testimony was heard from Representative Schroeder;
from the following officials of the Office of Personnel Managment: Donald J.
Devine, Director, and Joseph A. Morris, General Counsel, and public witnesses.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Continued markup of H.R. 1010, Coal
Pipeline Act of 1983.

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION EXTENSION

Committee on the Judiciary.: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held a hearing on H.R. 2230, to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to extend
the life of the Civil Rights Commission. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

CONTRACT SERVICES FOR DRUG DEPENDENT OFFENDERS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime approved for full Committee
action H.R. 2173, Contract Services for Drug Dependent Federal offenders
Authorization Act of 1983.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Gerald B. Tjoflat, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Eleventh Circuit, Jacksonville, Florida.

TOXIC LEAD SITES

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight held a hearing on EPA's handling of the Toxic Lead Sites in
Dallas, Texas. Testimony was heard from Representative Frost; from the
following officials of Region VI, Dallas, Texas, of the EPA: Dick Whittington,
Regional Administrator; Frances Phillips, Deputy Regional Administrator; Allyn
M. Davis, Director, Air and Waste Management Division and Dr. Norman Dyer,
Chief, Pesticides and Toxics Branch, and public witnesses.

CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
1437, California Wilderness Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Seiberling, Lehman of California, Shumway and Chappie.

WORK SHIFT SCHEDULES

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight concludes hearings on the health, safety, and productivity effects
of work shift schedules. Testimony was heard from Dr. H.L. Rieghard, Federal
Air Surgeon, FAA, Department of Transportation; Hugh Thompson, Director of
Human Factors Safety, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC, and public
witnesses.

PSYCHOLOGICAL READJUSTMENT COUNSELING PROGRAM

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care held
a hearing on VA's Psychological Readjustment Counseling Program. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the VA: Dr. D. Earl Brown, Associate
Deputy Chief Medical Director; Dr. Lawrence Kolb, Distinguished Physician,
Medical Center, Albany, New York and other VA officials; representatives of
veterans' organizations, and a public witness.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue April 6.



1983/04/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 5, 1983; pages D201 - D207 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on Special Activities, Navy. Testimony was heard from
officials of the Department of the Navy.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on energy and water development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Economic Regulatory Administration. Testimony was heard from Rayburn D.
Hanzlik, Administrator, Economic Regulatory Administration, Department of
Energy.

CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities held a hearing on H.R. 1977, to authorize appropriations for civil
defense programs for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Louis O.
Giuffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Gen. Richard G.
Stilwell, USA (Ret.), Deputy Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Defense
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 14.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on Tide I, Procurement, H.R.
2287, Department of Defense authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from
Lt. Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development
and Acquisition, Department of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Gerald G. Watson,
Director, Nuclear and Chemical Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Operations, Department of the Army; RAdm. J. W. Nyquist, Director,
Surface Combat Systems Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Surface Warfare), Department of the Navy and RAdm. S. J.
Hostettler, Director, Joint Cruise Missile Project Office.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
Tide III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on military services' readiness
training doctrine and equipment for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape
(SERE) and on the military services' Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR)
capability. Testimony was heard from Col. Dale E. Stovall, Assistant Director,
Special Plans, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force; Col. Ronald J. Webb, Director,
Escape and Evasion, Prisoner of War Issues, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force;
Brig. Gen. Joseph C. Lutz, Commanding General, First Special Operations
Command, U.S. Army; RAdm. Richard M. Dunleavy, Director, Aviation Manpower and
Training Division, U.S. Navy; Maj. Gen. William J. Mall, Jr., Commander, 23rd
Air Force, U.S. Air Force; Brig. Gen. Ellis D. Parker, Deputy Director and
Army Aviation Officer, Requirements Directorate, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Operations and Plans, U.S. Army and RAdm. Paul T. Gillchrist,
Director, Aviation Plans and Requirements Division, U.S. Navy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of Title I,
Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with
emphasis on sealift programs and on the shipbuilding industrial base.
Testimony was heard from George A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary for
Shipbuilding and Logistics, Department of the Navy; Adm. W. J. Cowhill, Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), Department of the Navy; VAdm. Kent J.
Carroll, Commander, Military Sealift Command, Department of the Navy; Lt. Gen.
Richard H. Thompson, Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the
Army; VAdm. Earl B. Fowler, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command, Department
of the Navy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 7.

TRADE POLICY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on general trade policy. Testimony was heard from
William E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative and public witnesses.

UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF DISABLED PERSONS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations held a hearing on U.N. Decade of the Disabled and to discuss H.
Con. Res. 39, expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to
implementing the objectives of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons
(1983-92). Testimony was heard from Representative Winn; Ambassador John
McDonald, Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, Department of State;
Dr. Jean Elder, Commissioner of Administration on Developmental Disabilities,
Department of Health and Human Services; George Conn, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of
Education and public witnesses.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued hearings on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979. Testimony was heard from Lionel Olmer, Under
Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce.

Hearings continue April 12.

DOD's ECONOMIES AND EFFICIENCIES PROGRAM

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on Department of Defense's Economies and Efficiencies
Program. Testimony was heard from Werner Grosshans, Deputy Director,
Procurement, Logistics and Readiness Division, GAO and John Quetsch, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).

REACTOR PROTECTION SYSTEM FAILURE--SALEM NUCLEAR POWER

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: On March 25, the Subcommittee on
Energy and the Environment held a hearing on reactor protection system failure
at the Salem Nuclear Power Plant. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the NRC: Nunzio Pallidino, Chairman; Victor Gilinsky and James K.
Asselstine, both Commissioners.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 451, to validate
conveyances of certain lands in the State of California that form part of the
right-of-way granted by the United States to the Central Pacific Railway Co.;
H.R. 1062, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without
consideration, certain lands in Lane County, Oreg.; and H.R. 1191, to convey
full title for lands granted to the town of Olathe, Colo., by act of Congress.
Testimony was heard from Neil Morck, Assistant Director for Renewable
Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior and John
Harold, Mayor, Olathe, Colorado.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and
International Law began markup of H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1983.

Will continue April 7.

U.S. COAST GUARD: FEDERAL BOAT SAFETY ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and
Navigation held a hearing on a report by the National Advisory Committee on
Oceans and Atmosphere entitled, U.S. Coast Guard: Status, Problems, and
Potential. Testimony was heard from Michael Naess, Chairman, Coast Guard
Panel, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on H.R. 2163, to amend the Federal Boat
Safety Act of 1971. Testimony was heard from Adm. Paul Yost, Chief of Staff,
U.S. Coast Guard and public witnesses.

NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography held
a hearing on H.R. 1643, to authorize appropriations to carry out the national
sea grant college program for fiscal years 1984 and 1985. Testimony was heard
from James W. Winshester, Associate Administrator, NOAA, Department of
Commerce and public witnesses.

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Human Resources
held a hearing on the reauthorization of the Office of Government Ethics.
Testimony was heard from David Scott, Acting Director, Office of Government
Ethics, Office of Personnel Management; Clifford Gould, Director, Federal
Personnel and Compensation Division, GAO and public witnesses.

MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on Man and the Biosphere
Program. Testimony was heard from Dr. Bryan Clark, Tropical Forest Ecosystems,
Forest Service, USDA; James D. Phillips, U.S. Cooperation with UNESCO,
Department of State; Dr. William Gregg, U.S. Biosphere Reserves, Department of
the Interior and public witnesses.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2066, National
Science Foundation Authorization Act for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.



1983/04/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 6, 1983; pages D208 - D213 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FIFRA

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture held a hearing to review legislation reauthorizing the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. Testimony was heard from
Representatives McCollum and Downey; departmental and public witnesses.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and related Agencies continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was
heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on
Manpower Overview. Testimony was heard from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on energy and water development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Administrative Office of the Secretary of Interior. Testimony was heard from
J. Robinson West, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on fiscal year 1984 Family Housing Program-Overall Issues. Testimony
was heard from Pat Meehan, Director, Facility Requirements and Resources,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Federal Aviation Administration. Testimony was heard from J. Lynn Helms,
Administrator, FAA, Department of Transportation, and Alice M. Rivlin,
Director, CBO.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

ARMED FORCES POLICY COUNCIL

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Investigations approved for full
Committee action H.R. 1692, to amend section 171 of title 10, United States
Code, to provide that the Commandant of the Marine Corps shall be a member of
the Armed Forces Policy Council.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from D. O. Cooke, Deputy Assistant Secretary
(Administration), Department of Defense.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright,
Director of Engineering and Services, Department of the Air Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on Title I, Procurement, H.R.
2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Air
Force procurement requirements and Air Force aircraft programs. Testimony was
heard from Lt. Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research,
Development and Acquisition, Department of the Air Force and Maj. Gen. James
H. Marshall, Director of Development and Production, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, Department of the
Air Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
Title III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on the National Guard and Reserve
Operation and Maintenance request. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. William
R. Berkman, Chief, Army Reserve; Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Director,
Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway, Director, Air National Guard;
Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill, Chief of Air Reserve, U.S. Air Force; RAdm. Robert F.
Dunn, Director, Office of Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Olmstead, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Reserve Affairs, U.S. Marine Corps; Maj. Gen. Francis S.
Greenlief, NGUS (Ret.), Executive Vice President, National Guard Association
of the United States and Capt. John C. Rice, Jr., USN Reserve (Ret.), Vice
President, Naval Reserve Association.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on the Administration's
education voucher proposal for Chapter 1. Testimony was heard from Terrel H.
Bell, Secretary of Education and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Human Resources held an
oversight hearing on the Administration for Native Americans. Testimony was
heard from Casimer Wichlacz, Acting Commissioner, Administration for Native
Americans, Department of Health and Human Services and public witnesses.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on H.R. 2367, Consumer Product Safety Amendments of 1983.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported as amended H.R.
1010, Coal Pipeline Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 2175,
amended, Justice Assistance Act of 1983; H.R. 594, to amend section 1 of the
Act of June 5, 1920, as amended, to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to
settle claims for damages of less than $2,500 arising by reason of acts for
which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is responsible, and
H.R. 596, to transfer responsibility for furnishing certified copies of Miller
Act payment bonds from the Comptroller General to the officer that awarded the
contract for which the bond was given.

The Committee failed to approve H.R. 1142, to recognize the organization known
as the National Associate of State Directors of Veterans' Affairs, Inc.

The Committee also considered private claims bills.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on the FBI authorization. Testimony was heard from
William H. Webster, Director, FBI, Department of Justice.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees, and
International Law approved for full committee action as amended H.R. 1510,
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983.

NATIONAL AQUACULTURE ACT REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment and the Subcommittee on Oceanography
held a joint hearing on reauthorization of the National Aquaculture Act of
1980. Testimony was heard from Representative de la Garza; William Gordon,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Department of Commerce; Ray Arnett, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife
and Parks, Department of the Interior; Dr. Orville Bentley, Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, USDA and public witnesses.

REDUCED REVENUE FORGONE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Postal Operations
and Services held a hearing on the impact of reduced revenue forgone
appropriations. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

JOB FORECASTING

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight held a hearing on Job Forecasting. Testimony was heard from
Representative Wright; Brian Usilaner, Associate Director, Accounting and
Financial Management Division, National Productivity Group, GAO; Ronald
Kutscher, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BOARD OF VETERANS' APPEALS IN THE VA

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and
Insurance held a hearing on proposals to increase the number of associate
members which may be assigned to the Board of Veterans' Appeals in the VA.
Testimony was heard from Kenneth E. Eaton, Chairman, Board of Veterans'
Appeals, VA and representatives of veterans' organizations.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.



1983/04/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 7, 1983; pages D213 - D219 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURAL EXPORT ISSUES

Committee on Agriculture: Held a joint hearing with the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to review agricultural export issues. Testimony was heard from John R.
Block, Secretary of Agriculture; Richard T. McCormack, Assistant Secretary of
State for Economic and Business Affairs, and Donald M. Nelson, Assistant U.S.
Trade Representative for Agricultural Affairs and Commodity Policy.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and related Agencies continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was
heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Air
Force Guard/Reserve Programs. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. John B.
Conaway, Chief, Air National Guard and Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill, Chief, Air
Force Reserve.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on energy and water development appropriations. Testimony
was heard from Members of Congress and public witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on fiscal year 1984 Family Housing Programs, on Army and Navy
Programs, on Air Force Program and on Defense Agencies. Testimony was heard
from Maj. Gen. Norman B. Delbridge, Jr., USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers;
RAdm. William M. Zobel, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command;
Brig. Gen. L. H. Buehl, Director, Facilities and Services Division,
Installations and Logistics Department, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps; Maj.
Gen. Clifton D. Wright, USAF, Director, Engineering and Services,
Headquarters, U.S. Air Force and Brig. Gen. Donald W. Goodman, Assistant Vice
Director for Attaches and Training, Defense Intelligence Agency.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on the Federal Aviadon Administration. Testimony was heard from J. Lynn Helms,
Administrator, FAA, Department of Transportation.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Representatives Bennett,
Skelton, Alexander, Fish, Coleman of Texas, Matsui, Boehlert, Flippo, Fazio,
Frost, Stenholm, Lewis of California, Fiedler, Boxer and Thomas of Georgia,
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 12.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on Title I, Procurement, H.R.
2287, Department of Defense authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Air
Force aircraft and missile procurement programs. Testimony was heard from Lt.
Gen. Lawrence A. Skantz, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition, Department of the Air Force; Brig. Gen. Alfred G. Hansen,
Director of Logistics, Plans and Programs, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Logistics and Engineering, Department of the Air Force and Maj. Gen. James
H. Marshall, Director of Development and Production, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, Department of the
Air Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings in
executive session on Tide III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287,
Department of Defense Authorization Act; 1984, with emphasis on Special
Operations Forces. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Perry M. Smith, Director
of Plans, Headquarters, U.S. Air Force and Noel C. Koch, Principal Deputy
Under Secretary for International Security Affairs, Department of Defense.

Hearings continue April 19.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of Title I,
Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with
emphasis on the material condition and mission of the Naval Reserve. Testimony
was heard from RAdm. Robert Dunn, Director, Naval Reserve, USN and public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue April 19.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy held a hearing on .IMF Quota Increase.
Testimony was heard from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury and Henry
C. Wallich, Governor, Federal Reserve System.

COMMUNITY RENEWAL EMPLOYMENT ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1036, Community Renewal
Employment Act.

U.S. HOSTING OF 1986 SOCCER WORLD CUP

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on H.J. Res. 219, declaring the support of the U.S.
Government for efforts of the U.S. Soccer Federation to bring the World Cup to
the United States in 1986, and designating the Secretary of Commerce as the
official representative of the U.S. Government to the Federation
Internationale de Football Association. Testimony was heard from Henry
Kissinger, former Secretary of State and public witnesses.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform
Amendments of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural
gas legislation. Testimony was heard from Rayburn D. Hanzlik, Administrator,
Economic Regulatory Administration, Department of Energy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 12.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
concluded hearings on H.R. 2367, Consumer Product Safety Amendments of 1983.
Testimony was heard from Representative Downey and from the following
officials of the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Nancy Harvey Steorts,
Chairman; Sam Zagoria, Terrence M. Scanlon, Stuart Staler and Edith Sloan, all
Commissioners.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice, and Agriculture held a hearing on H.R. 21%, to extend the
authorization of appropriations of the National Historical Publications and
Records Commission for 5 years. Testimony was heard from Robert M. Warner,
Archivist of the United States and public witnesses.

OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on H.R. 2293, to amend the Office of Federal
Procurement Policy Act. Testimony was heard from Joseph R. Wright, Deputy
Director, Office of Management and Budget; Milton Socolar, Special Assistant
to the Comptroller General, GAO and public witnesses.

NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM PROTECTION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held a hearing on H.R. 2379, National Park System Protection
and Resources Management Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Bereuter and Williams of Montana; Russell Dickenson, Director, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior; Dale Robertson, Associate Chief, Forest
Service, USDA and public witnesses.

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION EXTENSION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
concluded hearings on HR. 2230, to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to
extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission. Testimony was heard from
Clarence Pendleton, Chairman, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and public
witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on the Legal Services
Corporation authorization. Testimony was heard from Donald P. Bogard,
President, Legal Services Corporation and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 13.

CRIMINAL PENALTY FOR ROBBERY OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held a hearing on the
following bills: H.R. 605, to amend title 18 of the United States Code to
prohibit the robbery of a controlled substance from a pharmacy;  H.R. 1032, to
provide a penalty for the robbery or attempted robbery of any controlled
substance from any pharmacy; H.R. 1255, to amend title 18 of the United States
Code, to provide a criminal penalty for robbery of a controlled substance, and
H.R. 1661, to impose a Federal criminal penalty for robbery of controlled
substances from a pharmacist. Testimony was heard from Representative Hyde;
Dennis J. Roberts, III, Attorney General, State of Rhode Island; James Knapp,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice
and public witnesses.

JOB FORECASTING

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight concluded hearings on Job Forecasting. Testimony was heard from
Joyce Kaiser, Associate Assistant Secretary, Employment and Training
Administration, Department of Labor and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Science, Research and
Technology approved for full Committee action introduction of clean bills
providing authorizations for the following: the National Bureau of Standards
for fiscal year 1984; the Earthquake Hazardous Reduction Act for fiscal years
1984 and 1985 and the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act for fiscal years
1984 and 1985.

EMPLOYMENT OF VETERANS IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training and
Employment held a hearing on employment of veterans in the Federal Government.
Testimony was heard from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel
Management and representatives of veterans' organizations.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.



1983/04/08
Daily Digest - Friday, April 8, 1983; pages D219 - D221 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on Tide I, Procurement, H.R.
2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Air
Force space and other procurement programs. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Air Force: Maj. Gen. Bernard P.
Randolph, Director, Space Systems and Command, Control, and Communications,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition
and Brig. Gen. Alfred G. Hansen, Director, Logistics, Plans and Programs,
Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Engineering.

Hearings continue April 18.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy held a hearing on Export-Import Bank
reauthorization. Testimony was heard from William H. Draper, III, President
and Chairman, Export-Import Bank and Marc Leland, Assistant Secretary for
International Affairs, Department of the Treasury.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue April 14.



1983/04/11
Daily Digest - Monday, April 11, 1983; pages D221 - D224 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1983 Army reprogrammings. Testimony was heard from Brig. Gen. Harold M.
Davis, Director, Army Budget, Department of the Army.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD and Independent Agencies held
a hearing on the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Testimony was
heard from Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on U.S.
Synthetic Fuels Corporation. Testimony was heard from Edward E. Noble,
Chairman, Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel continued
hearings on the manpower portions of H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Representative Dicks; Tidal
W. McCoy, Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations,
Department of the Air Force; Lt. Gen. Andrew P. Iosue, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Manpower and Personnel, U.S. Air Force; Jerry L. Calhoun, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Civilian Personnel Policy and Requirements, Department of
Defense and public witnesses.

PUBLIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACT AND THE APPALACHIAN REGIONAL
DEVELOPMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a hearing on Tide I of H.R. 10, to amend the Public Works
and Economic Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development
Act of 1965. Testimony was heard from Carlos Campbell, Assistant Secretary for
Economic Development, Department of Commerce; Dutch Morial, Mayor, New
Orleans, Louisiana and public witnesses.

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs held a hearing on the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
authorization for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.



1983/04/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 12, 1983; pages D224 - D232 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on Chemical Warfare Programs. Testimony was heard from Dr.
Theodore S. Gold, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Chemical Matters.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing in executive session on General Defense
Intelligence Program. Testimony was heard from representatives of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on the Peace Carps, on the Inter-American Foundation and on Anti-Terrorism.
Testimony was heard from Loret Miller Ruppe, Director, Peace Corps; Peter
Bell, President, Inter-American Foundation and Ambassador Robert Sayre,
Director, Office of Combating Terrorism, Department of State.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD and Independent Agencies
continued hearings on the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Testimony was heard from Philip Abrams, Assistant Secretary for Housing,
Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
National Endowment for the Arts. Testimony was heard from Frank Hodsoll,
Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Margaret M. Heckler,
Secretary, Health and Human Services.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction met in
executive session to hold a hearing on Security of Nuclear and Chemical
Weapons. Testimony was heard from Dr. Richard L. Wagner, Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy).

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
AMTRAK. Testimony was heard from Graham Claytor, President, AMTRAK and Thomas
Till, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on Federal Election Commission. Testimony was heard
from Danny Lee McDonald, Chairman, FEC.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a classified
intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by representatives of the
Defense Intelligence Agency.

ARMED FORCES POLICY COUNCIL; REPROGRAMMINGS

Committee on Armed Services: Ordered reported H.R. 1692, to amend section 171
of title 10, United States Code, to provide that the Commandant of the Marine
Corps shall be a member of the Armed Forces Policy Council.

The Committee also approved pending reprogrammings.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Robert A. Stone, Deputy
Assistant Secretary (Installations), Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics, Department of Defense.

Hearings continue April 25.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
concluded hearings on Tide II, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard
from Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and
Logistics, Department of the Air Force and Lt. Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, USAF.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Held a hearing on the Conduct
of Monetary Policy pursuant to the Humphrey-Hawkins Act. Testimony was heard
from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.

TRADE PROBLEMS AND THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on trade problems and the U.S. Auto Industry,
including consideration of H.R. 1234, Fair Practices in Automotive Products
Act. Testimony was heard from Representatives Ottinger and Wise; Robert
Dederick, Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce;
Michael Drigg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Automotive Industry Affairs,
Department of Commerce; William Krist, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Industrial Energy Trade Policy and public witnesses.

U.S. HOSTING OF 1986 SOCCER WORLD CUP

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action as amended 14J. Res. 219,
declaring the support of the U.S. Government for efforts of the U.S. Soccer
Federation to bring the World Cup to the United States in 1986, and
designating the Secretary of Commerce as the official representative of the
U.S. Government to the Federation Internationale de Football Association.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on H.R. 1760, Natural Gas Consumer Regulatory Reform
Amendments of 1983, and related bills and resolutions pertaining to natural
gas legislation. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 14.

RELEASE OF ANATOLY SHCHARANSKY; INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL PROGRAMS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Ordered reported as amended H. Res. 67,
expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Soviet
Government should immediately release Anatoly Shcharansky and allow him to
emigrate.

The Committee also held a hearing on International Narcotics Control Programs.
Testimony was heard from Clyde D. Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
for International Narcotics Matters, Department of State; Frank V. Monastero,
Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration,
Department of Justice and Frank B. Kimball, Counselor, AID.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East
approved for full Committee action recommendations on fiscal year 1984 foreign
assistance requests.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued hearings on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979: Short Supply Controls. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Wolpe and McKinney; William Archey, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Trade Administration, Department of Commerce and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AID REQUESTS FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs began
markup of recommendations on aid requests for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Will continue tomorrow.

TAX EVASION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and
Monetary Affairs held a hearing on Tax Evasion through the Netherlands
Antilles and Other Tax Haven Countries. Testimony was heard from William J.
Anderson, Director, General Government Division, GAO and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice and Agriculture approved for full Committee action H.R. 2196, to
extend the authorization of appropriations of the National Historical
Publications and Records Commission for 5 years.

The Subcommittee also approved a report entitled, "Department of Agriculture's
Payment-In-Kind Program."

REORGANIZATION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on H.R. 1314, Reorganization Act Amendments of 1983.
Testimony was heard from Joseph R. Wright, Deputy Director, Office of
Management and Budget and Milton Socolar, Special Assistant to the Comptroller
General, GAO.

INDIAN HOUSING ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Held a hearing on H.R. 1928, Indian
Housing Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

RECLAMATION SAFETY OF DAMS ACT; HIGH PLAINS STATES GROUNDWATER DEMONSTRATION
PROGRAM ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Water and Power
Resources concluded hearings on H.R. 1652, to amend the Reclamation Safety of
Dams Act of 1978 and H.R. 71, High Plains States Groundwater Demonstration
Program Act of 1982. Testimony was heard from Representative Bereuter and
public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment approved for full Committee action
the following bills: H.R. 1723, as amended, to authorize appropriations
through fiscal year 1986 for the Great Dismal Swamp, Minnesota Valley,
Sailors' Snug Harbor, and San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuges, and
H.R. 1935, to ratify an exchange agreement concerning national wildlife refuge
system lands located on Matagorda Island in Texas.

MARINE PROTECTION, RESEARCH, AND SANCTUARIES ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography and
the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
approved for full Committee action H.R. 2062, to amend title II of the Marine
Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Subcommittee on Oceanography
ordered reported approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R.
5, amended, Ocean and Coastal Resources Management and Development Block Grant
Act; H.R. 1381, amended, to amend the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of
1980 to provide for additional authorizations, and H.R. 1643, to authorize
appropriations to carry out the national sea grant college program for fiscal
years 1984 and 1985.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 2065, to
authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
for research and development, construction of facilities, and research and
program management.

VETERANS' EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training and
Employment held a hearing to review H.R. 1400, Veterans' Educational
Assistance Act of 1983, and pending proposals to establish a peacetime GI Bill
and to review the Veterans Education Assistance Program (VEAP) for
post-Vietnam era veterans. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Montgomery, Edgar and Bennett; Dr. Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics; Lt. Gen. Maxwell R.
Thurman, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, USA; VAdm. Lando W. Zeck, Jr.,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, USN; Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Peek, Jr., Deputy
Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel, USAF; Lt. Gen. C. G. Cooper, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Manpower, USMC; Dorothy L. Starbuck, Chief, Benefits
Director, VA and representatives of veterans' organizations.



1983/04/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 13, 1983; pages D232 - D239 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

TOBACCO PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts held a hearing
to review the tobacco price support program. Testimony was heard from Members
of Congress and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture held a hearing on
Agriculture Overview. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
USDA: John R. Block, Secretary; Frank Naylor, Under Secretary, Small Community
and Rural Development; Charles Shuman, Administrator, Farmers Home
Administration and A. James Barnes, General Counsel.

COMMERCE-JUSTICE-STATE-THE JUDICIARY AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce: Justice-State-the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held a hearing on the Office of U.S. Trade
Representative, on the Department of State, Budget Overview and Salaries and
Expenses. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative
and Jerome Van Gorken, Under Secretary of State.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Army
Procurement Programs and on fiscal year 1983 Navy Reprogrammings. Testimony
was heard from Brig. Gen. R. D. Kenyon, Director of Weapons Systems, USA;
Brig. Gen. P. H. Mason, Deputy Director for Combat Systems Support and RAdm.
Richard A. Miller, Director of Budgets and Reports, USN.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
a hearing on the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. Testimony was heard from Donald
Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of
the Treasury.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD and Independent Agencies
continued hearings on the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Testimony was heard from officials of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
National Endowment for the Humanities. Testimony was heard from William J.
Bennett, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Public Health Service Overview and on Health Resources and Services
Administration. Testimony was heard from officials of the Department of Health
and Human Services.

LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative held a hearing on the
Architect of the Capitol, West Central Front of the Capitol. Testimony was
heard from Representatives Stratton and Shaw; George White, Architect of the
Capitol and public witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on Construction Contracting with the Government, Stimulating Business
Overseas, and Alternative Construction Methods. Testimony was heard from RAdm.
William M. Zobel, USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Maj.
Gen. Ames S. Albro, Jr., Director, Military Programs, Office of the Chief of
Engineers, Col. J. M. Conry, Chief, Engineering and Construction Division,
Directorate of Engineering and Services, Department of the Air Force.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Federal Railroad Administration. Testimony was heard from Thomas Till,
Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on National Security Council, Committee for Purchase
from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped, on Office of Policy Development
and on Administrative Conference of U.S. Testimony was heard from Col. Michael
0. Wheeler, Staff Secretary, National Security Council; Roger B. Porter,
Director, Office of Policy Development and Loren A. Smith, Chairman,
Administrative Conference of the U.S.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development met in
executive session to receive a classified intelligence briefing on Soviet
space and air defense activities. Testimony was heard from Dr. Randy Clinton,
Deputy Director, U.S. Army Missile Intelligence Agency, Department of the
Navy.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE REVITALIZATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization held a hearing on H.R. 2057, Defense Industrial Base
Revitalization Act, and related bills. Testimony was heard from officials of
the Department of Defense, the GAO, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT--NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on General
Oversight and Renegotiation continued oversight hearings on proposals to
establish a National Development Bank. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development began markup of H.R. 1, Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery
Act of 1983.

Will continue April 19.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported as amended the following
bills: H.R. 601, Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training Act of 1983;
H.R. 2144, to amend part C of title III of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to
establish an endowment program for developing institutions; H.R. 2145, to
delay the effective date for the denial of Federal educational assistance to
students who have failed to comply with registration requirements under the
Military Selective Service Act from July 1, 1983, to February 1, 1984; H.R.
2307, to amend the Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance Act of
1978.

TEMPORARY WORKER PROVISIONS OF THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor Standards held a
hearing on H.R. 2466, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with
respect to admission of nonimmigrant workers to the United States for
temporary employment. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

CONGRESSIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON BOXING

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action H.R. 2498, to establish a
Congressional Advisory Commission on Boxing.

INSIDER TRADING SANCTIONS ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held a hearing on H.R. 559, Insider Trading Sanctions
Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the SEC: John
S. R. Shad, Chairman; John M. Fedders, Director, Division of Enforcement;
Theodore Levin, Assistant Director, Division of Enforcement; Frederick Wade,
Chief Counsel, Division of Enforcement and public witnesses.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Africa approved for full
Committee action recommendations for foreign assistance to Africa for fiscal
year 1983 and 1984.

U.N. DECADE OF DISABLED PERSONS; FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations approved for full Committee action H. Con. Res. 39, expressing
the sense of the Congress with respect to implementing the objectives of the
United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons (1983-92), and the fiscal years 1983
and 1984 foreign assistance requests.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued hearings on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979. Testimony was heard from Representatives Swift,
Mineta and Zschau.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

PRESIDENTIAL CERTIFICATIONS ON CONDITIONS IN EL SALVADOR; AID FOR LATIN
AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
approved for full Committee action H.R. 1271, amended, regarding Presidential
certifications on conditions in El Salvador, and recommendations on aid
requests for Latin American and the Caribbean.

TAX EVASION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer, and
Monetary Affairs continued hearings on Tax Evasion through the Netherlands
Antilles and Other Tax Haven Countries. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of the Treasury: Roscoe L. Egger, Jr.,
Commissioner, IRS and John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy.

FEC BUDGET AUTHORIZATION

Committee on House Administration: Task Force on Elections held a hearing on
the Federal Election Commission Budget authorization. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the FEC: Danny Lee McDonald, Chairman; Lee Ann
Elliott and John Warren McGarry, both Commissioners; B. Allen Clutter, Staff
Director and Charles N. Steele, General Counsel.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations held a hearing on H.R. 1942, amend chapter 171 of title
28, U.S.C., to allow members of the Armed Forces to sue the United States for
damages for certain injuries caused by improper medical care. Testimony was
heard from Wayne Vance, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division,
Department of Justice; William H. Taft IV, General Counsel, Department of
Defense and public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice continued oversight hearings on the Legal Services
Corporation authorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held an oversight hearing on
Crime and Violence in the Media. Testimony was heard from David Pearl, Chief,
Behavioral Science Research Branch, National Institute of Mental Health,
Department of Health and Human Services and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Ordered reported the following
bills: H.R. 1381, amended, to amend the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of
1980 to provide for additional authorization; H.R. 1643, to authorize
appropriations to carry out the national sea grant college program for fiscal
years 1984 and 1985; H.R. 1723, amended, to authorize appropriations through
fiscal year 1986 for the Great Dismal Swamp, Minnesota Valley, Sailors Snug
Harbor, and San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuges, and H.R. 1935, to
ratify an exchange agreement concerning national wildlife refuge system lands
located on Matagorda Island in Texas.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held a hearing on H.R. 1010, Coal Pipeline Act of 1983.
Testimony was heard from Representatives Bedell and Coleman of Missouri; from
the following officials of the EPA: Donald J. Ehreth, Director, Office of
Environmental Engineering and Technology and Marvin B. Rubin, Chief, Office of
Quality Review, Effluent Guidelines Division; Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Chairman,
ICC and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL CREDIT ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
1190, Emergency Agricultural Credit Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from
Chairman de la Garza and Representatives Watkins and Coleman of Missouri.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Began markup of H.R. 2066, National
Science Foundation Authorization Act for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue April 19.

HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight held a hearing on Human Organ Transplants. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
options to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from Senator
Heinz; Representative Gaydos and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.



1983/04/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 14, 1983; pages D239 - D244 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

TOBACCO PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts continued
hearings to review the tobacco price support program. Testimony was heard from
Representative Sisisky and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
to hold a hearing on Anti-Armor Programs. Testimony was heard from Mac C.
Adams, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Tactical Warfare Programs.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on DOE,
Fossil Energy Programs. Testimony was heard from Jan Mares, Assistant
Secretary for Fossil Energy, Department of Energy.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Centers for Disease Control. Testimony was heard from William H.
Foege, Director, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human
Services.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on Merit Systems Protection Board; Office of the
Special Counsel; Federal Labor Relations Authority. Testimony was heard from
agency witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings on Title I, Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of
Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Navy procurement
requirements and Navy aircraft programs. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of the Navy: VAdm. L. Baggett, Director,
Office of Naval Warfare and VAdm. Robert F. Schoultz, Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations (Air Warfare), and Lt. Gen. W. H. Fitch, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Aviation, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.

Hearings continue April 18.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE REVITALIZATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization continued hearings on H.R. 2057, Defense Industrial Base
Revitalization Act, and related bills. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

Hearings continue April 20.

OVERSIGHT--NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on General
Oversight and Renegotiation continued oversight hearings on proposals to
establish a National Development Bank. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

AMTRAK AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on AMTRAK reauthorization. Testimony was heard from
Representative Young of Florida; Graham Claytor, President, AMTRAK; Thomas
Till, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation and public witnesses.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on pending natural gas legislation. Testimony was heard
from Patrick Martin, Assistant Secretary, Department of Natural Resources,
State of Louisiana and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 19.

FUTURE FINANCIAL MARKETS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held a hearing on Future Financial Markets: Impact of
Financial Intermediary Policies on Long-Term Investments. Testimony was heard
from public witnesses.

U.S. POLICY IN CENTRAL AMERICA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on U.S. Policy in Central
America. Testimony was heard from Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of
State for Inter-American Affairs.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Human Rights and International
Organizations held a hearing on Human Rights in Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey.
Testimony was heard from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Human
Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Department of State and public witnesses.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT EXTENSION AND REVISION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued hearings on extension and revision of the Export
Administration Act of 1979 with emphasis on National Security Controls and
Export Promotion Programs. Testimony was heard from Representative Byron; from
the following officials of the Department of Commerce: Clyde V. Prestowitz,
Acting Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, International
Trade Administration; Richard L. McElheny, Director General, U.S. and Foreign
Commercial Service and Paul T. O'Day, Acting Assistant Secretary for Trade
Development, International Trade Administration.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice oversight hearings on the Legal Services Corporation
authorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 20.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 2114, to
authorize appropriations for the fiscal year 1984 for certain maritime
programs of the Department of Transportation; H.R. 1076, to strengthen the
domestic waterborne commerce of the United States, and H.R. 1556, amended, to
authorize the conveyance of the liberty ship John W. Brown to the John W.
Brown Preservation Project.

PROSPECTUSES

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Public Buildings
and Grounds held a hearing on pending prospectuses. Testimony was heard from
Richard O. Haase, Commissioner, Public Buildings Service, GSA; James T.
Hackett, Associate Director for Management, USIA and a public witness.

HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight continued hearings on Human Organ Transplants. Testimony was heard
from Dr. Alexander Morgan Capron, Executive Director, President's Commission
for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral
Research and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 27.

COMMERCIALIZATION OF WEATHER AND LAND REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment and the Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications held a joint hearing on H.R. 1958, relating to the transfer of
civil land-remote-sensing space satellite systems and meteorological satellite
systems to the private sector. Testimony was heard from Malcolm Baldrige,
Secretary of Commerce.

TAX EXPORT INCENTIVES

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Tax, Access to Equity Capital and
Business Opportunities held a hearing on DISC and export tax incentives.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

VA CEMETERY SYSTEM

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Memorial Affairs
held a hearing on the VA cemetery system. Testimony was heard from Paul
Bannai, Chief, Memorial Affairs Director, VA, and representatives of veterans'
organizations.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
options to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from former
Representative Herb Harris and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 19.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue April 19.



1983/04/15
Daily Digest - Friday, April 15, 1983; pages D245 - D247 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

TOBACCO PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts concluded
hearings to review the tobacco price support program. Testimony was heard from
Representative Rowland and public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Smithsonian Institution. Testimony was heard from S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
held an oversight hearing on the proposed affirmative action regulations
issued by the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department
of Labor: Robert Collyer, Deputy Under Secretary for Employment Standards, and
Ellen Shong, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and
Clarence Thomas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Hearings continue April 18.



1983/04/18
Daily Digest - Monday, April 18, 1983; pages D247 - D251 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Fiscal
Year 1983 Air Force Reprogramings. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Truman
Spangrud, Director of Budget, U.S. Air Force.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
FDR Memorial Commission and on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.
Testimony was heard from Eugene J. Keogh, Chairman, FDR Memorial Commission
and Alexander Aldrich, Chairman, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration and on St.
Elizabeth's Hospital. Testimony was heard from William E. Mayer,
Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems continued hearings in executive session on Tide I, Procurement, H.R.
2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on chemical
warfare and Army tracked combat vehicles. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Bethune and Anthony; Dr. Richard Wagner, Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; Dr. Theodore Gold, Deputy Assistant
(Chemical Matters), Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering and from the following officials of the Department of the Army:
Brig. Gen. Richard D. Kenyon, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition; Maj. Gen. Durad D. Ball, Program
Manager, M1 Abrams Tank and Brig. Gen. Donald P. Whalen, Program Manager,
Bradley Fighting Vehicle Systems.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on Tide II, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard
from James P. Wade, Jr., Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Research and
Engineering, Department of Defense; Dr. William Mehuron; Deputy Director,
Research and Engineering, NSA; Maj. Gen. Schuyler Bissell, USAF, Deputy
Director, DIA; Robert Cooper, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA); Lt. Gen. William J. Hilsman, USA, Director, Defense
Communications Agency; Maj. Gen. Richard M. Wells, USA, Director, Defense
Mapping Agency; William J. Cassell, Comptroller, Defense Logistics Agency and
Lt. Gen. Harry A. Griffith, USA, Director, Defense Nuclear Agency.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of Title I,
Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with
emphasis on overview and wrapup of the shipbuilding, weapons procurement and
other procurement portions of the Navy budget. Testimony was heard from John
F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary of the Navy; Adm. James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval
Operations and Gen. Robert H. Barrow, Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND FUND, AND THE
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Development Institutions and Finance held a hearing on the authorization for
the African Development Fund, Asian Development Bank and Fund, and the
Inter-American Development Bank. Testimony was heard from R. T. McNamar,
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings continue April 20.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on Export-Import Bank
reauthorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
continued oversight hearing on the proposed affirmative action regulations
issued by the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance
Programs. Testimony was heard from Representative Dixon and public witnesses.

FOREIGN TRADE PRACTICES ACT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade held a hearing on H.R. 2157, Foreign Trade Practices Act of 1983.
Testimony was heard from William Brock, U.S. Trade Representative and public
witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations began
markup of the authorization of appropriations for the Department of State, the
United States Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting,
and the Inter-American Foundation for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue April 25.

WETLANDS RESOURCES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation held a hearing on H.R. 492, to authorize the Secretary
of the Interior to classify and inventory wetland resources, to measure
wetlands degradation, and to evaluate the environmental contribution of
natural wetlands. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of the Interior: James G. Watt, Secretary and Robert A. Jantzen,
Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, and public witnesses.



1983/04/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 19, 1983; pages D251 - D258 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on
Navy/Marine Corps Reserve Programs and on Air Force Procurement (except MX).
Testimony was heard from RAdm. R. F. Dunn, USN, Director, Office of Naval
Reserves; Maj. Gen. S. B. Olmstead, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Reserve
Affairs and Lt. Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition.

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
approved for full Committee action Energy and Water Development Supplemental
Appropriation for fiscal year 1983.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on Security Assistance, fiscal year 1983 supplemental requests and on AID
Overview. Testimony was heard from William Schneider, Assistant Secretary of
State for Security Assistance and Peter McPherson, Director, AID.

HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public Witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Bureau of Indian Affairs. Testimony was heard from Kenneth L. Smith, Assistant
Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on NIH Overview and on the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the Department of Health
and Human Services: James B. Wyngaarden, Director, NIH and Claude Lenfant,
Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Testimony was heard from Arthur
E. Teele, Jr., Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration,
Department of Transportation.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury-Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on the White House Office; Compensation of the
President, Special Assistance to the President and on the Office of
Administration. Testimony was heard from representatives of the Staff of the
White House.

COST OF SPARE PARTS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on
increases in cost of spare parts in the Air Force. Testimony was heard from
Maj. John M. Nelson, U.S. Air Force Reserve; Ira Kemp, Associate Director,
Contracting and Manufacturing Policy, Headquarters, USAF; RAdm. Joseph S.
Sansone, Jr., Deputy Chief of Naval Material (Contracts and Business
Management) Department of the Navy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities concluded hearings, on H.R. 1977, to authorize appropriations for
civil defense programs for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 1927,
Department of Energy National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear
Energy Authorization Act of 1983 and H.R. 2496, amended, to authorize
appropriations for the Department of Energy for national security programs for
fiscal year 1984.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings on
Title III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Navy ship overhaul/strategic
homeporting programs. Testimony was heard from VAdm. William J. Cowhill,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics), Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations, Department of the Navy and RAdm. James K. Nunneley, Director,
Ships Maintenance and Modernization Division, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations, Department of the Navy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on Title II, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of Defense: Maj. Gen. Donald L.
Lamberson, USAF, Deputy and Assistant for Directed Energy Weapons, Office of
the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering; Richard L. Wagner, Assistant
to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy), Office of the Under Secretary for
Research and Engineering and Dr. Theodore S. Gold, Deputy Assistant (Chemical
Matters), Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering; Maj.
Gen. Grayson D. Tate, Jr., Program Manager, Ballistic Missile Defense and
James Carlson, Director, Ballistic Missile Defense, Advanced Technology
Center.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, continued hearings on the shipbuilding portion of Title I,
Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.
Testimony was heard from Richard E. Donnelly, Director, Industrial Resources,
Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, Department of
Defense; VAdm. R. F. Schoultz, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare),
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy; Maj. Gen.
Robert D. Beckel, Director of Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff
for Operations, Department of the Air Force and Paul K. Krueger, Assistant
Associate Director for Resources Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management
Agency.

BUREAU OF THE MINT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs and Coinage approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2570,
to authorize appropriations for the Bureau of the Mint for fiscal year 1984.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Donna Pope, Director, Bureau of the Mint, Department
of the Treasury.

HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development continued markup of H.R. 1, Housing and Urban-Rural
Recovery Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on Export-Import Bank
reauthorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety held an
oversight hearing on the Occupational Safety and Health Act with respect to
staffing levels in those States that operate their own occupational safety and
health programs. Testimony was heard from Wayne Mount, Administrator, Division
of Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Labor and Industrial
Relations, State of Hawaii.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Select Education held an
oversight hearing on Tides I and IV of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act.
Testimony was heard from Thomas W. Pauken, Director, ACTION and Robert
Peterson, Senior Associate Director, Human Resources Division, GAO.

INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL ACT AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on H.R. 2089, to authorize funds for fiscal year
1984 for carrying out the International Travel Act of 1961. Testimony was
heard from Representatives Boner of Tennessee and Badham; John K. Snyder,
Under Secretary for Travel and Tourism, Department of Commerce and public
witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power and the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office
and Civil Service held a joint hearing on the Department of Energy personnel
management. Testimony was heard from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of
Personnel Management; K. William O'Connor, Office of Special Counsel, Merit
Systems Protection Board; from the following officials of the Department of
Energy: J. M. Schulman, Director of Personnel; William Heffelfinger, Director
of Administration; Jan Mares, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy; Joseph
Tribble, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Tina
Hobson, Director, Building Equipment, Conservation and Renewable Energy
Division; Dr. Michael Power, Director, Policy Planning and Evaluation
Division, Conservation and Renewable Energy Division; Gerald Leighton,
Director, Federal and Community Programs Division, Conservation and Renewable
Energy and public witnesses.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on pending natural gas legislation. Testimony was heard
from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2367, Consumer Product
Safety Amendments of 1983.

FCC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance held an oversight hearing on the FCC authorization.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the FCC: Mark S. Fowler,
Chairman; James H. Quello, Anne P. Jones, Henty M. Rivera and Stephen Sharp,
all Commissioners.

LEBANON ASSISTANCE; INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 2532, to
authorize supplemental assistance to aid Lebanon in rebuilding its economy and
armed forces.

The Committee also approved the introduction of a clean bill providing for
supplemental fiscal year 1983 authorization for International Security and
Development Assistance Programs.

PROJECT DEMOCRACY

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations held a
hearing on Project Democracy. Testimony was heard from William E. Brock, U.S.
Trade Representative and Chairman, Project Democracy and public witnesses.

DOMESTIC MARIJUANA

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice, and Agriculture held a hearing on the Federal Role in Suppressing the
Cultivation and Trafficking of Domestic Marijuana. Testimony was heard from
John C. Lawn, Acting Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration,
Department of Justice; R. Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, USDA and
public witnesses.

DOD'S HIGH DOLLAR SPARE PARTS BREAKOUT PROGRAM

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on Management of DOD's High Dollar Spare Parts
Breakout Program. Testimony was heard from David Horan, Director, Procurement,
Logistics and Readiness Division, GAO; Dr. James P. Wade, Jr., Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Gene Van
Arsdale, Deputy Associate Administrator for Procurement and Technical
Assistant, SBA and a public witness.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Accounts met to consider
pending business.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Howe Administration: Subcommittee on Office Systems met to
consider pending business.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Personnel and Police met to
consider pending business.

INDIAN HOUSING ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Concluded hearings on H.R. 1928,
Indian Housing Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from John Fritz, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and Dr. Everett Rhoades,
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment held an oversight hearing on the
International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT).
Testimony was heard from Ted Kronmiller, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans
and Fisheries Affairs, Department of State and Carmen Blondim, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries Resources Management, Department of
Commerce.

COAL PIPELINE ACT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on H.R. 1010, Coal Pipeline Act of 1983.
Testimony was heard from Representative Bereuter; Carol I. Dinkins, Assistant
Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice
and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Science and Technology: Ordered reported the following bills:
H.R. 2066, amended, National Science Foundation Authorization for fiscal year
1984; H.R. 2513, amended, National Bureau of Standards Authorization for
fiscal year 1984; H.R. 2514, Technical Information Clearinghouse Fund Act of
1983, and H.R. 2465, Federal Emergency Management Administration
Authorization.

EPA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment continued hearings on EPA authorization
for fiscal year 1984. Testimony was heard from Representatives Dingell,
Trailer and Albosta; James J. Blanchard, Governor of Michigan; Dr. Edward
Ferrand, Assistant Commissioner for Science and Technology, Department of
Environmental Protection, New York City and public witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on Department of Energy
Authorization for fiscal year 1984-Environmental R&D Programs. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Energy: Dr. Alvin W.
Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research; Dr. Charles W. Edington,
Associate Director, Office of Biological and Environmental Research and Robert
W. Davies, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Environment, Safety and Health.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems held a hearing on H.R. 863, to
amend the Small Business Act. Testimony was heard from William F. Madison,
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, GSA; Norma
Leftwich, Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization,
Office of the Secretary of Defense and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and
Insurance held an oversight hearing on H.R. 2391, Veterans' Disability
Compensation Amendments of 1983. Testimony was heard from Dorothy L. Starbuck,
Chief Benefits Director, VA and representatives of veterans organizations.

EMERGENCY VIETNAM VETERANS' JOB TRAINING ACT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training and
Employment held a hearing on H.R. 2355, Emergency Vietnam Veterans' Jobs
Training Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Dorothy L. Starbuck, Chief
Benefits Director, VA; William C. Plowden, Jr., Assistant Secretary for
Veterans' Employment, Department of Labor; representatives of veterans'
organizations and a public witness.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
options to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from
departmental and public witnesses.

Hearings continue May 4.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization continued hearings in executive session on the National Foreign
Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

Hearings continue April 26.



1983/04/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 20, 1983; pages D258 - D264 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural
Development held a hearing to review the Federal Crop Insurance Program.
Testimony was heard from. Representative Alexander and agency witnesses.

FOOD AND NUTRITION SERVICE BUDGET

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer
Relations, and Nutrition held a hearing to review fiscal year 1984 budget for
the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Jeffords and Moody; departmental and public witnesses.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Navy
Shipbuilding. Testimony was heard from George A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics; VAdm. R. L. Walters, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare and VAdm. E. B. Fowler, Commander,
Naval Sea Systems Command.

HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued hearings on
the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Testimony was heard from Kenneth L. Smith,
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences. Testimony was heard from Dr. Vincent DeVita,
Director, National Cancer Institute and David Rall, Director, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, both with the Department of Health
and Human Services.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on pending fiscal year 1983 reprogrammings; increases and cost
overruns. Testimony was heard from Maj. Gen. Norman G. Delbridge, Jr.,
Assistant Chief of Engineers, USA; RAdm. W. M. Zobel, Commmander, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, USN, and Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright, Director
of Engineering and Services, USAF.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued hearings
on the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Testimony was heard from
Arthur E. Teele, Jr., Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration,
Department of Transportation.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on the Executive Residence; Residence of the Vice
President; the Council of Economic Advisors; and on Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations. Testimony was heard from Martin Feldstein,
Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors.

MX MISSILE

Committee on Armed Services: Held a hearing on the proposal of the President's
Commission on Strategic Forces regarding the MX. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces: Brent
Scowcroft, Chairman; John M. Deutch, John H. Lyons and R. James Woolsey, all
members of the Commission.

COST OF SPARE PARTS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Investigations continued hearings
on increases in cost of spare parts in the Air Force. Testimony was heard from
Representative Kasich.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on Title II, Research, Development, .Test and Evaluation,
H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard
from Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering; RAdm. Robert E. Kirksey, USN, Director, Strategy, Plans and
Policy Division, Office of Chief of Naval Operations; VAdm. Gordon R. Nagler,
USN, Director, Command and Control, Department of the Navy; Maj. Gen. Robert
D. Beckel, USAF, Director of Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and
Operations, Headquarters, USAF, and Brig. Gen. Robert D. Eaglet, USAF, Deputy
Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs, Air Force Systems Command, Department
of the Air Force.

Hearings continue April 22.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE REVITALIZATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization concluded hearings on H.R. 2057, Defense Industrial Base
Revitalization Act, and related bills. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions, Supervision, Regulation and Insurance held a hearing on H.J.
Res. 208, expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should
use the upcoming economic summit meetings to indicate its willingness to
pursue monetary and fiscal policies necessary to stimulate growth in this
country and help lead a world economic recovery. Testimony was heard from
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, GAO; Elinor G. Constable, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs; Marc E.
Leland, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, and
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development continued markup of H.R. 1, Housing and Urban-Rural
Recovery Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND FUND, AND THE
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Development Institutions and Finance concluded hearings on the authorization
for the African Development Fund, Asian Development Bank and Fund, and
Inter-American Development Bank. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK REAUTHORIZATION

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on Export-Import Bank
reauthorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

REHABILITATION ACT AMENDMENTS; CONGRESSIONAL AWARD ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R.
2461, amended, to extend and improve the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to
provide for the operation of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind
Youths and Adults, and H.R. 2357, Congressional Award Act.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education continued oversight hearings on the use of Federal funds
authorized under Tide III and IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

FOLLOW THROUGH AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Human Resources held a
hearing on H.R. 2148, Follow Through Amendments of 1983. Testimony was heard
from Representative Porter; the following officials of the Department of
Education: Dr. Lawrence Davenport, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education; Lewis J. McGuinness, Director of Follow Through; Monika
Edwards Harrision, Director, Policy, Planning and Executive Operations, and
John Staehle, Acting Director, Compensatory Education Programs, and public
witnesses.

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
held a hearing on H.R. 1743, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to
authorize the Secretary of Labor to prohibit the awarding of Federal contracts
to persons who have violated certain judicial orders or orders issued by the
National Labor Relations Board. Testimony was heard from Representative Simon
and public witnesses.

NONDISCRIMINATION IN INSURANCE ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action H.R. 100, Nondiscrimination in
Insurance Act.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
continued hearings on pending natural gas legislation. Testimony was heard
from C. M. Butler, III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Department. of Energy and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources began markup of State and Local Assistance Act
of 1972, as amended (H.R. 1930 and related bills).

Will continue tomorrow.

FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION AUTHORIZATION; COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Ordered reported amended H.R. 2621, to
authorize appropriations for the Federal Election Commission for fiscal year
1984.

The Committee also approved recommendations from the following Subcommittees:
Accounts; Personnel and Police, and Office Systems.

DEDICATE GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA TO PHILLIP BURTON

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported amended H.R. 2600,
to dedicate the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to Phillip Burton.

NRC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2510, to
authorize appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in accordance
with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and section 305 of the
Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on Patent and Trademark
Office. Testimony was heard from Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Commissioner, U.S.
Patent and Trademarks Office, Department of Commerce.

The Subcommittee also concluded oversight hearings on the Legal Services
Corporation authorization. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice continued
oversight hearing on Exclusionary Rule. Testimony was heard from D. Lowell
Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice
and public witnesses.

FEDERAL BOAT SAFETY ACT AMENDMENTS; OVERSIGHT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and
Navigation approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2163, to amend
the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971.

The Subcommittee also held an oversight hearing on H.R. 2222, Comprehensive
Oil Pollution Liability and Compensation Act, and related bills. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the U.S. Coast Guard: Adm. Bobbie
Hollingsworth, Chief, Office of Marine Environment and Systems and Capt.
Frederick Burgess, Chief, Maritime International Law Division and public
witnesses.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development held a hearing on proposals to stimulate short-term job creation
and long-term repair, renovation and construction of public facilities.
Testimony was heard from Ray Kramer, Mayor, Asbury Park, New Jersey and public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NASA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
2065, to authorize appropriations to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration for research and development, construction of facilities, and
research and program management. Testimony was heard from Chairman Fuqua and
Representative Winn.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment approved for full Committee action the
Department of Energy authorization for fiscal year 1984 Environmental R&D
Programs.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems concluded hearings on H.R. 863,
to amend the Small Business Act. Testimony was heard from James C. Sanders,
Administrator, SBA; Victor M. Rivera, Director, Minority Business Development
Agency Department of Commerce and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade approved for full Committee
action as amended H.R. 2602, to authorize appropriations for the U.S.
International Trade Commission, the U.S. Customs Service, and the Office of
the U.S. Trade Representative for fiscal year 1984.

The Subcommittee began markup of H.R. 2083, to improve worker training under
the Trade Act of 1974.

NICARAGUA

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to hold a
hearing on Nicaragua. Testimony was heard from George P. Shultz, Secretary of
State.



1983/04/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 21, 1983; pages D264 - D271 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on
military compensation issues and on Sealift Program. Testimony was heard from
Dr. Kenneth J. Coffey, Associate Director, GAO; Robert F. Hale, Assistant
Director, National Security International Affairs Division, CBO; Adm. George
A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics;
VAdm. W. J. Cowhill, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Logistics; VAdm. K.
J. Carroll, Commander, Military Sealift Command and Maj. Gen. H. G. Glasgow,
Director, Operations Divisions, Headquarters, USMC.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations met in
executive session to hold a hearing on Pakistan Reprogramming. Testimony was
heard from departmental witnesses.

HUD, INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued hearings on
Smithsonian Institution. Testimony was heard from S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution.

LABOR-HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders
and Stroke; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of Health and Human Services: Dr. Betty Pickett,
Director, Research Resources, NIH; Dr. Lestor Salans, Director, National
Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes and Digestive Diseases; Dr. Murray Goldstein,
Director, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and
Stroke and Dr. Ruth Kirschstein, Director, National Institute of General
Medical Sciences.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation held a hearing on
the Office of the Secretary. Testimony was heard from Donald A. Derman,
Assistant Secretary for Policy and Budget, Department of Transportation.

TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE-GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on the Property Review Board, Office of Federal
Procurement Policy and Unanticipated Needs. Testimony was heard from
departmental witnesses.

MX MISSILE

Committee on Armed Forces: Continued hearings on the proposal of the
President's Commission on Strategic Forces regarding the MX. Testimony was
heard from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; Richard D. DeLauer,
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Gen. John W. Vessey,
Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Staff,
USA; Gen. Robert H. Barrow, Commandant, USMC; Adm. James D. Watkins, Chief of
Naval Operations, USN and Gen. Charles A. Gabriel, Chief of Staff, USAF.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions, Supervision, Regulation and Insurance concluded hearings on HI
Res. 208, expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should
use the upcoming economic summit meetings to indicate its willingness to
pursue monetary and fiscal policies necessary to stimulate growth in this
country and help lead a world economic recovery. Testimony was heard from
William M. Isaac, Chairman, FDIC; C. Todd Conover, Comptroller of the
Currency, Department of the Treasury; John S. R. Shad, Chairman, SEC and J.
Charles Partee, Governor, Federal Reserve System.

HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development continued markup of H.R. 1, Housing and Urban-Rural
Recovery Act of 1983.

Will continue April 26.

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FUND, ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AND FUND, AND THE
INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Development Institutions and Finance approved for full Committee action as
amended H.R. 2586, to provide for increased participation by the United States
in the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the
African Development Fund.

NATIONAL CENTERS FOR PERSONAL COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held a hearing on H.R. 1134, to amend tide III of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to provide for one or more
national centers for personal computers in education. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses.

TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on the Toxic Substances Control Act. Testimony was
heard from Donald Clay, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Pesticides
and Toxic Substances, EPA; Michael Gough, Office of Technology Assessment and
public witnesses.

U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2089, to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1984 for carrying out the International Travel
Act of 1961.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
concluded hearings on pending natural gas legislation. Testimony was heard
from Representatives Michel, Wise, Young of Missouri, Harkin, Volkmer, Evans
of Illinois, Conyers, Bedell, Dixon, Wolpe, Staggers, Oberstar, Moody, Oxley
and Gramm.

STATE AND LOCAL ASSISTANCE ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources approved for full Committee action introduction
of a dean bill amending the State and Local Assistance Act of 1972, as
amended.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks held an oversight hearing on the impact of acquisition delays
on the lands and resources of the national park system. Testimony was heard
from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OFFICE OF ETHICS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law and
Governmental Relations approved for full Committee action the introduction of
a clean bill in lieu of H.R. 1650, to extend the authorization of
appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics for five years.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
and the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service held a joint hearing on Presidential Directive on the use of
polygraphs and prepublication review. Testimony was heard from Norman Ansley,
Chief, Polygraph Division, Office of Security, NSA and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 28.

RULES ENABLING ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held an oversight hearing on the Rules Enabling Act.
Testimony was heard from Edward T. Gignoux, Chairman, Standing Committee on
Rules of Practice and Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States and
public witnesses.

INSANITY DEFENSE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice continued
hearings on H.R. 1280, to modify the insanity defense in the Federal courts,
and related bills. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

DEEP-DRAFT COMMERCIAL PORTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held an oversight hearing on national policy toward the operation,
maintenance, and improvement of deep-draft commercial ports. Testimony was
heard from Senator Warner; Representatives Matsui, Whitehurst and Moody; Adm.
Harold E. Shear, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; J. Erich Evered, Administrator, Energy Information
Administration, Department of Energy; William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Civil Works; Paul T. O'Day, Acting Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Development and public witnesses.

OPM's PROPOSED REGULATIONS ON CIVIL SERVICE

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Held a hearing on the Office of
Personnel Management's proposed regulations on civil service. Testimony was
heard from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel Management.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development continued hearings on proposals to stimulate short-term job
creation and long-term repair, renovation and construction of public
facilities. Testimony was heard from Dr. William S. Butcher, Director, Civil
and Environmental Engineering Division, NSF; Tom Bradley, Mayor, City of Los
Angeles, California and public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 26.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Began markup of H.R. 2587, to authorize
appropriations to the Department of Energy for civilian research and
development programs for the fiscal year 1984.

Will continue April 26.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems held a hearing on H.R. 2132, to
amend the Small Business Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue April 27.

VA HOME LOAN PROGRAM

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Memorial Affairs
held a hearing on VA Home Loan Program. Testimony was heard from Robert M.
O'Toole, Director, Loan Guaranty Service, VA; representatives of veterans'
organizations and public witnesses.

U.S.-JAPAN BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
U.S.-Japan bilateral trade relations. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

Hearings continue April 26.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.



1983/04/25
Daily Digest - Monday, April 25, 1983; pages D272 - D276 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on the
fiscal year 1983 pay and related reprogrammings. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Defense: L. Paul Dube, Director of
Operations, Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller); Albert
Conte, Director of Military Personnel, Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller); Col. Michael Gilmartin, Director, Personnel Administration and
Services, Office, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs
and Logistics), and from representatives of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Department of Energy programs. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

On April 22, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the Geological Survey.
Testimony was heard from Dallas L. Peck, Director, Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior.

LABOR, HHS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education held a
hearing on the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National
Eye Institute and the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Health and Human Services: Dr. Richard Krause, Director,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Dr. Carl Kupfer,
Director, National Eye Institute and Dr. Mortimer Lepsett, Director, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

MX MISSILE

Committee on Armed Services: On April 22, the Committee concluded hearings on
the proposal of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces regarding the
MX. Testimony was heard from a public witness.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Dr. James R. Blaker, Deputy
Assistant Secretary (Policy Analysis), Office of the Assistant Secretary for
International Security Affairs, Department of Defense; Brig. Gen. Richard E.
Stephenson, USA, Director of Logistics and Security Assistance, U.S. Central
Command and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems and the Subcommittee on Research and Development held a joint hearing
in executive session on H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act,
1984. Testimony was heard from James C. McCrery, Defense Intelligence Officer
for Strategic Programs, Defense Intelligence Agency; Dr. William E. Hoehn,
Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Security Policy),
Department of Defense; William Schneider, Under Secretary for Security
Assistance, Science and Technology, Department of State; James P. Wade, Jr.,
Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, Department of
Defense and a public witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: On April 22, the Subcommittee on Research and
Development continued hearings on Tide II, Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with
emphasis on the impact of additional Department of Defense funds for basic
research at the universities. Testimony was heard from Dr. Richard DeLaeur,
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Dr. Edith Martin,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology and a
public witness.

Hearings continue April 27.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, concluded hearings on the shipbuilding portion of Tide I,
Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy held an oversight hearing on the Safety, Soundness, Structure
and Function of Domestic Institutions Engaged in the Purchase and Sale of U.S.
Government Debt Instruments. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

LOSS OF HEALTH INSURANCE DUE TO UNEMPLOYMENT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: On April 22, the Subcommittee on Health and
the Environment concluded hearings on loss of health insurance due to
unemployment, including consideration of the following bills: H.R. 2552, to
amend the Social Security Act to provide for a program of grants to States to
provide health care benefits for the unemployed, and H.R. 1823, Health
Insurance for Unemployed Workers Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

FOREIGN TRADE PRACTICES ACT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade concluded hearings on H.R. 2157, Foreign Trade Practices Act of
1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION; RADIO BROADCASTING TO CUBA

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Operations
approved for full Committee action legislation authorizing appropriations for
the Department of State, the U.S. Information Agency, the Board for
International Broadcasting, and the Inter-American Foundation for fiscal years
1984 and 1985, and H.R. 2453, amended, to amend the Board for International
Broadcasting Act of 1973 to provide for radio broadcasting to Cuba.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee the following bills: H.R. 9,
amended, to designate components of the National Wilderness Preservation
System in the State of Florida; H.R. 2477, amended, the Sipsey Wilderness
Additions Act of 1983; H.R. 451, to validate conveyances of certain lands in
the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the
United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company; H.R. 1062, amended, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration,
certain lands in Lane County, Oregon; and H.R. 1191, amended, to convey full
title for lands granted to the town of Olathe, Colorado, by Act of Congress.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on H.R. 9 and H.R. 2326,
to designate components of the National Wilderness Preservation System in the
State of Florida and H.R. 2477, the Sipsey Wilderness Additions Act of 1983.
Testimony was heard from R. Max Peterson, Representatives Fuqua and Flippo; R.
Max Peterson, Chief, Forest Service, USDA; David Houston, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Land and Water Resources, Department of the Interior and public
witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: On April 22, the Subcommittee on
Public Lands and National Parks continued oversight hearing on the impact of
acquisition delays on the lands and resources of the national park system.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the National Park Service,
Department of the Interior: Russell Dickenson, Director; Willis Friz, Chief of
Land Resources Division, and Donald Humphrey, Park Planner; and various Park
Superintendents.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography and
the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
held a joint hearing on H.R. 1546, to reauthorize the National Ocean Pollution
Planning Act and H.R. 1547, to reauthorize title II of the Marine Protection,
Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Testimony was heard from William
Matuszeski, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for the National Ocean
Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce and Frederic A. Eidness, Assistant Administrator for Water, EPA.



1983/04/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 26, 1983; pages D276 - D282 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

WATERSHED PROJECTS

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural
Development approved for full Committee action the following watershed
projects: Elm Creek Watershed, Texas and East Carroll Watershed, Louisiana.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on the watershed
projects. Testimony was heard from Representatives Huckaby and Stenholm and
departmental witnesses.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on fiscal
year 1983 Defense Supplemental. Testimony was heard from Caspar W. Weinberger,
Secretary of Defense; Charles Groover, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Program Integration, Office, Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics;
James R. Ambrose, Under Secretary of the Army; Gen. Bernard Rogers, USA,
Commander in Chief, U.S. European Command and representatives of the Army,
Navy and Air Force.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations approved for
full Committee action reprogramming appropriations for El Salvador.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Institute of Museum Services and on the National Endowment for the Arts.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
held a hearing on the National Institute on Aging; National Institute of
Dental Research; John E. Fogarty International Center, and on the National
Library of Medicine, buildings and facilities and the office of the Director.
Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch approved for
full Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held a hearing on Advisory Committee on Federal Pay.
Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

The Subcommittee also heard from public witnesses.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to hold a classified
intelligence briefing. The Committee was briefed by representatives of the
Defense Intelligence Agency.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities continued hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Dr. William E. Hoehn, Jr.,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (International Security Policy),
Department of Defense and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel concluded
hearings on the manpower portions of H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Lt. Gen. R. Dean Tice,
Deputy Assistant Secretary (Military Personnel and Force Management), Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics,
Department of Defense and Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director for National
Security and International Affairs, CBO.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems and the Subcommittee on Research and Development concluded joint
hearings in executive session on H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, USA,
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe and Commander in Chief, U.S. European
Command; Lt. Gen. Fred K. Mahaffey, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans, Department of the Army; Maj. Gen. Jaspar A. Welch, Jr., Assistant
Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, Department of
the Air Force and Lt. Gen. James F. Hollingsworth, USA (Ret.).

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness continued hearings in
executive session on Tide III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287,
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on Defense stock
funds and readiness. Testimony was heard from Steven A. Trodden, Director of
Procurement, Office of the Assistant Secretary (Comptroller), Department of
Defense; Brig. Gen. Edward Honor, Director of Resources and Management, Office
of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, Department of the Army; Brig. Gen.
Alfred G. Hansen, Director, Logistics Plans and Programs, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Staff for Logistics and Engineering, Department of the Air Force;
Commander Gerald L, Riendeau, Deputy Director, Fiscal Management Division,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations and Donald B. Shycoff, Budget Office,
Defense Logistics Agency.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Seapower and Strategic and
Critical Materials, approved for full Committee action as amended the
shipbuilding portions of Title I, Procurement, H.R. 2287, Department of
Defense Authorization Act, 1984.

BALANCED FULL GROWTH MONETARY POLICY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Domestic
Monetary Policy held a hearing on H.R. 1569, Balanced Full Growth Monetary
Policy Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue May 11.

HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Community Development approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1,
Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on IMF Quota
Increase. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Health and Safety continued
oversight hearing on the Occupational Safety and Health Act with respect to
staffing levels in those States that operate their own occupational safety and
health programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Commonwealth of Virginia: Clayton Dean, Assistant Commissioner of Labor and
Industry and Jan Thomas, Chief Administrator, Occupational Safety and Health
Program.

Hearings continue May 3.

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
a hearing on Institute of Museum Services Technical Amendments legislation.
Testimony was heard from Lilla Tower, Director, Institute of Museum Services
and public witnesses.

DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE ACT

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Select Education approved for
full Committee action as amended H.R. 2655, to extend and improve the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act of 1973.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported the following measures:
H.J. Res. 219, declaring the support of the U.S. Government for efforts of the
U.S. Soccer Federation to bring the World Cup to the United States in 1986,
and designating the Secretary of Commerce as the official representative of
the U.S. Government to the Federation Internationale de Football Association;
H.R. 2498, Congressional Advisory Commission on Boxing Act, and H.R. 2721, to
authorize funds for fiscal year 1984 for carrying out the International Travel
Act of 1961.

The Committee also approved a resolution citing former Assistant Administrator
of the EPA, Rita M. Lavelle, for contempt of Congress.

SERVICE INDUSTRIES COMMERCE DEVELOPMENT ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action H.R. 794, Service Industries
Commerce Development Act of 1983.

INCREASE AID FOR LOW INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Fossil and Synthetic Fuels
approved for full Committee as amended H.R. 2306, increasing funding for
low-income home energy assistance, limits use of low-income home energy
assistance funds made available in prior years and makes data collecting and
reporting requirements under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981
more consistent with the purposes of such Act.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance approved for full Committee action the following
bills: H.R. 560, to amend section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to
permit the Securities and Exchange Commission to accept certain payments and
reimbursements with respect to attendance at meetings and conferences
concerning the functions of the Commission; H.R. 561, amended, to amend
section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to permit payments or
relocation expenses to participants in the professional fellows programs of
the Securities and Exchange Commission, notwithstanding any other provision of
law; H.R. 562, to amend section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 with
respect to activities of brokers and dealers who are not members of registered
securities associations; H.R. 563, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 with respect to public membership on the Municipal Securities Rulemaking
Board; and H.R. 1416, to amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to
authorize appropriations for the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal
years 1984 through 1986.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND THE PEACE CORPS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Began markup of the authorization of
appropriations for the International Security and Development Assistance
Programs and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue tomorrow.

FDA REGULATION OF THE DRUG ZOMAX

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources held a hearing on the FDA and regulation of the
drug, zomax. Testimony was heard from Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., Commissioner,
FDA, Department of Health and Human Services and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CURRENT STATUS OF THREE MILE ISLAND

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy and the
Environment held an oversight hearing on the current status of Three Mile
Island. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the NRC: Nunzio
Palladino, Chairman; Victor Gilinsky, John F. Ahearne, Thomas M. Roberts and
James K. Asselstine, all Commissioners; from the following officials of the
State of Pennsylvania: Earl Gohl, Chairman, City Council, Harrisburg; Larry
Hochendoner, Commissioner, Dauphin County and William J. Althaus, Mayor, York
and public witnesses.

NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM PROTECTION AND RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2379,
National Park System Protection and Resources Management Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Water and Power
Resources approved for full Committee action as amended the following bills:
H.R. 71, to authorize and direct the Secretary of the Interior to engage in a
special study of the potential for ground water recharge in the High Plains
States and H.R. 1652, to amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R. 2174,
amended, Federal Anti-Tampering Act; H.R. 2173, Contract Services for Drug
Dependent Federal Offenders Authorization Act of 1983 and H.R. 2717, to extend
the authorization of appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics for 5
years.

PANAMA CANAL AUTHORIZATION; OVERSIGHT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer
Continental Shelf approved for full Committee action H.R. 2689, to authorize
appropriations for the fiscal year 1984 for the operation and maintenance of
the Panama Canal.

The Subcommittee also held an oversight hearing on the impact of OPEC's
policies on the domestic oil and support industry with respect to the OCS.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development continued hearings on proposals to stimulate short-term job
creation and long-term repair, renovation and construction of public
facilities. Testimony was heard from Representative Penny; Rudy Perpich,
Governor, Minnesota; from the following Mayors of Cities in Minnesota: George
Latimer, St. Paul; Herbert Mocol, Mankato and Robert J. Huston, St. Cloud;
Alan J. Karcher, Speaker, Assembly, State of New Jersey; William G. Suzore,
Chairman, Board of County Commissioners, Wayne County, Michigan, and public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Continued markup of H.R. 2587, to
authorize appropriations to the Department of Energy for civilian research and
development programs for the fiscal year 1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

VIETNAM VETERANS AGENT ORANGE RELIEF ACT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and
Insurance held a hearing on H.R. 1961, Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange Relief
Act. Testimony was heard from Representatives Bonior of Michigan and Daschle;
Harry Walters, Administrator, VA; representatives of veterans' organizations
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

U.S.-JAPAN BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade concluded hearings on
U.S.-Japan bilateral trade relations. Testimony was heard from Michael B.
Smith, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Denis Lamb, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Trade and Commercial Affairs; Mel F. Berngartt, Deputy
Associate Director, International Division, GAO and public witnesses.

NATIONAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BUDGET

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Program and Budget
Authorization began markup of the National Foreign Intelligence Program
Budget.

Will continue May 3.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee continued hearings in executive session
on the National Foreign Intelligence Program Budget. Testimony was heard from
departmental witnesses.



1983/04/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 27, 1983; pages D282 - D289 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FIFRA AUTHORIZATION; NATIVE LATEX ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and
Foreign Agriculture approved for full Committee action the following measures:
the introduction of a clean bill reauthorizing the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, and H.R. 2733, to extend and improve the
existing program of research, development, and demonstration in the production
and manufacture of guayule rubber, and to broaden such program to include
other critical agricultural materials.

DAIRY LEGISLATION

Committee on Agriculture: Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
approved for full Committee action the following measures: H.R. 2264, amended,
to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to repeal the authority of the Secretary
of Agriculture to make certain deductions from the proceeds of milk marketed
commercially by producers, and the introduction of a clean bill entitled,
"Dairy Production Act of 1983."

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on Horn of Africa. Testimony was heard from Chester Crocker, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Bureau of Land Management. Testimony Was heard from Garrey E. Carruthers,
Assistant Secretary for Land and Water Resources, Department of the Interior.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education held a
hearing on the Office of Human Development Services and on the Health Care
Financing Administration. Testimony was heard from departmental witnesses.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held a hearing on the Office of Personnel Management.
Testimony was heard from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel
Management.

The Subcommittee also heard public witnesses.

REVISE AND REFORM DEFENSE PROCUREMENT SYSTEM

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing on
H.R. 2545, to amend chapter 137 of title 10, United States Code, to revise and
reform the defense procurement system by promoting competition and
streamlining contract procedures. Testimony was heard from Mary Ann Gilleece,
Deputy Under Secretary (Acquisition Management), Office of the Under Secretary
for Research and Engineering, Department of Defense.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities concluded hearings on H.R. 1816, Military Construction
Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard from the following officials of
the Department of the Air Force: Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright, Director,
Engineering and Services and Brig. Gen. Gordon E. Fornell, Special Assistant
for Peacekeeper, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development
and Acquisition, and public witnesses.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness concluded hearings in
executive sessions on Title III, Operation and Maintenance, H.R. 2287,
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984, with emphasis on military
supply system inventory control problems, including accuracy of records,
losses and excessive adjustments. Testimony was heard from Henry W. Connor,
Senior Associate Director, Procurement. Logistics and Readiness Division, GAO;
Dr. Richard D. Webster, Deputy Assistant Secretary (Logistics and Materiel
Management), Department of Defense; Maj. Gen. James S. Welch, Director, Supply
Maintenance and Transportation, U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness
Command, Department of the Army; Brig. Gen. William P. Bowden, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Logistics Operation, Headquarters, Air Force Logistics Command,
USAF; VAdm. E. A. Grinstead, SC, USN, Director, Defense Logistics Agency and
RAdm. Andrew A. Giordano, Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command, Department
of the Navy.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development
continued hearings on Title II, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. Testimony was heard
from James P. Wade, Jr., Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Research and
Engineering, Department of Defense and Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant Secretary
for Research, Development and Logistics, Department of the Air Force.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Economic
Stabilization approved for full Committee action as amended the following
bills: H.R. 10, to amend the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965
and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, and H.R. 2057, Defense
Industrial Base Revitalization Act.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary approved for full Committee action as amended
H.R. 2541, Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of 1983.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on IMF Quota
Increase. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on school asbestos hazards.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of EPA: Ed Klein, Director,
Chemical Control Division, Office of Toxic Substances and Dwight Brown,
Asbestos Coordinator, Region IV; Dr. Lawrence Davenport, Assistant Secretary
for Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education and public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Human Resources approved for
full Committee action as amended the following bills: H.R. 1719, to amend the
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to authorize appropriations for the
fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986, and H.R. 2148, to reenact the follow
through program with certain technical changes, to authorize appropriations
for such programs for fiscal Years 1984-85.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ACT

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education held
a hearing on H.R. 2708, to further the national security and improve the
economy of the United States by providing grants for the improvement of
proficiency in critical languages, for the improvement of elementary and
secondary foreign language instruction, and for per capita grants to reimburse
institutions of higher education to promote the growth and improve the quality
of postsecondary foreign language instruction. Testimony was heard from
Richard McElheny, Director General, U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service
International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce and public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1398,
Energy Conservation Daylight Saving Act of 1983.

The Committee also began markup of H.R. 2668, to amend the Consumer Product
Safety Act to extend it for 5 fiscal years.

The Committee recessed subject to call.

HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTROL AND ENFORCEMENT ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism approved for full Committee action the Hazardous Waste Control and
Enforcement Act of 1983.

WEATHERIZATION AND EMPLOYMENT ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power approved for full Committee action H.R. 2615, to amend the Energy
Conservation in Existing Buildings Act of 1976 to provide for the
weatherization of the remaining eligible low-income dwelling units throughout
the United States, to create additional employment in weatherization-related
industries.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND THE PEACE CORPS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Continued markup of the authorization of
appropriations for the International Security and Development Assistance
Programs and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue May 3.

FDA REGULATION OF THE DRUG ZOMAX

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental
Relations and Human Resources concluded hearings on the FDA and regulation of
the drug, zomax. Testimony was heard from Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr.,
Commissioner, FDA, Department of Health and Human Services and public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on the following bills: H.R. 2718, Paperwork Reduction
Act Amendments of 1983 and H.R. 2592, to transfer from the Director of the
Office of Management and Budget to the Administrator of General Services the
responsibility for publication of the catalog of Federal domestic assistance
programs. Testimony was heard from Representative Dingell; Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General; Joseph Wright, Deputy Director, Office of Management and
Budget; Gerald P. Carmen, Administrator, GSA and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported the following
bills: H.R. 1746, to authorize appropriations for the Navajo and Hopi Indian
Relocation Commission; H.R. 451, to validate conveyances of certain lands in
the State of California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the
United States to the Central Pacific Railway Company; H.R. 1062, amended, to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey, without consideration,
certain lands in Lane Country, Oregon; H.R. 1191, amended, to convey full
title for lands granted to the town of Olathe, Colorado, by Act of Congress,
and H.R. 2510, amended, to authorize appropriations to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission in accordance with section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and
section 305 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.

TORT CLAIMS LEGISLATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law held a hearing
on H.R. 595, to amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide for an
exclusive remedy against the United States in suits based upon acts or
omissions of U.S. employees, to provide a remedy against the United States
with respect to constitutional torts. Testimony was heard from J. Paul
McGrath, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; from the following
officials of USDA: James A. Barnes, General Counsel; L. L. Gast, Associate
Administrator, Food Safety Inspection Service; Jack Atwell, Deputy
Administrator for Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service and F. H. Houle, D.V.M., Staff Veterinarian, Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on FBI Domestic Security Guidelines. Testimony was
heard from the following officials of the Department of Justice: William H.
Webster, Director, FBI and D. Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General,
Criminal Division.

SUPREME COURT WORKLOAD

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice held a hearing on H.R. 1968, Supreme Court Mandatory
Appellate Jurisdiction Reform Act of 1983, and H.R. 1970, Intercircuit
Tribunal of the United States Courts of Appeals Act. Testimony was heard from
A. Leo Levin, Director, Federal Judicial Center and a public witness. 

CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice held a hearing on
H.R. 1694, Corrupt Horseracing Practices Act. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Ordered reported the following
bills: H.R. 5, amended, to establish an ocean and coastal resources management
and development fund from which costal States shall receive block grants; H.R.
2062, amended, to amend title III of the Marine Protection, Research, and
Sanctuaries Act of 1972; H.R. 1076, to strengthen the domestic waterbone
commerce of the United States; and H.R. 1556, to authorize the conveyance of
the liberty ship John 1r Brown to the John W. Brown Preservation Project.

SHIPPING ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on H.R. 2562, to amend section 45 of the Shipping Act, 1916, so
as to remove maritime labor agreements from the jurisdiction of the Federal
Maritime Commission. Testimony was heard from Alan Green, Jr., Chairman,
Federal Maritime Commission and public witnesses.

AVIATION DRUG-TRAFFICKING CONTROL ACT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation held a
hearing on H.R. 1580, Aviation Drug-Trafficking Control Act. Testimony was
heard from Representative Bennett; J. Robert Grimes, Director, Office of
Patrol, Office of Enforcement, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury; Anthony J. Broderick, Deputy Associate Administrator for Aviation
Standards, FAA, Department of Transportation, and public witnesses.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development continued hearings on proposals to stimulate short-term job
creation and long-term repair, renovation, and construction of public
facilities. Testimony was heard from Representatives Eckart and Murphy; Alice
Rivlin, Director, CBO, and public witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 2587,
Department of Energy Civilian Research and Development Authorization Act for
fiscal year 1984.

HUMAN ORGAN TRANSPLANTS

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight concluded hearings on Human Organ Transplants. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of Health and Human Services:
Dr. Edward Brandt, Assistant Secretary for Health and Carolyne K. Davis,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration; Dr. H. David Banta,
Assistant Director, Health and Life Sciences Division, Office of Technology
Assessment and public witnesses.

EPA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment held a hearing on the fiscal year 1984
budget request of the EPA for research and development. Testimony was heard
from Representative Evans of Iowa; Dr. Richard Rowberg, Program Manager,
Energy Programs, Office of Technology Assessment and public witnesses.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems continued hearings on H.R.
2132, to amend the Small Business Act. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Oberstar and de Lugo and James C. Sanders, Administrator, SBA.

EMPLOYMENT AND INVESTMENT INCENTIVES FOR SMALL BUSINESS IN DISTRESSED AREAS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Tax, Access to Equity Capital and
Business Opportunities held a hearing on urban revitalization and the plight
of the Nation's displaced workers. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

VIETNAM VETERANS AGENT ORANGE RELIEF ACT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and
Insurance concluded a hearing on H.R. 1961, Vietnam Veterans Agent Orange
Relief Act. Testimony was heard from Representative Boxer; from the following
officials of the VA: Dorothy Starbuck, Chief, Benefits Director and Dr. Donald
Custis, Chief Medical Director and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS TARIFF AND TRADE BILLS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade held a hearing on
miscellaneous tariff and trade bills. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Sam Hall and Panetta; departmental and public witnesses.

Hearings continue May 5.



1983/04/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 28, 1983; pages D289 - D297 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture met in executive
session to mark up fiscal year 1983 supplemental.

The Subcommittee also heard John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture, regarding
Agricultural Programs.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on Africa and the Sahel Region. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the Department of State: Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary for
African Affairs, and David Schneider, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Near East and South Asian Affairs, and Frank Ruddy, Assistant Administrator
for Africa, AID.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on the
Department of Energy-Conservation. Testimony was heard from Joseph J. Tribble,
Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education held a
hearing on the Social Security Administration; the Office of Refugee
Resettlement, and on the Office of Community Services. Testimony was heard
from Nelson Sabatini, Associate Commissioner for Management, Budget and
Personnel, Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held a hearing on the Office of Management and Budget.
Testimony was heard from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and
Budget.

CIVIL DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 1977, to
authorize appropriations for civil defense programs for fiscal year 1984.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Personnel approved for
full Committee action as amended the manpower portions of H.R. 2287,
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness met in executive
session and approved for full Committee action as amended Title III, Operation
and Maintenance, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: On April 22, the Subcommittee on Research and
Development concluded hearings on Title II, Research, Development, Test and
Evaluation, H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT--NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BANK

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on General
Oversight and Renegotiation continued oversight hearings on proposals to
establish a National Development Bank. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on IMF Quota
Increase. Testimony was heard from Representative Schumer and public
witnesses.

Hearings continue May 5.

EMERGENCY SCHOOL AID ACT REENACTMENT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held a hearing on H.R. 2207, to reenact the Emergency
School Aid Act. Testimony was heard from Senator Moynihan, Representative
Nowak, and public witnesses.

TRADE PROBLEMS AND THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism continued hearing on trade problems and the U.S. Auto Industry,
including consideration of H.R. 1234, Fair Practices in Automotive Products
Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

Hearings continue May 5.

CONSTRUCTION WORK IN PROGRESS POLICY ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power held a hearing on H.R. 555, Construction Work in Progress Policy Act of
1983. Testimony was heard from Senator Chafee, Representatives Harkin and
Gejdenson, and public witnesses.

FCC AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer
Protection, and Finance approved for full Committee action H.R. 2755, to
authorize appropriations for the Federal Communications Commission for fiscal
years 1984 and 1985.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade began markup of H.R. 2761, to amend the authorities contained in the
Export Administration Act of 1979.

Will continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 1314,
amended, Reorganization Act Amendments of 1983; H.R. 2293, amended, Office of
Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1983; H.R. 2592, to transfer from
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the Administrator of
General Services the responsibility for publication of the catalog of Federal
domestic assistance programs, and H.R. 2718, amended, Paperwork Reduction Act
Amendments of 1983.

TORT CLAIMS LEGISLATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Law concluded
hearings on H.R. 595, to amend title 28 of the United States Code to provide
for an exclusive remedy against the United States in suits based upon acts or
omissions of U.S. employees, to provide a remedy against the United States
with respect to constitutional torts. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
and the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office and
Civil Service continued joint hearing on Presidential Directive on the use of
polygraphs and prepublication review. Testimony was heard from Richard K.
Willard, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of
Justice; Arch S. Ramsey, Associate Director for Compliance and Investigations,
Office of Personnel Management; Steven Garfinkel, Director, Information
Security Oversight Office, GSA; from the following officials of the CIA:
Charles Wilson, Director, Office of Public Affairs and Chairman, Publications
Review Board, and Ernest Mayerfeld, Deputy General Counsel, and Maynard
Anderson, Director, Security Plans and Programs, Department of Defense.

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice began markup of H.R. 2719, Legal Services
Corporation Act of 1983.

Will continue May 2.

EXTRADITION ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime held a hearing on H.R. 2643,
Extradition Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Roger Olsen, Deputy Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Daniel W. McGovern, Deputy
Legal Advisor, Department of State and a public witness.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Coast Guard and
Navigation and the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine held a joint oversight
hearing on H.R. 2247, Legislation to Revise, Consolidate, and Enact Certain
Laws Related to Vessels and Seamen as, subtitle II of title 46, United States
Code. Testimony was heard from RAdm. Clyde T. Lusk, Chief, Office of Merchant
Marine and Safety, Coast Guard and public witnesses.

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Human Resources
approved for full Committee action H.R. 2717, to extend the authorization of
appropriations for the Office of Government Ethics for 5 years.

PAYMENT-IN-KIND PROGRAM

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Energy, Environment and Safety
Issues Affecting Small Business held a hearing on USDA's Payment-In-Kind
Program as it affects small businessmen. Testimony was heard from J. Dawson
Ahalt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics, USDA; Frank Swain, Chief
Counsel, Office of Advocacy, SBA and public witnesses.

VETERANS' LEGISLATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Memorial Affairs
approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 2220, to amend
title 38, United States Code, to authorize the Administrator to make
contributions for construction projects on land adjacent to national
cemeteries in order to facilitate safe ingress or egress; H.R. 2506, to amend
title 38, United States Code, to provide for a 5-year extension to permit
States to apply for Federal aid in establishing, expanding, or improving State
veterans' Cemeteries; H.R. 2505, to amend title 38, United States Code, to
permit substitution of a veteran's housing loan entitlement when the
veteran-transferee is not an immediate transferee; a bill to provide financial
relief to unemployed veteran homeowners facing foreclosure, and a bill to
permit VA guaranteed loans on manufactured housing; H.R. 2618, amended, to
amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to authorize the
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to provide mortgage assistance to veterans
with loans guaranteed by the Veterans' Administration in order to avoid
foreclosure of such loans, and H.R. 2664, to amend title 38, United States
Code, to expand the availability of loans guaranteed by the Veterans'
Administration for the purchase of manufactured homes that are permanently
affixed to a lot.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.

Will continue May 3.

CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES: BEGINNING THE ASSESSMENT

Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families: Held a hearing on Children,
Youth, and Families: Beginning the Assessment. Testimony was heard from Alice
M. Rivlin, Director, CBO; Bruce Chapman, Director, Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce, and public witnesses.



1983/05/02
Daily Digest - Monday, May 2, 1983; pages D297 - D302 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on General
Provisions. Testimony was heard from Manuel Briskin, Assistant General Counsel
for Fiscal Matters, Office of the General Counsel, Department of Defense.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Geological Survey; on the National Park Service Historic Preservation and
National Recreation and Preservation. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor-HHS and Education held a
hearing on Departmental Management; Office of the Inspector General and Office
for Civil Rights and Policy Research. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems met in executive session and approved for full Committee action H.R.
2797, to authorize appropriations for the Department of Energy for national
security programs for fiscal year 1984. The Subcommittee began markup of Title
I, Procurement, of H.R. 2287 Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Research and Development met in
executive session and approved for full Committee action as amended Tide H,
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation of H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984.

SUPERFUND

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
held a hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency's mining waste
policy for Superfund and the Agency's action to protect public health and
safety at the Globe, Arizona and Tar Creek, Oklahoma national priority list
sites; and examine recent EPA efforts to improve the effectiveness of the
Superfund program. Testimony was heard from Senator DeConcini; Dr. Vernon
Houk, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control, Department of Health and
Human Services; from the following officials of the EPA: Lee Thomas, Acting
Deputy Administrator and Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency
Response; William Hedeman, Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial
Response, and Eugene Lucero, Director, Office of Waste Program Enforcement,
and public witnesses.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade continued markup of H.R. 2761, to amend the authorities contained in
the Export Administration Act of 1979.

Will continue May 4.

On April 29, the Subcommittee continued markup of H.R. 2761.

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the
Administration of Justice approved for full Committee action he introduction
of a clean bill in lieu of H.R. 2719, Legal Services Corporation Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Fisheries and
Wildlife Conservation and the Environment approved for full Committee action
the following bills 2395, amended, to extend the Wetlands than Act; H.R. 2784,
to authorize appropriations to carry out the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of
1975 during fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986.

The Subcommittee also held a hearing on H.R. 2809, to establish a U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Foundation. Testimony was heard from a public witness.

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERE

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: On April 29, the Subcommittee on
Oceanography held a hearing on H.R. 2722, to amend the National Advisory
Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1977 to authorize appropriations to
carry out the provisions of such act for fiscal years 1984-85. Testimony was
heard from Tom Maginnis, Director, Office of Policy and Planning, NOAA,
Department of Commerce and public witnesses.

NUCLEAR FREEZE

Committee on Rules: Heard testimony from Chairman Zablocki, Representatives
Broomfield, Markey, Dicks, Walker, Carney, Lungren, Porter, and Hunter, but
took no further action on H.J. Res. 13, calling for a mutual and verifiable
freeze on and reductions in nuclear weapons.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET PROCESS

Committee on Rules: On April 29, the Task Force on the Budget Process held a
hearing on the Congressional Budget Process. Testimony was heard from former
Representative Brock Adams and public witnesses.

JOINT SERVICES ADVANCED VERTICAL LIFT

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation
and Materials held a hearing on Joint Services Advanced Vertical Wing (JVX)
Program. Testimony was heard from Dr. Hans Mark, Deputy Administrator, NASA;
VAdm. E. R. Seymour, USN, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command and public
witnesses.



1983/05/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 3, 1983; pages D303 - D310 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FIFRA AUTHORIZATION; CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS ACT; WATERSHED PROJECTS

Committee on Agriculture: Ordered reported as amended the following bills:
H.R. 2785, to amend the provisions of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act relating to the scientific advisory panel and to extend the
authorization for appropriations for such act; H.R. 2733, to extend and
improve the existing program of research, development, and demonstration in
the production and manufacture of guayule rubber, and to broaden such program
to include other critical agricultural materials.

The Committee also approved the following watershed projects: Elm Creek
Watershed, Runnels and Taylor Counties, Texas and East Carroll Watershed, East
Carroll and Madison Parishes, Louisiana.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on the MX
Missile. Testimony was heard from Brent Scowcroft, Chairman, President's
Commission on Strategic Forces and Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on International Narcotics and on Refugee and Migration Assistance. Testimony
was heard from the following officials of the Department of State: Dominick L.
DiCarlo, Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Control and
James Purcell, Director, Bureau of Refugee Programs.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
National Endowment for the Humanities. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior approved for full
Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS and Education met in
executive session and approved for full Committee action fiscal year 1983
Supplemental.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government approved for full Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Armed Services: Ordered reported H.R. 2797, amended, to authorize
appropriations for the Department of Energy for national security programs for
fiscal year 1984.

The Committee agreed to adversely report H. Res. 159, directing the President
to furnish certain information to the House of Representatives with respect to
U.S. activities in Honduras and Nicaragua.

The Committee also began markup of the following bills: H.R. 1927, to
authorize appropriations for the Department of Energy for national security
programs for fiscal year 1983, and H.R. 2287, Department of Defense
Authorization Act, 1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Procurement and Military Nuclear
Systems met in executive session and approved for full Committee action as
amended Tide I, Procurement, of H.R. 2287, Department of Defense Authorization
Act, 1984.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy continued hearings on IMF Quota
Increase. Testimony was heard from Representative Dixon and public witnesses.

BOARD OF PAROLE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Committee on the District of Columbia: Subcommittee on Judiciary and Education
held a hearing on H.R. 2319, to give the Board of Parole for the District of
Columbia exclusive power and authority to release on parole, to terminate the
parole of, and to modify the terms and conditions of the parole of, prisoners
convicted of violating any of the District of Columbia laws, or any law of the
United States applicable exclusively to the District. Testimony was heard from
the following officials of the District of Columbia: Pat Taylor, Assistant
Director, Department of Corrections; David Clarke, Chairman, City Council;
Wilhemina Rolark, member, City Council; and Bernice Just, Chairperson, Parole
Board, and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY SCHOOL AID ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education approved for full Committee action H.R. 2207, to reenact
the Emergency School Aid Act.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Health and Safety continued
oversight hearing on the Occupational Safety and Health Act with respect to
staffing levels in those States that operate their own occupational safety and
health programs. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Labor: Thorne B. Auchter, Assistant Secretary for Occupational
Safety and Health and Patrick Tyson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Occupational Safety and Health.

Hearings continue May 10.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY AMENDMENTS; HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported amended H.R. 2668, Consumer
Product Safety Amendments of 1983.

The Committee began markup of H.R. 2350, Health Research Extension Act of
1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and
Power approved for full Committee action H.R. 2439, Low-Income Home Energy
Assistance Amendments of 1983.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE DEPARTMENT, INFORMATION AGENCY, BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL
BROADCASTING AND INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION, INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND
DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND THE PEACE CORPS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Began markup of the authorizing appropriations
for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, the United States
Information Agency, the Board for International Broadcasting, and the
Inter-American Foundation, to establish the National Endowment for Democracy

The Committee also continued markup of the authorization of appropriations for
the International Security and Development Assistance Programs and the Peace
Corps for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security and
Scientific Affairs approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2192, to
amend the Arms Control and Disarmament Act in order to extend the
authorization for appropriations.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from Kenneth L. Adelman, Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES; REPORTS

Committee on Government Operations: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R.
1314, amended, Reorganization Act Amendments of 1983; H.R. 2293, amended,
Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1983; H.R. 2592, to
transfer from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to the
Administrator of General Services the responsibility for publication of the
catalog of Federal domestic assistance programs; H.R. 2718, amended, Paperwork
Reduction Act Amendments of 1983, and H.R. 2196, to extend the authorization
of appropriations of the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission for 5 years.

The Committee also approved the following reports: "Administration Proposal
Threatens First Amendment Rights of Government Grantees and Contractors," and
"The Department of Agriculture's Payment-in-Kind Program."

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on House Administration: Subcommittee on Contracts and Printing met
to consider pending business.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Began markup of H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography and
the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment
approved for full Committee action as amended the following bills: H.R. 1761,
to reauthorize Title I of the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act
of 1972; H.R. 1547, to reauthorize Tide II of the Marine Protection, Research
and Sanctuaries Act of 1972; and H.R. 2676, to authorize appropriations
through fiscal year 1984 for the National Aquaculture Act.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Oceanography
approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 1546, to
reauthorize the National Ocean Pollution Planning Act of 1978, and H.R. 2722,
to amend the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere Act of 1977
to authorize appropriations to carry out the provisions of such act for fiscal
years 1984-85.

JOB CREATION PROPOSALS

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development concluded hearings on proposals to stimulate short-term job
creation and long-term repair, renovation, and construction of public
facilities, with emphasis on Federal Capital Budgeting. Testimony was heard
from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.

NUCLEAR FREEZE

Committee on Rules: Granted a rule providing further procedures during
consideration of H.J. Res. 13, calling for a mutual and verifiable freeze on
and reductions in nuclear weapons; providing 14 hours total debate for further
consideration of the resolution to be divided as follows and in the specified
order: (1) ten hours debate for amending the Foreign Affairs Committee
substitute to the resolving clause, with 30 minutes allotted to each
amendment, whether or not amendment is printed in the record, equally divided
between the proponent and a member opposed; (2) two hours debate for amending
the preamble, with thirty minutes allotted to each amendment, equally divided
between the proponent and a member opposed; and (3) two hours debate for
amending the Broomfield substitute, with thirty minutes allotted to each
amendment, equally divided between the proponent and a Member opposed;
providing that at the termination of each of the specified debate times, the
Committee of the Whole shall immediately vote on pending amendments and the
substitutes; providing that the Chair may reduce the time on recorded votes to
five minutes subsequent to a fifteen minute recorded vote; providing that the
Chair shall not entertain pro forma amendments for the purpose of obtaining
time for debate; providing that it shall not be in order to demand separate
votes in the House on any other amendments adopted to the Committee substitute
should a substitute to the Committee substitute be adopted.

NOAA AND EPA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Natural Resources,
Agriculture Research and Environment approved for full Committee action the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration authorization for fiscal years
1984 and 1985 and the Environmental Protection Agency authorization for fiscal
year 1984.

SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications held a hearing on the Space Commercialization. Testimony was
heard from James M. Beggs, Administrator, NASA and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems concluded hearings on Small
Business Act Amendments. Testimony was heard from Representatives de la Garza,
Udall, Kazen, Coleman of Texas, Ortiz, Panetta, Boxer and Gejdenson.

AGENT ORANGE STUDIES

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
held a hearing on the status of federally conducted Agent Orange studies.
Testimony was heard from Representative Downey; Bart Kull, Special Assistant
to the Deputy Under Secretary for Governmental Affairs and Special Assistant
to the Chairman, Agent Orange Working Group, Department of Health and Human
Services; Dr. Donald Custis, Chief Medical Director, VA; Maj. Gen. Murphy A.
Chesney, Deputy Surgeon General, Department of the Air Force and public
witnesses.

RAILROAD RETIREMENT SOLVENCY ACT

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Social Security and the
Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation held a joint
hearing on H.R. 1646, Railroad Retirement Solvency Act of 1983. Testimony was
heard from Peter McGough, Associate Director, Human Resources Division, GAO;
David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget, and public
witnesses.

NICARAGUA

Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Met in executive session and
ordered reported as amend H.R. 2760, to amended the Intelligence Authorization
Act for fiscal year 1983 to prohibit U.S. support for military or paramilitary
operations in Nicaragua and to authorize assistance, to be openly provided to
governments of countries in Central America, to interdict the supply of
military equipment from Nicaragua and Cuba to individuals, groups,
organizations, or movements seeking to overthrow governments of countries in
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1983/05/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 4, 1983; pages D310 - D316 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

RESOURCE CONSERVATION ACT REPORT

Committee on Agiculture: Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural
Development held a hearing to review USDA's Resource Conservation Report to
Congress and to consider new soil and water conservation initiatives.
Testimony was heard from Senator Armstrong; Representatives Weaver, Evans of
Iowa and Brown of Colorado; departmental and public witnesses.

COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE, AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, and
Judiciary approved for full Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in executive session
and approved for full Committee action reprogrammings and Supplemental for
fiscal year 1983.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations approved for
full Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

HUD-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies met in
executive session and approved for full committee action fiscal year 1983
Supplemental.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Department of Energy-Office of Surface Mining. Testimony was heard from James
R. Harris, Director, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement,
Department of the Interior.

TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation approved for full
Committee action fiscal year 1983 Supplemental.

TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General
Government held a hearing on the GSA. Testimony was heard from departmental
witnesses.

FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE ACT; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Ordered reported S. 653, Foundation for the
Advancement of Military Medicine Act of 1983.

The Committee also continued to meet in executive session to mark up H.R.
2287, Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE REVITALIZATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Ordered reported as amended
H.R. 2782, Defense Industrial Base Revitalization Act.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES: UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS UNDERLYING CAUSES

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported as amended the following
bills: H.R. 2655, Domestic Volunteer Service Act Amendments of 1983, and H.R.
2158, Follow Through Amendments of 1983.

The Committee also held a hearing on unemployment and its underlying causes.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

WORKER DISLOCATION, CAPITAL FLIGHT AND PLANT CLOSINGS

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations
held a hearing on worker dislocation, capital flight and plant closings.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R.
2848, to establish a service industries development program; H.R. 2615,
amended, Weatherization and Employment Act of 1983; H.R. 1416, amended, to
amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to authorize appropriations for the
Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal years 1984 through 1986, and
H.R. 2681, amended, to make certain amendments to sections 4, 15, and 15B of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

FTC'S PROPOSED FUNERAL RULE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism held a hearing on FTC's proposed Funeral Rule. Testimony was heard
from Representative Russo; from the following officials of the FTC: James C.
Miller III, Chairman; Michael Pertschuk and Patricia P. Bailey, both
Commissioners, and public witnesses.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2761, Export
Administration Amendments Act of 1983.

ELECTRONIC COMPUTER ORIGINATED MAIL

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Government Information,
Justice, and Agriculture held a hearing on continued examination of the Postal
Service Electronic Computer Originated Mail. Testimony was heard from
Representative Rose; the following officials of the U.S. Postal Service:
William Sullivan, member, Board of Governors, and Karen Uemota, Director, ECOM
Operations, and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported the following
bills: H.R. 2465, to authorize appropriations for the Earthquake Hazards
Reduction Act of 1977 and the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974
for fiscal year 1984 and fiscal year 1985; H.R. 9, amended, Florida Wilderness
Act of 1983 and H.R. 2477, amended, Sipsey Wilderness Additions Act of 1983.

The Committee began markup of H.R. 2379, National Park System Protection and
Resources Management Act of 1983.

Will continue May 10.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Continued markup of H.R. 1510, Immigration Reform
and Control Act of 1983. Will continue tomorrow.

COMPETITIVE SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING ACT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
held a hearing on H.R. 1242, Competitive Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of
1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives Boggs, Stangeland and Smith of
Nebraska, and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Investigations
and Oversight held a hearing on matters related to the Nation's Air Traffic
Control System. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Transportation: Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary and J. Lynn Helms,
Administrator, FAA.

HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Investigations and
Oversight held a hearing on Alternative Technologies for Hazardous Waste
Disposal. Testimony was heard from Kent Stoddard, Director, Toxic Waste
Assessment Program, Office of Appropriate Technology, State of California; Bob
Kuykendall, Manager, Land Pollution Control Division, EPA, State of Illinois;
Norman Nosenchuck, Director, Division of Solid Waste, Department of
Environmental Conservation, State of New York, and public witnesses.

SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION

Committee on Science and Technology: Subcommittee on Space Science and
Applications concluded hearings on the Space Commercialization. Testimony was
heard from public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority
Enterprise and General Small Business Problems approved for full Committee
action the following bills: H.R. 403, amended, to provide the Small Business
Administration with additional authority to assist small business concerns in
obtaining financing; H.R. 860, amended, to amend the Small Business Act and
the Small Business Investment Act of 1958; H.R. 863, to amend the Small
Business Act; H.R. 2132, amended, to amend the Small Business Act; H.R. 2317,
amended, to amend the Small Business Act to provide assistance to areas of
economic dislocation in the United States that is the result of drastic
fluctuation in the value of the currency in a country contiguous to the United
States, and H.R. 2583, amended, to amend the Small Business Act to improve
assistance to victims of disasters.

COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Committee on Standards of Official Conduct: Met in executive session to
consider pending business.

VETERANS' LEGISLATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and
Insurance approved for full Committee action the introduction of a clean bill
in lieu of the following: H.R. 2391, Veterans' Disability Compensation
Amendments of 1983 and H.R. 2194, Board of Veterans' Appeals Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Education, Training and
Employment approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 1400,
Veterans Education Assistance Act of 1983, and H.R. 2355, Emergency Vietnam
Veterans Jobs Training Act of 1983.

AUTHORIZATION--INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION, CUSTOMS SERVICE, AND OFFICE OF
TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Committee on Ways and Means: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 2602, to
authorize appropriations for the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S.
Customs Service, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for fiscal
year 1984.

TRADE REMEDY LAWS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
options to improve the trade remedy laws. Testimony was heard from
Representatives Fiedler and Gilman, and public witnesses.



1983/05/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 5, 1983; pages D316 - D321 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE AND COMMODITY DISTRIBUTION ACT

Committee on Agriculture: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1590, to provide
emergency food assistance to low-income and unemployed persons and to improve
the commodity distribution program, and dairy legislation.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held a
hearing on Governmental Direction and Support. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the District of Columbia: Marion S. Barry, Jr., Mayor,
and David A. Clarke, Chairman, City Council, and public witnesses.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held a hearing
on the Export-Import Bank. Testimony was heard from William H. Draper, III,
President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States.

LABOR, HHS AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public witnesses.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held a
hearing on MX missile. Testimony was heard from Caspar Weinberger, Secretary
of Defense.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Ordered reported H.R. 1927, to authorize
appropriations for the Department of Energy for national security programs for
fiscal year 1983.

The Committee also concluded markup on and agreed to the introduction of a
clean bill in lieu of H.R. 2287, amended, Department of Defense Authorization
Act, 1984.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Ordered reported the
following bills: H.R. 10, amended, to amend the Public Works and Economic
Development Act of 1965 and the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965;
H.R. 2832, to provide for increased participation by the United States in the
Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the African
Development Fund, H.R. 2842, amended, Export-Import Bank Act Amendments of
1983.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Trade, Investment and Monetary Policy approved for full Committee action as
amended H.R. 2756, to amend the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize an
increase in the U.S. quota in the International Monetary Fund.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AUTHORIZATION

Committee on the District of Columbia: Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and
Health approved for full Committee action H.R. 2637, to amend the District of
Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to increase the
amount authorized to be appropriated as the annual Federal payment to the
District of Columbia.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SELF-GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION ACT
AMENDMENTS

Committee on the District of Columbia: Subcommittee on Government Operations
and Metropolitan Affairs approved for full Committee action as amended H.R
1602, to amend the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental
Reorganization Act to allow the acts of the Council of the District of
Columbia to take effect when transmitted by the Chairman of the Council of the
District of Columbia and to change the procedure for resolutions of approval
or disapproval of such acts.

Prior to this action, the Subcommittee held a hearing on this legislation.
Testimony was heard from the following officials of the District of Columbia:
Marion S. Barry, Jr., Mayor, and David A. Clarke, Chairman, City Council, and
public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor Ordered reported as amended the following
bills: H.R. 1904, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act
Amendments of 1983, and H.R. 1036, Community Renewal Employment Act.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education held an oversight hearing on the use of Federal funds
authorized under Titles III and IV-C of the Elementary and Secondary Education
Act. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

FEDERAL BOXING PROTECTION ACT

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Labor Standards held a
hearing on H.R. 1751, Federal Boxing Protection Act of 1983. Testimony was
heard from Cora Masters Wilds, Commissioner of Boxing, District of Columbia;
Dr. Stuart E. Kirschenbaum, Chairperson, Athletic Board of Control, State of
Michigan, and public witnesses.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education
approved for full Committee action as amended the following measures: H.J.
Res. 203, to establish State commissions on teacher excellence; H.R. 2751,
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act Amendments of 1983;
H.R. 2708, Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983, and
H.R. 2878, to amend and extend the Library Services and Construction Act.

HEALTH RESEARCH EXTENSION ACT

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Continued markup of H.R. 2350, Health
Research Extension Act of 1983.

Will continue May 10.

HEALTH LEGISLATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 2712, amended, to
extend title XVII of the Public Health Service Act; H.R. 2861, to amend the
Public Health Service Act to increase the authorization for fiscal year 1984
for primary care block grants, and H.R. 2862, to amend the Social Security Act
to increase the authorization for fiscal year 1984 for maternal and child
health services block grant.

The Subcommittee also began markup of H.R. 2552, Health Care for the
Unemployed Act.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENTS ACT

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Held a hearing on H.R. 2761, Export
Administration Amendments Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Lionel Olmer,
Under Secretary of Commerce, International Trade Administration and public
witnesses.

HURRICANE EVACUATION PREPARATION

Committee on Government Operations: Subcommittee on Legislation and National
Security held a hearing on Management of Federal Assistance to States and
Communities for Hurricane Evacuation Preparation. Testimony was heard from J.
Dexter Peach, Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development
Division, GAO; Louis 0. Guiffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management
Agency, and Maj. Gen. John F. Wall, Director, Civil Works, Corps of Engineers.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
National Parks continued oversight hearing on the impact of acquisition delays
on the lands and resources of the national park system. Testimony was heard
from the following officials of the Department of the Interior: Russell
Dickenson, Director, National Park Service, and various Park Superintendents.

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Ordered reported as amended H.R. 1510, Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1983.

EXTRADITION ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime continued hearings on H.R.
2643, Extradition Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Peter Palermo,
Magistrate, Southern District of Florida, and public witnesses.

COMPETITIVE SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING ACT

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
concluded hearings on H.R. 1242, Competitive Shipping and Shipbuilding Act of
1983. Testimony was heard from Representative Kaptur, and public witnesses.

EMERGENCY PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYMENT ACT; FEDERAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT BUDGET ACT

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Economic
Development approved for full Committee action the following bills: H.R. 2544,
amended, Emergency Public Works Employment Act of 1983, and H.R. 1244, Federal
Capital Investment Budget Act of 1983.

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
2175, Justice Assistance Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Hughes and Sawyer.

NSF AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing one hour of debate on H.R.
2066, National Science Foundation Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1984 and
1985. Testimony was heard from Chairman Fuqua and Representative Winn.

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Rules: Granted an open rule providing two hours of debate on H.R.
2587, Department of Energy Civilian Research and Development Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 1984. Testimony was heard from Chairman Fuqua and
Representative Winn.

VETERANS' LEGISLATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Subcommittee on Hospitals and Health Care
approved for full Committee action the introduction of a clean bill to be
introduced in lieu of the following bills: H.R. 2323, extend Vietnam Veterans
Readjustment Counseling Program; H.R. 1137, establish VA Advisory Committee on
Women Veterans; H.R. 1645, increase per diem rates for State Veterans Homes
and extension of contract medical care in Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands; H.R.
1975, excessing of VA property; H.R. 741, relating to use of property in
Harrison County, Mississippi; and VA major medical construction for Fiscal
Year 1984.

The Subcommittee also approved for full Committee action The Major Medical
Construction Resolution.

TAX TREATMENT OF PRODUCERS OF OIL AND GAS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing on the
tax treatment of producers of oil and gas. Testimony was heard from Senator
Boren; Representatives Jones of Oklahoma, English, Edwards of Oklahoma,
Watkins, McCurdy and Glickman; Alice M. Rivlin, Director, CBO; from the
following officials of the Department of the Treasury: J. Gregory Ballentine,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis and William McKee, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS TARIFF AND TRADE BILLS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
miscellaneous tariff and trade bills. Testimony was heard from Representatives
Edwards of Alabama and Edgar, and public witnesses.

Hearings continue May 10.

CRISIS IN HEALTH CARE

Select Committee on Aging: Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care held a
hearing on Crisis in Health Care. Testimony was heard from Alexander M.
Capron, President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine
and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, and public witnesses.



1983/05/06
Daily Digest - Friday, May 6, 1983; pages D321 - D323 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on Indian
Health Service. Testimony was heard from Robert Graham, Administrator, Indian
Health Service, Health Services Administration, Department of Health and Human
Services.

TRADE PROBLEMS AND THE U.S. AUTO INDUSTRY

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation,
and Tourism concluded hearing on trade problems and the U.S. auto industry,
including consideration of H.R. 1234, Fair Practices in Automotive Products
Act. Testimony was heard from Senator Riegle and public witnesses.

HEALTH PLANNING AMENDMENTS

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on the Health Planning Amendments of 1983. Testimony was heard
from Nancy M. Gordon, Assistant Director for Human Resources and Community
Development, CBO; Carl Schramm, Vice Chairman, Health Services Cost Review
Commission, State of Maryland; Raymond D. Sweeney, Executive Director, Office
of Health Systems Management, Department of Health, State of New York, and
public witnesses.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
held an oversight hearing on the authorization request for the Civil Rights
Division at the Department of Justice. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses.

TAX TREATMENT OF PRODUCERS OF OIL AND GAS

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Oversight concluded hearings on
the tax treatment of producers of oil and gas. Testimony was heard from
Senator Nickles and public witnesses.



1983/05/09
Daily Digest - Monday, May 9, 1983; pages D323 - D326 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on Trust
Territories. Testimony was heard from Pedro A. Sanjuan, Assistant Secretary,
Office of Territories and International Affairs, Department of the Interior
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR, HHS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education
continue appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE: HOUSING AND URBAN-RURAL RECOVERY ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Ordered reported as amended
H.R. 2930, International Recovery and Financial Stability Act.

The Committee began markup of H.R. 1, Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of
1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ACT

Committee on Education and Labor: Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary and
Vocational Education held a hearing on H.R. 2708, Foreign Language Assistance
for National Security Act of 1983. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

FTC FUNERAL RULE

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation and
Tourism unfavorably approved for full Committee action H. Con. Res. 70,
disapproving a rule submitted by the Federal Trade Commission relating to
funeral industry practices.

PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES LEGISLATION

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
held a hearing on H.R. 2713, to amend the Public Health Service Act to
authorize appropriations to be made available to the Secretary of Health and
Human Services for research for the cause, treatment, and prevention of public
health emergencies, and related bills. Testimony was heard from Dr. Edward
Brandt, Assistant Secretary of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
and public witnesses.

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS ON GUAM

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Insular Affairs
approved for full Committee action as amended S. 589, to authorize $15,500,000
for capital improvement projects on Guam.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Ordered reported the following measures: H. Res.
159, without recommendation, directing the President to furnish certain
information to the House of Representatives with respect to U.S. activities in
Honduras and Nicaragua, and H.R. 2906, to amend the Arms Control and
Disarmament Act in order to extend the authorization for appropriations.

The Committee continued markup of the authorization of appropriations for the
International Security and Development Assistance Programs and the Peace Corps
for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue tomorrow.

OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
continued oversight hearings on the authorization request for the Civil Rights
Division, Department of Justice. Testimony was heard from Clarence Thomas,
Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; William Bradford Reynolds,
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice and
public witnesses.



1983/05/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 10, 1983; pages D326 - D333 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies approved for full Committee action the fiscal year 1984
Agriculture appropriations bill.

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held a hearing on Depot
Maintenance Activities and on Medical Activities. Testimony was heard from the
following officials of the Department of Defense: Richard Webster, Deputy
Assistant Secretary, Logistics and Materiel Management; Dr. John F. Beary, HI,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs, and the Surgeons General of the
Army, Navy, and Air Force.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held a
hearing on Public Safety and Justice. Testimony was heard from the following
officials of the District of Columbia: Theodore Newman, Chief Judge, Court of
Appeals; Carl Moultrie, Chief Judge, Superior Court, and Judith Rogers,
Corporation Counsel.

FOREIGN OPERATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress and
public witnesses.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior continued hearings on
Trust Territories. Testimony was heard from public witnesses.

LABOR, HHS, AND EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, and Education
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from Members of Congress
and public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Committee on Armed Services: Met in executive session to receive a briefing on
the situation in Central America. The Committee was briefed by Representatives
Whitehurst, McCurdy, and Stump.

MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Installations and
Facilities began markup of H.R. 1816, Military Construction Authorization Act,
1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY AND FINANCIAL STABILITY ACT; HOUSING AND URBAN-RECOVERY
ACT

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Ordered reported the
following bills: H.R. 2957, International Recovery and Financial Stability
Act, and H.R. 1, amended, Housing and Urban-Recovery Act of 1983.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA LEGISLATION

Committee on the Diana of Columbia: Ordered reported H.R. 2637, to amend ,the
District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to
increase the amount authorized to be appropriated as the annual Federal
payment to the District of Columbia.

The Committee also began markup of H.R. 1602, to amend the District of
Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to allow the acts
of the Council of the District of Columbia to take effect when transmitted by
the Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia and to change the
procedure for resolutions of approval or disapproval of such acts.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Education and Labor: Ordered reported as amended the following
bills: H.R. 1264, Select Commission on the Voluntary Service Opportunities
Act; H.R. 2807, to increase to the level of funds authorized to be
appropriated for the fiscal years 1982, 1983, and 1984 to permit adequate
reimbursement for meals served under the Older Americans Act of 1965; H.R.
2708, Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983, and H.R.
2751, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act Amendments of
1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Ordered reported the following bills: H.R.
2350, amended, Health Research Extension Act of 1983; H.R. 2712, amended, to
extend title XVII of the Public Health Service; H.R. 2861, to amend the Public
Health Service Act to increase the authorization for fiscal year 1984 for
primary care block grants, and H.R. 2862, to amend the Social Security Act to
increase the authorization for fiscal year 1984 for maternal and child health
services block grant.

PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
approved for full Committee action as amended H.R. 2713, to amend the Public
Health Service Act to authorize appropriations to be made available to the
Secretary of Health and Human Services for research for the cause, treatment,
and prevention of public health emergencies.

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS AND THE PEACE CORPS
AUTHORIZATION

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Continued markup of the authorization of
appropriations for the International Security and Development Assistance
Programs and the Peace Corps for fiscal years 1984 and 1985.

Will continue tomorrow.

STATE AND LOCAL FISCAL ASSISTANCE AMENDMENTS

Committee on Government Operations: Began markup of H.R. 2780, State and Local
Fiscal Assistance Amendments of 1983.

Will continue tomorrow.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Ordered reported as amended the
following bills: H.R. 71, High Plains States Groundwater Demonstration Program
Act of 1982, H.R. 1652, to amend the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1982
and H.R. 2379, National Park System Protection and Resources Management Act of
1983.

NATIONAL STRATEGIC MATERIALS AND MINERALS ASSESSMENT ACT

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining, Forest
Management and the Bonneville Power Administration held a hearing on H.R. 626,
National Strategic Materials and Minerals Assessment Act of 1983. Testimony
was heard from Representative Evans of Iowa; Daniel Miller, Assistant
Secretary for Energy and Minerals, Department of the Interior; William R.
Voigt, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment and Assessment,
Office of Nuclear Energy, Department of Energy and public witnesses.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AUTHORIZATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Began markup of H.R. 2912, Department of Justice
Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1984.

Will continue tomorrow.

CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
began markup of H.R. 2230, Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983.

MISCELLANEOUS MEASURES

Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Ordered reported the following
bills: H.R. 2114, amended, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1984
for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation; H.R. 2784,
amended, to authorize appropriations to carry out the Atlantic Tunas
Convention Act of 1975 during fiscal year 1984, fiscal year 1985, and fiscal
year 1986; H.R. 2395, to reauthorize the Wetlands Loan Fund; H.R. 2809,
amended, to establish a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Foundation; H.R. 2163, amended,
to amend the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971, and H.R. 2689, amended, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1984 for the operation and
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