98th Congress

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

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

HOMELESS PERSONS 

Committee on Appropriations: On Monday, January 24, the Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia concluded hearings on the homeless and the lack of
low-income housing, focusing on the lack of community treatment facilities,
after receiving testimony from Irene S. Levine, Special Assistant to the
Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; James Buford, Director, Department of
Human Services, Government of the District of Columbia; Mitch Snyder,
Community for Creative Nonviolence, and Thomas G. Nees, Community of Hope,
both of Washington, D.C.; Anthony Arce, John F. Kennedy Community Mental
Health/Retardation Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Robert Hickey,
Greater Pittsburgh Psychologic Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

GATT

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the recent meeting of
ministers to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), focusing on
the state of the multilateral trading system, receiving testimony from
Ambassador William E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BANKRUPTCY REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: On Monday, January 24, the Subcommittee on Courts
concluded hearings on proposed revisions of certain provisions of the
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, after receiving testimony from Jonathan Rose ,
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; Spencer Williams, U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of California; Richard 1. Merrick,
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Northern District of Illinois; Ed Creel, Creel
and Atwood, Dallas, Texas; Robert Evans, National Consumer Finance
Association, William Dixon, American Bankers' Association, D. V. Beall,
representing the Credit Union National Association, Inc., Raymond Klein,
representing the American Retail Federation, Laurence Gold and Howard Marlowe,
both on behalf of the AFL-CIO, Stuart Proctor, American Farm Bureau
Federation, and T. W. Strauss, representing Public Securities Association, all
of Washington, D.C; Lawrence King, Wachten and lipton, and Peter Sternlight,
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, both of New York City; Henry J. Sommer,
Community Legal Services, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, representing the
National Consumer law Center; Irvin B. Maizlish, Leo Eisenberg and Company,
Kansas City, Missouri, representing the International Council of Shopping
Centers; John S. Holmes, Jr., Frederick Shopping Center Merchants Association,
Frederick, Maryland; Carl Berry, National Timesharing Council, San Francisco,
California, representing the American Land Development Association; and Nathan
Feinstein, Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shiekman and Cohen, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded consideration of,
but did not take final action on, the following business items: 

An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee for 1983; 

An original resolution providing for membership on the part of the Senate of
the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint Committee of Congress on the
library; 

An original concurrent resolution authorizing the printing as a Senate
document of a revised edition of "The Capitol"; 

An original resolution authorizing the revision and printing of the Senate
Manual for use during the 98th Congress; 

An original resolution authorizing the revision and printing of the Standing
Rules of the Senate as a Senate document; and 

An original resolution to pay a gratuity to the survivors of a deceased Senate
employee.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 28) requesting $1,994,711 for expenses of the committee
through February 1984. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Elizabeth H. Dole, of Kansas, to be Secretary of
Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Kassebaum,
Dole, Helms, and East, testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
Testimony was also received from Vincent L. Tofany, National Safety Council,
and Kathy Wilson, National Women's Political Caucus, both of Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held a business meeting
where it took the following actions: 

(1) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 13), requesting
$2,448,885 for expenses of the committee through February 1984; 

(2) Ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 61) to designate the
"Nancy Hanks Center" in Washington, D .C., commemorating the accomplishments
of Nancy Hanks in the fields of government and culture; 

(3) Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 98th Congress; and 

(4) Announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Environmental Pollution: Senators Chafee (Chairman), Simpson, Symms,
Durenberger, Mitchell, Han, and Moynihan. 

Nuclear Regulation: Senators Simpson (Chairman), Baker, Domenici, Symrns,
Hart, Mitchell, and Baucus. 

Water Resources: Senators Abdnor (Chairman), Domenici, Durenberger, Humphrey,
Moynihan, Bentsen, and Baucus.

Transportation: Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Stafford, Baker, Chafee,
Abdnor, Bentsent, Randolph, Burdick, and Moynihan.

Toxic Substances and Environmental Oversight: Senators Durenberger (Chairman),
Simpson, Abdnor, Humphrey, Baucus, Burdick, and Hart.

Regional and Community Development: Senators Humphrey (Chairman), Baker,
Domenici, Chafee, Burdick, Bentsen, and Mitchell.

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held a business meeting where it
took the following actions: 

(1) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $4,654,047
for expenses of the committee through February 1984; 

(2) Adopted its rules of procedure for the 98t1: Congress; and 

(3) Announced the following subcommittee assignments:

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Roth (Chairman), Rudman
(Vice Chairman), Percy, Mathias, Cohen, Armstrong, Cochran, Nunn, Jackson,
Chiles, Glenn, Sasser, and Bingaman.
 
Government Efficiency and the District of Columbia: Senators Mathias
(Chairman), Rudman, Cochran, Eagleton, and Chiles.

Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes: Senators Percy
(Chairman), Durenberger, Cohen, Danforth, Glenn, Jackson, and Levin.

Information Management and Regulatory Affairs: Senators Danforth (Chairman),
Percy, Durenberger, Chiles, and Jackson.
 
Intergovernmental Relations: Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Stevens,
Cochran, Armstrong, Sasser, Nunn, and Levin.

Civil Service, Post Office, and General Services: Senators Stevens (Chairman),
Mathias, Armstrong, Bingaman, and Sasser.

Oversight of Government Management: Senators Cohen (Chairman), Rudman,
Danforth, Levin, and Bingaman. 

FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held oversight hearings on
the operation and possible modification of the current campaign finance laws
governing Congressional and Presidential campaigns, focusing on the
desirability of adjusting individual or political committee contribution
limits and of permitting increased political party spending on behalf of the
party's candidate, consequences of removing the state by state expenditure
limits, and the need for clarification and revision of the public funding
provisions that apply to third party and independent presidential candidates,
receiving testimony from Senators Proxmire, Eagleton, Bentsen, Durenberger,
and Gorton; Fred C. Rainey, American Medical Political ACtion Committee,
Richard M. Scammon, Elections Research Center, Robert D. Squier, The
Communications Company, and Bradley S. O'Leary, PM Consulting, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Herbert E. Alexander, Citizens Research Foundation, Los
Angeles, California; Larry J. Sabato, University of Virginia, Charlottesville;
and Robert Goodman, The Robert Goodman Agency, Brooklandville, Maryland. 

Hearings continue on tomorrow.
 
BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 24) requesting $951 ,866 for expenses of the committee
through February 1984. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress.

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT
 
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the economic outlook from
Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on tomorrow.



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

Committee Meetings 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 25) questing $3,085,062 for expenses of the committee
through February 1984. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: The committee announced
the adoption of its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress, and the
following subcommittee assignments: 

Aviation: Senators Kassebaum (Chairman), Goldwater, Danforth, Stevens, Trible,
Exon, Inouye, Ford, Lautenberg.

Business, Trade, and Tourism: Senators Pressler (Chairman), Packwood, Riegle.

Communications: Senators Goldwater (Chairman), Pressler, Stevens, Gorton,
Hollings, Inouye, and Ford.

Consumer: Senators Kasten (Chairman), Danforth, and Ford.

Merchant Marine: Senators Stevens (Chairman), Gorton, Kasten, Trible, Inouye,
Long, and Heflin.

Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Goldwater,
Kassebaum, Trible, Heflin, Riegle, and Lautenberg.

Surface Transportation: Senators Danforth (Chairman), Pressler, Kassebaum,
Kasten, Long, Riegle, and Exon.

National Ocean Policy Study: Senators Packwood (Chairman), Stevens, Gorton,
Kasten, Trible, Hollings, Long, Inouye, and Lautenberg.

TRANSPORTATION ISSUES 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee met to receive a briefing
on transportation issues from Elizabeth H . Dole, Secretary of
Transportation-designate. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow on jobs infrastructure issues. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth L. Adelman, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call.
 
ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held oversight hearings on organized
crime in the United States, focusing on the changing nature and power of
organized crime today, Federal accomplishments in the fight against organized
crime, and implementation of new initiatives against organized crime,
receiving testimony from William French Smith, Attorney General of the United
States, and William H. Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
both of the Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the operation and possible modification of the current campaign finance
laws governing Congressional and Presidential campaigns, focusing on the
desirability of adjusting individual or political committee contribution
limits, and of permitting increased political party spending on behalf of the
party's candidate, consequences of removing the state by state expend limits,
and the need for clarification and revision the public funding provisions that
apply to third party and independent presidential candidates, after receiving
testimony from Senators Sarbanes, Humphrey, and Dixon; Representative Frenzel;
Wertheimer, Common Cause, Russell Hernerr National Committee for an Effective
Cong Robert C. Heckman, Fund for a Conservative Majority, Julio S. LaGuarta,
National Association Realtors, Laurence Gold, AFL-CIO, Steven J. Uhlfelder,
American Bar Association, and Jay Angoff, Congress Watch, all of Washington,
D.C.; Richard B. Berman, Steak & Ale Restaurants of America Inc., Dallas,
Texas; and David Wagner, Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Political Action
Committee, Vienna, Virginia. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
 
Capital Formation and Retention: Senators Packwood (Chairman), Hatch,
Boschwitz, Bumpers, and Sasser.

Government Regulation and Paperwork: Senators Hatch (Chairman), Pressler, and
Huddleston.

Urban and Rural Economic Development: Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Weicker,
Dixon. 

Government Procurement: Senators Nickles (Chairman), Rudman, Kasten, Levin,
and Bumpers.

Productivity and Competition: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Nickles, and
Tsongas.

Innovation and Technology: Senators Rudman (Chairman), Packwood, Baucus. 

Export Promotion and Market Development: Senators Boschwitz (Chairman),
Gorton, and Huddleston.

Small Business: Family Farm:  Senators Pressler (Chairman), D'Amato, and Nunn. 

Entrepreneurship and Special Problems Facing Small Business: Senators Kasten
(Chairman), Weicker, and Boren. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 34) requesting $774,086.79 for expenses of the
committee through February 1984.

Joint Meetings 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee continued hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the economic outlook from
Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board. Hearings continue on Monday,
January 31. 

ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
 
Joint Committee on Taxation: On Wednesday, January 26, the committee held an
organizational meeting where it elected Representative Rostenkowski as
Chairman for the lst Session of the 98th Congress, and Senator Dole as Vice
Chairman for the lst Session of the 98th Congress. Also, the committee
approved the appointment of David H. Brockway as Chief of Staff. 



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


Committee Meetings 

COMMITTEE BUDGET--SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs:
 
Committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 35)
requesting $1,719,750 in expenses for the committee through February 1984. 

Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Housing and Urban Affairs: Senators Tower (Chairman), Garn, Heinz, D'Amato,
Gorton, Hawkins, Trible, Riegle, Sasser Lautenberg, Proxmire, Cranston, and
Sarbanes. 

Financial Institutions: Senators Armstrong (Chairman), Garn, Tower, Heinz,
D'Amato, Hecht, Cranston, Dixon, Proxmire, and Riegle.

International Finance and Monetary Policy: Senators Heinz (Chairman), Garn,
Armstrong, Mattingly, Gorton, Proxmire, Dixon, Sasser, Lautenberg

Securities: Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Hawkins, Mattingly, Trible, Sarbanes,
Riegle, and Dodd.

Economic Policy: Senators Gorton (Chairman), Hecht, Armstrong, Dodd, and
Cranston. 

Consumer Affairs: Senators Hawkins (Chairman), D'Arnato, Gorton, Dodd, and
Dixon. 

Rural Housing and Development: Senators Mattingly (Chairman), Tower, and
Cranston. 

Insurance: Senators Hecht (Chairman), Hawkins, and Sarbanes.

Federal Credit Programs: Senators Trible (Chairman), Armstrong, Hecht, Sasser,
and Lautenberg. 

NOMINATION--COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, January 28, the
committee approved for reporting the following:

The nomination of Elizabeth H. Dole, of Kansas, to be Secretary of
Transportation; and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 26) requesting $3,630,169 in expenses for the
committee through February 1984. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held an organizational
business meeting where it took the following action: 

(1) Ordered favorably reported an orginal resolution (S. Res. 33), requesting
$2,371,564 in expenses of the committee through February 1984; 

(2) Ordered favorably reported with an amendment S. 271, designating
additional national scenic and historic trails; and 

(3) Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 98th Congress. 

Also, Committee announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Energy Conservation and Supply: Senators Weicker (Chairman), Hatfield, Chafee,
Warner, Heinz, Matsunaga, Metzenbaum, Tsongas, and Bradley.

Energy and Natural Resources: Senators Warner (Chairman), Heinz, Wallop,
Murkowski, Hecht, Melcher, Bumpers, Matsunaga, and Bradley.

Energy Regulation: Senators Murkowski (Chairman), Weicker, Nick les, Domenici,
Chafee, Metzenbuarn, Ford, Melcher and Bradley.

Energy Research and Development: Senators Domenici (Chairman), Warner, Heinz,
Weicker, Nickles, Ford, Jackson, Bumpers, and Tsongas.

Public Lands and Reserved Water: Senators Wallop (Chairman), Hatfield, Hecht
Chafee, Domenici, Bumpers, Jackson, Matsunaga and Melcher.

Water and Power: Senators Nickles (Chairman), Hatfield, Wallop Murkowski,
Hecht, Tsongas, Jackson, Ford, and Metzenbaum. 

PUBLIC WORKS/JOBS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, January 28, the
committee held hearings on infrastructure issues relating to job opportunities
in public works, receiving testimony from Mayor Coleman Young, Detroit,
Michigan; Mayor Charles Royer, Seattle, Washington; Mayor Richard Caliguiri,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Mayor Kathy Whitmire, Houston, Texas; and Mayor
Herman Padilla, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Hearings will continue on Wednesday, February 2. 

NOMINATION/COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Thursday, January 27, the
committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution recommending that
Elizabeth H. Dole of Kansas, be confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of
Transportation. 

MIDDLE EAST 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, January 28, the committee met in
closed session to consult with Secretary of State George P. Shultz on the
current situation in the Middle East, but made no announcements.

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 27) requesting $4,520,223 in expenses of the committee
through February 1984. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 36) requesting $1,928,000 in expenses for the committee
through February 1984. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Special Committee on Aging: On Friday, January 28, the committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 29) requesting $1,064,345
in expenses for the committee through February 1984. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress.

Joint Meeting 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report receiving testimony on the economic outlook from
John R. Block, Secretary, Department of Agriculture.
 
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 2.



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

Committee Meetings
 
COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Monday, January 31, the
committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 37)
requesting $1,372,000 in expenses for the committee through February 1984.

U.S. MILITARY POSTURE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings to review U.S.
military posture, after receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger,
Secretary of Defense; and General John W. Vessey, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET/RULES 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 41) requesting 4,252,400 for expenses of the committee
through February 1984.

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress. 

DEFENSE CONTRACTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded oversight
hearings on the Department of Defense contracting policies and procedures,
after receiving testimony from Senate Baucus; Representative Marlenee; William
A. Long, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Management; Brig.
General Phillip H . Mason, Director of Combat Support System, Department of
the Army; Everett Pyatt, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Shipbuilding and Logistics; and F. E. Maese, Deputy Director, Directorate of
Materiel Management, San Antonio Air Logistic Center, San Antonio, Texas. 

DOE BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to review
those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within
its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will
make thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for energy programs of the Department of Energy from Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary, Martha O. Hesse, Assistant Secretary of Management an
Administration, and Elizabeth E. Smedley, Acting Deputy Controller, Office of
the Controller, all of the Department of Energy. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET
 
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 47) requesting $2,269,000 in expenses for the committee
through February 1984.
 
COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 39) requesting $2,556,000 for expenses of the committee
through February 1984.
 
NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Lewis Arthur Tambs, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to Colombia, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Goldwater, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
resumed hearings on proposed solution to worldwide economic problems,
receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; G. William Miller, G. William Miller
and Company, Washington, D.C., former Secretary of the Treasury and former
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board; Robert Hormats, Goldman Sachs International
Corporation, New York City, former Assistant Secretary of State for Business
and Economic Affairs; and William S. Ogden, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
City. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 42) requesting $887,155 for expenses of the
committee through February 1984. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS--INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met and announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Budget: Senators Wallop (Chairman), Inouye (Vice Chairman), Garn, Durenberger,
Roth, Cohen, Jackson, Leahy, and Bentsen.

Analysis and Production: Senators Lugar (Chairman), Jackson (Vice Chairman),
Wallop, Roth, and Bentsen.

Legislation and the Rights of Americans: Senators Durenberger (Chairman),
Leahy (Vice Chairman), Garn, Chafee, Cohen, Huddleston, and Biden.

Collection and Foreign Operations: Senators Chafee (Chairman), Huddleston (
Chairman), Garn, Lugar, Cohen, Biden, Inouye Jackson. 

Also, committee held a closed briefing on intelligence matters, but made no
announcements, and will meet again tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings
 
FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional budget,
receiving testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and
Budget; Peter Peterson, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Inc., Douglas Dillon, U.S.
and Foreign Security Corporation, and Henry Fowler, Goldman Sachs, all of New
York City; and John M. Albertine, American Business Conference, Paul R. Huard,
National Association of Manufacturers, and James D. McKevitt, National
Federation of Independent Businesses, all of Washington, D.C.
 
Hearings continue tomorrow.
 
OCEAN SHIPPING ACT
 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 47, to improve the international ocean
commerce transportation system of the United States, after receiving testimony
from Admiral Harold E. Shear, Maritime Administrator, Department of
Transportation; Alan Green, Jr., Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission; J.
Patrick Boyle, United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, Alexandria,
Virginia; Ronald N . Cobert, American Institute for Shippers' Association,
Allen Ferguson, National Institute of Economics and Law, George E. Garvey,
Catholic University of America, and Jonathan Blank, Preston, Thorgrimson,
Ellis, Holman & Fletcher, representing the Council of American-Flag Ship
Operators, all of Washington, D.C.; Peter Klein, Sea-Land Industries
Investments, Inc., Iselin, New Jersey; and Clifford M. Sayre, Du Pont,
Wilmington, Delaware. 

INTERIOR BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings to
review those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall
within its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the Department of the Interior from James G. Watt, Secretary, J.
Robinson West" Assistant Secretary for Policy, Budget and Administration, and
Joseph Gorrell, Director, Office of the Budget, all of the Department of the
Interior.
 
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
 
PUBLIC WORKS/JOBS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on
infrastructure issues relating to job opportunities in public works, receiving
testimony from Mayor William D. Schaefer, Baltimore, Maryland; Peter Goldmark,
New York Port Authority, New York City; and Nancy Newman, League of Women
Voters, Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MEDICARE CHARGES--REIMBURSING HOSPITALS
 
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings to examine proposed
changes in reimbursing hospitals for Medicare charges, receiving testimony
from Representative Wyden; Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary, Department of
Health and Human Services; Michael D. Bromberg, Federation of American
Hospitals, Washington, D.C.; John A. D. Cooper, Washington, D.C., and Mitchell
T. Rabkin, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, both on behalf of the
Association of American Medical Colleges; J. Alexander McMahon and Jack W.
Owen, both representing the American Hospital Association, Chicago, Illinois;
Robert M. Crane, New York State Department of Health, Albany; Charles F.
Pierce, New Jersey Deputy Commissioner of Health, Trenton; Hal Cohen, Maryland
Health Services Cost Review Commission, Baltimore; Ron Anderson, Parkland
Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the National Association Public
Hospitals; and Richard Fluke, Tennock Hospital, Hastings, Michigan, on behalf
of Michigan Hospital Association.

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 17.
 
EL SALVADOR 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on Presidential
certification on progress in El Salvador, after receiving testimony on the
human rights situation from Representative Philip Crane; Ambassador Thomas O.
Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; El Abrams,
Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Nestor
D. Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Inter-American Affairs; Lt.
Gen. Wallace H. Nutting, Army Commander-in-Chief, U.S. South Command, Panama;
Orville Schell, Americas Watch of Committee, Alfred Gellhorn, International
League of Human Rights/American Association for the Advancement of Science/New
York Academy of Sciences, Ronald Godwin, The Moral Majority, Richard Araujo,
The Heritage Foundation, Arnoldo Torres, League of United Latin American
Citizens, Howard J. Wiarda, American Enterprise Institute and William C.
Doherty, American Institute Free Labor Development, all of Washington, D.C.;
John Stanbury, Committee on Health Rights in El Salvador, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Andrew Messing, The Conservative Caucus, Vienna, Virginia;
Enrique Baloyra, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Michael Posner,
Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights, and Stephen L. Kass, New
York City Bar Association, both of New York City and Leonard Weinglass,
American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California.
 
FBI OVERSIGHT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
oversight hearings on the operations of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
focusing on the FBI's ability to gather intelligence on domestic groups that
advocate violence, terrorism or subversion, receiving testimony from William
Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 18. 

CHILD KIDNAPPING
 
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held oversight
hearings to review Federal guidelines on kidnapping and exploitation of
children, focusing on FBI policy for joining investigations of child
kidnappings and how that policy implemented in several specific cases,
receiving testimony from Senator Hawkins; Representative Simon; Oliver B.
Revell, Assistant Director, and Drew Clark, Chief, Personal Crime Section,
both of the Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Helen Burton, Breckenridge, Texas; John Walsh,
Hollywood, Florida; and Frank Papesh, Bedford Heights, Ohio.
 
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
 
RACKETEERING AND ORGANIZED CRIME 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings on
the adequacy of law enforcement powers for criminal investigations conducted
by the Department of Labor, focusing on enforcement against racketeering and
organized crime by the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Labor,
receiving testimony from Senator Nunn; Robert E. McGee, Acting Inspector
General, Department of Labor; Ronald C. Chance, Camden, New Jersey, Hugo D.
Menendez, Miami, Florida, Donald J. Wheeler, Chicago, Illinois, James McCully,
Los Angeles, California, Jeffrey Schaffler and Marjorie Cohen, both of
Brooklyn, New York, and Wesley M. Walker, New York City, all Criminal
Investigators, Department of Labor; and Patrick Alibrandi, Burlington,
Massachusetts, and Errol Bader, Boca Raton, Florida, both representing the
Associated Builders and Contractors. 

Hearings continue tomorrow.
 
SENATORS MASS MAILINGS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on Senate
mass mailings and the use of postal patron mail, after receiving testimony
from Senators Wallop and Pressler; Howard S. Liebengood, Senate Sergeant at
Arms; Marilyn E. Courtot, Assistant Secretary of the Senate; and Gordon
Morrison, Assistant Postmaster General, Customer Service Department, U.S.
Postal Service. 

Committee will consider proposed regulations for Senate mass mailings on
Tuesday, February 22.

CONTRACTING--SMALL BUSINESSES

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:

S. 272, to provide prospective contractors minimum time periods for the
solicitation and bidding process on Federal contracts, with an amendment; and
 
S. 273, to extend the authority of the Small Business Administration's section
8(a)(1) pilot procurement program, authorizing the SBA to enter into
procurement contracts with Federal agencies for the purpose of subcontracting
to small business, with an amendment.
 
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
bills, after receiving testimony from James c. Sanders, Administrator, Small
Business Administration; Al Soren, Rosco Automotive International Cooperation,
Columbus Ohio; and Paul Browne, on behalf of the Nations Association of
Minority Contractors, Washington, D.C.
 
INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community
but made no announcements, and recessed subject to call.

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on economic growth in 1983 from
Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman, and William A. Niskanen, Jr., and William Poole
VII, both Members, all of the Council of Economic Advisers, and David A.
Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow.



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

Committee Meetings

PAYMENT-IN-KIND PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices concluded
hearings on S. 36, to provide authority for implementation of a special
payment-in-kind (PIK) land conservation program for 1983 and 1984, and other
related proposals, after receiving testimony from Everett Rank, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Department of
Agriculture; Dawson Ahalt, Acting Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for
International Affairs; Robert M. Frederick, The National Grange, David M.
Senter, American Agriculture Movement, Inc., Charles L. Frazier, National
Farmers Organization, Michael V. Durando, American Farm Bureau Federation,
Robert J. Mullins, National Farmers Union, Don Loeslie, National Association
of Wheat Growers, Drew Stabler and Veryl Bailey, both representing the
National Corn Growers Association, and Neil Sampson, National Association of
Conservation Districts, all of Washington, D.C.; Dick Fifield, Alabama Farm
Bureau Federation, Montgomery; Ralph Weems, Jr., American Soybean Association,
St. Louis, Missouri; and Ralph S. Newman, Jr., and Stephen Gabbert, both
representing the Rice Millers Association, Arlington, Virginia.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Export Administration Act (P.L. 97-72),
and the Department of Commerce's responsibilities under the Act, receiving
testimony from Senators Nunn and Cohen; Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of
Commerce for International Trade; Lawrence J. Brady, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Administration; Sherman Funk, Inspector General, Department
of Commerce; Richard D. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy; William Von Raab, Commissioner of Customs, U.S.
Customs Service; and Theodore L. Thau, Salinas, California.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional budget, receiving testimony on national defense spending from
Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; General John W. Vessey, Jr.,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Jacques S. Gansler, The Analytic Sciences
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense; Robert J. Pranger, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.;
and General David C. Jones (Ret.), former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FOREST SERVICE/SYNTHETIC FUELS BUDGETS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings to
review those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall
within its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the U.S. Forest Service from John B. Crowell, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture, and R. Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service,
both of the Department of Agriculture; and in behalf of funds for the U.S.
Synthetic Fuels Corporation from Edward E. Noble, Chairman, Victor A.
Schroeder, President, and Dwight Ink, Vice President for Administration, all
of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

PUBLIC WORKS/JOBS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued hearings on the
infrastructure issues relating to job opportunities in public works, receiving
testimony from Senator Specter; New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton;
Richard P. Nathan, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and George E.
Peterson, Urban Institute, and Robert J. Vaughan, Gallatin Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET PROPOSALS

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review those items in the
President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its legislative
jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will make thereon to
the Budget Committee, receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of
the Treasury.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:

Montreal Aviation Protocols 3 and 4 (Ex. B, 95th Cong., 1st sess.);

Constitution of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (Treaty
Doc. 97-19);

The nominations of Richard R. Burt, of the District of Columbia, to be an
Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, Richard T. McCormack, of
the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State for Economic
and Business Affairs, Thomas A. Bolan, of New York, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and W.
Allen Wallis, of New York, to be Alternate Governor of the African Development
Bank; and

Two foreign service officer lists, each dated January 25, 1983.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Kenneth L. Adelman, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, after the nominee testified and answered further
questions in his own behalf.

Committee will consider the nomination of Mr. Adelman on Tuesday, February 15.

RACKETEERING AND ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the adequacy of law enforcement powers for criminal investigations
conducted by the Department of Labor, focusing on enforcement against
racketeering and organized crime by the Office of Inspector General of the
Department of Labor, after receiving testimony from D. Lowell Jensen,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Lt. Col.
Justin J. Dintino, New Jersey State Police, West Trenton; Ronald Goldstock,
New York State Organized Crime Task Force, White Plains; Wallace T. Hay,
Pennsylvania Crime Commission, St. Davids; J. Philip Kruse, Illinois Division
of Criminal Investigations, Des Plaines; James W. Garvin, Jr., Newark,
Delaware, (former U.S. Attorney, District of Delaware); Martin L. Steinberg,
Miami, Florida, (former Attorney in Charge, Justice Department Organized Crime
Offices, Western and Northern Districts of New York); Atlee W. Wampler, Miami
Florida, (former Attorney in Charge, Miami Strike Force and former U.S.
Attorney, Southern District of Florida); and Daniel Bookin, Farella, Braun and
Martell, San Francisco, California, (former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern
District of New York).

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee continued hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, after receiving testimony on economic growth in
1983 and U.S. trade policies from Ambassador William E. Brock, Jr., U.S. Trade
Representative.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.



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

Committee Meetings

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies: Senators Cochran
(Chairman), McClure, Andrews, Abdnor, Kasten, Mattingly, Specter, Eagleton,
Stennis, Byrd, Chiles, Burdick, and Sasser.

Defense: Senators Stevens (Chairman), Weicker, Garn, McClure, Andrews, Kasten,
D'Amato, Rudman, Cochran, Stennis, Proxmire, Inouye, Hollings, Eagleton,
Chiles, Johnston, and Huddleston.

District of Columbia: Senators Specter (Chairman), Mattingly, Domenici, Leahy,
and Bumpers.

Energy and Water Development: Senators Hatfield (Chairman), McClure, Garn,
Cochran, Abdnor, Kasten, Mattingly, Domenici, Johnston, Stennis, Byrd,
Hollings, Huddleston, Burdick, and Sasser.

Foreign Operations: Senators Kasten (Chairman), Hatfield, D'Amato. Rudman,
Specter, Inouye, Johnston, Leahy, and DeConcini.

HUD-Independent Agencies: Senators Garn (Chairman), Weicker, Laxalt, D'Amato,
Abdnor, Domenici, Huddleston, Stennis, Proxmire, Leahy, and Sasser.

Interior and Related Agencies: Senators McClure (Chairman), Stevens, Laxalt,
Garn, Cochran, Andrews, Rudman, Weicker, Byrd, Johnston, Huddleston, Leahy,
DeConcini, Burdick, and Bumpers.

Labor, HHS, Education, and Related Agencies: Senators Weicker (Chairman),
Hatfield, Stevens, Andrews, Rudman, Specter, McClure, Domenici, Proxmire,
Byrd, Hollings, Eagleton, Chiles, Burdick, and Inouye.

Legislative Branch: Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Hatfield, Stevens, Bumpers,
and Hollings.

Military Construction: Senators Mattingly (Chairman), Laxalt, Garn, Sasser,
and Inouye.

Commerce, State, Justice, The Judiciary, and Related Agencies: Senators Laxalt
(Chairman), Stevens, Weicker, Rudman, Hatfield, Specter, Hollings, Inouye,
DeConcini, Bumpers, and Eagleton.

Transportation and Related Agencies: Senators Andrews (Chairman), Cochran,
Abdnor, Kasten, D'Amato, Chiles, Stennis, Byrd, and Eagleton.

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government: Senators Abdnor (Chairman),
Laxalt, Mattingly, DeConcini, and Proxmire.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: On Friday, February 4, the committee continued
hearings in preparation for reporting the first concurrent resolution on the
fiscal year 1984 Congressional budget, receiving testimony from Mayor Jonathan
Howes, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the National League of
Cities; Robert Honts, Travis County, Texas Commissioner, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; Carl Schramm, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; and Edwin C. Hustead, The Hay Group, Sylvester J.
Schieber, Employee Benefit Research Institute, and Jack A. Meyer, American
Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, Feburary 15.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, February 4, the
committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Helen M. Taylor, of
Virginia, Richard Brookhiser, of New York, Karl Eller, of Arizona, and Sharon
P. Rockefeller, of West Virginia, each to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Taylor was
introduced by Senator Warner, Mr. Eller was introduced by Senator Goldwater,
and Ms. Rockefeller was introduced by Senators Randolph and Byrd.

U.S. EXPORTS--FOREIGN MARKETS

Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 4, the Subcommittee on International
Trade concluded hearings on S. 144, to establish the concept of reciprocity of
market access as an objective for U.S. trade policy where American products
are competitive, after receiving testimony from Ambassador William E. Brock,
U.S. Trade Representative; Steve Koplan and Elizabeth Jager, both representing
the AFL-CIO, John E. Hunnicutt, Peat, Marwick, and Mitchell and Company, and
Alexander Lidow, International Rectifier Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.;
Merlin E. Nelson, AMF Incorporated, White Plains, New York; and William
Walker, U.S. Council for International Business, New York City.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 62) requesting $5,021,000 in expenses of the
committee through February 1984.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Rules and Administration: On Friday, February 4, the committee
held a business meeting where it took the following action:

(1) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 59) authorizing
$1,304,056 in expenditures by the committee through February 1984;

(2) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 58) providing
for membership on the part of the Senate of the Joint Committee on Printing,
as follows: Senators Mathias, Hatfield, Baker, Ford, and Pell; and providing
for membership on the part of the Senate of the Joint Committee on the
Library, as follows: Senators Mathias, Hatfield, Warner, Inouye, and
DeConcini;

(3) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 60) authorizing
the revision and printing of the Standing Rules of the Senate as a Senate
document;

(4) Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 61) to pay a
gratuity to the survivors of a deceased Senate employee;

(5) Failed to agree to report a proposed resolution authorizing the printing
as a Senate document of a revised  edition of "The Capitol";

(6) Deferred further action on a proposed resolution authorizing the revision
and printing of the Senate Manual for use during the 98th Congress; and

(7) Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 98th Congress.

QUALITY ASSURANCE--PROSPECTIVE REIMBURSEMENT SYSTEMS

Special Committee on Aging: On Friday, February 4, the committee held hearings
on the quality of health care given to patients in facilities where
prospective reimbursement payment systems are in place, receiving testimony
from Carolyn Davis, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Michael Zimmerman, Associate
Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; David Marks,
former Assistant District Attorney, Galveston, Texas; Robert Gay, Autumn Hills
Convalescent Centers, Inc., Houston, Texas; B. Marc Allen, Essex Physicians
Review Organization, Inc., South Orange, New Jersey; and Dennis J. Duffy,
Suburban Medical Review Association, Union County, New Jersey.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

Joint Meeting

JANUARY EMPLOYMENT

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 4, the committee held hearings
on the employment/unemployment situation for the month of January, receiving
testimony from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.

Committee recessed subject to call.



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

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

URGENT SUPPLEMENTAL--UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed urgent supplemental
appropriations for fiscal year 1983 for assistance to the Unemployment Trust
Fund and for grants to States for unemployment insurance and employment
services, receiving testimony from William B. Lewis, Administrator, Office of
Employment Security, Department of Labor.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 17.

HOUSING INDUSTRY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the current condition of the housing industry, focusing on
economic trends, Federal Housing Administration activities, and on housing
credit and affordability, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce, Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development; Richard T. Pratt, Chairman, Federal Home
Loan Bank Board; David 0. Maxwell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Federal National Mortgage Association; Kenneth J. Thygerson, President and
Chief Executive Officer, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; and James M.
Wooten, Mortgage Bankers Association, Leon T. Kendall, Mortgage Insurance
Companies of America, Herbert Gray, Mutual Savings Bank Association, Leonard
Shane, U.S. League of Savings Institutions, Harry Pride, National Association
of Homebuilders, Harley W. Snyder, National Association of Realtors, and Henry
Schechter, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTERNATIONAL DEBT/IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held oversight hearings on the
status of the international debt and the proposed increase by the United
States to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota, receiving testimony
from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings continue on tomorrow. 

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of J. J. Simmons, III, of Oklahoma, to be Under Secretary of the
Interior, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Bradley, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

SURPLUS COMMODITIES DISTRIBUTION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
concluded hearings on S. 17, authorizing funds to assist eligible nonprofit
State and local agencies in the distribution of government-owned commodities
to needy recipients, after receiving testimony from Senator Wilson; Susan
Friday, National Milk Producers Federation, Margie Williams, National
Association of Wheat Growers, Jim Miller, The National Grange, Marshall L.
Matz, American School Food Service Association, Ellen Haas, Public Voice,
Becky Craig, Bread for D.C., and Josephine Sykes, all of Washington, D.C.;
Barbara Baker Temple, Greater Philadelphia Food Bank, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Daryl Gray, Affiliated Food Processors Association, McLean,
Virginia; Lee Stambaugh, Association of State Distributing Agencies, Richmond,
Virginia; and Mathew Ahmann, Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York.

1984 FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings to review proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 and the current state of the national economy,
receiving testimony on Federal policies for economic recovery from Donald T.
Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERNATIONAL DEBT/IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy continued oversight hearings on the
status of the international debt and the proposed increase by the United
States on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota, receiving testimony
from Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; George
Champion, Chase Manhattan Bank, Richard A. Debs, Morgan Stanley International,
Inc., George J. Clark, Citibank, and Martin P. Mayer, all of New York City;
and William J. McDonough, First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 17.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin, Director,
Congressional Budget Office.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:

S. 47, to improve the international ocean commerce transportation system of
the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

An original bill to improve the international ocean commerce transportation
system of the United States;

S. 55, to encourage and develop marketplace competition in the provision of
certain broadcast services and to provide certain deregulation of such
broadcast services, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and

The nominations of Sharon P. Rockefeller, of West Virginia, Karl Eller, of
Arizona, and Richard Brookhiser, of New York, each to be a Member of the Board
of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

EPA BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to review
those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within
its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will
make thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for the Environmental Protection Agency from Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency, who was accompanied by several of her
associates; and Jonathan Lash, on behalf of the Natural Resources Defense
Council, the American Environmental Safety Council, Friends of the Earth, the
National Audubon Society, and the Sierra Club, Washington, D.C.

Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 17.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to consider recommendations of
the National Commission on Social Security Reform for reform of the Social
Security program, receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan
and Company, New York City; Robert M. Ball, Center for the Study of Social
Policy, Martha E. Keys, The Association of Former Members of Congress, and
Alexander B. Trowbridge, National Association of Manufacturers, all of
Washington, D.C.; Joe D. Waggonner, Jr., Bossier Bank and Trust Company,
Bossier City, Louisiana, and Mary Falvey Fuller, San Francisco, California,
all Members of National Commission on Social Security Reform.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

WORLD ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the international
economic system, focusing on the need to revitalize the international
financial system, preserve and extend the benefits of open trade, improve the
monetary system, and ensure political stability in the developing world,
receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

U.S. ARMS SALES TO PAKISTAN

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to consult
with Administration officials on U.S. arms sales to Pakistan. Present were
Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs; Leslie Brown, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
Politico-Military Affairs; Howard Schaeffer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; Major General Richard V.
Secord, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs; and an official of the intelligence community.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the profile of organized crime, focusing on
activities in the Mid-Atlantic States and on those activities which provide
the economic mainstay for traditional and non-traditional organized crime
within the region with special emphasis on the outlaw motorcycle gang known as
the Pagans, receiving testimony from District Attorney John Riley, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania; Corporal Terry Katz, Investigator, Maryland State
Police, Annapolis; Trooper George A. Ellis, Major Crimes Task Force,
Pennsylvania State Police, Media; Detective Sergeant Barry Roberson,
Intelligence Bureau, New Jersey State Police, Trenton; and two public
witnesses.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 23.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
A. Joe Fish, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, and
Pamela Ann Rymer, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of
California, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Fish was introduced by Senator Tower, and Ms. Rymer was introduced
by Senator Wilson.

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for expenses of their respective committees, as follows:

Energy and Natural Resources (S. Res. 33$2,371,564), Senators McClure and
Johnston;

Select on Intelligence (S. Res. 36 $1,928,000), Senators Goldwater and Inouye;

Select on Indian Affairs (S. Res. 34 $645,072), Senators Andrews and Melcher;

Budget (S. Res 25 $3,085,062), Senators Domenici and Chiles;

Judiciary (S. Res. 27 $4,520,223), Senators Thurmond and Biden;

Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. Res. 26$3,630,169), Senator
Packwood.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

Joint Meetings

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, after receiving testimony on economic growth in
1983 from Otto Eckstein, Data Resources, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Alan
Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan, Inc., New York City.

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings to receive legislative recommendations
for fiscal year 1984 from National Commander Edward G. Galian, New York City,
on behalf of the Disabled American Veterans.

Senate Committee will meet again on tomorrow.



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

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE RULES AND SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held an
organizational business meeting where it took the following action:

(1) Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 98th Congress; and

(2) Announced the following subcommittee assignments:

Soil and Water Conservation, Forestry, and Environment: Senators Jepsen
(Chairman), Hatch, Wilson, Cochran, Melcher, and Heflin.

Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification: Senators Hawkins (Chairman),
Jepsen, Andrews, Zorinsky, Heflin, and Boren.

Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices: Senators
Cochran (Chairman), Dole, Boschwitz, Andrews, Helms, Leahy, Huddleston,
Zorinsky, Melcher, and Dixon.

Agricultural Research and General Legislation: Senators Lugar (Chairman),
Hatch, Wilson, Helms, Boren, Heflin, Huddleston, and Pryor.

Rural Development, Oversight, and Investigations: Senators Andrews (Chairman),
Helms, Pryor, and Leahy.

Foreign Agricultural Policy: Senators Boschwitz (Chairman), Wilson, Lugar,
Cochran, Jepsen, Dole, Hawkins, Dixon, Zorinsky, Boren, and Huddleston.

Nutrition: Senators Dole (Chairman), Hawkins, Lugar, Boschwitz, Hatch, Pryor,
Melcher, Leahy, and Dixon.

1984 FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued hearings to review budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 and the current state of the national economy,
receiving testimony on Federal policies for economic recovery from Martin
Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; and Alice M. Rivlin,
Director, Congressional Budget Office.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 22.

APPROPRIATIONS--CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Corps of Engineers from William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary of the Army
for Civil Works, and Lt. General Joseph K. Bratton, Chief, Army Corps of
Engineers.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 22.

CIA BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
worldwide intelligence briefing from William Casey, Director of Central
Intelligence, but made no announcements.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
discuss the Federal Reserve's objectives for monetary policy and their
relationship to the prospects for the economy, receiving testimony from. Paul
A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.

Hearings continue on Friday, February 18.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of
the Treasury; Stanley Fischer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; Donald Fullerton, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and
John Kareken, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 66, to create a jurisdictional framework to
apportion the authority regulating cable systems between the Federal and State
governments, and to provide for a competitive marketplace for cable systems in
the telecommunications industry, receiving testimony from Paul I. Bortz,
Browne, Bortz and Coddington, Denver, Colorado; Charles L. Jackson, Shooshan
and Jackson, Inc., Richard L. Bodman, Satellite Television Corporation, John
Raines, National Satellite Cable Association, Sol Schildhause, Neighborhood
Television Inc., and William Wewer, Subscription Television Association, all
of Washington, D.C.; James K. Parker, CBS, Inc., Don Franco, Microband, and
Robert Fountain, United States Satellite Broadcasting Company, all of New York
City; Richard G. Hutcheson, American Low Power Television Association,
Arlington, Virginia; R. E. Turner III, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.,
Atlanta, Georgia; and Jerry Holley, Stauffer Communications, Inc., Topeka,
Kansas.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded consideration
of, but did not take final action thereon, the following agenda items:

The nomination of J. J. Simmons, III of Oklahoma, to be Under Secretary of the
Interior;

S.J. Res. 25, redesignating the Saint Croix Island National Monument in Maine,
as the "Saint Croix Island International Historic Site";

S. 420, granting a simple fee to a certain private land claim in Livingston
Parish, Louisiana;

S. 459, conveying to the city of American Falls, Idaho, specified lands
located within or adjacent to the city;

S. 473, authorizing the acquisition of land by exchange for addition to the
Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa;

An original bill to permit temporary use by Federal departments and agencies
of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management;

An original bill to provide for the conveyance to adjacent landowners, all
non-mineral interest of the U.S. in certain tracts of Federal land adjacent to
Lake Shore Drive, Lake Lowell, Boise project, Idaho; and

An original bill to provide for the conveyance of certain property to the city
of Show Low, Arizona.

EPA BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Toxic Substances
and Environmental Oversight concluded hearings on the impact of the
Environmental Protection Agency's proposed budget on State and local
environmental programs, after receiving testimony from Maryland State Delegate
Lucille Maurer, Annapolis, on behalf of the National Conference of State
Legislators; Sandra Gardebring; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Roseville,
and Richard Carlson, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield,
both on behalf of the National Governors' Association; Robert Collom, Georgia
Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, on behalf of the State and
Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators; Thomas P. Eichler, Delaware
Environmental Control Division, Dover, on behalf of the State and Interstate
Water Pollution Control Administration; and Richard Valentinetti, Montpelier,
Vermont, on behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste
Management Officials.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Committee on Finance. Committee continued hearings to consider recommendations
on the National Commission on Social Security Reform for reform of the Social
Security program, receiving testimony from Representatives Archer, Conable,
and Pepper, all members of the National Commission on Social Security Reform,
and John A. Svahn, Commissioner, Social Security Administration.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 22.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on organized
crime in the United States, receiving testimony from Colonel Justin J.
Dintino, New Jersey State Police, Trenton.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nomination of Donald L. Dotson, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the
National Labor Relations Board.

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee continued hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for expenses of their respective committees, as follows:

Veterans Affairs (S. Res. 42 $887,155), Senators Simpson and Cranston;

Environment and Public Works (S. Res. 13$2,448,885), Senator Randolph;

Governmental Affairs (S. Res. 23 $4,654,047), Senators Roth, Percy,
Durenberger, and Nunn;

Special on Aging (S. Res. 29 $1,064,345), Senators Heinz and Glenn.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

VA BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review those
items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its
legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Budget Committee, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for the Veterans' Administration and the Department of Labor's veterans'
employment programs from Harry N. Walters, Administrator, Veterans'
Administration, and William C. Plowden, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Veterans' Employment Services, both of whom were accompanied by several of
their associates; and Robert E. Lyngh, The American Legion, Donald H. Schwab,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Charles E. Joeckel, Jr.,
Disabled American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE EXPORT TRADE PRACTICES

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry:  Committee held hearings on
S. 14, S. 18, S.77, S. 100, Title V of S. 124, S.251, and S.398, measures to
develop and expand markets for U.S. agricultural commodities, receiving
testimony from Senators Mattingly and Grassley; Representatives Bereuter and
William Thomas; Robert Delano, American Farm Bureau Federation, William
Gaston, on behalf of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Lee
Campbell, Poultry and Egg Institute, George B. Watts, National Broiler
Council, Varel Bailey, National Corn Growers Association, and E. Morgan
Williams, Cooperative League of USA, all of Washington, D.C.; Albert Pope,
United Egg Producers, Decatur, Georgia; Maurice Pickier, Springdale Farms, New
London, North Carolina; Don Loeslie, Warren, Minnesota, on behalf of the
National Association of Wheat Growers; Ron Stoddard, Harrisburg, Nebraska, and
Frank Johannsen, Bayard, Nebraska, both representing the Nebraska Wheat
Growers Association; Frank M. Mitchner, Sumner, Mississippi, on behalf of the
National Cotton Council of American; Wallace J. Campbell, C.A.R.E., New York
City; Larry Jones, Larry Jones International Ministries, Oklahoma City
Oklahoma; Robert Ainsworth, on behalf of World Vision, Monrovia, California;
Frank Light, Sun Diamond, Kingsburg, California; Kalem Barserian, Raisin
Bargaining Association, Fresno, California; and Rich Peterson, Cling Peach
Advisory Board, San Francisco, California.

Hearings continue on Friday, February 25.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Major
General A. J. Adams, Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission; Colonel
J. E. Gleason, Director, Casualty and Memorial Affairs, Department of the
Army; and General Thomas K. Turnage, Director, Selective Service System.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 24.

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from Raymond
J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 28.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elizabeth H. Dole,
Secretary of Transportation, Darrell M. Trent, Deputy Secretary of
Transportation, and Donald A. Derman, Assistant Secretary of Transportation
for Budget and Programs.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 22.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Vincent Puritano, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Defense, and 4,696 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marine Corps.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Puritano, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.

INTERNATIONAL DEBT/IMF QUOTA INCREASE

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded oversight hearings on the
status of the international debt and the proposed increase by the United
States on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota, after receiving
testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Federal Reserve System; C. T.
Conover, Comptroller of the Currency; and William M. Isaac, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony from Martin Feldstein, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 66, to create a jurisdictional
framework to apportion the authority regulating cable systems between the
Federal and State governments, and to provide for a competitive marketplace
for cable systems in the telecommunications industry, after receiving
testimony from Thomas E. Wheeler, National Cable Television Association, and
Sue MillerBuske, National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, both of
Washington, D.C.; Mayor Jack W. Evans, Dallas, Texas; Frank Greif, Mayor's
Office of Cable Communications, Seattle, Washington; and Stephen R. Effros,
Community Antenna Television Association, Fairfax, Virginia.

AUTO SAFETY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.. Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings on automobile safety, focusing on the durability
of car bumpers, receiving testimony from Brian O'Neill and Ben Kelley, both of
the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Clarence M. Ditlow III, Center for
Auto Safety, Douglas M. Fergusson, and Charles A. Taylor, both representing
the National Association of Independent Insurers, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Paul H. Taylor and 0. Eugene Hilger, both of Taylor Devices, Inc., North
Tonawanda, New York.

METCALF WILDERNESS AREA

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
Reserved Water concluded hearings on S. 96, to establish the Lee Metcalf
wilderness and management area in the State of Montana, after receiving
testimony from Senator Melcher; John Crowell, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture; Frank DuBois, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land
and Water; and Dorothy Bradley, Montana Wilderness Association, Washington,
D.C.

CIVIL WORKS PROGRAMS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
review those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall
within its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Budget Committee, after receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for civil works programs from William R. Gianelli, Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, and Maj. Gen. John F. Wall, Director of
Civil Works, and Bory Steinberg, Chief, Program Division, Office of Director
of Civil Works, both of the Office of the Chief of Engineers.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Finance: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:

Taxation and Debt Management: Senators Packwood (Chairman), Danforth, Chafee,
Wallop, Armstrong, Matsunaga, Bentsen, Baucus, and Long;

International Trade: Senators Danforth (Chairman), Roth, Chafee, Heinz,
Wallop, Armstrong, Grassley, Symms, Bentsen, Matsunaga, Boren, Bradley,
Mitchell, Moynihan, and Baucus;

Savings, Pensions, and Investment Policy: Senators Chafee (Chairman),
Packwood, Roth, Pryor, and Matsunaga;

Economic Growth, Employment, and Revenue Sharing: Senators Heinz (Chairman),
Roth, Mitchell, and Moynihan;

Energy and Agricultural Taxation: Senators Wallop (Chairman), Symms,
Durenberger, Bradley, Pryor, and Bentsen;

Health: Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Dole, Packwood, Heinz, Baucus,
Bradley, and Mitchell;

Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs: Senators Armstrong
(Chairman), Durenberger, Danforth, Dole, Moynihan, Boren, Pryor, and Long;

Estate and Gift Taxation: Senators Symms (Chairman), Grassley, and Boren;

Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service: Senators Grassley (Chairman), Dole,
and Long.

PAYMENT OF HOSPITALS UNDER MEDICARE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health concluded hearings to examine
proposed changes in reimbursing hospitals for Medicare charges, after
receiving testimony from Jerald R. Schenken, American Medical Association,
Sally Simons, American Medical Records Association, and Bernard R. Tresnowski,
Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, all of Chicago, Illinois; Joseph
English, St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center, New York City, on behalf
of the American Psychiatric Association; Frank J. Primich, Medical Society of
New Jersey, Lawrenceville; Lucille Joel, New Jersey Nurses Association,
Trenton, on behalf of the American Nurses Association; Thomas Pyle, Harvard
Community Health Plan, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Group Health
Association of America; William H. Ryan, Deloitte Haskins and Sells, New York
City; Marc Allen, Essex Physicians Review Organization, South Orange, New
Jersey; Robert Cherecwich, Hudson County Professional Standards Review
Organization, Jersey City, New Jersey; Dennis J. Duffy, Suburban Medical
Review Association, Kenilworth, New Jersey; John K. Kittredge, Prudential
Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey, on behalf of the Health
Insurance Association of America; Cooper Parker, Iowa State Department of
Health, Des Moines, on behalf of the American Health Planning Association; and
Harold 0. Buzzell, Health Industry Manufacturers Association, R. R. Kovener,
Healthcare Financial Management Association, Willis Goldbeck, Washington
Business Group on Health, Frances Klafter, Gray Panthers, Jacob Clayman,
National Council of Senior Citizens, and James M. Hacking, American
Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C.

AUTHORIZATIONS--INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 and supplemental funds for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for United States international
security assistance programs, receiving testimony from William Schneider,
Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology; Lt.
Gen. Philip C. Gast, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department
of Defense; and Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International
Development.

Hearings continue on Friday, February 25.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:

Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Senators Mathias (Chairman), Laxalt,
Hatch, Dole, Metzenbaum, Leahy, and DeConcini;

Criminal Law: Senators Laxalt (Chairman), Thurmond, Specter, Dole, Biden, and
Baucus;

Constitution: Senators Hatch (Chairman), Thurmond, Grassley, DeConcini, and
Leahy;

Courts: Senators Dole (Chairman), Thurmond, Simpson, East, Heflin, Baucus, and
DeConcini;

Immigration and Refugee Policy: Senators Simpson (Chairman), Grassley,
Mathias, Kennedy, and Heflin;

Separation of Powers: Senators East (Chairman), Denton, Simpson, Baucus, and
Metzenbaum;

Administrative Practice and Procedure: Senators Grassley (Chairman), Laxalt,
Specter, Heflin, and Baucus;

Security and Terrorism: Senators Denton (Chairman), Hatch, East, Leahy,
Metzenbaum;

Juvenile Justice: Senators Specter (Chairman), Denton, Mathias, Metzenbaum,
and Kennedy.

OCEAN SHIPPING ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 504, to improve the
international ocean commerce transportation system of the United States,
receiving testimony from Thomas J. Campbell, Director, Bureau of Competition,
Federal Trade Commission; Jay Angoff, Congress Watch, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of Consumer Federation of America, Consumers' Union, National Farmers
Union, National Farmers Organization, and American Association of Retired
Persons; Ed Merrigan, National Association of Recycling Industries, New York
City; Thomas O'Neill, National Association of Beverage Importers, Inc.,
Washington, D.C.; and Ray deMember, International Association of Non-Vessel
Operating Common Carriers, Fairfax, Virginia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments:

Labor: Senators Nickles (Chairman), East, Grassley, Hatch, Stafford, Denton,
Riegle, Kennedy, Randolph, and Matsunaga;

Education, Arts and the Humanities: Senators Stafford (Chairman), Hatch,
Quayle, Denton, Weicker, East, Pell, Kennedy, Randolph, Eagleton, and Dodd;

Employment and Productivity: Senators Quayle (Chairman), Hawkins, Hatch,
Nickles, Grassley, Metzenbaum, Pell, Riegle, and Kennedy;

Handicapped: Senators Weicker (Chairman), Stafford, Hawkins, Nickles,
Randolph, Eagleton, and Matsunaga;

Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: Senators Humphrey (Chairman), Quayle, East,
Matsunaga, and Riegle;

Aging: Senators Grassley (Chairman), Hawkins, Humphrey, Denton, Eagleton,
Pell, and Metzenbaum;

Family and Human Services: Senators Denton (Chairman), Humphrey, Nickles,
Weicker, Grassley, Dodd, Eagleton, and Metzenbaum.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 242, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983
to provide additional employment opportunities in existing Federal or
Federally assisted labor intensive programs, to provide incentives for
employers to hire the long-term unemployed and to expand retraining
opportunities for dislocated workers, receiving testimony from Martin
Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 22.

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee continued hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for expenses of their respective committees, as follows:

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Res. 35$1,719,750), Senators Garn and
Proxmire;

Finance (S. Res. 47 $2,269,000), Senators Dole and Long;

Appropriations (S. Res. 41 $4,252,400), Senators Hatfield and Stennis;

Armed Services (S. Res. 28 $1,994,711), Senators Tower and Jackson;

Small Business (S. Res. 24 $951,866), Senators Weicker and Nunn;

Labor and Human Resources (S. Res. 62$5,021,000), Senators Hatch and Kennedy;

Foreign Relations (S. Res. 39 $2,556,000), Senators Percy and Pell.

Committee will consider the aforementioned resolutions, and other pending
committee funding resolutions, on Tuesday, February 22.

TAX-EXEMPT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BONDS

Committee on Small Business: committee held hearings on S. 499, to require the
usage of tax-exempt financing in connection with the Small Business
Administration's section 503 Certified Development Company program, receiving
testimony from Edwin T. Holloway, Associate Administrator, Office of Finance
and Investment, Small Business Administration; Steve Gurian, Long Island
Certified Development Corporation, Mineola, New York; Scott Berman, Lawrence
Avenue Development Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Robert Y. Bauman, Kentucky
Commissioner of Economic Development, Louisville; and William Kelly, Hancock
Bank and Trust Company, Quincy, Massachusetts.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community, but made no announcements.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

1984 FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings to review budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 and the current state of the national economy,
after receiving testimony on Federal policies for economic recovery from David
A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Alan Greenspan,
Townsend-Greenspan, Inc., New York City; and George L. Perry, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for those
programs administered by the Department of Energy from Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary of Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for Indian
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue on Friday, February 25.

APPROPRIATIONS--WMATA AND REPA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Richard S. Page, General Manager, William A. Boleyn, Assistant General Manager
for Finance and Comptroller, John S. Egbert, Assistant General Manager for
Design and Construction, Alinda Burke, Assistant General Manager for Public
Service, and Eckhard Bennewitz, Director, Budget and Management Analyses, all
of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; and Howard Dugoff,
Administrator, and Leon A. Santman, Director, Materials Transportation Bureau,
both of the Research and Special Programs Administration, Department of
Transportation.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 24.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to discuss the Federal Reserve's objectives for monetary policy and their
relationship to the prospects for the economy, receiving testimony from Beryl
W. Sprinkle, Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs.

On Friday, February 18, the committee resumed hearings on the conduct of
monetary policy, receiving testimony from Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers; Andrew F. Brimmer, Brimmer and Company,
Washington, D.C.; and John D. Paulus, Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc., and J.
Richard Zecker, Chase Manhattan Bank, both of New York City.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of
State.

On Friday, the Committee continued hearings in preparation for reporting the
first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget,
receiving testimony from Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton, New Jersey; John E.
Petersen, Government Finance Research Center, and James Rutherford, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, both of Washington, D.C.; Roy
Bahl, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; Arch W. Roberts, Gainesville,
Florida, on behalf of the Public Securities Association; and Gordon Moore,
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS/U.S. FIRE ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed authorizations for fiscal
year 1984 for the National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, and
the U.S. Fire Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, after
receiving testimony from Ernest Ambler, Director, National Bureau of
Standards, Department of Commerce; Fred Villella, Associate Director, Federal
Emergency Management Agency; Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; Richard Bland, National Fire Prevention and Control
Commission, State College, Pennsylvania; A.G.W. Biddle, Computer &
Communications Industry Association, Arlington, Virginia; Robert Ely, Kirkland
Fire Services, Kirkland, Washington; Louis Amabili, Joint Council of National
Fire Service Organizations, Dover, Delaware; Edward McCormack, International
Society of Fire Service Instructors, Ashland, Massachusetts; Joseph Redden,
National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, Massachusetts; Romeo Spaulding,
International Association of Black Professional Firefighters, Capital Heights,
Maryland; and Charles Camprad, International Association of Fire Chiefs,
Washington, D.C.

WORLD PETROLEUM OUTLOOK

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Monday, February 21, the
committee resumed oversight hearings on the world petroleum outlook for 1983,
receiving testimony on the current state of the oil market and on the factors
which may affect the price and availability of oil in the near future from
George Bradley, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International
Affairs; Herman T. Franssen, International Energy Agency, Paris, France; John
Lichtblau, Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, New York City; and Melvin
A. Conant, Conant and Associates, and Henry Schuler, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.

On Friday, February 18, the committee held closed oversight hearings on the
world petroleum outlook for 1983, receiving testimony from Deputy Assistant
Secretary Bradley; E. Allen Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
International Energy Policy; James Placke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Economic Affairs; Charles Schotta, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Arabian Peninsula Affairs; and representatives of the
intelligence community.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to consider recommendations
of the National Commission on Social Security Reform for reform of the Social
Security program, receiving testimony from Cyril F. Brickfield, American
Association of Retired People, Joseph Rourke, National Council of Senior
Citizens, Jack Ossofsky, The National Council on the Aging, Inc., Grace Ellen
Rice, American Farm Bureau Federation, William Dennis, National Federation of
Independent Business, Jack Carlson, National Association of Realtors, Robert
J. Myers, National Commission on Social Security Reform, David Keating,
National Taxpayers Union, Kevin P. O'Brien, Employers Council on Flexible
Compensation, and Leon Shull, Americans for Democratic Action, all of
Washington, D.C.; Philip Alden, Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby, New York
City, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Gerald P. Slaybaugh, Kansas
Department of Administration, representing the National Conference of State
Social Security Administrators, and Carolyn K. Vath, Kansas State Nurses'
Association, representing the American Nurses' Association, both of Topeka;
and Vernon Strickland, Louisiana State Employees Retirement System, Baton
Rouge.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUES

Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 18, the committee held hearings to
review structural unemployment initiatives developed by the Administration and
on the proposed extention for six months of the Federal Supplemental
Compensation program (FSC), receiving testimony from Raymond J. Donovan,
Secretary of Labor; and Martin Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic
Advisers.

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 3.

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS TREATY/ NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee approved for reporting the following
business items:

(1) the Amendment to the 1972 Protocol to the 1928 Convention Concerning
International Expositions (Treaty Doc. 98-1);

(2) the nomination of Lewis A. Tambs, of Arizona, to be Ambassador to
Columbia; and

(3) a Foreign Service Officer list dated February 9, 1983.

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 98th Congress.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on Treaty Doc. 98-1,
after receiving testimony from William Morris, Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Trade Development; Jayne Plank, Director, Office of Intergovernmental
Affairs, Bureau of Public Affairs, Department of State; and Thomas Ayers,
Chicago World's Fair 1992 Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Morton I. Abramowitz, of Massachusetts, for the rank of Ambassador during
the tenure of his service as the Representative of the United States of
America for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions Negotiations, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John C. Miller, of Ohio, to be General Counsel, and Barbara J.
Mahone, of New York, to be a Member, both of the Federal Labor Relations
Authority, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:

(1) the nominations of A. Joe Fish, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern
District of Texas, Pamela Ann Rymer, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central
District of California, William T. Dillard III, of Tennessee, to be U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Ronald J. Alles, to be U.S.
Marshal for the District of Montana, James C. Patterson, to be U.S. Marshal
for the Western District of Arkansas, and Carol M. Pavilack, of Arizona, to be
a Commissioner of the United States Parole Commission;

(2) S. 504, to improve the international ocean commerce transportation system
of the United States, with amendments;

(3) S. J. Res. 15, designating the month of March, 1983, as "National Eye
Donor Month";

(4) S. J. Res. 21, designating April, 1983, as "National Child Abuse
Prevention Month";

(5) S. J. Res. 27, requesting the President to designate the week of March
13-19, 1983, as "National Employ the Older Worker Week";

(6) S. J. Res. 37, designating March 8, 1983, as "Women's History Week", with
an amendment; and

(7) S. J. Res. 33, designating the week commencing February 20, 1983, as
"Clergy Appreciation Week in the United States."

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 242, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1983
to provide additional employment opportunities in existing Federal or
Federally-assisted labor intensive programs, to provide incentives for
employers to hire the long-term unemployed, and to expand retraining
opportunities for dislocated workers, and related proposals, including S. 147,
S. 266, and S. 493, receiving testimony from Gene Bottoms, American Vocational
Association, Arlington, Virginia; Nathaniel M. Semple, and Kenneth McLennan,
both of the Committee for Economic Development, Washington, D.C.; Mayor Donald
Fraser, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the National League of Cities;
Mayor Winfield Moses, Fort Wayne, Indiana, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of
Mayors; Markley Roberts, and Robert M. McGlotten, both on behalf of the
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; and
Anna Tucker, Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs, Providence.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUDGET RESOLUTIONS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded consideration of,
but did not take final action thereon, the following committee resolutions
requesting funds in operating expenses through February, 1984: S. Res. 13, S.
Res. 23, S. Res. 24, S. Res. 25, S. Res. 26, S. Res. 27, S. Res. 28, S. Res.
29, S. Res. 33, S. Res. 34, S. Res. 35, S. Res. 36, S. Res. 37, S. Res. 39, S.
Res. 41, S. Res. 42, S. Res. 47, and S. Res. 62.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on S. Res. 37,
requesting $1,372,000 in expenses of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition,
and Forestry through February, 1984, after receiving testimony from Senator
Helms.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Select Committee on Intelligence: On Friday, February 18, committee held a
closed briefing on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of
the intelligence community, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/02/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 23, 1983; pages D62 - D69 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; and General John W.
Vessey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for those
programs administered by the Department of the Interior from James G. Watt,
Secretary of the Interior, and R. N. Broadbent, Commissioner, Bureau of
Reclamation, both of whom were accompanied by several of their associates.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Edwin J. Gray, of California, to be a Member of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Wilson, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony from John R. Block, Secretary of
Agriculture; Governor Robert Kerrey, Lincoln,  Nebraska; Leo Polopolus,
American Agricultural Economics Association, University of Florida,
Tallahassee; Robert 0. Anderson, Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles,
California; D. Gale Johnson, University of Chicago, Illinois; and L. E. Davis,
New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, Clovis.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:

The nomination of J. J. Simmons III, of Oklahoma, to be Under Secretary of the
Interior;

S.J. Res. 25, redesignating the Saint Croix Island National Monument in Maine
as the "Saint Croix Island International Historic Site";

S. 420, granting a simple fee to a certain private land claim in Livingston
Parish, Louisiana;

S. 459, conveying to the city of American Falls, Idaho, specified lands
located within or adjacent to the city;

S. 473, authorizing the acquisition of land by exchange for addition to the
Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa;

An original bill (S. 612) to permit temporary use by Federal departments and
agencies of public lands controlled by the Bureau of Land Management;

An original bill (S. 577) to provide for the conveyance to adjacent landowners
all non-mineral interest of the U.S. in certain tracts of Federal land
adjacent to Lake Shore Drive, Lake Lowell, Boise project, Idaho;

An original bill (S. 613) to provide for the conveyance of certain property to
the City of Show Low, Arizona; and

S. 96, to establish the Lee Metcalf wilderness and management area in the
State of Montana, with an amendment.

Also, the committee began consideration of those items in the President's
budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its legislative jurisdiction,
and to consider recommendations which it will make thereon to the Budget
Committee, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Tuesday, March 1.

SUPERFUND

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held oversight hearings
on the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Containment Act (P.L. 96-510),
providing for the safe and adequate treatment of hazardous substances released
into the environment, receiving testimony from Rita M. Lavelle, former
Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Environmental
Protection Agency.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings to consider recommendations
of the National Commission on Social Security Reform for reform of the Social
Security program, receiving testimony from Senators Bosch witz and Lugar;
Representative Schulze; Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel
Management; James Schuyler, National Association of Home Builders, Seattle,
Washington; and John H. Fitch, Jr., National Association of
Wholesaler-Distributors, Ray Denison, and Bert Seidman, both of the AFL-CIO,
Howard Young, Richard Warden, and Alan Reuther, all of the International
Union-United Auto Workers, Sylvester J. Schieber, Employee Benefit Research
Institute, Kenneth T. Blaylock, American Federation of Government Employees,
Stanley Q. Lyman, National Association of Government Employees, Vincent R.
Sombrotto, National Association of Letter Carriers, Robert Beers, American
Foreign Service Association, James M. Peirce, National Federation of Federal
Employees, Judy Goldsmith, National Organization of Women, Maxine Forman,
Women's Equity Action League, and Nancy Duff Campbell, National Women's Law
Center, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

IMF QUOTA INCREASE/MULTILATERAL BANK AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the proposed
increase by the United States on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quota,
and proposed authorizations for the Multilateral Bank, receiving testimony
from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to examine and profile organized crime, focusing on
activities in the Mid-Atlantic States and on those activities which provide
the economic mainstay for traditional and non-traditional organized crime
within the region with special emphasis on the outlaw motorcycle gang known as
the Pagans, and on organized crime's influence in the labor union movement in
the Mid-Atlantic Region, receiving testimony from Gary D. Liming, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration,
Department of Justice; Robert E. Magee, Deputy Inspector General, and Robert
M. McKee, Special Agent in Charge (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Ronald C.
Chance, Special Agent in Charge (Camden, New Jersey), and Raymond A. Wren,
Special Agent in Charge (Newark, New Jersey), all of the Organized Crime and
Racketeering Section, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Labor;
and Malcolm L. Lazin, Wallace P. Hay, and Gino L. Lazzari, all of the
Pennsylvania Crime Commission, Harrisburg.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Shirley W. Kram, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New
York, and Gregory W. Carman, of New York, to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of
International Trade, after the nominees, who were introduced by Senator
D'Amato, testified and answered questions in their own behalf.

DEA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
hearings on proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1984 for the Drug
Enforcement Administration, and to review those programs administered by the
DEA, receiving testimony from Francis M. Mullen, Jr., Acting Administrator,
Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice.

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 25.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held oversight hearings on the implementation of vocational
education programs administered by the Department of Education, receiving
testimony from Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education; Robert M. Worthington,
Assistant Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education; Gene
Bottoms, American Vocational Association, Arlington, Virginia; Ruben
Guenthner, National Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Bismarck, North
Dakota; and Rupert N. Evans, National Council on Employment Policy, and Henry
David, NIE Study on Vocational Education, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 242, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1983 to provide additional employment opportunities in existing Federal or
Federally-assisted labor intensive programs, to provide incentives for
employers to hire the long-term unemployed and to expand retraining
opportunities for dislocated workers, and related proposals, including S. 147,
S. 266, and S. 493, after receiving testimony from Governor Pierre S. du Pont,
Dover; Arnold E. Sherman, Camp Fire, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Jean
Merritt, Indiana Department of Aging, Indianapolis; Paula MacIlwaine,
Montgomery County, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Counties;
Karl Pnazek, Community Action Agency, Stevens Point, Wisconsin; and Jeffrey
Joseph, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Robert Friedman, Corporation for Enterprise
Development, Mary DiGonia, National Youth Employment Coalition, Lonnie
Racehorse, Indian and Native American Employment and Training Coalition, Carl
Waln, on behalf of the Council of Energy Resources Tribes, Samuel B. Husk,
Council of Great City Schools, and Helen Blank, Children's Defense Fund, all
of Washington, D.C.

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:

S. 304, designating a parcel of land in Harney County, Oregon, to be held in
trust for the Burns Paiute Tribe;

S. 143, to authorize the addition of the Twenty-nine Palms Band of Luisena
Mission Indians to the list of those tribes permitted to lease trust lands for
99 years;

S. 366, to settle certain claims of the Mashantucket Pequot Indians in
Ledyard, Connecticut; and

S. 419, to enable Indian tribal governments to issue per capita payments
directly to their tribal members.

INDIAN PROGRAMS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to review those
items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its
legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony from Kenneth L. Smith,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian affairs; and Casimer R.
Wichlacz, Acting Commissioner, Administration for Native Americans, Office of
Human Development Services, Department of Health and Human Services.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/02/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 24, 1983; pages D69 - D77 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on the General Agricultural outlook, and to
review the overall budget for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of
Agriculture, receiving testimony from John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture,
William G. Lesher, Assistant Secretary of Economics, and Stephen B. Dewhurst,
Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 1.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the U.S. Army, receiving
testimony from John 0. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army; General Edward C.
Meyer, Chief of Army Staff; and Major General Hal Davis, Director of Army
Budget.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 1.

APPROPRIATIONS--POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Power Marketing Administrations from Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Robert J. Cross, Administrator,
Alaska Power Administration; Harry C. Geisinger, Administrator, Southeastern
Power Administration; Richard B. Risk, Administrator, Southwestern Power
Administration; Robert L. McPhail, Administrator, Western Area Power
Administration; and Peter T. Johnson, Administrator, Bonneville Power
Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 1.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Virginia H.
Knauer, Special Assistant to the President and Director, United States Office
of Consumer Affairs; Teresa Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center; and
Nancy H. Steorts, Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 10.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration from Raymond A. Peck, Jr., Administrator, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration; and Dana L. Scott, Associate Administrator for
Administration, NHTSA, both of the Department of Transportation. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 1.

FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
and Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded joint
hearings on S. 414, to clarify the intent and modify certain provisions of the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, after receiving testimony from William
E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative; Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of
Commerce; John Shad, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Johnathan
Rose, Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy, Department of Justice; John
Subak, Rohm & Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Emergency Committee for American Trade; and John M. Finch and William Blasier,
both of the National Association of Manufacturers, and Michael A. Samuels,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, receiving testimony on the current economic and
budgetary situation and the Federal Reserve's goals for monetary policy from
Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 3.

ABANDONED MINE LAND FUND

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral
Resources held oversight hearings on the status and implementation of the
Abandoned Mine Land Fund (AML), Department of the Interior, receiving
testimony from Senator Randolph, Representative Boucher; Richard Harris,
Director, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the Interior; Danny R.
Brown, Virginia Division of Mined Land Reclamation, Big Stone Gap; Kenes C.
Bowling, Interstate Mining Compact Commission, Lexington, Kentucky; Dick
Jutenen, Montana Abandoned Mine Bureau, and Tim Gallagher, on behalf of
Governor Ted Schwinden, both of Helena; Dave Rosenbaum, Kentucky Abandoned
Mine Program, Frankfort; Brent T. Wahlquist, West Virginia Department of
Natural Resources, Charleston; Hope Babcock, National Audubon Society, and Jim
Lyon, Environmental Policy Center, both of Washington, D.C.; Caleb Shields,
Fort Peck Tribal Council, Poplar, Montana; Bob Penoyer, SRP Coal Company,
Inc., Wilson Fisher, Hess & Fisher Engineering, Inc., both of Clearfield,
Pennsylvania, both on behalf of the Pennsylvania Coal Mining Association and
the Mining and Reclamation Council of America; Barbara Altizer, Virginia Coal
Council, Richlands; Roger W. Dewey, Rocky Mountain Energy, Broomington,
Colorado; on behalf of The Western Regional Council; Charles Yates, Cumberland
Plateau Commission, Lebanon, Virginia; and C. B. Slemp, Penn-Virginia
Resources, Duffield, Virginia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to consider recommendations
of the National Commission on Social Security Reform for reform of the Social
Security program, after receiving testimony from Senator Helms; Wilbur J.
Cohen and Arthur Flemming, former Secretaries of Health, Education, and
Welfare, representing Save Our Security, John Post, The Business Roundtable,
Stephen G. Kellison, American Academy of Actuaries, Hyman Bookbinder,
representing the American Jewish Committee, James M. Wooton, Family Security
Foundation, Moe Biller, American Postal Workers, AFL-CIO, and Robert J. Myers,
National Commission on Social Security Reform, all of Washington, D.C.;
Kenneth R. Austin, Equitable Life Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa,
representing The American Council of Life Insurance; Thomas M. Gregg, Topeka,
Kansas, representing the National Association of Life Underwriters; Dale
Detless, Meidinger, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, representing the Association
of Private Pension and Welfare Plans; David W. Mustoe, Public School
Retirement System of Missouri, Jefferson City; Serena Branson, Diocesan Health
and Social Services, Albany, New York, representing the National Conference of
Catholic Charities; Andrew S. Kinsinger, Old Order Amish, Gordonville,
Pennsylvania; Bernard Skrebes, Metropolitan Senior Federation, St. Paul,
Minnesota; John Daly, representing the National Association of Mature People,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; John C. Gavras, Dallas/Ft. Worth Hospital Council,
Dallas, Texas; Donald Vandergrift, Community Hospital of Indianapolis,
Indiana, representing Voluntary Hospitals of America; Howard Rohan, Samaritan
Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona; Floyd Kinkead, Holy Redeemer Hospital,
Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania; Thomas E. Brennan, Cooley Law School, Lansing,
Michigan; and Judy Goshy, Society of Automotive Engineers, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered reported, unfavorably, the
nomination of Kenneth L. Adelman, of Virginia, to be Director of the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Adelman, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his
own behalf. Testimony was also received from Ken Auletta, New York Daily News,
New York City.

YELLOW RAIN II

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Arms Control, Oceans,
International Operations and Environment concluded hearings on the Soviet use
of or provisions of chemical warfare agents in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia,
and implications for negotiations on arms control, after receiving testimony
from Lawrence S. Eagleburger, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs;
Amos Townsend, International Rescue Committee, Rear Admiral Thomas D. Davies
(USN Ret.), former Assistant Director for Multilateral Affairs, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, and James F. Leonard, former U.S. Representative to
the Committee on Disarmament (Geneva), all of Washington, D.C.; and Sterling
Seagrave, Stevensville, Maryland.

LIBYA AND THE SUDAN

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a closed briefing on the
current situation in Libya and the Sudan, receiving testimony from Lawrence S.
Eagleburger.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to examine and profile organized crime, focusing on
activities in the Mid-Atlantic States and on those activities which provide
the economic mainstay for traditional and non-traditional organized crime
within the region, with special emphasis on the influence of organized crime
in the toxic waste disposal industry, receiving testimony from Robert E.
Magee, Deputy Inspector General, and Robert M. McKee, Special Agent in Charge
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Ronald C. Chance, Special Agent in Charge
(Camden, New Jersey), and Raymond A. Wren, Special Agent in Charge (Newark,
New Jersey), all of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Office of
the Inspector-General, Department of Labor; Oliver B. Revell, Assistant
Director, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice; Glenn Fry, and Leonard Willis, both Subcommittee Staff
Investigators; Alan Block, University of Delaware, Newark; Jeremiah B.
McKenna, New York State Select Committee on Crime, Albany; and Charles
Rogovin, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 9.

ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on S. 461, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1989
for the Office of Government Ethics, and to review financial disclosure
provisions of the Ethics in Government Act (P.L. 95-521), receiving testimony
from David R. Scott, Acting Director, Office of Government Ethics; and J.
Jackson Walter, National Academy of Public Administration, and Ann McBride,
Common Cause, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
held hearings on S. 529, to revise and reform the Nation's immigration laws,
receiving testimony from Senators Hawkins, Chiles, and Huddleston;
Representative Fish; Philip Wood, and Ben Brown, both of the Alliance for
Immigration Reform, Inc., Robert Thompson, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Perry
Ellsworth, National Council of Agricultural Employers, Dale De Haan, Church
World Services, Tom McMahon, Environmental Fund, and Hyman Bookbunder,
American Jewish Committee, all of Washington, D.C.; Henry J. Voss, California
Farm Bureau Federation, Sacramento, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; and Sam Bernsen, American Council on International Personnel, New
York City.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

JUVENILE INCARCERATION PROTECTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held hearings on
proposals to protect juveniles' rights to due process and equal protection by
eliminating the practice of holding juveniles in adult jails and lockups,
receiving testimony from Mark I. Soler, Youth Law Center, San Francisco,
California; John Masters, Chester County Prison, Westchester, Pennsylvania;
Robert E. Shepherd, University of Richmond, and Sheriff James H. Turner III,
Henrico County, both of Richmond, Virginia; Jim Brown, University of Illinois,
Urbana; Rita Horn and Greg Horn, LaGrange, Kentucky; and Shirley Stapleton and
Daytona Stapleton, Ironton, Ohio.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities continued oversight hearings on the implementation of vocational
education programs administered by the Department of Education, receiving
testimony from Alvin Tucker, Director of Training and Education, Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics,
Department of Defense; Fred G. Wells, Mountain Bell Telephone, Denver,
Colorado, and Richard Hartshorn, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, both
representing the American Society for Training and Development; Susan Raymond,
Center for Public. Resources, and D. L. Webber, International Telephone and
Telegraph Corporation, both of New York City; and Nathaniel Semple, Council
for Economic Development, Madeleine Hemmings, Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, and Michael Usdan, The Institute for Educational Leadership,
all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 2.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for programs of the
Rehabilitation Services Administration, the National Institute on Handicapped
Research, and the activities of the National Council on the Handicapped, and
to review those programs administered under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973,
receiving testimony from George A. Conn, Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services
Administration, and Acting Assistant Secretary of Education for Rehabilitative
Services; Douglas A. Fenderson, National Institute of Handicapped Research,
Department of Education; Joseph S. Dusenbury, National Council on the
Handicapped, Columbia, South Carolina; Joseph B. Moriarty, National
Association of Rehabilitation, Research and Training Centers, Dunbar, West.
Virginia; Joseph R. Galotti, Connecticut Department of Education, Hartford;
Neva Rae Cruz, Client Assistance Projects, Salt Lake City, Utah; Ethan B.
Ellis, New Jersey Department of Public Advocates, Trenton; Harry E. Blandford,
Jr., Kentucky Division of Protection and Advocacy, Frankfort; John H. Moore,
Jr., Threshold Rehabilitation Services, Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania; Judith
Valuckas, Connecticut Coordinating Council for the Handicapped, East Hartford;
Jean E. Mankowsky, Vermont Center for Independent Living, Montepelier; Max J.
Starkloff, National Council of Independent Living Programs, St. Louis,
Missouri; and John Banks, The National Rehabilitation Association, and Andrew
Jackson, representing the Association of Retarded Citizens, both of
Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Monday, March 21.

INDIAN PROGRAMS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee continued hearings to review
those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within
its legislative jurisdiction, and to consider recommendations which it will
make thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony from Gary Bauer,
Deputy Under Secretary of Education for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, who
was accompanied by Lawrence Davenport, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education, and Lawrence Brown, Acting Director, Elementary,
Secondary and Vocational Education Analysis Division, Office of Planning,
Budget and Evaluation, all of the Department of Education; Philip Abrams,
Assistant Secretary for Housing, Stephen J. Bollinger, Assistant Secretary for
Community Planning and Development, John Kelso, Deputy Administrator of the
Health Resources and Service Administration, Everett Rhodes, Director, Indian
Health Service, Howard Roach, Associate Director for Administration, Indian
Health Service, and John Mahoney, Budget Officer, Public Health Service, all
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Lois Steele and Liz Demaray,
both of InMed, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Melvin White Eagle and David Gipp,
United Tribes Educational Technical Center, Bismarck, North Dakota; Tim
Williams, National Indian Health Board, Denver, Colorado; and Richard
LaFromboise, Turtle Mountain Reservation, Belcourt, North Dakota.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURE EXPORT TRADE PRACTICES

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 14, S. 18, S. 77, S. 100, title V of S. 124, S. 251, S. 398, S.
490, and S. 575, measures to develop and expand markets for U.S. agricultural
commodities, after receiving testimony from John R. Block, Secretary of
Agriculture; David Macdonald, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Mark Leland,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Bernar