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; Bernard
Steinweg, National Grain and Feed Association, Ralph Weems, American Soybean
Association, Roy Henwood, Millers National Federation, Patrick Healy, National
Milk Producers Association, Edward Farrell, representing the New Zealand Dairy
Board, Kelly M. Harrison, American Society of Agricultural Consultants, and
Arthur Simon, Bread for the World, all of Washington, D.C.; J. Stephen
Gabbert, Rice Millers Association, Arlington, Virginia; and George Atkinson, 
on behalf of the Associated Milk Producers, Inc., San Antonio, Texas.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN PROGRAMS

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

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 1.

COMMITTEE RULES AND SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met and adopted its rules of procedure
for the 98th Congress, and announced the following subcommittee assignments:

Military Construction: Senators Thurmond (Chairman), Warner, Humphrey, Quayle,
East, Hart, Jackson, Stennis, and Exon;

Tactical Warfare: Senators Goldwater (Chairman), Tower, Warner, epsen, Wilson,
Kennedy, Levin, and Bingaman;

Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces: Senators Warner (Chairman), Tower,
Thurmond, Goldwater, Cohen, Quayle, Jackson, Stennis, Nunn, Hart, and Exon;

Preparedness: Senators Humphrey (Chairman), Goldwater, epsen, Wilson, Levin,
Jackson, and Kennedy;

Sea Power and Force Projection: Senators Cohen (Chairman), Tower, Quayle,
East, Wilson, Nunn, Stennis, Hart, and Levin;

Manpower and Personnel: Senators Jepsen (Chairman), Thurmond, Humphrey, Cohen,
East, Exon, Nunn, Kennedy, and Bingaman.

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS--ARMY PROGRAMS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings o review those items in
the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its legislative
jurisdiction and consider recommendations which it will make thereon to the
Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Army programs
from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army; General Edward C. Meyer, Chief
of Army Staff; General Richard E. Cavazos, Commander, U.S. army Forces
Command; and General Donald R. Keith, Commander, U.S. Army Materiel
Development and Readiness Command.

DOD BUDGET

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in evening session to receive
testimony on proposed budget request for fiscal year 1984 for new weapons
systems of the Department of Defense from David S. Chu, Director, and Franklin
C. Spinney, Staff Analyst, both of the Office of Program Analysis and
Evaluation, Department of Defense.

BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee completed its
review of those items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which
fall within its legislative jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations which
it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, after receiving testimony
from Nancy H. Steorts, Chairman, Edith B. Sloan, Samuel Zagoria, and Stuart M.
Statler, all Commissioners, Martin Katz, General Counsel, and Alan Schoem,
Assistant General Counsel, all of the Consumer Product Safety Commission;
Bernard Falk, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, David Greenberg,
Consumer Federation of America, Ralph Engel and Charles O'Connon III, both of
the Chemical Specialties Manufacturers Association, Andrew F. Popper, American
University, and Charles Carey, Upholstered Furniture Action Council, all of
Washington, D.C.; Aaron Locker, Locker, Greenberg, and Brainin, New York City,
representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Susan King, Corning Glass Works,
Corning, New York; T. Thomas Smith, National Kerosene Heaters Association,
Nashville, Tennessee; and David Pittle, Consumers Union, Mount Vernon, New
York.

BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began its review of those
items in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its
legislative jurisdiction with a view towards making its recommendations to the
Budget Committee, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
Monday, February 28.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Margaret M. Heckler, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Health and Human
Services, and John A. Svahn, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Health and
Human Services after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Ms. Heckler was introduced by Senators Kennedy, Kassebaum, and
Hawkins.

Committee will consider the above nominations on Wednesday, March 2.

FEDERAL LEGISLATORS' AWAY-FROM-HOME EXPENSES

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management concluded
hearings on S. 70, repealing or revising the deduction for away-from-home
living expenses of Members of Congress, after receiving testimony from Senator
Specter; Robert G. Woodward, Associate Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of
the Treasury; and James D. Davidson, National Taxpayers Union, and Jay Angoff,
Public Citizen's Congress Watch, both of Washington, D.C.

AUTHORIZATIONS--INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed 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 and development assistance programs, receiving testimony from Peter
McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International Development; Loret Ruppe,
Director, Peace Corps; Gregory J. Newell, Assistant Secretary of State for
International Organization Affairs; and J. William Middendorf, II, Permanent
Representative of the United States of America to the Organization of American
States.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
continued hearings on S. 529, to revise and reform the Nation's immigration
laws, receiving testimony from Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Citizens Committee for
Immigration Reform, Frank Garza, National Council of La Raza, Joaquin Avila,
Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Arnoldo Torres, League of
United Latin American Citizens, Norman Kee, U.S.-Asia Institute, Althea
Simmons, representing the NAACP, David Pingree, representing the National
Governors Conference, Michael Teitelbaum, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace, David Carliner, representing the American Bar Association, Carole L.
Baker, Zero Population Growth, Inc., John Shattuck, American Civil Liberties
Union, and Newton Cattell, Association of American Universities, all of
Washington, D.C.; Mark Rosenzwieg, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis;
Harvey Ruvin, Dade County, Florida, on behalf of the National Association of
Counties; James Krauskopf, New York City Human Resources Administration,
representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors; David Martin, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville; Jose Cano, American GI Forum of the United States,
Dallas, Texas; George Zachariah, Indian-American Forum for Political
Education, Rockville, Maryland; and Roger Conner, Federation for American
Immigration Reform, Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Monday, February 28.

FBI OVERSIGHT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism resumed
oversight hearings, in closed session, 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 Edward J. O'Malley, Assistant Director, Intelligence Division,
and Oliver B. Revell, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative Division,
both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

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 Edward T.
Begay, Navajo Tribe, Window Rock, Arizona; Benny Coho, Ramah Navajo School
Board, Inc., Pine Hill, New Mexico; Irma Mundy, Phoenix Urban Indian Health
Care Project, Phoenix, Arizona; Gloria Keliaa, California Urban Indian Health
Council, Oakland; Jim Feliz, American Indian Council, Bakersfield, California;
Pernell Sweet, Robeson County Board of Education, Lumberton, North Carolina;
Joseph B. Webb, North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh; John
Tetpon and John Hope, both of the Norton Sound Health Board, Nome, Alaska; Ron
Froman, National American Indian Housing Council, Carson City, Nevada; Caleb
Shields, Assiniboine-Sioux Indian Community, Poplar, Montana; Greg Dunangier,
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, St. Ignatius, Montana; Earl Old
Person, William Veeder, and Geraldine Gordon, all of the Blackfeet Indian
Tribe, Browning, Montana; Lionel Boyer and Maxine Edmo, both of the
Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Ft. Hall, Idado; Forest Cuch, Yute Indian Tribe, Fort
Duchesne, Utah; Elmer Savilla and Pat Locke, both of the National Tribal
Chairmen's Association, and Ron Andrade and Joe De La Cruz, both of the
National Congress of American Indians, all of Washington, D.C.; Emery Johnson,
Rockville, Maryland, former Director of Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; Charles Helseth, Alfretta Antone, and Don Mendez,
all of the Intermountain Inter-Tribal School Board, Brigham City, Utah; and
Roger A. Jourdain, Redlake, Minnesota.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

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 Employment and Training Administration, Department of
Labor, receiving testimony from Albert Angrisani, Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Employment and Training, Thomas C. Komarek, Administrator, Office of
Financial Control and Management Systems, and Joyce Kaiser, Associate
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, all of the Department of
Labor.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for foreign
assistance programs of the Department of State, receiving testimony from
George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to review those items
in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within its
legislative jurisdiction and consider recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Budget Committee, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
Air Force programs from Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force; General Charles
A. Gabriel, Chief of Air Force Staff; General James R. Allen, USAF, Commander,
Military Airlift Command; General Wilbur L. Creech, USAF, Commander, Tactical
Air Command; and General Bennie L. Davis, USAF, Commander, Strategic Air
Command.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 2.

NOAA OCEAN AND COASTAL PROGRAMS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce, focusing on ocean and coastal
programs, after receiving testimony from John Byrne, Administrator, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; John Knauss,
Chairman, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Michael Weber,
Center for Environmental Education, Washington, D.C.; A. 0. Spaulding, Western
Oil and Gas Association, Los Angeles, California; William Q. Wick, Oregon
State University, Corvallis; and Jonathan Sleik, Red Lobster Inns of America,
Orlando, Florida.

NSTB AND CAB

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for the National Transportation Safety Board, after receiving testimony
from Jim Burnett, Chairman, Pat Goldman, Vice Chairman, Peter Kissinger,
Managing Director, Jim Danaher, Director, Bureau of Technology, Thomas DeW.
Styles, Director, Bureau of Accident Investigation, and Barry Sweedler,
Director, Bureau of Safety Programs, all of the National Transportation Safety
Board.

Also, Subcommittee concluded oversight hearings on the proposed budget of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, after receiving testimony from Dan McKinnon,
Chairman, Diane Morales, Member, Michael Sherwin, Managing Director, Anthony
F. Toronto, Comptroller, Dan Kasper, Director, Bureau of International
Aviation, Dan Kaplan, Director, Office of Economic Analysis, John Coleman,
Director, Bureau of Domestic Aviation, and John Golden, Director, Office of
Congressional, Community and Consumer Affairs, all of the Civil Aeronautics
Board.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on the President's proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Energy's research and development
programs, receiving testimony on basic energy sciences, high energy and
nuclear energy, magnetic fusion, and health and environmental research
programs from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 4.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee completed its review of
those matters and programs in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984
which fall within the committee's jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations
which it will make thereon to the Budget Committee.

PAYMENT IN KIND (PIK) PROGRAM

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation and
Subcommittee on Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service concluded joint
hearings on S. 446 and S. 527, bills to revise certain IRS provisions with
respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under the
payment-in-kind program, after receiving testimony from Senator Jepsen; John
E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Richard E.
Lyng, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, James A. Barnes, General Counsel, and
Wilmer Mizell, Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Public Affairs, all
of the Department of Agriculture; and Grace Ellen Rice, American Farm Bureau
Federation, and John S. Parr III, National Cotton Council of America, both of
Washington, D.C.

NATURAL GAS IMPORTS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation and Government Processes concluded oversight hearings on
government management of natural gas import issues, focusing on the effect of
imported gas on U.S. supply and demand, after receiving testimony from Rayburn
Hanzlik, Administrator, Economic Regulatory Administration; George J. Bradley,
Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs;
E. Allen Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy
Policy; Charles Butler, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission;
Phillip R. O'Connor, Illinois Commerce Commission, Springfield; John Heilman,
Continental Grain Company, representing the National Soybean Processors
Association, George Morrow, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, and
Donald Wiener, National Citizens Labor Energy Coalition, representing the
Illinois Public Action Council, all of Chicago, Illinois; and C. Richard
Neumiller, Central Illinois Light Company, Peoria.

ABORTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings to
consider the legal ramifications of Constitutional amendment proposals,
including S.J. Res. 3, with the specific goal of reversing the Supreme Court's
decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to the right to abortion, receiving
testimony from Senators Eagleton and Packwood; Lynn Wardle, Brigham Young
University School of Law, Provo, Utah; and Lawrence Tribe, Harvard University
School of Law, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Hearings continue on Monday, March 7.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
resumed hearings on S. 529, to revise and reform the Nation's immigration
laws, receiving testimony from William French Smith, Attorney General, and
Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, both of
the Department of Justice; and Diego Asencio, Assistant Secretary of State for
Consular Affairs.

Hearings continue on Monday, March 7.

NOMINATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
nomination of Robert A. Gielow, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Railroad
Retirement Board.

COMMITTEE BUDGETS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S Res. 76) providing funds in operating expenses of the
standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, and providing for the
repeal of S. Res. 59, authorizing funds for operating expenses of the
Committee on Rules and Administration, as agreed to by the Senate on February
16, 1983. As approved by the committee the resolution provides funds as
follows:

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry $1,363,825.

Committee on Appropriations $4,080,310. 

Committee on Armed Services $1,907,807. 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs $1,704,116.

Committee on the Budget $2,945,961.

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation $3,461,746.

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources $2,338,584.

Committee on Environment and Public Works $2,373,286.

Committee on Finance $2,223,306.

Committee on Foreign Relations $2,540,911. Committee on Governmental
Affairs $4,574,249. 

Committee on the Judiciary $4,451,074. Committee on Labor and Human
Resources-$4,346,000.

Committee on Rules and Administration $1,298,033.

Committee on Small Business $934,680. 

Committee on Veterans Affairs $852,029.

Special Committee on Aging $1,036,131.

Special Committee on Intelligence $1,882,407.

Special Committee on Indian Affairs $623,490.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from C. W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Marketing and Inspection Services, Randall E. Torgerson, Administrator,
Agricultural Cooperation Service, Vern F. Highley, Administrator, Agricultural
Marketing Service, Martin F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Director, Office of
Transportation, and B. H. Jones, Administrator, Packers and Stockyards
Administration, all of the Department of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 3.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the U.S. Air Force,
receiving testimony from Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force; and General
Charles A. Gabriel, Chief of Air Force Staff.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 3.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for nuclear fission, uranium supply and
enrichment programs of the Department of Energy from Shelby T. Brewer,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy, and Robert L. Morgan,
Project Director, Nuclear Waste Policy Act Project Office, Department of
Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 3.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for international security assistance, including the economic
support fund, military assistance program, international military education
and training, foreign military credit sales and peacekeeping operations, from
William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science and Technology; in behalf of funds for international narcotics control
programs from Dominick L. Di-Carlo, Assistant Secretary of State for
International Narcotic Matters; in behalf of funds for migration and refugee
assistance programs from James N. Purcell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Refugee Programs; and in behalf of funds for antiterrorism programs from
Ambassador Robert Sayre, Director, Office for Combatting Terrorism, Department
of State.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--BUREAU OF MINES/NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William P.
Pendley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Minerals,
and. Robert C. Horton, Director, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior;
and J. Carter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

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, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor; Edwin M. Jones, Executive Director, Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation; Ronald J. St. Cyr, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor,
for salaries and expenses of the Labor-Management Service Administration; and
Robert B. Collyer, Deputy Under Secretary of Labor for Employment Standards
Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD

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 Transportation Safety
Board, from James E. Burnett, Chairman, Peter Kissinger, Managing Director,
and James W. Danaher, Director, Bureau of Technology, all of the National
Transportation Safety Board.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 3.

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Edwin J. Gray, of California, to be a Member of
the Federal Home Loan Bank Board.

U.S./U.S.S.R. MILITARY CAPABILITIES

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive
comprehensive net assessment briefing on U.S. and U.S.S.R. military
capabilities from Lt. Gen. Paul F. Gorman, USA, Assistant to the Chairman, and
Lt. Gen. James E. Dalton, USAF, Director, Joint Staff, both of the Office of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee completed its review of
those matters and programs in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984
which fall within the committee's jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations
which it will make thereon to the Budget Committee.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations 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, and Manfred Eimer, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Director of
the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Also, the committee completed its review of those matters and programs in the
President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within the committee's
jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to the
Budget Committee.

CHESAPEAKE BAY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and
the District of Columbia concluded hearings to review the extent to which the
Environmental Protection Agency has carried out its Congressional mandate and
what the future role of EPA should be in water quality management of the
Chesapeake Bay, after receiving testimony from Peter N. Bibko, Regional
Administrator, Region III, who was accompanied by several of his associates,
all of the Environmental Protection Agency; and William C. Baker, Chesapeake
Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) The nominations of Shirley W. Kram, to be U.S. District Judge for the
Southern District of New York, Gregory W. Carman, of New York, to be a Judge
of the United States Court of International Trade, and James W. Diehm, to be
U.S. Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands; and

(2) S.J. Res. 18, designating September 22, 1983, as "American Business
Women's Day."

BICENTENNIAL OF THE CONSTITUTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 118, to establish a commission to plan and develop a
celebration for the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, after
receiving testimony from Chief Judge Howard T. Markey, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit, Betty Murphy, American Bar Association, and Paul
Dembling, Federal Bar Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Richard B.
Morris, Columbia University, New York City, representing the National
Historical Society.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee completed its review of those
matters and programs in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall
within the committee's jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Budget Committee.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget held closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
officials of the intelligence community.

Closed hearings continue on Tuesday, March 8.

COMBATTING FRAUDS AGAINST THE ELDERLY

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine consumer fraud
schemes and the harsh impact these crimes have on elderly citizens, receiving
testimony from James C. Miller III, Chairman, David A. Clanton, Patricia P.
Bailey, Michael Pertschuk, and George W. Douglas, all Commissioners, all of
the Federal Trade Commission; Charles P. Nelson, Postal Inspector, George C.
Davis, Assistant General Counsel, and Wayne Kidd, Manager, Fraud Branch, all
of the U.S. Postal Service; Clair E. Villano, National Association of Consumer
Agency Administrators, Denver, Colorado; Terry Getsay, Illinois Department of
Law Enforcement, Springfield; Steve Nicks, Wisconsin Office of Consumer
Protection, Madison; Edna G. Willis and Elaine Biddle, both of Concord,
Pennsylvania; and Malcolm Murphy, Pennsylvania State Police, Franklin Center.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

Joint Meeting

VETERANS' PROGRAMS

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings to review legislative
recommendations for fiscal year 1984 for certain veterans' programs, after
receiving testimony from Paul Cheremeta, Paralyzed Veterans of America,
Herbert M. Houston, Veterans of World War I of the United States of America,
Inc., and Richard J. Gallant, Military Order of the Purple Heart, all of
Washington, D.C.; and John B. Engberg II, Regular Veterans Association of the
United States, Oakland, California.



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

Committee Meetings

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began
consideration of S. 251, to require the export sale of Commodity Credit
Corporation owned dairy products, to provide adequate funds for export
assistance for U.S. agricultural commodities and products, to establish a
payment-in-kind (PIK) program to aid in promoting and increasing exports of
U.S. agricultural commodities and products, to expand authority for the use
abroad of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks, and require a report on export
subsidies used by other nations in the case of their agricultural exports, and
related proposals, including S. 14, S. 18, S. 77, S. 100, Title V of S. 124,
S. 398, S. 490, and S. 575.

Committee also began consideration of S. 17, authorizing funds to assist
eligible nonprofit State and local agencies in the distribution of
government-owned commodities to needy recipients, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--BIB/FTC/FCC/JAPANU.S. FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Frank Shakespeare, Chairman, Board for International
Broadcasting; James Buckley, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.;
James H. Michel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs (Radio Marti); James C. Miller III, Chairman, Federal Trade
Commission; Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; and
Robert E. Ward, Chairman, and Ambassador Richard Ericson, Executive Director,
both of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 10.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Loret Miller Rupe,
Director, Peace Corps; and Peter D. Bell, President, Inter-American
Foundation.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR/RELATED AGENCIES

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

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 4.

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, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Thorne G. Auchter, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Occupational Safety and Health; Betty A. Bolden, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Administration and Management; Ford B. Ford, Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Mine Safety and Health; and Bernard Posner, Executive Director, The
President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 7.

BUDGET REPORT

Committee on Armed Services: Committee completed its review of those matters
and programs in the President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within
the committee's jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations which it will make
thereon to the Budget Committee.

Prior to this section, the committee concluded hearings in review of the
proposed budget request for military programs of the Department of Defense for
fiscal year 1984, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Navy/Marine
Corps programs from John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary of the Navy; Admiral James
D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations; Admiral Sylvester R. Foley, Jr.,
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet; and General Robert H. Barrow,
Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on S. 397, S. 407, and
S. 434, bills to improve the enforcement of export administration laws,
receiving testimony from Senator Tsongas; Richard D. Perle, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Lionel Olmer, Under
Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, William Schneider, Under
Secretary of State for Security Assistance; Gerald Gleason, The Foxboro
Company, Foxboro, Massachusetts, representing the Scientific Apparatus Makers
Association; and James A. Gray, National Machine Tool Builders Association,
Vico Henriques, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association,
Allen R. Frischkorn, GTE Corporation, representing Electronic Industries
Association; and J. A. DeRose, IBM, representing Semiconductors Industries
Association, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 16.

U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM ADMINISTRATION--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Business,
Trade and Tourism concluded hearings on S. 212, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1984 through 1986 for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration, after
receiving testimony from Peter McCoy, Undersecretary of Commerce for Travel
and Tourism; Richard Ashman, Holiday Inns, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee; William
D. Toohey, Travel Industry Association of America, Washington, D.C.; Howard
James, Advisory Council, The Sheraton Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, on
behalf of the Travel and Tourism Industry; William B. Walton, Walton
Enterprises, Germantown, Tennessee; Richard Kelly, Town House Best Western
Motel, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; James Montgomery, Pan American World
Services, New York City; Kay Riordan, Mountain Company, Keystone, South
Dakota; William D. Killebrew, Heavenly Valley Ski Resort, South Lake Tahoe,
California; W. Randolph Baker, Busch Entertainment Corporation, St. Louis,
Missouri; Berlyn Miller, Las Vegas Convention/Visitors Authority, Las Vegas,
Nevada; Kenneth F. C. Char, Hawaii Visitors Bureau, Honolulu; and Joseph R.
Stone, American Society of Travel Agents, Meriden, Connecticut.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) S. 144, to provide for U.S. economic growth and employment by expanding
competitive U.S. exports through the achievement of commercial opportunities
in foreign markets substantially equivalent to those accorded by the United
States, to improve the ability of the President to identify and analyze
barriers to U.S. trade and investment, to encourage the expansion of
international trade in services through the negotiation of international
agreements, and to enhance the free flow of foreign direct investment through
the negotiation of bilateral and multilateral agreements, with amendments;

(2) An original bill (S. 690) to revise certain IRS provisions with respect to
the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a payment-in-kind
(PIK) program, in lieu of S. 446, S. 495, and S. 527; and

(3) The nominations of Margaret M. Heckler, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary
of Health and Human Services, and John A. Svahn, of Maryland, to be Under
Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Also, the committee completed its review of those matters and programs in the
President's budget for fiscal year 1984 which fall within the committee's
jurisdiction, and agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to the
Budget Committee.

USIA/BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 659,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985, and supplemental funds for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, after receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Charles Z. Wick, Director, United
States Information Agency; Frank Shakespeare, Chairman, and Ben J. Wattenberg,
Vice Chairman, both of the Board for International Broadcasting; and James L.
Buckley, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc. Testimony was also
received from John Richardson, The Consortium for International Citizen
Exchange, John F. Reichard, Education Exchange Liaison Group, Al Sommor, Jr.,
Council of International Programs.

Richard Berendzen and Walter Rosenblaith, both of the Committee on
International Education, and former Senator Fulbright, all of Washington, D.C.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZATIONS--MIDDLE EAST

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 638, authorizing supplemental funds for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for international security assistance
programs, S. 639, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, for economic and military assistance to Lebanon, and
certain provisions of S. 637, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 and 1985
for international security and development assistance programs, after
receiving testimony from Senator Moynihan; Nicholas A. Veliotes, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs; W. Antoinette Ford, Assistant
Administrator for the Near East, and Charles Greenleaf, Assistant
Administrator for Asia, both of the Agency for International Development;
Major General Richard V. Secord, USAF, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; and Thomas Dine, American-Israel
Public Affairs Committee, David Saad, National Association of Arab-Americans,
and Robert Basil, American-Lebanese League, all of Washington, D.C.

MAIL ORDER CONSUMER PROTECTION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services concluded hearings on S. 450, granting broader authority
to the investigatory and enforcement branches of the U.S. Postal Service to
assist in combating false representation cases which utilize the U.S. mail
service, after receiving testimony from Senator Pryor; Charles P. Nelson,
Assistant Chief Postal Inspector for Criminal Investigations, and George C.
Davis, Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Protection Division, both of the
U.S. Postal Service; and Ian D. Volner, Association of American Publishers,
Richard Barton, Direct Marketing Association, Robert J. Brinkmann, National
Newspaper Association, Clinton Ray Miller, National Health Federation, and
Trisha Katson, Liberty Lobby, all of Washington, D.C.

LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
status of interstate compacts for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste,
pursuant to P.L. 96-573, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act, and on S.
247, granting a consent of Congress to the Northwest Interstate Compact on
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, after receiving testimony from Senator
Gorton; Franklin E. Coffman, Director, Office of Terminal Waste Disposal and
Remedial Action, Department of Energy; G. Wayne Kerr, Director, Office of
State Programs, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Leon D. Santman, Director,
Materials Transportation Bureau, Department of Transportation; Lt. Colonel
Peter S. Daley, USAF (BSC), Director of Environmental Policy, Department of
Defense; Robertson Augustine, Radiation Safety Officer, National Institutes of
Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Idaho Governor John V. Evans,
Boise, on behalf of the National Governors' Association; L. Hall Bohlinger,
Louisiana Assistant Administrator of Nuclear Programs, Baton Rouge,
representing the Central Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Group;
South Carolina State Senator Nikki G. Setzler, Columbia, and William H.
Briner, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, both representing the
Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Group;

Mary Hart, Hartford, Connecticut, representing the Northeast Interstate
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Group; Leonard C. Slosky, Denver,
Colorado, representing the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact
Negotiation Group; David W. Stevens, Olympia, Washington, representing the
Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management;
William C. Taylor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, representing the
Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Group; Wisconsin State
Senator Joseph Strohl, Madison, and Washington State Senator Al Williams,
Olympia, both representing the National Conference of State Legislatures;
Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., Carolina Power and Light Company, Raleigh, North
Carolina, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute and the American Nuclear
Energy Council; and Jon D. Shoop, on behalf of the American College of Nuclear
Physicians, and Renee Parson, Friends of the Earth, both of Washington, D.C.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on organized
crime in the United States, receiving testimony from Stephen E. Higgins,
Acting Director, Phillip C. McGuire, Assistant Director for Criminal
Enforcement, Edward M. Owen, Jr., Chief, Firearms Technology Branch, Ralph E.
Cooper, Explosives Enforcement Officer, and William Bertolani, and Lester
Robinson, both Special Agents, all of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms, Department of the Treasury.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Margaret M. Heckler, of Massachusetts, to be Secretary of Health
and Human Services, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her
own behalf.

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities resumed oversight hearings on the implementation of vocational
education programs administered by the Department of Education, receiving
testimony from Texas State Representative Wilhelmina Delco, Austin; Joanne
Goldsmith, Maryland State Board of Education, Annapolis; Franklin B. Walter,
Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction, Columbus; John T. Casteen III,
Virginia Secretary of Education, Richmond; Tennessee Senator James E. Elkins,
Tennessee State Advisory Council on Vocational Education, Nashville; Phillip
Viso, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois; John D. Rowlett, Eastern
Kentucky University, Richmond; and David Pierce, Illinois Community College
Board, Springfield.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

Joint Meeting

IMPACT OF NEW FEDERALISM

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of the
President's new federalism approach to state and local government, receiving
testimony from Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson, Salt Lake City, and Vermont
Governor Richard A. Snelling, Montpelier, both on behalf of the National
Governor's Association; Minnesota State Senator Roger D. Moe, St. Paul; and
New Hampshire State Speaker of the House John B. Tucker, Concord.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 8.



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

Committee Meetings

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures:

(1) S. 24, to provide for deferral of payments on farm loans for certain
Farmers Home Administration borrowers faced with foreclosure, and to provide
other emergency credit assistance to farmers, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;

(2) S. 17, authorizing funds to assist eligible nonprofit State and local
agencies in the distribution of government-owned commodities to needy
recipients, with amendments; and

(3) An original bill (S. 822) to require the export sale of Commodity Credit
Corporation owned dairy products, to provide adequate funds for export
assistance for U.S. agricultural commodities and products, to establish a
payment-in-kind (PIK) program to aid in promoting and increasing exports of
U.S. agricultural commodities and products, to expand authority for the use
abroad of Commodity Credit Corporation stocks, and require a report on export
subsidies used by other nations in the case of their agricultural exports, in
lieu of S. 251, S. 14, S. 18, S. 77, S. 100, Title V of S. 124, S. 398, S.
490, and S. 575.

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from C. W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Marketing and Inspection Services; James 0. Lee, Jr., Acting Administrator,
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; Donald
L. Houston, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, Department of
Agriculture; and Kenneth A. Gilles, Administrator, Federal Grain Inspection
Service, Department of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for research, development, and
acquisition programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 8.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for solar and renewable energy programs of the
Department of Energy from Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Conservation and Renewable Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 8.

APPROPRIATIONS--AID

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for programs administered by the Agency for International
Development from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, A.I.D.

Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 7.

APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. COAST GUARD

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
the United States Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Admiral James S.
Gracey, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Transportation.

Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 9.

AUTHORIZATIONS--EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION ACT

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for those Federal agencies responsible for
implementing the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from David McLoughlin,
Deputy Associate Director for State and Local Programs and Support, and Karl
V. Steinbrugge, Chairperson, Earthquake Review Panel, both of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency; Dallas L. Peck, U.S. Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior; Jack Sanderson, Assistant Director for
Engineering, National Science Foundation; Raymond Kammer, Deputy Director,
National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce; and Lowell Dodge,
Associate Director, Resource, Community and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1984 for the National Science Foundation, receiving testimony
from George A. Keyworth II, Science Advisor to the President, Office of
Science and Technology Policy; Edward Knapp, Director, National Science
Foundation; and Mary L. Good, UOP, Inc., Des Plaines, Illinois.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 9.

UNEMPLOYMENT ISSUES

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review structural
unemployment initiatives developed by the Administration and on the proposed
extension for six months of the Federal Supplemental Compensation program
(FSC), after receiving testimony from Senator Boschwitz; Illinois Governor
James Thompson, Springfield; Michigan State Senator Gary Corbin, Lansing, on
behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Samuel E. Dyer,
Federated Department Stores, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce; Edward H. Kay, Jr., National Compensation Control Systems,
Atlanta, Georgia, and William R. Brown, Washington, D.C., both representing
the Council of State Chambers of Commerce; Atlee Vernon, Jr., Topeka, Kansas,
and Robert Herman, Arlington, Virginia, both on behalf of the National Mental
Health Association; Sheldon Friedman, Detroit, Michigan, and Betty Robinson,
Washington, D.C., both of the International Union United Auto Workers; Mary C.
Hackett, Rhode Island Department of Employment Security, Providence, and John
A. Canfield, West Virginia Department of Employment Security, Charleston, both
representing the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies, Inc.;
and Nathaniel M. Semple, Committee for Economic Development, and Bert Seidman,
AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on worldwide intelligence matters from William J. Casey, Director,
Central Intelligence Agency, but made no announcements.

INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONSULTATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded oversight hearings to discuss Executive Order 12372 which rescinds
OMB Circular A-95 as of April 30, 1983, relating to the intergovernmental
consultation process, and the proposed rules that implement the order, after
receiving testimony from Joseph Wright, Deputy Director, Harold Steinberg,
Associate Director for Management, and Jim Kelly, Deputy Associate Director
for Intergovernmental Affairs, all of the Office of Management and Budget;
Robert R. Stone, Southwest Pennsylvania Planning Commission, Pittsburgh, on
behalf of the National Association of Regional Councils; Irving Hand,
Institute of State and Regional Affairs, Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, on behalf of the American Planning Association; David Loch,
Lake Shore, Minnesota, on behalf of Regional Development Commission 5; Scott
Fosler, Montgomery County, Maryland, on behalf of the National Association of
Counties; Cindy Rambo, Oklahoma Department of Economic and Community Affairs,
Oklahoma City; Constance Lieder, Maryland Secretary of State Planning,
Annapolis; and George Coppenrath, Vermont Agency of Human Services,
Montpelier.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on organized
crime in the United States, receiving testimony on the criminal activities and
the lifestyles of outlaw motorcycle gangs from Andrew L. Vita, Special Agent
in Charge, Organized Crime Branch, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms,
Department of the Treasury; and numerous public witnesses.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held closed
oversight hearings to review certain activities and programs of the Drug
Enforcement Administration, receiving testimony from Gary Liming, Deputy
Associate Administrator, Office of Intelligence, John Warner, Chief,
International Programs Staff, Operations Division, and Harry Myers, Associate
Chief Counsel, all of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of
Justice.

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 Fred Weintraub, The Council for Exceptional Children, Reston,
Virginia; L. Allen Phelps, University of Illinois, Urbana; Kathleen Finck,
Vermont Vocational Association, Graniteville; James Barge, Florida Department
of Education, Tallahassee; David M. Gipp, United Tribes Educational Technical
Center, Bismarck, North Dakota; Michael Van Lefsten, Rhode Island Opportunity
Industrialization Center, Providence; and Jane Ann Razeghi, American Coalition
of Citizens with Disabilities, Janet Wells, Lawyers' Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, and Anthony Gomes, SER Jobs for Progress, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 14.

CARL HAYDEN BUST

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. Con.
Res. 7, to authorize the Senate to acquire and display in the United States
Capitol a bust of the late Senator Carl Hayden, after receiving testimony from
Senators Goldwater and DeConcini; Representative Udall; and Roy Elson, Roy
Elson and Associates, Washington, D.C.

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Ethics: Committee held a closed business meeting, but made
no announcements, and recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

NOMINATION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of John J. Frank, Jr., of Kansas, to be Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Administration, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Dole, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held a business meeting where it took
the following action:

(1) Ordered favorably reported H.R. 1718, appropriating supplemental funds for
fiscal year 1983 for job assistance programs, and provide for the indigent and
homeless, with amendments;

(2) Ordered favorably reported S. Con. Res. 6, expressing the sense of the
Congress that the Federal Government should maintain current efforts in
Federal nutrition programs to prevent increases in domestic hunger;

(3) Ordered favorably reported S. Res. 49, disapproving deferral D83-43,
relating to Economic Development assistance programs, as contained in
Presidential Message No. 5;

(4) Ordered favorably reported S. Res. 18, disapproving deferral D83-36,
relating to the dairy indemnity program of the Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, as contained in Presidential
Message No. 1; and

(5) Completed its review of those items in the President's budget for fiscal
year 1984 which fall with its legislative jurisdiction, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Budget Committee.

APPROPRIATIONS--UNITED NATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for foreign assistance,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for voluntary contributions to the
United Nations from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. Representative to the United
Nations.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Education, receiving
testimony from Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 9.

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on the Interior
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Rayburn D. Hanzlik, Administrator, Economic Regulatory
Administration, J. Erich Evered, Administrator, Energy Information
Administration, and George R. Breznay, Director, Office of Hearings and
Appeals, all of the Department of Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

SOVIET BRIEFING

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare met in closed
session to receive a briefing on the Soviet conventional warfare threat from
Major General Schuyler Bissell, USAF, Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency, who was accompanied by several of his colleagues.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984
Congressional Budget, after receiving testimony on defense programs from
Senator Tower.

Committee will begin markup on Wednesday, March 9.

ENERGY EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Energy Emergency Preparedness Act (P.L.
97-229), focusing on the United States preparedness to respond to a severe oil
interruption and its impact on public health, safety, and welfare, after
receiving testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy; William A.
Vaughan, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Protection, Safety,
and Emergency Preparedness; George Bradley, Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Energy for International Affairs; Richard T. McCormack, Assistant
Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs; E. Allan Wendt, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy; Robert B.
Shanks, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department
of Jusitice; and F. Kevin Boland, Senior Associate Director, Resources,
Community and Economic Development Division; Donald Z. Forcier, Senior Group
Director, and William J. Kruvant, Group Director, both of the Resources,
Community and Economic Development Division, and Richard Kasdan and Richard
Springer, both of the Office of General Counsel, all of the General Accounting
Office.

NUCLEAR ENERGY

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, March 4, the
Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development held oversight hearings to
review the President's budget request for fiscal year 1984 for the Department
of Energy's research and development programs, focusing on nuclear energy
programs (other than breeder reactor programs), receiving testimony from
Shelby T. Brewer, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15.

NEW FEDERALISM

Committee on Finance: On Friday, March 4, the committee held hearings to
review the Administration's new federalism proposals, focusing on State and
local block grant programs, and certain provisions affecting the Highway Trust
Fund, receiving testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of
Management and Budget.

Committee recessed subject to call.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, March 4, committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments:

International Economic Policy: Senators Mathias (Chairman), Lugar, Boschwitz,
Murkowski, Dodd, Biden, and Sarbanes;

African Affairs: Senators Kassebaum (Chairman), Mathias, Percy, Tsongas, and
Dodd;

East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Murkowski (Chairman), Baker, Helms,
Glenn, and Cranston;

Western Hemisphere Affairs: Senators Helms (Chairman), Lugar, Kassebaum,
Pressler, Murkowski, Zorinsky, Tsongas, Cranston, and Dodd;

Arms Control, Oceans, International Operations and Environment: Senators
Pressler (Chairman), Helms, Kassebaum, Cranston, and Zorinsky;

Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Boschwitz (Chairman), Baker,
Percy, Pressler, Sarbanes, Glenn, and Tsongas;

European Affairs: Senators Lugar (Chairman), Mathias, Boschwitz, Baker, Percy,
Biden, Glenn, Sarbanes, and Zorinsky.

ABORTION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings to consider the legal ramifications of Constitutional amendment
proposals, including S.J. Res. 3, with the specific goal of reversing the
Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, relating to the right to abortion,
after receiving testimony from Steve Valentine, Americans United for Life,
Chicago, Illinois; and Rhonda Copelon, Coalition for Constitutional Rights,
New York City.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
concluded hearings on S. 529, to revise and reform the Nation's immigration
laws, after receiving testimony from Senator Wilson, and Lane Kirkland,
AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.

FEDERAL ANTI-TAMPERING ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, March 4, the committee concluded
hearings on S. 216, to impose penalties on those individuals who tamper with
food, drug, cosmetic, and other products with intent to cause personal injury,
death, or other harm, after receiving testimony from D. Lowell Jensen,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Gary J.
Kushner, American Meat Institute, Arlington, Virginia; and George R. Green,
Food Marketing Institute, and Stephen W. Grafman, representing the Grocery
Manufacturers of America, both of Washington, D.C.

Joint Meeting

FEBRUARY EMPLOYMENT

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

Committee recessed subject to call.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for Navy programs of the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony from John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary
of the Navy; Admiral James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations; and General
Robert H. Barrow, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for energy research and environment programs of
the Department of Energy from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy
Research, Department of Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 10.

APPROPRIATIONS--EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Export-Import Bank from William H. Draper III,
President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council from
Seymour Siegel, Executive Director, Micah Naftalin, Senior Deputy Director,
Marian Craig, Staff Assistant, and Stephen E. Lynch, Administrative
Coordinator, all of the Holocaust Memorial Council; and in behalf of funds for
the National Endowment for the Arts from Frank Hodsoll, Chairman, Hugh
Southern, Deputy Chairman for Programs, and Robert A. Knisely, Deputy Chairman
for Management, all of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for land, air, and naval force structure programs from Senator Warner; Fred C.
Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Charles W. Groover, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Development; Lt. General Fred K.
Mahaffey, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Operations and Plans; Vice Admiral
Arthur S. Moreau, Jr., Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and
Operations; Lt. General William R. Maloney, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff
for Plans, Policies and Operations; and Lt. General John T. Chain, Jr., Deputy
Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations.

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 10.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services:  Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare held closed
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for Army tactical programs from Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Research, Development and Acquisition; and Lt. General James H.
Merryman, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition.

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 10.

HUD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings on S. 644, authorizing funds through fiscal year
1986 for housing, community, and neighborhood development, and related
programs, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development; Will Ehrle, Texas Manufactured Housing Association,
Austin; Donald J. Hogan, representing American Institute of Architects, Silver
Spring, Maryland; and Robert M. Dillon, National Institute of Building
Sciences, and Robert A. Georgine, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

BUDGET WAIVER

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting S. Res. 82, waiving
section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the
consideration of S. 690 and H.R. 1296, to revise certain IRS provisions with
respect to the tax treatment of agricultural commodities received under a
payment-in-kind (PIK) program.

NASA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, receiving testimony from Richard D. Delauer, Under Secretary
of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Robert Cooper, Director, Advanced
Research Projects Agency, Department of Defense.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

ENERGY CONSERVATION/INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation
and Supply concluded oversight hearings to review the President's budget
request for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Energy's conservation and
supply programs, and the Energy Information Administration, after receiving
testimony from Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Conservation and Renewal Energy.

AUTHORIZATIONS--GUAM

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Conservation
and Supply concluded hearings on S. 589, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for capital improvement projects on Guam, after receiving testimony from
Delegate Won Pat; Richard T. Montoya, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Territorial and International Affairs; and Guam Governor Ricardo
J. Bordallo, Agana.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Darrell M. Trent, of California, for the rank of Ambassador
during the tenure of his service as Chairman of the United States Delegation
to the United States-European Civil Aviation Conference Negotiations on
Multilateral Pricing, Donald T. Regan, of New Jersey, to be Governor of the
African Development Bank, and a foreign service officer list dated February
22, 1983.

Also, the committee began consideration of the Treaty of Friendship with
Tuvalu (Ex. W, 96th Cong., 1st sess.), Treaty of Friendship with the Republic
of Kiribati (Ex. A, 96th Cong., 2nd sess.), Treaty with Cook Islands on
Friendship and Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary (Ex. P, 96th Cong., 2nd
sess.), and the Treaty with New Zealand on the Delimitation of the Maritime
Boundary between the U.S. and Tokelau (Treaty Doc. 97-5), but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.

TREATIES

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty of
Friendship with Tuvalu (Ex. W, 96th Cong., 1st sess.), Treaty of Friendship
with the Republic of Kiribati (Ex. A, 96th Cong., 2nd sess.), Treaty with Cook
Islands on Friendship and Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary (Ex. P, 96th
Cong., 2nd sess.), and the Treaty with New Zealand on the Delimitation of the
Maritime Boundary between the U.S. and Tokelau, (Treaty Doc. 97-5), after
receiving testimony from Senator East; Admiral Thomas Moorer (USN, Ret.),
former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Admiral Robert J. Hanks (USN,
Ret.), former Director, Strategic Plans and Policy, Office of the Chief of
Naval Operations.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John M. Yates, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Cape Verde, James R. Bullington, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Burundi, and Wesley W. Egan, Jr., of North Carolina, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Yates was introduced by Senator
Moynihan.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE/USIA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings on S. 638, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, for international security assistance programs, S. 637,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for international security
and development assistance programs, and proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the United States Information Agency, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Chester A. Crocker,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; Francis S. Ruddy, Assistant
Administrator for Africa, Agency for International Development, and Arthur W.
Lewis, Director, Office of African Affairs, United States Information Agency.

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities held hearings on S. 530, to provide Federal assistance to upgrade
instruction in mathematics, science, computer technology and foreign languages
in the nation's elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions, and to
provide assistance for employment-based vocational training programs, and
related proposals, receiving testimony from Senators Domenici, Hart, and
Chiles; F. James Rutherford, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Bill T. Aldridge, National Science Teachers Association, Stephen
Willoughby, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Susan Adler,
Education Commission of the States, Robert Smith, CAPE, and M. Joan Parent,
National School Boards Association, all of Washington, D.C.; David Leeson,
California Microwave, Sunnyvale, California; Calvin Frazier, Colorado
Commissioner of Education, Denver; William C. Lucas, Los Angeles Unified
School District, Los Angeles, California; and Robert Wolfenbarger, New Jersey
State Board of Education, Summit.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

VFW LEGISLATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings to receive legislative
recommendations for fiscal year 1984 from James R. Currieo, Commander-in-
Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Washington, D.C.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget resumed closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.

Closed hearings continue on Thursday, March 10.

Joint Meeting

IMPACT OF NEW FEDERALISM

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to examine the impact
of the President's new federalism approach to state and local government,
after receiving testimony from Mayor Richard Carver, Peoria, Illinois; Mayor
George Latimer, St. Paul, Minnesota; Mayor W. Donald Schaefer, Baltimore,
Maryland; and Mathew Coffey, representing the National Association of
Counties, Washington, D.C.

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

Joint Economic Committee: On Monday, March 7, the committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments:

Monetary and Fiscal Policy: Senators Symms (Chairman), Mattingly, Kennedy, and
Sarbanes, and Representatives Wylie (Vice Chairman), Holt, Hamilton, and Obey.

Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth: Senators Roth (Chairman), Abdnor,
Proxmire, and Representatives Lungren, (Vice Chairman), Mitchell, and Scheuer.

Agriculture and Transportation: Senators Abdnor (Chairman), Roth, and Bentsen,
and Representatives Snowe, (Vice Chairman), and Long.

International Trade, Finance, and Security Economics: Representatives Long
(Chairman), Hawkins, Scheuer, and Wylie, and Senators Proxmire (Vice
Chairman), Jepsen, Symms, and Mattingly.

Investment, Jobs, and Prices: Representatives Mitchell (Chairman), Obey, Holt,
and Lungren, and Senators Kennedy (Vice Chairman), Sarbanes, and D'Amato.

Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy: Representatives Hamilton
(Chairman), Hawkins, and Snowe, and Senators Bentsen (Vice Chairman), Jepsen,
and D'Amato.



1983/03/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 9, 1983; pages D121 - D130 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NOMINATION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of John J. Franke, Jr., of Kansas, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture.

SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Soil and
Water Conservation held oversight hearings to review soil and water
conservation programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture, John B. Crowell,
Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Richard D. Siegel,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Peter C.
Meyers, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, and Everett Rank, Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, all of the Department of
Agriculture.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

DEFENSE BRIEFING

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed session to
receive a briefing on current worldwide defense matters (red/blue forces
assessment), receiving testimony from officials of Department of Defense, but
made no announcements.

APPROPRIATIONS --MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review proposed budget estimates for, fiscal year 1984 for the multilateral
development banks of the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from
Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the National Park Service from Russell E.
Dickenson, Director, Mary Lou Grier, Deputy Director, Daniel E. Salisbury,
Assistant Director, Financial Management and Data Systems, Jay L. Sand, Budget
Officer, all of the National Park Service, and Kristine M. Marcy, Deputy
Director of Budget Office of the Secretary, all of the Department of the
Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

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 Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for elementary and secondary education, state block grants,
and for Impact Aid program activities from Lawrence F. Davenport, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs
and Logistics; Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Installations; Joel E. Bonner, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Army for
Installations, Logistics and Financial Management; Admiral William Zobel,
Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and Tidal W. McCoy, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

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
William B. Reynolds, Chairperson, and Hale Zukas, David Myers, and Mary Alice
Ford, all Board Members, all of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers
Compliance Board; and Joseph P. Welsch, Inspector General, Department of
Transportation.

Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 11.

HUD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs continued hearings on S. 644, authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1986 for housing, community, and neighborhood development, and related
programs, receiving testimony from Philip Abrams, Assistant Secretary for
Housing, Federal Housing Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Mayor Vincent J. Thomas, Norfolk, Virginia, representing the U.S.
Conference of Mayors; County Supervisor Jim Scott, Fairfax, Virginia,
representing the National Association of Counties; Kathy Reynolds, Denver,
Colorado, representing the National League of Cities; Juan Montes, El Paso,
Texas, representing the Working Group for Community Development Reform; Ray
Struyk, The Urban Institute, and Robert Maffin, National Association of
Housing and Redevelopment Officials, both of Washington, D.C.; and Lewis H.
Spence, Boston Public Housing Authority, Boston, Massachusetts, representing
the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FCC

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation:  Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 607, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1984 and 1985 for the Federal Communications Commission, and to examine
FCC performance and plans for common carrier and mass media activities,
focusing on the impact of regulatory policies on telephone rates and on the
introduction of new telecommunications services, after receiving testimony
from Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Committee on Commerce, Science,. and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the National Science Foundation, after
receiving testimony from Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences;
William Richardson, University of Washington, Seattle; Lewis N. Branscomb,
International Business Machines, Armonk, New York; Donald Kennedy, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California; Arno Penzias, Bell Laboratories,
Murrayhill, New Jersey; and Thomas Bartlett, University of Alabama,
Tuscaloosa.

NASA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, receiving testimony from James M. Beggs, Administrator, Hans
Mark, Deputy Administrator, and C. Thomas Newman, Comptroller, all of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began hearings on S. 615,
providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce and
market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, and related measures,
including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S. 293, S. 370, and S. 689, receiving
testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

SOCIAL SECURITY REVISIONS

Committee on Finance: Committee began consideration of S. 1, to revise title
II coverage requirements of the Social Security Act with respect to new
Federal employees, employees of nonprofit organizations, and State and local
employees, and to revise benefit requirements with respect to cost of living
adjustments, survivor benefits, divorced spouses, and delayed retirement, but
did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--STATE AND ACDA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 660,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State,
and S. 608, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency, after receiving testimony from Jerome W. Van
Gorkom, Under Secretary of State for Management; and James L. George, Acting
Director, Thomas Graham, Jr., Director, Office of Congressional Relations and
Public Affairs, William J. Montgomery, Administrative Director, and Archelaus
Turrentine, Acting Assistant Director, Bureau of Nuclear Weapons and Control,
all of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

CHINA BRIEFING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
met in closed session to receive a briefing on population control in China
from George Aird, Senior Research Specialist on China, Assistant Director for
International Programs, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.

FOREIGN ASSISTANCE--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs held hearings
on S. 638, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30,
1983, for international security assistance programs, and S. 637, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for international security and
development assistance programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
European programs from Richard R. Burt, Assistant Secretary of State for
European Affairs; Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy; Bradshaw Langmaid, Jr., Deputy Assistant
Administrator, Bureau for Near East, Agency for International Development; and
Eugene T. Rossides, American Hellenic Institute, and Paker T. Hart, former
Ambassador to Turkey, both of Washington, D.C.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded closed hearings to investigate alleged involvement of organized
crime and mismanagement of funds in the hotel and restaurant workers union
(HEREIU), after receiving testimony from certain unidentified witnesses.

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities continued hearings on S. 530, to provide Federal assistance to
upgrade instruction in mathematics, science, computer technology and foreign
languages in the nation's elementary, secondary, and postsecondary
institutions, and to provide assistance for employment-based vocational
training programs, and related proposals, receiving testimony from Terrel H.
Bell, Secretary of Education; Willard McGuire, National Education Association,
Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers, and Reverend William J.
Byron, The Catholic University of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Patricia
A. Graham, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; E. K. Fretwell,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Howard D. Mehlinger, University of
Indiana, Bloomington; Richard Brod, Association of Departments of Foreign
Languages/Modern Language Association, and Joshua Smith, Borough of Manhattan
Community College, both of New York City; Gilbert D. Johnson, Electronic Data
Systems, Dallas, Texas; and William Lucas, Los Angeles Unified School
District, Los Angeles, California.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 7.

TAX-EXEMPT INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BONDS

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute S. 499, to require the usage of
tax-exempt financing in connection with the Small Business Administration's
section 503 Certified Development Company program.

VETERANS' HEALTH CARE

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 11, S. 567, S.
578, S. 629, and S. 664, bills to improve and extend certain veterans'
health-care programs, receiving testimony from Donald L. Custis, Chief Medical
Director, Veterans' Administration; James W. Morrison, Jr., Associate Director
for the Compensation Group, Office of Personnel Management; Stanley Korenman,
VA Medical Center, Sepulveda, California; William Weissert, Urban Institute,
Sudie Goldston, National Council on Aging, Frank Mallon, American Physical
Therapy Association, and Paul Tendler, National Federation of Licensed
Practical Nurses, all of Washington, D.C.; and Glenn Gee, American Association
for Respiratory Therapy, Dallas, Texas.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--COMMERCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Commerce, receiving
testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce.

Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 16.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for foreign
assistance programs, receiving testimony from E. A. Werling, The French Oil
Mill Machinery Co., Piqua, Ohio; William L. George, Georgetown University,
Frances E. Neely, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Thomas A. Dine,
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Robert Bartell, Liberty Lobby, David
J. Sadd, National Association of Arab Americans, Susan Kokinda, National
Democratic Policy Committee, Werner Fornos, The Population Institute, Lane
Vanderslice, Bread for the World, Robert Taft, Jr., Population Crisis
Committee, and Robert Basil, American Lebanese League, all of Washington,
D.C.; Edwin Oyer, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, on behalf of the
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges; Vern
Moore, Land O'Lakes, Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing the Advisory
Committee on Overseas Cooperative Development; and James Sheffield, U.S.
Committee for UNICEF, New York City.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--VA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Veterans
Administration, receiving testimony from Harry N. Walters, Administrator of
Veterans' Affairs.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24.

APPROPRIATIONS--GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Geological Survey from William P.
Pendley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Minerals;
and Dallas Peck, Director, U.S. Geological Survey.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 15.

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

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 Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert M. Worthington,
Assistant Secretary of Education for Vocational and Adult Education; and
George A. Conn, Acting Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education
and Rehabilitative Services.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 14.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held closed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on
overseas construction programs, (including NATO infrastructure, burden
sharing, and Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf), from Robert Stone, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Installations.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 14.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for active-duty manpower requirements and trends from Lawrence J. Korb,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics;
Lt. General M. R. Thurman, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice
Admiral Lando W. Zech, Jr., Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower,
Personnel and Training; Lt. General Charles G. Cooper, Deputy Chief of Marine
Corps Staff for Manpower; and Lt. General Andrew P. Iosue, Deputy Chief of Air
Force Staff for Manpower and Personnel.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare continued closed
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for Army tactical programs from Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Research, Development and Acquisition; and Lt. General James H.
Merryman, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition.

Hearings continue on Monday, March 14.

HUD APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings on S. 644, authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1986 for housing, community, and neighborhood development, and related
programs, after receiving testimony from Kenneth J. Thygerson, President,
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; David 0. Maxwell, Federal National
Mortgage Association, John Koelemij, National Association of Home Builders,
Tom White, Council of State Housing Agencies, Cushing Dolbeare, Low Income
Housing Coalition, and Florence Roisman, National Housing Law Project, all of
Washington, D.C.; W. Gordon Hobgood, Jr., Interfirst Bank, Dallas, Texas, and
William W. Dwire, National Bank of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, both
representing the American Bankers Association; and Willard Gourley,
Northwestern Mortgage Company, Charlotte, North Carolina, representing the
Mortgage Bankers Association.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the National Marine Fisheries Service from William G.
Gordon, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration; Russell Cookingham, New Jersey Department of Fish,
Game and Wildlife, Trenton, on behalf of the International Association of Fish
and Wildlife Agencies and the three Regional Marine Fishery Commissions; James
Branson, North Pacific Fishery Management Council, Anchorage, Alaska; Allen F.
Branch, South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, Charleston, South Carolina;
Peter Granger, West Coast Fisheries Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon;
Roger Anderson, Gulf & South Atlantic Fisheries Development Foundation, Tampa,
Florida; and Richard Gutting, National Fisheries Institute, and Lucy Sloan,
National Federation of Fishermen, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Monday, March 14.

AUTO SAFETY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation resumed hearings on automobile safety, focusing on occupant
protection, receiving testimony from Ben Kelley, Insurance Institute for
Highway Safety, Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, Philip Collins,
Automotive Occupant Protection Association, and R. V. Durham, Warren Rheaume,
and Bartley O'Hara, all of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, all of
Washington, D.C.; Donald Friedman, MCR Technology, Goleta, California; Tom
McGrath, Breed Corporation, Fairfield, New Jersey; Susan Baker, The Johns
Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland; and John
Synnestvedt, representing the Saint-Govain Vitrage, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings on. S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, and related
measures, including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S. 293, S. 370, and S. 689,
receiving testimony from Senators Danforth, Kassebaum, and Eagleton; Mayor
Richard Berkley, Kansas City, Missouri, representing the U.S. Conference of
Mayors; Howard Marlowe, AFL/CIO, Robert M. Brandon, Citizen/Labor Energy
Coalition, Mark Cooper, Consumer Energy Council of America, and David I.
Greenberg, Consumer Federation of America, all of Washington, D.C.; James D.
Beatty, Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, representing the Chemical
Manufacturers Association; Richard J. Bryan, Burlington Industries,
Greensboro, North Carolina, representing the Council of Industrial Boiler
Owners; Patrick McNamara, Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan, representing the
Petrochemical Energy Group; Jack Elam, Cone Mills Corporation, Greensboro,
North Carolina, representing the Process Gas Consumers; Wayne Harmon,
Louisiana Association of Independent Producers and Royalty Owners, Baton
Rouge; James V. Walzel, Houston Pipeline, Houston, Texas; J. L. Terrill,
President, Louisiana Intrastate Gas Corporation, Alexandria; Bill Greehey,
Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio, Texas; and Vernon T. Jones, The
Williams Companies, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NRC

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years
1984 and 1985 for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Nunzio J. Palladino,
Chairman, Victor Gilinsky, John Ahearne, Thomas Roberts, and James Asselstine,
all Commissioners, William J. Dircks, Executive Director for Operations,
Harold R. Denton, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Victor
Stello, Jr., Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, John G. Davis,
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and Robert B.
Minoque, Director, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, all of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Finance: Committee met in evening session to continue
consideration of S. 1, to revise title II coverage requirements of the Social
Security Act with respect to new Federal employees, employees of nonprofit
organizations, and State and local employees, and to revise benefit
requirements with respect to cost of living adjustments, survivor benefits,
divorced spouses, and delayed retirement, and to consider the medicare
prospective payment proposal.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Counselor, of the Department of
State, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Dixon, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.

TAIWAN COMMUNIQUE AND SEPARATION OF POWERS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Separation of Powers concluded
hearings on certain constitutional and separation of powers issues arising
from inconsistencies between policies expressed in the Joint China Communique
and the Taiwan Relations Act, after receiving testimony from Paul D.
Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

COPYRIGHT OFFICE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded oversight hearings on the activities of the Copyright Office and the
Copyright Royalty Tribunal, after receiving testimony from David Ladd,
Register of Copyrights and Assistant Librarian for Copyright Services, the
Copyright Office, The Library of Congress; and Edward W. Ray, Chairman, Mary
Burg, and Thomas Brennan, both Commissioners, all of the Copyright Royalty
Tribunal.

VETERANS' HEALTH CARE

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 11, S. 567,
S. 578, S. 629, and S. 664, bills to improve and extend certain veterans'
healthcare programs, after receiving testimony from Representative Corrada;
Nora S. Kinzer, Special Assistant to the Administrator, Veterans'
Administration; Clyde Behney, Program Manager for Health, Office of Technology
Assessment; Paul Egan, The American Legion, Don Schwab, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, Charles E. Joeckel, Jr., Disabled American
Veterans, June Willenz, American Veterans Committee, Lynda M. Van Devanter,
Vietnam Veterans of America, and Robert Fitzgerald, International
Chiropractors Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Lee Selby, American
Chiropractors Association, Arlington, Virginia.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget resumed closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.

Closed hearings continue tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--USRA/CONRAIL

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
Stephen Berger, Chairman, United States Railway Association; L. Stanley Crane,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Conrail; and Robert Blanchette,
Administrator, Federal Railway Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 15.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984
for the. Department of Defense, focusing on strategic net assessment,
receiving testimony from Brigadier General William E. Kline, USA, Assistant
Deputy Director for Force Development and Strategic Programs, Office of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again Monday, March 14.

AUTO SAFETY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation continued hearings on automobile safety focusing on
government-industry efforts to improve highway safety, receiving testimony
from James E. Burnett, Chairman, Peter Kissinger, Managing Director, and Barry
Sweedler, Director, Bureau of Safety Programs, all of the National
Transportation Safety Board; Raymond A. Peck, Jr., Administrator, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration; Michael Dalich, Director, Automotive
Commodities Center, Office of Federal Supply and Services, General Services
Administration; Howard H. Kehrl, General Motors Corporation, Detroit,
Michigan; Walter R. F. Bodack, Willi Reidelbach, and Karl-Heinz Faber, all of
Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc., Montvale, New Jersey; and Christopher M.
Kennedy and Robert J. Connor, both representing Chrysler Corporation, Roger E.
Maugh, representing Ford Motor Company, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued hearings on S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, and related
measures, including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S. 293, S. 370, and S. 689,
receiving testimony from Senators Percy and Specter; Indiana Governor Robert
D. Orr, Indianapolis, on behalf of the National Governors Association; Nick J.
Bush, Natural Gas Supply Association, Kye Trout, Jr., Independent Petroleum
Association of America, John McMillian, Northwest Energy Company, David W.
Wilson, Coalition for Equal Access, C. W. Cooper, United Distribution
Companies, and Jerome McGrath, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America,
all of Washington, D.C.; Perry 0. Barber, Jr., Pennzoil Company, Houston,
Texas, representing the Domestic Petroleum Council; Gary Dage, Independent Gas
Producers Committee, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Britann Wallace, Independent
Petroleum Association of Mountain States, Denver, Colorado; Rex Fuller, Texas
Independent Producers and Royalty Owners, Austin, Texas; George H. Lawrence,
American Gas Association, Arlington, Virginia; Charles Zeigler, Public Service
Company of North Carolina, Gastonia, on behalf of the Associated Gas
Distributors; and Walter Rodemann, Water, Gas & Light Commission, Albany,
Georgia.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TAXATION--FINANCIAL SERVICES

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine certain tax
preferences for banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations, and other
financial services, receiving testimony from Senator Metzenbaum; William S.
McKee, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury; Dave Brockway,
Chief of Staff, Joint Committee on Taxation; Richard C. Kaplan, University of
Illinois, Champaign; Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, Arthur T. Roth, National
Tax Equity Association, Harold T. Welsh, Credit Union National Association,
Inc., John J. Hutchinson, National Association of Federal Credit Unions, Harry
Pryde, National Association of Home Builders, and Jay Angoff, Public Citizens
Congress Watch, all of Washington, D.C.; Don Fullerton, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey; John F. Garry, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York
City, on behalf of American Bankers Association; Roy G. Green, First Federal
Savings and Loan Association, Jacksonville, Florida, on behalf of the United
States League of Savings Institutions; Raleigh W. Greene III, Florida Federal
Savings and Loan, St. Petersburg, on behalf of the National Savings and Loans
League; and Herbert W. Gray, National Association of Mutual Savings Banks, New
York City.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Finance: On Thursday, March 10, committee ordered favorably
reported S. 1, to revise title II coverage requirements of the Social Security
Act with respect to new Federal employees, employees of nonprofit
organizations, and State and local employees of nonprofit organizations, and
State and local employees, and to revise benefit requirements with respect to
cost-of-living, survivor benefits, divorced spouses, and delayed retirement,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the
committee, the bill incorporates provisions which extend for 6 months (through
September 30, 1983) Federal supplemental compensation unemployment benefits
and extends for 8 additional weeks benefits for exhaustees under the present
program, and incorporates certain provisions of S. 576, providing for
prospective payment rates under medicare for inpatient hospital services).

A press release summarizing the action taken by the committee is available in
room SD-221.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on S. 637, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985
for international security and development assistance programs, and S. 638,
authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for
international security and development assistance programs, S. 660,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State,
and S. 734, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the United
States Information Agency, after receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz,
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Charles
Greenleaf, Assistant Administrator for Asia, Agency for International
Development; Clifton B. Forster, Director, East Asian and Pacific Affairs,
United States Information Agency; and Commodore Stewart Ring, U.S. Navy,
Director, East Asia and Pacific Region, Office of the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs.

FEDERAL COURTS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts held hearings on S. 645, to
eliminate mandatory review by the U.S. Supreme Court of certain cases, to
repeal various Federal statutory provisions which require appellate courts to
expedite appeals in certain cases, to make certain improvements to judicial
survivors benefits, to create a State justice institute, and to create a
Federal courts study commission, receiving testimony from Jonathon C. Rose,
Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; Judge Clifford Wallace,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Diego, California; Chief
Judge Frank A. Kaufman, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, Baltimore,
on behalf of the Federal Judges Association; Justice Robert F. Utter, Supreme
Court of Washington State, Olympia; Chief Judge Lawrence H. Cook, Monticello,
on behalf of the New York State Conference of Chief Justices; former Senator
Hruska, Kutak, Rock & Huie, Omaha, Nebraska; Paul Freund, Harvard Law School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Herbert E. Hoffman, on behalf of the American
Bar Association, and Leo Levin, Federal Judicial Center, both of Washington,
D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget continued closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.

Closed hearings continue on Tuesday, March 15.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Rural
Development, Oversight and Investigations concluded oversight hearings on the
status of Federal nutrition and food programs, after receiving testimony from
John Bode, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer
Services; Edward N. Brandt, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services
for Health; Jean Mayer, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; Mayor Ted
Wilson, Salt Lake City, Utah, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors;
Nancy Amidei, Food Research and Action Center, Reverend Paul Kittlaus, United
Church of Christ, and Barbara Howell and Janice Patty, both of Bread for the
World, all of Washington, D.C.

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

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 Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for student financial assistance, guaranteed student loans,
higher education, and education for the handicapped programs from Edward M.
Elmendorf, Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education.

Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, March 16.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Duncan Holaday, Assistant Director for Facility Requirements and Resources,
Office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; Charles A.
Hawkins, Jr., Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence;
Robert E. Rich, Deputy Director, National Security Agency; Colonel Christ
Potamos, Staff Director, Installations, Services and Environmental Protection,
Defense Logistics Agency; and William F. DeLaney, Chief, Logistics Division,
Dependents Schools, Department of Defense.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DOD

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
held closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the
military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on the maritime
threat assessment, receiving testimony from Rear Admiral John L. Butts,
Director, Navy Intelligence; and Vice Admiral Lee Baggett, Director, Naval
Warfare.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 22.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DOD

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare resumed closed
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on Navy and Marine
Corps tactical programs from Vice Admiral Robert F. Schoultz, Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Air Warfare; General William H. Fitch, Deputy Chief of
Marine Corps Staff for Aviation; Major General H. G. Glasgow, USMC, Director,
Operations Division, Plans, Policies and Operations Department; and Vice
Admiral Ernest R. Seymour, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NOAA

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for weather and satellite programs from James W. Winchester,
Associate Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; John Knauss, Chairman, National Advisory Committee on
Oceans and Atmosphere; Robert G. Fleagle, University of Washington, Seattle;
Charles Hosler, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Peter Leavitt,
Weather Services Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts; David Johnson,
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Washington, D.C.; and Verner
Suomi, University of Wisconsin, Madison, representing the National Academy of
Sciences Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--AMTRAK

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1984 for AMTRAK, after receiving testimony from Senator
Wallop; W. Graham Claytor, Jr., President, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation; Thomas A. Till, Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad
Administration; James R. Snyder, Railway Labor Executive Association, and
Barrett M. Williams, National Association of Railroad Passengers, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Edward P. Deets, Central Florida Coach Lines, Inc.,
Mountaintop, Pennsylvania.

COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
267, to facilitate the development of interstate coal pipeline distribution
systems, by granting the Federal power of eminent domain to those interstate
pipelines which are determined to be in the national interest, after receiving
testimony from Senators Danforth and Baucus; Frank J. Trelease, University of
the Pacific, Sacramento, California; Edward W. Clyde, Clyde, Pratt, Gibbs &
Cahoon, Salt Lake City, Utah; Charles E. Corker, University of Washington,
Seattle; Thomas O. Claflin, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse; Paul Doran,
Energy Transportation Systems, Inc., Houston, Texas; Lynch Christian, Jr.,
Imperial Colliery Company, Milburn Colliery Company, and Imperial Coal Sales
Company, Lynchburg, Virginia; and Gary L.    Widman, Fulbright & Jaworski
William
H. Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, Denis Dwyer, Railway Progress
Institute, J. R. Snyder, and William C. Mahoney, both of the Railway Labor
Executives' Association, James Miller, National Grange, Frederick Webber,
Alliance for Coal and Competitive Transportation, J. Justin Moore, Virginia
Electric Power Company, Alex Radin, Consumer Federation of America, and
American Public Power Association, and Robert A. Georgine, AFL-CIO, all of
Washington, D.C.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Saturday, March 12, committee
concluded hearings on S. 615, providing for a free market to establish long-
term incentives to produce and market ample natural gas supplies at a
reasonable cost, and related measures, including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S.
293, S. 370, and S. 689, after receiving testimony from C. M. Butler,
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Laura L. Murrell, Kentucky
Public Service Commission, Frankfort; Frank Simoneaux, Louisiana, Department
of Natural Resources, Baton Rouge; Leonard S. Coleman, New Jersey Department
of Energy, Trenton; Philip R. O'Conner, Illinois Commerce Commission, and 0.
C. Davis, Midcon Corp., both of Chicago, Illinois; Wayne Johnson, Entex, and
Russell Thompson, Operational Economics, Inc., both of Houston, Texas; John
Abram, Southern California Gas Company, and Stuart Mut, Atlantic Richfield
Company, both of Los Angeles, California; C. Robert Palmer, Rowan Companies,
Inc., Houston, Texas, on behalf of the International Association of Drilling
Contractors; Dwight Moorhead, Petro-Lewis Corporation, Denver, Colorado;
William Murray, Austin, Texas; Donald Fonville, Richmond United Neighborhoods,
Richmond, Virginia; Chris Weber, Weber Oil Company, Camden, New Jersey, on
behalf of the National Oil Jobbers Council; James S. Rubin, Allied
Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers; Brian Lederer, National Association of State Utility Consumer
Advocates, John H. Croom, Columbia Gas System, John Buckley, Northeast
Coalition for Energy Equity, and George Rosenthal, Independent Bakers
Association, all of Washington, D.C.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
concluded hearings on S. 637, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985
for international security and development assistance programs, S. 638,
authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, for
international security assistance programs, and S. 734, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the U.S. Information Agency, after receiving
testimony from Thomas O. Enders, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs; Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy;
Peter McPherson, Administrator, Otto J. Reich, Assistant Administrator for
Latin America, both of the Agency for International Development; and Michael
A. Kristula, Deputy Director, Office of American Republics Affairs, U.S.
Information Agency.

FARM/HOME FORECLOSURES

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts concluded oversight
hearings on the problem of farm and home foreclosures and related personal
bankruptcies, after receiving testimony from Frank W. Naylor, Jr.,
Undersecretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; Jamie
Jackson, Member, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Terry Fredrickson, Senior
Deputy Governor, Farm Credit Administration; Henry Sommer, Community Legal
Services, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Joanne Forsness, Women Involved in Farm
Economics (WIFE), Wolf Point, Montana; Jerome G. Daily, Production Credit
Association, Great Falls, Montana; David Miller, Ohio Farm Bureau, Columbus,
representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; and John Garland, Legal
Services Corporation of the Coastal Plains, and Rev. Morris Shearin, both of
Garysburg, North Carolina.

Joint Meeting

BUSINESS MEETING

Joint Committee on the Library: Committee held a business meeting wherein it
took the following action:

(1) Announced the selection of Senator Mathias as Chairman, and Representative
Hawkins as Vice Chairman.

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

(3) Established an agenda of items to consider.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John B. Crowell, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Peter C.
Myers, Chief, Soil Conservation Service; Everett Rank, Administrator,
Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service; J. Dawson Ahalt, Acting
Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for Commodity Programs (Commodity Credit
Corporation); Alan T. Tracy, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for
International Affairs; Richard A. Smith, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural
Service; and Joan S. Wallace, Administrator, Office of International
Cooperation and Development.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17.

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR/ENERGY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of the Interior from James G.
Watt, Secretary; and in behalf of funds for the Department of Energy from
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on
National Guard and reserve forces from Major General William R. Berkman,
Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Admiral Howard Roop, Deputy Director, Naval Reserve;
Brigadier General James Wahleithner, Deputy Director, Air Force Reserve; Major
General Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard; and Brigadier
General Wess Chambers, Deputy Director, Air National Guard.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--ICC

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 Interstate Commerce Commission
from Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Chairman, I.C.C.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from William F. Bolger, Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service; Lucretia
Tanner, Executive Director, Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; Clyde C. Cook,
Chairman, Committee For Purchase From The Blind and Other Severely
Handicapped; and Danny L. McDonald, Chairman, Federal Election Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 22.

FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MILITARY MEDICINE/DOD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel approved
for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute S. 653, to establish the Foundation for the Advancement of Military
Medicine.

Also, the subcommittee held hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on
reserve and National Guard manpower requirements and trends, receiving
testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Reserve Affairs and Logistics; Edward J. Philbin, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Louis J. Conti, Chairman, Reserve Forces
Policy Board, Department of Defense; Lieutenant General Emmett H. Walker, Jr.,
Chief, National Guard Bureau; Major General William R. Berkman, Chief, Army
Reserve; Major General Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard;
Rear Admiral R. F. Dunn, Director, Naval Reserve; Major General Sloan R. Gill,
Chief, Air Force Reserve; Major General John B. Conaway, Director, Air
National Guard; Major General Stephen G. Olmstead, Deputy Chief of Marine
Corps Staff for Reserve Affairs; Rear Admiral James C. Irwin, Chief, Office of
Coast Guard Reserve; Kenneth J. Coffey, Associate Director (Military), Federal
Personnel and Compensation Division, General Accounting Office; Major General
J. Milnor Roberts, AUS (Ret.), Reserve Officers Association, and Major General
Francis S. Greenlief, NGUS (Ret.), National Guard Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Captain Curtin R. Coleman II, USN (Ret.), Naval Reserve
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; and Master Chief John B. Thomas, Jr., USNR
(Ret.), Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, Falls Church, Virginia.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held open and closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on
theater nuclear warfare issues, receiving testimony from General Bernard W.
Rogers, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command; Richard Perle, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Richard L. Wagner,
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; Brigadier General
Gerald G. Watson, U.S. Army, Director, Nuclear and Chemical Directorate; Rear
Admiral W. J. Holland, Jr., Director, Strategic and Theater Nuclear Warfare
Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; and Brigadier General J. T.
Callaghan, U.S. Air Force, Deputy Director, Regional Plans and Policy,
DCS/Plans and Operations.

Subcommittee will meet again Friday, March 18.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1984, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again Wednesday, April 6.

NASA AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, after receiving testimony from Thomas M. Donahue, Chairman,
Space Science Board, National Academy of Sciences; John Ralph, Air Transport
Association of America, Edward W. Stimpson, General Aviation Manufacturers
Association, and Willis H. Shapley, National Research Council, all of
Washington, D.C.; Robert C. Hawkins, General Electric Aircraft Engine Group,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Roger D. Schaufele, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach,
California; M. E. Shank, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group, East Hartford,
Connecticut; H. W. Withington, Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, Seattle,
Washington; Russell Hopps, Lockheed Corporation, Burbank, California; Klaus P.
Heiss, Space Transportation Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey; and Michael
I. Yarymovych, Rockwell International, El Segundo, California, and Stanley G.
Rosen, Los Angeles, California, both on behalf of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics.

AUTHORIZATIONS--ENERGY

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on the President's budget request for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Energy's research and development
programs, focusing on conservation and renewable energy programs, receiving
testimony from Joseph J. Tribble, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Conservation and Renewable Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 21.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) S. 695, to authorize funds for an increase in the U.S. quota in the
International Monetary Fund and to authorize funds for increased participation
in the IMF's General Arrangements to Borrow, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;

(2) the nominations of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Counselor of
the Department of State, John M. Yates, of Washington, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Cape Verde, James R. Bullington, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Burundi, Wesley W. Egan, Jr., of North Carolina, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, and John Davis Lodge, of
Connecticut, to be Ambassador to Switzerland; and

(3) The following treaties: Treaty of Friendship with Tuvalu (Ex. W, 96th
Cong., 1st sess.); Treaty of Friendship with the Republic of Kiribati (Ex. A,
96th Cong., 2nd Sess.); Treaty with Cook Islands of Friendship and
Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary (Ex. P, 96th Cong., 2nd sess.); and the
Treaty with New Zealand on the Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary Between
the U.S. and Tokelau (Treaty Doc. 97-5).

CRIME AND SECRECY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to investigate the use of offshore banks, trusts and companies
to facilitate criminal activity in the United States, receiving testimony from
Lowell Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Glen Archer,
Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, both of the Department of Justice;
and Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., Commissioner, and Richard C. Wassenaar, Assistant
Commissioner, Criminal Enforcement, both of the Internal Revenue Service, John
Walker, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, and Alan
Granwell, International Tax Counsel, all of the Department of the Treasury.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

LABOR MANAGEMENT RACKETEERING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 336, to revise prohibitions against persons guilty of criminal
offenses holding specified offices or positions, and to clarify the
jurisdiction of the Department of Labor relating to the detection of and
investigation of criminal violations relating to ERISA, after receiving
testimony from Senator Rudman; Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor, T.
Timothy Ryan, Jr., Solicitor, Department of Labor, and John Walsh, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Program Operations (LMSA); D. Lowell Jensen,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Jerry
Bliss, Westland, Michigan, of the Teamsters Local 337; Frank Greco, Edison
City, New Jersey, of the Teamsters Local 478; and Arthur L. Fox II,
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.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget resumed closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.

Closed hearings continue on Thursday, March 17.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

WORKFARE PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation to provide mandatory community work
experience for all persons required to comply with the Food Stamp Program's
work requirements, after receiving testimony from John Bode, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; David W. Stevens,
University of Missouri, Columbia; John E. Burdette II, West Virginia
Department of Welfare, Charleston; Lawrence M. Mead, New York University, and
Blanche Bernstein, New School for Social Research, both of New York City;
Mayor Joe Malone, Bordentown, New Jersey; Florida State Representative Tom
Woodruff, Tallahassee; Charles Rodgers, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Peter
Germanis, Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C.

APPROPRIATIONS--USTR/SEC/ACDA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from William E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative; John S. R. Shad,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; and James L. George, Acting
Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the National Capital Planning Commission from
Helen M. Scharf, Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human
Services, Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Education, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the college housing loan program from Edward
M. Elmendorf, Assistant Secretary of Education for Postsecondary Education; in
behalf of funds for special institutions from Thomas P. Skelly, Acting
Director, Budget Systems Division, Office of Planning, Budget and Evaluation,
Department of Education; Carson Y. Nolan, American Printing House for the
Blind, Louisville, Kentucky; William E. Castle, National Technical Institute
for the Deaf and Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; and
Edward C. Merrill, Jr., Gallaudet College, and James E. Cheek, Howard
University, both of Washington, D.C.; and in behalf of funds for salaries and
expenses from Charles L. Heatherly, Deputy Under Secretary of Education for
Management, Harry Singleton, Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil
Rights, and James Thomas, Inspector General, Department of Education.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on
Army programs from Maj. General Norman Delbridge, Assistant Chief of Army
Engineers.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 21.

APPROPRIATIONS--CAB

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 Civil Aeronautics Board from
Dan McKinnon, Chairman, CAB.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Bernard A. Maguire, of Virginia, to be an Associate Director of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and 808 routine nominations in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.

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

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy resumed hearings on S. 397, S. 407,
and S. 434, bills to improve the enforcement of export administration laws,
receiving testimony from E. C. Chapman, Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria,
Illinois, representing the Business Roundtable; Larry McQuade, W. R. Grace &
Company, New York City, representing the Emergency Committee for American
Trade; Barnard J. O'Keefe, E. G. & G., Inc., Wellesley, Massachusetts,
representing National Association of Manufacturers; Arthur T. Downey,
Sutherland, Asbill, & Brennan, representing the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, Washington, D.C.; James H. Giffen, Armco, Inc., New York City;
and J. W. Neely, Smith International/ Petroleum Equipment Suppliers
Association, Newport Beach, California.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Terrence M. Scanlon, of the District of
Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Inouye, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FTC

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Federal
Trade Commission, receiving testimony from James C. Miller, III, Chairman, and
David A. Clanton, Michael Pertschuk, Patricia P. Bailey, and George W.
Douglas, all Commissioners, and Thomas Campbell, Director, Bureau of
Competition, all of the Federal Trade Commission; John J. Easton, Vermont
Attorney General, Montpelier; James Krzyminski, National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives, and Donald A. Randall, National Independent Dairy Foods
Association, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current situation in El Salvador from officials of the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, but made no
announcements.

STATUS OF POSTAL SERVICE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings in compliance
with Section 2401(g) of Title 39 U.S. Code, which requires the Postal Service
to submit to Congress a comprehensive statement on the status of the Postal
Service, after receiving testimony from William F. Bolger, Postmaster General,
U.S. Postal Service.

WASHINGTON METRO AREA--EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and
the District of Columbia held hearings on the status of emergency preparedness
in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, receiving testimony from William
Anderson, Director, General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
Joseph P. Yeldell, District of Columbia Office of Emergency Preparedness; Ruth
R. Crone, Director, Department of Human Resources and Public Safety,
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; Thomas McDonald, Montgomery
County Police, Rockville, Maryland; Richard Durgin, Falls Church Public Works
and Emergency Preparedness, Falls Church, Virginia; Hal Silvers, Prince
Georges County Emergency Preparedness, Hyattsville, Maryland; John Milliken,
Arlington County Board, Arlington, Virginia; Charles H. Rule, Alexandria Fire
Department, Alexandria, Virginia; and Mayor John W. Russell, and John F.
Herrin, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, both of Fairfax, Virginia.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CRIME AND SECRECY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to investigate the use of offshore banks, trusts, and companies
to facilitate criminal activity in the United States, receiving testimony from
William von Raab, Commissioner, and William Logan, Director, Financial
Investigation Division, both of the U.S. Customs Service, and Raul Dearmas,
Special Agent, Criminal Investigation Division, and Richard C. Wassenaar,
Assistant Commissioner, Criminal Enforcement, both of the Internal Revenue
Service, all of the Department of the Treasury; Charles Morley, Chief
Investigator, and Tom McLaughlin, Staff Investigator, both of the Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations; Torn Stocks, Turks and Caicos Island, British
West Indies; and Beno Ghitis-Miller, an incarcerated witness.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 27.

FEDERALISM AND FEDERAL JUDICIARY

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Separation of Powers held
hearings to explore certain Federal court procedures relating to the
exclusionary rule, habeas corpus, and related matters, receiving testimony
from John D. Ashcroft, Missouri Attorney General, Jefferson City; and Michael
P. McDonald, Washington Legal Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Friday, March 25.

MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMISSION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee on Labor and Human Resources
began consideration of proposed legislation extending through December 31,
1986, the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine
and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call.

ACADEMY OF PEACE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 564, to establish the U.S. Academy of
Peace, after receiving testimony from Stephen Low, Director, Foreign Service
Institute, Department of State; James Laue, University of Missouri, St. Louis,
William F. Lincoln, National Center Associates, Montpelier, Vermont, and John
R. Dellenback, Christian College Coalition, Washington, D.C., all of the
National Peace Academy Commission; Rear Admiral Edward S. Welch, Jr.,
(Retired), Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; Harvey Picker, Columbia
University, New York City; Duncan Clark, The American University, and William
Zartman, Johns Hopkins University, both of Washington, D.C.; and John Funari,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation and Technology held
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Small Business Innovation
Research Act (P.L. 97-219), focusing on the amount of funds designated for the
program and the nature of the solicitation that the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration will promulgate, receiving testimony from Stuart J.
Evans, Assistant Administrator for Procurement, Charles T. Newman,
Comptroller, and Francis C. Schwenk, Manager, Small Business Innovation
Research Office, all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Hearings were recessed subject to call

VETERANS' BENEFITS

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 8, to
provide a new educational assistance program for persons entering the Armed
Forces, and to repeal the December 31, 1989, termination date of the
Vietnam-era GI bill; S. 9, to provide a 15 percent increase in the rates of
educational and training assistance allowances under the GI bill and in rates
of subsistence allowances under the VA rehabilitation program for
service-connected disabled veterans; and S. 667, to improve the benefits under
the contributory education program and to eliminate the termination date for
the GI bill education program, after receiving testimony from Lawrence Korb,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics;
Dorothy L. Starbuck, Chief Benefits Director, Department of Veterans Benefits,
June Schaeffer, Assistant Director, Policy and Program Administration,
Education Service, and James P. Kane, Assistant General Counsel, all of the
Veterans' Administration; Kenneth J. Coffey, Associate Director, Federal
Personnel and Compensation Division, General Accounting Office; Robert F.
Hale, Assistant Director of National Security and International Affairs, and
Neil Singer, Principal Analyst, both of the Congressional Budget Office;
Franklin G. Matsler, Illinois Board of Regents, Springfield, representing the
American Association of State Colleges and Universities; Marvin P. Busbee,
National Association of State Approving Agencies, Columbia, South Carolina;
and James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., Steven L. Edmiston,
Disabled American Veterans, Max J. Beilke, National Association for Uniformed
Services, and Richard Johnson, Non-Commissioned Officers Associatin, all of
Washington, D.C.

No Joint hearings noted.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the Agricultural Research Service from Orville G. Bentley, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education, Terry B. Kinney,
Administrator and Mary E. Carter, Associate Administrator, both of the
Agricultural Research Service; in behalf of the Cooperative State Research
Service from Walter I. Thomas, Administrator, and Edward C. Miller, Associate
Administrator, both of the Cooperative State Research Service; in behalf of
funds for the Extension Service from Mary Nell Greenwood, Administrator,
Extension Service; and in behalf of funds for the National Agricultural
Library from Joseph H. Howard, Acting Director, National Agricultural Library.

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 22.

APPROPRIATIONS--ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for atomic energy
defense activities of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
Richard L. Wagner, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy;
Herman E. Roser, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; and
Kinnaird R. McKee, Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 21.

APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL AGENCIES/ BOARDS/COMMISSIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health, and Human
Services, Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from George H. McKee, Governor, United States
Soldiers' and Airmen's Home; Elinor M. Hashim, Chairman, Bessie B. Moore, Vice
Chairman, and Toni C. Bearman, Executive Director, all of the National
Commission on Libraries and Information Science; Sharon Percy Rockefeller,
Chairman, Board of Directors, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Robert A.
Gielow, Chairman, and Charles J. Chamberlain and Earl Oliver, both Members,
all of the Railroad Retirement Board; and Thomas W. Pauken, Director, ACTION
Agency.

Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 21.

APPROPRIATIONS--AMTRAK/FRA

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
Robert W. Blanchette, Administrator, and Thomas A. Till, Deputy Administrator,
both of the Federal Railroad Administration; and W. Graham Claytor, President
and Chairman, National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK).

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 22.

INTEREST RATES

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs concluded oversight hearings on consumer credit rates charged by
financial institutions, after receiving testimony from Senator Pressler;
Preston Martin, Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System;
William Poole, Member, Council of Economic Advisers; Manuel Johnson, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy; Henry B. Schechter, AFL-CIO,
Glenn Nishimura, Consumer Federation of America, and Thomas A. Durkin,
American Financial Services Association, all of Washington, D.C.; William H.
Kennedy, National Bank of Commerce, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on behalf of the
American Bankers Association; and Leonard F. O'Connor, First National Bank of
Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Consumer Bankers Association.

OCEAN AND COASTAL RESOURCES

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 800, to establish an ocean and coastal development impact
assistance fund from revenue generated by Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas
leasing, after receiving testimony from Peter Tweedt, Acting Director, Office
of Oceans and Coastal Resource Management, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration; Arthur Rocque, Jr., Coastal States Organization, Elizabeth
Raisbeck, Friends of the Earth, and Matthew B. Coffey, National Association of
Counties, all of Washington, D.C.; William Wick, Oregon State University,
Corvallis; and Jay L. Rasmussen, Oregon Coastal Zone Management Association,
Newport.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FTC

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee continued
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the Federal Trade Commission, receiving testimony from Senator Rudman; Joseph
F. Boyle, American Medical Association, Milton F. Lunch, National Society of
Professional Engineers, Willis B. Goldbeck, Washington Business Group on
Health, Jay Angoff, Congress Watch, Edwin P. Maynard III, American College of
Physicians, Donald B. Bentley, American Dental Association, W. David Sullins,
Jr., American Optometric Association, Robert E. Hagman, Opticians Association
of America, Eunice Cole, American Nurses' Association, and James Hacking,
American Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C.; and William
Kaschub, GTE Corp., Stamford, Connecticut.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--USTR/USITC/CUSTOMS SERVICE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the U.S.
Customs Service, U.S. International Trade Commission, and the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative, and to review the worker and firm adjustment
assistance programs established under Title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (P.L.
93-618), after receiving testimony from Dennis Whitfield, Assistant United
States Trade Representative for Administration; Alfred Eckes, Chairman, United
States International Trade Commission; James G. Whitlock, Assistant Regional
Administrator for Public Buildings, General Services Administration; William
Van Raab, Commissioner, and Alfred DeAngelus, Deputy Commissioner, both of the
United States Customs Service; Joyce Kaiser, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Labor for Employment and Training Administration; Lyle Ryter, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Trade Adjustment Assistance; William Samuel and Paul
Suplizio, both of the National Treasury Employees Union, James Gorson, Air
Transport Association, Steve Koplan, AFL-CIO, and Harold W. Williams and
Daniel J. Fennell, both of the Industrial Policy Council, all of Washington,
D.C.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:

S. 376, to eliminate the requirement that contracts for collection services to
recover indebtedness owed the United States be effective only to the extent
and in the amount provided in advance appropriation Acts, as contained in the
Debt Collection Act of 1982 (P.L. 97-365), with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute;

S. 450, granting broader authority to the investigatory and enforcement
branches of the U.S. Postal Service to assist in combating false
representation cases which utilize the U.S. mail service;

S. 373, establishing the Arctic Research Council to coordinate a comprehensive
Arctic research policy, with amendments,

S. 338, imposing competition in government contracting by imposing new
restrictions on the use of noncompetitive contracts, with amendments;

S. 461, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1989 for the Office of
Government Ethics, with no amendments in the nature of a substitute;

S. 531, revising certain provisions of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and
Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-646), which creates
certain rights and entitlements for property owners and tenants who are
displaced by the acquisition of their homes or businesses for federally funded
programs or projects, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and

S. 35, to establish a Commission on More Effective Government, with the
declared objective of improving the quality of government in the United States
and of restoring public confidence in government at all levels, with an
amendment.

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 121, to
establish a U.S. Department of Trade as an executive department of the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from William E. Brock, U.S. Trade
Representative, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Malcolm Bladrige,
Secretary of Commerce; and Richard E. Lyng, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

COMMEMORATIVE RESOLUTIONS/NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee approved for reporting the following
business items:

S.J. Res. 20, designating March 27, 1983, as "National Recovery Room Nurses
Day";

S.J. Res. 32, designating May 1983, as "National Arthritis Month";

S.J. Res. 35, designating the week beginning March 20, 1983, as "National
Mental Health Counselors Week";

S.J. Res. 38, declaring March 18, 1983, as "National Energy Education Day";

S.J. Res. 44, designating the week beginning on March 11, 1984, as "National
Surveyors Week";

S.J. Res. 49, proclaiming the week of April 10-16, 1983, as "A Week of
Remembrance for the Fortieth Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising";

S.J. Res. 52, designating the week of April 10-16, 1983, as "National Mental
Health Week";

S.J. Res. 53, designating the month of May 1983 as "National Physical Fitness
and Sports Month";

S.J. Res. 57, designating the week of April 3-9, 1983 as "National Drug Abuse
Education Week"; and

The nomination of John P. Volz, to be U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District
of Louisiana.

COLLEGIATE STUDENT-ATHLETIC PROTECTION

Commission on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 610, to encourage
college student-athletes to complete their undergraduate education before
becoming professional athletes, receiving testimony from Joe Paterno,
Pennsylvania State University, University. Park, representing the College
Football Association; Glenn E. Schembechler, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, representing the American Football Coaches Association; Ed Garvey, and
Mark Murphy, both of the Naitnoal Footbal League Players Association,
Washington, D.C.; Charles Grantham, National Basketball Players Association,
and Steven E. Ehrhart, United States Football League, both of New York City;
John L. Toner, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Willie Young, Canadian
Football League, Toronto, Ontario; Robert H. Ruxin, "An Athlete's Guide to
Agents," Washington, D.C.; and Robert Auler, Urbana, Illinois.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NIH

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
773, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986 for health programs
administered by the National Institutes of Health, after receiving testimony
from Edward M. Brandt, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for
Health, James Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health, Vincent
DeVita, Director, National Cancer Institute, Claude L'Enfant, Director,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Lester Salans, Director, National
Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, and Martin
Cummings, Director, National Library of Medicine, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services; Samuel Fox III, American College of Cardiology,
Bethesda, Maryland; Ephraim Engleman, Arthritis Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia;
Timothy Talbot, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and John
Dixon, representing the National Digestive Diseases Advisory Board, and Chase
Peterson, representing the Association of American Universities/American
Council of Education/National Association of State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges, both of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget concluded closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the intelligence community, after receiving testimony from certain
intelligence officials.

ENERGY AND THE AGED

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the impact on
the elderly of natural gas deregulation, receiving testimony from Donald P.
Hodel, Secretary of Energy; Susan M. Shanaman, Pennsylvania Public Utility
Commission, Harrisburg; George H. Lawrence, American Gas Association,
Arlington, Virginia; and Ed Rothschild, The Citizens Labor Energy Coalition,
Vita Ostrander, American Association pf Retired Persons, and Joseph Rourke,
National Council of Senior Citizens, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

Joint Meeting

VETERANS' PROGRAMS

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs and House Committee on
Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings to receive legislative
recommendations on veterans' programs, after receiving testimony from Robert
Martin, Morgan S. Ruph, A. Leo Anderson, and Peter Currier, all of AMVETS,
Ellsworth L. Sharpe and George E. Stocking, both of the Blinded Veterans
Association, Stanley N. Zwaik and Harris B. Stone, both of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of America, and John F. Wanamaker, The Retired
Officers Association, all of Washington, D.C.



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

Committee Meetings

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
military programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in closed
session on U.S./Soviet strategic forces from General Bennie Davis, USAF,
Commander-in-Chief, and Lt. Colonel Marvin Sagar, USA, Colonel Joseph Bester,
USAF, and Captain Richard Webber USAF, all of the Joint Strategic Target
Planning Staff, all of the Strategic Air Command; and in open and closed
session on strategic command, control and communication from Donald C. Latham,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Communications, Command, Control and
Intelligence, Vice Admiral Gordon R. Nagler, Director, Command and Control,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Rear Admiral Paul D. Tomb, Director,
Space Systems and Command, Control, and Communications, and Deputy Chief of
Air Force Staff for Research Development and Acquisition.

Subcommittee will meet again Monday, March 21.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
the Federal Trade Commission, after receiving testimony from David S.
Versfelt, Donovan, Leisure, Newton and Irvine, New York City, on behalf of the
American Association of Advertising Agencies; Gilbert H. Weil, on behalf of
the Association of National Advertisers, New York City; William W. Rogal, on
behalf of the American Advertising Federation, David I. Greenberg, on behalf
of the Consumer Federation of America, Bert W. Rein, Kirkland and Ellis, on
behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, James R. Amschler, on
behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, Jared 0. Blum, on behalf
of the Small Business Legislative Council, and Mark Silbergeld, Consumers
Union, all of Washington, D.C.

GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure concluded oversight hearings on the need to provide indemnification
to Government contractors against the risks of catastrophic accidents and
non-catastrophic accidents for which the Government is primarily responsible,
after receiving testimony from S. Neil Hosenball, General Counsel, Robert J.
Wojtal, Chairman, Interagency Task Force on Indemnification, both of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; David W. Bowman, Harris
Corporation, Melbourne, Florida; and John M. Geaghan, National Security
Industrial Association, and Fred S. Souk, Crowell and Moring, both of
Washington, D.C.

SACCHARIN STUDY AND ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
following bills:

S. 89, to extend the period during which the Secretary of Health and Human
Services may not take certain actions to restrict the continued use of
saccharin; and

S. 126, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for alcohol and drug abuse
research programs, with an amendment.

AUTHORIZATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for health programs
administered by the National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from
Edward A. Knapp, Director, and Lewis M. Branscomb, Chairman, National Science
Board, both of the National Science Foundation; James J. Brophy, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City; Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington; Lattie
Coor, University of Vermont, Burlington; Elias Blake, Clark College, Atlanta,
Georgia; and Shirley M. Malcom, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, and George Littleton, Howard University, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Monday, April 18.

Joint Meeting

ROBOTICS/EMPLOYMENT IMPACT

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy concluded hearings to examine the impact on the unemployment situation
of the use of robots in the workplace, after receiving testimony from John
Andelin, Assistant Director, Office of Technology Assessment; and Robert
Ayres, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.



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

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--EDUCATION

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 Education, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the National Institute of Education,
education research and statistics, and libraries from Donald J. Senese,
Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement; and for
bilingual education programs from Jesse M. Sorjano, Director, Office of
Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, both of whom were
accompanied by Sally Christenson, Director, Office of Budget Services, all of
the Department of Education.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

MILITARY JUSTICE ACT

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel approved
for full committee consideration an original bill to revise the U.S. Code of
Military Justice.

Full committee will consider the aforementioned original bill on tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare held closed
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on Air Force
tactical programs from Lt. General Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of Air
Force Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition; Major General William
A. Gorton, USAF, Director of Operational Requirements; Major General James H.
Marshall, USAF, Director of Development and Production; and Brig. General
James A. Baker, USAF, Deputy Director, of Operations.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held open/closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony
on sea-based deterrent from Rear Admiral W. J. Holland, Jr., Director,
Strategic and Theater Nuclear Warfare Division, and Rear Admiral Frank B.
Kelso, Director, Strategic Submarine Division, both of the Office of the Chief
of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Glen Clark, U.S.N., Director, Strategic
Systems Project Office; and Rear Admiral S. J. Hostettler, U.S.N., Director,
Joint Cruise Missile Project Office.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 23.

DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 855 authorizing a five-year extension of titles I and III of the Defense
Production Act to facilitate the production of goods and services necessary
for national defense, after receiving testimony from J. Dexter Peach,
Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Lawrence Brady, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade
Administration; Paul K. Krueger, Assistant Associate Director for Resources
Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and Richard Donnelly,
Director, Industrial Resources, Office of Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Engineering.

AUTHORIZATIONS--ENERGY

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on the President's budget request for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Energy's fossil energy program,
receiving testimony from Jan W. Mares, Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Fossil Energy; and William F. Willis, General Manager, Tennessee Valley
Authority, Knoxville, Tennessee.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21.

WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources
concluded hearings on S. 684, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1988 for
water resources research programs, after receiving testimony from Thomas Bahr,
Director, Office of Water Policy, Department of the Interior; David Allee,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, on behalf of the University Council on
Water Resources Research; Neil Cline, Orange County, California, Water
District, Santa Ana, representing the Water Supply Improvement Association;
Russell C. McGregor, National Association of Universities and Land Grant
Colleges, Washington, D.C.; and Robert C. Steifel, Ohio State University,
Columbus, on behalf of the National Association of Water Institute Directors.

REVENUE SHARING EXTENSION

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Employment, and Revenue
Sharing concluded hearings on S. 41, to extend the revenue sharing program for
local governments through fiscal year 1986, and S. 525, to require that
installment payments of I revenue sharing allocations be paid at the beginning
of each quarter, and related proposals, including S. 700, S. 735, and S.762,
after receiving testimony from Senator Durenberger; Baltasar Corrada, Resident
Commissioner of Puerto Rico; Earl M. Baker, Chester County Commission, West
Chester, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Association of Counties;
Barton Russell, National Association of Towns and Townships, Washington, D.C.;
Mayor William J. Althaus, York, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the United States
Conference of Mayors; and Richard Guthman, Jr., Atlanta City Council, Atlanta,
Georgia, on behalf of the National League of Cities.

UNFAIR FOREIGN COMPETITION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 127 and S. 418,
bills providing economic relief to American industries and companies injured
by foreign products being dumped or sold on the American market at less than
fair value, receiving testimony from Representative Erdreich; William F.
Baxter, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice;
Tom Graham, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; T.
E. Dobbs, Jr., Jim Walter Resources, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama; and Richard
Cunningham, Steptoe & Johnson, Howard W. Fogt, Jr., Foley, Lardner, Hollabaugh
& Jacobs, Joel Davidow, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon, and Ilona M.
Hogan, Alliance of Metal Working Industries/Metal Working Fair Trade
Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
resumed 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 Gary Bauer, Deputy Under Secretary of Education for
Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, George Conn, Acting Assistant Secretary,
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Carol Cichowski,
Director, Division of Rehabilitation, Civil Rights, and Research Analysis, and
Ed Sontag, Director, Special Education Programs, all of the Department of
Education; Richard Verville, American Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, and Harry Hall, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, both of
Washington, D.C.; D. Kenneth Reagles, National Council on Rehabilitation
Education, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; Martin Adler, Helen Keller
National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, Sands Point, New York; Alan
Hofmeister, Utah State University, Logan; and Winfield McChord, American
School for the Deaf, West Hartford, Connecticut.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 23.

PRIVATE PENSIONS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held oversight
hearings on the current health and future prospects for defined benefit
pension plans, receiving testimony from Dallas L. Salisbury, Employee Benefit
Research Institute, Washington, D.C.; Richard R. Speis, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey; Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut; Donald J. Kirk, Financial Accounting Standards Board, Stamford,
Connecticut; Daniel F. McGinn Dan McGinn & Associates, Anaheim, California;
Howard W. Ryder, Coastal Tank Lines, Akron, Ohio, representing the American
Trucking Associations, Inc., and Paul G. Bell, P. G. Bell Co., Houston, Texas,
representing the Associated General Contractors of America.

Hearings on continue on Thursday, April 7.

Joint Meetings

GNP

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the first quarter Gross
National Product estimates and the economic outlook for 1983, receiving
testimony from Robert G. Dederick, Undersecretary of Commerce for Economic
Affairs.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EMERGENCY JOBS APPROPRIATIONS

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1718, appropriating funds to provide
for emergency expenditures to meet neglected urgent needs, and to provide
supplemental funds for advances to the unemployment trust fund for fiscal year
1983.



1983/03/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 22, 1983; pages D179 - D186 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 fo the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from William G. Lesher, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Economics, John E. Lee, Jr., Administrator,
Economic Research Service, WilLiam E. Kibler, Administrator, Statistical
Reporting Service, William H. Walther, Deputy Administrator and Chairman, Crop
Reporting Board, J. Dawson Ahalt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
for Economics, James R. Donald, Chairman, and Norton Strommen, Chief
Meteorologist, both of the World Agricultural Outlook Board, all of the
Department of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 24.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on the Administration's reprogramming request for El Salvador, receiving
testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1983, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Bureau of Land Management, Department of
the Interior, from Garry E. Carruthers, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Land and Water Resources, and Robert F. Burford, Director, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--FEDERAL AGENCIES/BOARDS/COMMISSIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Kay McMurray, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service; William A. Lubbers, General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board;
Robert 0. Harris, Chairman, National Mediation Board; Robert A. Rowland,
Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; and Rosemary M.
Collyer, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 4.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on
Navy/Marine Corps Military Construction and Family Housing Programs from Rear
Admiral William M. Zobel, Commander Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and
Brig. General L. H. Buehl,III, Chief, Facilities and Services Division,
Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

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
Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation; and Donald A. Derman, Assistant Secretary of Transportation
for Budget and Programs.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY/IRS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of the Secretary
of the Treasury, Office of International Affairs, Bureau of Government
Financial Operations, Bureau of the Public Debt, and Bureau of the Mint from
Cora P. Beebe, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Administration; and in
behalf of funds for the Internal Revenue Service from Roscoe L. Egger, Jr.,
Commissioner, IRS.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 7.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:

S. 653, to establish the Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

An original bill (S. 974) to revise the U.S. Code of Military Justice;

The nomination of Joseph H. Sherick, of Virginia, to be Inspector General,
Department of Defense; and

2,257 routine nominations in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Sherick, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
resumed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
military programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on Navy
shipbuilding programs form George A. Sawyer, Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Vice Admiral Robert L. Walters, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare; and Vice Admiral Earl B. Fowler,
Commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed. Services: Subcommittee on Tactical Warfare continued
closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on Air Force
tactical programs for Lt. General Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of Air
Force Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition; Maj. General William A.
Gorton, USAF, Director of Operational Requirements; Maj. General James H.
Marshall, USAF, Director of Development and Production; Brig. General James A.
Baker USAF, Deputy Director of Operations, and Maj. General Perry M. Smith,
USAF, Director of Plans.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on S. 869, authorizing funds through
fiscal year 1989 for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, receiving
testimony from Senator Exon; William H. Draper III, Chairman, Export-Import
Bank of the United States; William H. Morris, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Development; William Krist, Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative for Industrial and Energy Policy; and Marc LeLand, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.

Hearings continue Thursday, March 24.

SEC'S INVESTIGATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded oversight hearings on an investigation conducted by the Securities
and Exchange Commission into the purchase of Amax, Inc. stock prior to its
merger with Standard Oil of California (SOCAL) by a named individual, after
receiving testimony from John S. R. Shad, Chairman, and John R. Evans, Barbara
S. Thomas, and Bevis Longstreth, all Commissioners, and John M. Fedders,
Director, Division of Enforcement, all of the Securities and Exchange
Commission.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) S. 861, authorizing $35 million for each of fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for
the Consumer Product Safety Commission;

(2) An original bill authorizing $22.6 million for fiscal year 1984, $24.5
million for fiscal year 1985, and $26.1 million for fiscal year 1986 for the
National Transportation Safety Board;

(3) S. 808, authorizing $5 million for the Technical Information Clearinghouse
Fund;

(4) S. 809, authorizing $114,720,000 for fiscal year 1984, and $15,500,000 for
fiscal year 1985 for the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Fire
Academy;

(5) S. 821, authorizing $114,800,000 for fiscal year 1984 for the National
Bureau of Standards, and $4,752,000 for activities of the Office of
Productivity, Technology and Innovation, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;

(6) An original bill (S. 1024) authorizing $1,292,300 for fiscal year 1984 for
the National Science Foundation;

(7) S. 820, authorizing $60,975,000 for fiscal year 1984, $65,700,000 for
fiscal year 1985, and $70,700,000 for fiscal year 1986, for research,
earthquake engineering, prediction, mitigation efforts to minimize losses, and
assistance to State and local governments for earthquake response planning;

(8) S. 607, authorizing $86.4 million for each of fiscal years 1984 and 1985
for the Federal Communications Commission, with an amendment;

(9) S. 46, to revise title 46 of the U.S. Code relating to marine safety and
seamen's welfare, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

(10) The nominations of Conrad M. Fredin, of Minnesota, to be a Member of the
Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, and
Terrence M. Scanlon, of the District of Columbia, to be a Commissioner of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission; and

(11) Routine lists of U.S. Coast Guard nominations dated January 25, 1983,
February 16, 1983, and March 9, 1983.

Also, the committee began consideration of 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, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings op S.
615, providing for a free market to establishing term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, and related
measures, including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S. 293, S. 370, and S. 689, after
receiving testimony from Paul Biderman, New Mexico Department of Energy and
Minerals, and George Yates, New Mexico Independent Petroleum Association, both
of Santa Fe; Michael H. Lambert, Gas Company of New Mexico, Dallas, Texas; A.
M. Derrick, El Paso Natural Gas Company, El Paso, Texas; William L. Fisher,
University, of Texas, Austin; and G. Henry M. Schuler, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

S. Res. 75, to reestablish fair-market conditions and lower prices for
imported natural gas; and 

The nominations of Hershey Gold, of California, to be a Member of the U.S.
Advisory Commission of Public Diplomacy, Carlos Salman, of Florida, to be a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation, and Allen C. Davis, of Tennessee, to be Ambassador to Uganda.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the
Administration's reprograming request for El Salvador, receiving testimony
from Senators Symms and Hawkins; and James H. Michel, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
measures:

An original bill (S. 1013) to provide for the restructuring of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Courts, and authorizing the appointment of additional bankruptcy
judges and district and circuit court judgeships, in lieu of S. 443 and S. 54;
and S. 792;

S.J. Res. 31, to designate April 23, 1983, as "Army Reserve Day";

S.J. Res. 36, to designate April 29, 1983, as "National Nursing Home Residents
Day";

S.J. Res. 58, to designate May 25, 1983, as "Missing Children's Day";

S.J. Res. 11, to designate the week of June 26, 1983, through July 2, 1983, as
"National Safety in the Workplace Week"; and

S.J. Res. 43, to designate June 14, 1983, as "Baltic Freedom Day".

BROKEN FAMILY

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services began oversight hearings on the breakdown of the traditional family
unit, focusing on the effects of divorce, separation and conflict within
marriage on children, receiving testimony from Alabama Circuit Court Judge Joe
G. Barnard, Birmingham; George Gallup, Jr., Gallup Poll, Princeton, New
Jersey; Amitai Etzioni, George Washington University, Dorothy Rich, The Home
and School Institute, Inc., and Nicholis Zill, Child Trends, Inc., all of
Washington, D.C.; Peter D. Wallace, Iowa City, Iowa, on behalf of the American
Academy of Pediatrics; Armand M. Nicholi, Jr., Massachusetts General Hospital,
Cambridge; Judith S. Wallerstein, Center for the Family in Transition, Corte
Madera, California; and George A. Rekers, Kansas State University, Manhattan,
Kansas.

Hearings continue Thursday, March 24.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/03/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 23, 1983; pages D186 - D194 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FmHA LOAN PROGRAMS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification concluded hearings on proposals
to provide emergency credit assistance to farmers, including S. 99, S. 124
(Title IV) and S. 130, and on S. 765 and S. 857, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1984, 1985, and 1986 for insured and guaranteed loans of the farmers
Home Administration, after receiving testimony from Frank Naylor, Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; Donald
Wilkinson, Governor, Farm Credit Administration; Alan R. Tubbs, First Central
State Bank, DeWitt, Iowa, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; John
S. Barr III, on behalf of the National Cotton Council, Memphis, Tennessee; and
Mary Kay Thatcher, American Farm Bureau Federation, James Miller, The National
Grange, Robert Doyle, John Hall, and Bruce Workman, all of the Water Quality
Association, and Norman DeWeaver, Rural Water/Sewer Program Reform, all of
Washington, D.C.

APPROPRIATIONS--D.0.J.

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from William French Smith, Attorney
General, Edward C. Schmults, Deputy Attorney General, William Tyson, Director,
Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration
and Naturalization Service, and Robert Diegelman, Assistant Director, Office
of Justice Assistance, Research, and Statistics, all of the Department of
Justice.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for certain energy
and water development projects, receiving testimony from Senators DeConcini,
Heflin, and Demon; Arizona Governor Bruce Babbit, Phoenix; Mississippi
Governor William F. Winter, Jackson; Alabama Lt. Governor William Baxley
Montgomery; Mayor Lewis Murphy, Tucson, Arizona; and numerous public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE DEVELOPMENT CORP/SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Henry A.
Berliner, Jr., Chairman, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; and S.
Dillon Ripley, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION/ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY

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
William R. Gianelli, Chairman, and Dennis P. McAuliffe, Administrator, both of
the Panama Canal Commission; and William H. Kennedy, Acting Administrator, St.
Lawrence Development Corporation.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 31.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
continued open and closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on the
U.S. Central Command and U.S. Readiness Command, receiving testimony from Lt.
General Robert C. Kingston, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command;
Rear Admiral Charles B. Hunter, USN, Chief of Staff, U.S. Readiness Command;
Maj. General James I. Baginski, USAF, Director, Deployment Directorate, Joint
Deployment Agency; James R. Blaker, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Policy Analysis; and Brig. General William E. Klein, USA, Assistant Deputy
Director for Force Development and Strategic Plans, Organization of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on defense civilian manpower
requirements and the commercial activities program, receiving testimony from
Jerry Calhoun, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel
Policy and Requirements; Maj. General Keith McCartney, USAF, Director of
Manpower and Organization; Harry West, Deputy Director, Army Manpower Programs
& Budget; H. Lee Dixson, Director, Civilian Manpower Division, Office of the
Navy Comptroller; Captain John Kinert, USN, Commanding Officer, Submarine
Base, Bangor, Washington; and Lt. Colonel John C. Bush, USA, Contract
Administrator for Support Services Contract, Fort Gordon, Georgia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held open/closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on strategic
defense, receiving testimony from Louis 0. Guiffrida, Director, and Bernard A.
Maguire, Assistant Director, National Preparedness Programs, both of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency; General Richard Giles Stilwell, USA
(Ret.), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; John L. Gardner,
Director, Defensive Systems; Maj. General Grayson D. Tate, USA, Program
Manager, Ballistic Missile Defense Program; Maj. General Donald L. Lamberson,
USAF, Director, Directed Energy Program Coordinator; and Maj. General Bruce K.
Brown, USAF, Vice Commander-in-Chief, North American Aerospace Defense
Command.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

RURAL HOUSING--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Rural
Housing and Development held hearings on S. 761, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1984 through 1988 for housing needs of lower-income rural Americans,
receiving testimony from Charles Shuman, Administrator, Department of
Agriculture; Nancy Gordon, Assistant Director for Human Resources and
Community Development, Congressional Budget Office: Harold 0. Wilson, Housing
Assistance Council Inc., William Whiteside, Neighborhood Reinvestment, Inc.,
and Thomas R. Runquist, Council for Rural Housing and Development, all of
Washington, D.C.; Shirley Dennis, Pennsylvania Department of Community
Affairs, Harrisburg, representing the Council of State Community Affairs
Agencies; Harriet Macklin, Atlanta, Georgia, representing the National Rural
Housing Coalition; Jerry C. Connors, Manufactured Housing Institute,
Arlington, Virginia; and Ernest R. Coleman, Fort Smith, Arkansas, representing
National Association of Homebuilders.

Also, the subcommittee held oversight hearings on certain Indian housing
programs, receiving testimony from Dana R. Norris, Sr., Gila River Indian
Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Rex Evans and Leonard Garrow, both of the United
South & Eastern Tribes, Nashville; Tennessee; Mel Tonasket and Norris
Palmanteer, both of the Colville Tribe, Nespelem, Washington; and Nathan H.
Young III, National American Indian Housing Council, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) S. 589, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for capital improvement
projects on Guam, with amendments;

(2) S. 64, designating the Irish Wilderness in the Mark Twain National Forest
in Missouri as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and

(3) S. 543, designating certain lands in Wyoming as wilderness areas, with
amendments.

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 267, to facilitate the
development of interstate coal pipeline distribution systems, by granting the
Federal power of eminent domain to those interstate pipelines which are
determined to be in the national interest, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.

DOD MANAGEMENT

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
management policies of the Department of Defense, focusing on cost overruns in
major weapons systems, receiving testimony from W. Paul Thayer, Deputy
Secretary of Defense; Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for
Research, Development, and Evaluation; Joseph Sherick, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Oversight and Evaluation; Walton H. Sheley, Jr., Director, Mission
Analysis & Systems Acquisition Division, and Robert Gilroy, Senior Associate
Director, Procurement, Logistics, and Readiness Division, both of the General
Accounting Office; and George W. S. Kuhn, The Heritage Foundation, Washington,
D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EL SALVADOR

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of the
Administration's proposed reprogramming request for El Salvador, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATORS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to further
consider the disposition of a memorandum relating to U.S. strategic arms
negotiators, and agreed to make public the memorandum with names deleted.
Prior to this action, the committee heard from George P. Shultz, Secretary of
State.

HOBBS ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Separation of Powers held hearings
on S. 462, to clarify certain provisions of the Hobbs Act relating to Federal
jurisdiction over labor extortion matters, receiving testimony from Senator
Grassley; Thomas R. Haggard, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Reed
Larson, National Right to Work Committee, Michael Avakian, Center on National
Labor Policy, and Robert Gore, the National Right to Work Legal Defense
Foundation, all of Springfield, Virginia; Claude Prater and Mark Pirkle, both
of Comanche, Texas; and William H. Hinote, Port Neches, Texas.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for special
education programs for the handicapped, receiving testimony from Robert
Lauritsen, St. Paul Technical Vocational Institute, St. Paul, Minnesota; G.
Thomas Bellamy, University of Oregon, Eugene; Frederick J. Weintraub, Council
for Exceptional Children, Reston, Virginia; James Gallagher, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Dennis E. Hanley, Mountain Plains Regional
Center, Denver, Colorado; Wayne Sailor, San Francisco State University, San
Francisco, California, on behalf of the Association for Severely Handicapped;
Katherine Butler, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York; and Robert Black,
South Carolina Department of Education, Columbia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

VA--JUDICIAL REVIEW/MEDICAL FACILITIES

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 636, to
provide for judicial review of certain administrative decisions of the
Veterans' Administration, to codify certain VA adjudication procedures, to
improve VA's appeals process, to require the VA to comply with certain
rulemaking procedures, and to provide for reasonable fees to attorneys serving
as legal counsel for veterans, after receiving testimony form John P. Murphy,
General Counsel, Kenneth E. Eaton, Chairman, Board of Veterans' Appeals, and
Max R. Woodall, Director, Compensation and Pension Service, all of the
Veterans' Administration; and Frederick Davis, University of Dayton, Dayton,
Ohio, on behalf of the American Bass Association.

Also, the committee concluded hearings to review the Veterans' Administration
medical facility construction process and on specific facility construction
process and on specific facility prospectuses, after receiving testimony from
William F. Sullivan, Associate Deputy Administrator for Logistics, William J.
Jacoby, Jr., Deputy Chief Medical Director, and William A. Salmond, Associate
Deputy Director for Construction, all of the Veterans' Administration; and O.
David West, Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/03/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 24, 1983; pages D194 - D201 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony on behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Wilmer D. Mizell, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Governmental and Public Affairs, A. James Barnes,
General Counsel, John V. Graziano, Inspector General, and John J. Franke, Jr.,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration, all of the
Department of Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 5.

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGAL SERVICES/USIA/EEOC

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Donald P. Bogard, President, Legal Services Corporation;
Charles Z. Wick, Director, United States Information Agency; and Clarence
Thomas, Chairman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 7.

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
energy and water development projects, receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 5.

APPROPRIATIONS--SCIENCE-TECH POLICY/ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

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 Policy; and A. Alan Hill,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 7.

APPROPRIATIONS--DOE-ENERGY CONSERVATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for energy conservation programs from Joseph J.
Tribble, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 5.

AUTHORIZATIONS DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
continued hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on airlift programs,
receiving testimony from General James R. Allen, USAF, Commander-in-Chief,
Military Airlift Command; and Lt. General Lawrence A. Skantze, Deputy Chief of
Air Force Staff, Research, Development, and Acquisition.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on International
Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on S. 869, authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Export-Import Bank of the United
States, after receiving testimony from James MacMillan, McDonnell Douglas
Finance Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri, Leonard Ricks, Council of Engineers
and Scientists Organization, Westminister, California, both representing the
Coalition for Employment through Exports; William A. Coates, Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, representing the National
Foreign Trade Council; Howard Samuel, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., and Clyde
Folley, Ingersoll Rand Co., Woodcliff, New Jersey; both representing the Labor
Industry Coalition for International Trade; William Faulkner, American Hoist
and Derrick Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, representing the American League for
Export and Security Assistance; Stephen Sohn, United Technologies Credit
Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut, and Ava Feiner, Washington, D.C., both
representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and William D. Trammell, Fluor
Corporation, Irvine, California, representing the National Constructors
Association; and Robert Vaughan, Conair, Inc., Franklin, Pennsylvania,
representing the Soriety of the Plastics Industry.

WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings of S. 448, to authorize the rehabilitation of the Belle
Fourche Irrigation project in South Dakota, after receiving testimony from
Senators Pressler and Abdnor; Representative Daschle; Robert N. Broad. bent,
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Warren R.
Neufeld, South Dakota Secretary of Water and Natural Resources, Pierre; Robert
L. Donaldson, Harold Skjoldal, and Jim Casey, all of the Belle Fourche
Irrigation District, Newell, South Dakota; and Ed Osann, National Wildlife
Federation, and J. W. O'Meara, National Water Resources Association, both of
Washington, D.C.

Also, the subcommittee concluded hearings on S. 268, to authorize additional
hydroelectric generating facilities at existing Bureau of Reclamation projects
located in California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada, and S. 672 and S.
739, bills to authorize additional funds for dam safety work and allow for the
replacement of dams, after receiving testimony from Messrs. Broadbent, Osann,
and O'Meara.

AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS--ECONOMIC SUPPORT FUND

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 822,
the Agricultural Export Equity and Market Expansion Act, with an amendment to
Section 404, to direct the President to use at least 20 percent of the funds
appropriated to the Economic Support Fund for the purchase of U.S.
agricultural commodities.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DOJ

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of
Justice, after receiving testimony from William French Smith, Attorney
General, Department of Justice.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution approved for full
committee consideration the following measures:

S.J. Res. 3, to establish legislative authority in Congress and the States
with respect to abortion, with an amendment; and

S. 215, to authorize a judicial officer to consider the safety of any person
or the community when making a pretrial release determination, and to
authorize pretrial detention in accordance with prescribed procedures.

Also, the subcommittee reconsidered its action of March 7, 1983, when it
approved for full committee consideration S. 118, to establish a commission to
plan and develop a celebration for the Bicentennial of the United States
Constitution, and today approved for full committee consideration the bill,
with an amendment.

BROKEN FAMILY

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services resumed oversight hearings on the breakdown of the traditional family
unit, focusing on the effects of divorce, separation and conflict within
marriage on women and men, receiving testimony from Representative Biaggi;
Bruce Chapman, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Greg J.
Duncan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Harriette McAdoo, Howard
University, Washington, D.C.; Reverend George W. Hall, Jr., Truro Episcopal
Church, Fairfax, Virginia; Connie Mallen, Novi, Michigan, on behalf of Parents
Without Partners International; Harold M. Voth, Veterans Administration
Medical Center, Topeka, Kansas; Richard Wilmarth, American Mental Health
Counselors Association, Opelika, Alabama; and Arthur Kornhaber, Foundation for
Grandparenting, Mt. Kisko, New York.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

SBA's MINORITY BUSINESS PROGRAM

Committee on Small Business: Committee held oversight hearings on the SBA's
8(a) program, to provide access to sole source government contracts, business
development expense, advance payments, and management and technical
assistance, receiving testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce;
James C. Sanders, Administrator, Small Business Administration; John Shepherd,
Dale Maintenance Systems, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; and William Hales, The
Hartford Inquirer, Hartford, Connecticut.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTELLIGENCE

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

Joint Meeting

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1900, to implement the consensus
recommendations of the National Commission of Social Security Reform.



1983/04/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 5, 1983; pages D201 - D207 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony on behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Mary C. Jarratt, Assistant
Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, and Robert E. Leard, Acting
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service, and Isabel Wolf, Acting
Administrator, Human Nutrition Information Service.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 7.

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy
and water development projects, receiving testimony from Senator Garn; Mayor
Leo Rooff, Waterloo, Iowa; and numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING/INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Daniel N.
Miller, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and Minerals, and
James R. Harris, Director, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the
Interior; and Lilla Tower, Director, Institute of Museum Services.

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, April 7.

APPROPRIATIONS--H.H.S.

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 Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

FEDERAL FINANCING BANK

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal
Credit Programs concluded oversight hearings to discuss the operations of and
budgeting for the Federal Financing Bank (FFB) and congressional control of
Federal credit programs, and related proposals, including S. 711, after
receiving testimony from Senator Gorton; Representative Gradison; Roger W,
Mehle, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Alice M.
Rivlin, Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Harry S. Havens, Assistant
Comptroller General for Program Evaluation, General Accounting Office.

REVENUE SHARING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
held oversight hearings on the implementation and extension of the General
Revenue Sharing Act (P.L. 92-512), receiving testimony from Arthur R.
Goldbeck, Associate Director, and Jerry Fastrop, Economist, both of the
General Government Division, and Charles Vehorn , Economist, Program Analysis
Division, all of the General Accounting Office; Vermont Governor Richard
Snelling, Montpelier, on behalf of the National Governors' Association;
Richard Nathan, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and Edward
Gramlich, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

UMBRELLA CONTRACTING

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on proposed revision of
Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, declaring government policy to
rely upon the private sector for commercial goods and services, focusing on
multi-function or umbrella contracting which would require a certain
percentage of all commercial activities contracted out by each agency packaged
in smaller contracts and set-aside for small business firms, receiving
testimony from Donald E. Sowle, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement
Policy, and Curt Nolland, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy
Development, both of the Office of Management and Budget; John C. Rennie,
Pacer Systems, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Small
Business Association of New England; Stephen Denlinger, Latin American
Manufacturing Association, and William D. Russell, Business Alliance of
Government Competition, both of Washington, D.C.; and Ernett Altheimer,
Sphere, Inc., Federal Way, Washington.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Budget Authorization
approved for full committee consideration proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the intelligence community.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 6, 1983; pages D208 - D213 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF LOW-INCOME AMERICANS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
concluded oversight hearings to evaluate the nutritional level of low-income
Americans, after receiving testimony from Senator Danforth; John Bode, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Michael
McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health,
Disease Prevention and Health Planning; Mayor Harry Kinney, Albuquerque, New
Mexico; Larry Brown, Harvard School of Public Health, Hamish Munro, Tufts
University, and Milton Kotelchuck, Harvard Medical School, all of Boston,
Massachusetts; Charles E. Butterworth, University of Alabama, Birmingham;
David Rush, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City; Margaret
Bogle, University of Arkansas School of Medicine, Little Rock; George Graham,
Johns Hopkins University, and Sister Josanna Abromaitis, Our Daily Bread Soup
Kitchen, both of Baltimore, Maryland; Barry Popkin, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill; C. Richard Blount, Missouri Division of Health,
Jefferson City; Father William Cunningham, Focus Hope, Detroit, Michigan; Judy
Frick, Childwatch Project, Wichita, Kansas; and Bishop Joseph Sullivan,
National Conference of Catholic Charities, and Bob Greenstein, Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, both of Washington, D.C.

APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for energy
and water development projects, receiving testimony from Senators Johnston,
Long, Bentsen, Tower, and Pryor; Representative Brooks; and numerous public
witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--H.H.S.

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony from Robert Graham, Administrator, Health Resources and
Services Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed hearings on
S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military programs of the
Department of Defense, focusing on readiness policy, receiving testimony from
Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs
and Logistics; Charles W. Groover, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
MRA&L Program Integration; and L. Paul Dube, Director, Operations Directorate,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller).

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
resumed open and closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on research
weapons, and anti-surface warfare programs, receiving testimony from Melvyn R.
Paisley, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and
Systems; Vice Admiral Robert R. Monroe, Director, Navy Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation; Vice Admiral R. F. Schoultz, Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations for Air Warfare; Rear Admiral J. W. Nyquist, USN, Director, Surface
Combat Systems; Brigadier General E. B. Russell, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps
Staff for Research, Development, and Systems; and Gerald Cann, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

DOMESTIC FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the current state of and competition within the financial
services industry, focusing on the extent of the separation of commercial
banking and investment banking, the separation of commerce and finance as
contained in the Bank Holding Company Act, and the limitations on geographic
expansion of financial institutions, receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan,
Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

PRODUCT LIABILITY ACT

Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Subcommittee on the
Consumer held hearings on S. 44, to provide for a uniform product liability
law within interstate commerce, receiving testimony from Victor E. Schwartz,
Product Liability Alliance, David I. Greenberg, Consumer Federation of
America, Ernest Y. Sevier, American Bar Association, and Joseph A. Page,
Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; W. Page Keeton,
University of Texas, Austin; James B. Sales, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston,
Texas; Albert E. Jenner, Jenner & Block, and Patrick J. Head, FMC Corporation,
both of Chicago, Illinois; Monty Preiser, West Virginia Trial Lawyers
Association, Charleston; Earl F. Morris, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur,
Columbus, Ohio; Carl D. Liggio, American Corporate Counsel Association, and
William D. Ford, Coalition for Uniform Product Liability Law, both of New York
City; and Ivan Brand, Vermeer Manufacturing Co., Pella, Iowa.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 27.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, and related
measures, including S. 60, S. 239, S. 291, S. 293, S. 370, and S. 689, after
receiving further testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy; and C.
M. Butler III, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

CLEAN WATER ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution held hearings on S. 431, authorizing funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, through fiscal year 1987 for clean water programs, and S.
432, extending the 1984 compliance date for certain requirements of the Clean
Water Act, receiving testimony from Senator Proxmire; Representative
Sensenbrenner; Russell Peterson, National Audubon Society, Anthony Roisman,
Roisman, Reno and Cavanaugh, and Ken Kamlet, National Wildlife Federation, all
of Washington, D.C.; Harold Jensen, Warner-Lambert Company, Morris Plains, New
Jersey; George C. Freeman, Jr., Hunton and Williams, Richmond, Virginia;
Richard Cutler, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Robert Abrams, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor; and Jon L. Olson, Rockford, Illinois.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INF/START NEGOTIATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive
briefings on the status of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Talks (INF)
negotiations from Ambassador Paul H. Nitze, U.S. Representative to the INF
negotiations, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Rear Admiral
Jonathan Howe, Director, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of
State; and on the status of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)
negotiations from Ambassador Edward L. Rowny, Chief, U.S. START Negotiator,
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Rear Admiral Howe.

REVENUE SHARING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded oversight hearings on the implementation and extension of the
General Revenue Sharing Act (P.L. 92-512), after receiving testimony from
Representative Horton, on behalf of the Northeast-Midwest Congressional
Coalition; John Shannon, Assistant Director for Taxation and Finance, and
Albert J. Davis, Senior Analyst, both of the Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations; Mayor John P. Rousakis, Savannah, Georgia, on
behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Bob Honts, Travis County, Texas, on
behalf of the Texas State Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations;
Robert Orth, Ramsey County, Minnesota, Board of Commissioners, on behalf of
the National Association of Counties; George Miller, National Association of
Towns and Townships, Washington, D.C.; Chris Lindley, Rochester, New York, on
behalf of the National League of Cities; and Douglas Clark, Federal-Provincial
Relations Division, Canadian Department of Finance, Ottawa.

BANKRUPTCY REFORM--ADDITIONAL JUDGESHIPS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 333 and S. 445,
bills to revise certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978
relating to creditor and debtor interests, receiving testimony from Bernadette
Ross, Buffalo, New York; Robert and Jacqueline Griggs, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Colleen Watts, Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Mary B. Rapp, Cleveland,
Ohio; Philip Shuchman, Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey;
Frank Kennedy, University of Michigan School of Law, Ann Arbor; Jonathan M.
Landers, Morrison and Foerster, Los Angeles, California; Joe Lee, U.S.
Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of Kentucky, Lexington; Althea Simmons,
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Washington, D.C.; and Matthew J. Mason,
UAW Legal Services Plan, Detroit, Michigan.

Also, the committee held hearings on the Judicial Conference's recommendations
for additional U.S. Judgeships, receiving testimony from Senator Hatch; Howard
C. Bratton, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico,
Albuquerque; and E. Norman Veasey, Henry N. Herndon, Jr., and Bruce M.
Stargatt, all on behalf of the Delaware State Bar Association, Wilmington.

Committee recessed subject to call.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Stevens R. Schlesinger, of Maryland, to be Director of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics, and Alfred S. Regnery, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, both of the Department
of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Schlesinger was introduced by Senator Mathias, and Mr. Regnery was
introduced by Senator Warner and Laxalt.

CARE OF HANDICAPPED INFANTS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for child
abuse prevention and treatment programs, focusing on the withholding of care
from handicapped infants in hospitals, receiving testimony from C. Everett
Koop, U.S. Surgeon General, and Bettey Lou Dotson, Director, Office of Civil
Rights, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; George Little,
American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, D.C.; David McLone, Children's
Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Father John J. Paris, Holy Cross
College, Worcester, Massachusetts; Paul Ramsey, Princeton University,
Princeton New Jersey; John McGee, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Karen
Green-McGowan, Glenwood, Iowa; and the Carl Rossow family, Ellington,
Connecticut.

Hearings continue on Monday, April 11.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FEC

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Danny L. McDonald,
Chairman, Lee Ann Elliott and John W. McGarry, both Commissioners, B. Allen
Clutter HI, Staff Director, and Charles N. Steele, General Counsel, all of the
Federal Election Commission.

VETERANS EXPOSURE TO IONIZING RADIATION

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review adverse
health effects relating to veterans' exposure during service to ionizing
radiation from nuclear detonations, on provisions of title VI of S. 11,
mandating a study on health effects of radiation exposure, and on the handling
of veterans' claims relating to exposure to radiation, after receiving
testimony from D. Earl Brown, Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director, William
Bland, Chief Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound Service, John H. Thompson, Deputy
Associate General Counsel, Robert T. Polcari, Assistant Director for Field
Services, Compensation and Pension Service, and Richard B. Standefer, Deputy
Vice Chairman, Board of Veterans' Appeals, all of the Veterans'
Administration; Lt. General Harry A. Griffith, Director, Robert L. Brittigan,
General Counsel, and David Auton, Chief, Human Response, all of the Defense
Nuclear Agency; Seymour Jablon, Director, Medical Follow-up Agency, National
Academy of Sciences; Glyn Caldwell, Deputy Director, Chronic Diseases
Division, Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control; Edward
Martel, E. Cooper Brown, Wanda Kelley, Anthony Guarisco, 0. T. Weeks, and
Glenn Alcalay, all of the National Association of Atomic Veterans, Burlington,
Iowa; Lewis M. Milford, National Veterans Law Center, Paul Egan, and John
Sommer, both on behalf of The American Legion, James Magill, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, and Charles E. Joeckel, Jr., Disabled
American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert L. Ashworth, AMVETS,
Lanham, Maryland.

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

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

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 7, 1983; pages D213 - D219 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony on behalf of
funds for the Farmers Home Administration from Frank Naylor, Jr., Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, and
Charles W. Shuman, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration; for the Office
of Rural Development Policy from Willard Phillips, Jr., Director, Office of
Rural Development Policy; for the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation from
Merritt W. Sprague, Manager, FCIC; and for the Rural Electrification
Administration, Harold V. Hunter, Administrator, REA.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.     

APPROPRIATIONS--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Rudolf W. Giuliani, Associate
Attorney General, Organized Crime Drug Enforcement; William H. Webster,
Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; John C. Lawn, Acting Deputy
Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration; William E. Hall, Director,
U.S. Marshals Service; and Norman A. Carlson, Director, Bureau of Prisons.

Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 13.
     
APPROPRIATIONS--ENERGY AND WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
energy and water development projects, receiving testimony from Senators
Hawkins and Wilson; Representatives Glenn Anderson, William Thomas, Fiedler,
and Shumway; North Dakota Governor Allen Olsen, Bismarck; and numerous public
witnesses.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture, from Douglas W. MacCleery, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture and R. Max Peterson, Chief, Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 12.

APPROPRIATIONS--SSA/REFUGEE PROGRAMS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Social Security Administration
from Nelson J. Sabatini, Associate Commission. er for Management, Budget, and
Personnel, Linda S. McMahon, Associate Commissioner for Family Assistance,
both of the Social Security Administration, Anthony L. Itteilag, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Budget, and Fred
Schutzman, Deputy Director, Office of Child Support Enforcement; and in behalf
of funds for refugee programs from Phillip N. Hawkes, Director, Office of
Refugee Resettlement, Social Security Administration, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel Management; Herbert E.
Ellingwood, Chairman, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; K. William
O'Connor, Office of Special Counsel; Barbard J. Mahone, Chairman, Federal
Labor Relations Authority; Loren A. Smith, Chairman, Administrative Conference
of the United States; S. Kenneth Howard, Executive Director, Advisory
Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; and Judge Theodore Tannenwald, Jr.,
U.S. Tax Court.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel concluded
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on military compensation,
after receiving testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs & Logistics; Maj. General John H.
Mitchell, USA, Director of Human Resources Development; Maj. General K. Peek,
Jr., USAF, Director of Personnel Plans; Rear Admiral A. J. Herberger, USN,
Director, Military Personnel Policy Division; Brig. General A. Lukeman, USMC,
Director, Manpower Plans and Policy Division; Kenneth J. Coffey, Associate
Director (Military), Federal Personnel and Compensation Division, General
Accounting Office; Robert E. Hale, Assistant Director, National Security and
International Affairs, Congressional Budget Office; and Robert W. Nolan, Fleet
Reserve Association, John P. Sheffey, National Association for Uniformed
Services, Sgt. Major C. A. McKinney, USMC (Ret.), Noncommissioned Officers
Association, and Col. George F. Hennrikus, Jr., USAF (Ret.), The Retired
Officers Association, all of Washington, D.C.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
continued hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on Navy/Marine Corps
strategy and policy, receiving testimony from John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary
of the Navy; Admiral William N. Small, Vice Chief of Naval Operations; General
Paul X. Kelley, Assistant Commandant, The Marine Corps; and Captain John
Walker, USN, Director, Falkland Islands Study Group. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open/ closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on
chemical warfare, receiving testimony from Representative Bethune; Theodore S.
Gold, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical Matters; Brig.
General William E. Klein, USA, Assistant Deputy Director for Force Development
and Strategic Plans, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Brig. General Gerald G. Watson,
USA, Director, Nuclear and Chemical Directorate; Brig. General Thomas A.
Baker, USAF, Deputy Director of Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph J. Barth, USN,
Director, Strike and Amphibious Warfare; and Rear Admiral Tom D. Davies, USN
(Ret.), Potomac, Maryland.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal  Year 1984 Congressional Budget, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, April 11.

PUBLIC LANDS AND NATIONAL PARKS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
Reserved Water concluded hearings on the following bills:

S. 287, to establish the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site in Missouri,
after receiving testimony from Senator Danforth, and William C. Lienesch,
National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C.;

S. 565, to provide for the establishment of the Cape Hatteras National
Recreational Seashore in North Carolina, after receiving testimony from
Senator Helms, and Mr. Lienesch;

S. 345, to establish the AfricaTown National Historical Park and District in
Alabama, after receiving testimony from Senator Heflin, and Mayor John Smith,
Pritchard, Alabama;

S. 680, to designate the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland as the
"Gladys Noon Spellman Parkway," after receiving testimony from Senator
Sarbanes, and Representative Hoyer;

H.R. 1213, to revise certain provisions of law relating to units of the
national park lands and other public lands, after receiving testimony from
Senator Thurmond; Raymond M. Housley, Deputy Chief, National Forest System,
U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Henry A. Berliner, Jr.,
Chairman, Thomas J. Regan, Jr., Executive Director, and Alexander Milin,
Financial Manager, all of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; and
Mr. Lienesch; and

S. 542, to revise certain provisions of P.L. 90-401, relating to the purchase
and conveyance of certain land by the Federal Government, after receiving
testimony from Mr. Housley, and Mr. Lienesch;

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from Mary Lou
Grier, Deputy Director, National Park Service, and Frank Edwards, Assistant
Director for Land Resources, Bureau of Land Management, both of the Department
of the Interior.

CLEAN WATER ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution continued hearings on S. 431, authorizing funds for fiscal year
ending September 30, 1983, through fiscal year 1987 for clean water programs,
and S. 432, extending the 1984 compliance date for certain requirements of the
Clean Water Act, receiving testimony from Delegate de Lugo; Jerome Hytry,
Associate Deputy Chief, State and Local Operations, Soil Conservation Service,
Department of Agriculture; J. Taylor Banks, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Edwin Clark, Conservation Foundation, and Marilyne Reeves, League of Women
Voters, all of Washington, D.C.; Rodney C. Glover, Proctor & Gamble
Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio, representing the American Paper Institute and
the National Forest Products Association; J. Leonard Ledbetter, Georgia State
Environmental Protection Division, Atlanta, representing the Association of
States and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators (ASIWPCA); David
Zentner, Izaak Walton League, Duluth, Minnesota; John B. Gibson, Pacific Gas
and Electric Company, San Francisco, California, representing the Edison
Electric Institute; E. Alan Cassell, Water Resources Research Center,
University of Vermont, Burlington; William M. Eichbaum, Maryland Department of
Health and Mental Hygiene, Baltimore; J. D. Hughes and George Ice, both of the
Crown Zellerbach Corporation, Bogalusa, Louisiana; and David Delcour, Amax,
Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 14.

U.S.-JAPAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on United States
economic relations with Japan, focusing on the impact of the yen-dollar
exchange rate, receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Director, and Alan
Mendelowitz, Associate Director, both of the International Division, General
Accounting Office; Lee Morgan, Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois;
John Mathis, Continental Illinois Bank, Chicago, Illinois; and C. Fred
Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

IMMIGRATION REFORM

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
approved for full committee consideration with amendments S. 529, to revise
and reform the Nation's immigration laws.

PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded oversight hearings on the activities of the Patent and Trademark
Office, after receiving testimony from Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Assistant
Secretary and Commissioner, Patent and Trademark Office, Department of
Commerce.

NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 655, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1984, 1985, and 1986 for the National Sea Grant College program, after
receiving testimony from James Winchester, Associate Administrator, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Gerry Seifert,
General Counsel fo Maritime Affairs, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Committee; John Knauss, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere,
Narragansett, Rhode Island; E. A. Trabant, University of Delaware, Newark;
Michael J. Pelczar, Jr., Council of Graduate Schools in the United States,
Washington, D.C.; William McLean, Florida Institute of Technology, Stuart;
Edward C. Brainard, II, ENDECO, Inc., Marion, Massachusetts; and Harris B.
Stewart, Jr., Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of the
National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges.

Subcommittee will mark up the aforementioned bill on Thursday, April 14.

EXIMBANK/SMALL BUSINESSES

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Export Promotion and Market
Development held hearings to review certain programs of the Export-Import Bank
of the United States which provide incentives for small business financing,
and the bank's support of the small business community involved in exporting,
receiving testimony from William H. Draper, III, President and Chairman, James
K. Hess, Acting Treasurer (Comptroller), James E. Young and Richard W.
Heldridge, both Directors, and W. Garrett. Boyd, Special Assistant to the Vice
Chairman, all of the Export-Import Bank of the United States; Douglas E.
Swenson, MITCO International, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Evan A. Werling,
French Oil Mill Machinery Company, Piqua, Ohio; and Ronald E. Muller, Arthur
Domike, and David Moore, all of the Center for International Technical
Cooperation, Washington, D.C.

Hearings recessed subject to call.

SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEWS OF THE MENTALLY DISABLED

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine the treatment
of mentally disabled persons under Federal programs designed to assist them,
focusing on the Social Security Administration's disability review practices,
receiving testimony from Peter J. McGough, Associate Director, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; Beatrice S. Braun, St. Vincent's
Hospital, Harrison, New York; Lois Jahsmann, Hedwig House, Norristown,
Pennsylvania; Janet Conser, Senior Citizens Law Project, Wilkes Barre,
Pennsylvania; Stephen H. Sachs, Maryland Attorney General, Baltimore; Louis 0.
Treadway, Orange County, Florida, representing the National Association of
Counties; Cesar A. Perales, New York Department of Social Services, Albany;
and Carol Bellamy, New York City Council, and Arthur T. Meyerson, Mt. Sinai
School of Medicine/Hospital, representing the American Psychiatric
Association, both of New York City.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/08
Daily Digest - Friday, April 8, 1983; pages D219 - D221 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH CARE FINANCING ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony from Carolyn Davis, Administrator, Health Care Financing
Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 11.

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from John Walker,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement and Operations, and in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from William Von Raab,
Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, John R. Simpson, Director, U.S. Secret
Service, Stephen E. Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, and Charles F. Rindevich, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center, all of the Department of the Treasury.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on
intelligence programs, receiving testimony from John McMahon, Deputy Director,
Central Intelligence Agency; and Rear Admiral E. A. Burkhalter, Jr., Director,
Intelligence Community Staff.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FLOOD/RIOT/CRIME INSURANCE

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Insurance
concluded hearings on S. 895, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985
for national flood insurance programs, and authorizing funds for fiscal ending
September 30, 1983 for crime and riot insurance programs, and related
proposals, including S. 460, after receiving testimony from Senator Eagleton;
Jeffrey S. Bragg, Administrator, Federal Insurance Administration, and David
McLoughlin, Deputy Associate Director, State and Local Programs and Support,
both of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Lowell Dodge, Associate
Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division, General
Accounting Office; Missouri State Senator Jack Gannon, Jefferson City;
Marguerite M. Wilden, National Association of State Floodplain Managers,
Annapolis, Maryland; Rutherford Platt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
James Corcoran, New York State Insurance Department, Albany; George K.
Bernstein, American Insurance Association, and Franklin Nutter, Reinsurance
Association of America, both of Washington, D.C.; James E. Jones, Jr., on
behalf of the Alliance of American Insurers, Chicago, Illinois; and Charles H.
Fretzel, on behalf of the National Association of Independent Insurers, Des
Plaines, Illinois.

HAZARDOUS WASTE CONTAINMENT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Containment Act (PI.
96-510), providing for the safe and adequate treatment of hazardous substances
released into the environment, receiving testimony from Lee Thomas, Acting
Deputy Administrator, Gene A. Lucero, Director, Office of Waste Programs
Enforcement, Michael A. Brown, Enforcement Counsel, Office of Enforcement
Counsel, William N. Hedeman, Jr., Director, Office of Emergency and Remedial
Response, and Jackie Schaefer, Regional Administrator, Region II (New York
City), all of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

JUDGESHIPS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts resumed hearings on S. 645,
proposed Court Improvements Act, focusing on Tide VI, providing for the
creation of a fourth tier Intermediate Court to relieve the Supreme Court of
its caseload, receiving testimony from Judge Elmo Hunter, U.S. District Court
Judge for the Western District of Missouri, on behalf of the Judicial
Conference of the United States; Maurice Rosenburg, Columbia Law School, New
York City; and Daniel Meador, University of Virginia Law School,
Charlottesville.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 530, to provide Federal assistance to
upgrade instruction in mathematics, science, computer technology and foreign
languages in the nation's institutions, and to provide assistance for
employment-based vocational training programs, and related proposals, after
receiving testimony from Senator Tsongas, Huddleston, and Warner; Quincalee
Brown, American Association of University Women, and Maudine Cooper, National
Urban League, both of Washington, D.C.; Maida Townsend, Vermont National
Education Association, Montpelier; Jessie S. Roberts, Welch Junior High
School, Welch, West Virginia; Roger Nichols, Museum of Science, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Stephen Salyer, WNET TV, and David A. Hamburg, Carnegie
Corporation of New York, both of New York City.

SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEWS OF THE MENTALLY DISABLED

Special Committee on Aging: Committee continued hearings to examine the
treatment of mentally disabled persons under Federal programs designed to
assist them, focusing on the Social Security Administration's disability
review practices, receiving testimony from Paul B. Simmons, Deputy
Commissioner, Social Security Administration.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/11
Daily Digest - Monday, April 11, 1983; pages D221 - D224 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NUTRITION PROGRAMS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the Administration's budget proposals for nutrition
programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony
from John W. Bode, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and
Consumer Services.

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Dorcas R. Hardy, Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, Harvey R.
Vieth, Director, Office of Community Services, and Anthony L. Itteilag, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Budget, all of the Department of Health and Human
Services.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on the
air-breathing deterrent program, receiving testimony from Richard D. DeLauer,
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Thomas E. Cooper,
Assistant Secretary of the Air force for Research, Development and Logistics;
and Lieutenant General Lawrence Skantze, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

IMF QUOTA

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 695, to authorize funds for an increase in the U.S. quota in the
International Monetary Fund and to authorize funds for increased participation
in the IMF's General Arrangements to Borrow, and S. 502, to establish certain
limitations on U.S. international lending activities, after receiving
testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, and J. Charles
Parsee, Governor, both of the Federal Reserve System; C. Todd Conover,
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; and William M. Isaac,
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

PROTECTION OF WILD HORSES AND BURROS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
Reserved Water concluded hearings on S. 457, to provide for the protection,
management and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on public lands,
after receiving testimony from Robert F. Burford, Director, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; Robert M. Williamson, Director, Range
Management, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Steven Gilmore, Utah
State Commissioner of Agriculture, Salt Lake City; Jerry Thiessen, Idaho State
Department of Water and Wildlife, Boise; Robert Wright, Wells, Nevada, on
behalf of the National Cattlemen's Association; Maurice Bidart, Gardnerville,
Nevada, on behalf of the National Association of Conservation Districts; Bill
Ross, Jordan Valley, Oregon, on behalf of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association;
Michael J. Stientjes, American Farm Bureau Federation, Frantz L. Dangler,
Humane Society of the United States, Wes Hayden, International Association of
Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lonnie L. Williamson, Wildlife Management
Institute, Rexford A. Resler, American Forestry Association, Russ Gaspar,
American Horse Protection Association, Inc., and Mary G. Knopke, American
Humane Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Evangeline Ingram, Challis,
Idaho; Cleveland Amory, Fund for Animals, and Hope Ryden, both of New York
City; Dart Anthony, Humane Society of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas; Kathryn
Cushman, Canterbury, New Hampshire, on behalf of the Wild Horse Organized
Assistance, Inc.; Clare Hendee, Society for Range Management, Bethesda,
Maryland; Edwin E. Goodwin, University of Maryland, College Park; Helen
Reilly, International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros, Reno,
Nevada; Ted Grail and Cheryl Mouras, both of the Animal Protection Institute,
Sacramento, California; Sharon Saare, Horsemen's Coalition, Seattle,
Washington; Alicia Payne and Robert Payne, Herndon, Virginia; Wayne S.
Marteney, Elko, Nevada, and Joe Fallini, Tonopah, Nevada, both on behalf of
the Nevada Cattlemen's Association; Heather Smith Thomas, Salmon, Idaho; and
Jim Clapp, Wild Horse and Burro Sanctuary, Alturas, California.

PUBLIC WORKS/JOB INFRASTRUCTURE

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on
national infrastructure issues, and on proposals to develop long-term job
opportunities in public works, including S. 23, S. 532, S. 724, and S. 871,
receiving testimony from Mayor Dutch Morial, New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf
of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Carl S. Young, Broome County, New York;
Albert Sommers, the Conference Board, New York City; Bern S. Whaley,
Washington Urban League, Richard S. Pepper, Pepper Construction Company, Doug
Pitcock, Williams Brothers Construction Company, both on behalf of Associated
General Contractors, all of Washington, D.C.; Richard W. Sprinkel, Vernon
Paving Company, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of the National Asphalt
Pavement Association; and William Burgett and Leon Asadoorian, both on behalf
of the National Utility Contractors Association, Arlington, Virginia.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TAX EQUITY AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Savings, Pension, and Investment Policy,
concluded hearings to review the effect on private retirement plans of the
pension provisions contained in the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act
(P.L. 97-248), after receiving testimony from Sylvester J. Schieber, Employee
Benefit Research Institute, Everett T. Allen, Jr., Association of Private
Pension and Welfare Plans, Inc., Leon E. Irish, Caplin and Drysdale, William
L. Sollee, Ivins, Phillips and Barker, Vernon W. Holleman, Jr., Association
for Advanced Life Underwriting, Henry A. Duffy, Air Line Pilots Association,
and Norman J. Philion, both on behalf of the Air Transport Association of
America, all of Washington, D.C.; J. Roger Mentz, Stephen M. Piga, and Arthur
D. Sporn, all on behalf of the New York State Bar Association, New York City:
Jerry L. Oppenheimer, Mayer, Brown and Platt, Washington, D.C., and Edward O.
Handy, Jr., Textron, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, both on behalf of the
ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC); Walter Holan, Profit Sharing Council of
America, Chicago, Illinois; Stephen H. Paley, Small Business Council of
America, Inc., Columbus, Georgia; E. Philip Bush, Taylor and Mizell, Dallas,
Texas; Charles N. McLeod, National Actuarial Pension Services, Inc., Houston,
Texas; and Charles P. Sacher, Walton Lantaff Schroeder and Carson, Coral
Gables, Florida, on behalf of the South Florida Employee Benefits Council.

MID-EAST BRIEFING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the Middle East situation from Ambassador Richard Fairbanks,
Special Negotiator for Middle East Autonomy, Department of State.

CHILD ABUSE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services held hearings on S. 1003, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986
for child abuse prevention and treatment and adoption reform programs,
receiving testimony from Clarence E. Hodges, Commissioner, Administration for
Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services; Wayne
M. Holder, American Humane Association, Denver, Colorado; Eli H. Newberger,
Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Gregory Loken, Covenant House, New
York City; Thelma Bigger, Alabama Chapter of Parents Anonymous, Anniston;
Timothy C. McNally, Skillman, New Jersey, representing Johnson and Johnson,
and the National Committee for Prevention of Child Abuse; Arnold E. Sherman,
Camp Fire, Inc., Washington, D.C.; Fran Vecchiolla, Connecticut Children
Protection Project, Bolton; and William M. Palmer, Primary Children's Center,
Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hearing continue on Thursday, April 14.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/12
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 12, 1983; pages D224 - D232 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--FDA/CFTC/FCA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., Commissioner, Mark Novitch, Deputy
Commissioner, and Thomas Scarlett, Chief Counsel, all of the Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Philip M. Johnson,
Chairman, Donald Tendick, Acting Executive Director, and Hunt Banister, Budget
Director, all of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and Donald E.
Wilkinson, Governor, Larry W. Edwards, Deputy Governor, and George D. Irwin,
Chief Economist, all of the Farm Credit Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.

APPROPRIATIONS--TVA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Tennessee
Valley Authority, receiving testimony from Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman, and
David S. Freeman and Richard M. Freeman, both Directors, all of the TVA.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--BIA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for education programs administered by the Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior from Kenneth L. Smith, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, John W. Fritz, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Affairs (Operations), and Joseph W. Gorrell,
Director of Budget, all of the Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from James Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health;
Vincent DeVita, Director, National Cancer Institute, Claude Lenfant, Director,
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Harald Loe, Director, National
Institute of Dental Research, Lester Salans, Director, National Institute of
Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Murray Goldstein,
Director, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and
Stroke, Richard Krause, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, and Ruth Kirschstein, Director, National Institute of General
Medical Sciences, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of
Health and Human Services.

Hearings continues tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--FAA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation, receiving
testimony from J. Lynn Helms, Administrator, FAA.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DOE/DEFENSE PROGRAMS

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces concluded closed hearings to review energy-related defense programs of
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department
of Energy, after receiving testimony from Troy Wade, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; Maj. General William W. Hoover,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Military Applications; F. Charles
Gilbert, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Materials; Admiral
Kinnaird R. McKee, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Naval Reactors;
Richard L. Wagner, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy;
Roger E. Batzel, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Livermore, California; George
C. Dacey, Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Robert N. Thorn,
Los Alamos Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed hearings on
S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military programs of the
Department of Defense, focusing on readiness, operation and maintenance
budget, and reserve component status of the U.S. Army, receiving testimony
from Lt. General Fred K. Mahaffey, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Operations
and Plans; Lt. General Ernest D. Peixotto, Comptroller of the Army; Brig.
General Gerald R. Jennings, Director, Army Operations and Maintenance; Maj.
General William R. Berkman, Chief, Army Reserve; and Maj. General Herbert R.
Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 14.

STATE USURY CEILINGS

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 730, to remove State and Federal usury ceilings on credit transactions,
after receiving testimony from Beryl Sprinkle, Under Secretary of the Treasury
for Monetary Affairs; J. Charles Partee, Member, Board of Governors, Federal
Reserve System; C. Todd Conover, Comptroller of the Currency, Department of
the Treasury; Richard T. Pratt, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Edgar
F. Callahan, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; Stanley C.
Silverberg, Director, Division of Research and Strategic Planning, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation; Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ellen
Broadman, Consumers Union, Glenn Nishimura, Consumer Federation of America,
James Barr, Credit Union National Association, Robert B. Evans, American
Financial Services Association, and Henry B. Schechter, AFL CIO, all of
Washington, D.C.; Eugene L. Schotanus, Deere & Company, Moline, Illinois; Lee
Palmer, Hearthstone Group, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of Small Business
United and Independent Business Association of Wisconsin; William W. Dixon,
First Wisconsin Milwaukee Bank, Milwaukee, on behalf of the American Bankers
Association; Bruce McNeill, Superior Federal Savings and Loan, Fort Smith,
Arkansas, on behalf of the U.S. League of Savings Associations; and Leslie R.
Butler, First Pennsylvania Bank, N.A., Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, on behalf of
the Consumer Bankers Association.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

FAIR PRACTICES INSURANCE ACT

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 372, to promote interstate commerce by prohibiting discrimination in the
writing and selling of insurance contracts, receiving testimony from Senator
Hatfield; T. Timothy Ryan, Solicitor, Peggy Connerton, Senior Economist, and
Diane E. Burkley, Special Assistant to the Solicitor, all of the Department of
Labor; Mary Gray, Women's Equity Action League, Judy Goldsmith, National
Organization for Women, Kathy Wilson, National Women's Political Caucus, Irma
Brosseau, National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs,
Johanna Mendelson, American Association of University Women, Paul A.
Kerschner, American Association of Retired Persons, Metra Jackson, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Shirley M. Sandage,
Older Women's League, all of Washington, D.C.; J. Robert Hunter, National
Insurance Consumer Organization, Alexandria, Virginia; Elaine Donnelly, Eagle
Forum, Livonia, Michigan; Mayor Edward I. Koch, Barbara Mandel, National
Council of Jewish Women, and Jamie Stern, representing Women in City
Government, all of New York City: Roger C. Day, Utah Commissioner of
Insurance, Salt Lake City, representing the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners; and Michael N. Thome, California Teachers Retirement System,
Sacramento, representing the Municipal Finance Officers Association.

Hearings continue on Monday, April 25

COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 267,
to facilitate the development of interstate coal pipeline distribution systems
by granting the Federal power of eminent domain to those interstate pipelines
which are determined to be in the national interest, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

PUBLIC WORKS/JOB INFRASTRUCTURE

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee continued hearings on
national infrastructure issues, and on proposals to develop long-term job
opportunities in public works, including S. 23, S. 532, S. 724, and S. 871,
receiving testimony from Carol Bellamy, City Council of New York City, on
behalf of National League of Cities; David 0. Meeker, Jr., The American
Institute of Architects, Michael Ainslie, National Trust for Historic
Preservation, Brent Blackwelder, Environmental Policy Center, Chris Page, on
behalf of the National Association of Development Organization, D. Kenneth
Patton, National Council for Urban Economic Development, and Richard C.
Hartman, National Association of Regional Councils, all of Washington, D.C.;
Eric Gilbertson, Vermont Department of Development and Community Affairs,
Montpelier; and Jose Ovalle, 18th Street Development Corporation, Chicago,
Illinois.

Hearings continue on Monday, April 18.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following resolutions:

S. Con. Res. 19, expressing the sense of the Congress on the occasion of the
150th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between the United
States and Thailand; and

S. Con Res. 11, expressing the sense of Congress concerning the obligations of
the Government of the Soviet Union under international law with respect to
human rights.

NICARAGUA AND CENTRAL AMERICA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met to receive a briefing on United
States policy toward Nicaragua and Central America from Thomas O. Enders,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.

Committee recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

S. 216, to impose penalties on those individuals who tamper with food, drug,
cosmetic, and other products with intent to cause personal injury, death, or
other harm, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S. 118, to establish a commission to plan and develop a celebration for the
Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, with amendments;

S.J. Res. 51, designating May 21, 1983, as "Andrei Sakharov Day";

S.J. Res. 62, designating the week beginning May 15, 1983, as "National
Parkinson's Disease Week"; and

The nominations of Daniel A. Bent, to be U.S. Attorney for the District of
Hawaii, Eugene M. Con, to be U.S. Marshal for the Western District of
Washington, and Steven R. Schlesinger, of Maryland, to be Director, Bureau of
Justice Statistics, Department of Justice.

Also, committee began markup of S. 445 and S. 333, bills to revise and reform
certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 relating to creditor
and debtor interests, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.

ORPHAN DRUG ACT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings on
the implementation of Section 7 of the Orphan Drug Act (P.L. 97-414),
providing for a review of the radioepidemiological tables and thyroid cancer
research administered by the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony from Edward Brandt, Assistant Secretary of Health, Joseph
Rail, Acting Deputy Director, Intramural Research, National Institutes of
Health, and David Pistenmaa, Associate Director, Radiation Research Program,
National Cancer Institute, all of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Warren Sinclair and Seymour Jablon, both on behalf of the National Council on
Radiation Protection and Measurement, Bethesda, Maryland; Russell H. Morgan,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and Robert Catlin, Electric
Power Research Institute, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INDIAN LANDS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the disbursement of funds by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to do a study of the
irrigable acres on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, after receiving
testimony from John Fritz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs (Operations); Sidney Mills, Director, Office of Trust
Responsibilities, Department of the Interior; Carol E. Dinkins, Assistant
Attorney General for Land and Natural Resources, Department of Justice; Joe A.
Maierle, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., Helena, Montana; Jack Twitchell, CH2M Hill,
Inc., Corvalis, Oregon; and Earl Old Person, Blackfeet Tribe, Browning,
Montana.

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.

AUTHORIZATIONS--INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on Budget Authorizations
concluded closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1984 for the intelligence community, after receiving testimony from
certain intelligence officials.

Joint Meeting

NEW FEDERALISM

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to review past and future
impact of the Administration's New Federalism proposals on the working poor
and children, receiving testimony from Sheldon Danziger, Institute for
Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Robert Greenstein,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Edgar Vash, Robert Harmon &
Associates, representing the Heritage Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 14.



1983/04/13
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 13, 1983; pages D232 - D239 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DAIRY PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices held hearings
on S. 491, S. 498, S. 509, S. 658, and S. 866, bills to modify and improve the
operation of the dairy price support programs, receiving testimony from Norman
Barker, National Milk Producers Federation, Pratt, Kansas; Morris Lee Scott,
Hernando, Mississippi, on behalf of the Associated Milk Producers, Inc.;
Elwood Kirkpatrick, Michigan Milk Producers Federation, Southfield; Clyde
Rutherford, Dairylea, Inc., Syracuse, New York; Albert McDonald, Alabama
Commissioner of Agriculture, and Herb Forest, on behalf of the Alabama Farm
Bureau Federation, both of Montgomery; Bucky Jones, Smithdale, Mississippi, on
behalf of Dairymen, Inc.; William Boardman, Orlando, Florida, on behalf of
Dairy Farmers, Inc.; Ben Zorda, Zorda Dairy Inc., Shawnee, Kansas; John B.
Carroll, Chitenango, New York, on behalf of Dairy Farmers Distributors; Pat
Patterson, Green Mountain Federation, Barre, Vermont; Paul Stone, Orwell,
Vermont; Fred Douma, on behalf of the Milk Producers Council and the Southern
California Dairy Association, Ontario, California; James Graham, North
Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, Raleigh; Winn Zundel, Utah Farm Bureau
Federation, Salt Lake City; Don Haldemann, Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation,
Madison; Ralph Mitzel, New York Farm Bureau, Glenmont; Howard Rilley, New York
Grange, Mechanicville; E. Linwood Tipton, Milk Industry
Foundation/International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, and Donald
Randall, on behalf of the National Independent Dairy Foods Association, both
of Washington, D.C.; Tom Townsend, MidAmerica Dairymen, Inc., Springfield,
Missouri; Richard Trawick, on behalf of the Southern Milk Sales, Inc.,
Montgomery, Alabama; Jim Reichert, AgriMark Cooperative, North Andover,
Massachusetts, Jay Goold, League of California Milk Producers, Sacramento; and
Richard Stammer, Northeast Cooperative Association, Londonderry, Connecticut.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--SUPREME COURT/COMMISSIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Supreme
Court from Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and Sandra D. O'Connor, both Associate
Justices; in behalf of funds for the care of Supreme Court buildings and
grounds from George M. White, Architect of the Capitol; in behalf of funds for
the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe from Representative
Fascell, Chairman; and in behalf of funds for the Commission on Civil Rights
from Clarence M. Pendleton, Chairman.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 20.

APPROPRIATIONS--FERC/NRC

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1983 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from C. M. Butler III, Chairman, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; and Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--BIA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for non-education programs administered by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, from Kenneth L. Smith,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, John W. Fritz, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs (Operations), and
Joseph W. Gorrell, Director of Budget, all of the Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from James B. Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health;
Mortimer Lepsett, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, Carl Kupler, Director, National Eye Institute, David Rall,
Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Robert Ringler,
Director, National Institute on Aging, Betty Pickett, Director, Division of
Research Resources, Mark Beaubien, Director, Fogarty International Center,
Martin Cummings, Director, National Library of Medicine, and Calvin Baldwin,
Associate Director for Administration, all of the National Institutes of
Health, and Anthony Itteilag, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Budget, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Legislative Branch
of the government, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from William F. Hildenbrand, Secretary of the Senate; Philip
Larsen, Administrative Assistant to the Senate Sergeant at Arms; and Charles
A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting
Office.

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 15.

AUTHORIZATIONS--HOUSING

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill (S. 1338) authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986
for housing, community and neighborhood development, and related programs. (As
approved by the committee, the bill incorporates provisions of S. 403, S. 466,
S. 606, S. 586, S. 644, S. 835, and S. 846).

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the First concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
267, to facilitate the development of interstate coal pipeline distribution
systems by granting the Federal power of eminent domain to those interstate
pipelines which are determined to be in the national interest, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

CARIBBEAN BASIN INITIATIVE

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 544, to promote
economic revitalization and facilitate expansion of economic opportunities in
the Caribbean Basin region, after receiving testimony from Senator Chiles;
Resident Commissioner Corrada; Delegate de Lugo; George P. Shultz, Secretary
of State; William E. Brock, United States Trade Representative; John E.
Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Virgin Islands
Governor Juan Luis, Charlotte Amalie; Philip G. Kuehn, New Orleans Cold
Storage and Warehouse Company, New Orleans, Louisiana; Gladstone Cooper, Geyco
Corporation, Miami, Florida; Robert A. Pastor, University of Maryland, College
Park; Calmon Cohen, Emergency Committee for American Trade, Stephen Koplan,
representing the AFL-CIO, and Joseph Pelkzman, George Washington University,
all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert F. McKown, Florida Citrus Mutual,
Lakeland.

GLOBAL ECONOMY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
resumed hearings to examine the international economic situation, focusing on
the deterioration of the economic position of both developed and third world
countries and the International Monetary Fund's proposed solutions, receiving
testimony from Henry B. Schechter, on behalf of the American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Washington, D.C.;
and William L. Hoppe, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on
behalf of the American Iron and Steel Institute. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services concluded hearings to review Civil Service reform
proposals of the Office of Personnel Management, after receiving testimony
from Donald J. Devine, Director, Office of Personnel Management.

NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William H. Barbour, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District
of Mississippi, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Stennis and
Cochran, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
with amendments S. 773, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986 for health
programs administered by the National Institutes of Health.

Also, the committee ordered reported, without recommendation, an original bill
(S. 1344) to extend the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical
Problems in Medical and Biomedical and Behavioral Research.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Edward A. Knapp, of New Mexico, to be Director of the National
Science Foundation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Domenici,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

Also, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Patricia Diaz
Dennis, of California, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board.

NOMINATION

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mary F. Wieseman, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Small Business
Administration, after the nominee testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. Testimony was also received from James C. Sanders, Administrator,
Small Business Administration.

SMALL BUSINESS ACT

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 742, S. 743, and S.
744, bills providing assistance to small business for job-creating programs,
and S. 745, providing debentures to State development companies to assist the
small business community in meeting its financial obligations, receiving
testimony from David M. Johnson, the Business Development Corporation of
Georgia, Inc., and Lee M. Sessions, Jr., the Citizens and Southern National
Bank, both of Atlanta, Georgia; James Childe, National Association of Business
Development Corporations, Lincoln, Nebraska; and Kendall Bert, National
Association of Development Corporations, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETINGS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:

(1) S. 726, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1985, 1986, and 1987 for the
Tribally Controlled Community College Assistance program to establish
educational grant programs for planning, construction of new facilities, and
endowments; and

(2) An original resolution to revise the committees request for operating
expenses through February 28, 1984.

MEDICARE

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to review the future of
Medicare, focusing on the long-term financial status for the Medicare Hospital
Insurance Trust Fund, which pays for inpatient care and is funded through
social security payroll taxes, receiving testimony from Alice M. Rivlin,
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Carolyne K. Davis, Administrator,
Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
Joseph Newhouse, the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California; Gail
Wilensky, National Center for Health Services Research, Rockville, Maryland;
and Karen Davis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 14, 1983; pages D239 - D244 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DAIRY PRICE SUPPORT PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices concluded
hearings on S. 491, S. 498, S. 509, S. 658, and S. 866, bills to modify and
improve the operation of the dairy price support programs, after receiving
testimony from Senator Proxmire, Thurmond, and Kasten; Richard E. Lyng, Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture and William Lesher, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Economics, John Datt, American Farm Bureau Federation, Robert
Mullins, National Farmers Union, James Miller, National Grange, Ellen Haas,
Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, and Rod Leonard, Community Nutrition
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Douglas Caruso, Farmers Union Milk
Marketing Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin; and Ed Graf, Corning, Iowa on
behalf of the National Farmers Organization.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the National
Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Edward A. Knapp, Director,
National Science Foundation, and Lewis M. Branscomb, Chairman, National
Science Board.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 21.

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from William Mayer, Administrator, Alcohol Drug Abuse, and Mental
Health Administration, William H. Foege, Director, Centers for Disease
Control, and Anthony L. Itteilag, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Budget, all of
the Department of Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--UMTA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation,
receiving testimony from Arthur E. Teele, Jr., Administrator, UMTA.

Subcommittee will meet again Monday, April 25.

APPROPRIATIONS--NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES/ALASKA PIPELINE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William J.
Bennett, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; and John T. Rhett,
Federal Inspector, Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed open and
closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on readiness, operation and
maintenance budget reserve component status of the U.S. Marine Corps,
receiving testimony from Lt. General W. A. Maloney, Deputy Chief of Marine
Corps Staff for Plans, Policies and Operations, Lt. General H. A. Hatch,
Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Installations and Logistics, and Maj.
General S. G. Olmstead, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Reserve
Affairs.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on S. 397, S.
407, S. 434, and S. 979, bills to improve the enforcement of export
administration laws, after receiving testimony from Kenneth Dam, Deputy
Secretary of State; Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade; Howard Marlowe, AFL-CIO, and Richard F. Hoffman, both of
Washington, D.C.; Edward Merrigan, National Association of Recycling
Industries, Inc., and Eugene J. Milosh, Harrison Wellford, and Suzi Evalenko,
all of the American Association of Exporters and Importers, all of New York
City; Irving M. J. Kaplan, Copperweld Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
representing the Ferrous Scrap Consumers Coalition; and Steve Kaplan, M. S.
Kaplan Co., Chicago, Illinois, representing the Institute of Scrap Iron &
Steel, Inc.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued in evening session markup of the
First concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget.

AUTHORIZATIONS--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 1037, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984
and 1985 for maritime programs administered by the Department of
Transportation, S. 1038, to implement promotional elements to revitalize the
U.S.-flag merchant marine, and S. 125, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984
for the maritime construction differential subsidy program of the Maritime
Administration, after receiving testimony from Admiral Harold E. Shear,
Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation; Admiral
James L. Holloway III, (U.S. Navy, Ret.), and Albert E. May, both of the
Council of American-Flag Ship Operators, Frank Drozak, Seafarer's
International Union of North America AFL-CIO, Cecil Keeney, Tide XI Committee,
Thomas L. Mills, Kominers, Fort, Schlefer & Boyer, Jesse Calhoon, National
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, and Joseph Klausner, American
Maritime Association, and W. M. Benkert, American Institute of Merchant
Shipping, all of Washington, D.C.; M. Lee Rice, OGDEN Corporation, New York
City, representing the Shipbuilders Council of America, Charles Hiltzheimer,
Sea-Land Industries Investments, Inc., and Captain Robert H. Flenner, Maine
Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine.

COAL DISTRIBUTION AND UTILIZATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute S. 267, to facilitate
the development of interstate coal pipeline distribution systems by granting
the Federal power of eminent domain to those interstate pipelines which are
determined to be in the national interest.

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 615, providing for a free market
to establish longterm incentives to produce and market ample natural gas
supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not complete action thereon, and will
meet again on Tuesday, April 19.

CLEAN WATER ACT AMENDMENTS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution resumed hearings on S. 431, authorizing funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1983, through fiscal year 1987 for clean water programs, and S.
432, extending the 1984 compliance date for certain requirements of the Clean
Water Act, receiving testimony from Senators Mathias and Sarbanes;
Representative Johnson; William Barnard, Project Director, Oceans and
Environment Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Maryland Governor Harry
Hughes, Annapolis, William West, Republic Steel Corporation, and Kenneth E.
Blower, Standard Oil of Ohio, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Phillip Gerwert,
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; Robert Forney, E. I. duPont
Company, Wilmington, Delaware; Charles Kaiser, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer
District, St. Louis, Missouri; Mark Hyner, Whyco Chromium Company, Thomastown,
Connecticut; J. Taylor Banks and Frances Dubrowski, both of the Natural
Resources Defense Council, Washington, D.C.; John A. King, SLPC, Xenia, Ohio,
representing the Institute of Chemical Waste Management-National Solid Waste
Management Association; and James P. Bernard, Berncolors-Poughkeepsie, Inc.,
Poughkeepsie, New York, representing the Synthetic Organic Chemical
Manufacturers Association.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATION

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Robert E. Lighthizer, of Maryland, to be a Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Lighthizer, who was introduced by Senator Mathias, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the National Research
Council report on international competition in advanced technology, after
receiving testimony from Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences;
Howard W. Johnson, and Robert M. Solow, both of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; Robert A. Charpie, Cabot Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts; Robert A. Fuller, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New
Jersey; Shirley M. Hufstedler, Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson, and Beardsley, Los
Angeles, California; John E. Steiner, Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington; and
Leonard Woodcock, former U.S. Ambassador to China, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

CONTROLLING SPACE WEAPONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. Res. 43 and &J.
Res. 28, resolutions calling for negotiations prohibiting the testing,
deployment, production or use of all weapons based in space, receiving
testimony from Lt. General Daniel 0. Graham (USA-Ret.), High Frontier, and
Daniel Deudny, Worldwatch Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Jan M. Lodal,
American Management Systems, Arlington, Virginia; and George Rathjens,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

DOD--DEFECTIVE PRICING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the
management policies of the Department of Defense, focusing on the Department's
record in detecting and ensuring that contractors pay the government back for
overcharges resulting from defectively priced, negotiated sole-source
contracts in accordance with the intent of the Truth-In-Negotiations Act (P.L.
87-653), receiving testimony from Harvey J. Gordon, Assistant Deputy Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; Charles 0. Starrett, Jr., Director,
Defense Contract Audit Agency, Department of Defense; Derek J. Vander Schaaf,
Acting Deputy Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, Department
of Defense; Donald J. Kinlin, Senior Trial Attorney, U.S. Air Force,
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio; James P. Viola, Committee Auditor,
Committee on Governmental Affairs; and Harris J. Andrews, Armed Services Board
of Contract Appeals, both of Alexandria, Virginia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings on S. 53, establishing an Office of Justice Assistance to assist
local law enforcement officials in fighting crime, after receiving testimony
from Stanley E. Morris, Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of
Justice; James E. Huber, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; Mayor Thomas H. Cooke, Jr., East Orange, New
Jersey, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Police Chief Howard L.
Runyon, Sr., Sterling, New Jersey, on behalf of the International Association
of Police Chiefs; Sheriff E. W. Walt Pellicer, Putnam County, Florida, on
behalf of the National Sheriffs' Association; and Ellie Wegener, National
Neighborhood Coalition, McLean, Virginia.

EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE ACT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure concluded hearings on S. 919, making certain revisions to the Equal
Access to Justice Act (P.L. 96-481), after receiving testimony from Senators
Baucus and DeConcini; J. Paul McGrath, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice; Loren Smith, Administrative Conference of the
United States, William Allen, The American Bar Association, Sally Douglas,
National Federation of Independent Business, David Stewart, Small Business
Legal Defense Committee, Paralee White, Women's Association of Government
Contractors, Ellen Vargyas, Alliance for Justice, and Mike McDonald,
Washington Legal Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; Dale Nelson,
Mid-Continent Small Business United, Des Moines, Iowa; and Michael Avakian,
Center on National Labor Policy, North Springfield, Virginia.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities approved for full committee consideration the following bills:

S. 1008, to revise provisions for financial assistance to meet the special
educational needs of disadvantaged children, and consolidation of Federal
programs for elementary and secondary education; and

S. 564, to establish the U.S. Academy of Peace.

CHILD ABUSE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services concluded hearings on S. 1003, authorizing funds through fiscal year
1986 for child abuse prevention and treatment and adoption reform programs,
after receiving testimony from Dorcas R. Hardy, Assistant Secretary of Health
and Human Services for Human Development Services; Marlene Piasecki, National
Adoption Exchange, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Toni McHugh, National Committee
for Adoption, and Laurie Flynn, North American Council on Adoptable Children,
both of Washington, D.C.; Robert Debolt, Aid to Adoption to Special Kids,
Oakland, California; Clara Valiente Barksdale, Council on Adoptable Children,
and Kathy Sreedhar, representing the Mother Theresa Organization in the United
States, both of New York City; and Elaine Winslow, Alabama Friends of
Adoption, Birmingham.

BROADCAST OF SENATE PROCEEDINGS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. Res. 66,
to establish regulations needed to implement television and radio coverage of
proceedings of the U.S. Senate, receiving testimony from Senators Baker,
Stennis, Long, Danforth, and Moynihan; Walter Cronkite, Columbia Broadcasting
System, New York City; George Will, Washington, D.C.; Julian Goodman,
Larchmont, New York, former Chairman, National Broadcasting Co., and Ed Allen,
Western Communications, Walnut Creek, California, and John P. Frazee, Jr.,
Centel Corporation, Chicago, Illinois, both on behalf of C-SPAN.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATION

Committee on Small Business: Committee approved for reporting the nomination
of Mary F. Wieseman, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Small Business
Administration.

Joint Meeting

NEW FEDERALISM

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review the past and
future impact of the Administration's New Federalism proposals on the private,
non-profit sector, after receiving testimony from Bishop James P. Lyke,
National Catholic Charities, Cleveland, Ohio; Jack Meyers, American Enterprise
Institute, and Lester Salmon, The Urban Institute, both of Washington, D.C.



1983/04/15
Daily Digest - Friday, April 15, 1983; pages D245 - D247 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Dale W. Sopper, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget,
Anthony L. Itteilag, Deputy Secretary for Budget, Richard Kusserow, Inspector
General, Robert Rubin, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, and
Betty Lou Dotson, Director, Office of Civil Rights, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27.

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Legislative
Branch of the government, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology
Assessment; and Alice M. Rivlin, Director, Congressional Budget Office.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 19.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for
military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on the air-breathing
deterrent program, receiving testimony from Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics; Major
General Jasper Welch, Assistant Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research,
Development, and Acquisition; Major General William E. Thurman, USAF, Deputy
for the B-1B, Aeronautics Systems Division; and Brigadier General John Shaud,
Deputy Director, Plans, Headquarters, Air Force.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

GOLD AND SILVER COINS

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 42, to require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint one ounce and
one-half ounce gold bullion coins with legal tender status, and S. 269, to
authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to reissue Morgan silver dollars and
silver dollar bullion coins, from silver now in the National Defense
Stockpile, after receiving testimony from Senators Helms and McClure;
Representative Paul; Manuel H. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
for Economic Policy; Angela M. Buchanan, Treasurer of the United States; Paul
K. Kreuger, Assistant Associate Director for Resources Preparedness, Federal
Emergency Management Agency; William Griffith, Idaho Mining Association,
Wallace, representing the American Mining Congress; Walter L. Frankland, Jr.,
Silver Users Association, Washington, D.C.; Adna Wilde, American Numismatic
Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Luis Vigdor, Manfra, Tordella &
Brookes, New York City; and Mrs. George Busiek, Dallas, Texas.

ALASKA LANDS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands and
Reserved Water concluded hearings on S. 49, to increase the acreage of
specified national preserves in Alaska, thereby easing restrictions on hunting
and trapping on certain lands, after receiving testimony from Senator Stevens;
G. Ray Arnett, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and
Parks; William P. Horn, Deputy Under Secretary of the Interior; Don
Collingsworth and Dick Bishop, both of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game,
Reid Stoops, representing the Office of the Governor of Alaska, Ronald Skoog,
Alaska Sportsmen Council, and Don Schmigse, all of Juneau, Alaska; Daniel
Galbreath, Wildlife Legislative Fund, Columbus, Ohio; Clare Conley, Outdoor
Life Magazine, New York City; Ray Cappelli, Edina, Minnesota, on behalf of the
Safari Club International; J. Michael McCloskey, Sierra Club, San Francisco,
California; Clark Engle, Alaska Hunting Guides Association, Mt. McKinley,
Alaska; Duane Smelser, Foundation for North American Wild Sheep, Warren,
Michigan; Donald Hoyt, Sr., National Trappers Association, Marshall, Michigan;
Stephen S. Boynton, American Fur Resources Institute, Vienna, Virginia; Keith
Apple, Anchorage, Alaska; Mrs. Lyons Brown, Harrods, Kentucky, on behalf of
the National Audubon Society; Mrs. A. Reid Johnson, The Garden Club of
America, Towson, Maryland; Cecil D. Andrus, Boise, Idaho; and J. Warren
Cassidy, National Rifle Association, Wes Hayden, International Association of
Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Paul C. Pritchard, National Parks and Conservation
Association, M. Rupert Cutler, National Audubon Society, Gaylord Nelson, The
Wilderness Society, Sue Russell, Friends of Animals, and Allen Smith,
Defenders of Wildlife, all of Washington, D.C.

EMERGENCY PLANNING AND PREPAREDNESS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on the status of emergency planning and preparedness at
commercial nuclear powerplants, after receiving testimony from Nunzio J.
Palladino, Chairman, Victor Gilinsky, John F. Ahearne, Thomas M. Robens, and
James K. Asselstine, all Commissioners, all of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; Richard Krimm, Assistant Associate Director, Office of Natural and
Technological Hazards, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Murray R. Edelman,
and Frederick W. Buckman, both of the Atomic Industrial Forum, Bethesda,
Maryland; George L. Gleason, American Nuclear Energy Council, and Steven C.
Sholly, and Michael E. Faden, both of the Union of Concerned Scientists, all
of Washington, D.C.; Don Goddard, Oregon Department of Energy, Salem; and
Doran Hughes, Director, Kenosha County Emergency Services Office, Kenosha,
Wisconsin.

METRO NORTH RAIL DISPUTE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1058, to
provide for a resolution to the current labor dispute between the Connecticut
Department of Transportation and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority,
and certain employees to the United Transportation Union, receiving testimony
from Representatives McKinney, and Ratchford; Kent Woodman, Chief Counsel,
Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of Transportation;
Connecticut Governor William O'Neill, and William Burns, Connecticut
Department of Transportation, both of Hanford; Richard Ravitch, New York
Metropolitan Authority, and Theodore W. Kheel, Battle, Fowler, Jaffin Kheel,
both of New York City; Tom Woodruff, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and
William A. Beebe, New Haven, Connecticut, and Richard Frear, Solvay, New York,
both of the United Transportation Union.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BROADCAST OF SENATE PROCEEDINGS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. Res.
66, to establish regulations needed to implement television and radio coverage
of proceedings of the U.S. Senate, after receiving testimony from Senator
Mattingly; and Bruce Miller, Northern Virginia Public Television (WNVT),
Annadale.

Joint Meeting

NATURAL GAS PRICES

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings on the economics of
natural gas deregulation, focusing on the present regulatory system and policy
choices available to Congress in the face of rapid natural gas price
increases, after receiving testimony from Manuel Johnson, Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Economic Policy; Paul MacAvoy, Yale University, New Haven,
Connecticut; Joshua M. Twilley, Delaware Public Service Commission,
Wilmington, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners; and Mark Cooper, Consumer Energy Council of America,
Washington, D.C.



1983/04/18
Daily Digest - Monday, April 18, 1983; pages D247 - D251 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 536 routine
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on S. 675, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the MX
missile program and recommendations of the President's Commission on Strategic
Forces, receiving testimony from Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, USAF (Ret.),
Chairman, and former National Security Council Advisor, and James R.
Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, John M. Deutch, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and William J. Perry, former Under Secretary of
Defense for Research and Engineering, all Members, and Harold Brown, Senior
Counselor, and Former Secretary of Defense, all of the President's Commission
on Strategic Forces.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 20.

AUTHORIZATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on S. 720, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs
and Logistics, and numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

PUBLIC WORKS/JOB INFRASTRUCTURE

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on
national infrastructure issues, and on proposals to develop long-term job
opportunities in public works, including S. 724 and S. 871, receiving
testimony from Janet L. Norwood, Director, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor; Thomas H. Ripley, Manager, Natural Resources, Tennessee
Valley Authority; David J. Mahoney, Norton Simon, Inc., New York City; Solon
B. Cousins, YMCA of the U.S.A., Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of National
Collaboration for Youth; William Spring, Boston Private Industry Council,
Boston, Massachusetts; New Jersey Assembly Speaker Alan Karcher, Trenton, on
behalf of the National Conference of State Legislatures; Sidney Howe, Human
Environment Center, and John Peterson, Government Finance Research Center,
both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S. 774, to revise certain provisions of the Freedom of Information Act by
providing protection of technical data, business trade secrets, invasions of
personal privacy, and law enforcement informants and investigations, receiving
testimony from Jonathan Rose, Assistant Attorney General, Department of
Justice; William Taft, General Counsel, Department of Defense; Charlie Rowe,
Free Lance-Star, Fredricksburg, Virginia; Joan Claybrook, Public Citizens,
Inc., Washington, D.C.; and James O'Reilley, Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 21.

MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review
mathematics and science education in primary and secondary schools, focusing
on the role that the National Science Foundation should play in a national
effort to improve these education programs, receiving testimony from George A.
Keyworth II, Science Advisor to the President, and Director, Office of Science
and Technology Policy; Edward A. Knapp, Director, and Roland W. Schmitt,
Member, National Science Board, both of the National Science Foundation;
Regina Mitchell, Rock Creek Forest Elementary School, Silver Spring, Maryland;
Clinton Brown, Richard Montgomery High School, Rockville, Maryland; Patricia
A. Nussbaum, John Burroughs Elementary School, Iona Brown, Paul Junior High
School, and John Thayer, Ballou Junior High School, all of Washington, D.C.;
Karen J. Howell, Stratford Landing Elementary School, Alexandria, Virginia;
Louis Goffredi, Wakefield High School, Arlington, Virginia; Joseph C. Hogan,
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the National
Society for Engineering Education; Robert M. Parry, University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, on behalf of the American Chemical Society; Franklin Flint,
Randolph-Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, on behalf of the American
Institute for Biological Sciences; and Robert F. Boehm, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, on behalf of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 19, 1983; pages D251 - D258 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

SOIL EROSION

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 663, to prohibit price and other Federal crop supports on
highly-erodible lands which have not been cultivated for agricultural purposes
in the last ten years, after receiving testimony from Senator Armstrong;
Everett Rank, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
Service, and Peter C. Myers, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, both of the
Department of Agriculture; Bruce Hawley, American Farm Bureau Federation,
Washington, D.C.; John Stencel, Rocky Mountain Farmers Union, Denver,
Colorado, representing the National Farmers Union; Ervin Mitchell, Balko,
Oklahoma, representing the National Association of Conservation Districts;
Leon Silkman, Colorado Association of Conservation Districts, Burlington;
Marshall Frazier, Woodrow, Colorado, on behalf of the Colorado Cattleman's
Association; and Norman Berg, Severna Park, Maryland, on behalf of the Soil
Conservation Society of America and American Farmland Trust.

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for agriculture and rural development programs, receiving testimony
from Senators Pryor, Baucus, and Melcher; Representative Sid Morrison; and
numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue on tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for certain defense related programs,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior, from Robert A. Jantzen, Director, who was
accompanied by several of his associates.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--LEGISLATIVE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the Legislative
Branch of the government, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Danford L. Sawyer, Jr., Public Printer, Government
Printing Office; Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress; and Edward W. Ray,
Chairman, Copyright Royalty Tribunal.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held open
and closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
military construction programs of the Air Force, receiving testimony from
Major General Clifton D. Wright, USAF, Director, Engineering and Services.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on S. 720, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony
from Senators Wilson and Percy; Maj. General Norman G. Delbridge, Jr.,
Assistant Chief of Army Engineers; Rear Admiral W. M. Zobel, Commander, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command; Maj. General Clifton D. Wright, USAF,
Director, Engineering and Services; Brig. General Louis H. Buehl, USMC,
Director, Facilities and Services Division, Installations and Logistics
Department; and David C. Roberts, Porta-Kamp Manufacturing Company, Inc.,
Houston, Texas.

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1984 Congressional Budget but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME EXTENSION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on S. 255, to provide that daylight
savings time shall begin each year on the last Sunday of March instead of the
last Sunday of April, after receiving testimony from Senator Mitchell; Joseph
Canny, Deputy Director, Office of Economics, Department of Transportation;
Frank Taylor, Amateur Softball Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Derrick
Crandall, American Recreation Coalition, and John C. Datt, American Farm
Bureau Federation, both of Washington, D.C.; Mike Greiner, Southland
Corporation, Dallas, Texas; Teri Liebowitz, National Association of
Convenience Stores, Falls Church, Virginia; and Fran Denman, Retinitis
Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness, Baltimore, Maryland.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 615,
providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce and
market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported S. Res.
112, expressing the sense of the Senate with respect to the protection of
refugees and civilians caught in the armed conflict on the border between
Thailand and Kampuchea.

Also, committee began markup of S. 639, to authorize supplemental funds for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1983 to promote the economic and political
stability of Lebanon, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.

BEIRUT SITUATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current situation in Beirut from Lawrence S. Eagleburger,
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.

Committee recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) Ordered favorably reported S. 529, to revise and reform the Nation's
immigration laws, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

(2) Ordered reported, without recommendation, S.J. Res. 3, to establish
legislative authority in Congress and the States with respect to abortion;

(3) Ordered favorably reported with amendments 5. 445, to implement changes in
the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978. (As approved by the committee, the bill
incorporates provisions of S. 333, S. 549, and S. 492, listed below);

(4) Ordered favorably reported S. 333, to discourage debtors from buying large
quantities of goods on credit in anticipation of filing for bankruptcy;

(5) Ordered favorably reported S. 549, to protect the interests of shopping
centers and their tenants in the event of bankruptcy with amendments;

(6) Ordered favorably reported S. 492, to protect holders of timesharing
agreements in resort properties in the event of bankruptcy of the timesharing
contractor who owns the property;

(7) Ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 45, to designate November 20 through
November 26, 1983, as "National Family Week";

(8) Ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 78, to designate April 24 through
April 30, 1983, as "National Organ Donation Awareness Week";

(9) Ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 81, to designate October 16, 1983, as
"World Food Day";

(10) Ordered favorably reported S.J. Res. 82, designating November, 1983, as
"National Alzheimer's Disease Month"; and

(11) The nomination of William H. Barbour, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for
the Southern District of Mississippi.

RAILROAD RETIREMENT SYSTEM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review
proposals to solve the financial problems of the rail industry pension system
and the rail industry unemployment insurance system, including S. 1076,
receiving testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and
Budget; William H. Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, Charles I.
Hopkins, National Railway Labor Conference, Fred A. Hardin, and Ole M. Berge,
both of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, and Lloyd L. Duxbury,
Railroad Retirement Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Patrick
Mendillo, National Association of Retired and Veteran Railroad Employees, New
York City.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

INDIAN HOUSING

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 856,
authorizing funds for fiscal Years 1984 through 1987 for Indian housing
programs, after receiving testimony from Senators Murkovvski and Stennis; John
Fritz, Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Indian Services, and G. Ronald
Peake, Chief, Division of Housing Assistance, both of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, Department of the Interior; Everett Rhoades, Director, and Bill
Pearson, Director, Office of Environmental Health, both of the Indian Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Phil Abrams, General Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Housing, Sandra L. Allison, Special Assistant to the
Deputy Assistant of Housing for Single Family Housing and Mortgagee
Activities, Pat Amado, Acting Director, Office of Indian Housing, and Ray
Combs, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
(Indian and Alaska Native Programs), all of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development; Gilbert Pena, All Indian Pueblo Council, and David A.
Perez, North Pueblo Housing Authority, both of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Darrel
Wadena, on behalf of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Cass Lake; Don Mitchell,
Alaska Federation of Natives, Anchorage; Ron Andrade, National Congress of
American Indians, and Phillip Martin, National Tribal Chairmen's Association,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Nathan Young III, and Ron Froman, both of the
National American Indian Housing Council, Carson City, Nevada.

AUTHORIZATIONS--INTELLIGENCE

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee began consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the intelligence
community, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 20, 1983; pages D258 - D264 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for agriculture and rural development programs, receiving testimony
from Senators Leahy and Jepsen; and numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--U.S. COURTS/ITC/MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit, and Judge Solomon Blatt, Jr., U.S. District Judge for the
District of South Carolina, both on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the
United States; William E. Foley, Director, Administrative Office of the United
States Courts; A. Leo Levin, Director, Federal Judicial Center; Alfred E.
Eckes, Chairman, International Trade Commission; and H. E. Shear, Maritime
Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Also, Subcommittee received testimony from numerous public witnesses in behalf
of funds for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for certain defense related
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 10.

APPROPRIATIONS--FOSSIL ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for fossil energy research and development from
Jan W. Mares, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--EXECUTIVE/OMB

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from John F. W. Rogers, Special Assistant to the President for Management, and
Director, Office of Administration; Colonel Michael 0. Wheeler, Staff
Secretary, National Security Council; Joshua A. Muss, Executive Director,
Property Review Board; and numerous public witnesses.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 675, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the MX
missile program and the recommendations of the President's Commission on
Strategic Forces, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of
State; and Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Harry O'Connor, of California, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup of S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

TVA/CLINCH RIVER

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Regional and
Community Development concluded hearings to review the Tennessee Valley
Authority participation in alternative financing for the Clinch River Breeder
Reactor project, focusing on the Department of Energy's refusal to specify the
cost and source of plutonium fuel for the project, after receiving testimony
from William R. Voigt, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Uranium
Enrichment and Assessment; William F. Willis, General Manager, and Lewis
Wallace, Deputy General Counsel, both of the Tennessee Valley Authority; and
William Chandler, representing the Environmental Policy Center, Washington,
D.C.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee completed markup, but did not take
final action thereon, the following bills:

S. 639, to authorize supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30,
1983 to promote the economic and political stability of Lebanon;

S. 609, to authorize funds for U.S. participation in the African Development
Fund; and

S. 984, to authorize funds for U.S. participation in the Inter-American
Development Bank.

Also, the committee began markup of S. 660, to authorize funds for fiscal
years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, S. 734, to authorize funds
for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the U.S. Information Agency, and S. 694, to
authorize supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Board for International
Broadcasting, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow.

EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities approved for full committee consideration with amendments S. 530,
to provide Federal assistance to upgrade instruction in mathematics, science,
computer technology and foreign languages in the nation's institutions, and to
provide assistance for employment-based vocational training programs.

AUTHORIZATIONS--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. 840,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986 for the National
Museum Act, S. 929, to remove the authorization ceiling on Barro Colorado
Island in the Republic of Panama for expenses related to preserving and
conserving its natural features for research purposes, and S. 930, to
authorize the purchase of land by the Smithsonian Institution in Arizona for
the permanent headquarters of the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, after
receiving testimony from S. Dillon Ripley, Secretary, Phillip S. Hughes, Under
Secretary, David Challinor, Assistant Secretary for Science, and Paul N.
Perrot, Assistant Secretary for Museum Programs, all of the Smithsonian
Institution.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:

S. 578, to establish an adult day health care program and community
residential care facilities, to add dysthymic disorder as a presumptive
disease which is used as a basis for disability compensation and eligibility
for VA medical care, and to place restrictions on beneficiary travel to and
from VA medical facilities for treatment, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates certain
provisions of S. 11, S. 567, S. 629, and S. 664); and

S. 636, to provide for judicial review of certain administrative decisions of
the Veterans' Administration, to codify certain VA adjudication procedures, to
improve the VA appeals process, to require the VA to comply with certain
rulemaking procedures, and to provide for reasonable fees to attorneys serving
as legal counsel for veterans, with an amendment.

VETERANS JOB TRAINING

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 992, and S.
1033, bills to provide emergency job training and employment programs for
veterans, after receiving testimony from William C. Plowden, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment; Donald Shasteen, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment; Dorothy Starbuck, Chief Benefits
Director, James P. Kane, Assistant General Counsel, June Shaefer, Assistant
Director for Policy and Program-Administration Education Service, and Stephen
L. Lemons, Director, Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling Service, all of
the Veterans' Administration; and Paul Egan and James G. Bourie, both on
behalf of the American Legion, and Phil Mayo, and Kim Graham, both on behalf
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Ronald W. Drach,
Disabled American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 21, 1983; pages D264 - D271 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984 for agriculture and rural development programs, after
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.

APPROPRIATIONS--STATE/INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; and Gregory J. Newell,
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.

APPROPRIATIONS--NASA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration from James M. Beggs, Administrator, NASA.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 28.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDIAN EDUCATION/INDIAN HEALTH

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Indian education from Lawrence F. Davenport,
Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education, and
Hakim Khan, Acting Director, Indian Education Programs, Office of Elementary
and Secondary Education, Department of Education; and in behalf of funds for
Indian health programs from Robert Graham, Administrator, and Everett R.
Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, both of the Health Resources and
Services Administration, Department of Health and Human Services.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.

APPROPRIATIONS--TREASURY

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of the
Treasury from Donald T. Regan, Secretary.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 25.

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of General John A. Wickham, Jr., to be Chief of Army Staff, and
3,696 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.

Prior to this action, the Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
General Wickham, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Sasser
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on S. 675,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the MX missile program and the recommendations of the President's
Commission on Strategic Forces, receiving testimony from General John W.
Vessey, Jr., USA, Chairman, and General Edward C. Meyer, Chief of Army Staff,
Admiral James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations, General Charles A.
Gabriel, Chief of Air Force Staff, and General Robert H. Barrow, Commandant
United States Marine Corps, all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings continue on Monday, April 25.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed open and
closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on readiness, operation and
maintenance budget for the U.S. Navy, and naval reserve status, receiving
testimony from Vice Admiral Arthur S. Moreau, Jr., Deputy Chief of Naval
Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations; Rear Admiral Robert F. Dunn,
Director of Naval Reserve; and Commodore Gerald L. Riendeau, Director,
Operations Division, Fiscal Management Division, U.S. Navy.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. 27) on the budget, setting forth
recommended levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget
authority for fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986, and revising the
congressional budget for fiscal year ending September 30, 1983.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

S. 1097, authorizing $568,089,000 for certain atmospheric and satellite
programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with
amendments;

S. 1098, authorizing $44,550,000 for certain ocean and coastal programs of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with an amendment;

S. 1099, authorizing $71,500,000 for certain marine fishery programs of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;

S. 1100, authorizing $260,500,000 for program support and certain ocean and
coastal programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration;

S. 1101, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986 for certain
fishery programs. (As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $2
million per year for programs administered by the Department of Commerce, $2
million per year for programs administered by the Department of Agriculture,
and $1 million per year for programs administered by the Department of the
Interior.);

S. 655, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the National Sea
Grant College programs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the
committee, the bill authorizes  $42 million for fiscal year 1984 and $46
million for fiscal year 1985.);

S. 925, making technical corrections in the Atlantic Salmon Convention Act of
1982;

S. 1037, authorizing $55 million for fiscal year 1984 for maritime programs
administered by the Department of Transportation, and $11,324,000 for fiscal
year 1984 for the Federal Maritime Commission, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;

S. 800, establishing an ocean and coastal development impact assistance fund
from revenue generated by Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S. 66, creating a jurisdictional framework to apportion the authority
regulating cable systems between Federal and State governments, and providing
for a competitive marketplace for cable systems in the telecommunications
industry, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;

S. 1117, authorizing $750 million for fiscal year 1984, and $800 million for
fiscal year 1985 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, with
amendments;

S. 1096, authorizing $7,278.1 million for fiscal year 1984 for research and
development, construction of facilities, and research and program management
programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with
amendments;

S. 212, authorizing funds for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration. (As
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $13 million for fiscal year
1984, $14 million for fiscal year 1985, and $15 million for fiscal year 1986);
and

S.J. Res. 69, to provide for the establishment of a cooperative effort between
the U.S. Government and the U.S. Soccer Federation in bringing the World Cup
to the United States in 1986.

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 255, providing that daylight
savings time shall begin each year on the last Sunday in March instead of the
last Sunday in April, but did not complete action thereon.

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of James H. Burnley IV, of North Carolina, to be
General Counsel, Department of Transportation, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup on S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.

UNEMPLOYMENT HEALTH BENEFITS

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 307, and S. 951, bills to
provide continued health protection for certain individuals who lost their
health insurance coverage as a result of being involuntarily unemployed,
receiving testimony from Senators Specter and Riegle; Joseph F. Boyle and
James H. Sammons, both of the American Medical Association, Jack W. Owen, on
behalf of the American Hospital Association, and J. Bruce Cardwell, Blue
Cross/Blue Shield Association, all of Chicago, Illinois; James E. Strain and
Don Blim, both of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Arlington, Virginia; Tom
Samek, Jones & Laughlin, Green County, Pennsylvania; William Hirsch, Mercy
Hospital, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on behalf of Operation Touch; Martin
Wasserman, Arlington County Department of Human Resources, Arlington,
Virginia; and Larry S. Gage, National Association of Public Hospitals, Ray
Denison, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, J.
Martin Dickler, Health Insurance Association of America, Donald T. Bliss, on
behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers, Willis B. Goldbeck,
Washington Business Group on Health, Jan Peter Ozga and Eric Oxfeld, both of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Matthew Coffey, National Association of
Counties, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 26.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued markup of S. 660, to
authorize funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Department of State, S.
734, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the U.S.
Information Agency, and S. 694, to authorize supplemental funds for fiscal
year ending September 30, 1983, and to authorize funds for fiscal years 1984
and 1985 for the Board for International Broadcasting, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, April 26.

NOMINATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Joseph H. Sherick, of Virginia, to be Inspector General,
Department of Defense, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
his own behalf.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 774, to revise certain provisions of the Freedom of Information
Act by providing protection of technical data, business trade secrets, against
invasions of personal privacy, and law enforcement informants and
investigations, after receiving testimony from William Webster, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; and Allan Adler, on
behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, Robert Lewis, Newhouse News
Service, on behalf of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta
Chi, and Page Miller, National Cooperative Committee for the Promotion of
History, all of Washington, D.C.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/25
Daily Digest - Monday, April 25, 1983; pages D272 - D276 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed personnel reductions for the U.S.
Customs Services as contained in the proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from
Representatives Bennett, Shaw, Wyden, and Moody; and Alfred R. DeAngelus,
Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, and Com Beebe, Assistant Secretary
for Administration, both of the Department of the Treasury.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 27.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 675, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
international security issues, receiving testimony from General Bernard W.
Rogers, USA, Supreme Allied Commander (Europe), and Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
European Command; Lt. General Joseph Palastra, USA, Deputy Commander-in-Chief,
Pacific Command; Rear Admiral Jonathan T. Howe, USN, Director, Bureau of
Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State; and William Hoehn, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on Strategic
and Theater Nuclear Forces resumed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1984 for military programs of the Department of Defense, focusing
on the report by the President's Commisson on Strategic Forces on the basing
of the MX missile, receiving testimony from Herbert Scoville, Arms Control
Association, McLean, Virginia; Jeremy Stone, Federation of American
Scientists, Washington, D.C.; and Henry Kendall, Union of Concerned
Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts; General David C. Jones, USAF (Ret.),
former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. General Kelly Burke, USAF (Ret.),
former Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research and Engineering; Lt.
General Glenn Kent, USAF (Ret.), former Director, Weapon System Evaluation
Group; and Admiral Noel Gayler, USN (Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief,
Pacific.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

FAIR PRACTICES INSURANCE

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 372, to promote interstate commerce by prohibiting discrimination in the
writing and selling of insurance contracts, receiving testimony from Ralph G.
Neas, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Evelyn Dubrow, International
Ladies Garment Workers Union, Thomas A. O'Day, Alliance of American Insurers,
and T. Lawrence Jones, American Insurance Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, representing the
American Association of University Professors; Juanita Hunter, State
University of New York, Buffalo, representing the American Nurses Association;
John Ingram, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, Raleigh; Louis V.
Wilson, Oregon Automobile Insurance Company, Portland, representing the
National Association of Independent Insurers; and Jasper Jackson, New Jersey
Department of the Public Advocate, Trenton.

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 19.

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Theodore J. Garrish, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the
Department of Energy, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

FEDERAL TIMBER CONTRACTS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee
on Public Lands and Reserved Water held hearings on S. 916 and S. 848, bills
to provide for the termination, extension or modification of certain contracts
for the sale of Federal timber, receiving testimony from John B. Crowell,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; R.
Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture;
California State Senator Barry Keene, Sacramento; Commissioner Bill Coates,
Plumas County, Quincy, California; Commissioner Dave. Cooper, Linn County,
Oregon; Ray Doerner, Association of O & C Counties, Roseburg, Oregon; Frank
Servoss, Western Bank, Coos Bay, Oregon; Dean Beck, Rollins, Burdick and
Hunter, and John Davenport, Allied Forest Products Inc., both of Portland,
Oregon; Barbara Webb, Webco, Grants Pass, Oregon; Mike Burrill, Eugene F.
Burrill Company, and Duane Crites, Timber Products Company, both of Medford,
Oregon; John Davis, Willamette Industries, Albany, Oregon; Charles Shotts,
Northwest Pine Association, Gilchrist, Oregon; James F. Stock, Clear Lumber
Company, Sweet Home, Oregon; A. A. Emmerson, Sierra Pacific Industries,
Arcata, California; George Cheek, Potlatch Corporation, San Francisco,
California; George Schmidbauer, Schmidbauer Lumber Company, Eureka,
California; Paul Heyrend, Heyrend Lumber Company, Artois, California, on
behalf of the Small Sawmill Owners Association; Harold Smith, RSG Forest
Products, Kalama, Washington; Forrest H. Dobson, W. I. Forest Products,
Wilsonville, Oregon; Juan Garcia, Tacoma, Washington; Jim O'Donnell, Northwest
Pine Association, Spokane, Washington; Kirk Ewart, Boise Cascade Corporation,
Boise, Idaho; Bob Hitchcock, Evergreen Forest Products, Inc., New Meadows,
Idaho; William Harrison, Millway Lumber Company, Bradley, South Carolina;
Robert L. Davis, Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers Association, Forest Park,
Georgia; Gene H. White, Burnett Lumber Company Inc., Heavener, Oklahoma;
Dennis Baird, on behalf of the Idaho Environmental Council, Moscow; Paul
Ehinger, Western Resource Alliance, Eugene, Oregon; and Gary Jones, Summit
Timber Company, Harry Pryde, National Home Builders Association, and Peter
Kirby, The Wilderness Society, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee
on Water Resources held hearings on S. 947, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1984 through 1988 for water resources construction projects of the Corps of
Engineers, receiving testimony from William R. Gianelli, Assistant Secretary
of the Army for Civil Works; Robert Townsend, San Bernardino County, K. T.
Karabatsos, Riverside County, and George Osborne, Orange County, all on behalf
of the Santa Ana Flood Control Project, California; Benjamin Dysart III and Ed
Osann, both of the National Wildlife Federation, Brent Blackwelder, Water
Resources Policy Project, and Jeffrey Stant, National Taxpayers Union, all of
Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 17.

NOMINATION

Committee on Finance: Committee approved for reporting the nomination of
Alfred H. Kingon, of pew York, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce or
International Economic Policy.

On Friday, April 22, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr.
Kingon, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

ENTERPRISE ZONES

Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 22, the committee held hearings on S.
98, S. 634, and S. 863, bills to provide tax incentives for businesses in
economically depressed areas to stimulate job programs, receiving testimony
from Senator Boschwitz; Representative Garcia; Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; William S. McKee, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Frank Swain, Chief Counsel
for Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Mayor George Voinovich, and Russ
Geuther, McDonald and Company, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Mayor Douglas DeGood,
on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, George W. Haigh, Toledo Economic
Planning Council, and Reuben Bumpus, The R. F. Bumpus Company, all Toledo,
Ohio; and Arnold Cantor, representing the AFL/CIO, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Alvin P. Adams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Djibouti, Jay P. Moffat, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Chad, and James D. Rosenthal, of California, to be Ambassador to
the People's Revolutionary Republic of Guinea, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf.

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH PROMOTION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 771,
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986 for health promotion and disease
prevention programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Edward N. Brandt, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Health, and
William H. Foege, Director, Centers for Disease Control, Robert A. Graham,
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, William Mayer,
Director, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and James B.
Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health, all of the Public Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services; James 0. Mason, Utah
Department of Health, Salt Lake City, on behalf of the National Governors
Association; Douglas S. Lloyd, Connecticut Department of Health, Hartford, on
behalf of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials; William
F. Bridgers, University of Alabama, Birmingham, on behalf of the Association
of Schools of Public Health; and F. Douglas Scutchfield, San Diego State
University, San Diego, California, on behalf of the Association of Teachers of
Preventive Medicine.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity approved for full committee consideration with amendments 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.

DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, April 22, Subcommittee on
Family and Human Services concluded hearings on S. 1129 and S. 1130, bills
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986 for programs under the Domestic
Volunteer Service Act (VISTA/ACTION), and to allow volunteers to be locally
recruited and assigned to projects in order to alleviate proverty and
poverty-related human problems, receiving testimony from Thomas Pauken,
Director, ACTION Agency; Joseph Trotta, Connecticut Department of Corrections,
Hartford; Cecilia Jesilowski, United Societies of Saint Stanislaus,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Betty Miller, Association of Foster Grandparent
Program Directors, Sacramento, California; and James Rummel, National
Association of RSVP Program Directors, and John Pribyl, National Association
of Senior Companion Project Directors, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Joint Meeting

U.S. ECONOMY--INFLATION

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, April 22, committee concluded hearings on
the effects of declining inflation on the U.S. economy, after receiving
testimony from Martin Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.



1983/04/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 26, 1983; pages D276 - D282 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--NOAA/SBA/MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1984, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John V. Byrne, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; James C. Sanders, Administrator, Small
Business Administration; and Donald K. MacCallum, Commissioner, Marine Mammal
Commission.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--D.C.

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from James Buford, Director, Department of Human
Services; and Judge Gladys Kessler, Family Division, District of Columbia
Courts.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of the Secretary of the Interior
from J. Robinson West, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy, Budget
and Administration; in behalf of funds for the Office of the Solicitor from
William H. Coldiron, Solicitor, Department of the Interior; and in behalf of
funds for the Office of Inspector General from Richard Mulberry, Inspector
General, Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee from
numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984
for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony on the MX missile program
from General Bennie Davis, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command;
McGeorge Bundy, former National Security Adviser; William J. Perry, former
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; and Admiral Noel
Gayler, USN, (Ret.), former Director, National Security Agency.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Committee held oversight
hearings to review the developments in markets for banking and other financial
services, focusing on the regulation and supervision of the banking industry,
receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed markup of S. 615,
providing for a free market, to establish long-term incentives to produce and
market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

S. Res. 116, deploring the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and
expressing the sorrow and condolences of the Senate on the death and wounding
of Americans caught in the bombing, with amendments; and

The nominations of John G. Weinmann, of Louisiana, to be Commissioner General
of the U.S. Government for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, Alvin P.
Adams, Jr., of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Djibouti, Jay P.
Moffat, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Chad, and James
D. Rosenthal, of California, to be Ambassador to the People's Revolutionary
Republic of Guinea.

Also, the committee concluded markup of, but did not take final action
thereon, S. 660, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the
Department of State, S. 134, to authorize funds for fiscal. years 1984 and
1985 for the U.S. Information Agency, and S. 694, to authorize supplemental
funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and to authorize funds for
fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Board for International Broadcasting.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Helene A. Von Damm, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to Austria, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Lautenberg, Bradley, and Laxalt,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.

DEPARTMENT OF TRADE

Committee on Governmental Affairs.: Committee resumed hearings on S. 121, to
establish a U.S. Department of Trade as an executive department of the Federal
Government, receiving testimony from Robert S. Strauss, former Special Trade
Representative.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND HEALTH PROMOTION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
771, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1986 for the promotion and disease
prevention programs of the Department of Health and Human Services, after
receiving testimony on the role of the private sector from Beverly Sills, New
York City, representing the March of Dimes, White Plains, .New York; Ted
Cooper, The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, representing the American Red
Cross; Drew Pearson, Dallas, Texas, and Paul Cavaghan, both representing the
Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Washington, D.C.; Edgar G.
Davis, Eli Lilly Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, representing the Business
Roundtable Task Force on Health Staff; Frances M. West, Wilmington, Delaware,
on behalf of the National Council for Patient Information and Education;
Joseph A. Boyle, Los Angels, California, on behalf of the American Medical
Association; Burton Press, Walnut Creek, California, on behalf of the American
Dental Association; George Albee, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont,
representing the American Psychological Association; Mary Jacobsen, Omaha,
Nebraska, on behalf of the National Association of Parents for Drug-Free
Youth; Bernie Boswell, Cottage Program, International, Salt Lake City, Utah;
and Walt Aldorisio, Center Grove High School, Greenwood, Indiana.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 27, 1983; pages D282 - D289 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--D.C.

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Chief Judge Theodore Newman, Court of Appeals,
Chief Judge Carl Moultrie, Superior Court, Larry Polansky, Executive Director,
D.C. Court System, and Judge Gladys Kessler, Family Division, all on behalf of
the District of Columbia Courts; Chief Maurice Turner, on behalf of the
Metropolitan Police Department; James Palmer, Director, and James Freeman,
Assistant Director for Corrections, both of the District of Columbia
Department of Corrections; Judith Rogers, Corporation Counsel; and Judge
Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Attorney.

Hearings continue on tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for land and water conservation programs for
Craig Potter, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks,
Garrey Carruthers, Assistant Secretary for Land and Water Resources, Russell
E. Dickenson, Director, National Park Service, Robert A. Jantzen, Director,
Fish and Wildlife Service, Frank A. Edwards, Assistant Director for Land
Resources, Bureau of Land Management, and R. Dale Fazio, Office of Budget,
Office of the Secretary, all of the Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION

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 those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984
for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee from
numerous public witnesses.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

APPROPRIATIONS--OMB

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on the proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1984 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from
David R. Stockman, Director, OMB.

Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness held open and closed
hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on Army ammunition and Air Force munitions and
miscellaneous equipment, receiving testimony from Brig. General Alfred G.
Hansen, Director, Logistics Plans and Programs, and Deputy Chief of Air Force
Staff for Logistics and Engineering; and Brig. General Phillip H. Mason,
Director, Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy Chief of Army Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition.

Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to review developments in markets for banking and other
financial services, focusing on regulation and supervision of the banking
industry, receiving testimony from William M. Isaac, Chairman, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation; C. Todd Conover, Comptroller of the Currency,
Department of the Treasury; Richard T. Pratt, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank
Board; and Edgar F. Callahan, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 3.

NOMINATION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Harry O'Connor, of California, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

PRODUCT LIABILITY ACT

Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 44, to provide for a uniform product liability law
within interstate commerce, after receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini;
Representative Broyhill; Howard A. Specter, and Thomas Bendorf, both of the
Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Dirk Van Dongen, and Louis R.
Marchese, both of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, Victor
E. Schwartz, The Product Liability Alliance, John P. Brown, John Brown &
Company, Martin F. Connor, National Association of Manufacturers, Larry Gold,
AFL-CIO, and James H. Mack, Natio Machine Tool Builders Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Karl Asch, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Ch Justice Jack Pope,
Supreme Court of Texas, Austin; U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton, U.S.
District Court for Connecticut, Bridgeport; James Jeans, Sr., University of
Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; Lewis Rich, New York State Senate
Commerce Committee, Albany; Arthur Larson, Duke University, Durham, North
Carolina; and Howard Fark, Minster Machine Company, Minister, Ohio.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup on S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce 
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not
complete action thereon, and  will meet again tomorrow.

HEALTH BENEFITS FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings  on S. 307 and S. 951,
bills to provide continued health protection for certain individuals who lost 
their health insurance coverage as a result of being  involuntarily
unemployed, after receiving testimony  from David A. Stockman, Director,
Office of Management and Budget.

RADIO BROADCASTING TO CUBA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 602 and .S. 659,
bills to provide Federal  funding for radio broadcasting to Cuba, receiving 
testimony from Senators Grassley, Chiles, and Hawkins; Thomas O. Enders,
Assistant Secretary of State  for Inter-American Affairs; Edward O. Fritts,
National Association of Broadcasters, and Wayne S. Smith, Carnegie Endowment
for International  Peace, both of Washington, D.C.; H. Wayne  Hudson, Plough
Broadcasting Company, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee; and Robert G. Engelhardt,
Palmer Communications, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa.; F.F. Lynch, Great Empire
Broadcasting, Inc., Wichita, Kansas; and Mathew Liebowitz, Florida Association
of Broadcasters, Miami.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
establishment of the National Endowment for Democracy as a private nonprofit
corporation, to be administered by the U.S. Information Agency, after
receiving testimony from Representative Fascell; Alan Weinstein, Program
Director, Endowment for the Democracies Project; and representatives of the
Republican National Committee, Democratic National Committee, and the AFL-CIO.

OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held hearings on S. 1001, authorizing funds through fiscal year
1988 for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy within the Office of
Management and Budget, receiving testimony from Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy
Director, and Donald E. Sowle, Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement
Policy, both of the Office of Management and Budget; and Lester A. Fettig,
former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy, Hugh E. Witt,
United Technologies Corporation, representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
John Cibinic, Jr., George Washington University, Robert D. Wallick, Steptoe &
Johnson, representing the American Bar Association, and 0. S. Hiestand,
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to investigate alleged involvement of organized crime and
mismanagement of funds in the hotel and restaurant workers' union (HEREIU),
receiving testimony on the control of Chicago organized crime elements over
the hotel worker union from Barbara Cart, Staff Counsel, David Faulkner, Staff
Investigator, both of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; William
Flemming, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Department of
Justice; and Joseph Hauser, a Federally protected witness.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Joel M. Flaum, of Illinois, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit,
and Ricardo H. Hinojosa, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District
of Texas, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Flaum was introduced by Senator Percy, and Mr. Hinojosa was
introduced by Senator Tower.

No Joint hearings noted.



1983/04/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 28, 1983; pages D289 - D297 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--D.C.

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates Mr fiscal year 1984 for the
government of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from David Eaton, President, and Floretta
McKenzie, Superintendent of Schools, both on behalf of funds for the Board of
Education; and Theodore Coleman, Chief, D.C. Fire Department.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 4.

APPROPRIATIONS--FEMA AND NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORP.

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 Louis 0.
Giuffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and William A.
Whiteside, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 5.

APPROPRIATIONS--STRATEGIC/NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and the Naval
Petroleum Reserve from William A. Vaughan, Assistant Secretary, Environmental
Protection, Safety, and Emergency Preparedness, Ronald L. Winkler, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Energy Emergencies, Richard D. Furiga, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and Captain Gordon R.
Gilmore, Director of Naval Petroleum and Oil Shale Reserves, all of the
Department of Energy.

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 2.

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1984 for those programs which fall within the
jurisdiction of the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses.

Hearings continue on tomorrow.

APPROPRIATIONS--ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984 for those programs
which fall within its legislative jurisdiction, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Office of the Architect of the Capitol from George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol.

APPROPRIATIONS--GSA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1984 for the General Services Administration, receiving testimony from Gerald
P. Carmen, Administrator, GSA; and to discuss the substance of S. 102, to
allow State and local governments to acquire surplus Federal real property at
reduced cost for public park or recreation use, receiving testimony from
Senator Pell.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness concluded open and
closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1984 for military
programs of the Department of Defense, focusing on readiness, operation and
maintenance budget for the U.S. Air Force and its reserve components, after
receiving testimony from Lt. General John T. Chain, Deputy Chief of Air Force
Staff for Plans and Operations; Maj. General Truman Spangrud, Director of Air
Force Budget; Brig. General Alfred G. Hansen, Director, Air Force Logistics
Plans; Brig. General-Selectee Charles D. Metcalf, Deputy Director for
Operating Appropriations, Office of the Director of the Air Force Budget; Maj.
General John B. Conaway, Director, Air National Guard; and Maj. General Sloan
R. Gill, Chief, Air Force Reserve.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:

S. 695, to authorize funds for an increase in the U.S. quota in the
International Monetary Fund and to authorize funds for increased participation
in the IMF's General Arrangements to Borrow, with amendments; and

S. 869, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1989 for the Export-Import Bank
of the United States, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

NATURAL GAS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee continued markup on S.
615, providing for a free market to establish long-term incentives to produce
and market ample natural gas supplies at a reasonable cost, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again On Wednesday, May 4.

TUITION TAX CREDITS

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 528, to provide a
Federal income tax credit for tuition paid for the elementary or secondary
education of a dependent, after receiving testimony from Terrel H. Bell,
Secretary of Education; Gary Jones, Under Secretary of Education; Gary Bauer,
Deputy Under Secretary of Education; John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Tax Policy; William B. Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General,
Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice; Wallie Simpson, Lower East Side
Community School, on behalf of Council for American Private Education, Thomas
Vitullo-Martin, Metroconomy, Inc., Nathan Dershowitz, American Jewish
Congress, and Rabbi Menachem Lubinsky, Agudath Israel of America, all of New
York City; Richard B. Dingman, The Moral Majority, Althea T. L. Simmons,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Thomas Gallagher,
U.S. Catholic Conference, William J. Lehrfeld, Lehrfeld & Henzke, on behalf of
the Knights of Columbus, The Catholic Daughters of America, the Daughters of
Isabella, The National Council of Catholic Women, the National Catholic
Education Association, and Citizens for Educational Freedom, Sister Renee
Oliver, Citizens for Educational Freedom, Greg Humphrey, American Federation
of Teachers, Bernie Freitag, National Education Association, and Michael
Casserly, Council of Great City Schools, all of Washington, D.C., James M.
Dunn, Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs, on behalf of Americans United
for Separation of Church and State, Silver Spring, Maryland; Edgar D.
Whitcomb, on behalf of Accelerated Christian Education, Inc., Lewisville,
Texas; and Nancy Lindberg, Kansas Chapter of the National Education
Association, Topeka.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

(1) S. 608, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the 141.5.
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, with amendments;

(2) An original bill (S. 1342) authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Department of State, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the U.S. Information Agency, and authorizing supplemental funds for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1983, and funds for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Board for International Broadcasting, in lieu of S. 660, S. 734,
and S. 694;

(3) An original resolution (S. Res. 152) waiving section 402(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to Senate consideration of
certain provisions of the aforementioned original bill; 

(4) An original bill (S. 1310) authorizing funds for the U.S. participation in
the African Development` Fund, and authorizing funds for fiscal years 1984 and
1985 for the Inter-American Development Bank, lieu of S. 609 and S. 984;

(5) S. 639, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September
30, 1983 to promote the economic and political stability of Lebanon, with
amendments;

(6) An original resolution (S. Res. 131) waiving section 402(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to Senate consideration of S.
639, listed above; and

(7) The nomination of Helene A. von Damm, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to
Austria.

Also, the committee began markup of S. 637, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1984 and 1985 for international security and development assistance programs,
S. 638, authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30,
1983 for international security assistance, S. 701, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Peace Corps, and S. 714, authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1984 and 1985 for the Inter-American Foundation, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, May 5.

NOMINATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John L. Ryan, of Indiana, to be a Governor of the U.S. Postal
Service, and Maria L. Johnson, of Alaska, to be a Member of the Merit Systems
Protection Board, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Ms. Johnson was introduced by Senator Murkowski and Representative
Don Young.

ORGANIZED CRIME

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to investigate alleged involvement of organized crime and
mismanagement of funds in the hotel and restaurant workers union (HEREIU),
focusing on alleged organized crime infiltration and problems with benefit
plans of Local 355 in Miami, Florida, receiving testimony from Brian Hitt,
Special Agent (New York City), and Joseph Gavalis, Resident Agent (Atlanta,
Georgia), both of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Department of
Labor; David Faulkner, Staff Investigator, Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations; and Joel Keller, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

EQUAL ACCESS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 815, and S. 1059,
and the substance of S. 425, bills to provide equal access and opportunities
to public school and public college students who wish to meet voluntarily for
religious purposes, receiving testimony from Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of
Education; Bonnie Bailey, Monterey High School, Lubbock, Texas; Lisa Bender,
Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Richard Ocker, Hamilton Elementary School,
Carlisle, Pennsylvania; Stuart S. Kennedy, North Clayton Junior High School,
Riverdale, Georgia; Sarah Scanlon, Sonoma Valley High School, Sonoma,
California; Peter Eagan, Snohomish High School, Seattle, Washington; William
F. Kidd, Anoka High School, Anoka, Minnesota; Judith Jankowski, Osseo High
School, Osseo, Minnesota; Lynn R. Buzzard, Christian Legal Society,
Springfield, Virginia; W. W. Finlator, Raleigh, North Carolina, representing
the American Civil Liberties Union; Herbert W. Titus, CBN University, Virginia
Beach, Virginia; Patrick Monaghan, Catholic League for Civil and Religious
Rights, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Charles E. Klein, Campus Crusade for Christ, San
Diego, California; Jimmy Allen, Americans United for Separation of Church and
State, Silver Spring, Maryland; John Erickson, Fellowship of Christian
Athletes, Kansas City, Missouri; and Forrest Montgomery, National Association
of Evangelicals, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

LAWYER'S DUTY OF DISCLOSURE

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Law held hearings on S.
485, providing that a lawyer must inform Federal law enforcement authorities
upon discovering that a client whom he has assisted is intent upon criminal
activity or has misappropriated his legal advice to aid in the perpetration of
a crime or fraud, receiving testimony from Daniel L. Goelzer, General Counsel,
Linda Fienberg, Associate General Counsel, and Paul Gonson, Solicitor, all of
the Securities and Exchange Commission; George E. Bushnell, Jr., Detroit,
Michigan, representing the American Bar Association; Monroe H. Freedman,
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York; Robert 0. Hetlage, St. Louis,
Missouri; Arnold I. Burns, Burns, Summit, Rovins and Feldesman, New York City; 
and Michael Bloom, Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

FEDERALISM AND FEDERAL JUDICIARY

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Separation of Powers resumed
hearings to explore certain Federal court procedures relating to the
exclusionary rule, habeas corpus, and related matters, receiving testimony
from John S. Baker, Jr., Louisiana State University Law Center, Baton Rouge.

Hearings continue Wednesday, May 4.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations of Donald M. Muchmore, of California, to be a Member of the
National Museum Services Board, Charles R. Ritcheson, of California, to be a
Member of the National Council on the Humanities, and R. Budd Gould, of
Montana, to be a Member of the National Council on the Handicapped.

CHILD ABUSE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Family and Human
Services approved for full committee consideration S. 1003, authorizing funds
through fiscal year 1986 for child abuse prevention and treatment and adoption
reform programs.

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S.
884, to provide for the use and distribution of certain funds awarded the Red
Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, and S. 973, to make technical corrections to
the Indian Self-Determination Act and Education Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638),
and other Acts.

INDIAN LANDS/FUNDS/EDUCATION

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
following bills:

S. 727, to provide for the setting aside of certain judgment funds of the
Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, after
receiving testimony from Tillie Walker, Pete Coffee, and Charles A. Hobbs, all
on behalf of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Ft. Berthold Reservation, New
Town, North Dakota;

S. 884, to provide for the use and distribution of certain funds awarded the
Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, after receiving testimony from Senator
Durenberger; Roger Jourdain and Sandy McNabb, both on behalf of the Red Lake
Band of Chippewa Indians, Red Lake, Minnesota; and Rodney J. Edwards, Duluth,
Minnesota, with amendments; and

S. 973, to make technical corrections to the Indian Self-Determination Act and
Education Assistance Act (P.L. 93-638), and other Acts, after receiving
testimony from Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; and Ron Andrade, National Congress of American
Indians, Washington, D.C.

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from John Fritz,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.

Joint Meeting

HIGH COST OF CAPITAL

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review the impact on
the high cost of capital as a result of the 1981 tax law changes, after
receiving testimony from George Hatsopoulos, Thermo Electron Corporation,
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Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION/MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1984, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert R.
Garvey, Executive Director, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and
Daniel N. Miller, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Energy and
Minerals.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 12.

APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1984 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee also met on Friday, April 29.

Hearings continue on tomorrow.

AUTHORIZATIONS--DEFENSE

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Defense, focusing on space defense
programs, receiving testimony from Senators Wallop, Armstrong, and Pressler;
Robert Cooper, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Charles
Cook, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Plans and Policy;
William Hoehn, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy; John L. Gardner, Director, Defensive Systems,
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Edward
Teller, Hoover Institution, Stanford, California; Lieutenant General Daniel
Graham, USA (Ret.), High Frontiers, Inc., Washington, D.C.; and Richard
Garwin, Thomas J. Waston Research Center, New York City.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral
Resources held hearings on S. 883 and S. 558, bills to expedite exploration
and development of geothermal resources, receiving testimony from Arnold
Petty, Deputy Director for Management Services, Bureau of Land Management,
Department of the Interior; J. B. Hilmon, Associate Deputy Chief, U.S. Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture; R. Gordon Bloomquist, Washington State
Energy Office, Olympia; Paul C. Pritchard, National Parks and Conservation
Association, Washington, D.C.; E. William Cole, Union Oil Company of
California, Los Angeles; Robert L. Wright, Phillips Petroleum Company,
Bartlessville, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Western Oil and Gas Association;
Garland Robbins, Sunoco Energy Development Company (SUNEDCO), Dallas, Texas;
and Charles T. Condy, California Energy Company, Santa Rosa.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on the President's budget request for
fiscal year 1984 for the Department of Energy's research and development
programs, focusing on commercial nuclear waste management and spent fuel
storage programs, receiving testimony from Robert L. Morgan, Project Director,
Nuclear Waste Policy Act Project Office, Department of Energy; John G. Davis,
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; James F. Devine, Assistant Director, Engineering Geology, George
Dinwiddie, Coordinator, High Level Waste Programs, and Eugene H. Rosebloom
Jr., Deputy Chief of Radiation Waste Program, all of the U.S. Geological
Survey, Department of the Interior; and Glen L. Sjoblom, Director, Office of
Radiation Programs, Environmental Protection Agency.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

WATER PROJECTS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on the following bills:

S. 805, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and
maintain the Santa Margarita Project in California, after receiving testimony
from Senator Wilson; Chase Untermeyer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Installations and Facilities; Lt. General Harold A. Hatch, Deputy Chief of
Marine Corps Staff for Installations and Logistics; Leo Maguire and Gorden
Tinker, both of the Fallbrook Public Utility District, Fallbrook, California;
Lindon Burzell, San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego, California; and
John Vanderwalker, Platte River Whooping Crane Habitat Maintenance Trust,
Grand Island, Nebraska;

S. 622, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to undertake feasibility
investigations, after receiving testimony from J. W. O'Meara, National Water
Resources Association, Brent Blackwelder, Environmental Policy Center, and
Edward Osann, National Wildlife Federation, all of Washington, D.C.

S. 662, to provide for confirmation of the repayment contract of the Dallas
Creek participating project of the Upper Colorado storage project, after
receiving testimony from William J. McDonald, Colorado Department of Natural
Resources, Denver; and Theodore L. Brooks, Tri-County Conservancy, Montrose,
Colorado; and

S. 818, to authorize the replacement of existing pump casings in Robert B.
Griffith water project pumping plants 1A and 2A (formerly the southern Nevada
water project), after receiving testimony from Duane Sudweeks, Nevada Colorado
River Commission, and Donald L. Paff, Las Vegas Valley Water District, both of
Las Vegas, Nevada.

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills from Robert N.
Broadbent, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

TAXATION

Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 29, Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt
Management concluded hearings on the following bills:

S. 249, to make permanent and extend the excluding from income for amounts
paid under educational assistance programs, after receiving testimony from M.
E. Nichols, Communications Workers of America (AFL-CIO), and Dale Parnell,
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges, both of Washington,
D.C.; Michael Maibach, Caterpillar Tractor Co., Chicago, Illinois; Philip
Stone, Carolina Power and Light Co., Raleigh, North Carolina; and Barbara
Hornell, Health Science Center of Missouri, Columbia; and

S. 825, to exclude income from the sale of membership lists from the unrelated
business income tax on nonprofit organizations, after receiving testimony from
John F. Heilman, Disabled American Veterans, Steve Dawson, American Kidney
Fund, Donald C. Alexander, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and William J. Lehrfeld,
Lehrfeld & Henzke, on behalf of AMVETS (American Veterans of World II, Korea
and Vietnam), Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; and David A. Goldstein, Epilepsy
Foundation of America, Landover, Maryland.

Testimony was also received on both the above bills from William S. McKee,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.

CSIS SOVIET PROJECT

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on CSIS Soviet Project (Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Georgetown University) from officials of the CSIS, and made no
announcements.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Malcolm R. Barnebey, of Texas, to be Ambassador to Belize, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, April 29, the Subcommittee on
Civil Service, Post Office, and General Services approved for full committee
consideration S. 905, to establish the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) as an independent agency in the executive branch.

CLAIMS SETTLEMENT/PRIVATE RELIEF/NOMINATION

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee approved for reporting the following:

S. 195, providing for the relief of six named employees of the Department of
the Navy;

S. 969, to raise the claim settlement authority for the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration; and

The nomination of Edward S. G. Dennis, Jr., to be U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District