98th Congress

1984/01/23
Daily Digest - Monday, January 23, 1984; pages D3 - D5 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/01/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 24, 1984; pages D5 - D9 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NOMINATION

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William H. Taft, IV, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.

BUDGET WAIVER

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting without
recommendation S. Res. 275 waving section 402(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of H.R. 2173, to authorize funds
through fiscal year 1986 for contracts with public or private agencies for the
supervision of released drug offenders (pending on the Senate calendar).

INLAND WATERWAYS AND HARBORS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources
held oversight hearings on issues relating to the maintenance and development
of inland waterways and harbors, receiving testimony from Senators Denton and
Heflin; Bory Steinberg, Chief, Programs Division, Directorate of Civil Works,
Department of the Army; Louis Carlson, National Association of Wheat Growers,
Robert M. Frederick, National Grange, Paul R. Sacia, National Farmers Union,
James F. Eberwine, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, William H.
Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, and George R. French, Jr.,
National Waterways Conference, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Richard
Kowalewski, Transportation Farmland Industries, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri,
on behalf of The Fertilizer Institute; Steve Lucas, Louis-Dreyfus Corp.,
Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Grain and Feed Association;
Joseph Farrell, The American Waterways Operators, Inc., Arlington, Virginia;
S. O. Ogden, Sunedco Coal Co., Lakewood, Colorado, and Mark R. Joseph, Anker
Energy Corp., New York City, both on behalf of the National Coal Association;
and Leland Swenson, South Dakota Farmers Union, Huron.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on S. 1691, to restructure the
Child Support Enforcement Program and other proposals dealing with child
support, including S. 1708, receiving testimony from Senators Trible,
Kassebaum, Hawkins, and Hatch; Representatives Roukema, and Kennelly; Margaret
M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Joseph F. Delfico,
Associate Director, Robert F. Gerkin, Assignment Manager, and Anthony P.
Lofaro, Evaluator in Charge, all of the Human Resources Division, U.S. General
Accounting Office; New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton, on behalf of
the National Governors' Association; Wisconsin State Representative Thomas A.
Loftus, Madison, representing the National Conference of State Legislatures;
and Patricia C. Schramm, Delaware Department of Health and Social Services,
Dover, on behalf of the National Council of State Public Welfare
Administrators.

Hearings continue Thursday, January 26.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 311) requesting $2,757,275 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1984.

ENERGY SECURITY

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation and Government Processes concluded oversight hearings on the
current state of the nation's energy security and vulnerability, focusing on
the Administration's energy emergency preparedness policy, after receiving
testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy and Danny J. Boggs, Deputy
Secretary of Energy.

SILENT PRAYER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee, pursuant to previous order of July 14,
1983, approved for reporting without recommendation S.J. Res. 212, proposing
an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to silent
prayer or meditation in public schools.

ERA/ABORTION RIGHTS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on the impact of the Equal Rights Amendment on abortion rights, after
receiving testimony from John T. Noonan, University of California, Berkeley;
and Ann Freedman, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

INDIAN-OWNED COAL

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee resumed oversight hearings on
the impact that certain coal land exchanges between the Department of the
Interior and western land grant railroads will have on the value of
Indian-owned coal, receiving testimony from Douglas Ginsburg, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; and James Shaw,
Rocky Mountain Energy, Broomfield, Colorado.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/01/25
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 25, 1984; pages D9 - D12 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NORTH CAROLINA WILDERNESS AREAS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on H.R. 3960, to designate specified lands in North Carolina as
wilderness and wilderness study areas as additions to the National Wilderness
Preservation System, after receiving testimony from John B. Crowell, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for National Resources and Environment;
James A. Summers, North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community
Development, and Manley Fuller, North Carolina Wildlife Federation, both of
Raleigh; Morris L. McGough, Western North Carolina Development Association,
Asheville; Charles Woodard, Southern Appalachian Multiple-Use Council, Sylva,
North Carolina; Kenneth L. Davis, Society of American Foresters, Franklin,
North Carolina; Robert Cox, North Carolina Chapter Sierra Club, Chapel Hill;
and Peter Coppelman, The Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.

WORLDWIDE INTELLIGENCE

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on worldwide intelligence from William J. Casey, Director of Central
Intelligence.

INLAND WATERWAYS AND HARBORS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources
concluded oversight hearings on issues relating to the maintenance and
development of inland waterways and harbors, after receiving testimony from
Senators Warner and Trible; Virginia Governor Charles Robb, Richmond; Charles
F. Lehman, American Commercial Barge Line Company, Jefferson, Indiana; Al
Cisneros, Brownsville Navigation District, Brownsville, Texas; David Campbell,
National Wildlife Federation, Jill Lancelot, National Taxpayers Union, Fred
Smith, Council for a Competitive Economy, David Conrad, Friends of the Earth,
Peter J. Luciano, Transportation Institute, and Brent Blackwelder,
Environmental Policy Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Stephen A. Van Dyck,
Sonat Marine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; James McJunken, Port of Long Beach,
Long Beach, California, on behalf of the Coalition for Port Progress; Mel
Shore, Port of Sacramento, California; Joseph Cocchiara, Louisiana Governor's
Task Force on Deep Draft Vessel Access to the Lower Mississippi River, Baton
Rouge; Roy Perry, Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Jack Calloway,
Gulf Oil Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Roy F. Hoffman, Port of
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; George J. Ryan, Lake Carrier's Association,
Cleveland, Ohio; James R. Kelly, Delaware River Port Authority, New Castle,
Delaware; Charles W. Nelson, Waldemar F. Nelson and Co., New Orleans,
Louisiana, representing the Plaquemines Parish Commission Council and
Plaquemines Port, Harbor and Terminal District; and Christos Kraikos, CERES,
Inc., Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the Great Lakes Task Force.

LEBANON/ARMS CONTROL COMPLIANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current situation in Lebanon from George P. Shultz, Secretary
of State.

Also, the committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the arms
control compliance situation from Robert McFarlane, Assistant to the President
for National Security Affairs; Rear Admiral Johnathan Howe, Director, Bureau
of Politico-Miliary Affairs, Department of State; and an official of the
Central Intelligence Agency.

S.S. DISABILITY INSURANCE

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 476, to revise the
old age, survivors and disability insurance provisions of the Social Security
Act, and provisions of a related measure, H.R. 4170, after receiving testimony
from from Senators Cohen, Levin, and Sasser; Martha A. McSteen, Acting
Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Carolyn Kuhl, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Arkansas Governor
William Clinton, Little Rock; Arthur S. Flemming, Save Our Security, Joseph
Manes, and Eileen P. Sweeney, National Senior Citizens Law Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; Arthur Meyerson, American Psychiatric Association, New York
City; Carol Garvin, Aiken, South Carolina, and Chris Koyanagi, Arlington,
Virginia, both on behalf of the National Mental Health Association; Gerald S.
Parker, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, Reyes Gonzales, National Association of
Disability Examiners, Elgin, Texas; and Cesar A. Perales, New York State
Department of Social Service, Albany.

ORGANIZED CRIME--GREAT LAKES REGION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to review the activities of organized crime in the United
States, focusing on the role of organized crime in the Great Lakes region,
receiving testimony from Fred Asselin, Investigator, and John F. Sopko,
Assistant Counsel, both of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations;
George M. Donahue, Assistant District Attorney, New York County, New York
City; and Captain David Dailey, Columbus Organized Crime Division, Columbus,
Ohio.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
oversight hearings on crime and violence in public schools, after receiving
testimony from Representative Pat Williams; Alfred S. Regnery, Administrator,
Office of juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of justice;
Gary L. Bauer, Deputy Under Secretary of Education for Planning, Budget, and
Evaluation; Albert Shanker, American Federation of Teachers, and Floretta
McKenzie, District of Columbia School District, both of Washington, D.C.;
Peter F. Flynn, Scranton School District, Scranton, Pennsylvania; and
Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia School District, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Tuesday, January 24, committee
approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 309) requesting
$4,368,300 in operating expenses for the committee for 1984.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/01/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 26, 1984; pages D12 - D16 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AVIAN INFLUENZA

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded oversight hearings to review the status of the
avian influenza problem that is impacting the poultry industry in several
Eastern states, after receiving testimony from Senators Heinz and Warner; C.
W. McMillan, Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection, James H.
Johnson, Deputy Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development,
Charles W. Beard, Director, Southeastern Poultry Research Laboratory, and Bert
W. Hawkins, Administrator, John K. Atwell, Deputy Administrator for Veterinary
Services, E. C. Sharman, Assistant Deputy Administrator for Veterinary
Services, Animal Health Programs, and Sam Ladd, Director, Budget and
Accounting Division, all of the Animal Plant and Health Inspection Services,
all of the Department of Agriculture; Andrew Hansen and Donald Horn, both of
the Task Force on Avian Influenza, Penrose Hollawell, Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture, and Jim Aurand, Pennsylvania Grange, all of Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania; Charles Warfel, Pennsylvania Farmers Association, Camp Hill; and
Albert E. Pope, United Egg Producers, Decatur, Georgia.

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Mary A. Grigsby, of Texas, to be a Member of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Tower,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 314) requesting $3,222,971 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1984.

CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1691, to restructure
the Child Support Enforcement Program and other proposals dealing with child
support, including S. 1708, and H.R. 4325, after receiving testimony from
Patricia A. Kelly, KINDER (Kids in Need Deserve Equal Rights), Flint,
Michigan; Bettianne Welch, and Gerald A. Cannizzaro, both of FOCUS (For Our
Children's Unpaid Support), Vienna, Virginia; Mary Ryder, VOICES (Virginians
Organized to Insure Children's Entitlement to Support), Arlington, Virginia;
Lawrence R. Young, and Jim Hunter, both of the Oregon Department of Justice,
and Leonard Sytsma, Oregon Department of Human Services, all , of Salem;
Clifton H. Duke, North Carolina Assistant Attorney General, Raleigh, on behalf
of the North Carolina Child Support Enforcement Program; Mary Ann Stein,
Women's Legal Defense Fund, and Ann Kolker, National Women's Law Center, both
of Washington, D.C.; Connie Mallett, Parents Without Partners, Bethesda,
Maryland; Marty Hopheaum, National Commission on Urban Affairs, and Irwin
Brooks, Human Resources Administration, both of New York City; Kenneth R.
Pangborn, MEN International, Inc., Clearwater, Florida; Alan Lebow, National
Congress for Men, Southfield, Michigan; James A. Cook, National Congress For
Men, and The Joint Custody Association, Los Angeles, California; Danny Piper,
HELP (Help Encourage Loving Parents), Burke, Virginia; Jerrold H. Brockmyre,
Michigan Department of Social Services, Lansing, representing the National
Council of State Child Support Enforcement Administrators; Sue P. Hunter,
Jefferson Parish District Attorney's Office, Gretna, Louisiana, representing
the National Reciprocal and Family Support Enforcement Association; Samuel G.
Ashdown, Jr., Florida Family Support Council, Tallahassee; Michael E. Barber,
California Deputy District Attorney, Sacramento, representing the National
District Attorneys' Association; Samuel V. Schoonmaker, Stamford, Connecticut,
on behalf of the American Bar Association; and Terrance R.Brown, San
Bernardino County District Attorney's office, San Bernardino, California.

ORGANIZED CRIME--GREAT LAKES REGION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to review the activities of organized crime in the United
States, focusing on the role of organized crime in the Great Lakes region,
receiving testimony from Leonard R. Gilman, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern
District of Michigan, Detroit; Mayor Patrick J. Ungaro, and John W. Powers and
James Callen, both of the Citizens' League of Greater Youngstown, all of
Youngstown, Ohio; Sheriff Robert C. Berens and Chief Deputy Sheriff Ricardo E.
Hawkins, both of Stark County, Ohio, Canton; and Sheriff David W. Troutman and
Lieutenant Ray B. Newman both of the Sheriffs Office, Akron, Ohio.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 31.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorable reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 310) requesting $4,670,827 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1984.

Joint Meetings

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee began hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, focusing on the economic outlook for 1984 and
Federal economic policy, receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan, Secretary
of the Treasury.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 31.

TASK FORCE OF FOOD ASSISTANCE

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry's
Subcommittee on Nutrition concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on
Agriculture's Subcommittee on Domestic Marketing, Consumer Relations, and
Nutrition, and House Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on
Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education to review the report and
proposals adopted by the President's Task Force on Food Assistance, after
receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy; Representative Anthony; J. Claybum
LaForce, University of California, Los Angeles, Chairman, John Raisian,
Executive Director, and Donna C. West, Crafco, Inc., Chandler, Arizona, .Betsy
B. Rollins, St. Philip's Community Kitchen, Durham, North Carolina, Erma
Davis, George Washington Carver Association, Peoria, Illinois, Kenneth W.
Clarkson, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, Edward J. King,
Winthrop, Massachusetts, Sandra Smoley, National Association of Counties,
Washington, D.C., John D. Driggs, Western Savings and Loan Association,
Phoenix, Arizona, and Mayor Richard Berkley, Kansas City, Missouri, all
Members, President's Task Force on Food Assistance; Arizona Governor Bruce
Babbitt, Phoenix; Mayor Richard H. Fulton, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of
the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Alvin M. Mauer, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, representing the American Academy of Pediatrics; and Robert
Greenstein, Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, Washington, D.C.



1984/01/27
Daily Digest - Friday, January 27, 1984; pages D16 - D18 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee approved for
reporting the nominations of Donna F. Tuttle, of California, to be Under
Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, and William L. Hanley, Jr., of
Connecticut, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ms. Tuttle, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Wilson, testified
and answered questions in her own behalf.

WORLD PETROLEUM OUTLOOK

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held closed oversight
hearings on the world petroleum outlook for 1984, after receiving testimony
from Lt. General Herman O. Thomson, Director, Plans and Policy Directorate,
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Major General Edward L. Tixier, USAF,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs;
Richard McCormack, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business
Affairs; James A. Placke, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
and South Asian Affairs; E. Allan Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Economic and Business Affairs; and Helmut Merklein, Assistant Secretary of
Energy. for International Affairs.

Hearings continue on Monday, January 30.

ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE (EDB)

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances
and Environmental Oversight concluded oversight hearings on the pesticide
ethylene dibromide (EDB) and Federal activities underway to address the
concerns raised about EDB residues in a variety of food products, after
receiving testimony from Senator Proxmire; John A. Moore, Assistant
Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection
Agency; Kenneth Gilles, Administrator, Federal Grain Inspection Service,
Department of Agriculture; Sherwin Gardner; Grocery Manufacturer's Association
of America, Deborah Berkowitz, AFL-CIO, Suzanne Kosson, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy,
and Jay Feldman, National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, all of
Washington, D.C.; Norton Nelson, New York University Medical Center, New York
City; Ron D. White, Texas Department of Agriculture, Austin; and C. H.
Middelem, Florida. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services,
Tallahassee.

GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on S. 1718, to extend until January 3, 1995, the authority for the operation
of the Generalized System of Preferences, after receiving testimony from
Senator Warner; Alfred E. Eckes, Chairman, International Trade Commission;
Frederic H. Brooks, MacGregor Sporting Goods, East Rutherford, New Jersey;
Peter O. Suchman, Sharretts, Paley, Carter, & Blauvelt, W. Glenn Tussey,
American Farm Bureau Federation, Randy M. Russell, National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives, Thomas A. Hammer, Heron, Burchette, Ruckert & Rothwell, Stephen
Koplan, AFL-CIO, Dean K. Schleicher, Leather Products Coalition, Stanley
Nehmer, Economic Consulting Services, Michael A. Samuels, and Ava S. Feiner,
both of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Gilman J. Cohen, Emergency Committee for
American Trade, Larry A. Liebenow, and Keith. L. Miceli, both of the
Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, and Myron T.
Foveaux, and K. James O'Connor, Jr., both of the Chemical Manufacturers
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Douglas Thompson, Toy Manufacturers of
America, Mark Wainstock, American Association of Exporters and Importers,
Townsend Hoopes, Association of American Publishers, and Stanley Gortikov,
Recording Industry Association of America, all of New York City; Henry
Parsons, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut; Robert L. Mullen,
The Singer Company, Stamford, Connecticut, and Alan B. Spurney, International
Business Council, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the Electronic
Industries Association; and James Enyart, Monsanto Company, St. Louis,
Missouri, Marc L. Fleischaker, on behalf of the Motor Equipment Manufacturers
Association, Washington, D.C., and Frances S. L. Wang, Lee and Li, San
Francisco, California, all representing the U.S. International
Anticounterfeiting Coalition.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 316) requesting $276,746 in operating expenses
for the committee through July 1, 1984.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/01/30
Daily Digest - Monday, January 30, 1984; pages D18 - D20 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 318) requesting $3,648,174 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1984.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 1917, to repeal the equal time rules and the fairness doctrine provisions
imposed on the electronic media by the Communications Act of 1934, receiving
testimony from Robert S. Powers, Chief Scientist, Federal Communications
Commission; Craig R. Smith, Freedom of Expression Foundation, Thomas
Krattenmaker, Georgetown Law Center, William R. Burleigh, Scripps Howard
Newspapers, representing American Society of Newspaper Editors, Robert Lewis,
Baker & Hostetler, representing Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma
Delta Chi, and John C. Armor, all of Washington, D.C.; Charles S. Rowe, The
Free Lance-Star. Fredericksburg, Virginia, representing American Newspaper
Publishers Association; and Dean Richard Cole and Bill Chamberlin, both of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Vernon A. Stone, Southern Illinois
University, Canterville, and Willard D. Rowland, University of Illinois,
Urbana, all representing the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass
Communications.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 1.

WORLD PETROLEUM OUTLOOK

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the world petroleum outlook for 1984, receiving testimony from
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy; and Hermann F. Eilts, Center for
International Relations, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; and Anthony
H. Cordesman, Armed Forces Journal, and Melvin A. Conant, Conant & Associates,
Ltd., both of Washington D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 317) requesting $2,089,000 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1984.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Special Committee on Aging: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 319) requesting $1,089,755 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1984.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/01/31
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 31, 1984; pages D21 - D25 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 326) requesting $4,317,500 in operating expenses for the
committee through February 28, 1985.

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

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on U.S.-U.S.S.R. military capabilities from Brigadier General Randall
D. Peat, USAF, Deputy Director for Force Development and Strategic Plans,
Plans and Policy Directorate, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorable
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 321) requesting $2,549,777 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1984.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 322) requesting $2,550,000 in operating expenses
for the committee through February 28, 1985.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Jane D. Newman, of New Hampshire, to be an Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Economic Development, and John D. Bossler, to be a Member of
the Mississippi River Commission, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.  Ms. Newman was introduced by Senators
Humphrey, and Representatives Gregg and Denny Smith.

TAXATION ON LIFE INSURANCE PRODUCTS

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1992, to improve the
income tax treatment of life insurance companies and their products, focusing
on the policyholder provisions, after receiving testimony from Representatives
Stark, and Moore; John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Tax Policy; Richard S. Schweiker, American Council of Life Insurance, Edwin S.
Cohen, Covington & Burling, on behalf of Investment Company Institute, William
C. Chasey, Life Insurance Coalition of America, and Stuart E. Eizenstat,
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, on behalf of Karr/ Barth Associates and
Mid-America Associates, all of Washington, D.C.; Edward E. Phillips, New
England Mutual Life Insurance Company, and E. James Morton, John Hancock
Mutual Life Insurance Company, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Ian M. Rolland,
Lincoln National Life Insurance Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Harry D. Garber,
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, New York City; Thomas
R. Anderson, Kemper Investors Life Insurance Company, Chicago, Illinois, on
behalf of the Committee of Annuity Insurers; George Perrin, Eastman Kodak
Company, Rochester, New York, on behalf of Association of Private Pension and
Welfare Plans; Glen A. Holden, Security First Life Insurance Company, Los
Angeles, California; Wayne Schuh and Associates, Boise, Idaho; Neal Groff,
Madison Group, Inc., Denver, Colorado; and George F. Bashaw, Jr., Benefits
Concepts, Inc., and Richard Hughes, Hinderliter Corp., both of Tulsa,
Oklahoma.

AFGHANISTAN

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of S. Con. Res.
74, to declare as U.S. policy the support of the people of Afghanistan in
their struggle to be free from foreign domination and the recognition of the
right of the Afghans to choose their own destiny, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 325) requesting $4,964,523 in operating expenses
for the committee through February 28, 1985.

ORGANIZED CRIME--GREAT LAKES REGION

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed hearings to review the activities of organized crime in the United
States, focusing on the role of organized crime in the Great Lakes region,
receiving testimony from Floyd I. Clarke, Deputy Assistant Director, Criminal
Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and John C. Keeney,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and David Margolis, Section Chief,
Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, both of the Criminal Division, all
of the Department of Justice.

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolutions (S. Res. 320) requesting $4,902,500 in operating expenses
for the committee through February 28, 1985.

LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Older Americans Act (P.L. 89-73),
focusing on Title III, long-term care provisions, and on methods of delivering
and financing human service programs, receiving testimony from from Rosalie A.
Kane, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California; Sharon K. Patten,
Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis;
Patricia C. Schramm, The National Council of State Public Welfare
Administrators, Arthur S. Flemming, Action Committee on Mental. Health for the
Elderly, and Paul Kerschner, American Association for Retired Persons, all of
Washington, D.C.; Richard Rowland, Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs,
Boston; Wilda Ferguson, Virginia Department on Aging, Richmond, on behalf of
the National Association on State Units on Aging; J. Timothy Fagan, Baltimore
County Department of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the National
Association of Counties; Steve Farnham, Aroostock Area Agency on Aging,
Presque Isle, Maine, on behalf of the National Association of Area Agencies on
Aging; Mary Carman, Prairie View, Inc., Newton, Kansas, on behalf of the
National Council of Community Mental Health Centers; Peter G. Meek, National
HomeCaring Council, Inc., New York City; and Russell Mills, University of
Kansas, Lawrence, and Eric Pfeifeer, University of South Florida, Tampa; on
behalf of the Association of Long Term Care Gerontology Centers.

Hearings continue on Friday, February 24.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Small Business: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 323) requesting $1,011,678 in operating expenses for the
committee through February 28, 1985.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 327) requesting $935,357 in operating expenses for the
committee through February 28, 1985.

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for its
forthcoming annual report, focusing on U.S. trade policy and industrial
competitiveness, receiving testimony from William Brock, Jr., U.S. Trade
Representative.

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 2.



1984/02/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 1, 1984; pages D25 - D30 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FOOD STAMP PROGRAM

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 1279, to authorize States to elect to operate a low-income nutritional
assistance block grant program to finance expenditures for food assistance for
needy persons instead of administering the food stamp program, receiving
testimony from John N. Bode, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Food and Consumer Services; Betsy B. Rollins, St. Philips Community Kitchen,
Durham, North Carolina, and Kenneth W. Clarkson, University of Miami, Coral
Gables, Florida, both Members, President's Task Force on Food Assistance;
Steve Larsen, California Department of Social Services, Sacramento; and Ellen
Nissenbaum, representing the Coalition on Block Grants and Human Needs, Edgar
Vash, Robert Harmon and Associates, Inc., and Gene Durman, The Urban
Institute, all of Washington, D.C.

VERMONT WILDERNESS AREAS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Soil and
Water Conservation, Forestry, and Environment concluded hearings on H.R. 4198,
to designate certain lands in the State of Vermont for inclusion in the
National Wilderness Preservation System, after receiving testimony from
Senators Leahy and Stafford; John B. Crowell, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Brendan J. Whittaker,
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, and Seward Weber, Vermont
Natural Resources Council, both of Montpelier; Vermont State Representative
Robert E. Graf, Pawlet; Vermont State Representative Seth Bongartz,
Manchester; Peter Smith, Vermont Wilderness Association, and Wallace Elton,
Vermont Audubon Council, both of Belmont; Lowell Krasner, Sierra Club,
(Vermont Chapter), South Burlington; E. Warner Shedd, National Wildlife
Federation, East Calais, Vermont; Bruce Shields, Vermont Forest Coalition,
North Wolcott; John McClaughry, Vermont Forest Coalition, Kirby; and Peter
Kirby, The Wilderness Society, and John Hall, National Forest Products
Association, both of Washington, D.C.

COMMITTEE BUDGET/NOMINATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting the following
business items:

(1) An original resolution (S. Res. 328) requesting $2,379,300 in operating
expenses for the committee for 1984;

(2) The nomination of William H. Taft, IV, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary
of Defense: and

(3) 26 routine nominations in the Air Force.

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on U.S. military posture
in review of the fiscal year 1985 Department of Defense military authorization
request, receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense;
and General John W. Vessey, USA., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 1917, to repeal the equal time rules and the fairness doctrine
provisions imposed on the electronic media by the Communications Act of 1934,
receiving testimony from Floyd Abrams, New York City; Donald E. Smullin, TRC
Communications, Inc., Phoenix, Oregon, representing the Inter-American
Association of Broadcasters; Roy M. Fisher, University of Missouri, Columbia;
Robert M. Gurss, Media Access Project, Samuel A. Simon, Telecommunications
Research and Action Center, Reed Irvine, Accuracy in Media, Ronald W. Cathell,
National Association of Arab Americans, Ed Pfeiffer, WDVM-TV, and Ford Rowan,
all of Washington, D.C.; Elaine Donnelly, Eagle Forum, Livonia, Michigan;
Herbert Hobler, Nassau Broadcasting Co., Princeton, New Jersey; Raymond Saadi,
KHOM, Houma, Louisiana; Dean Mell, KHQ, Inc., Spokane, Washington; Stan Cohen,
WINZ-AM, Miami, Florida; Ed Hinshaw, WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Homer
Lane, Phoenix, Arizona; and J. T. Whitlock, Lebanon-Springfield Broadcasting
Co., Lebanon, Kentucky.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 8.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration of S.
1132, to establish a maximum ceiling on the annual charge to be fixed by the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a licensee's use of a dam or other
structures owned by the United States, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call.

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation held
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act (P.L. 97-424), focusing on the progress of the Federal-aid
highway program and the Highway Trust Fund, receiving testimony from Ray A.
Barnhart, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration; William Ordway,
Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix, Thomas D. Larsen, Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation, Harrisburg, and Lowell Bridwell, Maryland
Department of Transportation, Annapolis, all representing the American
Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials; Bennett Whitlock,
American Trucking Association, Harriet Parcells, Environmental Policy
Institute, Katherine Hall, Center for Auto Safety, and William Dempsey,
American Association of Railroads, all of Washington, D.C.; Don Wilson,
Southland Corp., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the Private Truck Council of
America, Inc.; Ed Ehlers, Association of California Loggers, Sacramento;
Anthony R. Ameruso, New York City Commissioner of Transportation, New York
City; and John Archer, American Automobile Association, Falls Church,
Virginia.

Hearing were recessed subject to call.

PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of the Peer Review Organizations (PRO's) required by the
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (P.L. 97-248), after receiving
testimony from James L. Scott, Associate Administrator for Operations, Health
Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas
G. Dehn, American Medical Peer Review Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Alan
Nelson, American Medical Association, Salt LakeCity, Utah; and Vita Ostrander,
American Association of Retired Persons, Atlanta, Georgia.

ILLEGAL TOXIC WASTE DISPOSAL            

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings to review the activities of organized crime in the Midwest,
focusing on illegal links between organized crime elements and illegal
hazardous waste disposers and government efforts in enforcing the
environmental criminal statutes relating to hazardous waste, receiving
testimony from Lou Halkias, Special Agent in Charge, (Chicago, Illinois),
Office of Criminal Investigations, Environmental Protection Agency; Linley E.
Pearson, Attorney General of Indiana, Indianapolis; Sheriff Jan D. Rose,
LaPorte County Police Department, La Porte, Indiana; Gary L. Long, Illinois
Department of Law Enforcement, Elgin; and Steven J. Madonna, New Jersey Deputy
Attorney General, Trenton.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

TRADEMARKS

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 1990, to clarify the circumstances under which a trademark
may be cancelled or abandoned, receiving testimony from Gerald J. Mossinghoff,
Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks;
Julius R. Lunsford, Jr., Hurt, Richardson, Garner, Todd and Cadenhead,
Atlanta, Georgia; Kenneth Germain, University of Kentucky, Lexington; and
Michael Grow, United States Trademark Association, New York City.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CIVIL CASE BACKLOG

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts resumed hearings to discuss
civil case backlog in Federal district courts, focusing on specific
alternative means of dispute resolution, receiving testimony from Arnold P.
Jones, Senior Associate Director, General Government Division, General
Accounting Office; Judge Alfred I. Luongo, Chief Judge, and Judge Raymond J.
Broderick, both of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Deborah R. Hensler, The Rand Corporation, Santa
Monica, California, Donald Bagwell, Mobile, Alabama, and James T. Turner,
Norfolk, Virginia, both on behalf of the National Council of U.S. Magistrates;
and James F. Davis, Howrey & Simon, Washington, D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

Joint Meeting

REHABILITATION ACT

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on S. 1340, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1984, 1985, and 1986 for the Rehabilitation Act.



1984/02/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 2, 1984; pages D32 - D36 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 330) requesting $1,390,000 in
operating expenses for the committee through February 28, 1985.

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Army programs from John O. Marsh,
Jr., Secretary of the Army; and General John A. Wickham, Jr., Army Chief of
Staff.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 7.

COMMITTEE BUDGET/NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the following items:

(1) An original resolution (S. Res. 332) requesting $1,806,300 in operating
expenses for the committee through February 28, 1985; and

(2) The nomination of Mary A. Grigsby, of Texas, to be a Member of the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget, receiving
testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget.

Hearing continue tomorrow.

CLEAN AIR ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on S.
768, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1987 for, and extend certain
programs of, the Clean Air Act (P.L. 95-95), receiving testimony from William
D. Ruckelshaus, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 7.

COMMITTEE BUDGET

Committee on Finance: Committee approved for reporting an original resolution
(S. Res. 331) requesting $2,379,000 in operating expenses for the committee
through February 28, 1985.

FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's budget request for fiscal year 1985, receiving
testimony from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 7.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of William A. Wilson, of California, to be Ambassador to the Holy See, after
the nominee who was introduced by Senator Wilson, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.

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 for its
forthcoming annual report, focusing on the economic outlook for 1984 and
Federal economic policy, receiving testimony from Martin Feldstein, Chairman,
and William Niskanen and William Poole, both members, all of the Council of
Economic Advisers.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 7.



1984/02/03
Daily Digest - Friday, February 3, 1984; pages D37 - D39 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from Donald T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury; and
Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers.

Hearings continue on Monday, February 6.

FOREIGN SALES CORPORATION ACT

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1804, to provide for
tax treatment of foreign sales corporations and exports of goods and services,
after receiving testimony from Representative Frenzel; Robert E. Lighthizer,
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Ronald A. Pearlman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Paul O'Day, Deputy Assistant
Secretary-Designate of Commerce for the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Services;
David C. Garfield, Ingersoll-Rand Company, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, on
behalf of The Special Committee for U.S. Exports; William B. Modahl, Digital
Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, on behalf of the National
Foreign Trade Council, Inc.; Bernard L. Hardiek, Deere & Company, Moline,
Illinois, on behalf of the Emergency Committee for American Trade; Frederick
K. Howard, on behalf of the Coalition of Services Industries, Gerald Howard,
Sperry Corporation, on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association,
Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, Scientific
Apparatus Makers Association, and American Electronics Association; Paul
Baldwin, Gilman Paper Company, on behalf of the American Paper Institute, and
Julius Katz, American Association of Exporters and Importers, all of New York
City; Robert D. Heyde, United States Council for International Business,
Robert M. Aus, Armco International Sales, Michael Roush, National Federation
of Independent Business, Edward L. Farrell, Alexander Grant and Company, and
Thomas J. Rasmussen, Deloitte Haskins & Sells, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert
Reed, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, on behalf of High Technology
FSC Coalition; Richard A. Overton, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri; and
Jason Mirabito, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of Small Business United.

NOMINATION

Committee of Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Walter L. Cutler, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INDIAN AFFAIRS/INDIAN TRUST FUNDS

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

S. 1999, to provide for the statutory designation of the position of Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs and to eliminate the position of
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, after receiving testimony from Ralph Reeser,
Director of Congressional Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the
Interior; Forest Gerard, Gerard, Byler and Associates, Inc., Louis Bruce,
Native American Consultants, and Newton Lamarr and Elmer Savilla, both of the
National Tribal Chairmen's Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Thomas
Fredericks, Fredericks and Pelcyger, Boulder, Colorado; and
                                                       
S. 2000, to allow variable interests rate for Indian funds held in trust by
the United States, after receiving testimony from John Vale, Chief, Division
of Trust Fund Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the
Interior; and Alan R. Parker and Barbara Hughes, both of the American Indian
National Bank, Washington, D.C.

Testimony was also received on both the aforementioned bills from Kenneth L.
Smith, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.

Joint Meeting

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment situation for January, receiving testimony from Janet
L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.



1984/02/06
Daily Digest - Monday, February 6, 1984; pages D39 - D42 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; and
General John W. Vessey, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ann Dore McLaughlin, of the District of Columbia, to be Under
Secretary of the Interior, and Richard T. Montoya, of Texas, to be Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf.  Ms. McLaughlin was introduced by Senators Dole,
Goldwater, and Chafee, and Mr. Montoya was introduced by Senator Domenici.

Committee will consider these nominees on Thursday, February 9.

OREGON INLET PROJECT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution and Subcommittee on Water Resources concluded joint hearings on S.
1471, to authorize the use of lands within the Cape Hatteras National Seashore
and the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge for implementation of the project
at Manteo (Shallowbag) Bay, North Carolina (Oregon Inlet project), after
receiving testimony from Senators Helms and East; G. Ray Arnett, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; Limberios
Vallianos, Chief, Coastal Engineering Branch, Wilmington District, Corps of
Engineers, Department of the Army; North Carolina State Senator Melvin R.
Daniels, Jr., and Bob DeSanto, both of Raleigh, North Carolina; Willie
Etheridge, Jr., Robert Williams, Orvin Midgett, and Mickey Daniels, all of
Wanchese, North Carolina; Harry Shiffman, Oregon Inlet Commission, Manteo,
North Carolina; Dan McDonald, Dare County, North Carolina; Ken Hunter, Harpers
Ferry, West Virginia; George Deems, North Carolina Beach Buggy Association,
Nags Head; and Ed Osann, National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C.

FREE TRADE WITH ISRAEL

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the Administration's
proposal to provide free trade with Israel, after receiving testimony from 
Senator Wilson; Representative Gephardt; William E. Brock, U.S. Trade
Representative; Alan Tracy, Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for
International Affairs; Thomas A. Dine, American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, Elmer Winter, representing the American Jewish Committee, E. Jay
Finkel, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, representing the Zionist Organization
of America, David J. Sadd, National Association of Arab Americans, Stanley
Nehmer, representing the American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition, Stephen
Koplan, AFL-CIO, W. Glenn Tussey, American Farm Bureau Federation, and Eugene
L. Stewart, Stewart and Stewart, representing Roses, Inc., all of Washington,
D.C.; David L. Zollinger, California Tomato Growers Association, Inc.,
Stockton; Robert Satterford, representing the American Dehydrated Onion and
Garlic Association, San Francisco, California; Matthew A. Runci, Manufacturing
Jewelers and Silversmiths of America, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island; Kenneth
E. Karmel, Ethyl Corporation, Richmond, Virginia, representing the U.S.
Bromine Alliance; Bobby F. McKown, Florida Citrus Mutual, Lakeland; Lori-Nan
Kaye, Elscint, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts; Lee Collins, Bank Hapoalim B.M.,
Los Angeles, California, Felix Zandman, Vishey Intertechnology, Inc., Malvern,
Pennsylvania, representing the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce; Harris R.
Till, United Midwest International Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio; and Robert
D. Rossio, Lindsay Olive Growers, San Francisco, representing the California
Olive Association.

ACQUISITION OF PUBLIC LANDS

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation
concluded hearings on S. 1675, to provide tax incentives for the contribution
of real property to conservation organizations, after receiving testimony from
Kingsbury Browne, Land Trust ? Exchange, Mount Desert, Maine; William K.
Reilly, The Conservation Foundation, L. Gregory Low, Nature Conservancy, and
Ed Thompson, Jr., American Farmland Trust, ,all of Washington, D.C.; Jean
Hocker, Jackson Hole Land Trust, Jackson, Wyoming; Jan Konigsberg, Montana
Land Reliance, Helena; Robert T. Dennis, Piedmont Environmental Council,
Warrenton, Virginia; and Jim Cook, Investment Rarities, Inc., Bloomington,
Minnesota.

METROPOLITAN REGIONAL GOVERNANCE

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded oversight hearings to examine the concept of metropolitan
regionalism and efforts by State and local governments to solve collective
problems of metropolitan regions on an areawide basis, after receiving
testimony from Sandra S. Osbourn, Specialist in American National Government,
Congressional Research Service; Raymond A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Vermont Governor Richard
Snelling, Montpelier, on behalf of the National Governors Association; Mayor
Richard H. Fulton, Nashville, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; John
Horsely, County Commissioner, Kitsap County, Washington, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; Charles F. Horn, County Commissioner,
Montgomery County, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association of Regional
Councils; Rick Gustafson, Metropolitan Service District, Portland, Oregon; Ira
Jackson, Atlanta Regional Commission, Atlanta, Georgia; Peter S. Levi,
Mid-America Regional Council, Kansas City, Missouri; Gerald J. Isaacs,
Metropolitan Council, Saint Paul, Minnesota; Richard Nathan, Princeton Urban
and Regional Research Center, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and
Ted Kolderie, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis.

BUSINESS MEETING

Select Committee on Ethics: Committee met in closed session to consider
pending committee business, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/02/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 7, 1984; pages D42 - D49 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

AUTHORIZATIONS-DOD

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 for military programs of
the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Navy and
Marine Corps programs from John F. Lehman, Jr., Secretary of the Navy; Admiral
James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations; and General Paul X. Kelley,
Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

START NEGOTIATIONS/LEBANON

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on the current
status of the START negotiations, receiving testimony from Ambassador Edward
Rowny, Special Representative for Negotiations.

Also, committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on the current
situation in Lebanon from General Paul X. Kelley, Commandant, U.S. Marine
Corps.

Committee recessed subject to call.

CASH DISCOUNTS AND SURCHARGES

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs concluded hearing on H.R. 4278, to extend the ban on credit card
surcharges, after receiving testimony from Nancy H. Teeters, Member, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System; Sandra McLaughlin, Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; David I.
Greenberg, Consumer Federation of America, Howard Menell, American Express
Company, Phillip R. Chisholm, National Oil Jobbers Council, and Vic Rasheed,
Service Station Dealers of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Thomas N.
Hammelman, Norwest Bank, Des Moines, Iowa, representing Mastercard
International Inc.; Charles Russell, VISA USA, Inc., San Francisco,
California; and Robert P. Larkins, Exxon Company, USA, Houston, Texas, on
behalf of the American Petroleum Institute.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from James Clayburn LaForce, Chairman, President's Task
Force on Food Assistance; Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities, Jack Carlson, National Association of Realtors, PeterHerder,
National Association of Home Builders, John Motley, National Federation of
Independent Business, and Alexander B. Trowbridge, National Association of
Manufacturers, all of Washington, D.C.; and Irwin Rosenberg, on behalf of the
American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Bethesda, Maryland.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

INTERIOR BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee as contained in the President's budget requests for fiscal year
1985, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of the
Interior from William P. Clark, Secretary of the Interior.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

CLEAN AIR ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on S.
768, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1987 for and to extend certain
programs of the Clean Air Act (PL 95-95), receiving testimony from Senator
Danforth; New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu, Concord; Utah Governor Scott
M. Matheson, Salt Lake City; Minnesota Governor Rudy Perpich, St. Paul;
Montana Governor Ted Schwinden, Helena; Ellis Cowling, North Carolina State
University, Raleigh; and Arthur Johnson, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 9.

FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on proposed estimates for
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's budget request for fiscal year 1985, after
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of Health and Human 
Services from Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Walter L. Cutler, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom
of Saudi Arabia, Mary Kate Bush, of New York, to be Alternative Executive
Director of the International Monetary Fund, Thomas W. M. Smith, of Maine, to
be Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard D. Erb, of Virginia, to be U.S. Executive
Director of the International Monetary Fund, A.C. Arterbery, of California, to
be a Member of the Board of Directors of the African Development Foundation,
and two lists of Foreign Service Officer promotions.

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ms. Bush after the nominee testified and answered question in her own behalf.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review the report
of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, receiving testimony
from Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, and former Senator Nicholas Brady, Lane
Kirkland, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., and Carlos F. Diaz-Alejandro, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut, all Members, National Bipartisan
Commission on Central America.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

MISSING CHILDREN

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held hearings on
S. 2014, to increase the role of the Federal Government in locating and
returning missing children by providing a toll-free telephone line where
individuals may report information regarding missing children, and
establishing a national resource center and clearinghouse to provide technical
assistance to the States and local governments and to gather and disseminate
information on exemplary missing children's programs, receiving testimony from
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Task Force on Exploited and Missing Children,
Jefferson County, Kentucky; Gloria Yerkovich, New Paltz, New York, on behalf
of Child Find, Inc.; Jean Humphrey, Sallisaw, Arkansas; and Emily Hall Hynson,
Colonial Beach, Virginia.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 21.

ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT/SMALL BUSINESS

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on antitrust enforcement
efforts by the Justice Department and their impact on the small business
community, receiving testimony from Frank Swain, Chief Counsel, Office of
Advocacy, Small Business Administration; J. Paul McGrath, Assistant Attorney
General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; William Leech, Jr.,
Attorney General of Tennessee, Nashville; Daniel K. Mayers, Wilmer, Cutler &
Pickering, Washington, D.C.; Sheridan Morgan, Morris, Larson, King, Stamper
and Bold, and Howard Whalen, Independent Newspaper Retailers, both of Kansas
City, Missouri; Frederick C. Kirby, Kirby Research Inc., Overland Park,
Kansas; Zuma Richardson, American Consumers, Inc., Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia;
and Avery Duff, Witt, Gaither and Whitaker, Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

Joint Meetings

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for its
forthcoming annual report, focusing on international economic problems,
receiving testimony from Allen W. Wallis, Undersecretary of State for Economic
Affairs.

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 9.

VETERANS' PROGRAMS

Joint Hearing: Senate and House Committees on Veterans' Affairs held joint
hearings to review the legislative priorities of the Disabled American
Veterans, receiving testimony from Dennis A. Joyner, Apollo, Pennsylvania,
representing the Disabled American Veterans.

Joint hearings continue on Wednesday, March 28.



1984/02/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 8, 1984; pages D49 - D55 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

COTTON CLASSING SERVICES

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Production, Marketing and Stabilization of Prices concluded
hearings on S. 2085, to extend authority through fiscal year 1988 for the
Secretary of Agriculture to recover costs associated with cotton classing
services to producers, after receiving testimony from Vern F. Highley,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture.

FISCAL YEAR 1985 FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings to review the President's
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1985, receiving testimony from Donald
T. Regan, Secretary of the Treasury; David A. Stockman, Directory, Office of
Management and Budget; and Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman, Council of Economic
Advisers.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 22.

AUTHORIZATIONS-DOD

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 for military programs of
the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Air
Force Programs from Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air Force; and General Charles
A. Gabriel, Chief of Air Force Staff.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Maurice L. Barksdale, of Texas, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the first monetary policy report for 1984 of the Federal Reserve
System, receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 1917, to repeal the equal time rules and the fairness doctrine
provisions imposed on the electronic media by the Communications Act of 1934,
after receiving testimony from Lucas A. Powe, El Cerrito, California; George
Shapiro, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn, William J. Small, United Press
International, Susan Kokinda, representing the La Rouche Campaign, Laurence
Gold, AFL-CIO, Howard Bell, American Advertisers Federation, Eddie Fritts,
National Association of Broadcasters, Harriet A. Kaplan, National Radio
Broadcasters Association, Ed Godfrey, Radio-Television News Directors
Association, and Jeri Warrick-Crisman, American Women in Radio and Television,
all of Washington, D.C.; Trygve E. Myhren American Television and
Communications Corporation, Englewood, Colorado; Barry Wilson, United Cable
Television Corporation, Denver, Colorado; James Batten, Knight-Ridder
Newspaper, Inc., Miami, Florida; G. Jeffrey Gillis, Milwaukee Office of
Communications, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Doris Aiken, R.I.D. USA (Remove
Intoxicated Drivers), Inc., Schenectady, New York.

ENERGY BUDGET

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee as contained in the President's budget requests for fiscal year
1985, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of Energy from
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of Energy.

Committee will meet again tomorrow.

GRACE COMMISSION

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review the proposals of the
President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), focusing
on near term reductions in projected Federal budget deficits, receiving
testimony from J. Peter Grace, Chairman, President's Private Sector Survey on
Cost Control.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
report of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, after
receiving testimony from James R. Greene, Monmouth College, West Long Branch,
New Jersey, and Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, (U.S.A. Rec.), former Adviser to
the President for National Security Affairs, both representing the Caribbean
Basin Working Group of the Atlantic Council of the United States; Richard E.
Feinberg, Overseas Development Council, and Robert S. Leiken, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington, D.C.; Melvin B. Krauss,
New York University, New York City; Ambler H. Moss, Jr., former U.S.
Ambassador to Panama, Miami, Florida; Howard K. Phillips, The Conservative
Caucus, Inc., Vienna, Virginia; and Russell E. Marks, The America Society;
Inc., New York City.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Robert F. Kane, of California, to be Ambassador to Ireland, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.

LEBANON

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receiving
(sic) a briefing on the current situation in Lebanon from Kenneth W. Dam,
Deputy Secretary of State, who was accompanied by other officials of the
Department of State.

LEGISLATIVE VETO

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure resumed hearings to review the Supreme Court ruling on the
legislative veto, focusing on a proposed amendment (No. 2655) to provide a
constitutional method for congressional review of agency rulemaking, to S.
1080, proposed Regulatory Reform Act (pending on Senate calender), receiving
testimony from Senator Levin; Representatives Broyhill, and Levitas;
Christopher DeMuth, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Loren A. Smith, Chairman,
Administrative Conference of the United States; and Sally L. Douglas, National
Federation of Independent Business; Dick Patterson, National Association of
Manufacturers, and Cornelius Kennedy, all of Washington; D.C.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

NOMINATION

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began hearings on the
nomination of Frank X. Lilly, of Maryland, to be Solicitor, Department of
Labor, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Mathias, testified and
answered in his own behalf.

Hearing were recessed subject to call.

JOB CORPS REFORM

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2111, to
reform certain provisions of the Jobs Corps Act by extending the use of
private sector expertise to the operation of civilian conservation centers,
requiring contractors to assume specific and reasonable responsibilities for
achievement and behavior of students as well as for the maintenance of
centers, and to codify certain program improvements, receiving testimony from
Patrick J. O'Keefe, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment
and Training, Roberts T. Jones, Administrator; Office of Comprehensive
Employment and Training, Employment and Training Administration, and Peter
Rell, Director of Jobs Corps, all of the Department of Labor; O. H. Simmons,
Minact, Inc., Jackson, Mississippi; John W. Gaines, Teledyne Economic
Development Company, Los Angeles, California; Herbert W. Watkins, The Singer
Company,. Rochester, New York; and Robert L. Marquardt, Management and
Training Corporation, Ogden, Utah.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

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 operating expenses of their respective committees, as follows:

Energy and Natural Resources (S. Res. 321 - $2,549,777), Senators McClure and
Johnston;

Armed Services (S. Res. 328 - $2,379,300), Senators Tower and Nunn;

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. Res. 330 - $1,390,000), Senators
Helms and Huddleston;

Environment and Public Works (S. Res. 322 - $2,550,000), Senators Stafford and
Randolph;

Veterans' Affairs (S. Res. 327 - $935,357), Senators Simpson and DeConcini;

Labor and Human Resources (S. Res. 309 - $22,300), and (S. Res. 320 -
$4,902,500), Senators Hatch and Kennedy; and

Select Committee on Indian Affairs (S. Res. 316 - $276,746), Senators Andrews
and Melcher.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

VA BUDGET

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings in review of
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's budget requests for fiscal year 1985, focusing on
programs of the Veterans' Administration, employment programs of the
Department of Labor, and the planning process for medical facility
construction of the Veteran's Administration, after receiving testimony from
Senator Domenici; Harry N. Walters, Administrator, Veterans' Administration;
William C. Plowden, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment
Services; and Paul Egan, The American Legion, Donald H. Schwab, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, and Steve Edmiston, Disabled American
Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/02/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 9, 1984; pages D55 - D63 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

DEFENSE BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1985 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Army programs from John O. Marsh, Jr.,
Secretary of the Army, and General John A., Wickham, Jr., Chief of Army Staff.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28.

CIVIL WORKS/CORPS OF ENGINEERS BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1985, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William R.
Gianelli, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Lt. General J. K.
Bratton, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bory Steinberg, Chief,
Program Division, Civil Works, and Major General John F. Wall, Director of
Civil Works.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 21.

NOMINATION

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Richard H. Francis, of Virginia, to be President
of the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank.

MONETARY POLICY

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the first monetary policy report for 1984 of the Federal
Reserve System, after receiving testimony from Beryl W. Sprinkel, Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs; Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers; and Robert Parry, Security Pacific Bank, Los
Angeles, California.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from Robert D. Kilpatrick, representing The Business
Roundtable, and Richard W. Rahn, Chamber of Commerce of the United State, both
of Washington, D.C.; and Albert Sommers, The Conference Board, New York City.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 21.

NATIONAL FISHERIES MARKETING COUNCIL

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 2160, to create a National
Fisheries Marketing Council to establish a coordinated program of research,
education and promotion to expand markets for fish and fish products, after
receiving testimony from Richard Martin, National Fisheries Institute, Inc.,
David Burney, U.S. Tuna Foundation, Lucy Sloan, National Federation of
Fishermen, and Eldon Greenberg, Galloway & Greenburg, all of Washington, D.C.;
Robert Morgan, and Kathryn Nordstrom, both representing Pacific Seafood
Processors Association, Seattle, Washington; Samuel Davidson, Davidson
Associates, Portland, Maine; Al Guimond, Stonington Seafood Products,
Narragansett, Rhode Island; Kerry Muse, Mid-Atlantic Fisheries Development
Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland; Greg Baker, Office of Commercial Fisheries
Development, Anchorage, Alaska; Kris Vehrs, representing the Texas Shrimp
Association, Austin; and Roger Anderson, Gulf & South Atlantic Fisheries
Development Foundation, Tampa, Florida.

MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings on S. 2174, authorizing funds to provide for more
effective motor carrier safety regulations and enforcement, receiving
testimony from James H. Burnley IV, Deputy Secretary of Transportation;
Kenneth L. Pierson, Director, Bureau of Motor Carrier Safety, Department of
Transportation; Reese H. Taylor, Jr., Chairman, Interstate Commerce
Commission; R. V. Durham, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Will Johns,
American Trucking Associations, Inc., Richard D. Henderson, and John DeVierno,
both of the Private Truck Council of America, Inc., Robert J. Forman,
Trailways, Inc., representing the American Bus Association, and Paul Nagle,
United Bus Owners of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael D. Greer, West
Virginia Public Utilities Commission, Charleston, representing the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; and Marshall Siegel,
Independent Truck Owner-Operator Association, Canton, Massachusetts.

Hearings were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Ann Dore McLaughlin, of the District of Columbia,
to be Under Secretary of the Interior, and Richard T. Montoya, of Texas, to be
an Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

Also, the committee agreed to a committee resolution to waive the waiting
period for granting a right-of-way for the construction of a natural gas
pipeline in Muddy Creek, Wyoming, by the Northwest Pipeline Corporation.

ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION/SYNFUELS/FORESTRY SERVICE BUDGETS

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed budget estimates for those programs which fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's budget requests
for fiscal year 1985, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Raymond J. O'Connor, Chairman, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; Edward E. Noble, Chairman, U.S. Synthetic Fuels
Corporation; and John B. Crowell, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, and
J. Lamar Beasley, Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, U.S. Forest
Service, both of the Department of Agriculture.

WILDERNESS LANDS--ARIZONA AND UTAH

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

S. 2155, to designate certain National Forest System lands in the state of
Utah for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, and to
release other forest lands for multiple-use management, after receiving
testimony from Senators Garn and Hatch; Representatives James V. Hansen, and
Nielson; J. Lamar Beasley, Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, U.S.
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; James M. Parker, Associate
Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department) of the Interior; Utah
Governor Scott M. Matheson, Clarie Accord, representing the Utah Woolgrowers,
Bob Wallentine, Utah Farm Bureau Federation, Michael Sibbett, Utah Cattlemen's
Association, Jim Pissot, Utah Audubon Society, Brian Beard, Sierra Club (Utah
Chapter), Dick Carter, Utah Wilderness Association, George Dibble, Western
Regional Council-Committee on Wilderness, and James Peacock, Utah Petroleum
Association, all of Salt Lake City, Utah; Thomas J. Lyon, representing the
Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and Utah Wilderness Association, Logan; Calvin
Black, San Juan County Commissioner, Blanding, Utah; Jim Riley, Intermountain
Forestry Services Association, Peter Coppelman, The Wilderness Society, and
John Hall, National Forest Products Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and
Torn Stevenson, Wasatch Mountain Club, Fairfax, Virginia; and

S. 1611, to designate specified lands in Arizona and Utah as wilderness areas,
after receiving testimony from Senators Goldwater and DeConcini; J. Lamar
Beasley, Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, U.S. Forest Service,
Department of Agriculture; James. M. Parker, Associate Director, Bureau of
Land Management, Department of the Interior; Calvin Black, San Juan County
Commissioners, Blanding, Utah; Gerald W. Grandey, Energy Fuels Nuclear, Inc.,
Denver, Colorado; John Atkins, Pathfinder Mines Corporation, Riverton,
Wyoming; Ed Ware, Rocky Mountain Energy, Brookfield, Colorado; and Terry
Sopher, The Wilderness Society, Paul Pritchard, and Russ Butcher, both of the
National Parks and Conservation Association, and Rob Smith, Sierra Club, all
of Washington, D.C.

CLEAN AIR ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on S.
768, to authorize funds through fiscal year 1987 for and to extend certain
programs of the Clean Air Act (P.L. 95-95), receiving testimony from Senator
D'Amato; Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman, and S. David Freeman, and Richard M.
Freeman, both Directors, all of the Board of Directors, Tennessee Valley
Authority; Massachusetts Governor Michael D. Dukakis, Boston; William T.
McCormick, Jr., American Natural Resources Company, Detroit, Michigan, on
behalf of the Alliance for Clean Energy; William B. Harrison, Southern Company
Services, Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of Edison Electric Institute; and
Alfred Munzer, Washington Adventist Hospital, on behalf of the American Lung
Association, Ruth Gonze, American Public Power Association, Carl E. Bagge,
National Coal Association, and Benjamin Dysart, National Wildlife Federation,
all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Wednesday, February 8, the
committee approved for reporting the nominations of J. Bonnie Newman, of New
Hampshire, to be an Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Captain John D.
Bossler, to be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission.

TRUCKS--HIGHWAY TAXES

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review alternatives to
the tax on the use of heavy trucks on highways, focusing on the Department of
Transportation's study and diesel differential tax alternatives that are
revenue neutral and that do not unfairly shift the cost burden of highway and
bridge repair and reconstruction to other highway users, after receiving
testimony from Senators Abdnor, Domenici, Jepsen, Pressler, and Warner;
Representatives Frenzel and Ireland; Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of
Transportation; Lawrence H. Thompson, Chief Economist, U.S. General Accounting
Office; Thomas A. Larson, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation,
Harrisburg, on behalf of the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials; Don A. Wilson, The Southland Corporation, Dallas,
Texas, on behalf of Private Truck Council of America, Inc.; Bennett C.
Whitlock, Jr., American Trucking Associations, Inc., and George Berg, American
Farm Bureau Federation, both of Washington, D.C.; John Archer, American
Automobile Association, Falls Church, Virginia; William H. Morgan, Del-Mar-Va
Independent Truckers Association, Lincoln, Delaware; Marshall Siegel, DBA
Independent Truck Owner-Operators Association, Canton, Massachusetts; James J.
Johnston, Owner-Operators Independent Drivers Association of America, Oak
Grove, Missouri; Mike Parkhurst, Independent Truckers Association, Los
Angeles, California; Conrad Odell, Kansas Motor Carriers Association, Topeka;
Jeff Parker, South Dakota Truckers Association, Sioux Falls; and Ray Ashworth,
Virginia Highway Users Association, and John Fein, Overnight Transportation
Company, both of Richmond, Virginia.

BUSINESS MEETING

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S.
Res. 293, to direct the Senate Legal Counsel to bring civil action to enforce
a specified subpoena of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

FREEDOM OF WORKPLACE

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 2145, to permit industrial homework by individuals, including
craftwork and the performance of services in individual residences, if their
employers comply with the minimum wage and maximum hour provisions of the Fair
Labor Standards Act, after receiving testimony from from Senators Cohen and
Kasten; Audrey L. Pudvah, Audrey's Design's, East Calais, Vermont; Michael E.
Avakian, North Springfield, Virginia, on behalf of the Center on National
Labor Policy; Mary Clements, Ripon, Wisconsin; Marion it. Behr, Edison, New
Jersey, on behalf of the National Alliance of Homebased Businesswomen; Coralee
Smith Kern, Cottage Connection, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National
Association for the Cottage Industry; Sol C. Chaikin, International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union, New York City, representing the American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations; and Mark A. de Bernardo,
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, D.C.

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 operating expenses of their respective committees, as follows:

Foreign Relations (S. Res. 311 - $2,757,275), Senators Percy and Pell;

Commerce, Science, Transportation (S. Res. 318 - $3,648,174), Senators
Packwood and Inouye;

Finance (S. Res. 331 - $2,379,000), Senators Dole and Long;

Select Committee on Intelligence (S. Res. 317 - $2,089,000), Senators
Goldwater and Moynihan;

Governmental Affairs (S. Res. 325 - $4,964,523), Senators Roth and Eagleton;

Judiciary (S. Res. 310 - $4,670,827), Senators Thurmond and Biden; and

Budget (S. Res. 314 - $3,222,971), Senators Domenici and Chiles.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on monetary policy and economic
growth from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board; and on fiscal
policy and the fiscal year 1985 budget from Rudolph G. Penner, Director,
Congressional Budget Office.

Hearings continue tomorrow.



1984/02/20
Daily Digest - Monday, February 20, 1984; page D64 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

No committee meetings were held.

No Joint hearings noted.



1984/02/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 21, 1984; page D64 - D68 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT--APPROPRIATIONS

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1985, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for energy and water development programs from
William P. Clark, Secretary of the Interior; and Robert N. Broadbent,
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday February 29.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; and M. Peter
McPherson, Administrator, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

TRADE REORGANIZATION

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on S.
1723, to redesignate the United States Trade Representative as the President's
Representative for Trade Negotiations, and the provisions of S. 121, to
establish a U.S. Department of Trade as an executive department of the Federal
Government (pending on Senate calendar), receiving testimony from Senators
Moynihan and Mattingly; Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; and Alan T.
Tracy, Deputy Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs.

Hearings continue Monday, February 27.

NOMINATION

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Woodward Kingman, of California, to be an Associate Director of the U.S.
Information Agency, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his
own behalf.

MISSING CHILDREN

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice resumed hearings
on S. 2014, to increase the role of the Federal Government in locating and
returning missing children by providing a toll-free telephone line where
individuals may report information regarding missing children and establishing
a national resource center and clearinghouse to provide technical assistance
to States and local governments and to gather and disseminate information on
exemplary missing children's programs, receiving testimony from Senator
Bradley; Oliver B. Revell III, Assistant Director, Criminal Investigative
Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Pearla
Kinsey Peterson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Dick Ruffino, Bergen County
Sheriff's Department, Hackensack, New Jersey; and Linda Otto, Alan Landsburg
Productions, Los Angeles, California, on behalf of Find the Children.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 6.

EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution resumed hearings
on S.J. Res. 10, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United
States relative to equal rights for women and men, focusing on the impact of
the amendment upon Veterans' programs, receiving testimony from Michael
Malloy, Helena, Montana; Gary L. McDowell, Tulane University, New Orleans,
Louisiana; Charles Shanor, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia;
Dean K. Phillips, Military Order of the Purple Heart, Springfield, Virginia;
and Donald H. Schwab, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, E. Philip
Riggin, The American Legion, David J. Passamaneck, AMVETS, Dennis K. Rhoades,
Vietnam Veterans of America, and June A. Willenz, American Veterans Committee,
all of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 20.

VETERANS PROGRAMS

Committee on Veterans Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1747, to
establish Peacetime Veterans' Career Members Contributory Educational
Assistance programs, the substance of S. 1873, to direct the President to
report to the Congress on recruitment and retention needs and experiences of
the armed forces, and to review the Veterans Education Assistant Program
(VEAP) after receiving testimony from Senator Armstrong; Lawrence J. Korb,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics;
General Maxwell R. Thurman, Vice Chief of Army Staff; Kenneth J. Coffey,
Associate Director (Military Personnel) Federal Personnel and Compensation
Division, General Accounting Office; and Neil M. Singer, Principal Analyst for
National Security and International Affairs, Congressional Budget Office.

BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
proposed budget for fiscal year 1985 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Kenneth L. Smith,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, who
was accompanied by several of his associates; Caleb Shields, Fort Peck Tribe,
Poplar, Montana; Raymond Morgan and Daniel Rosenfelt, both on behalf of the
National Indian School Board Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Roger
Bordeau, Association of Contract Tribal Schools, St. Francis, South Dakota;
Marie Star, Muckleshoot Tribe, Auburn, Washington; Lorraine Edmo and Rose
Robinson, both of the American Indian Scholarship Inc., Taos, New Mexico; Ross
Swimmer, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado; Elwood Patawa
and Larry Delplanche, both of the Umatilla Tribe, Pendleton, Oregon; Allen
Pinkham and Tim Wapato, both of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries
Commission, Lapwai, Idaho; Maxine Edmo and William Edmo, both of the Shoshone-
Bannock Tribe, Fort Hall, Idaho; Jimmy C. Begay, Rough Rock Demonstration
School, Rough Rock, Arizona; Vincente Pedro, Jerry Smith, and Ron Sullivan,
all of Laguna Peublo, Laguna, New Mexico; Sue Williams, Association on Indian
Affairs, Washington, D.C.; Lewis Dillon, Marty Indian School, Marty, South
Dakota; Dean Jackson, Navajo Community College, Tsaile, Oklahoma; Jannie
Pease, American Indian Higher Education Consortium/Little Big Horn College,
Crow Agency, Montana; Lionel Bordeau and David Beaulieu, both of Sinte Gleska
College, Rosebud, South Dakota; and Bennie Cohoe, Ramah Navajo School Board,
Ramah, New Mexico.

Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 23.

Joint Meeting

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the Administration's
economic policies from Robert Eisner, Northwestern University, Evanston,
Illinois; and Lawrence Klein, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Hearings continue tomorrow.



1984/02/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 22, 1984; page D68 - D75 (Bound vol.)

Committee Meetings

GRACE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to review the recommendations of the President's Private Sector
Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission), focusing on the recommendations for
the Department of Agriculture, after receiving testimony from J. Peter Grace,
Chairman, and J. P. Bolduc, Chief Operating Officer, both of the President's
Private Sector Survey on Cost Control; Clifton B. Cox, Cox, Lloyd Associates,
Phoenix, Arizona; Richard D. Donoghue, Ernst and Whinney, and Paul E. Marsh,
The Northern Trust Company, both of Chicago, Illinois; and Gregory A. Knott,
Deere and Company, Moline, Illinois.

FISCAL YEAR 1985 FEDERAL BUDGET

Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1985, after receiving
testimony from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office.

SOVIET STRATEGIC FORCES

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Theater Nuclear Forces
met in closed session to receive testimony on Soviet strategic force
developments from an official of the intelligence community.

Subcommittee recessed subject to call.

CREDIT CARD SURCHARGES

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill (S. 2335) to extend until May 15, 1984, the ban on
credit card surcharges, in lieu of H.R. 4278.

Also, the committee ordered favorably reported an original bill (S. 2336) to
permit price differences with respect to credit card sales transactions.

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS/DEREGULATION

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on S.
2181 and S. 2134, bills to authorize and define the scope of powers for
depository institutions and their holding companies and to revise certain
Federal bank regulations, receiving testimony from Mark W. Olsen, Security
State Bank, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, on behalf of the American Bankers
Association; A. Jack King, Valley Bank, Kalispell, Montana, on behalf of the
Independent Bankers Association of America; Will F. Nicholson, Jr., Colorado
National Bankshares Inc., Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Association of
Bank Holding Companies; Charles Pistor, RepublicBank, Dallas, Texas on behalf
of the Association of Reserve City Bankers; Frederick S. Hammer, Chase
Manhattan Bank, N.A., New York City, on behalf of the Consumer Bankers
Association; and Richard P. Patterson, InterFirst Bank, Dallas, Texas, on
behalf of the Dealer Bank Association.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
receiving testimony from Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human
Services; Vita Ostrander, American Association of Retired Persons, District of
Columbia; and Karen Davis, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

ADVERTISING/PUBLIC BROADCASTING

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings to discuss advertising in public
broadcasting after receiving testimony from Bruce L. Christensen, National
Association of Public Television Stations, Douglas J. Bennet, National Public
Radio, Eddie Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, and Sharon P.
Rockefeller, Sonia Landau, and Edward J. Pfister, all of the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, Washington, D.C.; Lloyd Kaiser, WQED, and Thomas E.
Latimer, Gulf Corporation, both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; J. Michael
Collins, WNED, Buffalo, New York; Michael Hardgrove, KETC, St. Louis,
Missouri; and Stewart Cheifet, KCSM, San Mateo, California.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1985 for research and educational activities of the National
Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Edward A. Knapp, Director,
National Science Foundation; Walter E. Massey, Member, National Science Board,
and Director, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; and Robert M.
White, President, National Academy of Engineering.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

GRACE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
review the recommendations of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost
Control (Grace Commission), focusing on the full-cost recovery for the sale of
government-generated electric power, recovery for construction, operation and
maintenance of deep draft ports and channels and inland waterways, and
recovery for Coast Guard services provided in non-life-threatening situations,
after receiving testimony from J. Peter Grace, Chairman, President's Private
Sector Survey on Cost Control.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of William A. Wilson, of California, to be Ambassador to the Holy
See, Robert F. Kane, of California, to be Ambassador to Ireland, Woodward
Kingman, of California to be an Associate Director of the U.S. Information
Agency, and a Foreign Service Officer promotion list dated January 30, 1984.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of David C. Jordan, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Peru, and
Harold K. Phillips, of California, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the Inter-American Foundation, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.  Mr. Phillips was introduced by Senator Wilson.

AUTHORIZATIONS--FOREIGN ASSISTANCE

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 and supplemental funds for
fiscal year 1984 for foreign assistance programs, receiving testimony from
George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary
of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; and M. Peter
McPherson, Director, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency (AID).

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 29.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Pauline Newman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Federal Circuit, and James H. Wilkinson, III, of Virginia, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit, after the nominees testified and
answered question in their own behalf.  Ms. Newman was introduced by Senator
Heinz.  Testimony was received on the nomination of Mr. Wilkinson from Elaine
R. Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Joseph M. Trevino, League of
United Latin American Citizens, Helen C. Gonzales, Mexican American Legal
Defense and Educational Fund, and Armand Derfner, all of Washington, D.C.;
Jack W. Gravely, NAACP-Virginia State Conference, and C. Lydon Harrell, Jr.,
Mobility on Wheels, Inc., both of Richmond, Virginia; Bobby B. Stafford, Old
Dominion Bar Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Robert J. Roehr, Capital Area
Republicans, Annandale, Virginia; Thomas DePriest, Virginia Gay Alliance,
Arlington; and Edythe Harrison, National Women's Political Caucus of Virginia,
Norfolk, and the National Organization for Women.

GRANDPARENT'S VISITATION RIGHTS

Committee on Judiciary: Subcommittee on Separation of Powers approved for full
committee consideration with an amendment S. Con. Res. 40, to provide
grandparents with adequate rights to petition State courts for privileges to
visit their grandchildren following the dissolution of the parent's marriage.

HEALTH PROGRAMS

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 2303,
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Block Grants, S. 2311, Health
Maintenance Organizations, S. 2308, Primary Health Care Block Grants, S. 2301,
Home and Community Based Services Block Grants, and S. 2281, National Health
Service Corps Amendments, receiving testimony from Edward N. Brandt, Assistant
Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Russell A. Williams, Utah
Alcohol and Drug Program Directors Association, Farmington, on behalf of the
National Council of Community Mental Health Centers; Kenneth L. Eaton,
Michigan Department of Public Health, Lansing, on behalf of the National
Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors; Michael Herbert,
Physician's Health Services, Trumbull, Connecticut, on behalf of the American
Medical Care Review Association; and Robert Rasmussen, Prime Health, Kansas
City, Missouri, on behalf of the Group Health Association of America.

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 7.

COMMITTEE BUDGETS

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorable reported
the following business items:

(1) An original resolution (S. Res. 354) providing funds in operating expenses
of the standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S.
Res. 330, S. Res. 326, S. Res. 328, S. Res. 332, S. Res. 314, S. Res. 318,  S.
Res. 321, S. Res. 322, S. Res. 331, S. Res. 311, S. Res. 325, S. Res. 310, S.
Res. 320, S. Res. 343, S. Res. 323, S. Res. 327, S. Res. 319, S. Res. 317, and 
S. Res. 316. As approved by the committee, the resolution provides funds as
follows:

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry - $1,390,885;

Committee on Appropriations - $4,317,500;

Committee on Armed Services - $2,239,919;

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs - $1,806,300;

Committee on the Budget - $3,197,971;

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation - $3,648,174;

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources - $2,524,777;

Committee on Environment and Natural Resources - $2,550,000;

Committee on Finance - $2,379,000;

Committee on Foreign Relations - $2,732,275;

Committee on Governmental Affairs - $4,964,523;

Committee on the Judiciary - $4,670,827;

Committee on Labor and Human Resources - $4,852,500;

Committee on Rules and Administration - $1,340,195;

Committee on Small Business - $1,001,678;

Committee on Veterans' Affairs - $935,357;

Special Committee on Aging - $1,159,720;

Select Committee on Intelligence - $2,064,000;

Select Committee on Indian Affairs - $275,079;

(2) S. Res. 309, to increase by $22,300 expenditures for the Committee on
Labor and Human Resources for the first session of the 98th Congress, with
amendments;

(3)S. Con. Res. 93, to authorize the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
to conduct a ceremony in the Rotunda of the Capitol on April 30, 1984; and

(4)An original resolution (S. Res. 352) to pay a gratuity to the survivor of a
deceased Senate employee.

INTELLIGENCE MATTERS

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 hold a closed briefing on Wednesday, February 29.

Joint Meetings

JEC ANNUAL REPORT

Joint Economic Committee: Committee continued hearings in preparation for its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the Administration's
economic policies from Gar Alperovitz, National Center for Economic
Alternatives, and Leon H. Keyserling, former Chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28.

INTERNATIONAL OCEAN COMMERCE

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions on S. 47, to improve the international ocean
commerce transportation system of the United States.



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Committee Meetings

AGRICULTURAL TRADE

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Foreign
Agricultural Policy concluded hearings o n S. 2005, to expand markets for U.S.
agricultural products, and S. 2304, to provide credit for financing the export
of U.S. agricultural commodities, and increase the authorization level for
food aid in central Africa, after receiving testimony from from Richard E.
Lyng, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; Bernard Steinweg, National Grain and
Feed Association, W. Glenn Tussey, American Farm Bureau Federation, Cathy
McCharen, United Egg Producers, and Wallace J. Campbell, CARE, representing
the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Committee, all of Washington, D.C.;
Robert Kohlmeyer, Cargill, representing the North American Export Grain
Association, and Jon Jacobsen, Peavey Grain Company, representing the Millers'
National Federation, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Wayne A. Boutwell,
Washington, D.C., LaVern Freeh, Land O'Lakes, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota,
Donald M. Chartier, FAR-MAR-CO, Kansas City, Missouri, and Richard Pennell,
Harvest States Cooperative, St. Paul, Minneapolis, all on behalf of the
National Council of Farmers Cooperatives; and Earl Pryor, Condon, Oregon, on
behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers.

APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1985, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Major
General Andrew J. Adams, USA, Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission;
Colonel Joseph E. Gleason, Director, Casualty and Memorial Affairs, Office of
the Adjutant General, Department of the Army; Virginia H. Knauer, Special
Adviser to the President for Consumer Affairs, and Director, U.S. Office of
Consumer Affairs; and Teresa N. Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center,
General Services Administration.

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 1.

APPROPRIATIONS--TRANSPORTATION

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1985 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elizabeth Hanford
Dole, Secretary of Transportation.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 28.

UNIFIED COMMANDS

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded open and closed hearings to
review that status of the unified commands, after receiving testimony from
Admiral Wesley L. McDonald, USN, Commander in Chief, Atlantic Command; General
Paul F. Gorman, USA, Commander in Chief, Southern Command; Lt. General Howard
S. Stone, Chief of Army Staff, U.S. European Command; General Wallis H.
Nutting, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Readiness Command; Admiral William J.
Crowe, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific Command; and Lt. General Robert C.
Kingston, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
focusing on the impact on our national defense of major reproductions in the
President's fiscal year 1985 requested defense increase, receiving testimony
from M. Lee Rice, Shipbuilders Council of America, and Joshua M. Epstein, The
Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue on Monday, February 27.

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1985 for research and educational activities of the
National Science Foundation, receiving testimony from George Keyworth, Science
Advisor to the President; Edward Knapp, Director, National Science Foundation;
Neal Lane, Rice University, Houston, Texas; and Richard A. Zdanis, The Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

NOMINATION

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Richard H. Francis, of Virginia, to be President, Solar Energy
and Energy Conservation Bank, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was received from Joan Moody, Solar
Lobby, Washington, D.C.

NRC--AUTHORIZATIONS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1985 for the Nuclear regulatory Commission, after receiving testimony from
Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman, and Victor Gilinsky, Thomas M. Roberts, James
K. Asselstine, and Fred Bernthal, all Commissioners, all of the United States
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

FEDERAL DEFICIT REDUCTION

Committee on Finance: Committee began markup of proposed legislation to
provide for a reduction in the Federal deficit, bud did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, February 28.

U.S. EMBASSY IN ISRAEL

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 2031, to require
that the U.S. Embassy in Israel and the residence of the American Ambassador
to Israel shall be located in Jerusalem, receiving testimony from from
Senators Moynihan and Specter; Lawrence Eagleburger, Undersecretary of State
for Political Affairs; Right Reverend John T. Walker, Episcopal Bishop of
Washington, Father J. Bryan Hehir, United States Catholic Conference, Harold
H. Saunders, former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South
Asian Affairs, David Sadd, Association of Arab-Americans, Calvin Thomas, The
Moral Majority, and Kenneth J. Bialkin, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith, all of Washington, D.C.; Father Milton Efthimiou, representing the
Standing Conference of Canonical Bishops of America (Orthodox Church), New
York City; David A. Lewis, National Christian Leadership Conference for
Israel, Springfield, Missouri; Richard A. Hellman, The International Christian
Embassy, Jerusalem; and Sister Rose Thering, Seton Hall University, South
Orange, New Jersey.

Hearing were recessed subject to call.

BUSINESS MEETING

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

The nominations of Pauline Newman, of Pennsylvania, to be United states
Circuit Judge for the Forth Circuit, Robert C. Bonner, to be United States
Attorney for the Central District of California, and Errol Lee Wood, to be
United States Marshal for the Districts of North Dakota;

S.J. Res. 59, to designate February 27, 1986, as "Hugo Lafayette Black Day";

S.J. Res. 112, to proclaim the month of March 1984, as "National Social Work
Month";

S.J. Res. 137, to designate April 7, 1984, as "World Health Day";

S.J. Res. 148, to designate the week of May 6-13, 1984, as "National Tuberous
Sclerosis Week";

S.J. Res. 171, to designate July 20, 1984, as "National P.O.W./M.I.A.
Recognition Day";

S.J. Res. 184, to designate the week of March 4-10, 1984, as "National Beta
Club Week";

S.J. Res. 201, to designate the week of November 25 through December 1, 1984,
as "National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week";

S.J. Res. 202 to designate 1984 as "The Year of Water";

S.J. Res. 205, to designate the week of March 4-10, 1984, as "National Employ
the Older Worker Week", with an amendment;

S.J. Res. 213, to designate 1984 as "The Year of the Secretary";

S.J. Res. 228, to designate the week of May 20-26, 1984, as "National
Digestive Diseases Awareness Week";

S.J. Res. 232, to designate the month of May, 1984, as "National Physical
Fitness and sports Month";

S.J. Res. 238, to designate the week beginning November 19, 1984, as "National
Adoption Week";

H.J. Res. 292, to designate a specific week as "National Theatre Week";

S.J. Res. 193, to designate March 6, 1984, as "Frozen Food Day";

S.J. Res. 220, to designate the week of May 20-26, 1984, as "National Arts
with the Handicapped Week"; and

S.J. Res. 225, to designate the month of March 1984, as "National Eye Donor
Month".

DEVELOPMENT DISABILITIES

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on he Handicapped
concluded oversight hearing to review the implementation of developmental
disabilities assistance programs administered by the Department of Health and
Human Services, after receiving testimony from Jean K. Elder, Commissioner,
Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Department of Health and Human
Services; Edward T. Preneta, Connecticut Planning Council on Developmental
Disabilities, West Hartford; Nancy Mattox, West Virginia Advocates for the
Developmentally Disabled, Charleston; Alfred Healy, American Association of
University Affiliated Programs for Persons with Developmental Disabilities,
University of Iowa, Iowa City; Larry E. Rhodes, University of Oregon, Eugene;
and Paul Jameson, National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils,
representing the Consortium for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities,
Wellesley, Massachusetts.

INDIAN EDUCATION, IMPACT AID, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review
Indian health and education programs administered by the Department of Health
and Human Services, after receiving testimony from Robert Graham,
Administrator, Health Resources Services Administration, and Everett R.
Rhoades, Director, Howard Roach, Associate Director for Administration, and
Dana Kopp, Assistant Area Director for Patient Care Programs (Billings,
Montana), all of the Indian Health Service, all of the Department of Health
and Human Services; Lawrence Davenport, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secondary Education, Robert Worthington, Assistant Secretary for Vocational
and Adult Education, Sally Christenson, Director of the Budget, and Hakim
Kahn, Director, Office of Indian Education, all of the Department of
Education; Lois Steele, and Elizabeth Yellowbird Demaray, both of the Indians
Into Medicine (INMED) Program, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Robert Swan, Fort
Belknap, Montana; Karen Fenton, Montana State University, Bozeman; David Gipp,
United Tribes Educational Technical Center, Bismarck, North Dakota; Joann
Kauffman, American Indian Health Care Association, Seattle, Washington; Pamela
Iron, Indian Health Care Resource Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma; E. Susan Crystal,
Olympia, Washington; Connie Cuillory, National Association of Community Health
Representatives, Lapwai, Idaho; Diane Kelly, National Congress of American
Indians, and Elmer Savilla, National Tribal Chairmen's Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Tony Secatero, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Donald LaPointe,
Keweenaw Bay, Michigan, both of the National Indian Health Board; Melvin White
Eagle, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; and Irma Mundy,
Phoenix Indian Community Health, Phoenix, Arizona.

INTELLIGENCE--AUTHORIZATIONS

Select Committee on Intelligence: Subcommittee on the Budget held closed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1985 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain officials of the
intelligence community.

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 28.

No Joint hearings noted.



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Committee Meetings

APPROPRIATIONS--INTERIOR

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 24, the Subcommittee on the
Interior and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1985 for the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from
William Clark, Secretary of the Interior.

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 28.

SOVIET CONVENTIONAL WARFARE THREAT

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, and Stephen Covington,
Soviet Ground Force Research Intelligence Specialist, both of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.

FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1985 budget,
focusing on science, space and technology issues, receiving testimony from
James M. Beggs, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration;
John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment; George A. Keyworth
II, Science Advisor to the President, and Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President; and William D. Carey,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.

Hearings continue tomorrow.

NOMINATIONS

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee approved for
reporting the nominations of Charles C. Harding, of Maryland, to be Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Governmental Affairs, Jim J. Marquez, of
Kansas, to be General Counsel, Department of Transportation, and routine
nominations in the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.

On Friday, February 24, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Harding and Marquez, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf.  Mr. Marquez was introduced by Senator Dole.

CORPS OF ENGINEERS

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to review
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1985, focusing on
the Corps of Engineers, receiving testimony from William R. Gianelli,
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.

Hearings continue on Friday, March 2.

CLEAN AIR ACT

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, February 24, the
committee concluded hearings on S. 768, to authorize funds through fiscal year 
1987 for and to extend certain programs of the Clean Air Act (P.L. 95-95),
receiving testimony from Joseph A. Cannon, Assistant Administrator for Air and
Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency; Randolph Wood, Wyoming Department
of Environmental Quality, Cheyenne, on behalf of the State and Territorial Air
Pollution Program Administrators; and Donald Arkell, Lane Regional Air
Pollution Authority, Eugene, Oregon, on behalf of the Association of Local Air
Pollution Control Officials.

LONG-TERM CARE

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health concluded hearings on S. 2053, to
provide for the placement of severely disabled individuals in community or
family living facilities, after receiving testimony from David Braddock,
Institute for the Study of Developmental Disabilities, Chicago, Illinois;
Karen Green-McGowan, Peachtree City, Georgia; Barbara Matula, North Carolina
Department of Health and Human Resources, Raleigh, on behalf of the American
Public Welfare Association; Jennifer Howse, Pennsylvania Department of Public
Welfare, Harrisburg, on behalf of the National Association of State Mental
Retardation Program Directors; Illinois State Senator Prescott E. Bloom,
Springfield, on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislators; Robert
L. Carl, Jr., and George W. Gunther, Jr., both of the Rhode Island Department
of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals, Providence; Robert Decker, Salem,
Oregon, on behalf of the American Health Care Association; Margaret L. Shreve,
The Whole Person, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri; Guerin A. Fischer, Clearbrook
Center for the Handicapped, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, on behalf of the Voice
of the Retarded; Barbara Eirich, Community Resource Center for the
Developmentally Disabled, Inc., Bronx, New York; Thomas Brocato, on behalf,
St. Mary's Training School for Retarded Children, Alexandria, Louisiana; John
Clarke, Denver, Colorado; Melvin D. Heckt, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Christine
Craddy, Cranston, Rhode Island; Peter Kinzler, on behalf of The Parents'
Network and Parents and Associates of the Northern Virginia Training Center,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Eileen LeVasseur, Barrington, Rhode Island.

TRADE REORGANIZATION

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on S. 1723, to redesignate the United States Trade Representative as the
President's Representative for Trade Negotiations, and the provisions of S.
121, to establish a U.S. department of Trade as an executive department of the
Federal Government (pending on Senate calendar), after receiving testimony
from Robert Herzstein, Arnold & Porter, Harald B. Malmgren, Malmgren, Inc.,
Alexander B. Trowbridge, National Association of Manufacturers, W. Glenn
Tussey, American Farm Bureau Federation, Philip H. Trezise, and Doreen L.
Brown, both of the Consumers for World Trade, James D. McKevitt, National
Federation of Independent Business, and Brian Turner, AFL-CIO, and Herbert
Schmitz, Combustion Engineering Inc., both on behalf of Labor-Industry
Coalition for International Trade, all of Washington, D.C.; Robert D. Hormats,
Goldman Sachs International Corporation, and Cord D. Hansen-Sturm, United
States Tour Operators Association, both of New York City; Robert W. Galvin,
Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois; Earl Pryor, Condon, Oregon, on behalf of the
National Association of Wheat Growers; John Reed, International, Arthur
Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Illinois; and William A. Andres, Dayton
Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Joseph A. Greenwald, Well,
Gotshal and Manges, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the National Retail
Merchants Association and the American Retail Federation.

ACCOUNTING COST RECOVERY SIMPLIFICATION

Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 24, the Subcommittee on Taxation and
debt Management concluded hearings on S. 1758, to establish a recovery account
system for calculating the depreciation deduction under the accelerated cost
recovery system for three and five year personal property, after receiving
testimony from John E. Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax
Policy; and Stanley I. Bregman, Bregman, Abell and Kay, on behalf of the Truck
Renting and Leasing Association and the American Car Rental Association, and
John J. Motley III, National Federation of Independent Business, both of
Washington, D.C.

FOUNDATIONS/HIGH TECH RESEARCH

Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 24, the Subcommittee on Taxation and
debt Management and the Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions, and Investment
Policy concluded joint hearings on the following bills:

S. 2165, to make permanent the income tax credit for research and development
expenditures, after receiving from Representatives Zschau and Chandler; Roger
Wellington, Augat, Inc., Mansfield, Massachusetts, on behalf of American
Electronics Association; Richard D. Harris, Xerox Corporation, Rochester, New
York, on behalf of the Rochester Tax Council, IBM, Sperry and Amdahl; Larry R.
Langdon, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California, on behalf of Computer
and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, Scientific Apparatus Makers
Association, and the Semiconductor Industry Association; Nicholas Clements,
Blythe, Eastman, Paine Webber, New York City; Wayne R. Moore, Moore Special
Tool Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut, on behalf of National Machine
Tool Builders' Association; Edward J. Bloustein, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, New Jersey, on behalf of the Association of American Universities;
Gene Bottoms, American Vocational Association, Arlington,. Virginia; Stephen
Kahne, Polytechnic Institute of New York, Brooklyn, on behalf of American
Society of Engineering Education; and Philip D. Morrison, Ivins, Phillips &
Barker, Jeanne Campbell, The New England Council, Inc., John S. Nolan, Miller
& Chevalier, on behalf of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, David
Allen, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Held, on behalf of the Coalition of
Services Industries, and Erich Bloch, Semiconductor Research Corporation, all
of Washington, D.C.; and

S. 1857, to revise certain tax rules relating to private foundations by
eliminating differences in the tax treatment of donors to public charities and
private operating foundations and donors to private nonoperating foundations,
and would relax several restrictions that are imposed on private foundations,
after receiving testimony from Edward N. Delaney, American Bar Association,
James A. Joseph, Council on Foundations, Mrs. Orville L. Freeman, Girl Scouts
of America, Christopher M. Mould, YMCA of the U.S.A., Brian O'Connell,
Independent Sector, Robert O. Bothwell, National Committee for Responsive
Philanthropy, and William J. Lehrfeld, Lehrfeld & Henzke, on behalf of the
Heritage Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; Thomas R. Buckman, The
Foundation Center, New York City; Jack Moskowitz, United Way of America,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Jan W. Baran, Baker & Hosteler, on behalf of the
Knight Foundation, Miami, Florida

Testimony was also received on both the aforementioned bills from John E.
Chapoton, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy.

ADOLESCENTS IN CRISIS--PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: O