99th Congress

1985/01/03
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 3, 1985; pages D1 - D ?  (Bound vol. D3-D8)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/01/07
Daily Digest - Monday, January 7, 1985; pages D10 - D ?  (Bound vol. D8-D9)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FAA 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, January 4, the Subcommittee on
Transportation held hearings on the Federal Aviation Administration Facility
Consolidation Plan, receiving testimony from Donald D. Engen, Administrator,
FAA. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 
  
COMMITTEE MEETING 
  
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, January 4, committee met
to review legislative priorities for the 99th Congress. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1985/01/21
Daily Digest - Monday, January 21, 1985; pages D13 - D ?  (Bound vol. D10-D11)

Committee Meetings 

No meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/01/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 22, 1985; pages D18 - D ?  (Bound vol. D11-
D12)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1885/01/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 24, 1985; pages D21 - D ?  (Bound vol. D12-
D14)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

HOMELESS 

Committee on Appropriations: On Wednesday, January 23, the Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia held hearings on the problems of the homeless, receiving
testimony from Gladys Kessler, Presiding Judge, District of Columbia Superior
Court (Family Division); David Rivers, Director, District of Columbia
Department of Human Services; William Prescott, Superintendent, St. Elizabeths
Hospital; John Steinbruck, First Lutheran Church Services, on behalf of the
D.C. Commission on the Homeless, Mitch Snyder, Community for Creative
Non-Violence, and John Talbott, American Psychiatric Association, all of
Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, January 23, committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of John W. Shannon, of Maryland, to be
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Installations and Logistics), and 5,133
routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

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

CIA BRIEFING 

Committee on Armed Services: On Wednesday, January 23, committee met in closed
session to receive a briefing on worldwide intelligence from William J. Casey,
Director of Central Intelligence. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: On Wednesday, January 23, the committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of James A. Baker III, of Texas, to be
Secretary of the Treasury. 

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

PROCUREMENT REFORM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Wednesday, January 23, Subcommittee on
Oversight of Government Management held oversight hearings to review certain
procurement recommendations of the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost
Control (Grace Commission), focusing on reducing the proliferation of
procurement regulations, lessening the impact of social and economic
requirements for small-dollar contracts, making greater use of multiyear
contracting, encouraging more contracting out, and simplifying the
specifications by which the government describes its needs, receiving
testimony from Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management
and Budget; William E. Mathis, Acting Administrator, Office of Federal
Procurement Policy; Mary Ann Gilleece, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition Management); Allan W. Beres, Assistant Administrator, Office of
Acquisition Policy, General Services Administration; J.P. Bolduc and John
Gish, both of W.R. Grace and Co., and William H. Tremayne, The Prudential
Insurance Company of America, all of New York City; Jacques S. Gansler, The
Analytic Sciences Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Norman R. Augustine,
Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, Denver, Colorado. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SENATE RULES AND COMMITTEE SYSTEM 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings to review
recommended changes to Senate rules and the Senate committee system, focusing
on the report of the Temporary Select Committee to Study the Senate Committee
System and the report of the Study Group on Senate Practices and Procedures,
receiving testimony from Senator Byrd. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/01/28
Daily Digest - Monday, January 28, 1985; pages D25 - D ?  (Bound vol. D14)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

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

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, January 25, committee met in closed
session to receive a briefing on U.S. and U.S.S.R. military capabilities from
Maj. Gen. W.E. Klein, USA, Vice Director, and Brig. Gen. Joel M. McKean, USAF,
Assistant Deputy Director for Force Development and Strategic Plans, both of
the Plans and Policy Directorate, Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;
and Jack Vorona, Assistant Deputy Director for Scientific and Technical
Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency. 

NASA SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 51-A 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the November 1984 space shuttle
mission 51-A, and to discuss the mission's impact on future space activities,
after receiving testimony from Frederick Hauck, Commander, David Walker,
Pilot, and Joseph Allen, Anna Fisher, and Dale Gardner, all mission
specialists, all of NASA's Space Shuttle Mission 51-A. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of William J. Bennett, of North Carolina, to be Secretary of
Education, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Helms and
Moynihan, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/01/29
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 29, 1985; pages D30 - D ?  (Bound vol. D14-
D15)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MILITARY OPERATIONS AND PLANS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the Air/Land Battle Conventional Doctrine from Major General John
W. Woodmansee, Jr., USA, Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and
Plans, Force Development, Office of the Deputy Chief of Army Staff for
Operations and Plans; and Major General Charles R. Hamm, USAF, Director of
Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Plans and
Operations. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following measures: 

An original bill authorizing funds for the Federal-aid highway program of the
Department of Transportation, in lieu of S. 178; 

An original joint resolution approving the interstate cost estimates and the
interstate substitute-cost estimates for the Federal-aid highway program, in
lieu of S.J. Res. 8; 

(As approved by the committee, each of the aforementioned measures would limit
obligations to $500 million below a freeze and would eliminate demonstration
projects); and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 51) requesting $2,617,500 in operating
expenses for the committee through February 1986. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 99th Congress. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nominations of
Richard G. Darman, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, and
Ronald A. Pearlman, of Missouri, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Mr. Darman and Mr. Pearlman, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Darman was introduced by Senators Warner
and Trible, and Mr. Pearlman was introduced by Senator Danforth. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of Edwin
Meese III, of California, to be Attorney General, where the nominee testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/01/30
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 30, 1985; pages D35 - D ?  (Bound vol. D16-
D17)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

U.S. NAVAL FORCES 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on a strategy for
the employment of U.S. Naval Forces, receiving testimony from Vice Admiral
James A. Lyons, Jr., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy
and Operations; and Commander Wood Parker, USN, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE PROCUREMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Task Force on Selected Defense Procurement
Matters held hearings on the defense procurement process, receiving testimony
from Roy A. Anderson, Lockheed Corporation, Burbank, California; and Thomas G.
Pownall, Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Lando W. Zech, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Warner and Evans, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings on the nomination of
Edwin Meese III, of California, to be Attorney General, where the nominee
testified and answered further questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held a closed organizational
business meeting where it took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $2,170,000 in
operating expenses for the committee through February 1986. 

Also, the committee discussed its legislative priorities and other committee
activities. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/01/31
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 31, 1985; pages D38 - D ?  (Bound vol. D17-
D19)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of John S. Herrington, of California, to be Secretary of Energy,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Wilson and Warner, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from
Robert Alvarez and Norris McDonald, both of the Environmental Policy
Institute, Washington, D.C. 

Committee will consider the nomination of Mr. Herrington on Tuesday, February
5. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to discuss American
foreign policy, focusing on the implications of a changing international
structure, relations between the superpowers, the growing strength and unity
of other nations that share an important set of positive goals, and the means
employed to achieve and defend those goals, receiving testimony from George P.
Shultz, Secretary of State, and Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 4. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Edwin Meese III, of California, to be Attorney General, after receiving
testimony from David H. Martin, Director, and F. Gary Davis and Nancy
Feathers, both Staff Attorneys, all of the Office of Government Ethics, Office
of Personnel Management; William P. Rogers, former Attorney General of the
United States and former Secretary of State; Donald Baldwin, National Law
Enforcement Council, Archibald Cox, Common Cause, Robert F. Drinan, Americans
for Democratic Action, Robert Kliesmet, International Union of Police
Associations, Jeffrey Levi, National Gay Task Force, Ira Nerken, Old Values,
New Visions, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
Althea T. L. Simmons, NAACP Washington Bureau, and Arnoldo S. Torres, League
of United Latin American Citizens [LULAC], all of Washington, D.C.; Chief
William Brierly, Newark, Delaware, on behalf of the State Association of
Chiefs of Police; Frank Carrington, Victims Assistance Legal Organization,
Virginia Beach, Virginia; Roberta Roper, Stephanie Roper Committee, Upper
Marlboro, Maryland; and Robert E. Van Etten, Selden, New York, on behalf of
the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association. 

NOMINATIONS 

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

Joseph Epstein, of Illinois, Helen Frankenthaler, of New York, Margaret E.
Hillis, of Illinois, M. Ray Kingston, of Utah, Talbot L. MacCarthy, of
Missouri, and Carlos Moseley, of South Carolina, each to be a Member of the
National Council on the Arts; and 

Lloyd G. Richards, of New York, and James N. Wood, of Illinois, each to be a
Member of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/04
Daily Digest - Monday, February 4, 1985; pages D44 - D ?  (Bound vol. D19-D21)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on proposed
authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
U.S. military posture, receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger,
Secretary of Defense; and Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr., USA, Chairman, Joint
Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PROFESSIONAL SPORTS COMMUNITY PROTECTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 259 and S. 287, bills to protect local community interests regarding the
relocation of certain professional sports teams, receiving testimony from
Senator Eagleton; Earl Foreman, Major Indoor Soccer League, Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania; Pete Rozelle, National Football League, David Stern, National
Basketball Association, Harry Usher, United States Football League, John A.
Ziegler, National Hockey League, Doug Allen, United States Football League
Players Association, and Alexander Hadden, Major League Baseball, all of New
York City; and Gene Upshaw and Richard Berthelsen, both of the National
Football League Players Association, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 20. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, February 1, the
committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Donald P. Hodel, of
Virginia, to be Secretary of the Interior, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senators Hatfield and Packwood, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from J.W. O'Meara, National
Water Resources Association, Jay D. Hair, National Wildlife Federation,
William A. Butler, National Audubon Society, William Painter, Defenders of
Wildlife, Suzan Harjo, National Congress of American Indians, L. Geoffrey
Webb, Friends of the Earth, Charles M. Clusen, The Wilderness Society, Jack H.
Berryman, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Carol
Porter, Wildlife Legislative Fund of America, Derrick A. Crandall, American
Recreation Coalition, and James D. Santini, National Tour Association, all of
Washington, DC; Jack Nickels, Jr., Fort Peck, Montana; James M. Shepard, Ducks
Unlimited, Long Grove, Illinois; and Theodore N. Gianoutsos, Arlington,
Virginia. 

The committee will consider the nomination of Mr. Hodel on Tuesday, February
5. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
foreign policy, receiving testimony from Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of
State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

JANUARY EMPLOYMENT SITUATION 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 1, 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. 



1985/02/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 5, 1985; pages D49 - D ?  (Bound vol. D22-
D23)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
Army programs, receiving testimony from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the
Army; and General John A. Wickham, Jr., Chief of Staff, United States Army. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the activities of the Export-Import Bank, focusing on
the problem of U.S. exports lost as a result of subsidized export credits
provided by foreign competitors, after receiving testimony from William H.
Draper III, Chairman, Export-Import Bank; H.P. Goldfield, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce for Trade Development; Dwayne O. Andreas, Archer Daniels Midland
Company, Decatur, Illinois, on behalf of the President's Task Force on
International Private Enterprise; Donald R. McGray, DMW Kellogg Company,
Houston, Texas, representing the Emergency Committee for American Trade; Dean
Thornton, The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington; Lawrence Goldberg,
Monitor-Aerospace Corporation, Farmington, Long Island; and Wayne Moore, Moore
Special Tool Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Connecticut, representing the National
Machine Tool Builders Association. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget, receiving
testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of John S. Herrington, of California, to be Secretary
of Energy, and Donald P. Hodel, of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Interior. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to discuss
American foreign policy, receiving testimony from Richard Allen, former
National Security Adviser. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Edwin Meese III, of California, to be Attorney General of the
United States. 

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 will meet again on Wednesday, February 20. 

Joint Meeting 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the economic report of the
President and the outlook for 1985 from William A. Niskanen, Jr., Member,
Council of Economic Advisers, and on the state of the economy from Paul A.
Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 7. 



1985/02/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 6, 1985; pages D54 - D ?  (Bound vol. D23-
D26)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
Navy and Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony from John F. Lehman, Jr.,
Secretary of the Navy; Admiral James D. Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations;
and General Paul X. Kelley, Commandant, United States Marine Corps. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
receiving testimony on the economic and budget outlook through fiscal year
1990 from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting
the nomination of Lee M. Thomas, of South Carolina, to be Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Thomas, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Thurmond and
Hollings, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was
also received from Lynn Greenwalt, National Wildlife Federation, Linda Greer,
Environmental Defense Fund, and A. Blakeman Early, Sierra Club, all of
Washington, D.C. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to discuss
American foreign policy, receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger, former
Secretary of Defense, former Secretary of Energy, and former Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

RELOCATING PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TEAMS: 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 172, to provide a
cause of action to cities to prevent professional football teams from
abandoning them for more profitable locations, and to provide limited
antitrust immunity to joint action of those teams engaged in professional
football, and S. 298, to clarify congressional intent regarding the
application of antitrust laws to certain types of major sports leagues
practices and decisions, receiving testimony from Senator Specter; Howard
Cosell, ABC Public Relations, Jay Moyer, representing the National Football
League, and Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, all of New York, New
York; and Gene Upshaw, National Football League Players Association, and Doug
Allen, U.S. Football League Players Association, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 7, 1985; pages D60 - D ?  (Bound vol. D26-
D29)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

WORLD AGRICULTURE MARKET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Foreign
Agricultural Policy concluded hearings to examine the competitive position of
U.S. agriculture in the current world environment, after receiving testimony
from Daniel G. Amstutz, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International
Affairs and Commodity Programs; Robbin Johnson, Cargill Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Richard Bell, Riceland Foods, Inc., Stuttgart, Arizona, on behalf
of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Gary D. Myers, Fertilizer
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Raymond Daniel, Chase Econometrics, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Henry Neshem, National Association of Wheat Growers, Berthold,
North Dakota; James Lee Adams, American Soybean Association, Camilla, Georgia;
Earl Sears, National Cotton Council, Memphis, Tennessee; and J. Stephen
Gabbert, Rice Millers' Association, Arlington, Virginia. 

AIR FORCE PROMOTIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
14, to authorize the President to advance two named individuals to the grade
of general on the retired list of the Air Force. 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on proposed
authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
Air Force programs, receiving testimony from Verne Orr, Secretary of the Air
Force; and General Charles A. Gabriel, Chief of Staff, United States Air
Force. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; and
General W. Vessey, Jr., USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUSINESS 

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

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 70) requesting
$2,539,000 in operating expenses for the committee through February 1986; 

Adopted its rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; and 

Announced the membership, on the part of the Senate, to the Joint Committee on
Taxation: Senators Packwood, Dole, Roth, Long, and Bentsen. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to discuss
American foreign policy, receiving testimony from Alexander Haig, former
Secretary of State. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AFRICAN REFUGEES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
concluded hearings to review the refugee and famine relief efforts now
underway in Ethiopia and Sudan, and the famine effects on African refugees,
after receiving testimony from Senator Kennedy; M. Peter McPherson,
Administrator, Agency for International Development; James Purcell, Assistant
Secretary of State for Refugee Programs; John M. Wise, Krause Milling Company,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Jay J. Kingham, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., and Kara Kennedy,
both of McLean, Virginia. 

ALCOHOL ADVERTISING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug
Abuse concluded hearings to review advertisements promoting the use of
alcohol, after receiving testimony from James C. Miller III, Chairman, Federal
Trade Commission; John A. De Luca, Wine Institute, San Francisco, California;
Alan G. Easton, Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Donald B. Shea, U.S.
Brewers Associaton, Leonard Matthews, American Association of Advertising
Agencies, Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters, Michael F.
Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Martha Baker, National
Council on Alcoholism, Craig Smith, Freedom of Expression Foundation, and
Samuel A. Simon, Telecommunications Research and Action Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; Stephen K. Lambright, Anheuser-Busch Co., Inc., St. Louis,
Missouri; Elaine Steinkemeyer, National PTA, Chicago, Illinois; Charles Atkin,
Michigan State University, East Lansing; Lloyd Johnston, University of
Michigan Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor; Frank Flynn, Florida
Association of Broadcasters, Tallahassee; and Peggy Sapp, Florida Informed
Parents, Miami. 

FARM CREDIT 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Family Farm held hearings to
examine farm credit problems and their impact on rural agricultural banks,
receiving testimony from Kathleen Lawrence, Deputy Undersecretary of
Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; Donald E. Wilkinson,
Governor, Farm Credit Administration; Charles E. Thacker, Associate Director,
Division of Bank Supervision, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Ray Moss
Tucker and De. Banner, both of the Farm Credit Council, Washington, D.C.; John
Harling, Farm Credit Banks of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska; Paul Nordstrom, Security
State Bank, Geddes, South Dakota; and John Haerter, South Dakota Bankers
Association, Hosmer. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the state of the economy in
agriculture from John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 20. 



1985/02/18
Daily Digest - Monday, February 18, 1985; pages D65 - D ?  (Bound vol. D29)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 19, 1985; pages D67 - D ?  (Bound vol. D30-
D33)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS/INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 6,555
routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

Also, the committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on
intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community. 

FY 86 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee began hearings to review the
President's proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony
from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury; David A. Stockman,
Director, Office of Management and Budget; and William Niskanen, Member,
Council of Economic Advisors. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 27. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION/PENNSYLVANIA
AVENUE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Alexander
Aldrich, Chairman, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and M.J. Brodie,
Executive Director, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 26. 

BUDGET WAIVER 

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting S. Res. 64, waiving
section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for consideration of S.
391, authorizing funds for the Federal-aid highway program of the Department
of Transportation. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; William
Kaufmann, Brookings Institution, and Edward Luttwak, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, both of Washington, D.C.; and Richard Stubbings, Duke
University, Durham, North Carolina. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

JOSEF MENGELE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held hearings on
issues surrounding the search for Josef Mengele, receiving testimony from
Senator D'Amato; Lt. Gen. William E. Odom, Assistant Chief of Army Staff for
Intelligence; Susan J. Crawford,, General Council, U.S. Army; Rabbi Marvin
Hier, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, California; Ernest Michel, United
Jewish Appeal Federation, and Mark Berkowitz, Candles, both of New York City;
and Allan Ryan, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held a business meeting, and approved
for reporting an original resolution requesting $1,189,865 in operating
expenses for the committee for 1985, and discussed the committee agenda for
the 99th Congress. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 20, 1985 ; pages D75 - D ?  (Bound vol.
D33-D38)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ARMY CIVIL WORKS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and water
development programs, receiving testimony from Robert K. Dawson, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works; and Lt. General E.R. Heiberg,
Chief, and Major General John F. Wall, Director of Civil Works, Office of
Chief of Engineers, both of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 26. 

SOVIET TREATY COMPLIANCE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings to review Soviet
treaty compliance, receiving testimony from Richard N. Perle, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Lt. Gen. John T.
Chain, Jr., USAF, Director, Bureau of Politico Military Affairs, Department of
State; and Kenneth L. Adelman, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE PROCUREMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Task Force on Selected Defense Procurement
Matters resumed hearings on the defense procurement process, receiving
testimony from Hugh E. Witt, United Technologies Corporation, Washington,
D.C., former Administrator, Office of Federal Procurement Policy; Lt. General
James Stansberry, USAF (Ret.), former Commander, Electronics Systems Division,
Air Force Systems Command; and Ralph Nash, George Washington University,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MONETARY POLICY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the semi-annual report of the Federal Reserve on economic
developments and monetary policy in 1984 and the economic outlook for 1985,
receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
receiving testimony from John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture; and James A.
Baker, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PROFESSIONAL SPORTS COMMUNITY PROTECTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 259 and S. 287, bills to protect local community interests
regarding the relocation of certain professional sports teams, after receiving
testimony from Senators Eagleton, Mathias, and Sarbanes; Representative
Mikulski; Maryland Governor Harry Hughes, Annapolis; Mayor Richard Berkley,
Kansas City, Missouri; Mayor William Donald Schaefer, Baltimore, Maryland;
Steve Katich, Denver Baseball Commission, Denver, Colorado; Frank Smith, D.C.
Baseball Commission, Washington, D.C.; George VuKasin, Oakland Coliseum, Board
of Commissioners, Oakland, California; George Argyros, Seattle Mariners,
Seattle, Washington; and Don Fehr, Major League Baseball Players' Association,
New York, New York. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Richard H. Jones, of Virginia, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

EPA BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began hearings on those
programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in
the President's budget requests for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Environmental Protection Agency from Lee M. Thomas,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
foreign policy, focusing on U.S./Soviet relations and arms control, receiving
testimony from Lawrence Eagleberger, former Under Secretary of State of
Political Affairs; Marshall Shulman, Columbia University, New York City,
former Special Advisor on Soviet Affairs to the Secretary of State; and
Richard Pipes, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, former Senior
Staff Member of the National Security Council. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 25. 

VA BUDGET 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Veterans' Administration, after
receiving testimony from Harry N. Walters, Administrator, Veterans'
Administration; Donald J. Shasteen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Veterans; and Paul Egan, The American Legion, Donald H. Schwab, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, Chad Colley, Disabled American Veterans,
David Passamaneck, AMVETS, R. Jack Powell, Paralyzed Veterans of America, and
Robert O. Muller, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive
testimony on intelligence matters from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Committee will hold a closed briefing on intelligence matters on Tuesday,
February 26. 

Joint Meetings 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony from William E. Brock, U.S.
Trade Representative. 

Hearings continue on Friday, February 22. 

STATUE OF LIBERTY 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on Banking, Finance and
Urban Affairs' Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs and Coinage on S. 233 and H.R.
47, bills to establish a commemorative coin program for the 100th anniversary
of the Statue of Liberty, after receiving testimony from Representative
Guarini; Katherine D. Ortega, Treasurer of the United States; Donna Pope,
Director of the Mint, Department of the Treasury; Mary Lou Grier, Deputy
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and Lee Iacocca,
Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, Michigan. 



1985/02/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 21, 1985; pages D84 - D ?  (Bound vol. D38-
D44)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AIR FORCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force programs from Verne Orr, Secretary
of the Air Force; and Gen. Charles Gabriel, USAF, Chief of Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 28. 

PROBATION OF FELONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings to review judicial procedures in the probation of felons, receiving
testimony from Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia;
Fred B. Ugast, Presiding Judge, Criminal Division, District of Columbia
Superior Court; Joan Petersilia, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica,
California; David C. Evans and Vince Fallin, both of the Georgia Department of
Offender Rehabilitation, Atlanta; Margaret P. Smith, Washington, D.C.; and
Mary Cullman, Chevy Chase, Maryland. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elizabeth Dole,
Secretary, and Donald A. Derman, Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs,
both of the Department of Transportation. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 26. 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Preparedness Subcommittee held closed hearings on
proposed authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on readiness, and operations, and maintenance programs, receiving
testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Installations and Logistics. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

DOD AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held hearings on proposed authorizations for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on strategic defense initiatives, receiving
testimony from Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Lt.
Gen. James A. Abrahamson, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
receiving testimony from Rudiger Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge; Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan and Co., Inc., New
York, New York; William Nordhaus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut;
Kansas Gov. John Carlin, Topeka, on behalf of the National Governors'
Association; Maine Speaker of the House of Representatives John Martin,
Augusta, on behalf of the National Council of State Legislatures; Mayor George
Vionovich, Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the National League of Cities; and
Philip Elfstrom, Geneva, Illinois, on behalf of the National Association of
Counties. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and to examine programs
and ways to improve highway safety, after receiving testimony from Diane K.
Steed, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation; Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent J. Fumo,
Philadelphia; Brian O'Neill, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Joan
Claybrook, Public Citizen, Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, Katherine
S. McCarter, American Public Health Association, Fred Bowditch, Motor Vehicle
Manufacturers Association, Robert McElwaine, and Steve Horvath, both of the
American International Automobile Dealers Association, and Benjamin R.
Jackson, Automobile Importers Compliance Association, all of Washington, D.C.;
A. Benjamin Kelley, Lesnick & Company, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; Jimmy C.
Payton, National Automobile Dealers Association, McLean, Virginia; Michael J.
Jackson, Euro Motorcars, Bethesda, Maryland; and Lothar Schuettler,
Excluservice, Inc., Rockville, Maryland.  

EPA BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began hearings on those
programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in
the President's budget requests for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Environmental Protection Agency from William Drayton,
American Environmental Safety Council, Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a business meeting and took the
following action: 

Ordered favorably reported S. 457, authorizing funds for emergency relief
assistance to victims of the famine in Africa, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; 

An original resolution requesting $2,732,275 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1985; 

An original resolution (S. Res. 73) waiving section 402(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to consideration of S. 457,
listed above; 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; and 

Announced the following subcommittees: 

Western Hemisphere Affairs; 

European Affairs; 

International Economic Policy, Oceans, and Environment; 

African Affairs and International Operations; 

Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; and 

East Asian and Pacific Affairs. 

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AND MOLESTATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to examine the importation of foreign child pornography material
and U.S. efforts to control such importation, and to review the relationship
between child pornography and sexual abuse of children, receiving testimony
from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State; Gary Matthews, Senior
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights; Larry Sheafe, Chief,
Office of Investigations, and Jack O'Malley, Special Agent, both of the U.S.
Customs Service; Daniel Harrington, General Manager, Investigation Division,
U.S. Postal Investigation Service; Rainer Hernandez and Raul Hernandez, both
of Rosemede, California; and Joseph Henry, an incarcerated witness. 

Hearings recessed subject to call. 

SBA AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee began hearings on S. 408, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988 for the Small Business
Administration, receiving testimony from Arthur E. Chase, Arthur E. Chase
Management Corp., Westborough, Massachusetts; Edward Lewis, Essence
Communication, Inc., New York, New York; John F. Jonas, Jr., Cerebral Palsy
Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc., and Joe L. Childs, Center Industries
Corporation, both of Wichita, Kansas; Arthur J. Mitchell, Capital Bank &
Trust
Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Robert L. McCormick, Jr. and Thomas E.
Bennett, Jr., both of the Stillwater National Bank and Trust Company,
Stillwater, Oklahoma; Bailey S. Barnard, First Capital California Business and
Industrial Development Corporation, San Francisco; and John F. Carlson, Cray
Research, Inc., and John Sloan, National Federation of Independent Business,
both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the intelligence
community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence officials. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 27. 

Joint Meeting 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Joint Committee on Taxation: Committee held an organizational business meeting
and elected Representative Rostenkowski as Chairman and Senator Packwood as
Vice Chairman of the committee. 



1985/02/22
Daily Digest - Friday, February 22, 1985; pages D93 - D ?  (Bound vol. D44-
D45)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget,
after receiving testimony from Alexander B. Trowbridge, National Association
of Manufacturers, Jack Carlson, National Association of Realtors, Cyril F.
Brickfield, American Association of Retired Persons, Roger C. Molander,
Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies, John Albertine, American
Business Conference, and John Sloan, National Federation of Independent
Business, all of Washington, D.C.; Van P. Smith, Muncie, Indiana, on behalf of
the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; John J. Koelemij, Tallahassee,
Florida, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders; Robert D.
Kilpatrick, CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the
Business Roundtable Budget Task Force; Donald Platten, Chemical Bank, New
York, New York, on behalf of the Committee for Economic Development; and
former Vermont Governor Richard A. Snelling, on behalf of "Proposition
One". 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings in closed session
to discuss U.S. foreign policy, focusing on U.S./Soviet relations, receiving
testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 25. 

PACIFIC SALMON TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty
with Canada concerning Pacific salmon (Treaty Doc. No. 99-2), after receiving
testimony from Edward J. Derwinski, Counselor, Department of State; Theodore
G. Kronmiller, United States Chief Negotiator for Pacific Salmon Treaty; and
numerous public witnesses.  

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/23
Daily Digest - Saturday, February 23, 1985; pages D93 - D ?  (Bound vol. D46)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/02/25
Daily Digest - Monday, February 25, 1985; pages D105 - D ?  (Bound vol. D47-
D49)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

STRATEGIC DOCTRINE BRIEFING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on strategic doctrine from Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense
for Policy; and Vice Adm. Arthur Moreau, USN, Assistant to the Chairman,
Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environmental and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on
S. 51 and S. 494, bills to authorize funds through fiscal year 1990 for the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
(Superfund), after receiving testimony from Lee M. Thomas, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency. 

Committee will begin markup of S. 51 on tomorrow. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
foreign policy, focusing on U.S./Soviet relations and arms control, receiving
testimony from Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Policy; and Richard Burt, Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Canadian Affairs. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

U.S. AGRICULTURE 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review current U.S.
Agriculture conditions, after receiving testimony from Robert Skow, Iowa State
Representative, Des Moines; John Solback, Kansas State Representative, Topeka;
Richard Smith, Michigan State Senator, Lansing; Charles Davis, Minnesota State
Representative, St. Paul; Stephen Sharp, Missouri State Senator, Jefferson
City; Loran Schmit, Nebraska State Senator, Lincoln; Jerry Kelsh, North Dakota
State Senator, Bismarck; Donald Ham, South Dakota State Representative,
Pierre; and Rod Moen, Wisconsin State Senator, and John H. Robinson, Wisconsin
State Representative, both of Madison. 



1985/02/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 26, 1985; pages D111 - D ?  (Bound vol. D49-
D54)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR/BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Engery and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary, Robert Broadbent, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and
Robert A. Olson, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, all of the Department of
the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and related agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of the Interior and related agencies, receiving testimony from
Senators Cranston, Durenberger, and Wilson; Representative Beilenson; and
Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Ford B. Ford, Under Secretary of Labor; and Patrick J.
O'Keefe, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training, Employment
and Training Administration, Department of Labor. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from M. Cynthia
Douglass, Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration, and
Joseph P. Welsch, Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, both of
the Department of Transportation. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 28. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 520 routine
nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

ARMS CONTROL 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review arms control
issues, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State; and
Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MARITIME THREAT TO U.S. 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
held closed hearings on the maritime threat to U.S. national interests,
receiving testimony from Rear Adm. John L. Butts, USN, Director of Naval
Intelligence; and Vice Adm. Lee Baggett, Jr., USN, Director, Naval Warfare,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.  

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
receiving testimony from James Beggs, Administrator, and Jesse Moore,
Associate Administrator for Space Flight, both of NASA. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 8. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee began consideration of S.
51, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund), but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue on Thursday, February 28. 

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to discuss
American foreign policy, focusing on U.S./Soviet relations and arms control,
after receiving testimony from Paul Nitze, Special Representative for Arms
Control and Disarmament Negotiations; and Max Kamlepmann, John Tower, and
Maynard Glitman, each an Arms Control Negotiator-Designate. 

GENOCIDE CONVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on constitutional issues relating to the proposed Genocide
Convention, after receiving testimony from Robert Friedlander, Ohio Northern
University, College of Law, Ada; Rudolph de Seife, Northern Illinois School of
Law, DeKalb; John N. Moore, University of Virginia School of Law,
Charlottesville; and John F. Murphy, Villanova Law School, Villanova
Pennsylvania. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

Joint Meetings 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, receiving testimony on the outlook for 1985 from
Alan Greenspan, Greenspan & Townsend, Inc., New York, New York; and George
Perry, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, February 28. 

VETERANS' PROGRAMS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities
of the Disabled American Veterans, receiving testimony from Chad Colley,
Barling, Arkansas, on behalf of the Disabled American Veterans. 

Committees will meet again tomorrow. 



1985/02/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 27, 1985; pages D119 - D ?  (Bound vol.
D54-D60)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FY 86 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
President's proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1986, after receiving
testimony from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office;
Murray Weidenbaum, Center for the Study of American Business, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO; and Charles Schultze, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Ronald J. St. Cyr, Deputy Under
Secretary for Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Standards, Charles C. Tharp,
Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Susan R. Meisinger,
Deputy Under Secretary for Employment Standards Administration, and Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, all of the Department of Labor. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 1. 

UNIFIED COMMANDS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the status of the
unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. Paul F. Gorman, USA, Commander
in Chief, Southern Command; Gen. Robert C. Kingston, USA, Commander in Chief,
U.S. Central Command; Adm. Wesley L. McDonald, USN, Commander in Chief,
Atlantic Command; and Adm. William J. Crowe, USN, Commander in Chief, Pacific
Command. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 1. 

SALE OF CONRAIL 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee began hearings
on the proposed sale by the Federal Government of its interest in the
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), receiving testimony from Elizabeth H.
Dole, Secretary of Transportation; John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal
Railroad Administration, Department of Transportation, J. Paul McGrath,
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Ronald
A. Pearlman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Robert B.
Claytor, Henry Watts, and John Torbyfill, all of Norfolk Southern Corporation,
Norfolk, Virginia; and Kenneth D. Brody, Goldman, Sachs, and Company, New
York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTERIOR BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began hearings to review
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1986, focusing on
the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary of the Interior. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 1. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting
the nomination of Lando W. Zech, Jr., of Virginia, to be a Member of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

U.S. IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to review U.S. policy
in a global economy, focusing on the impact of U.S. deficits and the strong
dollar on trade, the effect of investment and capital flow on international
markets, and the role of U.S. trade in changing markets, receiving testimony
from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System; Richard A. Debs, Morgan Stanley International, Incorporated, and
George J. Vojta, Bankers Trust Company, both of New York, New York; and Donald
W. Tanselle, Merchants National Bank & Trust Company, Indianapolis,
Indiana. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

LABOR VIOLENCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began oversight hearings to
review labor violence activities, focusing on alleged violence committed by
unions against management stemming from a strike of the Missouri-Portland
Cement Company facility in Joppa, Illinois, receiving testimony from Jerry L.
McIntyre, Missouri-Portland Cement Company, Ted Pugh, Security Resources,
Inc., and Gary W. Miller, all of St. Louis, Missouri; David A. Long,
McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini and Lang, New Orleans, Louisiana; Delbert
Sullivan, Commercial Transport, Inc., Joppa, Illinois; Joe Jackson, former
Illinois State's Attorney; and Kenneth Hutchins and James J. Badalich, both of
Paducah, Kentucky. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FARM CRISIS IN RURAL AMERICA 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Family Farm concluded hearings to
examine farm credit problems and their impact on agricultural banks and
agribusiness, after receiving testimony from Robert H. Meyer, Farmers and
Ranchers Wool Warehouse, Belle Fourche, South Dakota; Kenneth Johns, Johns
Chemical Co., Inc., Hillsboro, Ohio, representing the Fertilizer Institute;
John Mullenholz, Neal, Mullenholz, Shaw & Seeger, Washington, D.C.,
representing the National Farm and Power Equipment Dealers; Aliceann
Wohlbruck, National Association of Development Organizations, Washington,
D.C.; Donald Bowman, Fedora, South Dakota; Curtis Huther, Parkston, South
Dakota; James Sandness, Woon Socket, South Dakota; and James Kaufman, Delmont,
South Dakota. 

FY 86 BUDGET/INDIAN PROGRAMS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on those
programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in
the President's budget requests for fiscal year 1986, after receiving
testimony from John Fritz, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for
Indian Affairs; Robert Graham, Administrator, Health Resources & Services
Administration, and Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; John Myers, Indian Housing
Program, Department of Housing and Urban Development; Suzan Shown Harjo,
representing the National Congress of American Indians, and the National
Indian Health Board, Elmer Savilla, National Tribal Chairmen's Association,
John Forkenbrock, Action, Inc., Mike Stepetin, Evalu Russell, and Robert
Chiago, all of the National Advisory Council on Indian Education, all of
Washington, D.C.; Rick Lucero, American Indian Health Care Association,
Dallas, Texas; Janine Pease Windy-Boy, American Indian Higher Education
Consortium, Crow Agency, Montana; Dean Jackson, Navajo Community College,
Tsaile, Arizona; Gay Kingman, Pierre Indian Learning Center, Pierre, South
Dakota; Caroline Martin, Alaska Native Health Board, Juneau; and Lloyd Elms,
Native American Programs, Buffalo, New York. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the intelligence
community, receiving testimony from central intelligence officials. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 5. 

Joint Meeting 

VETERANS PROGRAMS 

Joint Hearings: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs continued joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
priorities of certain Veterans' organizations, receiving testimony from Thomas
H. Miller, Waco, Texas, on behalf of the Blinded Veterans Association; Richard
D. Hoover, Tucson, Arizona, on behalf of the Paralyzed Veterans of America;
Thomas F. Sharpe, Troy, New York, on behalf of the Military Order of the
Purple Heart; and Robert O. Muller, New York, New York, on behalf of the
Vietnam Veterans of America. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 12. 



1985/02/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 28, 1985; pages D128 - D ?  (Bound vol. D60-
D67)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for certain intelligence
programs, receiving testimony from William J. Casey, Director of Central
Intelligence; Vice Adm. E.A. Burkhalter, Jr., Director, Intelligence Community
Staff; Lt. Gen. James A. Williams, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Lt.
Gen. Lincoln D. Faurer, Director, National Security Agency, Department of
Defense; and Jimmy D. Hill, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space
Systems. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART/WOODROW WILSON CENTER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and related agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from J. Carter
Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art; and James H. Billington, Director,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Diane K. Steed,
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 5. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on the binary chemical modernization program, receiving
testimony from Gen. Glen K. Otis, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army, Europe;
Gen. Charles L. Donnelly, Jr., USAF, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Air Force,
Europe; Thomas J. Welch, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for
Atomic Energy and Chemical Matters; David Emery, Deputy Director, Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency; Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, USA, (Ret.), former
Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army, Europe; Gen. Robert J. Dixon, USAF, (Ret.),
former Commander, Tactical Air Command; and Adm. Issac Kid, USN, (Ret.),
former Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on manpower and personnel issues,
receiving testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Manpower, Installations, and Logistics; and James H. Webb, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Navy's
worldwide commitments and their implications for force structure, training,
and readiness, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. James A. Lyons, Jr., USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Plans, Policy and Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

SALE OF CONRAIL 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the proposed sale by the Federal Government of its interest in the
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), after receiving testimony from
Senators Specter, Heinz, Lautenberg, Moynihan, and D'Amato; L. Stanley Crane,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and Robert H. Platt, Executive Vice
President for Finance and Administration, both of Consolidated Rail
Corporation; John Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration;
Thomas Saunders III, Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated, John S. Guest,
Lehman
Brothers, James M. Voytko, Paine-Webber, Inc., and Kenneth D. Brody, Goldman,
Sachs and Company, all of New York, New York; William Mahoney, and Brian
Freeman, both of the Railway Labor Executives Association, Robert Walker,
Grand Trunk Western Railway, Carl E. Bagge, National Coal Association, and
Kelvin Dowd, Eastern Coal Transportation Conference, all of Washington, DC;
Richard Kilroy, Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, Rockville,
Maryland; Fred Hardin, United Transportation Union, and Bruce T. Gordon, B.F.
Goodrich, both of Cleveland, Ohio; Hays T. Watkins, CSX Corporation, Richmond,
Virginia; Gordon Neuenschwander, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Timothy Mellon, Guilford Transportation Industries,
New Haven, Connecticut; W. Jeffrey Hart, Mapco Coals, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma;
Ronald M. Jacobson, Rohm and Haas, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Reeder Miller,
A.E. Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, Illinois; Raymond R. Casey,
Landmark, Inc., Columbus, Ohio; and Charles F. Wilkins, Ford Motor Company,
Dearborn, Michigan. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 51, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (Superfund), but did
not complete action thereon and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Max M. Kampelman, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador
to the United States Office for Arms Reduction Negotiations, in Geneva, John
G. Tower, of Texas, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as
United States Negotiator on Strategic Nuclear Arms, and Maynard W. Glitman, of
Vermont, for the rank of Ambassador during his tenure of service as United
States Negotiator on Intermediate Range Nuclear Arms. 

U.S. IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings to review U.S.
policy in a global economy, focusing on the impact of U.S. deficits and the
strong dollar on trade, the effect of investment and capital flow in
international markets, and the role of U.S. trade in changing markets,
receiving testimony from Richard N. Cooper, Center for International Affairs,
and Martin Feldstein, National Bureau of Economic Research, both of Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Henry W. Fowler, and Robert D. Hormats, both of Goldman
Sachs & Company, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 6. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SBA 

Committee on Small Business: Committee resumed hearings on S. 408, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988 for the Small Business
Administration, receiving testimony from David A. Stockman, Director, Office
of Management and Budget; James C. Sanders, Administrator, Small Business
Administration; William Saigh, Lettuce Leaf, Inc., Clayton, Missouri; Cynthia
L. Straus, Chem-Plate Industries, Inc., and Chicago Metal Finishers Institute,
Elk Grove Village, Illinois; and Edward G. Green, Pandick Press, Inc., New
York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 7. 

Joint Meeting 

JEC ANNUAL REPORT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings in preparation of its
forthcoming annual report, after receiving testimony on the economic outlook
for 1985 from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office. 



1985/03/04
Daily Digest - Monday, March 4, 1985; pages D139 - D ?  (Bound vol. D67-D71)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/PRESIDENT'S COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 1, the Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Labor,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Thomas C. Komarek, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management,
Donald J. Shasteen, Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training,
J. Brian Hyland, Inspector General, Robert A. Rowland, Assistant Secretary for
Occupational Safety and Health, Patrick R. Tyson, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Occupational Safety and Health, Paula White, Budget Officer, David A.
Zegeer, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, Thomas J. Shepick,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health, John A. Stockman,
Acting Chief, Division of Budget and Finance, Office of Administration and
Management, all of the Department of Labor; and Bernard Posner, Executive
Director, President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Soviet conventional forces, receiving testimony from Maj.
Gen. Schuyler Bissell, USAF, Deputy Director, and Barbara Falkner, Chief, and
Jeff Birkenstock, Senior Analyst, both of the Aerospace Forces Branch, Paul
Fein and Steven Covington, both Intelligence Research Specialists, Theater
Operations Section, Ground (Frontal) Forces Branch, all of the Soviet Warsaw
Pact Division, and Robert Applebaugh, Aerospace Engineer, Aerodynamics Systems
Branch, Weapons and Systems Division, all of the Defense Intelligence Agency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 1, the Committee continued
hearings in open and closed session on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the status of
the unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, USA,
Commander in Chief U.S. European Command; and General Wallace H. Nutting, USA,
Commander in Chief U.S. Readiness Command. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 4. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 1, the Subcommittee on Strategic
and Theater Nuclear Forces resumed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on strategic defense initiatives, receiving testimony from Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and Former Assistant to
the President for National Security Affairs; and Fred Hoffman, Pan Heuristics,
and Future Security Strategy Study, Santa Monica, California. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 5. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

PACIFIC SALMON TREATY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, March 1, the
Committee concluded hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy
Study on S. 516, to give effect to the Treaty Between the Government of the
United States of America and the Government of Canada Concerning Pacific
Salmon, focusing on providing the necessary authority to the United States for
participation in the Pacific Salmon Commission and three advisory panels
established by the Treaty, after receiving testimony from Edward J. Derwinski,
Counselor, and Theodore Kronmiller, U.S. Negotiator, both of the Department of
State; William Wilkerson, Washington Department of Fisheries, Bill Frank and
Jim Harp, both of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, all of Olympia,
Washington; Norm Cohen, on behalf of the State of Alaska, Washington, D.C.;
Allen Pinkham and S. Timothy Wapato, both of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal
Fish Commission, Portland, Oregon; and Delbert Frank, Warm Springs Tribal
Council, Warm Springs, Oregon. 

ENERGY BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to review those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year
1986, focusing on the Department of Energy, after receiving testimony from
John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy.  

FY 86 BUDGET/FOREST SERVICE, FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, U.S.
SYNTHETIC FUELS CORPORATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, March 1, the Committee
resumed oversight hearings to review those programs which fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Douglas W. MacCleery, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Natural Resources and Environment, and R. Max Peterson, Chief, Lamar Beasley,
Deputy Chief for Programs and Legislation, and Robert Gordon, Deputy Director
for Budgeting, all of the Forest Service, all of the Department of
Agriculture; Raymond J. O'Connor, Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, Department of Energy; and Edward E. Noble, Chairman of the Board,
and Thomas J. Corcoran, Vice Chairman, both of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels
Corporation. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 4. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, March 1, the Committee
ordered favorably reported with amendments S. 51, authorizing funds through
fiscal year 1990 for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act (Superfund) (P.L. 96-510). 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 5, 1985; pages D152 - D ?  (Bound vol. D72-D79)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills: 

H.R. 1239, making urgent supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1985, for emergency relief and recovery in Africa, with
amendments; and 

S. 469, to rescind certain budget authority proposed to be rescinded in a
special message transmitted to the Congress by the President on February 6,
1985, in accordance with section 1012 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974
and section 2901 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984, with an amendment. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from John R.
Block, Secretary, Randy M. Russell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics,
and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TVA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Tennessee Valley Authority from Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman, and Richard M.
Freeman, and John B. Waters, both Directors, all of the TVA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from J. Craig
Potter, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and
Parks; and Robert A. Jantzen, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ARMY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of certain Army programs from John O. Marsh, Jr.,
Secretary of the Army, and Gen. John A. Wickham, Jr., Chief of Army Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary, Department of Health and Human
Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION/PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation; and Dennis P. McAuliffe, Administrator, and William R.
Gianelli, Chairman of the Board, both of the Panama Canal Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 7. 

D.C. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
oversight hearings on activities of the District of Columbia Department of
Corrections, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., Richard Ben
Veniste, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Corrections Education Reform, and
Wilhelmina Rolark, Chairman, D.C. Judiciary Committee, all of the District of
Columbia Government; and Joseph diGenova, U.S. Attorney for the District of
Columbia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Army tactical program issues, receiving testimony from
J.R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and
Acquisition, and Lt. Gen. Louis C. Wagner, Jr., Deputy Chief of Army Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 7. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Navy's
shipbuilding and procurement programs, receiving testimony from Everett Pyatt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Vice Adm. Earl
B. Fowler, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command; Vice Adm. Joseph Metcalf III,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare; Vice Adm. N.R. Thunman,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare; Vice Adm. E.H. Martin,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare; and Ronald G. Garant,
Director, Investment and Development Division, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 7. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on air
breathing deterrent, receiving testimony from Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics; Lt. Gen.
Robert D. Russ, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition; Maj. Gen. Harold J.M. Williams, Director of Operational
Requirements, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition; and Maj. Gen. John A. Shaud, Director of Plans, Deputy Chief of
Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations.  

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Carol G. Dawson, of Virginia, to be a
Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Mary L. Azcuenaga,
of the District of Columbia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Ms. Dawson was
introduced by Senators Warner and Trible. 

PACIFIC SALMON TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
Treaty Between the Government of the United States of America and the
Government of Canada Concerning Pacific Salmon. (Treaty Doc. No. 99-2.) 

GENOCIDE CONVENTION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on the Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Exec. O, 81st Cong.,
1st sess.), receiving testimony from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of
State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Davis Robinson, Legal
Advisor, Department of State; Ralph W. Tarr, Acting Assistant Attorney
General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; Grover Rees,
University of Texas Law School, Austin; John Norton Moore, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville; Robert A. Friedlander, Ohio Northern University,
Ada; Elie Wiesel, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Howard J.
Phillips, Conservative Caucus, Vienna, Virginia; and Thomas Buergenthal, The
American University, John C. Shepherd, American Bar Association, Phyllis
Schlafly, Eagle Forum, and Trisha Kasten, Liberty Lobby, all of Washington,
DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, and to review
those programs administered by the I.N.S., after receiving testimony from Alan
C. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of
Justice. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from central intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 6, 1985; pages D163 - D ?  (Bound vol. D79-
D85)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMERCE/JUSTICE/STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William A. Vaughan, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Fossil Energy; Larry Pettis, Deputy Director for the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve, Department of Energy; and Jan W. Mares, Assistant Secretary of Energy
for International Affairs and Energy Emergencies. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert Graham, Administrator, James A. Walsh, Associate
Administrator for Operations and Management, and Dennis P. Williams, Acting
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget, all of the Health Resources and Services
Administration, and James O. Mason, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, who
was accompanied by several of his associates, all of the Department of Health
and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

IRS REGULATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings to review proposed regulations that require
individuals to maintain certain records for business vehicles if they want to
deduct the business expenses associated with the use of a vehicle from their
taxes, receiving testimony from Senator Heinz; Roscoe L. Egger, Jr.,
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury; James D.
McCarthy, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, John W. Hazard, Jr.,
Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, representing the National Association of
Accountants, Grace Ellen Rice, American Farm Bureau Federation, Nick Calio,
National Association of Wholesale-Distributors, and John Motley, National
Federation of Independent Business, all of Washington, D.C.; Barbara S.
Bromberg, Paxton & Seasongood, Cincinnati, Ohio; James J. Gibbons,
Manufacturers' Agents National Association, Laguna Hills, California; Walter
E. Huizenga, National Automobile Dealers Association, McLean, Virginia; Paul
J. Coughlin, Jr., Maryland Association of Manufacturers, Baltimore; Robert
Stork, Dupuis & Ryden, Flint, Michigan; and Frank Brost, Brost &
Brost,
Presho, South Dakota. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the ICBM modernization
program, receiving testimony from General Bennie Davis, USAF
Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command; Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force, Research, Development and Logistics; Lt. Gen.
Robert D. Russ, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition; Brig. Gen. Gordon E. Fornell, Special Assistant for ICBM
Modernization, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research, Development and
Acquisition Headquarters; R. James Woolsey, Delegate-at-Large to the
U.S.-Soviet Arms Talks, and former Under Secretary of the Navy; and Leon
Sloss, Leon Sloss Associates, Inc., Arlington, Virginia. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued in evening session to mark up the
first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Edward J. Philbin, of California, to be a
Federal Maritime Commissioner, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Representative Lowery, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 94) requesting
$2,678,305 in operating expenses for the committee for 1985; 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; and 

Agreed to a committee resolution to waive the waiting period for granting a
right-of-way for the construction of the Celeron/All American Pipeline. 

U.S. IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review U.S.
policy in a global economy, focusing on the impact of U.S. deficits and strong
dollar on trade, the effect of investment and capital flow in international
markets, and the role of U.S. trade in changing markets, after receiving
testimony from William E. Brock, U.S. Trade Representative; Dwayne O. Andreas,
Archer Daniels Midland, Decatur, Illinois; Robert V. Roosa, Brown Brothers
Harriman & Company, New York, New York; and Alexander B. Trowbridge,
National
Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C. 

PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ANTITRUST IMMUNITY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 172, to provide a
cause of action to cities to prevent professional football teams from
abandoning them for more profitable locations, and to provide limited
antitrust immunity to joint action of those teams engaged in professional
football, and S. 298, to clarify congressional intent regarding the
application of antitrust laws to certain types of major sports leagues
practices and decisions, receiving testimony from Pete Rozelle, the National
Football League, Harry Usher, U.S. Football League, and Gilbert Stein, the
National Hockey League, all of New York, New York; and Earl Foreman, Major
Indoor Soccer League, Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Melvin T. Brunetti, of Nevada, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit,
and Alice M. Batchelder, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District
of Ohio, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Brunetti was introduced by Senators Laxalt and Hecht, and Ms.
Batchelder was introduced by Senator Metzenbaum. 

INDIAN HEALTH CARE 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 277,
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1989 for Indian health care programs,
after receiving testimony from Senators Bingaman and Pressler; Robert Graham,
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, and Everett
Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, both of the Department of Health and
Human Services; County Commissioner Antoinette Hagener, Havre, Montana; County
Commissioner Jim Halverson, Wolf Point, Montana; Carol Graham, Montana County
Welfare Directors Association, Hamilton, Montana; Emery Johnson, former
Director of Indian Health Service, Rockville, Maryland; Steven Unger,
Association of American Indian Affairs, New York, New York; Terry Hunter and
Joseph Jacobs, both of the Association of American Indian Physicians, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma; Mel Sampson, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board,
Portland, Oregon; Jake Whitecrow and Joseph Saulque, both of the National
Indian Health Board, Denver, Colorado; Suzan Shown Harjo and Joseph De La
Cruz, both of the Congress of American Indians, William Hobson, National
Association of Community Health Centers, and Father Ted Zuern, National Office
of Jesuits Social Ministries, all of Washington, D.C.; John Lewis,
Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix, also representing the Inter-Tribal
Council of Nevada, and the Indian Tribes of Utah; Roberta Oliver, American
Indian Health Care Association, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Norine Smith, Indian
Health Board of Minneapolis, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 19. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 7, 1985; pages D173 - D ?  (Bound vol. D85-D94)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
proposed legislation to revise American farm policy, receiving testimony from
Senators Abdnor and Nickles; John R. Block, Secretary of Agriculture; Robert
B. Delano, American Farm Bureau Federation, Warsaw, Virginia; Ben Morgan,
Dairymen, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, and Wayne Boutwell, Washington, D.C.,
both on behalf of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Corky Jones,
American Agriculture Movement, Brownville, Nebraska; and Bob Frederick,
National Grange, and Charles L. Frazier, National Farmers Organization, both
of Washington, D.C. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 12. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies 

Senators Cochran (Chairman), McClure, Andrews, Abdnor, Kasten, Mattingly,
Specter, Burdick, Stennis, Chiles, Sasser, Bumpers, and Harkin. 

Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 

Senators Laxalt (Chairman), Stevens, Weicker, Rudman, Hatfield, Specter,
Hollings, Inouye, Bumpers, Chiles, and Lautenberg. 

Defense 

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

District of Columbia 

Senators Specter (Chairman), Mattingly, Domenici, Lautenberg, and Harkin. 

Energy and Water Development 

Senators Hatfield (Chairman), McClure, Garn, Cochran, Abdnor, Kasten,
Mattingly, Domenici, Johnston, Stennis, Byrd, Hollings, Burdick, Sasser, and
DeConcini. 

Foreign Operations 

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

HUD-Independent Agencies 

Senators Garn (Chairman), Weicker, Laxalt, D'Amato, Abdnor, Domenici, Leahy,
Stennis, Proxmire, Johnston, and Lautenberg. 

Interior and Related Agencies 

Senators McClure (Chairman), Stevens, Laxalt, Garn, Cochran, Andrews, Rudman,
Weicker, Byrd, Johnston, Leahy, DeConcini, Burdick, Bumpers, and Hollings. 

Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 

Senators Weicker (Chairman), Hatfield, Stevens, Andrews, Rudman, Specter,
McClure, Domenici, Proxmire, Byrd, Hollings, Chiles, Burdick, Inouye, and
Harkin. 

Legislative Branch 

Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Hatfield, Stevens, Bumpers, and Harkin. 

Military Construction 

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

Transportation and Related Agencies 

Senators Andrews (Chairman), Cochran, Abdnor, Kasten, D'Amato, Chiles,
Stennis, Byrd, and Lautenberg. 

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 

Senators Abdnor (Chairman), Laxalt, Mattingly, DeConcini, and Proxmire. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Mary C.
Jarratt, Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Robert Leard,
Administrator, Food and Nutrition Services, and Isabel D. Wolf, Administrator,
Human Nutrition Information Service, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 12. 

MX 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on a
proposed resolution relating to the MX missile, receiving testimony from
Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; and Gen. John W. Vessey, Jr.,
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of certain Navy programs from John Lehman, Secretary of
the Navy; Adm. James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations; and Gen. P.X. Kelley,
Commandant, United States Marine Corps. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and
water development programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony
from John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy; and Martha Hesse Dolan,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Management and Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD/ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Jim Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; and James L.
Emery, Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Loren A. Smith, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States;
Martin L. Duggan, Chairman, Advisory Committee on Federal Pay; Major General
Joseph H. Connolly, U.S.A.F. Chairman, Committee for Purchase from the Blind
and Other Severely Handicapped; Howard A. Dawson Jr., Chief Judge, United
States Tax Court; and Henry B. Frazier III, Acting Chairman, and John C.
Miller, General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held a business meeting and took the
following actions: 

Ordered favorably reported the nomination of John E. Krings, of Virginia, to
be Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of Defense; 

Ordered favorably reported 2,088 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, and
Air Force; 

Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; and 

Announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Military Construction 

Senators Thurmond (Chairman), Warner, Humphrey, East, Bingaman, Stennis, and
Hart. 

Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces 

Senators Warner (Chairman), Goldwater, Thurmond, Cohen, Quayle, Wilson, Hart,
Nunn, Stennis, Exon, and Levin. 

Preparedness 

Senators Humphrey (Chairman), Goldwater, East, Denton, Gramm, Dixon, Levin,
Kennedy, and Glenn. 

Seapower and Force Projection 

Senators Cohen (Chairman), Quayle, Wilson, Denton, Gramm, Exon, Nunn, Stennis,
and Hart. 

Manpower and Personnel 

Senators Wilson (Chairman), Thurmond, Cohen, East, Denton, Glenn, Nunn, Exon,
and Kennedy. 

Defense Acquisition Policy 

Senators Quayle (Chairman), Goldwater, Warner, Humphrey, Gramm, Levin,
Bingaman, Dixon, and Glenn. 

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

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Navy tactical program issues, receiving testimony from
Vice Adm. E.H. Martin, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air Warfare
(OP-05); Lt. Gen. K.A. Smith, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Aviation;
Vice Adm. James B. Busey, Commander of the Naval Air Systems Command; and Rear
Adm. Kendall E. Moranville, USN, Director, Aviation Plans and Requirements
Division. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 12. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on force projection
programs, including C-17 aircraft, receiving testimony from Thomas E. Cooper,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics;
Lt. Gen. Robert D. Russ, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research,
Development and Acquisition; Vice Adm. Joseph Metcalf III, Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Surface Warfare; Capt. Robert W. Kesteloot, Director,
Strategic Sealift Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Maj. Gen.
Edwin J. Godfrey, Director, Operations Division, Headquarters, Marine Corps;
and Maj. Gen. Vincent M. Russo, Assistant Deputy Chief of Army Staff for
Logistics. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 12. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY MANPOWER 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the status of recruiting and retention
programs, including educational benefits in the Armed Services, receiving
testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Installations, and Logistics; James H. Webb, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Bobby G. Porter, USA, Director of
Military Personnel Management; Rear Adm. Lawrence Burkhardt III, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel and Training; Maj.
Gen. Robert C. Oaks, USAF, Director of Personnel Plans; and Maj. Gen. J.J.
McMonagle, USMC, Director of Personnel Management. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 11. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed open and
closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Defense, focusing on Army operation and readiness,
ammunition and other procurement programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen.
Fred K. Mahaffey, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Operations and Plans; Maj.
Gen. Bobby B. Porter, Director Military Personnel Management, Office of the
Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Brig. Gen. Charles E. Williams, USA,
Director, Operation and Maintenance, Office of the Comptroller; Brig. Gen.
Jackson E. Rozier, Jr., Director, Plans and Operations, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Army Staff for Logistics. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee announced the
following subcommittee assignments: 

Housing and Urban Affairs 

Senators Hecht (Chairman), Garn, Heinz, Armstrong, D'Amato, Gorton, Mattingly,
Gramm, Riegle, Sarbanes, Proxmire, Cranston, Dodd, Dixon, and Sasser. 

International Finance and Monetary Policy 

Senators Heinz (Chairman), Garn, Armstrong, Gorton, Mattingly, Hecht,
Proxmire, Dixon, Sasser, Riegle, and Sarbanes. 

Financial Institutions and Consumer Affairs 

Senators Gorton (Chairman), Garn, Hecht, Gramm, D'Amato, Sarbanes, Proxmire,
Cranston, and Dodd. 

Securities 

Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Heinz, Hecht, Gramm, Cranston, Sasser, and
Riegle. 

Economic Policy 

Senators Mattingly (Chairman), Armstrong, Gramm, Dodd, and Dixon. 

1986 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued in evening session to mark up the
first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1986 budget. 

NRC BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee resumed hearings on those
programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in
the President's budget for fiscal year 1986, focusing on requests for the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, receiving testimony from Nunzio J. Palladino,
Chairman, and James K. Asselstine, Frederick M. Bernthal, and Lando W. Zech,
Jr., all Commissioners, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SBA 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on S. 408,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988 for the Small Business
Administration, after receiving testimony from Minnesota Lt. Gov. Marlene
Johnson, St. Paul; Mayor J. Michael Houston, Springfield, Illinois; Mayor
Ralph A. Johnson, Warner Robins, Georgia; William R. Thomas, Capital Southwest
Venture, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the National Association of Small
Business Investment Companies; Patrick Burns, Minority Equity Capital
Corporation, New York, New York, on behalf of the American Association of
Minority Enterprise Small Business Investment Companies; Martin Orr, Kansas
City Corp. for Industrial Development, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the
National Association of Development Companies; Lewis Shattuck, Small Business
Association of New England, Waltham, Massachusetts; Frank Doyle, Small
Business Service Bureau, Worcester, Massachusetts; Susan Garber, Pennsylvania
Small Business Development Center, Philadelphia, on behalf of the Association
of Small Business Development Centers; and Brad Roller, Small Business United,
Walter E. Galanty, Jr., Small Business Legislative Council, and Thomas E.
Donley, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/11
Daily Digest - Monday, March 11, 1985; pages D187 - D ?  (Bound vol. D94-D97)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MX 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 8, Subcommittee on Defense
continued hearings on a proposed resolution relating to the MX missile,
receiving testimony from Paul Nitze, Special Representative for Negotiations
(INF), U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; General Bennie L. Davis,
USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command; and James Dinwiddie,
Evaluator, General Accounting Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORK FORCE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on improving the professionalism of the defense acquisition work
force, receiving testimony from Adm. Steven A. White, Chief of Naval Material;
Gen. Lawrence A. Skantze, Commander, Air Force Systems Command; Gen. Richard
H. Thompson, Commander, Army Materiel Command; and Caleb B. Hurtt, Martin
Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the status of recruiting and retention
programs, including educational benefits in the Armed Services, receiving
testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Installations, and Logistics; James H. Webb, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Maj. Gen. Bobby G. Porter, Director of Military
Army Personnel Management; Rear Adm. Lawrence Burkhardt III, Assistant Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel and Training, Maj. Gen.
Robert C. Oaks, Director of Air Force Personnel Plans; and Maj. Gen. J.J.
McMonagle, Director of Marine Corps Personnel Management. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
strategic command, control and communications programs, receiving testimony
from Donald C. Latham, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control,
Communications, and Intelligence. 

Also, on Friday, March 8, the Subcommittee resumed open and closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on the sea-based deterrent, receiving testimony from
Commodore Roger F. Bacon, Director, Strategic and Theater Nuclear Warfare
Division, Commodore Theodore E. Lewin, Director, Strategic Submarine Division,
Rear Adm. Lawrence Layman, Director, Naval Communications Division, and Edward
Y. Harper, Technical Director, SSBN Security Program, all of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations; and Rear Adm. Glenwood Clark, Director, Strategic
Systems Project Office, and Rear Admiral S.J. Hostettler, Director, Joint
Cruise Missile Program Office, both of the Office of the Chief of Naval
Material. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 13. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, March 8,
Committee held a business meeting and took the following actions: 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $3,762,156 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1985; 

S. 413, to extend for 5 years the authority of the Secretary of Transportation
to issue war risk insurance under title XII of the Merchant Marine Act; 

S. 597, to make certain technical and conforming changes to the shipping laws
in title 46 of the United States Code; 

The nominations of Richard H. Jones, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration, Edward J. Philbin, of California, to
be a Member of the Federal Maritime Commission, Carol G. Dawson, of Virginia,
to be a Commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Mary L.
Azcuenaga, of the District of Columbia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, 5
Coast Guard nominations in the rank of Commodore, and a routine list of Coast
Guard nominations; 

Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; and 

Announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Aviation 

Senators Kassebaum (Chairman), Goldwater, Stevens, Trible, Exon, Inouye, and
Ford. 

Business, Trade, and Tourism 

Senators Pressler (Chairman), Packwood, and Gore. 

Communications 

Senators Goldwater (Chairman), Packwood, Pressler, Stevens, Gorton, Hollings,
Inouye, Ford, and Gore. 

Consumer 

Senators Kasten (Chairman), Danforth, and Ford. 

Merchant Marine 

Senators Stevens (Chairman), Gorton, Kasten, Trible, Inouye, Long, and
Rockefeller. 

Science, Technology, and Space 

Senators Gorton (Chairman), Goldwater, Kassebaum, Trible, Riegle, Gore, and
Rockefeller. 

Surface Transportation 

Senators Packwood (Chairman), Pressler, Kassebaum, Kasten, Danforth, Long,
Riegle, Exon, and Rockefeller. 

National Ocean Policy Study 

Senators Danforth (Chairman), Stevens (Vice Chairman), Packwood, Gorton,
Kasten, Trible, Hollings, Long, and Inouye. 

ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, March 8, Committee
concluded hearings on those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee as contained in the President's budget requests for fiscal year
1986, focusing on requests for the Army Corps of Engineers, after receiving
testimony from Robert K. Dawson, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil
Works). 

U.S./JAPAN TRADE 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, March 8, Subcommittee on International Trade
concluded hearings on S. Con. Res. 15, relating to the United States-Japan
trade relations, after receiving testimony from Michael B. Smith, Deputy U.S.
Trade Representative; and Lionel H. Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for
International Trade. 

LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT COMPACTS 

Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, March 8, Committee held hearings on S.
44, S. 356, and S. 442, bills allowing for the regional disposal of low-level
radioactive waste, receiving testimony from Ralph W. Tarr, Acting Assistant
Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice; James W.
Vaughan, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Department of
Energy; William J. Dircks, Executive Director for Operations, and G. Wayne
Kerr, Director, Office of State Programs, both of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; Sheldon Meyers, Acting Director, Office of Radiation Programs,
Environmental Protection Agency; South Carolina Governor Richard W. Riley,
Columbia; Richard S. Hodes, Southeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Management Commission, Atlanta, Georgia; Curtis Eschels, on behalf of the
State of Washington, Olympia; John Beck, California Department of Health
Services, Sacramento; Terry Lash, Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety,
Springfield; Alan S. Johnson, Massachusetts Undersecretary of Executive Office
of Environmental Affairs, Boston; Robert E. Henkin, Foster G. McGaw Hospital,
Maywood, Illinois; and E. Linn Draper, Gulf State Utilities, Incorporated,
Beaumont, Texas. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

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

Labor 

Senators Nickles (Chairman), Hatch, Stafford, Wallop, Metzenbaum, Kennedy, and
Matsunaga. 

Education, Arts and the Humanities 

Senators Stafford (Chairman), Hatch, Quayle, Weicker, Wallop, Thurmond, Pell,
Kennedy, Dodd, Matsunaga, and Simon. 

Employment and Productivity 

Senators Quayle (Chairman), Hawkins, Hatch, Grassley, Simon, Pell, and Dodd. 

Handicapped 

Senators Weicker (Chairman), Stafford, Nickles, Thurmond, Kerry, Simon, and
Kennedy. 

Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism 

Senators Hawkins (Chairman), Quayle, Grassley, Nickles, Dodd, Kerry, and
Metzenbaum. 

Aging 

Senators Grassley (Chairman), Hawkins, Thurmond, Wallop, Matsunaga, Pell, and
Metzenbaum. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, March 8, committee held hearings to
review the employment/unemployment situation for February, receiving testimony
from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/03/14
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 14, 1985; pages D194 - D ?  (Bound vol. D97-
D106)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
to review the impact farm programs and policies have on the American
agricultural industry, focusing on loan rates, target prices, and production
controls, receiving testimony from Ronald D. Knutson, Texas A&M
University,
College Station; Raymond Daniel, Chase Econometrics, Bala Cynwyd,
Pennsylvania; Luther Tweeten, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater; Bruce
Gardner, University of Maryland, College Park; and Harold Guither, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 

Also, on Tuesday, March 12, the committee held hearings to examine the
structure of agriculture, receiving testimony from J. B. Penn, Economic
Perspectives, Inc., McLean, Virginia; Don Paarlberg, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana; and Kenneth R. Farrell, Resources for the Future,
Washington, D.C. 

Committee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Frank W. Naylor, Under Secretary,
Small Community and Rural Development, Merritt W. Sprague, Manager, Federal
Crop Insurance Corporation, and Harold V. Hunter, Administrator, Rural
Electrification Administration, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Also, on Tuesday, March 12, the subcommittee held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving
tesitmony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Orville G.
Bentley, Assistant Secretary for Science and Education, Terry B. Kinney, Jr.,
Administrator, Agricultural Research Service; John Patrick Jordan,
Administrator, Cooperative State Research Service; Mary Nell Greenwood,
Administrator, Extension Services; and Joseph H. Howard, Director, National
Agricultural Library, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water resumed hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and water
development programs of the Department of Energy, focusing on nuclear fission,
uranium enrichment, and nuclear waste programs, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from James W. Vaughan, Jr., Acting
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy, and Ben C. Rusche, Director,
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of State,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James Purcell, Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, Jon Thomas, Assistant
Secretary for International Narcotics Matters, and Ambassador Parker Borg,
Acting Director, Office for Combatting Terrorism, all of the Department of
State. 

Also, on Wednesday, March 13, the subcommittee held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for foreign assistance programs,
receiving testimony from William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary for Security
Assistance, Science, and Technology, Department of State; and Lt. Gen. Philip
Gast, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from James M. Beggs,
Administrator, NASA. 

Also, on Wednesday, March 13, the subcommittee held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Maj. Gen. Andrew J. Adams, Secretary,
American Battle Monuments Commission; Edgar F. Callahan, National Credit Union
Administration; Colonel Anthony DeBerardino, Director, Casualty and Memorial
Affairs Operations Center, Military Personnel Center, Department of the Army;
Teresa N. Nasif, Director, Consumer Information Center; William A. Whiteside,
Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; Virginia H. Knauer,
Office of Consumer Affairs; Thomas M. Moses, Chairman of the Board, The
National Institute of Building Sciences; Edwin J. Gray, Chairman, Federal Home
Loan Bank Board; and Thomas K. Turnage, Director, Selective Service System. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on joint communications/electronic warfare programs, after
receiving testimony from Donald C. Latham, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Command Control, Communications, and Intelligence; and Lt. Gen. C.E. McKnight,
Jr., USA, Director of Command, Control, and Communications System Directorate,
Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Also, on Tuesday, March 12, the committee resumed closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Navy tactical program issues, receiving testimony from
Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research,
Development and Acquisition; Lt. Gen. Robert D. Russ, USAF, Deputy Chief of
Staff for Research Development and Acquisition; Maj. Gen. H.J.M. Williams,
USAF, Director of Operational Requirements, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition; and Maj. Gen. George Monahan, Jr.,
USAF, Director of Development and Production, Deputy Chief of Staff for
Research, Development and Acquisition.  

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed open and
closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Defense, focusing on Navy and Marine Corps operations
and maintenance, receiving testimony from Commodore Gerald Riendeau, Director,
Fiscal Management Division, Office of the Chief of Staff of Naval Operations;
and Lt. Gen. George B. Crist, Deputy Chief of Staff and for Installations and
Logistics, U.S. Marine Corps. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Energy, receiving testimony from
William W. Hoover, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; Richard
L. Wagner, Jr., Chairman, Military Liaison Committee to the U.S. Department of
Energy, and Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; George C.
Dacey, Sandia Laboratory, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Roger E. Batzel, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; and Donald M. Kerr, Los
Alamos Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
concluded open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Naval forces
readiness and sustainability, after receiving testimony from Rear Adm. Thomas
F. Brown III, USN, Director, Strike and Amphibious Warfare Division, Commodore
Grant A. Sharp, USN, Director, Program Resource Appraisal Office, Commodore
Carl R. Webb, USN, Director, Materiel Division, and Commodore Edward W.
Clexton, Jr., USN, Director, Total Force and Fleet Operations Division, all of
the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 

Also, on Tuesday, March 12, the subcommittee resumed open and closed hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on Navy research, development, test and
evaluation programs, receiving testimony from Melvyn R. Paisley, Assistant
Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems; Gerald A. Cann,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and
Systems; Vice Adm. Albert J. Baciocco, USN, Director, Research, Development,
Test and Evaluation, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; and Brig. Gen.
Raymond M. Franklin, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff, Research, Development and
Systems.  

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: On Tuesday, March 12, the Subcommittee on
Manpower and Personnel resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on total
force active reserve mix and the status of the reserve components, receiving
testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower,
Installations, and Logistics; James H. Webb, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Emmett H. Walker, Jr., USA, Chief,
National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., USA, Director, Army
National Guard; Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear
Adm. C.J. Kempf, USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway,
USAF, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill, USAF, Chief, Air
Force Reserve; Maj. Gen. J.J. Went, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Reserve
Affairs; and Rear Adm. Joseph A. McDonough, USCG, Chief of Readiness and
Reserve. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 19. 

DEFENSE AUDIT POLICIES 

Committee on Armed Services: On Tuesday, March 12, the Subcommittee on Defense
Acquisition Policy held hearings on the audit policies in the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Robert W. Helm, Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Comptroller); Joseph H. Sherick, Inspector General, Department of
Defense; and Richard A. Sauber, on behalf of the Electronic Industries
Association, and Richard Singleton, on behalf of the American Electronic
Association, both of Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 18. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, March 13, the
committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Richard H. Hughes, of
Oklahoma, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank
of the United States, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Boren,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Tuesday, March 12, the
committee approved for reporting the nominations of John A. Bohn, Jr., of
Virginia, to be First Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of the United
States, Barbara W. Schlicher, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, and Richard H.
Francis, of Virginia, to be President of the Solar Energy and Energy
Conservation Bank. 

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution on the budget, setting forth recommended levels of total
budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for fiscal years
1986, 1987, and 1988, and revising the congressional budget for fiscal year
ending September 30, 1985. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS SERVICE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Public Buildings
Service, General Services Administration, receiving testimony from Dwight Ink,
Acting Administrator, Charles S. Davis, Associate Administrator for
Operations, and William F. Sullivan, Commissioner, Ira Jekowsky, Assistant
Commissioner for Policy and Program Support, Wolfgang Zoellner, Assistant
Commissioner for Buildings Management, William Lawson, Assistant Commissioner
for Design Construction, and Alfonse Iudicello, Director, Public Buildings
Service Planning Task Force, all of the Public Buildings Service, all of the
General Services Adminstration; and Richard O. Haase, The Holladay
Corporation, Washington, D.C., former Commissioner of Public Buildings
Service. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Tuesday, March 12, the Subcommittee on
International Economic Policy concluded hearings on S. 560, authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 and 1987 for the African Development Foundation, after
receiving testimony from James Conrow, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Developing Nations. 

DOMESTIC MONEY LAUNDERING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Tuesday, March 12, the Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations held hearings on recently disclosed currency
reporting violations by the First National Bank of Boston, and the role of
Federal regulators in warning the bank of possible violations, receiving
testimony from Senator D'Amato; William F. Weld, United States Attorney for
the District of Massachusetts; John M. Walker, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Enforcement and Operations; Robert J. Stankey, Advisor,
Department of the Treasury; C.T. Conover, Comptroller of the Currency, and
Thomas Rollo, Assistant National Bank Examiner, Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency; and Stephen Connors, Patriot Bank Corporation, former Senior
National Bank Examiner (Comptroller of the Currency), William Brown and Dan
Dormer, both of the First National Bank of Boston, and John P. Hamill, Shawmut
Bank of Boston, all of Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Wednesday, March 13, the
Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to
review the Department of State's Bureau of International Narcotic Matters
Report on International Narcotics Control Strategy, after receiving testimony
from Jon Thomas, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Narcotics
Matters, Department of State; and John Lawn, Acting Administrator, Drug
Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice. 

UNNECESSARY SURGERY FOR OLDER AMERICANS 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to examine unnecessary
surgical practices on older Americans, and on the recommendation that a
mandatory second surgical opinion program be adopted for Medicare and
Medicaid, receiving testimony from Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector General, and
James L. Scott, Acting Deputy Administrator, Health Care Financing
Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; H. Larry
Penberthy, Seattle, Washington; Mary Margaret Armstrong, Evergreen Park,
Illinois; Wallace Law, Pinehurst, North Carolina; Thomas B. Graboys, Harvard
University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Eugene G. McCarthy, New York
Hospital/Cornell University, New York, New York; Norman P. Harberger, Rohm and
Haas Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William J. Sheehan, Dana
Corporation, Toledo, Ohio; and Vita Ostrander, American Association of Retired
Persons, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

U.S. TRADE POLICY 

Joint Economic Committee: On Tuesday, March 12, the Subcommittee on Economic
Goals and Intergovernmental Policy held hearings to examine the impact of the
dollar on U.S. competitiveness on specific industries and employment,
receiving testimony from Roger E. Brinner, Data Resources, Inc., Lexington,
Massachusetts; and Edward G. Jefferson, E.I. Dupont deNemours & Co, Inc.,
Wilmington, Delaware. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 20. 

VFW PROGRAMS 

Joint Hearing: On Tuesday, March 12, the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
held a joint hearing with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review
the legislative priorities of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, receiving
testimony from Billy Ray Cameron, Sanford, North Carolina, on behalf of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. 

Committee will meet again Wednesday, March 20. 



1985/03/18
Daily Digest - Monday, March 18, 1985; pages D212 - D ?  (Bound vol. D106-
D109)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MX AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
71, to approve the obligation of funds made available by P.L. 98-473 (making
continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1985) for the procurement of MX
missiles, subject to the enactment of a second joint resolution, and nine
routine military nominations in the Army and Navy. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction held joint
hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Military
Construction on S. 537, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Installations
and Logistics. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony in closed session from Lt. Gen. James A.
Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative, and receiving
testimony in open session from Albert Carnesale, and Ashton Carter, both of
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Also, on Friday, March 15, the subcommittee held open and closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on the Strategic Defense Initiative, receiving testimony
from Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense
Initiative; and Kent Stansberry, Director, Strategic Defense and Space Arms
Control, Department of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Environmental Pollution 

Senators Chafee (Chairman), Simpson, Symms, Durenberger, Humphrey, Mitchell,
Hart, Moynihan, and Lautenberg. 

Nuclear Regulation 

Senators Simpson (Chairman), Domenici, Symms, Hart, and Moynihan. 

Water Resources 

Senators Abdnor (Chairman), Domenici, Durenberger, Moynihan, and Baucus. 

Transportation 

Senators Symms (Chairman), Chafee, Abdnor, Stafford, Burdick, Mitchell, and
Bentsen. 

Regional and Community Development 

Senators Humphrey (Chairman), Domenici, Chafee, Lautenberg, and Burdick. 

Toxic Substances and Environmental Oversight 

Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Simpson, Abdnor, Humphrey, Baucus, Burdick,
and Hart. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Finance: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Taxation and Debt Management 

Senators Chafee (Chairman), Dole, Roth, Danforth, Wallop, Armstrong,
Matsunaga, Bentsen, Moynihan, Pryor, and Baucus. 

International Trade 

Senators Danforth (Chairman), Roth, Chafee, Heinz, Armstrong, Symms, Grassley,
Bentsen, Matsunaga, Baucus, Boren, Bradley, Moynihan, and Mitchell. 

Social Security and Income Maintenance Programs 

Senators Armstrong (Chairman), Danforth, Durenberger, Moynihan, Pryor, and
Long. 

Health 

Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Dole, Roth, Chafee, Wallop, Heinz, Baucus,
Mitchell, Boren, Bradley, and Long. 

Estate and Gift Taxation 

Senators Symms (Chairman) and Boren. 

Energy and Agricultural Taxation 

Senators Wallop (Chairman), Durenberger, Symms, Grassley, Bradley, Bentsen,
and Matsunaga. 

Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy 

Senators Heinz (Chairman), Roth, Chafee, Mitchell, and Long. 

Oversight of the Internal Revenue Service 

Senators Dole (Chairman), Grassley, and Pryor. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- STATE/FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, March 15, the committee held
hearings on S. 659, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the
Department of State, and S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and
1987 for development and security assistance programs of the Department of
State, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 20. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/19
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 19, 198; pages D219 - D ?  (Bound vol. D109-
D117)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
to review the impact technology and research have on the American agricultural
industry, receiving testimony from Michael J. Phillips, Project Director, Food
and Renewable Resources Program, Office of Technology Assessment; James W.
Richardson, Texas A&M, College Station; B.R. Eddleman, Mississippi State
University, Starkville; Clyve W. Donoho, Jr., University of Georgia, Athens;
Geoff A. Benson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh; and Larry F.
Huggins, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Karen Darling, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services, Bert W. Hawkins,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, James C. Handley,
Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, and Donald L. Houston,
Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL ENERGY AND NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water resumed hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and water
development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Raymond J. O'Connor, Chairman, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; and Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- PEACE CORPS/INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION/AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT
FOUNDATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Loret Ruppe, Director,
U.S. Peace Corps; Deborah Szekely, President, Inter-American Foundation; and
Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President, African Development Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Smithsonian Institution from Robert
McCormick Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James B. Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health, Claude Lenfant,
Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr.,
Director, National Cancer Institute, and Harald Loe, Director, National
Institute of Dental Research, all of the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION/AMTRAK 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; and W. Graham
Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad Passenger
Corporation (AMTRAK). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Robert M. Warner, Archivist of the United States, National Archives and
Records Service, General Services Administration; Robert B. Hawkins, Jr.,
Chairman, The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; K. William
O'Connor, Special Counsel, and Herbert E. Ellingwood, Chairman, both of the
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; and Joan D. Aikens, Commissioner, Federal
Election Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 21. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD/MILITARY RETIREMENT SYSTEM 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on the military retirement system,
receiving testimony from Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Manpower, Installations, and Logistics; George F. Hennrikus, The Retired
Officers Association, and C.A. McKinney, Non-Commissioned Officers Association
of the USA, both of Alexandria, Virginia; Robert W. Nolan, Fleet Reserve
Association, and Benjamin S. Catlin, Air Force Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Robert F. Cocklin, Association of the United States
Army, Arlington, Virginia. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 21. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony from James Schlesinger, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; and Sidney
Drell, Stanford University, Stanford, California. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction continued
joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Military
Construction on S. 537, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, receiving testimony from
Maj. Gen. Henry J. Hatch, USA, Assistant Chief, Army Corps of Engineers; Rear
Adm. John P. Jones, Jr., Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and
Brig. Gen. M.K. Sheridan, USMC, Director, Facilities and Services Division. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

FORMER DEFENSE EMPLOYEES 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings to discuss the employment activities of former employees of the
Department of Defense, focusing on former officials working for defense
contractors, receiving testimony from William H. Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of
Defense; David Martin, Director of Government Ethics, Office of Personnel
Management; Gordon Adams, Defense Budget Project, Washington, D.C.; and Thomas
Pownall, Martin-Marietta Corp., Bethesda, Maryland. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AIRLINE COMPUTER RESERVATION SYSTEMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings to examine whether bias exists in airline computer
reservation systems, to assess the fees charged to participating airlines, and
the effect on competition, after receiving testimony from Matthew Scocozza,
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs;
Charles F. Rule, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division,
Department of Justice; Daniel May, Republic Airlines, Inc., Minneapolis,
Minnesota; Robert L. Crandall, American Airlines, Inc., and M. Lamar Muse,
Muse Air Corporation, both of Dallas, Texas; William Kutzke, Northwest
Airlines, Phillip Bakes, Continental Airlines, and Fred Smith, Jr.,
Competitive Enterprise Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; Gary M. Adamson,
Air Midwest, Inc., Wichita, Kansas; Mark Morro, Wings West Airlines, Inc., San
Luis Obispo, California; Curtis M. Coward, Air Virginia, Inc., Lynchburg,
Virginia; and Richard J. Ferris, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS REDUCTION ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for these Federal agencies responsible for implementing the Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Act, and to assess the adequacy of the National Earthquake
Hazards Reduction program, after receiving testimony from Samuel Speck,
Associate Director for State and Local Programs and Support, Federal Emergency
Management Agency; Dallas Peck, Director, and John Filson, Chief, Office of
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Engineering, both of the U.S. Geological Survey;
Nam P. Suh, Assistant Director for Engineering, National Science Foundation;
Raymond G. Kammer, Deputy Director, National Bureau of Standards, Department
of Commerce; Hugh F. Fowler, Washington State Department of Emergency
Management, Olympia; and Charles Lindbergh, The Citadel, Charleston, South
Carolina. 

NICARAGUA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the current situation in Nicaragua from Gen. Paul F. Gorman,
Office of the Chief of Staff of the Army; and certain officials of the
intelligence community. 

JOSEF MENGELE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to examine efforts to investigate the whereabouts and activities of
Dr. Josef Mengele, after receiving testimony from Representative Florio;
Stephen S. Trott, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; Rabbi Morton M. Rosenthal and Elliot Welles, both of the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nia B'rith, and Gerald Posner, all of New York,
New York.  

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Drug Enforcement
Administration, and to review those programs administered by DEA, receiving
testimony from John C. Lawn, Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will continue in closed session on Thursday, March 21. 

ASBESTOS CLAIMS FACILITY 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held oversight
hearings on a proposed asbestos claims facility, to encourage and facilitate
negotiated settlements, promote fair, consistent and timely resolutions of
asbestos-related claims, encourage the resolution of disputes through
non-judicial procedures, and encourage waiver of punitive damage claims,
receiving testimony from Harry H. Wellington, Yale Law School, New Haven,
Connecticut; John L. Baldwin, Pittsburgh-Corning Corp., Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; DeRoy C. Thomas, Hartford Insurance Group, Hartford,
Connecticut; Robin A.G. Jackson, Lloyds of London, London, England; and David
M. Silberman, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial
Organizations. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/20
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 20, 1985; pages D231 - D ?  (Bound vol. D117-
D125)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to review capital investment, debt, credit, and taxes in agriculture
policy, after receiving testimony from Emanuel Melichar, Senior Economist,
Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; George D. Irwin, Associate Deputy
Governor, and Chief Economist, Farm Credit Administration; and Michael
Boehlje, Iowa State University, Ames. 

MX MISSILE PROCUREMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
75, to further approve the obligation of funds made available by P.L. 98-473
(making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1985) for procurement of MX
missiles. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMERCE/INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; and Paula Stern,
Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Export-Import Bank of the United States from William
H. Draper III, President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United
States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Mortimer B.
Lipsett, Director, National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive
and Kidney Diseases, Murray Goldstein, Director, National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Anthony S. Fauci,
Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Ruth L.
Kirschstein, Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and
Duane Alexander, Acting Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health
and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

DEFENSE CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on cost estimating in support of defense contract negotiations,
receiving testimony from Rear Adm. Joseph S. Sansone, Jr., Deputy Chief
(Contracts and Business Management), Naval Material Command; Maj. Gen. Bernard
L. Weiss, Director, Contracting and Manufacturing Policy, USAF; Maj. Gen. Jere
W. Sharp, Director of Contracting and Production, Office of Deputy Chief of
Army Staff for Logistics; and Fred J. Newton, Deputy Director, Defense
Contract Agency. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Military
Construction on S. 537, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony
in behalf of funds for the Air Force and Reserve components' military
construction program from Maj. Gen. Clifton D. Wright, Director, Engineering
and Services, Department of the Air Force; Maj. Gen. Billy M. Jones, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Brig. Gen. Harry J. Mott
III, Deputy Chief, Army Reserves; Maj. Gen. Hubert Temple, Director, Army
National Guard; Rear Adm. F. Neale Smith, Deputy Director, Naval Reserves;
Maj. Gen. John Conaway, Director, Air National Guard; and Brig. Gen. Roger
Scheer, Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserves. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued hearings in open and closed session on S. 674, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
military space program, including ASAT, receiving testimony from Brig. Gen.
Donald J. Kutyna, USAF, Director, Space Systems and Command, Control and
Communications; Maj. Gen. Carl N. Beer, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Air
Force Space Command, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Brandt,
Joint Planning Staff for Space, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Commodore
Richard Truly, Commander, Naval Space Command, and Rear Adm. William E.
Ramsey, Director, Navy Space System Division, Office of the Chief of Naval
Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the Federal Communications Commission, and to review the activities of the
FCC, after receiving testimony from Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, Federal
Communications Commission. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from
George A. Keyworth, Science Advisor to the President; Erich Bloch, Director,
National Science Foundation; and Frank Press, President, National Academy of
Sciences. 

U.S.-ISRAEL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the U.S.-Israel
Free-Trade Agreement, after receiving testimony from Doral Cooper, Assistant
U.S. Trade Representative; Claud Gingrich, General Counsel, Office of the U.S.
Trade Representative; Thomas A. Dine, American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee, Stanley Nehmer, Economic Consulting Services, Inc., on behalf of
the Leather Products Coalition, and the American Fiber/Textile/Apparel
Coalition (AFTAC), Eugene L. Stewart, Stewart and Stewart, on behalf of Roses,
Inc., Maria McCrea Segal, National Association of Arab Americans, Max
Turnipseed, Ethyl Corporation, on behalf of the U.S. Bromine Alliance, R.M.
Cooperman, Independent Zinc Alloyers Association, Matthew A. Runci,
Manufacturing Jewelers and Silversmiths of America, Inc., and Lewe B. Martin,
Thompson, Hine and Flory, all of Washington, D.C.; Jack A. Serber, Zionist
Organization of America, Bethesda, Maryland; Albert Soffa, Kulicke and Soffa
Industries, Horsham, Pennsylvania; Sidney N. Weiss, on behalf of the
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Inc., and Robert F. Eisen,
Greenwood Mills Marketing Company, both of New York, New York; Scott Trott,
Cannon Mills, Kannapolis, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Textile
Manufacturers Institute, Inc.; Ralph M. Pinkerton, California Avocado
Commission, Irvine, California; and William K. Quarles, Jr.,
California-Arizona Citrus League, Van Nuys, California. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 660,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for development and security
assistance programs of the Department of State, after receiving testimony from
William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science and Technology; Lt. Gen. Philip Gast, Director, Defense Security
Assistance Agency, Department of State; and M. Peter McPherson, Administrator,
Agency for International Development. 

DEGLAMORIZING DRUG ABUSE 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings on the role of the entertainment industry in deglamorizing drug
abuse, receiving testimony from Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and
Human Services; Susan Kendall Newman, The Scott Newman Center, Larry Stewart,
Producers, Writers and Directors Caucus, and Gerald McRancy, all of Los
Angeles, California; Alfred R. Schneider, American Broadcasting Companies,
Inc., Thomas F. Leahy, CBS/Broadcast Group, and Irwin Segelstein, National
Broadcasting Company, Inc., all of New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
J. Thomas Greene, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Utah, Carol
Los Mansmann, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit,
Carolyn R. Dimmick, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of
Washington, Mark L. Wolf, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of
Massachusetts, and Marianne Mele Hall, of New Jersey, to be a Commissioner of
the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Greene was introduced by Senators Hatch and
Garn, Ms. Mansmann was introduced by Senators Heinz and Specter, Ms. Dimmick
was introduced by Senators Evans and Gorton, and Mr. Wolf was introduced by
Senator Kerry and Representative Conte. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Tuesday, March 19, Committee
approved for reporting the nominations of Margaret Phelan, of Kansas, Wanda L.
Forbes, of South Carolina, Patricia Barbour, of Michigan, and Daniel W. Casey,
of New York, each to be a member of the National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.  

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 26. 

Joint Meetings 

U.S. TRADE POLICY 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy concluded hearings to examine the impact of the dollar on U.S.
competitiveness in specific industries and employment, focusing on the damage
being dealt American industry by unfair foreign trade barriers, after
receiving testimony from C. Michael Bowen, InteCom, Inc., Allen, Texas,
representing the American Electronics Association; Ronald Myrick, Mostek
Corp., Carrollton, Texas, representing the Semi-Conductor Industry
Association; and Winston Wilson, U.S. Wheat Association, Washington, D.C. 

VETERANS' PROGRAMS 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative
priorities of certain veterans organizations, after receiving testimony from
John S. Lorec, Newark, New Jersey, on behalf of AMVETS; John Pavlik,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Veterans of World War I; Samuel
Greenberg, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Jewish War Veterans;
and Gene Phillips, Osage Beach, Missouri, on behalf of the National
Association of Atomic Veterans. 



1985/03/21
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 21, 1985; pages D243 - D ?  (Bound vol. D125-
D132)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began hearings on
S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity assistance
for the livestock and poultry industry, receiving testimony from Jo Ann Smith,
and Don Butler, both of the National Cattlemen's Association, Washington,
D.C.; Robert D. Josserand, Texas Cattlefeeders Association, Amarillo; James
Wright Jackson, Dunn, North Carolina, on behalf of the National Pork Producers
Council; C. Manly Molpus, and Ralph J. Rohner, both on behalf of the American
Meat Institute, Arlington, Virginia; Keith Propst, Colorado Farm Bureau,
Denver, Colorado, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Benny
Bunting, United Farmers Organization, Oak City, North Carolina. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL TRADE/FTC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert E. Lighthizer, Deputy Trade Representative, Office of
the United States Trade Representative; and James C. Miller, Chairman, Federal
Trade Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 27. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY CONSERVATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, for energy
conservation programs, receiving testimony from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy, Department of
Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye Institute; David P. Rall, Director,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; T. Franklin Williams,
Director, National Institute on Aging; Betty H. Pickett, Director, Division of
Research Resources; Craig K. Wallace, Director, Fogarty International Center;
Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine; and Calvin
Baldwin, Associate Director for Administration, Office of the Director, all of
the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on propsed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Carmen E. Turner, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority; Madeleine M. Will, Vice Chairperson, Architectural and
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and Ralph Stanley, Administrator,
Urban Mass Transportation Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OPM 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for the Office of Personnel Management, receiving testimony from Donald
Devine, Director, Office of Personnel Management (OPM). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 26. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to consider S. 674, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, but did not take
final action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 674, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on military and civilian manning levels, receiving
testimony from Senator Rudman; Lawrence J. Korb, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Manpower, Installation, and Logistics; Lt. Gen. R.M. Elton, USA,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. W.P. Lawrence, USN, Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel, and Training; Lt. Gen. D.H.
Cassidy, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower and Personnel; and Brig.
Gen. J.M. Mead, USMC, Director, Manpower, Policy and Plans. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness concluded hearings
on S. 674, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for
Logistics and Engineering; Maj. Gen. Alfred G. Hansen, Director, Logistics
Plans and Programs, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Logistics and
Engineering; Maj. Gen. Charles R. Hamm, Director of Operations, Deputy Cheif
of Air Force Staff for Plans and Operations; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway,
Director, Air National Guard, United States Air Force; Maj. Gen. Sloan R.
Gill, Chief of Air Force Reserve, United States Air Force; Brig. Gen. Mark J.
Worrick, Deputy Director of Budget (Operations), Comptroller of the Air Force;
Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Baker, Director, Personnel and Plans, Office of the Deputy
Chief of Air Force Staff for Manpower and Personnel; and Maj. Gen. Donald S.
Pihl, Director, Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy of Chief of Army
Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces concluded hearings in closed session on S. 674, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony on
classified programs from representatives of the military services. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Alfred C. Moran, of Illinois, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

PRODUCT LIABILITY ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
concluded hearings on S. 100, to provide for a uniform product liability law
under which claimants may recover for injuries caused by defective products,
after receiving testimony from Senators Lugar, and Pressler; Representative
Broyhill; Victor E. Schwartz, on behalf of the Product Liability Alliance,
Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of America, Laurence Gold, American
Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Joseph Page,
Georgetown University Law Center, all of Washington, D.C.; William A. Dreier,
Superior Court of New Jersey, Springfield; Michael L. Williams, Johnson,
Quinn, Clifton & Williams, Eugene, Oregon; Illinois Lieutenant Governor
George
H. Ryan, Springfield; Chief Justice W. Ward Reynoldson, Iowa State Supreme
Court, Des Moines, on behalf of the Conference of Chief Justices; Roland
Banks, Portland, Oregon; Rhode Island State Representative Jeffrey J. Teitz,
Providence, on behalf of the National Conference of State Legislators;
Marshall S. Shapo, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois;
Harold J. Wagner, Setco Industries Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, and James H. Mack,
Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the National Machine Tool Builders'
Association; Robert L. Larsen, Insurance Administration Center, Park Ridge,
Illinois; Randolph J. Stayin, Washington, D.C., and Durant A. Hunter, Hogland,
MacLachlan and Company, Inc., Wellesley, Massachusetts, both on behalf of the
American Textile Machinery Association; and James A. Winker, Raven Industries,
Sioux Falls, South Dakota. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARITIME PROGRAMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine held hearings on S. 679, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation, and the Federal
Maritime Commission, and S. 102, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for
the maritime construction differential subsidy, receiving testimony from
Harold E. Shear, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; James J. Carey, Vice Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission;
Jesse M. Calhoon, National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, and Adm.
James L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.), and Albert E. May, both of the Council of
American-flag Ship Operators, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMPACT OF FREE ASSOCIATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported with amendments S.J. Res. 77, to approve the Compact of Free
Association, providing for recognition of the sovereignty of the free
associated states and U.S. assistance in the conduct of their foreign affairs,
and providing financial and program assistance. 

SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances
concluded hearings on S. 124, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1989 for
programs of the Safe Drinking Water Act, including public water systems and
protection of underground sources of drinking water, after receiving testimony
from Jack Ravan, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection
Agency; Sam B. Dixon, Houston Department of Public Works, Houston, Texas, on
behalf of the American Metropolitan Water Agencies; Robert Emrie, Enviroquip,
Inc., Austin, Texas, on behalf of the Water and Wastewater Equipment
Manufacturers Association; Robert Tucker, New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection, Trenton; Frederick H. Elwell, Manchester Waterworks,
Manchester, New Hampshire, on behalf of the Water Utilities Council, American
Water Works Association; Jacqueline Warren, Natural Resources Defense Council,
New York, New York; Eugene Rosov, Water Test Corporation, New London, New
Hampshire; and C. Robert Morris, National Association of Water Companies, and
Marilyn Reeves, League of Women Voters, both of Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987
for development and security assistance programs of the Department of State,
after receiving testimony from Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asia and the Pacific; James Kelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Charles Greenleaf, Assistant
Administrator for Asia, Agency for International Development. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986
and 1987 for development and security assistance programs of the Department of
State, after receiving testimony from Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary
of State for Near East and South Asia Affairs; Bradford Langmaid, Deputy
Assistant Administrator, Bureau of the Near East, Agency for International
Development; Lt. Gen. Phillip Gast, Director, Defense Security Assistance
Agency, Department of State; and Charles Greenleaf, Assistant Administrator
for Asia, Agency for International Development. 

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. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/22
Daily Digest - Friday, March 22, 1985; pages D257 - D ?  (Bound vol. D132-
D134)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
hearings on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United
States agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for
farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices,
and continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity
assistance for the dairy industry, receiving testimony from Senator Kasten;
Norman H. Barker, National Milk Producers Federation, Pratt, Kansas; Elwood
Kirkpatrick, Michigan Milk Producers Association, Southfield; Peter W. Curra,
Maine Farm Bureau Association, Augusta, representing the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Buckey Jones, Dairymen, Inc., Smithdale, Mississippi; Buddy
Bruckner, Alabama Farm Bureau, Oneonta; E. Linwood Tipton, Milk Industry
Foundation and International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, Siert F.
Riepma, National Association of Margarine Manufacturers, Ellen Haas, Public
Voice and Donald A. Randall, National Independent Dairy-Foods Association, all
of Washington, D.C.; Howard M. Dean, Dean Foods Company, Franklin Park,
Illinois; Irvin Elkin, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., Amery, Wisconsin;
Lloyd Patterson, Green Mountain Federation, St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Clyde E.
Rutherford, Dairylea Cooperative, Inc., Syracuse, New York; Dan Hollingsworth,
San Jacinto, California; Fred Douma, California Milk Producers Council,
Ontario; Robert Cook, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Ronald D.
Knutson, Texas A&M University, College Station; Richard T. O'Connell,
Chocolate Manufacturers Association, McLean, Virginia; and Robert F. Anderson,
American Butter Institute and National Cheese Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 25. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings on S. 667, authorizing funds for the Department of
Housing and Urban Development and related programs, receiving testimony from
Richard B. Geltman, National Governors Association, Barry Zigas, National
Low-Income Housing Coalition, Joseph F. Laden, Public Housing Authorities
Directors Association, and Floyd H. Hyde, National Housing Conference, all of
Washington, D.C.; Clark County Commissioner Thalia Dondero, Las Vegas, Nevada,
on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Mary Ann M. Russ,
Wilmington Housing Authority, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the Council
of Large Public Housing Authorities; Helen L. Sause, San Francisco
Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco, California; Marc Hecter, Nevada State
Department of Commerce, Carson City; and Donna Denman, Greene Metropolitan
Housing Authority, Xenia, Ohio. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 25. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NOAA'S SATELLITE AND ATMOSPHERIC PROGRAMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's satellite and atmospheric programs, including the National
Weather Service, after receiving testimony from Anthony J. Calio, Acting
Administrator, Richard E. Hallgren, Assistant Administrator for Weather
Services, and William P. Bishop, Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Services, all of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Thomas E.
McGunigal, Program Manager, Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking,
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Brig. Gen. Albert J. Kaehn, Jr.
(USAF Retired), former Commander, Air Weather; David S. Johnson, Damar
International, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland; Bob Ryan, WRC-Television, and John
Quadros, National Weather Service Employees Organization, both of Washington,
D.C.; and David E. Miller, WSI Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments: 

Energy, Regulation, and Conservation 

Senators Nickles (Chairman), Hatfield, Domenici, Warner, Hecht, Evans,
Metzenbaum, Ford, Bradley, Bingaman, and Rockefeller. 

Natural Resources Development and Production 

Senators Warner (Chairman), Weicker, Wallop, Murkowski, Nickles, Melcher,
Bumpers, Bingaman, and Rockefeller. 

Energy Research and Development 

Senators Domenici (Chairman), Warner, Hecht, Evans, Wallop, Ford, Bumpers,
Metzenbaum, and Rockefeller. 

Water and Power 

Senators Murkowski (Chairman), Hatfield, Evans, Nickles, Weicker, Bradley,
Ford, Metzenbaum, and Melcher. 

Public Lands, Reserved Water and Resource Conservation 

Senators Wallop (Chairman), Weicker, Hecht, Hatfield, Domenici, Murkowski,
Bumpers, Melcher, Bradley, and Bingaman. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings on S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for
development and security assistance programs of the Department of State, after
receiving testimony from Mark L. Edelman, Assistant Administrator for Africa,
Agency for International Development; Princeton Lyman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Elliot Berg, Berg Associates,
Alexandria, Virginia; and Carol Lancaster, Georgetown University, and Jack
Shepherd, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, both of Washington, DC. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings on S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for
development and security assistance programs of the Department of State, after
receiving testimony from Richard R. Burt, Assistant Secretary for European
Affairs, and Richard Haass, Deputy for Policy Planning, Bureau of European
Affairs, both of the Department of State; Cleo N. Zambetis, Youngstown, Ohio,
on behalf of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association; and
Joseph Youssef, Freehold, New Jersey, on behalf of the Assembly of Turkish
American Associations. 

COMMEMORATIVE RESOLUTIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: On Thursday, March 21, the Committee approved for
reporting the following measures: 

S.J. Res. 4, designating the week of March 24-30, 1985, as "National Skin
Cancer Prevention and Detection Week"; 

S.J. Res. 15, designating May 7, 1985, as "Helsinki Human Rights
Day"; 

S.J. Res. 17, authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation
designating April 21-28, 1985, as "Jewish Heritage Week"; 

S.J. Res. 22, designating March 1985 as "National Mental Retardation
Awareness
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 23, designating 1985 as the "Year of Social Security"; 

S.J. Res. 28, designating the week of September 8-14, 1985, as "National
Independent Retail Grocer Week"; 

S.J. Res. 29, designating the week of November 11-17, 1985, as "National
Reye's Syndrome Week"; 

S.J. Res. 31, designating the week of November 24-30, 1985, as "National
Family Week"; 

S.J. Res. 38, designating the week of March 10-16, 1985, as "National
Employ
the Older Worker Week"; 

S.J. Res. 48, designating the year of 1986 as the "Year of the
Teacher"; 

S.J. Res. 56, designating April 1985 as "National Child Abuse Prevention
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 58, designating the week of April 21-27, 1985, as "National
Drug
Abuse Education and Prevention Week"; 

S.J. Res. 60, designating the week of May 12-18, 1985, as "Senior Center
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 61, designating the week of May 1-7, 1985, as "National
Osteoporosis
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 65, designating the month of November 1985 as "National
Alzheimer's
Disease Month"; and 

S.J. Res. 70, proclaiming March 20, 1985, as "National Agriculture
Day". 



1985/03/25
Daily Digest - Monday, March 25, 1985; pages D262 - D ?  (Bound vol. D135-
D138)

Committee Meetings 

(Committee not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity assistance
for the feed grain industry, receiving testimony from Senator Pressler; James
Provan, European Parliament, Perth, Scotland; John White, Jr., Illinois Farm
Bureau, Bloomington, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Varel
Bailey, Anita, Iowa, Jerry Franz, Poynette, Wisconsin, and Michael Hall,
Washington, D.C., all on behalf of the National Corn Growers Association, Jack
J. Gray, Ralston, Oklahoma, Janice Garrett, National Women Involved in Farm
Economics, Minden, Nebraska; and David L. Johnson, Rovid Farms, Hector,
Minnesota. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 27. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS/PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for voluntary contributions to international organizations and
programs from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, U.S. Representative to the United Nations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DOD 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, those provisions
which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 674, authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs resumed hearings on S. 667, authorizing funds for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and related programs, receiving testimony
from Kenneth J. Thygerson, President, Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation;
Bob Spiller, Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, Boston, Massachusetts; James
Fischer, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the National Association of Home
Builders; Herb Delaney, Kandakee, Illinois, and Tom Volgy, Tucson, Arizona,
both of the National League of Cities; Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Charleston,
South Caroliona, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Jack Carlson,
National Association of Realtors, David O. Maxwell, Federal National Mortgage
Association, and Jack R. Gilstrap, American Public Transit Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Warren H. Frank, Central New York Regional Transportation
Authority, Syracuse, on behalf of the American Public Transit Association;
Leslie R. White, Clark County Public Transportation Benefit Area, Vancouver,
Washington; Richard J. Simonetta, Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, Ann
Arbor, Michigan; and Jerome C. Premo, New Jersey Transit Corporation, Newark. 

Hearings continue on Monday, April 15. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Business,
Trade, and Tourism concluded hearings on S. 374 and S. 193, bills authorizing
funds for the U.S. Travel and Tourism Administration, Department of Commerce,
after receiving testimony from Donna F. Tuttle, Under Secretary of Commerce
for Travel and Tourism; William D. Toohey, Travel Industry Association of
America, and John Graff, International Association of Amusement Parks and
Attractions, both on behalf of the Travel and Tourism Government Affairs
Council, Washington, DC.; and Cord D. Hansen-Sturm, First Family of Travel,
New York, New York, on behalf of the U.S. Tour Operators Association. 

FISHING VESSEL SAFETY AND INSURANCE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings to examine insurance problems and vessel safety in
the fishing industry, after receiving testimony from Representative Bateman;
Thor Lassen, National Council on Fishing Vessel Safety and Insurance, James P.
Walsh, American Tuna Boat Association, David Burney, U.S. Tuna Foundation, and
Lucy Sloan, National Federation of Fishermen, all of Washington, DC; William
S. Wells III, Wells Scallops, Seaford, Virginia; Deming Cowles, representing
the United Fishermen of Alaska, Juneau; Robert P. Jones, Southeastern
Fisheries, Tallahassee, Florida; Kristin Vehrs, on behalf of the Texas Shrimp
Association, Austin; Roy Tate, Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association,
Scituate; James Costakes, New Bedford Seafood Council, New Bedford,
Massachusetts; and Dennis W. Nixon, University of Rhode Island, Kingston. 

MEDICAID LIABILITY COLLECTIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review the General
Accounting Office's report "Improved Efficiency Needed to Relieve
Medicaid
from Paying for Services Covered by Private Insurers," after receiving
testimony from Michael Zimmerman, Associate Director, Frank C. Pasquier,
Senior Evaluator, and Thomas Dowdal, Group Director for Health Financing, all
of the U.S. General Accounting Office; James L. Scott, Acting Deputy
Administrator, and Mary S. Kennesson, Director, Bureau of Quality Control,
both of the Health Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and
Human Services; Leonard Levine, Minnesota Department of Public Welfare, St.
Paul; Barbara D. Matula, North Carolina Department of Human Services, Raleigh;
and Patricia Day, Connecticut Department of Income Maintenance, Hartford. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of William L. Ball III, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Nunn and Mattingly,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution requesting $4,821,213 in operating expenses for the committee for
1985. 

FARM CREDIT CRISIS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure held oversight hearings on the farm credit crisis and certain
practices of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, receiving testimony
from Kathleen Lawrence, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and
Rural Development; William Hoffman, Associate Deputy Governor, Office of
Examination and Supervision, Farm Credit Administration; John Downey, Chief
National Bank Examiner, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; A. David
Meadows, Associate Director for Bank Supervision and Surveillance Enforcement,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Tom Huston, Iowa Banking Department,
Paul Dunlap, Hawkeye Bancorporation, and Roger Winterhof, Brenton Banks, Inc.,
all of Des Moines, Iowa; Roger Beverage, Nebraska Department of Banking and
Finance, Omaha; and Neal Conover, Citizens Savings Bank, Afton, Iowa. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 9. 

GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on proposals to reform the graduate medical
education system and the problem of funding postgraduate medical education,
receiving testimony from Murray Grant, Chief Medical Adviser, Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; Robert Graham, Director, Health Resources
and Services Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and
Human Services; Arnold Relman, Harvard Medical School, and J. Robert Buchanan,
Massachusetts General Hospital, on behalf of the Association of American
Medical Colleges, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Robert M. Heyssel, The Johns
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; Walter J. Daly, Indiana University
School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Samuel P. Asper, Educational Commission for
Foreign Medical Graduates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Alfred Gellhorn, New
York State Department of Health, Albany; David D. Thompson, Society of New
York Hospital, New York, New York, on behalf of the American Hospital
Association; and Robert S. Stone, Texas A&M University, College Station,
and
Harry N. Peterson and Roy Schwartz, both of Chicago, Illinois, all on behalf
of the American Medical Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/26
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 26, 1985; pages D270 - D ?  (Bound vol. D138-
D145)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Frank W. Naylor, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small
Community and Rural Development; Dwight O. Calhoun, Acting Associate
Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of Agriculture; and
Donald E. Wilkinson, Governor, Farm Credit Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 2. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from James P. Wade, Jr., Acting Under Secretary of Defense
for Research and Engineering. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water resumed hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and water
development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Power
Marketing Administrations within the Department of Energy from Donna R.
Fitzpatrick, Acting Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy,
Robert J. Cross, Administrator, Alaska Power Administration, Peter J. Johnson,
Administrator, Bonneville Power Administration, Harry C. Geisinger,
Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, Ronald H. Wilkerson,
Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration, and William H. Clagett,
Administrator, Western Area Power Administration, all of the Department of
Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Dallas
L. Peck, Director, Geological Survey Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James O. Mason, Director, Centers for Disease Control; Donald I. Macdonald,
Administrator, and Shervert H. Frazier, Director, St. Elizabeths Hospital,
both of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration; Richard P.
Kusserow, Inspector General, and Betty Lou Dotson, Director, Office for Civil
Rights, all of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- POSTAL SERVICE/TREASURY/GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Paul N. Carlin, Postmaster General of the United States, U.S. Postal
Service; Joseph E. Bishop, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Operations (Administration); Carole J. Dineen, Fiscal Assistant Secretary,
Bureau of Public Debt and the Financial Management Service, Department of the
Treasury; and Katherine D. Ortega, Treasurer of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 28. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL BUREAU OF STANDARDS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Bureau of Standards, Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Ernest Ambler, Director, National
Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce; John C. Gerard, National Fire
Prevention Association, Vico Henriques, Computer and Business Equipment
Manufacturers Association, John Bush, National Institute of Building Sciences,
and Frank Samuel, Health Industry Manufacturer's Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Pete England, National Conference of Standards Laboratories,
Boulder, Colorado; and Frederick Hume, John Fluke Manufacturing Co., Inc.,
Everett, Washington. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act, after
receiving testimony from Joseph L. Donovan, Superintendent, National Fire
Academy, and Edward M. Wall, Acting Administrator, both of the U.S. Fire
Administration, Federal Emergency Managment Agency; Philip S. Schaenman,
TriData Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; Howard Boyd, Joint Council of
National Fire Service Organizations, Jack Gerard, National Fire Protection
Association, and Harry E. Diezel, International Association of Fire Fighters,
all of Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CLEAN WATER 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution began hearings on S. 53 and S. 652, bills authorizing funds for
programs of the Clean Water Act, receiving testimony from Jack E. Ravan,
Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATION -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
concluded hearings on S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987
for development and security assistance programs of the Department of State,
after receiving testimony from Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of
State for Inter-American Affairs; Nestor Sanchez, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Inter-American Affairs; and Vitor M. Rivera, Assistant
Administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean, Agency for International
Development. 

AUTHORIZATION -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began markup of S. 660, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for development and security assistance
programs of the Department of State, but did not complete action thereon, and
will continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of James R. Laffoon, to be United States Marshal for the
Southern District of California, Marianne M. Hall, of New Jersey, to be a
Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, and Frank H. Conway, of
Massachusetts, to be a Member of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of
the United States; 

S.J. Res. 53, to designate April 21-27, 1985, as "National Organ Donation
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 53, to designate the month of June 1985 as "Youth Suicide
Prevention
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 72, to designate October 16, 1985, as "World Food Day"; 

S.J. Res. 79, to designate April 1985, as "Fair Housing Month"; 

S.J. Res. 80, to designate May 1985 as "National Physical Fitness and
Sports
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 50, to designate the week of April 1-7, 1985, as "World Health
Week", and to designate April 7, 1985, as "World Health Day"; 

S.J. Res. 62, commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of United States
weather satellites; 

S.J. Res. 9, expressing the sense of the Congress that Medicare be commended
on its 20th anniversary for the program's success in protecting older
Americans against the high cost of health care; 

S.J. Res. 121, to designate the month of April 1985 as "National Child
Abuse
Prevention Month"; 

H.J. Res. 134, to designate March 10-16, 1985, as "National
Employ-the-Older-Worker Week"; and 

H.J. Res. 160, to designate March 22, 1985, as "National Energy Education
Day". 

The committee indefinitely postponed further action on S.J. Res. 76, companion
measure to H.J. Res. 160 listed above, and S.J. Res. 27, to designate the week
containing March 8, 1985, as "Women's History Week". 

Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks 

Senators Mathias (Chairman), Laxalt, Hatch, Simpson, Leahy, Metzenbaum, and
DeConcini; 

Criminal Law 

Senators Laxalt (Chairman), Thurmond, Specter, Mathias, Biden, Kennedy, and
Metzenbaum; 

Constitution 

Senators Hatch (Chairman), Thurmond, Grassley, DeConcini, and Simon; 

Immigration and Refugee Policy 

Senators Simpson (Chairman), Grassley, Denton, Kennedy, and Simon; 

Courts 

Senators East (Chairman), Thurmond, Simpson, Laxalt, Heflin, and DeConcini; 

Administrative Practice and Procedure 

Senators Grassley (Chairman), Specter, East, Metzenbaum, and Heflin; 

Security and Terrorism 

Senators Denton (Chairman), Hatch, East, McConnell, Leahy, and DeConcini; 

Juvenile Justice 

Senators Specter (Chairman), Denton, Mathias, McConnell, Simon, and
Metzenbaum. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from
Edwin Meese III, Attorney General, Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Ann C. Williams to be United States District Judge for the Northern District
of Illinois, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Simon, testified
and answered questions in her own behalf. 

LABOR VIOLENCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee resumed oversight hearings
to review labor violence activities, focusing on alleged violence committed by
unions against management stemming from a strike of the Missouri-Portland
Cement Company facility in Joppa, Illinois, receiving testimony from David
Beck, (Local 435), United Cement, Lime, Gypsum and Allied Workers, and James
H. Anderson, both of Karnak, Illinois; Laimutis A. Nargelenas, and John
Richter, both of the Illinois State Police, Du Quoin; Robert King, Metropolis,
Illinois; J.F. Souders, St. Louis, Missouri; and Greg Peterson, Joppa,
Illinois. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported with
amendments S. 408, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988 for
the Small Business Administration. 

VA CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings to review Veteran's
Administration policies relating to the construction of major medical
facilities, receiving testimony from Senator Sarbanes; John Ditzler, Chief
Medical Director, John Gronvall, Deputy Chief Medical Director, Richard Falco,
Acting Director, Facility Engineering Planning and Construction Office, all of
the Veterans' Administration; Paul Egan, and Robert Lyngh, both of the
American Legion, Donald H. Schwab, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States, David Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, and Bob Moran, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 109) requesting $1,022,882 in operating expenses of the
committee for 1985. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/03/27
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 27, 1985; pages D281 - D ?  (Bound vol. D145-
D151)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity assistance
for soybean producers, receiving testimony from Roger Asendorf, St. James,
Minnesota, on behalf of the American Soybean Association; Harry Bell, South
Carolina Farm Bureau, Columbia, representing the American Farm Bureau
Federation; and John Sharp, Alabama Farm Bureau State Soybean Committee, Grand
Bay. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of John R. Norton III, of Arizona, to be Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, after the nominee testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Roy Cozart, Acting
Associate Director for State and County Operations, Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service, Anthony J. Gabriel, Deputy Inspector General, and J.
Michael Kelly, Associate General Counsel, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BIB/ACDA/FCC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Frank Shakespeare, Chairman, Ben J. Wattenberg, Vice Chairman,
and Michael Novak, Board Member, all of the Board for International
Broadcasting; James L. Buckley, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty;
Kenneth Adelman, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and Mark
Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 3. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 2. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY/SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
POLICY/ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY/REVENUE SHARING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Terrence M.
Scanlon, Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; G.A. Keyworth II,
Science Advisor to the President and Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy; A. Alan Hill, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality;
Robert W. Rafuse, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for State
and Local Finance (New York City Loan Program); and Michael F. Hill, Director,
Office of Revenue Sharing, Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Martha A. McSteen, Acting Commissioner, Social Security Administration, R.
Steve Ritchie, Director, Office of Child Support Enforcement, Phillip N.
Hawkes, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, and Carolyne K. Davis,
Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,132
routine military nominations in the Navy and Air Force. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed consideration of S. 674,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, April 1.  

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy
approved for full committee consideration with amendments those provisions
which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee of S. 674, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense. (As approved by the
subcommittee, the proposed legislation incorporates the amended provisions of
S. 742, to improve the acquisition of defense weapon systems). 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Martha R. Seger, of Michigan, to be a Member of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Representative Broomfield, testified and answered questions in
her own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and to hold
oversight hearings to review activities of the Office of Commercial Space
Transportation, Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from
Jennifer Dorn, Director, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Department
of Transportation; Isaac T. Gillam, Assistant Administrator for Commercial
Programs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Eric Hanushek, Deputy
Director, Congressional Budget Office; Lee R. Scherer, General Dynamics, San
Diego, California; James P. Samuels, Shearson Lehman/American Express, New
York, New York; Robert H. Hood, Jr., McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company,
Huntington Beach, California; David W. Lippy, Center for Space Policy, Inc.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bruce W. Ferguson, Orbital Sciences Corporation,
Vienna, Virginia; and Antonio Savoca, Transpace Carriers, Inc., Greenbelt,
Maryland. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CLEAN WATER 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution continued hearings on S. 53 and S. 652, bills authorizing funds for
programs of the Clean Water Act, receiving testimony from Senators Kasten and
Cranston; Leonard J. Ledbetter, Georgia Department of Natural Resources,
Atlanta, on behalf of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution
Control Agencies; Charles Kaiser, Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, on
behalf of the Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies, and Robert
Elsperman, Tarlton Corporation, on behalf of the Associated General
Contractors of America, both of St. Louis, Missouri; Ted Lehne, Fairbanks,
Alaska, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Jerry D. Smith, Montecito
Sanitary District, Santa Barbara, California, on behalf of California
Association of Sewerage Agencies; Thomas H. Boast, Bear, Stearns and Company,
New York, New York; E.B. Ransome, Ohio Water Development Authority, Columbus;
Kermit Prime, Boyle Engineering Company, Orlando, Florida, on behalf of the
National Society of Professional Engineers; Loretta Simmon, Blair Supply
Company, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the National Utility Contractors;
and Francis Grillot, Arlington Heights, Illinois, on behalf of Water and
Equipment Manufacturers Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
measure: 

S. Con. Res. 15, to express a sense of Congress that the voluntary restraint
on Japanese automobiles should not expire until Japan opens its markets to
U.S. exports, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued in evening session to mark
up S. 660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for development
and security assistance programs of the Department of State. 

SALE OF CONRAIL 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began hearings on the proposed sale of
the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) by the Department of
Transportation to Norfolk Southern Corporation, and to review antitrust
implications of the sale, receiving testimony from Senators Specter and Heinz;
J. Paul McGrath, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of
Justice; Robert B. Claytor, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia;
Gordon Neuenschwander, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Timothy Mellon, Guilford Transportation Industries, New Haven,
Connecticut; Bruce Wilson, Consolidated Rail Corporation, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; John W. Snow, Chessie Systems Railroads, Richmond, Virginia; and
John H. Burdakin, Grand Trunk Western Railroad Company, Detroit, Michigan. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 2. 

VA CONSTRUCTION FACILITIES 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review
Veterans' Administration policies relating to the construction of major
medical facilities, after receiving testimony from Senators Denton, Bentsen,
and Gramm; John Gronvall, Deputy Medical Director, Richard Falco, Acting
Director, Facility Engineering, Planning and Construction Office, and Susan
Livingstone, Associate Deputy Administrator of Logistics, all of the Veterans'
Administration; and Tom Batey, Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville,
Tennessee. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
intelligence community, after receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community. 

Committee will begin markup of the authorization proposal on Monday, April 1. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS -- AFRICAN FAMINE RELIEF 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions on H.R. 1239, appropriating urgent
supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, for emergency
famine relief and recovery in Africa. 



1985/03/28
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 28, 1985; pages D291 - D ?  (Bound vol. D152-
D161)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture; Nutrition and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity assistance
for wheat producers, receiving testimony from Henry Neshem, Berthold, North
Dakota, on behalf of the National Association of Wheat Growers; Doyle D.
Rahjes, Kansas Farm Bureau, Manhattan, representing the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Robert Wager, American Bakers Association, and also representing
the Retail Bakers Association and the Independent Bakers Association,
Washington, D.C.; Sam J. Darwin, Alabama Farm Bureau, Huntsville; V.B. Morris,
Gruver, Texas, on behalf of the American Agriculture Movement; Marsha Jones,
Grover, Colorado, on behalf of the National Women Involved in Farm Economics;
George D. Levin, Independent Stockgrowers of America, Sturgis, South Dakota;
and Walter Adams, Sharon, Oklahoma. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for certain defense programs, focusing
on guard and reserve affairs, receiving testimony from James H. Webb,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April2. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and
water development programs, focusing on the Central Arizona project, receiving
testimony from Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, Phoenix. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION/NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Veterans'
Administration, and the National Science Foundation, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Harry N. Walters,
Administrator, Veterans' Administration; and Erich Bloch, Director, National
Science Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SURFACE MINING/INDIAN RELOCATION COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John D.
Ward, Director, Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement,
Department of the Interior; Ralph A. Watkins, Jr., Chairman, Navajo and Hopi
Indian Relocation Commission. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 2. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Dorcas R. Hardy, Assistant
Secretary for Human Development Services, and Harvey R. Veith, Director,
Office of Community Services, both of the Department of Health and Human
Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ICC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Interstate Commerce Commission, receiving testimony from Reece H. Taylor,
Jr., Chairman, Heather J. Gradison, Vice Chairman, Malcolm M.B. Sterrett,
Frederic N. Andre, J.J. Simmons, Paul H. Lamboley, and Andrew J. Strenio, Jr.,
all Commissioners, Martin E. Foley, Managing Director, and Ronald S. Young,
Director, Bureau of Accounts, all of the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EXECUTIVE/IRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for the Executive Office of the President, and the Internal Revenue
Service, Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Roscoe L. Egger, Jr., Commissioner,
Internal Revenue Service; and John F.W. Rogers, Assistant to the President for
Management and Administration, and Christopher Hicks, Deputy Assistant to the
President for Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 3. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel approved
for full committee consideration, with amendments, those provisions which fall
within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 674, authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Defense. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness approved for full
committee consideration with amendments those provisions which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 674, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Defense. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces began consideration of those provisions which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 674, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will
meet again on Monday, April 1. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, receiving testimony on space science and applications from
Burton I. Edelson, Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications,
and Stanley D. Shawhan, Chairman, Shuttle Science Working Group, Office of
Space Science and Applications, both of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Milton W. Rosen, Executive Director, Space Applications Board,
National Academy of Sciences; and Lennard A. Fisk, Jr., University of New
Hampshire, Durham. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 3. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- PIPELINE SAFETY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for pipeline safety programs, after receiving
testimony from M. Cynthia Douglass, Administrator, Research and Special
Programs Administration, Department of Transportation; Winfred Checkley,
Maryland Public Service Commission, Baltimore, representing the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Jerome J. McGrath, Interstate
Natural Gas Association of America, Patrick Corcoran, Association of Oil
Pipelines, and Kenneth Leonard, American Petroleum Institute, all of
Washington, D.C.; Sal Bellassai, Trans-Continental Gas Pipeline Corporation,
Houston, Texas; and Brian C. Elliott, Northern Illinois Gas Company,
Naperville. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CLEAN WATER 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution concluded hearings on S.53 and S.652, bills authorizing funds for
programs of the Clean Water Act, after receiving testimony from Senators
Mattingly and Gorton; Frances Dubrowski, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Jeffrey Zimmerman, Occidental Petroleum Company, on behalf of National
Environmental Development Association, Jay Hair, National Wildlife Federation,
Hope Babcock, National Audubon Society, Merilyn Reeves, League of Women
Voters, and R. Neil Sampson, American Forestry Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; Charles Malloch, The Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of
the Chemical Manufacturers Association; James W. Gillette, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York; J. Mike McCloskey, The Sierra Club, San Francisco,
California; Richard O. Austerman, AMAX, Inc., Denver, Colorado, on behalf of
the Western Regional Council; and Mayor Tim Douglas, Bellingham, Washington. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Wednesday, March 27, the committee ordered
favorably reported the following measures: 

S.660, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for development and
security assistance programs of the Department of State, with amendments; and 

An original bill to impose economic sanctions on South Africa within two years
unless progress is made toward ending that country's racial policies. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on S.659,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the Department of State,
receiving testimony from Ronald I. Spiers, Under Secretary for Management,
Gregory J. Newell, Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs,
James N. Purcell, Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, and Robert E. Lamb,
Assistant Secretary for Administration, all of the Department of State. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET/RULES/SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 111) requesting $5,120,552 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1985. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 99th Congress, and
announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations 

Senators Roth (Chairman), Rudman, Mathias, Cohen, Cochran, Stevens, Nunn,
Chiles, Glenn, Levin, and Gore. 

Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia 

Senators Mathias (Chairman), Rudman, and Eagleton. 

Energy, Nuclear Proliferation, and Government Processes 

Senators Cochran (Chairman), Cohen, and Glenn. 

Intergovernmental Relations 

Senators Durenberger (Chairman), Stevens, Cochran, Chiles, and Nunn. 

Civil Service, Post Office, and General Services 

Senators Stevens (Chairman), Mathias, Durenberger, Gore, and Levin. 

Oversight on Government Management 

Senators Cohen (Chairman), Rudman, Durenberger, Levin, and Chiles. 

DRUG ENFORCEMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism resumed
hearings in closed session on certain activities of the Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice, receiving testimony from David
Westrate, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held a business meeting,
where it took the following action: 

Ordered favorably reported S. Res. 30, authorizing the printing of additional
copies of the report entitled "Developments in Aging: 1984"; 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,384,659 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1985; 

Ordered favorably reported eight (8) original resolutions each to pay a
gratuity to the survivor(s) of a deceased Senate employee; and 

Ordered favorably reported an original resolution providing for membership on
the part of the Senate on the Joint Committee on Printing and the Joint
Committee of Congress on the Library. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 99th Congress. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET/RULES/SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 113) requesting $1,037,139 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1985. 

ETHICS 

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

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/01
Daily Digest - Monday, April 1, 1985; pages D307 - D ?  (Bound vol. D161-D166)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
hearings on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United
States agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for
farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices,
and continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity
assistance for the rice industry, receiving testimony from Chip Morgan, Delta
Council, Stoneville, Mississippi; David Senter, American Agriculture Movement,
Washington, D.C.; Charles Mathews, Butte County Rice Growers Association,
Marysville, California; Dale Hunt, 5-State Rice Producers Legislative Group,
Garwood, Texas; Romeo Short, Riceland Foods, Stuttgart, Arkansas; Ed Wild,
Rice Producer, Welsh, Louisiana; Ron Herrington, Rice Growers Association,
Sacramento, California; and Hobson Gary, Schlatter, Mississippi; Hugh M.
Arant, Mississippi Farm Bureau, Jackson, representing the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Robert E. McCann, Jr., Rice Millers' Association, Alvin, Texas,
and J. Stephen Gabbert, Arlington, Virginia. 

Also, on Friday, March 29, the committee held hearings on the aforementioned
bills, focusing on commodity assistance for the cotton industry, receiving
testimony from Samuel B. Hollis, Memphis, Tennessee, J.S. Barr II, Oak Ridge,
Louisiana, and Sykes Martin, Courtland, Alabama, all of the National Cotton
Council; Nicky Hargrove, Arkansas Farm Bureau, Little Rock, representing the
American Farm Bureau Federation; Peter F. Diffly, Selma, Alabama, Ben K. Baer,
and Dewell R. Gandy, both of Memphis, Tennessee, and Neal P. Gillen,
Washington, D.C., all of the American Cotton Shippers Association; Daniel K.
Frierson, Dixie Yarns, Inc., Chattanooga, Tennessee, representing the American
Textile Manufacturers Institute, Inc., R.L. Webster, Southern Growers, Inc.,
representing the Southern/Southeastern Cotton Growers, Dahlonega, Georgia;
Raymond Marsh, Alabama Farm Bureau State Cotton Committee, Madison; Chip
Morgan, Delta Council, Stoneville, Mississippi; Dan Logan, Jr., Louisiana
Cotton Producers Association, Gilliam; Tommy Fondrum, Texas Association of
Cotton Producer Organizations, Lorenzo; Cecil Williams, Agricultural Council
of Arkansas, West Memphis; C.L. Scott, Arizona Cotton Growers Association,
Phoenix; Jack Stone, Western Cotton Growers Association, Fresno, California;
Nita Gibson, Cotton Pool Inc., of Texas, Siminole; and Harvy Joe Sanner,
American Agriculture Movement, Des Arc, Arkansas. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator Pressler;
Representatives Daschle and Gordon; Mayor Richard Fulton, Nashville,
Tennessee; and Judge Taylor Rayburn, Maury County, Tennessee. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed markup of S. 674,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on tactical warfare issues, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.


AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, those
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 674,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: On Friday, March 29, the Subcommittee on Military
Construction approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, those
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 537,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 on military construction programs of
the Department of Defense. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: On Friday, March 29, the committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 115) requesting $3,320,972 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1985. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARITIME ADMINISTRATION/MARITIME CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, March 29th, the
subcommittee on Merchant Marine concluded hearings on S. 679, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation, and the Federal Maritime Commission, and S. 102, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the maritime construction differential subsidy,
after receiving testimony from Joseph A. Klausner, American Maritime
Association, and Thomas L. Mills, Kominers, Fort, Schlefer and Boyer,
representing the Apex Marine, American Petrofina, Moore-McCormack Resources,
Inc., and SOHIO, both of Washington, D.C.; Vice Admiral Robert H. Scarborough,
USCG (Ret.), representing the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association,
Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Rear Admiral F.H. Miller, USN (Ret.), State
University of New York Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, Bronx, New York; Rear
Admiral John F. Aylmer, USMS, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay;
and Rear Admiral S.A. Swarztrauber, USN (Ret.), Maine Maritime Academy,
Castine. 

INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, March 29, the committee concluded hearings on
the findings of the President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness,
after receiving testimony from John A. Young, Chairman of Commission,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California, and Samuel A. Hardage, Hardage
Enterprises, Wichita, Kansas, Frederick B. Dent, Mayfair Mills, Inc., Arcadia,
South Carolina, Bruno J. Mauer, Rickert Industrial Supply Company, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, and Howard D. Samuel, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C., all Commission
Members. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs 

Senators Helms (Chairman), Kassebaum, Murkowski, Trible, Evans, Zorinsky,
Dodd, Eagleton, and Kerry. 

Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Oceans, and Environment 

Senators Mathias (Chairman), Boschwitz, Murkowski, Trible, Evans, Dodd,
Eagleton, Kerry, and Pell. 

Subcommittee on African Affairs 

Senators Kassebaum (Chairman), Helms, Mathias, Pressler, Kerry, Sarbanes, and
Pell. 

Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs 

Senators Boschwitz (Chairman), Kassebaum, Pressler, Lugar, Sarbanes, Cranston,
and Pell. 

Subcommittee on European Affairs 

Senators Pressler (Chairman), Mathias, Boschwitz, Trible, Lugar, Biden,
Sarbanes, Zorinsky, and Eagleton. 

Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs 

Senators Murkowski (Chairman), Helms, Evans, Lugar, Cranston, Zorinsky, and
Dodd. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Faith R. Whittlesey, of Pennsylvania, to be Ambassador to Switzerland,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Specter, testified and
answered questions in her own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- USIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 785,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the United States
Information Agency, after receiving testimony from Charles Z. Wick, Director,
United States Information Agency; Edwin J. Feulner, Jr., Chairman, and Tom C.
Korologos, Member, both of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy;
and Jack Egle, Council on International Educational Exchange, New York, New
York. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- BIB/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, March 29, the committee concluded
hearings on S. 496, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the
Board for International Broadcasting, and S. 785, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1986 and 1987 for National Endowment for Democracy, after receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frank
Shakespeare, Chairman, Ben J. Wattenberg, Vice Chairman, and Michael Novak,
member, all of the Board for International Broadcasting; James L. Buckley,
President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Inc.; Carl Gershman, President,
and John Richardson, Chairman, both of the National Endowment for Democracy;
and Joan McCabe, Associate Director, General Accounting Office. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings on the nomination
of Donald J. Devine, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of Personnel
Management, where the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Senators Helms and Sarbanes, and
Representative Schroeder. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MENTALLY DISABLED INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the care and
advocacy for mentally disabled persons in institutions, receiving testimony
from Christie, Harold, and Chris Cockerham, Fort Worth, Texas; Wilbur and
Jonathan Savidge, Hurst, Texas; David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Carol Sands, New Jersey Office of the Public Advocate, Jenni Tolska, New
Jersey Department of Human Services, and Maureen Kelly, all of Trenton, New
Jersey; South Carolina State Senator Arthur Ravenel, Columbia; David Pharis,
R.A.J. Review Panel, Austin, Texas; and Clarence Sundram, New York Commission
on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, Albany, 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Urban and Rural Economic Development 

Senators D'Amato (Chairman), Weicker, and Dixon. 

Government Procurement 

Senators Nickles (Chairman), Goldwater, Rudman, Levin, and Sasser. 

Productivity and Competition 

Senators Gorton (Chairman), Weicker, and Bumpers. 

Innovation and Technology 

Senators Rudman (Chairman), Trible, Gorton, Boren, and Kerry. 

Export Promotion and Market Development 

Senators Boschwitz (Chairman), Kasten, Pressler, Trible, Baucus, Nunn, and
Harkin. 

Small Business: Family Farm 

Senators Pressler (Chairman), Nickles, D'Amato, Nunn, and Levin. 

Entrepreneurship and Special Problems Facing Small Business 

Senators Kasten (Chairman), Boschwitz, Goldwater, Sasser, and Baucus. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee began markup of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the intelligence
community, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/02
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 2, 1985; pages D317 - D ?  (Bound vol. D167-
D175)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Committee continued hearings
on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity assistance
for the sugar, wood, and honey industries, receiving testimony from Senators
Inouye and Matsunaga; Robert H. Hughes, Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association,
Aeia; Dalton Yancey, Florida Sugar Cane League, Inc., Clewiston; John Thibaut,
American Sugar Cane League, Napoleonville, Louisiana; T.V. Fischer, A.E.
Staley Manufacturing Company, Decatur, Illinois, representing the Corn
Refiners Association, Inc.; Ronald D. Knutson, Texas A&M University,
College
Station; Robert W. Delauter, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Portland, Portland,
Indiana, representing the National Soft Drink Association; Kenneth Manning,
Ambrosia Chocolate Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, representing the Chocolate
Manufacturers' Association; Tad Van Leer, Van Leer Chocolate Corporation,
Jersey City, New Jersey; Richard T. O'Connell, National Confectioners
Association, McLean, Virginia; Robert W. Miller, Retail Bakers of America,
Hyattsville, Maryland; John Bushnell, Holly Sugar Corporation, Colorado
Springs, Colorado; Bill Cleavinger, Texas-New Mexico Sugarbeet Growers
Association, Hereford, Texas; George Butts, California Beet Growers
Association, Los Banos; Gerald Shannon, Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative,
Wahpeton, North Dakota; Mike Warner, Red River Valley Sugarbeet Growers
Association, Fargo, North Dakota; George Grant, Idaho Sugarbeet Growers
Association, Rupert; James Graugnard, Louisiana Farm Bureau, St. James,
representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Felipe Vicini, International
Sugar Policy Coordinating Commission, Dominican Republic; Eduardo Latorre,
Group of Latin-American and Caribbean Sugar Exporting Countries, Mexico City,
Mexico; John T. Ambrose, North Carolina State Beekeepers Association, and
Southern States Beekeepers Federation, Raleigh, North Carolina; Frank A.
Robinson, American Beekeeping Federation, Inc., Gainesville, Florida; Stephen
T. Gillmor, National Wool Growers Association, Salt Lake City, Utah; George
Waldrep, Burlington Industries, Clarksville, Virginia; Fred Eagleson,
Buchanan, North Dakota; Ronald B. Parker, Sammen Sheep Farm, Henning,
Minnesota; Fred Campbell, Southwest Wool and Mohair, Eden, Texas; and Birch
Bayh, representing the Sugar Users Group, Nicholas Kominus, United Sugar Cane
Refiners' Association, Ellen Haas, Public Voice, Mike Lewis, International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and Ralph R. Harding, representing
the Philippine Sugar Commission, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Daniel G. Amstutz, Under Secretary
for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Melvin E. Sims, General
Sales Manager, Richard A. Smith, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service,
Joan S. Wallace, Administrator, Office of International Cooperation and
Development, Peter C. Myers, Chief, Soil Conservation Service, and Everett
Rank, Administrator, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, all
of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April4. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for certain defense programs,
focusing on the strategic defense initiative programs, receiving testimony
from Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
energy and water development programs, focusing on the Lower Mississippi River
Valley flood control projects, receiving testimony from Senator Long;
Representative Emerson; and numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for AID regional programs and
operating expenses from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for
International Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April4. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Mary Lou Grier, Acting
Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April4. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of S. 674,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of Beryl W. Sprinkel, of Virginia, to be a Member of the
Council of Economic Advisers, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 259, to protect local community interests regarding the relocation of
certain professional sports teams, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; 

S. 661, to designate the air traffic control tower at the Medford-Jackson
County Airport, Oregon, as the "George Milligan Control Tower"; 

S. 813, authorizing funds for pipeline safety programs: $3,450,000 for fiscal
year 1986 and $3,615,000 for fiscal year 1987 for the Natural Gas Pipeline
Safety Act; $875,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $917,000 for fiscal year 1987
for the Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Act; and $4,500,000 for fiscal year
1986 and $4,716,000 for fiscal year 1987 for the Natural Gas and Hazardous
Liquid Pipeline Grants in Aid Programs; 

An original bill authorizing $1,569,400,000 for fiscal year 1986 for the
National Science Foundation; 

S. 818, authorizing $21,036,000 for fiscal year 1986 for the U.S. Fire
Administration and the National Fire Academy; 

S. 817, authorizing funds for those Federal agencies responsible for
implementing the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act, with an amendment (as
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $70,482,000 for fiscal year
1986 and $73,654,000 for fiscal year 1987); 

S. 796, authorizing $129,656,000 for fiscal year 1986 for the National Bureau
of Standards; and 

A routine list of Coast Guard nominations, dated March 20, 1985. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 245, to repeal the requirement that contemporaneous records be kept to
substantiate certain deductions and credits with respect to certain vehicle
uses; 

An original bill to provide for the continuation of Federal Supplemental
Compensation (FSC) benefits beyond the March 31, 1985 expiration of the
program; and 

An original bill to require the President to respond to unfair trade practices
of Japan by enforcing U.S. rights under trade agreements with Japan and to
respond to Japanese acts, policies, or practices which are either inconsistent
with trade agreements or constitute an unjustifiable, unreasonable or
discriminatory burden or restrict U.S. commerce. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for the
Department of State, United States Information Agency, and the Board for
International Broadcasting, in lieu of S. 659, S. 785, and S. 496; 

An original bill authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1985, and authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for
the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, in lieu of S. 731 and S. 732; 

An original resolution waiving section 402(a) of the Congressional Budget Act
with respect to consideration of the aforementioned ACDA bill; and 

S. 684, to provide for increased participation by the United States in the
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International
Finance Corporation, and the African Development Fund. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings in evening
session on the nomination of Donald J. Devine, of Maryland, to be Director of
the Office of Personnel Management, where the nominee testified and answered
further questions in his own behalf. 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL REGULATORY RELIEF ACT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
held hearings on S. 483, to ensure that the Federal Government assume the full
cost of legislating and regulating Federal purposes and mandates, receiving
testimony from John Shannon, Executive Director, Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations; James L. Blum, Assistant Director for Budget
Analysis, Congressional Budget Office; Mayor James B. McNulty, Scranton,
Pennsylvania, representing the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Maine State Senator
Paul Violette, Augusta, representing the National Conference of State
Legislatures; and Mayor Wilce Cooke, Benton Harbor, Michigan, representing the
National League of Cities. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 14. 

SALE OF CONRAIL 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the proposed sale
of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) by the Department of
Transportation to Norfolk Southern Corporation, and to review antitrust
implications of the sale, after receiving testimony from James C. Rooney,
Deputy Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation; Dennis Ross, Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the
Treasury; James A. Scahill, Pennsylvania Coal Mining Association, Harrisburg;
Glenn Schleede, New England Energy, Incorporated, Westborough, Massachusetts;
E. Morgan Massey, A.T. Massey Coal Company, Incorporated, Richmond, Virginia;
Robert Edwards, The Early and Daniel Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; George L.
Berg, Jr., American Farm Bureau Federation, and Ronald H. Brown, Patton, Boggs
and Blow, representing the Committee of Railroad Shippers, both of Washington,
D.C.; David Webb, A.E. Staley and Company, Decatur, Illinois; Jerome Butler,
Interstate Paper Company, Riceboro, Georgia; William B. Rose, Witco Chemicals
Incorporated, and Patrick Falvey, Jr., The Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey, Both of New York, New York; Jack E. Hunger, World Shipping,
Incorporated, Cleveland, Ohio; John Malone, Philadelphia Port Corporation,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Larry Beldner, South Carolina State Ports
Authority, Charleston. 

ABORTION FUNDING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 522, to prohibit the use of Federal financial assistance to
perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be endangered,
after receiving testimony from Robert A. Destro, Catholic University of
America, and Althea T.L. Simmons, NAACP, both of Washington, D.C.; Norman
Dorsen, New York University, New York, New York; and Victor Rosenblum,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. 

ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
484, to extend for 3 years the moratorium on the ban of the use of the
artificial sweetener saccharin, after receiving testimony from Frank E. Young,
Commissioner, and Ronald Hart, Director, National Center for Toxicological
Research, both of the Food and Drug Administration, and Frederick Trowbridge,
National Centers for Disease Control, all of the Department of Health and
Human Services; Douglas Arnold, Health and Welfare Canada, Ottawa; Richard
Wurtman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ronald Arky, Mt. Auburn
Hospital, both of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Lewis Stegink, University of Iowa,
Iowa City; Michael Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest, and
Howard Roberts, National Soft Drink Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and
Jerry Schoenig, Annapolis, Maryland. 

MENTALLY DISABLED INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
continued joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the care
and advocacy for mentally disabled persons in institutions, receiving
testimony from Vivian Mathis, Recipients Rights Office, Northville, Michigan;
Richard Wellwood, Justice in Mental Health Organization, Inc., and Denise
Colson, both of East Lansing, Michigan; Mary Tinsley, Volunteer Advocate,
Roswell, Georgia; Bruce Goldstein, Bouvier, O'Conner, Cegielski and Levine,
and Elena Rose, both of Buffalo, New York; and Yvonne Olenick, Middletown,
Connecticut. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

JOINT COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee announced the membership on
the part of the Senate to the following Joint Committees: 

Joint Committee on Printing 

Senators Mathias, Hatfield, Stevens, Ford, and DeConcini. 

Joint Committee on the Library 

Senators Mathias, Hatfield, Warner, Inouye, and Pell. 

Joint Meeting 

NAVY SHIPBUILDING 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on International Trade, Finance, and
Security Economics held joint hearings with the Committee on the Judiciary's
Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure to examine findings of a
study on Navy shipbuilding at General Dynamics, focusing on contract
performance on construction of attack submarines, receiving testimony from
Edward Hidalgo, former Secretary of the Navy. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/04/03
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 3, 1985; pages D329 - D  ?  (Bound vol. D175-
D184)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
hearings on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United
States agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for
farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices,
and continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on commodity
assistance for the peanut industry, receiving testimony from Senator
Mattingly; Norfleet L. Sugg, North Carolina Peanut Growers Association, Inc.,
Rocky Mount; James Earl Mobley, Alabama Peanut Producers Association, Dothan;
Russell Schools, Virginia Peanut Producers Association, Capron; Ross Wilson,
Southwestern Peanut Producers Association, Gorman, Texas; Jimmy Curry, Georgia
Peanut Producers Association, Shellman; Robert L. Nash, Georgia Farm Bureau,
The Rock, representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Evans Plowden,
Southeastern Peanut Association, Albany, Georgia; J.O. Jackson, Western Peanut
Grower's Association, Seminole, Texas; Syd Reagan, Southwestern Peanut
Shellers Association, Dallas, Texas; A.L. Phillips, Virginia American
Agriculture Movement, Yale, Virginia; Ross Bowen, representing the
Southeastern Peanut Warehousemen's Association of Georgia, Lyons; William C.
Wampler, American Peanut Product Manufacturers, Inc., Washington, D.C; Merrill
J. Bateman, MJB Consultants, Inc., Provo, Utah; Richard T. O'Connell,
Chocolate Manufacturers Association, McLean, Virginia; Marty Palmer, Palmer
Candy Company, Sioux City, Iowa, representing the National Confectioners
Association; and Larry J. Pryor, Lance, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina,
representing the Peanut Butter and Nut Processors Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- STATE/USIA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from George Shultz, Secretary of State; and Charles Z. Wick,
Director, U.S. Information Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for certain defense programs,
focusing on defense manpower programs, receiving testimony from Lawrence J.
Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FAA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from Donald Engen,
Administrator, FAA. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John Walker, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Enforcement; Charles Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center; John Simpson, Director, U.S. Secret Service; and
Stephen Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 17. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of S. 674,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held hearings to examine corporate takeovers, focusing on securities,
financing and other aspects of mergers and acquisitions, receiving testimony
from Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz, and Louis Lowenstein,
Columbia Law School, both of New York, New York; Parker G. Montgomery,
CooperVision, Inc., Menlo Park, California; Claude S. Brinegar, Union Oil
Company of California, Los Angeles; and Michael Bradley, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the proposed development of a permanently manned
space station, receiving testimony for Philip E. Culbertson, Associate
Administrator for Space Station, Aaron Cohen, Lyndon Baines Johnson Space
Center, both of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Ian Pryke,
European Space Agency, Washington, D.C.; and Peter M. Banks, Stanford
University, Stanford, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ENVIRONMENTAL INSURANCE ISSUES 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
availability of environmental impairment insurance and its relation to the
implementation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (Superfund) (P.L. 96-510), and the Resource Conservation
Recovery Act (P.L. 98-616), after receiving testimony from F. Henry Habicht
II, Assistant Attorney General, Land and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice; Gene A. Lucero, Director, Office of Waste Programs
Enforcement, Environmental Protection Agency; Thomas C. Jorling, Center for
Environmental Studies, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts; T.
Lawrence Jones, George Bernstein, Dennis Connolley, and Richard Schmalz, all
of the American Insurance Association, New York, New York; Chip Neumeyer,
Amaral and Neumeyer, Inc., McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania; Max Clay, The Planning
Corporation, Vienna, Virginia; James W. Poirot, CH2M Hill, Denver, Colorado;
Stephen C. Zimmer, SYSTECH, Xenia, Ohio; Wheeler Hess, Travelers Insurance
Companies, Hartford, Connecticut; Byron Farrell, Helmcamp Construction
Company, Wood River, Illinois, on behalf of the Associated General Contractors
of America; and Bruce Parker, National Solid Waste Management Association, and
John Butler III, Putnam, Hayes, Bartlett, Inc., both of Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CUSTOMS SERVICE/ITC/TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the U.S. Customs Service,
International Trade Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative, after receiving testimony from William von Raab, Commissioner
of Customs, and Alfred R. DeAngelus, Deputy Commissioner, both of the U.S.
Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; David Rohr, Commissioner, and
Richard Arnold, Director of Finance and Budget, both of the U.S. International
Trade Commission; Dennis E. Whitfield, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for
Administration, and John P. Giacomini, Director, Office of Management, both of
the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; W. Henry Parsons and Robert J.
Leo, both representing the American Association of Exporters and Importers,
New York, New York; Thomas N. Teofilo, The Los Angeles Alliance for Equitable
Customs Staffing, Los Angeles, California; William M. Methenitis and Kipp
Burnett, both on behalf of the North Texas Commission, Dallas; Kenneth A.
Kumm, The Joint Industry Group, Robert M. Tobias and Paul E. Suplizio, both of
The National Treasury Employees Union, Peter B. Mulloney, on behalf of the
American Iron and Steel Institute, and William J. Pendleton, Carpenter
Technology Corporation, all of Washington, D.C.; and James Mooring, Houston
Customshouse and Freight Forwarders Association, Ted Thorjussen, West Gulf
Maritime Association, Richard Leech, Board of Houston, Frank Ward, Houston
Chamber of Commerce, and Alexander Arroyos, Dynamic Ocean Services
International, Inc., all of Houston, Texas. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Donald J. Devine, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of
Personnel Management, after receiving testimony from Representative Frank;
Glenn Stahl, Federal Executive and Professional Association, G. Jerry Shaw,
Senior Executives Association, Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, James Peirce, National Federation of Federal Employees, and Kenneth T.
Blaylock, American Federation of Government Employees, all of Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Henrietta F. Guiton, of California, to be a Commissioner of the
Postal Rate Commission, and John N. Griesemer, of Missouri, to be a Governor
of the U.S. Postal Service, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Griesemer was introduced by Representative
Taylor. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Melvin T. Brunetti, of Nevada, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Ninth Circuit, Frank H. Easterbrook, of Illinois, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
for the Seventh Circuit, Edith H. Jones, of Texas, to be U.S. Circuit Judge
for the Fifth Circuit, Carol Los Mansmann, of Pennsylvania, to be U.S. Circuit
Judge for the Third Circuit, Walter K. Stapleton, of Delaware, to be U.S.
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Alice M. Batchelder, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, Howell Cobb, to be U.S. District
Judge for the Eastern District of Texas, Carolyn R. Dimmick, to be U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Washington, R. Allan Edgar, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Thomas Greene,
to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Utah, James F. Holderman, Jr.,
to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, George La
Plata, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Charles
C. Lovell, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Montana, Ronald E.
Meredith, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky,
Herman J. Weber, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio,
Ann C. Williams, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of
Illinois, Mark L. Wolf, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of
Massachusetts, William G. Young, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of
Massachusetts, and Thomas J. Aquilino, Jr., of New York, to be a Judge of the
United States Court of International Trade; 

S.J. Res. 47, to designate the week beginning November 10, 1985, as
"National
Women Veterans Recognition Week"; 

S.J. Res. 52, to designate the month of April 1985 as "National School
Library
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 63, to designate the week of April 21-27, 1985, as "National
DES
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 67, to designate the week of October 6-12, 1985, as "Mental
Illness
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 90, to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Boy Scouts of
America; and 

S.J. Res. 94, to designate the week of May 12, 1985, as "National
Digestive
Diseases Awareness Week". 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Stapleton and Lovell, listed above, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Stapleton was introduced by
Senators Roth and Biden, and Mr. Lovell was introduced by Senator Baucus and
Representative Marlenee. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice, and to discuss the FBI's
accomplishments, during 1984 and what will be required to meet future needs
and goals, receiving testimony from William H. Webster, Director, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice. 

Closed hearings continue on Wednesday, April 17. 

NOMINATION/COMMITTEE RULES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
nomination of Donna M. Alvarado, of Virginia, to be Director of the ACTION
Agency. 

Also, the committee adopted its rules of procedure for the 99th Congress. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Monday, April 1, the committee
approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 116) requesting
$4,996,000 in operating expenses for the committee for 1985. 

MENTALLY DISABLED INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded joint hearings with the Committee on Appropriations' Subcommittee on
Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the care
and advocacy for mentally disabled persons in institutions, after receiving
testimony from Helen Lopez, New Mexico State Hospital, Charles Zdravesky, KUNM
Radio, and Elizabeth Merilatt, all of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Milton Baker,
Syracuse Developmental Center, and Michael Kennedy, The Center on Human
Policy, Syracuse University, both of Syracuse, New York; Steve Schwartz,
Massachusetts Office of Public Representation, Northampton; David Sine, New
England Health Care Employees Union, New Haven, Connecticut; Thomas Deiker,
New Mexico State Hospital, Las Vegas; Sue Davis, Berks County Mental Health
Association, Reading, Pennsylvania; and Robert Bruggaman, Alexandria,
Virginia. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/04
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 4, 1985; pages D343 - D ?  (Bound vol. D185-
D190)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued
hearings on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United
States agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for
farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices,
and continue low-income food assistance programs, and a related bill, S. 171,
focusing on assistance for the Food for Peace Program, and agriculture exports
and how to improve the level of foreign sales of U.S. farm products, receiving
testimony from Senators Quayle and Mattingly; Kenneth L. Bader, Chairman,
National Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy; R.W. Fischer,
Soypro International, Inc., Cedar Falls, Iowa, Member, President's Task Force
on International Private Enterprise; Henry J. Voss, California Farm Bureau,
Sacramento; Rich Pennell, Harvest States Cooperative, St. Paul, Minnesota,
representing the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives; J. Stephen Gabbert,
Rice Millers' Association, Arlington, Virginia; Robert Snow, Oxfam America,
Boston, Massachusetts; Robert Ainsworth, World Vision Relief Organization,
Monrovia, California; Roger Asendorf, American Soybean Association, St. James,
Minnesota; Earl W. Sears, National Cotton Council of America, Memphis,
Tennessee; and Morgan Williams, Cooperative League of the USA, Charles Sykes,
CARE, Bishop Robert L. Pruitt, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Taft
Holland, LEND, Inc., and Sheldon J. Hauck, National Soybean Processors
Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Monday, April 15. 

AGRICULTURE EXPORTS -- CARGO PREFERENCE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 721, to make exports of U.S. agricultural commodities
competitive in world markets with sales of other countries by clarifying
export activities of the Department of Agriculture relating to the cargo
preference provisions, after receiving testimony from Senator Nickles; Daniel
G. Amstutz, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs; Paul Green, Committee of Agricultural Organizations
Involved in Cargo Preference, Carl F. Schwensen, National Association of Wheat
Growers, W. Glenn Tussey, American Farm Bureau Federation, Frank Drozak,
Seafarers International Union, and Peter J. Luciano, and Emanuel Roure Lous,
both of the Transportation Institute, all of Washington, DC; and Thomas R.
Saylor, Garnac Grain Company, Kansas City, Missouri, on behalf of the National
Grain and Feed Association. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FDA/COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Frank E. Young, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; and Susan M. Phillips, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NOAA/SBA/MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony J. Calio, Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration; James C. Sanders, Administrator, Small Business
Administration; and William E. Evans, Chairman, Marine Mammal Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again Wednesday, April 17. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 and supplemental
funds for fiscal year 1985 for multilateral development banks, receiving
testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from John Fritz, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James Burnley, Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Donald A. Derman, Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Budget and Programs; L. Stanley Crane,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CONRAIL; and Stephen Berger, Chairman,
United States Railway Association. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April16. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, in lieu of S. 674. (As approved by the committee, the bill
incorporates provisions of S. 537, listed below, S. 742, to improve the
acquisition of defense weapons systems, and S. 868, proposed Department of
Defense Efficiency and Economy Act); 

An original bill authorizing funds for national security programs of the
Department of Energy; 

S. 537, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for military construction
programs of the Department of Defense, with amendments; 

An original resolution requesting $2,481,135 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1985; and 

2,525 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Beryl W. Sprinkel, of Virginia, to be a Member of
the Council of Economic Advisers. 

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings to examine corporate takeovers, focusing on securities,
financing and other aspects of mergers and acquisitions, and the potential
effect of this activity on credit market conditions, after receiving testimony
from John S.R. Shad, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission; Preston
Martin, Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board; and Joseph R. Wright, Jr.,
Deputy Director, and Douglas Ginsburg, Administrator, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, both of the Office of Management and Budget. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, after receiving testimony from John J. Martin, Associate
Administrator for Aeronautical and Space Technology, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; Norris Krone, University Research Foundation, Greenbelt,
Maryland; M.E. Shank, Pratt and Whitney Engineering Division, East Hartford,
Connecticut; Mark Kirchner, Boeing Commercial Airplane Company, Seattle,
Washington; Roger D. Schaufele, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach,
California; and Russell Hopps, Lockheed-California, Burbank, California. 

Also, the committee met in closed session to review NASA's relationship with
the Air Force, receiving testimony from E.C. Aldridge, Jr., Under Secretary of
the Air Force. 

SALE OF CONRAIL 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the proposed sale by the Department of Transportation of the
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) to the Norfolk Southern Corporation
and the impact the sale would have on Midwestern railroads, after receiving
testimony from John Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration,
Department of Transportation; D. Henry Watts, and John McMichael, both of the
Norfolk Southern Corporation; Bruce Wilson, Consolidated Rail Corporation,
Washington, D.C.; and Jerome W. Conlon, Chicago Northwestern Transportation
Company, Chicago, Illinois. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Herbert B. Dixon, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, after the nominee testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

Joint Meeting 

DEFICIT -- TAXES 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to discuss public
attitudes toward the Federal budget deficit and proposed tax reforms, after
receiving testimony from Lou Harris, Louis Harris and Associates, New York,
New York; and Peter Trapp, Sentry Life Insurance Company, Stevens Point,
Wisconsin. 



1985/04/15
Daily Digest - Monday, April 15, 1985; pages D352 - D ?  (Bound vol. D190-
D193)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on conservation and
research programs, receiving testimony from Idaho Governor John Evans, Boise,
on behalf of the National Governors' Association; Clarence Durban, National
Association of Conservation Districts, Norman Berg, Soil Conservation Society
of America, R. Neil Sampson, American Forestry Association, Robert J. Gray,
American Farmland Trust, Kenneth A. Cook, Maureen K. Hinkle, National Audubon
Society, Justin Ward, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Laurence R.
Jahn, Wildlife Management Institute, David Senter, American Agriculture
Movement, Peggy Wheeler, The National Center for Appropriate Technology, and
Robroy Fisher, National Cotton Council of America, all of Washington, D.C.;
Allen Farris, Iowa Conservation Commission, Des Moines, representing the
International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies; Farris Gray, Southern
Iowa Resource, Conservation and Development, Bedford, Iowa; John Bethea, State
Forester of Florida, Tallahassee, on behalf of the National Association of
State Foresters; Ron Ellermeier, Nebraska Chapter of the Sierra Club,
Glenville; Michael Heller, Chesapeake 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony
from numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings on S. 667, authorizing funds for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and related programs, including
public and rural housing, community development, mass transit, and flood
insurance, receiving testimony from Samuel Pierce, Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development; David Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget;
John Luke, Associate Director, General Accounting Office; and Thomas Runquist,
Council for Rural Housing and Development, Harold O. Wilson, Housing
Assistance Council, and Robert Rapoza, National Rural Housing Coalition, all
of Washington, D.C. 

Joint Meeting 

NAVY SHIPBUILDING 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on International Trade, Finance, and
Security Economics concluded hearings to investigate certain Navy shipbuilding
claims, after receiving testimony from Gordon McDonald, General Dynamics
Corporation, St. Louis, Missouri. 



1985/04/16
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 16, 1985; pages D361 - D ?  (Bound vol. D193-
D199)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Monday, April 15, the
committee announced the following subcommittee assignments: 

Agricultural Credit and Rural Electrification 

Senators Hawkins (Chairman), Andrews, Helms, Cochran, Boren, Zorinsky, and
Heflin. 

Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices 

Senators Cochran (Chairman), McConnell, Dole, Boschwitz, Andrews, Wilson,
Leahy, Pryor, Harkin, Zorinsky, Melcher, and Dixon. 

Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General Legislation 

Senators Lugar (Chairman), Cochran, Helms, Wilson, McConnell, Melcher, Heflin,
Pryor, Boren, and Harkin. 

Rural Development, Oversight, and Investigations 

Senators Andrews (Chairman), Helms, and Pryor. 

Foreign Agricultural Policy 

Senators Boschwitz (Chairman), Wilson, Lugar, McConnell, Dole, Hawkins, Dixon,
Heflin, Zorinsky, and Boren. 

Nutrition 

Senators Dole (Chairman), Hawkins, Lugar, Boschwitz, Harkin, Dixon, and
Melcher. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, receiving
testimony from Senator Symms and numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Navy shipbuilding and conversion, receiving testimony from Everett Pyatt,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Vice Adm.
Joseph Metcalf III, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare; and
Vice Adm. Earl B. Fowler, Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command. 

Hearings continue on Monday, April 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF MINES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Robert C. Horton,
Director, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Education, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education, Linda
Combs, Under Secretary of Education for Management, Harry Singleton, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, and James B. Thomas, Jr., Inspector
General, Department of Education. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 635, to express opposition of the United States to the system of apartheid
in South Africa by prohibiting new U.S. bank loans to the Government of South
Africa, prohibiting new investment by U.S. firms in South Africa, prohibiting
the importation of South African gold coins into the United States, and
forbidding the sale of computers to the Government of South Africa, receiving
testimony from Senators Weicker, and Kennedy; and Kenneth Dam, Deputy
Secretary of State, and Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution held hearings on S. 725, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986
through 1990 for programs of the Endangered Species Act, receiving testimony
from Senator Wallop; Galen Buterbaugh, Regional Director (Denver Region), U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior; J. William McDonald,
Colorado Water Conservation Board, and Gregory Hobbs, Jr., Colorado Water
Congress, both of Denver; Patrick O'Brien, Chevron USA, San Francisco,
California, representing American Petroleum Institute; James Martin, Boulder,
Colorado, representing the Environmental Defense Fund; and Daniel J. Murphy,
National Wool Growers Association, Michael Bean, Environmental Defense Fund,
Wes Hayden, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lonnie
Williamson, Wildlife Management Institute, and Robert P. Davison, National
Wildlife Federation, all of Washington, D.C.  

Hearings continue on Thursday, April 18. 

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY/MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
foreign policy, focusing on the proper place of multilateral diplomacy in the
conduct of U.S. foreign policy, receiving testimony from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick,
and Andrew Young, both former U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, April 24. 

FEDERAL SECURITY CLEARANCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings on the effectiveness of the government's personnel security
programs, focusing on efforts by Federal agencies to establish the integrity
and reliability of persons applying for and working in Federal positions and
contractor employment, receiving testimony from William W. Thurman, Deputy
Director, National Security and International Affairs Division, General
Accounting Office; Brig. Gen. Charles F. Scanlon, Deputy Chief, Intelligence
Command, Department of the Army; Fred Asselin, Investigator, Permanent
Subcommittee on Investigations; Phillip A. Parker, Deputy Assistant Director,
Intelligence Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and a public witness. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

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

Foreign Relations (S. Res. 80 -- $2,732,275), Senators Lugar and Pell; 

Armed Services (S. Res. 132 -- $2,481,135), Senator Goldwater; 

Finance (S. Res. 70 -- $2,539,000), Senators Packwood and Long; 

Energy and Natural Resources (S. Res. 94 -- $2,678,305), Senators McClure and
Johnston; and 

Environment and Public Works (S. Res. 51 -- $2,617,500), Senators Stafford and
Bentsen. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 23. 

Joint Meeting 

ORGANIZATION/BUSINESS MEETING 

Joint Committee on the Library: Committee held an organizational business
meeting, where it took the following action: 

(1) Elected Representative Annunzio and Senator Mathias as Chairman and Vice
Chairman, respectively; 

(2) Adopted rules of procedure for the 99th Congress; 

(3) Designated committee staff; and 

(4) Adopted a concurrent resolution authorizing the appropriate ceremonies and
matters relating to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Sculpture
Project. 



1985/04/17
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 17, 1985; pages D371 - D ?  (Bound vol. D199-
D205)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for programs of the Department of Agriculture, after
receiving testimony from Senator Thurmond; Representative Pickle; and numerous
public witnesses. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Edwin
Meese III, Attorney General, Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Education, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Madeline Will, Assistant Secretary of Education for
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Carol P. Whitten, Director,
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, and Robert M.
Worthington, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, all of
the Department of Education; Carson Y. Noland, President, American Printing
House for the Blind; Jerry C. Lee, President, Gallaudet College; James E.
Cheek, President, Howard University; and William E. Castle, President,
National Technical Institute for the Deaf. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- CUSTOMS SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the U.S. Customs Service from William von Raab, Commissioner, U.S.
Customs Service, and John Walker, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and
Operations, both of the Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 23. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting an original resolution requesting $1,878,550 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1985. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- SEC 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings on S. 919, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987,
and 1988 for the Securities and Exchange Commission, and to investigate recent
failures of government securities dealers and consider the necessity for
additional regulation, after receiving testimony from John S.R. Shad,
Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission. 

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on technology transfer, focusing on the
extent of transfer to the private sector of technologies developed by Federal
laboratories, receiving testimony from Isaac T. Gillam, Assistant
Administrator for Commercial Programs, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; General Richard H. Thompson, Commanding General, U.S. Army
Materiel Command; Nam Suh, Assistant Director, National Science Foundation;
Dale Corson, Chairman, Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable,
National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering; Eugene Stark,
Chairman, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, Los Alamos,
New Mexico; Paul W. Houck, Pennsylvania State University, University Park; F.
Timothy Janis, Indianapolis Center for Advanced Research, Inc., Indianapolis,
Indiana; Linda Cooper, and Larry Palur, both of the Ohio Technology Transfer
Organization, Columbus; and Larry Crockett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development began oversight hearings on proposed budget requests for the
Department of Energy, focusing on environment and safety programs, receiving
testimony from William A. Vaughan, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Policy, Environment and Safety. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 30. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of A. James Barnes, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Brig. Gen. Robert J.
Dacey and Brig. Gen. Thomas A. Sands, both of the United States Army, each to
be a Member of the Mississippi River Commission, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. 

SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review an Administration
report on prospective payment for skilled nursing facilities under the
Medicare program, after receiving testimony from Carolyne K. Davis,
Administrator, Thomas Ault, Acting Director, Office of Policy Analysis, and
Robert Streimer, Deputy Director, Bureau of Eligibility, Reimbursement and
Coverage, all of the Health Care Financing Administration; and David H.
Glaser, Jewish Institute for Geriatric Care, on behalf of American Association
of Homes for the Aging, Paul Willging, American Health Care Association,
Lawrence Bartlett, Health Systems Research Incorporated, and Clarice Jones,
American Association of Retired Persons, all of Washington, D.C. 

FEDERAL SECURITY CLEARANCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings on the effectiveness of the government's personnel security
programs, focusing on the efforts by Federal agencies to establish the
integrity and reliability of persons applying for and working in Federal
positions and contractor employment, receiving testimony from A. Barry
Dalinsky, Deputy Director, Division of Security, Office of Safeguards and
Security Defense Programs, Department of Energy; Donald J. Devine, Director
Designate, Office of Personnel Management; Lawrence J. Howe, Science
Applications International Corporation, La Jolla, California; and Eli S.
Flyer, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Joseph H. Rodriguez, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also
received from New Jersey State Senators John H. Dorsey and Gerald Cardinale,
and John Pecoraro, Mendham, New Jersey. 

COPYRIGHT LAWS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks held hearings to examine civil and criminal enforcement of the
copyright laws, receiving testimony from Victoria Toensing, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Donald C. Curran,
Acting Register, Copyright Office, Library of Congress; Michael K. Kirk,
Assistant Commissioner of External Affairs, Patent and Trademark Office; and
David Ladd and Barbara Ringer, both of Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism concluded
closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, and to discuss the FBI's
accomplishments during 1984 and what will be required to meet future needs and
goals, after receiving testimony from Oliver B. Revell, Assistant Director,
Criminal Investigative Division, and Phillip Parker, Deputy Assistant
Director, Intelligence Division, both of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice. 

SACCHARIN BAN 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
S. 484, to extend the moratorium on the ban of the use of the artificial
sweetener saccharin, with an amendment. As approved by the committee, the bill
will extend the ban for two years. 

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. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/18
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 18, 1985; pages D381 - D ?  (Bound vol. D205-
D211)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on agribusiness issues,
receiving testimony from Ron Johnson, Agrico Chemical Company, Tulsa,
Oklahoma, and G.W. Garrett, Alliance Agronomics, Inc., Mechanicsville,
Virginia, both representing The Fertilizer Institute; William S. Armfield,
National Fertilizer Solutions Association, Peoria, Illinois; Harvey Alter, and
Stuart B. Hardy, both of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, and
Sherwin Gardner, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc., both of Washington,
D.C.; Dean K. Webster, American Feed Industry Association, Inc., Arlington,
Virginia; and Lowell Flaat, Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce, Grand Forks,
North Dakota, representing the Agri-Business Committee. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 24. 

NICARAGUAN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
106, to approve the obligation of funds available under Public Law 98-473 for
supporting military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua. 

Also, the committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res.
138) requesting $4,594,665 in operating expenses for the committee for 1985. 

NICARAGUA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings on
S.J. Res. 106, to approve the obligation of funds available under P.L. 98-473
(making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 1985) for supporting
military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua, after receiving testimony
from Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Donna R.
Fitzpatrick, Acting Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy,
and Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research, both of the
Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES/ARTS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John
Agresto, Acting Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities; and Frank
Hodsoll, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- UMTA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, receiving testimony from Ralph
L. Stanley, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration,
Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 24. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 475, to require certain information to be filed in registering the title of
motor vehicles; 

S. 863, to authorize funds for the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety
Act of 1966 and the Motor Vehicle Information and Costs Savings Act, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. As approved by the committee, the
bill authorizes $54,574 for fiscal year 1986 and $218,261,830 for fiscal year
1987; and 

The nomination of Captain Bennett S. Sparks, to be a permanent commissioned
officer in the Coast Guard Reserve in the grade of Commodore. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 638, to provide for the tranfer
of ownership of the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) to the private
sector, but did not complete action thereon, and will continue on Tuesday,
April 30. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- ENDANGERED SPECIES 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution concluded hearings on S. 725, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1986 through 1990 for programs of the Endangered Species Act, focusing on
falcons and sea otters, after receiving testimony from Robert Jantzen,
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Richard Roe, Director, Office of
Protected Species and Habitat Conservation, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Department of Commerce; Tom C. Cade, Peregrine Fund, Inc., Ithaca, New York;
Frank M. Bond, North American Falconers Association, Santa Fe, New Mexico;
Robert Berry, North American Raptor Breeders Association, Sheridan, Wyoming;
James Leape, National Audubon Society, Washington, D.C.; Bruce Steele, Save
Our Shellfish, San Luis Obispo, California; Kit Armstrong, Western Oil and Gas
Associations, Ventura, California; and Carol Fulton, Friends of the Sea Otter,
Carmel, California. 

FEDERAL SECURITY CLEARANCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued hearings on the effectiveness of the government's personnel security
programs, focusing on efforts by Federal agencies to establish the integrity
and reliability of persons applying for and working in Federal positions and
contractor employment, receiving testimony from Thomas J. O'Brien, Director,
Defense Investigative Service, Department of Defense; Paul W. Schwegler, TRW,
Inc., Redondo Beach, California; Richard M. Welby, Hughes Aircraft Company, El
Segundo, California; General John W. Pauly, USAF Ret., Systems Control
Technology, Inc., Palo Alto, California, and an incarcerated witness. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VETERANS' EDUCATION ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 752,
the Veterans' Educational Assistance Eligibility Amendments of 1985, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

Joint Meeting 

U.S. TRADE POLICY 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy resumed hearings on U.S. trade policy, focusing on conditions in the
refining and petrochemical industries, receiving testimony from Judge Thomas
A. Thomas, 172nd District Court, Jefferson County, Port Arthur, Texas; Emmett
Sheppard, Sabine Area Central Labor Council, Groves, Texas; William Tell,
Texaco, White Plains, New York; Bernard Weinstein, John Gray Institute,
Beaumont, Texas; and Bruce A. Melaas, Celanese Chemical Corporation, Dallas,
Texas. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/04/22
Daily Digest - Monday, April 22, 1985; pages D393 - D ?  (Bound vol. D211-
D214)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Peter C. Myers, of Missouri, and Robert L.
Thompson, of Indiana, each to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Myers
was introduced by Senator Danforth, and Mr. Thompson was introduced by
Representative David Martin. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Friday, April 19, the
committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 139)
requesting $1,468,450 in operating funds for the committee for 1985. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the Strategic Defense Initiative, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ADJUSTABLE RATE MORTGAGES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, April 19, the
Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Affairs and the
Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs concluded joint hearings on the
development of adjustable rate mortgages, focusing on the benefits for
borrowers, lenders and mortgage investors, after receiving testimony from
Shannon Fairbanks, Chief of Staff, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; David O.
Maxwell, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Federal National Mortgage
Association; Kenneth J. Thygerson, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; B.R. Beeksma, Interwest Savings Bank,
Oak Harbor, Washington, representing the U.S. League of Savings Institutions;
Christopher R. Dunn, Boston Five Cents Savings Bank, representing the National
Council of Savings Institutions, and James F. Aylward, Investors Mortgage
Insurance Company, representing the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America,
both of Boston, Massachusetts; and Warren Lasko, Mortgage Bankers Association
of America, Kent Colton, National Association of Homebuilders, Michelle Meier,
Consumers Union, and Diana L. Caplan, National Association of Realtors, all of
Washington, D.C. 

CORPORATE ACQUISITIONS/HOSTILE MERGERS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management concluded
hearings on S. 476, S. 420, and S. 632, bills relating to the tax treatment of
corporate takeovers, after receiving testimony from Senators Domenici and
Nickles; Representative James R. Jones; Ronald A. Pearlman, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Charles C. Cox, Commissioner,
Securities and Exchange Commission; Nicholas F. Brady, Dillon, Read and Co.,
Inc., John H. Bretherick, Jr., The Continental Corporation, G. Chris Andersen,
Drexel, Burnham & Lambert, James R. Maher, First Boston Corporation, and
James
S. Eustice, New York University Law School, all of New York, New York; T.
Boone Pickens, Jr., Mesa Petroleum Company, Amarillo, Texas; Irwin L. Jacobs,
Jacobs Management Corporation, and William C. Norris, Control Data
Corporation, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota; William T. Creson, Crown
Zellerbach Corporation, San Francisco, California; and J.W. O'Toole, Phillips
Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. 

PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 19, the Subcommittee on Health
concluded hearings to review the status of the Medicare Utilization and
Quality Control Peer Review Organization (PRO) program, after receiving
testimony from Carolyne K. Davis, administrator, and Philip Nathanson,
Director, Health Standards and Quality Bureau, both of the Health Care
Financing Administration; Howard Strawcutter, American Medical Peer Review
Association, William Felts, American Medical Association, Jack W. Owen,
American Hospital Association, William Gilbert, American Academy of
Ophthalmology, and Willis B. Goldbeck, Business Group on Health, all of
Washington, D.C.; and John Graham, Minnesota Foundation for Health Care
Evaluation, Minneapolis. 

CENTRAL AMERICA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, April 19, the committee held
hearings to discuss U.S. foreign policy goals in Nicaragua, receiving
testimony from Henry E. Bergold, Jr., Ambassador to Nicaragua; Thomas
Pickering, Ambassador to El Salvador; John Negroponte, Ambassador to Honduras;
and Henry Shlaudeman, Ambassador-at-large, Special Envoy for Central America. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEPORTATION OF SALVADORANS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
concluded hearings on S. 377, to suspend the deportation of Salvadorans who
are now in the United States for a period of 18 months to two years, after
receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini; Elliott Abrams, Assistant
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Alan C. Nelson,
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice;
J. Michael Myers, Church World Service, New York, New York; and Wade J.
Henderson, American Civil Liberties Union, Georges Fauriol, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and L. Francis
Bouchey, Council for Inter-American Security, all of Washington, D.C. 

ROLE OF NICARAGUA IN DRUG TRAFFICKING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, April 19, the Subcommittee
on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on the
relationship between terrorism and drug trafficking, focusing on the current
problem in Central America and the Caribbean Basin and the involvement of
officials of the Nicaraguan government in drug trafficking, after receiving
testimony from William von Raab, Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury; John Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Criminal Division, Department of Justice; James Herring, Tallahassee, Florida;
and a public witness. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/23
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 23, 1985; pages D399 - D ?  (Bound vol. D214-
D219)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the Strategic Defense Initiative, receiving testimony from Lt.
Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization; and Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREST SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Forest
Service (including the land and water conservation fund), Department of
Agriculture, receiving testimony from Douglas W. MacCleary, Deputy Assistant
Secretary, and R. Max Peterson, Chief, Forest Service, both of the Department
of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for elementary and secondary education, education block grant,
and impact aid from Lawrence F. Davenport, Assistant Secretary of Education
for Elementary and Secondary Education; and in behalf of funds for educational
research and statistics, and libraries from Donald J. Senese, Assistant
Secretary of Education for Educational Research and Improvement.  

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY-POSTAL SERVICE/GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearing on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for certain activities of the Department of the Treasury, U.S. Postal
Service, and general government, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 1. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CLEAN WATER ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution approved for full committee consideration an original bill
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 through 1994 for programs of the Clean
Water Act. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates provisions of
S. 53 and S. 652.) 

FLOATING EXCHANGE RATES 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the impact of floating
exchange rates on the international trading system, receiving testimony from
Colby H. Chandler, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, New York; Robert V.
Roosa, Brown Brothers, Harriman and Company, and Scott E. Pardee, Discount
Corporation of New York, both of New York, New York; and Gary C. Hufbauer,
Institute for International Economics, John E. Leddy, former Commercial Policy
Adviser, Department of State, Robert A. Best, Allen-Best Associates, Ltd.,
Robert Solomon, The Brookings Institution, Ronald L. Danielian, International
Economic Policy Association, and Saul Srole, all of Washington, DC. Testimony
was also received in closed session from Jacques Delors, Commission of the
European Communities, Paris, France. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations of Henrietta F. Guiton, of California, to be a Commissioner of the
Postal Rate Commission, John N. Griesemer, of Missouri, to be Governor of the
United States Postal Service, and Herbert B. Dixon, to be an Associate Judge
of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. 

RAILROAD ANTIMONOPOLY ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S.447, to insure a
greater measure of competition in the railroad freight industry's hauling of
certain products, after receiving testimony from Charles F. Rule, Acting
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Paul M.
Donovan, LaRoe, Winn & Moerman, William H. Dempsey, Association of
American
Railroads, Frederick D. Palmer, Western Fuels Association, Incorporated, and
Robert Bergland, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; and Ira E. McKeever, Jr., W.R. Grace and Company, Denver,
Colorado. 

JUVENILE ARSON 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to examine the involvement of juveniles in fire incidents, after
receiving testimony from Pamela McLaughlin, National Firehawk Foundation, San
Francisco, California; David G. Aron, Camden County Fire Marshall, Blackwood,
New Jersey; Dian W. Clark, Lower Bucks Hospital, Doylestown, Pennsylvania;
Clifford L. Karchmer, Battelle Human Affairs Research Centers, Washington,
D.C.; and public witnesses. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of William E. Brock III, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Labor,
after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

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

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 135 -- $1,878,550), Senators
Heinz and Proxmire; 

Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 111 -- $5,120,552), Senators Roth and Eagleton; 

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 139 -- $1,468,450), Senators
Helms and Zorinsky; 

Select Committee on Intelligence: (S. Res. 55 -- $2,170,000), Senators
Durenberger and Leahy; 

Bidget: (S. Res. 115 -- $3,320,972), Senators Domenici and Chiles; 

Small Business: (S. Res. 113 -- $1,037,139), Senators Weicker and Bumpers; 

Judiciary: (S. Res. 108 -- $4,821,213), Senators Thurmond and Biden; 

Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 109 -- $1,022,882), Senators Murkowski and
Cranston; 

Appropriations: (S. Res. 138 -- $4,594,665), Senator Hatfield; 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 127 -- $934,786), Senators
Andrews and Melcher; 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 107 -- $3,762,156), Senators
Danforth and Hollings; 

Special Committee on Aging: (S. Res. 84 -- $1,189,865), Senators Heinz and
Glenn; and 

Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 116 -- $4,996,000), Senators Hatch and
Kennedy. 

VETERANS' BENEFITS AND SERVICES 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee met to discuss the Veterans'
Benefits and Services provisions (function 700) of S. Con. Res. 32, setting
forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal
years 1986, 1987, and 1988 and revising the congressional budget for the
United States Government for fiscal year 1985. 

Joint Meeting 

TAX REFORM 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy held
hearings to examine the effect of high marginal tax rates on reducing the
value of tax shelters, receiving testimony from Paul C. Roberts, Georgetown
University, and Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, both of Washington,
D.C.; Richard Vedder, Ohio University, Athens; and James Gwartney, Florida
State University, Tallahassee. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/04/24
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 24, 1985; pages D407 - D ?  (Bound vol. D219-
D224)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
on S. 501, and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, focusing on rural credit issues,
receiving testimony from Senator Bumpers; Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; Donald E.
Wilkinson, Governor, Farm Credit Administration; Dale L. Locker, Ohio
Department of Agriculture, Columbus; Alan R. Tubbs, First Central State Bank,
Dewitt, Iowa, representing the American Bankers Association; Mel Todd, Farm
Credit Banks of Omaha, Nebraska, and Gene Swackhamer, Farm Credit Banks of
Baltimore, Maryland, representing the Farm Credit Council; C.R. Johnston,
Missouri Farm Bureau, Jefferson City, representing the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Corky Jones, American Agriculture Movement, Inc., Washington, DC;
William Duncan, Mountain Association for Community Economic Development,
Berea, Kentucky; Eugene Severens, representing the Center for Rural Affairs,
Walthill, Nebraska; and N. Rollie Lake, Communicating for Agriculture, Fergus
Falls, Minnesota. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DRUG ENFORCEMENT/FBI/LEGAL SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John C. Lawn, Acting Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, and Judge William H. Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; and Thomas J. Opsut, Interim
President, Legal Services Corporation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEMA/EPA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Gen. Louis
Giuffrida, Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and Lee Thomas,
Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency.  

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Education, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for student financial assistance, guaranteed
student loans, higher and continuing education, higher education facilities
loans and insurance, college housing loans, and educational research and
training from Edward M. Elmendorf, Assistant Secretary of Education for
Postsecondary Education. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. COAST GUARD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the United States Coast Guard, receiving testimony from Adm. James S. Gracey,
Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 30. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FTC 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal
Trade Commission, after receiving testimony from Senators Grassley and Levin;
James C. Miller III, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; and Jeffrey H.
Joseph, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Joseph F. Boyle, American
Medical Association, J. Chrys Dougherty, American Bar Association, John L.
Bomba, American Dental Association, Eunice Cole, American Nurses Association,
Stephen C. Fogleman, National Association of Optometrists and Opticians, and
Jay Angoff, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, all of Washington, DC. 

FLOATING EXCHANGE RATES 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on the impact of floating
exchange rates on the international trading system, receiving testimony from
Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office; Craig K. Elwell,
Analyst in Econometrics, Economics Division, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; Robert W. Galvin, Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois;
Lawrence R. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Rudiger
Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; and Lawrence A.
Fox, National Association of Manufacturers, and Rudolph A. Oswald, AFL-CIO,
both of Washington, DC. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY/MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to discuss American
policy toward South Africa, receiving testimony from Senators Kennedy,
Weicker, and McConnell; and Chester A. Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State
for African Affairs.  

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 2. 

OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review the activities and performance of
the Office of Government Ethics, receiving testimony from David H. Martin,
Director, Office of Government Ethics; Alvin Tucker, Deputy Assistant
Inspector General for Auditing, and David O. Cooke, Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Administration, both of the Department of Defense; Rosslyn S. Kleeman,
Associate Director of Civilian Personnel, and L. Nye Stevens, Group Director,
both of the General Government Division, General Accounting Office; and
Bernhardt K. Wruble, former Director of the Office of Government Ethics, and
Ann McBride, Common Cause, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Kenneth F. Ripple, of Indiana, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh
Circuit, and Sam B. Hall, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern
District of Texas, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Ripple was introduced by Senator Quayle, and M. Hall was
introduced by Senators Bentsen and Graham, and testimony was received in
behalf of both nominees from Representative Mazzoli. 

JUVENILE SEXUAL ASSUALT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to explore the problems of juvenile victims in sexual assualt cases,
after receiving testimony from Charles P. McDowell, Chief, Special Studies
Division, Directorate of Investigative Analysis, U.S. Air Force Office of
Special Investigations; Paul Rothstein, Georgetown University Law Center,
Washington, D.C.; Cathleen Crowell Webb, Jaffrey, New Hampshire; John McLario,
Menomenee Falls, Wisconsin; and Ellen Frank, University of Pittsburgh School
of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Psychological
Association. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Hortencia Benavides, of Texas, Leaanne Bernstein, of Maryland,
Lorain Miller, of Michigan, Claude G. Swafford, of Tennessee, Robert A.
Valois, of North Carolina, William C. Durant III, of Michigan, Paul B. Eaglin,
of North Carolina, Pepe J. Mendez, of Colorado, Thomas F. Smegal, Jr., of
California, Basile J. Uddo, of Louisiana, and Michael B. Wallace, of
Mississippi, each to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal
Services Corporation, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf.  

Joint Meeting 

ORGANIZATION/BUSINESS MEETING 

Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held an organizational business
meeting, where it took the following action: 

(1) Elected Senator Mathias and Representative Annunzio as Chairman and Vice
Chairman, respectively; and 

(2) Adopted rules of procedure for the 99th Congress. 

Also, the committee discussed its agenda of activities. 



1985/04/25
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 25, 1985; pages D417 - D ?  (Bound vol. D224-
D230)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United
States agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for
farmers, assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices,
and continue low-income food assistance programs, after receiving testimony
from Senators Glenn, Warner, and Trible; Representative Daub; Joseph Gerace,
New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Albany; Daniel G. Huber,
Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Carroll G. Brunthaver, Sparks
Commodities, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee, both representing the National Grain
&
Feed Association; Thomas J. Trantham, Pelzer, South Carolina, Timothy Pigford,
Reigelwood, North Carolina, and Charles O. Freeman, Orrum, North Carolina, all
representing the United Farmers Organization; John C. Butler, Jacque Butler,
and J. C. Butler, all of Butler Farms, Inc., and John D. Craig, Craig &
Craig
Law Corporation, all of Brazil, Indiana; Charles R. Botticelli, GTE
Laboratories, Waltham, Massachusetts; Most Reverend Ignatius J. Strecker,
Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, on behalf of the United States Catholic
Conference, and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference; Reverend Kenneth
Wittrock, Pigler, Nebraska, representing the Lutheran Council in the USA; Don
Reeves, Central City, Nebraska, representing Interfaith Action for Economic
Justice; and Wesley F. Hayden, International Association of Fish and Wildlife
Agencies, George B. Watts, National Broiler Council, John Pender, Bread for
the World, James W. Skillen, Association for Public Justice, and Edward N.
Delaney, National Tax Equality Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Air Force Aircraft Procurement, receiving testimony from Thomas E.
Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development, and
Logistics; and Lt. Gen. Robert D. Russ, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for
Research and Development. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 2. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Energy, focusing on atomic energy defense activities, receiving
testimony from William Hoover, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense
Activities; Richard Wagner, Chairman, Military Liaison Committee, Department
of Defense; and Admiral Kinnaird McKee, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Naval Reactors. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce,
Jr., Secretary of HUD. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION/INDIAN EDUCATION/MUSEUM
SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Glen T.
Urquhart, Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission; Frank A. Ryan,
Director, Office of Indian Education, Department of Education; Susan E.
Phillips, Director, and Peter H. Raven, Chairman, National Museum Services
Board, both of the Institute of Museum Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 30. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Donna M. Alvarado, Director, ACTION; Sonia Landau, Chairman,
Board of Directors, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Richard V. Backley,
Acting Chairman, Mine Safety and Health Review Commission; Elinor M. Hashim,
Chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; and Sandra
S. Parrino, Chairman, National Council on the Handicapped. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 30. 

SUPERFUND -- TAX ISSUES 

Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on the revenue provisions of S.
51, Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund), focusing on the
hazardous waste cleanup program and changes in present Superfund taxes and
additional revenue sources to raise funds for expansion of the program,
receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Lee Thomas, Administrator,
Environmental Protection Agency; Mikel Rollyson, Tax Legislative Counsel,
Department of the Treasury; Charles J. DiBona, American Petroleum Institute,
Christine T. Beatty, St. Joe Minerals Corporation, Harvey Alter, Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, Paul Wallach, Herrick & Smith, on behalf of
the
National Association of Manufacturers, A. Blakeman Early, Sierra Club, and
Martha Broad, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., all of Washington D.C.;
and William Nordhaus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Mark L. Edelman, of Missouri, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the African Development Foundation, and a routine foreign service
promotion list received by the Senate on March 27, 1985. 

GENOCIDE TREATY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Exec. O,
81st Cong., 1st Sess.), but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call. 

FEDERAL SECURITY CLEARANCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings on the effectiveness of the government's personnel security
programs, focusing on efforts by Federal agencies to establish the integrity
and reliability of persons applying for and working in Federal positions and
contractor employment, after receiving testimony from Britt Snider, Director,
Counterintelligence and Security Policy, Kathleen Buck, Assistant General
Counsel, and William Fedor, Deputy Director, Counterintelligence and
Investigative Programs, all of the Department of Defense; and Richard G.
Stilwell, USA (Retired), former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. 

COMMITTEE BUDGETS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution providing funds in operating expenses of the standing,
select, and special committees of the Senate, and such sums as may be
necessary for agency contributions related to the compensation to staff
members of all standing, select, and special committees, in lieu of S. Res.
51, S. Res. 55, S. Res. 70, S. Res. 80, S. Res. 84, S. Res. 94, S. Res. 107,
S. Res. 108, S. Res. 109, S. Res. 111, S. Res. 113, S. Res. 115, S. Res. 116,
S. Res. 127, S. Res. 132, S. Res. 135, S. Res. 138, and S. Res. 139. As
approved by the committee the resolution provides funds as follows: 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry -- $1,300,500; 

Committee on Appropriations -- $4,117,385; 

Committee on Armed Services -- $2,158,810; 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- $1,660,768; 

Committee on the Budget -- $2,958,298; 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- $3,312,233; 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources -- $2,397,763; 

Committee on Environment and Public Works -- $2,333,631; 

Committee on Finance -- $2,217,073; 

Committee on Foreign Relations -- $2,434,509; 

Committee on Governmental Affairs -- $4,440,229; 

Committee on the Judiciary -- $4,305,343; 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources -- $4,453,130; 

Committee on Rules and Administration -- $1,229,446; 

Committee on Small Business -- $926,220; 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- $887,069; 

Special Committee on Aging -- $1,072,116; 

Select Committee on Intelligence -- $1,918,904; and 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs -- $764,032. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/26
Daily Digest - Friday, April 26, 1985; pages D426 - D ?  (Bound vol. D230-
D232)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Stephen L. Hammerman, of New York, to be a
Director of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. 

FARM CREDIT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Affairs concluded oversight hearings on problems
experienced by the agricultural sector of the commercial banking industry, and
S. 795, to authorize the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to purchase net
worth certificates on farm sales, after receiving testimony from Senators Exon
and Grassley; J. Charles Partee, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve
System; Margaret L. Egginton, Assistant to the Chairman, and A. David Meadows,
Associate Director for Bank Supervision and Surveillance Enforcement, both of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Frank W. Naylor, Jr., Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; John
Downey, Chief National Bank Examiner, Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency; H.L. Gerhart, First National Bank, Newman Grove, Nebraska,
representing the Independent Banker Association of America; Alan R. Tubbs,
Central State Bank, DeWitt, Iowa, representing the American Bankers
Association; and Walter Madsen, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the Conference
of State Bank Supervisors. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Helmut A. Merklein, of the District of Columbia, to be
Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, Theodore J. Garrish,
of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional,
Intergovernmental and Public Affairs, J. Michael Farrell, of the District of
Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy, and Joseph F.
Salgado, of California, to be Under Secretary of Energy, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Messrs. Garrish and
Farrell were introduced by Senator Warner, and Mr. Salgado was introduced by
Senator Wilson. 

SUPERFUND -- TAX ISSUES 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the revenue provisions
of S. 51, Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund (Superfund), focusing on the
hazardous waste cleanup program and changes in the present Superfund taxes and
additional revenue sources to raise funds for expansion of the program, after
receiving testimony from Senator Proxmire; Representatives Florio, and
Schneider; Suellen Pirages, Institute of Chemical Waste Management, Richard C.
Fortuna, Hazardous Waste Treatment Council, and Edward L. Merrigan, National
Association of Recycling Industries, Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; Robert
Forney, E.I. duPont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of
the Chemical Manufacturers Association; Jan S. Anthony, RSA Corporation,
Ardsley, New York, on behalf of Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers
Association, Inc.; John Paul, AMAX, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut, on behalf of
the American Mining Congress; Charles Eddy, Tosco Corporation, Santa Monica,
California, on behalf of American Independent Refiners Association; Donald S.
Pirkle, Dow Chemical, U.S.A., Midland, Michigan, on behalf of the Chlorine
Institute; Robert A. Malone, Kennecott, Salt Lake City, Utah; Richard H.
Bauer, Eastern Alloys, Maybrook, New York; Edward G. Taylor, Daniel Battery
Manufacturing Company, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and John Vidmar, General
Welding Supply, Gardena, California, on behalf of the Compressed Gas
Association, Inc. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/29
Daily Digest - Monday, April 29, 1985; pages D436 - D ?  (Bound vol. D232-
D235)

Committee Meetings 

(Committee not listed did not meet.) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- AMTRAK 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for AMTRAK, after receiving testimony from Senator Weicker; Representative
Florio; David A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget; Graham
Claytor, President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad Passenger Corp
(AMTRAK); Indiana Governor Robert D. Orr, Indianapolis, representing the
National Governors Association; Ole Berge, Railway Labor Executives
Association, Detroit, Michigan; Ross Capon, National Association of Railroad
Passengers, and Norman R. Sherlock, American Bus Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Richard B. Griffin, Jr., representing the Rail Progress
Institute, Alexandria, Virginia. 

NATIONAL PARK AND WILDERNESS AREAS/LAND EXCHANGE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
Reserved Water and Resource Conservation concluded hearings on S. 488 and H.R.
1185, bills to establish the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, S. 543
and H.R. 1373, to designate the wilderness in the Point Reyes National
Seashore in California as the Phillip Burton Wilderness, and S. 444, to convey
certain U.S. lands in Alaska to NANA Regional Corporation in exchange for
lands owned by such corporation, after receiving testimony from Senators
Goldwater, Stevens, and Cranston; William P. Horn, Deputy Under Secretary of
the Interior, and Stanley Albright, Associate Director for Operations, and
Roger Contor, Regional Director for Alaska, both of the National Park Service,
Department of the Interior; William L. Hensley, NANA Regional Corp., Inc.,
Hank Giegerich, COMINCO Alaska, Inc., James Leape, on behalf of the Alaska
National Audubon Society, and Jack Hession, Sierra Club, all of Anchorage,
Alaska; and T. Destry Jarvis, National Parks and Conservation Association,
Randy Snodgrass, The Wilderness Society, and Amy Skilbred, Defenders of
Wildlife, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/04/30
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 30, 1985; pages D444 - D ?  (Bound vol. D235-
D240)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John J. O'Shaughnessy, Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Management and Budget; Robert Helms, Acting Assistant Secretary
of Health and Human Services for Planning and Evaluation; Lt. Gen. George H.
McKee, Governor, Soldiers' and Airmen's Home; Stuart H. Altman, Chairman,
Prospective Payment Commission; Robert Gielow, Chairman, Railroad Retirement
Board; Donald Dotson, Chairman, National Labor Relations Board; Helen Witt,
Chairman, National Mediation Board; E. Ross Buckley, Chairman, Occupational
Safety and Health Review Commission; and Kay McMurray, Chairman, Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Richard R. Hite, Controller, Robert W. Beuley,
Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, and Frank K. Richardson, Solicitor,
all of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May2. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies, receiving testimony
from numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 638, to provide for the transfer of ownership of the Consolidated Rail
Corporation (Conrail) to the private sector, with amendments; 

S. 679, authorizing $416,951,000 for fiscal year 1986 for the Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation, and $11,940,000 for fiscal year
1986 for the Federal Maritime Commission, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 999, authorizing $98.1 million for fiscal year 1986 and $97.6 million for
fiscal year 1987 for the Federal Communications Commission, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on proposed budget requests for the
Department of Energy, focusing on energy research programs, receiving
testimony from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research,
Department of Energy; and Stephen O. Dean, Fusion Power Associates,
Gaithersburg, Maryland. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May9. 

GLOBAL FORECASTING 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and
the District of Columbia concluded joint hearings with the Committee on
Environment and Public Works on the capabilities of the Federal Government in
global forecasting, focusing on the ability to anticipate problems and change
in areas of public policy-making and private decision-making, after receiving
testimony from Senator Gore; Alan Hill, Chairman, Council on Environmental
Quality; Danny J. Boggs, Deputy Secretary of Energy, T. Kelley White,
Director, International Economics Division, Department of Agriculture; Lindsey
Grant, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment and
Population Affairs, Washington, D.C.; and Agust Valfells, Reykjavik, Iceland. 

YOUTH SUICIDE 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
hearings to review the Federal role in addressing youth suicide, focusing on
research, education, and prevention programs, after receiving testimony from
Dorcas R. Hardy, Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, Larry B.
Silver, Deputy Director for Special Projects, and Susan Blumenthal, Chief,
Suicide Research Unit, both of the National Institute of Mental Health, all of
the Department of Health and Human Services; Pamela Cantor, American
Association of Suicidology, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; Heidi Bilodeau,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Charlotte P. Ross, Youth Suicide and Crisis
Prevention Center, San Mateo County, California, on behalf of the National
Committee for Youth Suicide Prevention. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Monday, April 29, the Committee
approved for reporting the nominations of Martha Graham, of New York, and
Jacob Neusner, of Rhode Island, each to be a Member of the National Council on
the Arts, and a routine list in the Public Health Service, dated January 23,
1985. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
801, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the National Science
Foundation, after receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National
Science Foundation. 

Joint Meeting 

BONN ECONOMIC SUMMIT 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs on the forthcoming Bonn Economic Summit, to be
held May 2-4, 1985, focusing on prospects for progress on balanced growth
among industrial nations, U.S. trade and budget deficits, international
monetary instability, and the possibility of a new round of trade
liberalization talks, after receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Michael
Blumenthal, Burroughs Corporation, McLean, Virginia; and Allan Greenspan,
Townsend and Greenspan, Inc., New York, New York. 



1985/05/01
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 1, 1985; pages D466 - D ?  (Bound vol. D240-
D248)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL  [Lexis Nexis Academic Universe gives this hearing the heading,
TRAIN BILL]

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to conduct an analysis of agriculture policy options for 1985 farm
legislation, after receiving testimony from D. Gale Johnson, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Marvin Duncan, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
City, Kansas City, Missouri; and John A. Schnittker, Schnittker Associates,
Washington, D.C. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL JUDICIARY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Federal Judiciary, receiving testimony from Sandra
Day O'Connor, and Byron White, both Associate Justices, U.S. Supreme Court;
Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and Robert
Peckham, Chief Judge, Northern District of California. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 8. 

AFGHANISTAN 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense met in closed session to
receive a briefing on Afghanistan from officials of the intelligence
community, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, and certain independent agencies, receiving
testimony from Senator Mathias; and numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Labor, and the Centers
for Disease Control, Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Senators Pell and Riegle; Delegate Blaz; and numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986
for the Department of Transportation and related agencies, after receiving
testimony from Senators Mattingly, Cranston, Wilson, Dixon, Glenn, and
Lautenberg; Representative Fiedler; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley; and
numerous public witnesses. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GSA/PARK SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Raymond A. Fontaine, Comptroller, General Services Administration, and
Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Park Service, National Capital
Region, Department of the Interior, both of whom were accompanied by several
of their associates.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 8. 

CHEMICAL WARFARE REVIEW COMMISSION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to receive a report from
the President's Chemical Warfare Review Commission, receiving testimony from
Ambassador Walter J. Stoessel, Chairman, President's Chemical Warfare Review
Commission. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for the
National Telecommunications and Information Administration, after receiving
testimony from David J. Markey, Assistant Secretary for Communications and
Information, National Telecommunications and Information Administration,
Department of Commerce. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Consumer
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Consumer
Product Safety Commission, after receiving testimony from Senator Simon;
Terrence M. Scanlon, Chairman, and Stuart M. Statler and Carol G. Dawson, both
Commissioners, all of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; and Bernard H.
Falk, National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Mark Silbergeld,
Consumers Union, and John Graff, International Association of Amusement Parks
and Attractions, all of Washington, D.C.  

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Helmut A. Merklein, of the District of Columbia,
to be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, Theodore J.
Garrish, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional,
Intergovernmental and Public Affairs, J. Michael Farrell, of the District of
Columbia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Energy, and Joseph F.
Salgado, of California, to be Under Secretary of Energy. 

ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
979, to extend the expiration date of titles I and II of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act, after receiving testimony from Danny J. Boggs, Deputy
Secretary of Energy; and E. Allan Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Energy and Resources Policy.  

NOMINATIONS/CLEAN WATER ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of A. James Barnes, of the District of Columbia, to
be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Brig. Gen.
Thomas A. Sands, USA, and Brig. Gen. Robert J. Dacey, USA, each to be a Member
of the Mississippi River Commission. 

Also, the committee began consideration of an original bill authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1986 through 1994 for programs of the Clean Water Act, but
did not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Vernon A. Walters, of Florida, to be the United States Representative to
the United Nations with rank and status of Ambassador, and the United States
Representative in the Security Council of the United Nations, after the
nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
John P. Moore, of Colorado, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit,
and George F. Gunn, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of
Missouri, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Moore was introduced by Mrs. William L. Armstrong, and Mr. Gunn
was introduced by Senators Danforth and Eagleton. 

CORPORATE MERGERS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 473, to impose
a temporary moratorium on hostile takeovers of domestic petroleum
corporations, after receiving testimony from Senator Nickles; James C. Miller,
Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Charles F. Rule, Acting Assistant Attorney
General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; T. Boone Pickens, Mesa
Petroleum Company, Amarillo, Texas; James Edwards, Phillips Petroleum Company,
Charleston, South Carolina; Michael Jensen, Harvard Business School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Dennis Mueller, University of Maryland, College
Park. 

VA HOME LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held oversight hearings on the
Veterans' Administration home loan guaranty program, receiving testimony from
Robert M. O'Toole, Director, Loan Guaranty Service, Veterans' Administration;
Steven P. Doehler, Mortgage Insurance Companies of America, David Smith,
National Association of Homebuilders, Paul S. Egan, The American Legion, James
N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and Stephen L.
Edmiston, Disabled American Veterans, all of Washington, D.C.; Ronnie J. Wynn,
Colonial Mortgage Company, Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of the Mortgage
Bankers Association of America; and Dorcas T. Helfant, Virginia Beach,
Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Realtors. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

AUTOMOBILE RECORDKEEPING REQUIREMENTS 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1869, to repeal the contemporaneous
recordkeeping requirements added to the Tax Reform Act of 1984. 



1985/05/02
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 2, 1985; pages D466 - D ?  (Bound vol. D249-D255)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for child nutrition
programs, receiving testimony from John Bode, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service; Gene White, American School Food
Service Association, Sacramento, California; Rita Hamman, Kansas State
Department of Education, Topeka; Louis E. Smith, Iowa State Department of
Public Instructions, Des Moines; Kevin Gill, New York City Office of School
Food and Nutrition Services Board of Education, New York; Patricia Reif,
Resources for Child Caring, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Edward Cooney, Food
Research Action Council, Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Navy aircraft procurement and research, development, technology and
engineering, receiving testimony from Melvyn R. Paisley, Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems; Vice Adm. Edward H. Martin,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); and Lt. Gen. Keith A. Smith,
Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Aviation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD/INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, and certain independent agencies,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for
territorial affairs of the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony
from Richard T. Montoya, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial
and International Affairs; and Delegates de Lugo, Sunia, and Blaz. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the National Institutes of Health,
including National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and
Stroke; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development; National Eye Institute;
National Institute on Aging; and Research Resources, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 7. 

U.S./SOVIET COMMUNICATION LINK/MILITARY NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
108, to provide to the Soviet Union, on a reimbursable basis, equipment and
services necessary for an improved United States/Soviet Direct Communication
Link for crisis control; and 

6,504 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

STRATEGIC ARMS NEGOTIATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing regarding U.S.-U.S.S.R. arms negotiations on strategic offensive
forces from Ambassador John G. Tower, U.S. Negotiator on Strategic Nuclear
Arms. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

BASE CLOSURES 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on military base closures, after receiving testimony from Lawrence J.
Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Installations and
Logistics. 

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on technology transfer, focusing on
the effect of new technologies on economic competitiveness, and the role of
the Federal Government in promoting present and future industrial
competitiveness, after receiving testimony from Lionel H. Olmer, Under
Secretary for International Trade, and Egils Milbergs, Executive Director,
President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, and Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Office of Productivity, Technology and Innovation, both of the
Department of Commerce; Ian M. Ross, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New
Jersey; Lewis Branscomb, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York; and F. Brett
Berlin, National Coalition for Science and Technology, Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills: 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for programs
of the Clean Water Act, in lieu of S. 652 and S. 53. (As approved by the
committee, the bill authorizes $2.4 billion for fiscal years 1986-1988 for
construction grants, and for fiscal years 1986-1994 for grants and loans); 

S. 124, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986-1990 for programs of the Safe
Drinking Water Act, including public water systems and protection of
underground sources of drinking water, with amendments; 

S. 895, authorizing $437 million for each of fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for
programs of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; 

S. 1030, authorizing funds for the Public Buildings Service of the General
Services Administration, with an amendment. (As approved by the committee, the
bill authorizes $2,397,924,000 for fiscal year 1986); 

S. 709, to designate the Commissioner of Public Buildings Service of the
General Services Administration as a Presidential appointment, with an
amendment; 

S. 710, authorizing $4,529,000 for fiscal year 1986 for the nonperforming arts
functions of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; 

H.R. 14, to designate the Carl D. Perkins Federal Building and United States
Courthouse in Ashland, Kentucky; 

S. 1023, authorizing $200,400,000 for fiscal year 1986 for disaster relief
programs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; 

An original bill authorizing $59,436,100 for fiscal year 1986 for toxic
substances control programs of the Environmental Protection Agency; and 

An original bill authorizing $327,580,000 for fiscal year 1986 for research
and development programs of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY/MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
policy toward South Africa, receiving testimony from Chester A. Crocker,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of John P. Moore, of Colorado, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Tenth Circuit, Kenneth F. Ripple, of Indiana, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for
the Seventh Circuit, George F. Gunn, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of Missouri, Sam B. Hall, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for
the Eastern District of Texas, Joseph H. Rodriguez, to be U.S. District Judge
for the District of New Jersey, and Herbert M. Rutherford III, of Virginia, to
be U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia; and 

S.J. Res. 59, to designate "National Science Week"; 

S.J. Res. 64, to designate the week beginning May 5, 1985, as "National
Correctional Officers Week"; 

S.J. Res. 66, to designate June 14, 1985, as "Baltic Freedom Day"; 

S.J. Res. 83, to designate the week beginning on May 5, 1985, as
"National
Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 87, to designate July 19, 1985, as "National P.O.W./M.I.A.
Recognition Day"; 

S.J. Res. 92, to designate October 1985 as "National Foster Grandparents
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 93, to designate the month of May 1985 as "Better Hearing and
Speech
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 103, to designate the month of May 1985 as "Very Special Arts
U.S.A.
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 104, to proclaim October 23, 1985, as "A time of
remembrance" for
all victims of terrorism throughout the world; 

S.J. Res. 118, to designate May 25, 1985, as "Missing Children Day"; 

S.J. Res. 123, to designate Dr. Jonas Salk Day; 

S.J. Res. 195, to designate May 1985 as "Older Americans Month"; and 

S. 487, to recognize the organization known as The Statue of Liberty-Ellis
Island Foundation, Inc., with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

Also, committee indefinitely postponed further action on S.J. Res. 107, to
designate May 1985 as "Older Americans Month", and S.J. Res. 110, to
designate
the month of May 1985 as "National Child Safety Awareness Month". 

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on S. 140, to encourage States to
enact child protection reforms which are designed to improve legal and
administrative proceedings regarding the investigation and prosecution of
child sexual abuse cases, after receiving testimony from Senator Cranston;
Andrea Landis, Justice for Sexually Abused Children and the Parents of Country
Walk, Miami, Florida; Miriam Gardner-Frum, Meriden, Connecticut; Jo Buckley,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Bar Association; Debra Whitcomb,
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jack E. Yelverton, Alexandria,
Virginia, and Robert Cramer, Huntsville, Alabama, both representing the
National District Attorney's Association; Margi Showers, Youth and Shelter
Services, Ames, Iowa; and Kee McFarlane, Children's Institute International,
Los Angeles, California. 

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION -- BOARD OF REGENTS/FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S.J.
Res. 81, to provide for the appointment of Barnabas McHenry, of New York, as a
Citizen Regent to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, after
the appointee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony
was also received from Senator Moynihan; and Robert McC. Adams, The Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution. 

Committee also concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1986 for the Federal Election Commission, after receiving
testimony from Joan D. Aikens, Vice-Chairman, Danny L. McDonald, Commissioner,
John C. Surina, Staff Director, and Charles N. Steele, General Counsel, all of
the Federal Election Commission. 

INDIAN HEALTH CARE 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported with
an amendment S. 277, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986-1989 for Indian
health care programs. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/03
Daily Digest - Friday, May 3, 1985; pages D475 - D ?  (Bound vol. D255-D258)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, May 2, the
committee approved for reporting the nomination of Richard H. Hughes, of
Oklahoma, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank
of the United States. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Douglas A. Riggs, of Alaska, to be General
Counsel of the Department of Commerce, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Murkowski, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT/NOAA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 959,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 through 1990 for the Coastal Zone
Management Act, and S. 990, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987
for ocean programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Paul Wolff, Assistant
Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management, and Peter
Tweedt, Director, Office of Coastal Resource Management, both of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Richard
Delaney, Massachusetts Assistant Secretary for Environmental Affairs, Boston,
on behalf of the Coastal States Organization; Alison Fahrer, Monroe County
Commissioner, Islamorada, Florida; Harry J. Longwell, Exxon Company, U.S.A.,
Houston, Texas; Donna R. Black, McCutchen, Black, Verleger, and Shea, Los
Angeles, California; and Sarah Chasis, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Inc., New York, New York. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Eric Reichl, of Connecticut, Tom Corcoran, of Illinois, and
Paul W. MacAvoy, of New York, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Testimony was also received on the
nominations from Michael S. Koleda, National Council on Synthetic Fuels
Production, and Jim Matheson, Synthetic Fuels Project, Environmental Policy
Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; and Porter J. Womeldorff, Illinois Power
Company, Decatur. 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRADE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on S. 942, to remove trade barriers to U.S. exports of telecommunications
equipment and services, and S. 728, to prohibit the entry of Japanese
telecommunications products into the United States until Japanese markets are
open to U.S. telecommunications goods, after receiving testimony from Edmund
Fitzgerald, Northern Telecom, Ltd., Nashville, Tennessee; Thomas A.
Campobasso, Rockwell International Trading Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
on behalf of Electronic Industries Association; Blaine E. Davis, AT&T
Technologies, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, on behalf of the Computer Business
Equipment Manufacturers Association, and Robert B. Wood, International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, John Morgan, Communications Workers of
America, Edwin B. Spievack, North America Telecommunications Association,
Morton Pomeranz, Gage Tucker & Vom Bauer, on behalf of the American
Association of Exporters and Importers, Stanton D. Anderson and Eric I.
Garfinkel, both of Anderson, Hibey, Nauheim and Blair, on behalf of the
Communications Industry Association of Japan, all of Washington, D.C. 

Joint Meeting 

APRIL EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

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

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/05/06
Daily Digest - Monday, May 6, 1985; pages D484 - D ?  (Bound vol. D258-D260)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee approved for
reporting the nomination of Douglas A. Riggs, of Alaska, to be General Counsel
of the Department of Commerce. 

CARGO PREFERENCE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 664, to remove cargo preference requirements
from certain U.S. agricultural commodity export programs, and related
proposals, after receiving testimony from Senators Nickles and Boren;
Representative Bentley; Admiral Harold E. Shear, Administrator, Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation; Richard W. Goldberg, Deputy
Under Secretary, International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Bob Sindt,
Assistant Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operators, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service, George Pope, Assistant Administrator
of Foreign Agricultural Service, and Jim Hichman, Associate General Counsel,
all of the Department of Agriculture; and Admiral James L. Holloway, III
(USN-Ret.), Council of American-Flag Ship Operators, Frank Drozak, Seafarers
International Union, Jesse M. Calhoon, Marine Engineers' Beneficial
Association, Thomas L. Mills, Kominers, Fort, Schlefer & Boyer, Samuel B.
Nemirow, Hill, Betts & Nash, Paul B. Green, Millers' National Federation,
Myron Laserson, North American Export Grain Association, Don Williams, Council
of Farmer Cooperatives, W. Glenn Tussey, National Farm Bureau Federation, and
John Baize, American Soybean Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- RAIL SAFETY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for rail safety programs of the Department of Transportation, and to review
the effectiveness of the rail safety efforts of the Department of
Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration and those states that help
enforce federal railroad safety regulations, after receiving testimony from
John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation; Lawrence M. Mann, Railway Labor Executives Association, R.T.
Bates, Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, C.E. Wheeler, Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen of the United States and Canada, and Robert Johnson, American Train
Dispatchers' Association, William H. Dempsey, William J. Harris, and A.
William Johnston, all of the Association of American Railroads, and William
Druhan, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials,
all of Washington, D.C.; and George Hardy, Oregon Public Utility Commission,
Salem, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility
Commissioners. 

COMMERCIAL AND APARTMENT CONSERVATION SERVICE 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded hearings on S. 410, to repeal the Commercial and
Apartment Conservation Service (CACS), a program to encourage the installation
of energy conservation and renewable energy resource measures in apartment and
small commercial buildings, after receiving testimony from Donna R.
Fitzpatrick, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and
Renewable Energy; Dennis L. Thomas, Texas Public Utility Commission, Austin;
Matthew E. McLogan, Michigan Public Service Commission, Lansing; Lawrence G.
Spielvogel, Wyncote, Pennsylvania, representing the American Consulting
Engineers Council; Norman R. Hughes, N.R. Hughes and Associates, Metamora,
Michigan; Maxie Davie, Texas/New Mexico Power Company, Forth Worth, Texas,
representing the Edison Electric Institute; Neal Hall, Lone Star Gas Company,
Dallas, Texas, representing the American Gas Association; and Charles B.
Lavin, Jr., representing the National Association of Plumbing and Heating
Contractors, Walter Reckinger, III, Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National
Contractor's Association, Thomas Norton, American Supply Association, Patrick
O'Connor, Alliance for Fair Competition, and Norris McDonald, Energy
Conservation Coalition, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 7, 1985; pages D489 - D ?  (Bound vol. D260-D265)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Peter C. Myers, of Missouri, and Robert L.
Thompson, of Indiana, each to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on space programs, receiving testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr.,
Under Secretary of the Air Force. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Indian Health Service
of the Department of Health and Human Service, receiving testimony from Robert
Graham, Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, and
Everett R. Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, both of the Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Health and Human Services, focusing
on the National Institutes of Health, including the National Institute of
Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development, National Eye Institute, National Institute on Aging, and research
resources, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

BUDGET WAIVER -- NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 156) waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act with respect to consideration of Section 506 of S. 1029, to authorize
funds for the military functions of the Department of Defense and to prescribe
personnel levels for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1986, to
authorize certain construction at military installations for such fiscal year,
and to authorize funds for the Department of Energy for national security
programs for such fiscal year. 

Also, the committee approved for reporting 96 routine nominations in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

SOVIET TREATY VIOLATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the military
implications of Soviet treaty violations, after receiving testimony from
Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Policy.  

STATUE OF LIBERTY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Monday, May 6, the
committee approved for reporting H.R. 47, to provide for the minting of coins
in commemoration of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty, in lieu of S.
233.  

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative, International Trade Commission, and the U.S.
Customs Service; 

An original bill to implement the Agreement on the Establishment of a Free
Trade Area between the Government of the United States of America and the
Government of Israel; and 

The nominations of Margaret D. Tutwiler, of Alabama, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Public Affairs and Public Liaison, John F.W. Rogers, of
New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management, and Samuel
B. Sterrett, of Maryland, to be a judge of the United States Tax Court. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the aforementioned
nominees, after they testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

A press release summarizing the actions taken by the committee today will be
available in the committee office in room 219, Dirksen Office Building. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nomination of Vernon A. Walters, of Florida, to be the United States
Representative to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador,
and the United States Representative in the Security Council of the United
Nations; and 

An original resolution authorizing the printing of "Background
Information on
the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate" as a Senate
document. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Donald S. Lowitz, of Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador while
serving as the United States Representative to the Conference on Disarmament,
and Robert D. Blackwill, of Maryland, for the rank of Ambassador during the
tenure of his service as the Representative of the United States for Mutual
and Balance Force Reduction Negotiations, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf.  

U.N./U.S. INVOLVEMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committe concluded oversight hearings on
United States political and financial involvement in the United Nations, after
receiving testimony from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations. 

JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held oversight
hearings on activities of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, focusing on the Missing Children's Program, the formula grant
program, and research and special emphasis grants, receiving testimony from
Alfred J. Regnery, Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention, Department of Justice; and Judith S. Reisman and David Sansbury,
both of the American University School of Education, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BALANCED BUDGET 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S.J. Res. 13, proposing an amendment to the Constitution relating
to a Federal balanced budget and tax limitation, after receiving testimony
from Senators Armstrong and Wilson; Manuel H. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of
Treasury for Economic Policy; Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional
Budget Office; Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh, Harrisburg; Martin
Anderson, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California; and Roy L. Ash,
Committee for Economic Development, Los Angeles, California. 

VETERANS' HEALTH CARE 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to
clarify and improve certain health-care programs and services provided and
administered by the Veterans' Administration, including S. 6, S. 875, S. 876,
S. 1007, and S. 1052, after receiving testimony from John Gronvall, Deputy
Chief Medical Director, D. Earl Brown, Jr., Associate Deputy Chief Medical
Director, and A. Audley Hendricks, Assistant General Counsel, all of the
Veterans' Administration; David Baine, Associate Director, Norm Rabkin, Group
Director, Bob Garbark Assignment Manager, and Jesse Flowers,
Evaluator-in-Charge (Atlanta Regional Office), all of the Human Resources
Division, General Accounting Office; and Melvin Sabshin, American Psychiatric
Association, Orville Lips, American Psychological Association, Paul Egan, The
American Legion, Donald H. Schwab, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States, David Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, Lt. Col. David Passamaneck,
AMVETS, Frank DeGeorge, Paralyzed Veterans of American, and Dennis Rhoades,
Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 8, 1985; pages D500 - D ?  (Bound vol. D265-
D271)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Legal Services Corporation, receiving testimony from
William Clark Durant III, Chairman of the Board, and Thomas Opsut, Acting
President, both of the Legal Services Corporation. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

D.C. DRUG PROBLEMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on the overall impact of drug use in the District of Columbia,
receiving testimony from Joseph diGenova, United States Attorney for the
District of Columbia; Maurice Turner, Chief, District of Columbia Metropolitan
Police Department; Norman Zigrossi, Special Agent in Charge (Washington, D.C.
Field Division), Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice;
Floretta McKenzie, Superintendent, District of Columbia Public Schools; Lonnie
Mitchell, Administrator, District of Columbia Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Administration; and Peter Reuter, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica,
California. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for foreign
assistance programs, focusing on assistance to non-Communist insurgencies,
receiving testimony from Representative Solarz; William Schneider, Jr., Under
Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; Richard L.
Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;
Charles A. Moser, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; Jack
Wheeler, Malibu, California; and representatives from the Khmer People's
National Liberation Front, the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola, and the Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for certain programs of the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony on funds for the National Institutes of Health,
Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, and the Health Care
Financing Administration from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the condition, structure, and competition within the domestic
financial services industry, focusing on implications of further deregulation
of depository institutions, receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker,
Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; William M. Isaac,
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; H. Joe Selby, Acting
Comptroller of the Currency; and Edgar F. Callahan, Chairman, National Credit
Union Administration. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 14. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John D. Negroponte, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of
State for Oceans and International Environment and Scientific Affairs, and
William A. Brown, of New Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of
Thailand, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Negroponte was introduced by Senator Stevens, Alan Guimond,
Stonavar Trading, Providence, Rhode Island, and Theodore Kronmiller, Patton,
Boggs, and Blow, Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the nominations of Hortencia Benavides, of Texas, Leaanne Bernstein, of
Maryland, Lorain Miller, of Michigan, Claude G. Swafford, of Tennessee, Robert
A. Valois, of North Carolina, William C. Durant III, of Michigan, Paul B.
Eaglin, of North Carolina, Pepe J. Mendez, of Colorado, Thomas F. Smegal, Jr.,
of California, Basile J. Uddo, of Louisiana, and Michael B. Wallace, of
Mississippi, each to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal
Services Corporation. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Marshall B. Babson, of Connecticut, and Wilford W. Johansen, of
California, each to be a member of the National Labor Relations Board, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures: 

An original bill to authorize funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Federal
Election Commission; 

An original bill to authorize certain telephone services in the home state
offices of Senators; 

S.J. Res. 81, to provide for the appointment of Barnabas McHenry, of New York,
as a Citizen Regent to the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution;
and 

An original resolution to establish a select committee of the Senate to study
and make recommendations with respect to a two-year budget process. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed markup of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the intelligence
community, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

RURAL AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation held
hearings to examine short-term problems and long-term solutions for rural
America's small, independent businesses, receiving testimony from John Motley,
National Federation of Independent Business, and Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, both of Washington, D.C.; Kenneth E. Stone, Iowa State University,
Ames; and Robert Miller, South Dakota Municipal League, Pierre, on behalf of
the National League of Cities. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/05/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 9, 1985; pages D510 - D ?  (Bound vol. D271-D279)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force aircraft procurement and
research, development, technology, and engineering from Thomas E. Cooper,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Research, Development, and Logistics);
Lt. Gen. Robert D. Russ, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Research,
Development, and Acquisition; and Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director for
National Security, Congressional Budget Office; and receiving testimony, in
closed session, in behalf of funds for Air Force space programs from Edward C.
Aldridge, Jr., Under Secretary of the Air Force; and Jesse W. Moore, Associate
Administrator for Space Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Bureau of Land
Management of the Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Robert
F. Burford, Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986 for the Health Resources and Services Administration of the
Department of Health and Human Services, and vocational education programs of
the Department of Education, receiving testimony from numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 14. 

CHEMICAL WEAPONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the proliferation of chemical weapons from officials of the
intelligence community. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

GOVERNMENT SECURITIES DEALERS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings on S. 936, to provide improved protection for investors in
the Government securities market, after receiving testimony from Senator
Hawkins; Representative McCollum; E. Gerald Corrigan, Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, New York City; and Richard M. Kelly, Public Securities Association,
Washington, D.C. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1080, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for railroad safety
and the Railroad Accounting Principles Board. As approved by the committee,
the bill authorizes $27,975,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $29,094,000 for
fiscal year 1987 to support railroad safety programs of the Federal Railroad
Administration; authorizes $3,200,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $3,280,000 for
fiscal year 1987 to those States that participate in the State Participation
Program; and $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $750,000 for fiscal year 1987
for the Railroad Accounting Principles Board; 

S. 1103, authorizing $742,328,000 for fiscal year 1986 for certain atmospheric
and satellite programs and functions of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; 

S. 958, authorizing $68,555,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $71,639,975 for
fiscal year 1987 for activities under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and
Management Act; 

S. 990, authorizing $241,679,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $252,544,965 for
fiscal year 1987 for ocean programs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, Department of Commerce; 

S. 959, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for the Coastal Zone
Management Act. As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $43,205,000
for fiscal year 1986, $45,149,225 for fiscal year 1987, $47,180,940 for fiscal
year 1988, $49,304,082 for fiscal year 1989, and $51,522,765 for fiscal year
1990. 

S. 1079, authorizing $13,686,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $14,345,000 for
fiscal year 1987 for the the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration; 

S. 1077, authorizing $35 million for each of fiscal years 1986 and 1987 for
the Consumer Product Safety Commission; 

S. 374, authorizing $12 million for fiscal year 1986, $13 million for fiscal
year 1987, and $14 million for fiscal year 1988 for the U.S. Travel and
Tourism Administration, with an amendment; 

S. 1084, authorizing $200 million for fiscal year 1987, $214 million for
fiscal year 1988, $228 million for fiscal year 1989, and $244 million for
fiscal year 1990 for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and $24 million
for each of fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988 for the Public
Telecommunications Facilities Program administered by the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce;  

S. 1078, authorizing $65.8 million for fiscal year 1986, $66.8 million for
fiscal year 1987, and $67.8 million for fiscal year 1988 for the Federal Trade
Commission; and 

S. 991, authorizing $77,710,000 for fiscal year 1986 and $80,981,950 for
fiscal year 1987 for fisheries programs of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce, with an amendment. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on proposed budget requests for the
Department of Energy, focusing on fusion energy programs, receiving testimony
from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research, and Richard L.
Schriever, Director, Office of Inertial Fusion, both of the Department of
Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, May 13. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on measures relating to
comprehensive tax reform, receiving testimony in behalf of their respective
proposals, as follows: 

S. 411, to reduce the individual income tax rates and the number of tax
brackets, to provide for expensing of certain property, to establish
"super"
savings accounts, and to repeal certain income tax credits, deductions, and
exclusions and certain capital gains, receiving testimony from Senator Roth; 

S. 409, to provide for a flat income tax rate on individual and corporate
taxpayers, and to revise income tax provisions to conform to the flat rate tax
scheme, receiving testimony from Senator Bradley, and Representative Gephardt;
and 

S. 1006, to reduce tax rate in a manner that is fair to all taxpayers and to
simplify the tax laws by eliminating most credits, deductions, and exclusions,
receiving testimony from Senator Kasten, and Representative Kemp. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ernest E. Pell, of Maryland, and Charles E. Courtney, of
California, each to be an Associate Director of the United States Information
Agency, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Pell was introduced by Senator McConnell. 

GRACE COMMISSION REPORT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to
review the implementation and findings of the President's Private Sector
Survey on Cost Control (Grace Commission) and the General Accounting Office's
assessment of the Commission's findings, after receiving testimony from
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. General
Accounting Office; Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of
Management and Budget; and J. Peter Grace, Chairman, President's Private
Sector Survey on Cost Control. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nomination of William H. Opel, to be U.S. Marshal for the District of
Alaska; 

S.J. Res. 32, to designate September 15, 1985, as "Ethnic American
Day"; 

S.J. Res. 40, to designate the month of October 1985 as "National Down
Syndrome Month"; and 

S.J. Res. 57, to designate the week of October 20 through 26, 1985, as
"Lupus
Awareness Week." 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 1065, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Justice, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, May 14. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/13
Daily Digest - Monday, May 13, 1985; pages D524 - D ?  (Bound vol. D279-D281)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OMB 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1986 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from David
A. Stockman, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on proposed budget requests for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of Energy, focusing on nuclear energy programs
and nuclear waste activities, receiving testimony from James W. Vaughan, Jr.,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy Programs, and Ben C.
Rusche, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department
of Energy; Kerry D. Dance, GA Technologies, Inc., and Vincent S. Boyer,
Gas-Cooled Reactor Associates, both of San Diego, California; Edward R.
Farley, Jr., Atlas Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey; and Sol Burstein,
Wisconsin Electric Power Company, Milwaukee, on behalf of the American
Commission on Radwaste Disposal, American Nuclear Energy Council, Edison
Electric Institute, Electric Utility Companies' Nuclear Transportation Group,
and the Utility Nuclear Waste Management Group. 

Subcommittee will meet again on tomorrow. 

WATER RESOURCE PROJECTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, May 10, the Subcommittee
on Water Resources held hearings on S. 366, S. 534, and S. 967, bills to
authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct various projects for
improvements to rivers and harbors of the United States, and related
proposals, receiving testimony from Robert K. Dawson, Acting Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, who was accompanied by his associates. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 16. 

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review the current state of terrorism and how
terrorist and insurgent groups are involved in international drug trafficking,
receiving testimony from Brian M. Jenkins, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica,
California; and Ray S. Cline, Georgetown Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Nathan Adams, The Readers Digest, and Martin Sicker,
Center for International Security, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to investigate the
actions of Joseph Wright, Jr., Deputy Director, Office of Management and
Budget, as they may relate to a Department of Energy enforcement case pending
against the Anchor Gasoline Corporation, Tulsa, Oklahoma, receiving testimony
from Mr. Wright. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NATIONAL PACEMAKER REGISTRY 

Special Committee on Aging: On Friday, May 10, the committee held oversight
hearings on the establishment and implementation of the National Pacemaker
Registry, receiving testimony from Carolyne K. Davis, Administrator, Health
Care Financing Administration, and Frank Young, Commissioner, James Casey,
Supervisory Investigator, and Victor Spanioli, Investigator, all of the Food
and Drug Administration, all of the Department of Health and Human Services;
William Stollhans, Assistant Chief, White Collar Crime Division, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice; Michael Zimmerman, Associate
Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Wanda L.
DeHart, Millersville, Pennsylvania; Howard Bliss, Ojai, California; Jacqueline
Fischer, Indian Harbour Beach, Florida; Brendan P. Phibbs, Jackson, Wyoming;
and Norman Weldon, Cordis Corporation, Miami, Florida. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/14
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 14, 1985; pages D530 - D ?  (Bound vol. D281-D289)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began markup of
S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES 

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

S. 721, to make exports of U.S. agricultural commodities competitive in world
markets with sales of other countries by clarifying export activities of the
Department of Agriculture relating to the cargo preference provisions, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S. 1040, to provide assistance to promote the marketing and sales of U.S.
agricultural commodities, with an amendment. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force and Navy Weapons, from
Rear Admiral David M. Altwegg, USN, Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Surface Warfare); and receiving testimony in closed session on the E-6A
Aircraft from Arthur Sullivan, Evaluator-in-Charge, National Security
Division, U.S. General Accounting Office; Donald C. Latham, Assistant
Secretary of Defense; and Gerald Cann, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of
the Navy. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

PRISON PRIVATIZATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
concluded hearings on the participation of private industry in prison work
programs, the use of private sector alternatives for financing the
construction of prisons and jails, and the involvement of private
organizations in actual facility management and operations, after receiving
testimony from Raymond C. Brown, Director, National Institute of Corrections,
and James K. Stewart, Director, National Institute of Justice, both of the
Department of Justice; Joseph Fenton, Buckingham Security, Ltd., Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania; Terrell Don Hutto, American Correctional Association, College
Park, Maryland; Sheriff Wayne Huggins, Fairfax County, Virginia, on behalf of
the National Sheriffs Association; and Thomas J. Madden, Venable, Baetjer,
Howard & Civiletti, and Alvin J. Bronstein, American Civil Liberties
Union,
both of Washington, DC. 

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Legislative Branch
of the Federal Government, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Jo-Anne L. Coe, Secretary of the Senate; Larry E.
Smith, Senate Sergeant at Arms; and Stuart F. Balderson, Senate Financial
Clerk. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for rehabilitation
programs, Social Security Administration, and the Office of Human Development
Services, from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the condition, structure, and competition within the domestic
financial services industry, focusing on implications of further deregulation
of depository institutions, receiving testimony from Edwin J. Gray, Chairman,
Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Sidney A. Bailey, Virginia Commissioner of
Financial Institutions, Richmond, on behalf of the Conference of State Bank
Supervisors; and William S. Bergman, National Association of State Savings and
Loan Supervisors, Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTO FUEL ECONOMY STANDARDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation held oversight hearings on automobile fuel economy standards,
focusing on how the standards have contributed to the goals of conserving
domestic energy resources, receiving testimony from Representative Boxer;
Diane K. Steed, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation; William J. Silvey, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Policy, Planning and Analysis; Marina v.N. Whitman, General Motors
Corporation, and Robert S. Miller, Jr., Chrysler Corporation, both of Detroit,
Michigan; Helen O. Petrauskas, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Robert
A. Leone, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, representing the
Automobile Importers of America, Inc.; and Clarence M. Ditlow III, Center for
Auto Safety, Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, and Norris McDonald,
Environmental Policy Institute, all of Washington, DC. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June4. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development continued hearings on proposed budget requests for fiscal year
1986 for the Department of Energy, focusing on conservation and renewable
energy programs, reveiving testimony from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Acting
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation Programs; Gregory Franta,
American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C.; and Lloyd R. Lawrence,
Jr., Mechanical Technology, Inc., Latham, New York. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 16. 

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review the current state of terrorism and this
country's present and prospective policy toward terrorism, receiving testimony
from David Westrate, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug
Enforcement Administration; Clyde D. Taylor, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
International Narcotics Matters, Department of State; and Yonah Alexander,
Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

WEIGHT-LOSS PRODUCTS AND PLANS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held oversight hearings on weight reduction products and plans, focusing on
the safety and efficacy of diet products and direct sales marketing
techniques, receiving testimony from Howard L. Shapiro, Staff Counsel,
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Varro L. Tyler, Purdue University,
Lafayette, Indiana; Judith Stern, University of California, Davis; Xavier
Pi-Sunyer, Obesity Research Center, New York, New York; Thomas Locke, Silver
Spring, Maryland; Pat Stombough, Smyrna, Delaware; Greg Martin, Dover,
Delaware; and Leo Daboub, Newport Beach, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL REGULATORY RELIEF 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded hearings on S. 483, to ensure that the Federal Government assume the
full cost of complying with Federal regulations, after receiving testimony
from John Shannon, Executive Director, The Advisory Commission on
Intergovernmental Relations; Michael Fix, and Thomas Muller, both of The Urban
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Adam Rose, West Virginia University, Morgantown;
Wallace Chan, California Deputy Controller, Sacramento; John Finnegan,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Auditor, Boston; and Kenneth F. Payne, Rhode
Island League of Cities and Towns, Providence, on behalf of the National
League of Cities. 

INTERBRAND COMPETITION ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 412, to clarify
the circumstances under which territorial provisions in licenses to distribute
and sell trademarked malt beverage products are lawful under the antitrust
laws, after receiving testimony from Charles F. Rule, Acting Assistant
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Walter T.
Winslow, Deputy Director, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission;
Lloyd Constantine, New York Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, New
York, New York, on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General;
Richard Whiting, Steptoe and Johnson, on behalf of the American Bar
Association, and Stephen Brobeck, Consumer Federation of America, both of
Washington, D.C.; Ernest Gellhorn, Case Western Reserve University Law School,
Cleveland, Ohio; James R. Boylston III, Reid's Incorporated, Barnwell, South
Carolina; Charles McDonald, Alabama Retail Association, Montgomery; Christy
Spoa, Spoa's Fine Foods, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania; and Lee Markwell,
Markwell's Pic and Pac, Louisville, Kentucky, all on behalf of Food Marketing
Institute; Marion Carnell, Ware Shoals, South Carolina; James Holmes, Vermont
Retail Grocers Association, Rutland, and Paul Klett, National Liquor Stores
Administration, Mesa, Arizona, all on behalf of National Beer Wholesalers
Association. 

HEAD START RESOLUTION/NOMINATIONS 

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

S. Con. Res. 28, to express the sense of the Congress that May 18, 1985,
should be commemorated as the Twentieth Anniversary of the establishment of
the Head Start program and reaffirming Congressional support for the program;
and 

The nominations of John H. Moore, of California, to be Deputy Director of the
National Science Foundation, and Pauline C. Naftzger, of California, and
George S. Rosborough, Jr., of Missouri, each to be a Member of the National
Museum Services Board. 

LINE ITEM VETO/PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 43, a
bill to provide that each item of any general or special appropriation bill
and any bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or
continuing appropriations that is agreed to by both Houses of the Congress in
the same form shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for
presentation to the President, receiving testimony from Senators Mattingly,
Hatfield, and Evans; Louis Fisher, Specialist in American National Government,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; and Allen Schick, and
Norman Ornstein, both of the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

INFLATION INDEXING OF GOVERNMENT SECURITIES 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic
Growth concluded hearings to review the idea of inflation indexing of
government securities as a means of managing the Federal debt, after receiving
testimony from Senator Quayle; Francis X. Cavanaugh, Director, Office of
Government Finance and Market Analysis, Department of the Treasury; David
Meiselman, Virginia Polytechnical Institute, Blacksburg; and Robert Monks,
RAMCO, Washington, DC. 



1985/05/15
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 15, 1985; pages D541 - D ?  (Bound vol. D289-
D298)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AGRICULTURE ADJUSTMENT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 822, to extend the time for conducting the referendum with respect
to the national wheat marketing quota for the June 1, 1986 marketing year. 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for certain defense programs, focusing
on Army modernization, receiving testimony from Jay R. Sculley, Assistant
Secretary of the Army (Research, Development and Acquisition); Lt. Gen. Louis
C. Wagner, Jr., USA, Deputy Chief of Army Staff (Research, Development and
Acquisition); and Lt. Gen. Benjamin F. Register, Jr., USA, Deputy Chief of
Army Staff (Logistics). 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EMERGENCY INFORMATION/ECONOMIC REGULATORY ADMINISTRATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Helmut A. Merklein, Acting
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, and Marshall A. Staunton,
Deputy Administrator for Enforcement, Economic Regulatory Administration, both
of the Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION/RELATED AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1986, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
elementary and secondary education, student financial assistance, higher
education, and certain related agencies from numerous public witnesses. 

NOMINATIONS/DOD AUTHORIZATION 

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

Four routine military nominations in the Army and Navy; 

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of
Defense, in lieu of S. 1029 (pending on Senate calendar); and 

An original resolution (S. Res. 162) waiving section 303(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the consideration of S. 1029,
Department of Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1986. 

Also, the committee approved and authorized the Chairman to propose a
committee amendment to the aforementioned original bill. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings on the condition, structure, and competition with the
domestic financial services industry, focusing on implications of further
deregulation of depository institutions, receiving testimony from Edward H.
Budd, The Travelers Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut; Lewis T. Preston, J.P.
Morgan and Co., Inc., and Walter V. Shipley, Chemical New York Corporation and
Chemical Bank, both of New York, New York; Edward R. Telling, Sears Roebuck
&
Co., Chicago Illinois; Finn M.W. Caspersen, Beneficial Management Corporation,
Peapack, New Jersey; and John G. McElwee, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 22. 

ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration of S.
979, to extend the expiration date of titles I and II of the Energy Policy and
Conservation Act, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Wednesday, May 22. 

INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review the current state of terrorism and this
country's present and prospective policy toward terrorism, after receiving
testimony from Fred Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Noel Koch,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs; Robert Oakley, Director, Office of Counter Terrorism and Emergency
Planning, Department of State; Brian Jenkins, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica,
California; and John F. Murphy, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania,
on behalf of the American Bar Association. 

WEIGHT-LOSS PRODUCTS AND PLANS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
continued oversight hearings on weight reduction products and plans, focusing
on the safety and efficacy of diet products and direct sales marketing
techniques, receiving testimony from Frank Young, Commissioner, Food and Drug
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Vaughn Feather, and
Robert O. Nesheim, both of Cambridge Plan International, Monterey, California;
and Mark Hughes, on behalf of Herbalife International, and David B. Katzin,
Herbalife Medical/Scientific Advisory Board, both of Los Angeles, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
D. Lowell Jensen, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney General, Department of
Justice, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S.J. Res. 13, to propose an amendment to the Constitution relating to a
Federal balanced budget and tax limitation, with amendments; 

S. 40, to set forth procedures for holding Federal constitutional conventions
for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution; 

S. 37, to provide for civil rights in public schools; and 

S. 150, to revise certain provisions of the Freedom of Information Act with
respect to request procedures, time limits, fees, and exemptions. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations of Justin W. Dart, Jr., of Texas, Jeremiah Milbank, of
Connecticut, and Roxanne S. Vierra, of Colorado, each to be a Member of the
National Council on the Handicapped. 

ETHICS 

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

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 will meet again tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation
resumed hearings to review economic problems in rural areas, focusing on rural
economic development and the difficulty in developing economic resources in
rural areas, receiving testimony from Luther Tweeten, Oklahoma State
University, Stillwater; Brady Deaton, Virginia Polytechnical Institute,
Blacksburg; Jim Cope, Morgen Manufacturing, Yankton, South Dakota,
representing the South Dakota Manufacturing and Processors Association and the
National Association of Manufacturers; and John Howard, Black Hills Packing,
Rapid City, South Dakota, representing the South Dakota Manufacturing and
Processors Association, and the Rapid City Economic Development Council. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 22. 



1985/05/16
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 16, 1985; pages D554 - D ?  (Bound vol. D298-
D302)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, May 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOSSIL ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for fossil fuel and the clean
coal technology program, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATO 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for North Atlantic Treaty Organization,
receiving testimony from General Bernard W. Rogers, Commander in Chief, United
States European Command (NATO). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 21. 

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Legislative
Branch of the Federal Government, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress;
and George M. White, Architect of the Capitol. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 21. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported S. 63, to require certain passenger-carrying aircraft to
carry medical supplies and equipment for the temporary treatment of in-flight
emergencies, and to provide relief from State or Federal civil liability for
any licensed medical personnel or air carrier employees who render emergency
medical aid on an airplane. 

Also, the committee failed to approve for reporting S. 100, to provide for a
uniform product liability law under which claimants may recover for injuries
caused by defective products. 

CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on the Department of Energy's report to
Congress on emerging clean coal technology, after receiving testimony from
Senator Baucus; William A. Vaughan, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy
Programs, and Eric Reichl, Chairman, Clean Coal Technologies Panel, Energy
Research Advisory Board, both of the Department of Energy; Dwain F. Spencer,
Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, California; David O. Webb, Gas
Research Institute, Chicago, Illinois; and Richard E. Disbrow, American
Electric Power Company, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Clean Coal
Technology Coalition. 

WATER RESOURCE PROJECTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources
concluded hearings on S. 366, S. 534, and S. 967, bills to authorize the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to construct various projects for improvements to
rivers and harbors of the United States, and related proposals, after
receiving testimony from Senators Burdick, Warner, Sasser, Andrews, Sarbanes,
and Mathias. 

SUPERFUND 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported with amendments the
revenue provisions of S. 51, Hazardous Substance Response Trust Fund
(Superfund). 

(A press release summarizing the action taken by the committee today will be
available in the committee office in room 219, Dirksen Office Building.) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nomination of D. Lowell Jensen, of Virginia, to be Deputy Attorney
General, Department of Justice; 

S.J. Res. 131, to designate the week of June 2-8, 1985, as "Future
Problem
Solving Program Week"; 

S. Res. 144, to give special recognition to the achievements of John James
Audubon; and 

S.J. Res. 127, to grant the consent of Congress to certain additional powers
conferred upon the bi-State development agency by the States of Missouri and
Illinois. 

BERNE CONVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings to examine whether the United States should participate in the
Berne Convention, an international union for the protection of literary and
artistic works, receiving testimony from Elinor Constable, Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for Business and Economic Affairs; Donald C. Curran, Acting
Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress; Donald J. Quigg, Acting
Commissioner for Patents and Trademarks, Patent and Trademark Office; Michael
Hathaway, Deputy General Counsel, Office of U.S. Trade Representative; Arpad
Bogsch, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; and
Barbara Ringer, former Register of Copyrights, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S PROTECTION ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings on S. 415, to clarify the intent of Congress to protect the
educational rights of handicapped children, after receiving testimony from
Mary L. Tatro, Irving, Texas; Edward Abrahamson, Sharon, Massachusetts;
William L.E. Dussault, Seattle, Washington; Edwin W. Martin, Human Resources
Center, Albertson, New York; and E. Richard Larson, New York, New York. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on Labor and Human Resources on the nomination of Donald E.
Shasteen, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans'
Employment, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Thurmond and
Simpson, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was
also received from Ronald W. Drach, The Disabled American Veterans, E. Philip
Riggin, The American Legion, and Dennis Rhoades, Vietnam Veterans of America,
all of Washington, D.C.; and Lt. Col. David Passamaneck, AMVETS, Lanham,
Maryland. 

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 will meet again on Tuesday, May 21. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/17
Daily Digest - Friday, May 17, 1985; pages D561 - D ?  (Bound vol. D302-D304)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUDGET WAIVER 

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting S. Res. 168, to
waive section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to
consideration of S. 1160, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
Department of Defense. 

SURFACE FREIGHT FORWARDER DEREGULATION ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation concluded hearings on S. 1124, to eliminate Interstate Commerce
Commission entry and rate regulation over freight forwarders and remove
antitrust immunity for collective ratemaking activities in the freight
forwarding industry, after receiving testimony from Reese H. Taylor, Jr.,
Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; Philip Haseltine, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs; Lawrence
Berman, Transway International Corporation, White Plains, New York; John F.
Joyce, Wescar Freight System, Los Angeles, California; Herbert Cotzen, C.H.
Robinson Co., Eden Prairie, Minnesota; William J. Augello, Shippers National
Freight Claim Council, Inc., Huntington, New York; and Henry M. Karel,
National Small Shipments Traffic Conference, Inc., representing the Drug and
Toilet Preparation Traffic Conference, Inc., Stanton P. Sender, National
Industrial Transportation League, Calvin W. Stein, Household Goods Forwarders
Association of America, Inc., and Alan F. Wohlstetter, Household Goods
Forwarders Tariff Bureau, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/20
Daily Digest - Monday, May 20, 1985; pages D567 - D ?  (Bound vol. D304-D307)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

IMPUTED INTEREST RATES 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings on S. 56, S. 71, S. 217, S. 251, and S. 729, bills to modify the
application of imputed interest and interest accrual rules of the Internal
Revenue Code, receiving testimony from Senators Melcher and Metzenbaum; Ronald
A. Pearlman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Clark E.
Wallace, National Association of Realtors, David E. Smith, National
Association of Home Builders, Steven A. Wechsler, National Realty Committee,
Scott L. Slesinger, National Apartment Association, Abraham Schneier, National
Federation of Independent Business, and Stephen D. Driesler, National Multi
Housing Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Charles Feldewert, Turley Martin
Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Building Owners and Managers
Association, International; and John J. Szymanski, The Rouse Company,
Columbia, Maryland, on behalf of the International Council of Shopping
Centers. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

IRANIAN CLAIMS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 771 and S.
1166, bills to promote the prompt and efficient processing of claims made by
U.S. citizens and corporations against the Government of Iran, after receiving
testimony from Michael J. Matheson, Deputy Legal Advisor, Department of State;
Arthur Rovine, Baker & McKenzie, New York, New York; Philip R. McKnight,
Ivey,
Barnum & O'Mara, Greenwich, Connecticut; and Timothy Dickinson, Gibson,
Dunn &
Crutcher, Washington, D.C. 

CIVIL RICO SUITS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held oversight hearings on private civil
suits which have been filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations Act, (RICO), receiving testimony from Stephen S. Trott,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Charles
L. Marinaccio, Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission; Daniel W.
Persinger, Deputy General Counsel, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation;
Roman L. Hruska, Kutak, Rock, and Campbell, Omaha, Nebraska, and Anthony J.
DiBuono, Colt Industries Inc., New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

LINE ITEM VETO/PRESIDENTIAL AUTHORITY 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S.43, to
provide that each item of any general or special appropriation bill and any
bill or joint resolution making supplemental, deficiency, or continuing
appropriations that is agreed to by both Houses of the Congress in the same
form shall be enrolled as a separate bill or joint resolution for presentation
to the President, receiving testimony from Louis Fisher, Specialist in
American National Government, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress; and Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 21, 1985; pages D574 - D ?  (Bound vol. D307-D313)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed markup of
S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- STRATEGIC SYSTEMS (MX, B-1, ATB) 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on strategic systems, receiving testimony from Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics; and
Commodore Kenneth C. Malley, USN, Technical Director, Strategic Systems
Program Office. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 4. 

LEGISLATIVE BRANCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Legislative
Branch of the Federal Government, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for their respective activities from Rudolph G. Penner, Director,
Congressional Budget Office; Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the
United States, General Accounting Office; John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of
Technology Assessment; and Ralph E. Kennickell, Jr., Public Printer,
Government Printing Office. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1986 for the Department of the Treasury, after receiving testimony from
James A. Baker, III, Secretary of Treasury, and John F.W. Rogers, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Management. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Martha R. Seger, of Michigan, to be a Member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. 

WETLANDS DREDGE AND FILL PERMIT PROGRAM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution held oversight hearings on the implementation of section 404 of the
Clean Water Act, relating to the wetlands dredge and fill permit program,
receiving testimony from Clinton Spots, 404 Project Manager, Region VI,
Dallas, Texas, and Josephine Cooper, Assistant Administrator for External
Affairs, both of the Environmental Protection Agency; Craig Potter, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; Max Reed,
Chief, Regulatory Function, Branch of the Lower Mississippi Valley Division
(Vicksburg, Mississippi), Army Corps of Engineers; Charles Baxter, Field
Supervisor (Vicksburg, Mississippi), Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of
the Interior; Robert K. Dawson, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil
Works); William Gordon, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National
Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration; and G. Ray Arnett, former Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. 

Hearing continue on Tuesday, June 11. 

GENOCIDE CONVENTION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Exec. O,
81st Cong., 1st sess.), with two reservations, five understandings, and one
declaration. 

FETAL PAIN 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings to examine the current state of medical evidence concerning fetal
pain, after receiving testimony from Kathryn Moseley, St. Louis University
School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Richard L. Berkowitz, Mount Sinai
Medical Center, and Bernard Nathanson, both of New York, New York; Daniel N.
Robinson, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; and Jeramiah Mahoney, Yale
University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed markup of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the intelligence
community, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Thursday, May 23. 

Joint Meeting 

FEDERAL RESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy held hearings to review the budgetary status of the Federal Reserve
System, receiving testimony from Rudolph, Penner, Director, Congressional
Budget Office. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/05/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 22, 1985; pages D574 - D ?  (Bound vol. D313-
D320)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOSSIL ENERGY/NATIONAL PETROLEUM RESERVES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for fossil energy programs and
the National Petroleum Reserves, receiving testimony from William A. Vaughan,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FINANICAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the condition, structure, and competition within the domestic
financial services industry, focusing on implications of further deregulation
of depository institutions, receiving testimony from James M. McCormick, First
Manhattan Consulting Group, and Lee E. Gunderson, Arthur Young & Co., both
of
New York, New York; Joel P. Friedman, Arthur Anderson & Co., San
Francisco,
California; Lawrence Connell, Washington Mutual Savings Bank, Seattle,
Washington; C. Lawrence Evans, Jr., Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co.,
Washington, D.C.; Douglas J. Timmerman, Anchor Savings and Loan Association,
Madison, Wisconsin; and C.E. Bentley, United Financial Group, Inc., Houston,
Texas. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 4. 

ENERGY POLICY AND CONSERVATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 979, to extend the expiration date of titles I and II of the
Energy Policy and Conservation Act, with an amendment. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Francis S. Blake, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator
(General Counsel) of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY/MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings to discuss American
policy toward South Africa, receiving testimony from Atlanta Mayor Andrew
Young, Georgia; Randall Robinson, Transafrica, Michael Sammuels, Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, Paul Murphy, National Foreign Trade Council,
and Thomas Donohue, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; and Vernon Holmes,
Sentry Insurance Company, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL PAY EQUITY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services held hearings to review a report of the General
Accounting Office on "Options for Conducting a Pay Equity Study of
Federal Pay
and Classification Systems," receiving testimony from Senators Cranston
and
Evans; Representative Oakar; William J. Anderson, Director, General Government
Division, Curtis W. Copeland, Evaluator-in-Charge, Pay Equity Study, and Lynn
H. Gibson, Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, all of the General
Accounting Office; and Virginia B. Lamp, Chamber of Commerce of the United
States, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

GREAT LAKES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded hearings on S. 765, to provide for coordinated management and
rehabilitation of the Great Lakes, after receiving testimony from Senator
Kasten; Joseph O. Fletcher, Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and
Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; Henry L. Longest, Acting Assistant Administrator for
Water, Peter Wise, Director, Great Lakes National Program Office (Chicago,
Illinois) (Region 5), and Tudor Davies, Director, Office of Marine and
Estuarine Protection, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; Robert J.
Sugarman, Washington, D.C.; Tom Martin, Michigan Office of Great Lakes,
Lansing; Christian Ballantyne, Madison, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Sierra
Club; Don McNaught, Minnesota Sea Grant Institute, Minneapolis; and Robert A.
Ragotzkie, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, Madison. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
J. Frederick Motz, to be United States District Judge for the District of
Maryland, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Mathias and
Sarbanes, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Committee will consider the nomination tomorrow. 

STOLEN ARCHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Law concluded hearings on
S. 605, to clarify certain provisions of the National Stolen Property Act as
applied to imported archeological and ethnological materials, after receiving
testimony from Senator Moynihan; James Knapp, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Ely Maurer, Assistant Legal
Advisor, Educational, Cultural and Public Affairs, Department of State;
Richard H. Abbey, Chief Counsel, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury; Paul Bator, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Thomas T.
Solley, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington; Bernard V. Bothmer, New
York University, and Douglas C. Ewing, American Association of Dealers in
Ancient, Oriental and Primitive Art, both of New York, New York; Albert A.
Dekin, Jr., Society for American Archeology, Binghamton, New York; and Maureen
Robinson, American Association of Museums, Washington, D.C. 

MISSING CHILDREN 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice held oversight
hearings on the plight of missing children, focusing on private sector
initiatives to assist in efforts to find missing children and to investigate
the dangers of fraud and abuse in efforts to recover missing children,
receiving testimony from Jay Howell, National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, and Theodore C. Knappen, Trailways Corp., both of Washington, D.C.;
Ray Timothy, National Broadcasting Co., New York, New York; Captain Therese
Rocco, Pittsburgh Police Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Frederic S.
Schroeder, Wawa, Inc., Wawa, Pennsylvania; and Eric Reed, V.G. Reed and Sons
Printing, Louisville, Kentucky. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
797, to authorize employers to pay employees under 20 years of age a specified
percentage of the minimum wage rate between May and September of each year,
after receiving testimony from William E. Brock III, Secretary of Labor; Mayor
Marion Barry, Jr., Washington, D.C., on behalf of the National Conference of
Black Mayors; Robbie Callaway, Boys' Clubs of America, Alexandria, Virginia;
Angel Lopez, SER-Jobs for Progress, Bolling Brook, Illinois; and Ray Denison,
AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.  

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BONDS 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Small Business: Family Farm held
hearings on small issue industrial development bonds as a source of capital
for small business expansion, receiving testimony from Robert A. Bowman,
Michigan State Treasurer, Lansing; Lee White, Smith Barney Harris & Co.,
Denver, Colorado; Ira McCown, Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, New York, New
York; Calvin Engel, Aberdeen Development Corp., Aberdeen, South Dakota; Jack
Dinos, Southern Tea Company, Marietta, Georgia; Jerry Boerboom, Litchfield
Precision Components, Inc., Litchfield, Minnesota; Henry Berry, Engineering,
Inc., Hampton, Virginia; Charles F. Kireker, Massachusetts Industrial Finance
Agency, Boston; Gerald Harris, HEM, Inc., Pryor, Oklahoma; and Ronald Bailey,
Illinois Farm Development Authority, Springfield.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

RURAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation
resumed hearings to review economic problems in rural areas, focusing on how
the depressed farm economy affects the state of vital community services like
education and physical and mental health care for citizens in rural areas,
receiving testimony from Sam Cordes, Penn State University, University Park,
Pennsylvania; Steve Wright, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro; Robert
Cockle, Watertown Public Schools, Watertown, South Dakota; Faith Dunne,
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Paul Delargy, University of
Georgia, Athens; James Christenson, University of Kentucky, Lexington; Ray
Coward, University of Vermont, Burlington; Val Farmer, West River Mental
Health Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; and David Custis, Wall Clinic, Wall,
South Dakota. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1985/05/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 23, 1985; pages D593 - D ?  (Bound vol. D320-
D326)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INTERNATIONAL AIR ROUTE CERTIFICATES 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 586, to provide for the review of certain authority
in the awarding of international airline route certificates issued under the
Federal Aviation Act after receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Jeff
Shane, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and
International Affairs; and Ed Meyer, TWA, Con Hitchcock, Aviation Consumer
Action Project, Bob Cohn, representing Peoples Express, and Jeff Manley,
representing TransAmerica Airlines, all of Washington, D.C. 

DRINKING WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S.
1197, to ban the use of lead solder and lead pipe in any new construction of
water distribution systems, and to require a warning label on the sale of all
lead solder, after receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Robert Tucker,
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton; Norman Murrell,
H2M Consultants, Melville, New York; Richard Howell, Delaware-Division of
Public Health, Dover; and Richard Svenson, New York State Department of
Health, Albany. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Douglas W. McMinn, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of
State, and Abraham D. Sofaer, of New York, to be Legal Advisor of the
Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. 

FEDERAL PAY EQUITY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services continued hearings to review a report of the General
Accounting Office on "Options for Conducting a Pay Equity Study of
Federal Pay
and Classification Systems," receiving testimony from Loretta Cornelius,
Acting Director, Richard Post, Associate Director for Staffing, and Joseph
Howe, Assistant Director, Office of Standards Development, all of the Office
of Personnel Management; Morris Abram, Vice Chairman, and June O'Neill,
Economist, Consultant to the Commission, both of the Commission on Civil
Rights; Heidi I. Hartmann, Washington, D.C.; and Solomon W. Polachek, State
University of New York Binghamton. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

PLIGHT OF MISSING CHILDREN 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings to review the progress made on the
plight of missing children, and on the involvement of businesses, corporations
and organizations in the search for missing children after receiving testimony
from Senator Bradley; John and Reve Walsh, Adam Walsh Child Resource Centers,
Hollywood, Florida; Jay Howell, National Center on Missing and Exploited
Children, Washington, D.C.; Major Donna Owens, Toledo, Ohio, representing the
Missing Children's Advisory Board; Connecticut Attorney General Joe Lieberman,
Hartford; Joe B. Hinton, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, New York; and Steve
Johnson, Texize Corporation, Greenville, South Carolina. 

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. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/05/24
Daily Digest - Friday, May 24, 1985 ; pages D593 - D ?  (Bound vol. D326-D328)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held hearings on S. 635, to express
opposition of the United States to the system of apartheid in South Africa by
prohibiting new U.S. bank loans to the Government of South Africa, prohibiting
investment by U.S. firms in South Africa, prohibiting the importation of South
African gold coins into the United States, and forbidding the sale of
computers to the Government of South Africa, receiving testimony from Sheldon
Hackney, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Derek Bok, Harvard
University, and D. Reid Weedon, Jr., Arthur D. Little, Inc., both of
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Roy Schotland, Georgetown Law School, and Donald F.
McHenry, School of Foreign Service, both of Georgetown University, Robert
D'Agostino, National Legal Center for the Public Interest, and Patrick
O'Farrell, AFL-CIO, African-American Labor Center, all of Washington, D.C.;
and George J. Schroll, Colgate Palmolive, Inc., and Sal Marzullo, Mobil Oil
Corporation, both of New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 13. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/03
Daily Digest - Monday, June 3, 1985; pages D606 - D ?  (Bound vol. D328-D332)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

MEDICAL EDUCATION PASS-THROUGH 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health concluded hearings on S. 1158, to
reform Medicare payments for direct costs of approved educational activities,
after receiving testimony from Henry R. Desmarais, Director, Bureau of
Eligibility, Reimbursement and Coverage, Health Care Financing Administration,
and Thomas D. Hatch, Director, Bureau of Health Professions, Public Health
Service, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; W. Donald
Weston, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, East Lansing, and
Eugene L. Staples, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, both on
behalf of the American Association of Medical Collegs; Neal A. Vanselow,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on behalf of the Association of Academic
Health Centers; Thomas Ferris, University of Minnesota, Minnesapolis, Jay H.
Stein, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, and Norton J.
Greenberger, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, all on behalf
of the Association of Professors of Medicine; Louis J. Kettel, University of
Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, on behalf of the American Medical
Association; Clement B. Sledge, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons;
Robret L. Ruberg, Ohio State University, Columbus, on behalf of the American
Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons; George Sheldon, American
College of Surgeons, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Edward W. Hook, American
College of Physicians, New York, New York; Robert A. Capone, Federation of
Associations of Schools of the Health Professions, Rockville, Maryland; Ellen
T. Fahy, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing, Minneapolis, on behalf of
the Nursing Tri-Council; Sharon A. Scanlon, Georgetown University Medical
School, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Medical Student
Association; Richard Berman, New York University Medical Center, New York, on
behalf of the American Hospital Association; William F. Minogue, Association
for Hospital Medical Education, Washington, D.C.; and Mark R. Russell, Kennedy
Memorial Hospitals, University Medical Center, Stratford, New Jersey, on
behalf of the American Osteopathic Hospital Association. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 4, 1985; pages D616 - D ?  (Bound vol. D333-D337)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed markup of
S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on drug related activities in Latin America, receiving testimony from
Gen. Paul F. Gorman, USA (Retired). 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for the Minerals Management Service from William D. Bettenberg,
Director, Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

BUDGET WAIVER 

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting without
recommendation S. Res. 161, waiving section 402(a) of the Congressional Budget
Act with respect to consideration of S. 1132, authorizing supplemental funds
for fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, and authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1986 and 1987 for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation held hearings on the impact of imported petroleum products on
the domestic petroleum industry, receiving testimony from Paula Stern,
Chairwoman, International Trade Commission; Danny J. Boggs, Deputy Secretary,
Department of Energy; John R. Hall, Ashland Oil, Ashland, Kentucky, on behalf
of the Independent Refiners Coalition; Bill Tell, Jr., Texaco Inc., Leonard P.
Steuart II, Steuart Petroleum Company, on behalf of the Coalition of
Independent Petroleum Product Marketers, Phillip J. Rathburn, Dow Chemical
U.S.A., on behalf of the Petrochemical Energy Group, Nolan W. Hancock, Oil,
Chemical and Atomic Workers, Urvan R. Sternfels, National Petroleum Refiners
Association, Tom Van Arsdall, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and
Edwin Rothschild, Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, all of Washington, D.C.;
Bill McGough, Tulsa., Oklahoma; and Jack A. Griffith, Griffith Petroleum Inc.,
Stillwater, Oklahoma, on behalf of the Petroleum Marketers Association of
America. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 18. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 995, to express the opposition of the United States to the apartheid
policies of the Government of South Africa and to encourage South Africa to
abandon such policies, with amendments. (As approved by the committee, the
bill incorporates certain provisions of S. 1228 and S. 1020.) 

S. 1166, to promote the prompt and efficient processing of claims made by U.S.
citizens and corporations against the Government of Iran; and 

The nominations of Robert D. Blackwill, of Maryland, for the rank of
Ambassador during the tenure of his service as U.S. Representative for Mutual
and Balanced Force Reductions Negotiations, William A. Brown, of New
Hampshire, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, Donald S. Lowitz, of
Illinois, for the rank of Ambassador while serving as U.S. Representative to
the Conference on Disarmament, Ernest E. Pell, of Maryland, to be an Associate
Director of the U.S. Information Agency, Abraham D. Sofaer, of New York, to be
Legal Adviser of the Department of State, and George S. Vest, of Maryland, to
be Director General of the Foreign Service. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began hearings on the nomination of
William B. Reynolds, of Maryland, to be Associate Attorney General, Department
of Justice, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Mathias and
Roth, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Gary L. Bauer, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Education,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator McConnell and Representative
Conte, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 5, 1985; pages D616 - D ?  (Bound vol. D337-
D343)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

ACCESS TO SPACE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concludes closed hearings on a reprogramming request for certain space launch
vehicles, after receiving testimony from Jesse W. Moore, Associate
Administrator for the Office of Space Flight, National Air and Space
Administration; and Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Under Secretary of the Air Force. 

BROKERED DEPOSITS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Affairs concluded oversight hearings on issues
limiting insurance on brokered deposits, after receiving testimony from
William M. Isaac, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Edwin J.
Gray, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Susan Kelsey, Dean Witter
Financial Services, and Emanuel J. Falzon, Merrill Lynch Money Markets, Inc.,
both of Washington, D.C.; Jorge Coloma, FAIC Securities, Inc., Miami, Florida;
and Bill Goldsmith, Professional Asset Securities, Inc., Del Mar, California. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Robert
M. Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of the
Treasury, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

Committee will consider the nomination on tomorrow. 

TAX REFORM ACT/TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 814, to make
technical corrections to certain provisions of the Tax Reform Act of 1984, and
proposed technical corrections to the Retirement Equity Act (P.L. 98-397),
after receiving testimony from Roger Mentz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; Daniel C. Maclean, Dreyfus Corporation, Russell
Barnes, Pan Am World Services, Inc., and Dennis J. Kenny, Transamerica,
Interway, Inc., all of New York, New York; Martin D. Ginsburg, Georgetown
University Law Center, Mac Asbill, Jr., Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan,
Martin
D. Wood, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Marjorie A.
O'Connell, O'Connell & Kittrell, William W. Chip, Employers Council on
Flexible Compensation, E.E. Edwards, American Bar Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Russell C. Shaw, Thompson, Hine & Flory, Cleveland,
Ohio;
James Carter, ICI Americas, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware; Morton H. Zalutsky,
Klarquist and Johnson, Portland, Oregon; Donald W. Milroy, Sky Chefs,
Arlington, Texas; Jack Greenberg, IU International, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Roger L. Heymann, Heymann, Loeb & Cohen, Rockville,
Maryland. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumes hearings on the
nomination of Donald J. Devine, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of
Personnel Management, receiving testimony from Dennis M. Devaney, Member,
Merit Systems Protection Board; Loretta Cornelius, Acting Director, Joseph A.
Morris, General Counsel, and William M. Hunt, Associate Director for
Administration, all of the Office of Personnel Management; and Harry R. Van
Cleve, General Counsel, Henry Wray, Associate General Counsel, and Michael
Volpe, Attorney, Office of General Counsel, all of the U.S. General Accounting
Office. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William B. Reynolds, of Maryland, to be Associate Attorney General, Department
of Justice, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his
own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination from Representative
Schroeder; Phil Neal, Freedman & Coven, Chicago, Illinois; James
Blumstein,
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; Mark DeBernardo, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, Paul Camenar, Washington Legal Foundation, Robert Kapp, Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Benjamin Hooks, Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights, William Taylor, Center for National Policy Review, Judy
Goldsmith, National Organization for Women, Inc., Richard P. Fajardo, Mexican
American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Kathy Wilson, National
Women's Political Caucus, Robert B. Kliesmet, International Union of Police
Administrations, Susan M. Liss, Judicial Selection Project, Lani Guinier, and
Phyllis McClure, both of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Robert
Dinerstein, Criminal Justice Clinic, American University College of Law,
Judith Lichtman, Women's Legal Defense Fund, Martin Sloane, National Committee
Against Discrimination in Housing, Elliot Mineberg, Washington Council of
Lawyers, Anthony Podesta, People for the American Way, Ralph Neas, Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights, and Ron Walters, Howard University, all of
Washington, D.C.; Roy Innis, Congress on Racial Equality, John Jacob, National
Urban League, David Zwiebel, Agudath Israel of America, Esmerelda Simmons,
State of New York Division of Human Rights, and Laura Blackburne, New York
State Conference, NAACP, all of New York, New York; William Van Alstyne, Duke
University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina; Alvin Sykes, American
Justice Campaign, St. Louis, Missouri; Lorenzo Trevino, American G.I. Forum,
Los Angeles, California; William Quigley, New Orleans, Louisiana; John
England, Selma, Alabama; Marianne Becker, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Gordon Graham,
Birmingham, Alabama; and Ronald Hampton, National Black Police Association,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

DRUG EXPORT REFORM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to
authorize the export of new drugs and biologicals not yet approved in the
United States to countries that have approved them, after receiving testimony
from Frank E. Young, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, Food and Drug
Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human
Services; Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association, Tim
Hart, Association of Biotechnology Companies, C. Payne Lucas, and Alan
Alemian, both of Africare, and Sidney M. Wolfe, and Nancy Drabble, both of
Public Citizens Congress Watch, Health Research Group, all of Washington,
D.C.; David Sharrock, and Robert Ingram, both of Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Robert A. Swanson, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco,
California; Paulo Machado, Sao Paulo, Brazil, former Health Minister of
Brazil; and Humphrey Taylor, Lou Harris and Associates, Inc., New York, New
York. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 6, 1985; pages D623 - D ?  (Bound vol. D343-
D348)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, June 11. 

D.C. PRISONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia resumed
oversight hearings on the District of Columbia prison system, receiving
testimony from Thomas Downs, Deputy Mayor for Operations/City Administrator,
and James Palmer, Director, Department of Corrections, both of the District of
Columbia Government; and Rodney Ahitow, Illinois Department of Corrections,
Springfield, and consultant to D.C. Department of Corrections for education
and vocation programs. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 11. 

CORPORATE TAKEOVERS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
resumed hearings to examine corporate takeovers, focusing on securities,
financing and other aspects of mergers and acquisitions, receiving testimony
from Felix G. Rohatyn, Lazard Freres and Company, Frederick H. Joseph, Drexel
Burnham Lambert Inc., Harrison J. Goldin, Comptroller of the City of New York,
representing the Council of Institutional Investors, Muriel F. Siebert, Muriel
Siebert and Company, John A. Georges, International Paper Company, on behalf
of the Business Council of New York State Inc., Kenneth H. Miller, Merrill
Lynch Capital Markets, Warren M. Foss, Jr., and Roger Miller, both of Salomon
Brothers, Inc., and Ralph Ingersoll, Ingersoll Newspapers, Inc., all of New
York, New York; Andrew C. Sigler, Champion International Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of the Business Roundtable; and Alexander B.
Trowbridge, National Association of Manufacturers, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, June 12. 

SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION 51-D 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on the in-flight activities of Space
Shuttle mission 51-D, after receiving testimony from crew members, Senator
Garn; Col. Karol J. Bobko, Commander, Donald E. Williams, Pilot, M. Rhea
Seddon, Capt. David Griggs, and Jeffrey A. Hoffman, all Mission Specialists,
and Charles D. Walker, Payload Specialist. 

COAL IMPORTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Natural Resources
Development and Production concluded oversight hearings on the importation of
foreign coals into the United States and its effects on America's economic and
trade interests, after receiving testimony from Senator Byrd; William A.
Vaughan, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety and Health; E.
Allan Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy and
Resources Policy; Michael T. Kelley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce
for Basic Industries; Hermann Enzer, Assistant Director, Mineral Data
Analysis, Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior; Richard L. Trumka,
United Mine Workers of America, Daniel R. Gerkin, Mining and Reclamation
Council of America, and A. Denny Ellerman, National Coal Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Richard C. Kiddoo, Exxon Coal International, New York, New
York; Glenn R. Schleede, New England Energy Inc., Westborough, Massachusetts,
on behalf of New England Electric System; and Forrest Hill, Hill and
Associates, Annapolis, Maryland. 

NOMINATION/IMPUTED INTEREST RULES 

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

The nomination of Robert M. Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the
Department of the Treasury; and 

H.R. 2475, to modify the imputed interest provisions of the Deficit Reduction
Act of 1984, relating to tax treatment of imputed interest on deferred
payments of property, with amendments. 

A press release summarizing the action taken by the committee today will be
available in the committee office in room SD-219. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Donald J. Devine, of Maryland, to be Director of the Office of
Personnel Management, after the nominee testified and answered further
questions in his own behalf. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
approved for full committee consideration the following bills: 

S. 415, to clarify the intent of Congress to protect the educational rights of
handicapped children, with an amendment; and 

S. 974, to provide for protection and advocacy for mentally ill persons, with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

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. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/07
Daily Digest - Friday, June 7, 1985; pages D640 - D ?  (Bound vol. D348-D352)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE SUPPLEMENTAL 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense approved for full
committee consideration the defense related provisions of H.R. 2577, making
supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1985
(pending on House calendar). 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

(1) The nomination of J. Frederick Motz, to be United States District Judge
for the District of Maryland; 

(2) S.J. Res. 88, to designate the week beginning September 8, 1985, as
"National Osteopathic Medicine Week"; 

(3) S.J. Res. 125, designating the week of June 23-29, 1985, as "Helen
Keller
Deaf-Blind Awareness Week"; 

(4) S.J. Res. 137, to designate the week of December 15-21, 1985, as
"National
Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness
Week"; 

(5) S.J. Res. 138, to designate the week of June 2-8, 1985, as "National
Intelligence Community Week"; 

(6) S.J. Res. 140 designating the week of June 2-8, 1985, as "National
Theatre
Week"; 

(7) H.J. Res. 64, designating Mother's Day, May 12, 1985, to Father's Day,
June 16, 1985, as "Family Reunion Month"; 

(8) S.J. Res. 142, to designate June 12, 1985, as "Anne Frank Day";
and 

(9) H.R. 1042, to grant a Federal charter to the Pearl Harbor Survivors
Association. 

Committee indefinitely postponed S.J. Res. 33, companion measure to H.J. Res.
64, listed above, and S.J. Res. 133, to designate May 25, 1985, as
"National
Holstein Day." 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S.J. Res. 13, to propose an
amendment to the United States Constitution relating to a Federal balanced
budget and tax limitation, but did not complete action thereon. 

SUPERFUND 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the judicial provisions
of S. 51, the Superfund Improvement Act, receiving testimony from Lee M.
Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; F. Henry Habicht II,
Assistant Attorney General, Lands and Natural Resources Division, Department
of Justice; Carl Schafer, Director for Environmental Policy, Office of the
Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense; George Clemon Freeman, Jr.,
Richmond, Virginia; and Janet S. Hathaway, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Monday, June 10. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

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

SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments: 

Economic Resources, Competitiveness, and Security Economics 

Representatives Obey (Chairman), Hawkins, Scheuer, and Wylie, and Senators
Proxmire (Vice Chairman), Symms, Mattingly, and Wilson. 

Investment, Jobs, and Prices 

Representatives Mitchell (Chairman), Stark, Lungren, and Fiedler, and Senators
Kennedy (Vice Chairman), Sarbanes, and D'Amato. 

Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy 

Representatives Hamilton (Chairman), Hawkins, Snowe, and Senators Bentsen
(Vice Chairman), D'Amato, and Wilson. 

Monetary and Fiscal Policy 

Senators Symms (Chairman), Mattingly, Kennedy, and Sarbanes, and
Representatives Wylie (Vice Chairman), Fiedler, Hamilton, and Obey. 

Trade, Productivity, and Economic Growth 

Senators Roth (Chairman), Abdnor, and Proxmire, and Representatives Lungren
(Vice Chairman), Mitchell, and Scheuer. 

Agriculture and Transportation 

Senators Abdnor (Chairman), Roth, and Bentsen, and Representatives Snowe (Vice
Chairman), Wylie, Stark, and Scheuer. 



1985/06/10
Daily Digest - Monday, June 10, 1985; pages D649 - D ?  (Bound vol. D352-D355)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nominations of Kyle C. Boone, of North Carolina, and MacDonald
G. Becket, of California, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the
National Institute of Building Sciences. 

WETLANDS DREDGE AND FILL PERMIT PROGRAM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution resumed oversight hearings on the implementation of section 404 of
the Clean Water Act, relating to the wetlands dredge and fill permit program,
receiving testimony from Robert K. Dawson, Acting Assistant Secretary of the
Army for Civil Works; William Gordon, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Josephine Cooper, Assistant
Administrator for External Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency; and Craig
Potter, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and
Parks. 

Hearings continue on Monday, July 15. 

SUPERFUND 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the judicial
provisions of S. 51, the Superfund Improvement Act, after receiving testimony
on the liabilities facing cleanup contractors from Representative Breaux;
Charles Schwenck, Irvine, California, on behalf of the National Constructors
Association; Robert J. Hurley, Grant Gear Works, Inc., Norwood, Massachusetts;
Ann Powers, The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Annapolis, Maryland; and Charles D.
Renfrew, The American Petroleum Institute, Randy M. Mott, National Association
of Manufacturers, Edmund Frost, Chemical Manufacturers Association, and T.
Lawrence Jones, American Insurance Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1985/06/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 11, 1985; pages D656 - D ?  (Bound vol. D355-
D361)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed markup of
S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers of abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1986 for the government
of the District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion Barry, and
David Clarke, Chairman, District of Columbia City Council. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 18. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the condition, structure, and competition within the domestic
financial services industry, focusing on implications of further deregulation
of depository institutions, receiving testimony from Robert B. Evans, American
Financial Services Association, Stephen Brobeck, Consumer Federation of
America, and Henry B. Schechter, AFL-CIO, all of Washington, D.C.; and John T.
Sutton, Virginia Consumer Credit Administrator, on behalf of the National
Association of Consumer Credit Administrators. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 13. 

HYDROELECTRIC POWER FACILITIES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 403, to establish policy and procedures to guide the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the issuance of new licenses to
operate existing hydroelectric facilities, S. 426, to provide for more
protection to electric consumers, S. 1219, to ensure fair competition in the
licensing of existing hydroelectric projects, and S. 1260, proposed
Hydroelectric Relicensing Reform Act, after receiving testimony from Senators
Cranston, Denton, and Wilson; Anthony G. Sousa, Commissioner, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission; William T. Bagley, on behalf of the National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and California Public Utility
Commission, and Frederick W. Mielke, Jr., Pacific Gas and Electric, both of
San Francisco, California; David Bolender, Pacific Power and Light, Portland,
Oregon; John H. Terry, Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Syracuse, New York;
Walter Sandberg, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Greenbay; Jesse S.
Vogtle, Alabama Power Company, Birmingham; Alex Radin, American Public Power
Association, John W. Wilson, Wilson and Associates, Vincent A. O'Reilly,
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Susan L. Connolly, U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, and David R. Conrad, Friends of the Earth, all of
Washington, D.C.; Robert McKinney, Cowlitz County Public Utility District,
Longview, Washington; Loren Hov, Stauffer Chemical, Westport, Connecticut;
Logan Lanham, Idaho Power Company, and Robert Shade, Boise Cascade
Corporation, both of Boise, Idaho; Angelo Pizzagalli, Pizzagalli Construction
Company, South Burlington, Vermont; Frank Augsbury, Adirondack North Country
Association, Ogdensburg, New York; Dan Smith, Association of California Water
Agencies, and Ann Taylor, Sacramento Municipal Utility District, both of
Sacramento, California; Casey Shpall, Mountain States Legal Foundation,
Denver, Colorado; D.R. Von Raesfeld, on behalf of the City of Santa Clara, and
James W. Beck, Director of Electric Utilities, both of Santa Clara,
California; Gordon W. Hoyt, Anaheim Public Utilities, Anaheim, California;
David W. Penn, Wisconsin Public Power, Inc. System, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin;
Randall W. Hardy, Seattle City Light Department, Seattle, Washington; Scott W.
Reed, National Audubon Society, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and Russ Shay, Sierra
Club (California/Nevada Representative), Oakland, California. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on the President's proposed tax
reform, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the
Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of John M. Steadman, to be an Associate Judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, and Richard A. Levie, to be an Associate Judge of
the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. 

INDEMNIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 1254, to provide
that a government contractor may seek indemnification from the Federal
Government for any damages or losses sustained as a result of suits brought
solely against the contractor, and on related proposals, receiving testimony
from Representatives Kindness and Feighan; Richard K. Willard, Acting
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Mary Ann
Gilleece, Deputy Under Secretary for Acquisition Management, Department of
Defense; Jeffrey J. Weinstein, Winfield Manufacturing Co., New York, New York,
on behalf of the American Apparel Manufacturers Association; T. Richard Brown,
TRW Incorporated, Rosslyn, Virginia; James J. Perino, Rockwell International,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, representing the Contractor Liability and
Indemnification Alliance; Karen Hastie Williams, representing the American Bar
Association, Washington, D.C.; and Robert C. Gusman, Lockheed Corporation,
Burbank, California, on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association of
America, Inc. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

COMPUTERS AND CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism concluded
hearings on the use of computers to transmit material that incites crime and
constitutes interstate transmission of implicitly obscene matter, focusing on
the exchange, among child molesters, of information relating to their victims
by way of computer networks that utilize interstate telephone lines, after
receiving testimony from Senator Trible; Victoria Toensing, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Jack D. Smith,
General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission; and Kenneth V. Lanning,
Supervisory Special Agent, Behavioral Science Unit, Federal Bureau of
Investigation Academy (Quantico, Virginia). 

RADIOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL TABLES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held joint hearings with the
Committee on Environment and Public Works' Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
on the implementation of the Orphan Drug Act (P.L. 97-414), focusing on
section 7(b) relating to radiation-cancer liability and possible medical
consequences arising from the use of radioepidemiological tables, receiving
testimony from J. Edward Rall, Deputy Director for Intramural Research, and
Gilbert W. Beebe, Clinical Epidemiological Branch, and Charles E. Land, Health
Statistician, both of the National Cancer Institute, all of the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and Seymour
Jablon, Director, Medical Follow-up Agency, National Research Council,
National Academy of Sciences, all of the Ad Hoc Working Group to Develop
Radioepidemiological Tables; C. Frederick Mosteller, Harvard School of Public
Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Eugene L. Saenger, University of
Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, both of the National Academy of
Science Oversight Panel on Radioepidemiological Tables; Alvin Young, Senior
Policy Analyst, Life Sciences, White House Science Office, and Randall S.
Caswell, Chairman, both of the Committee on Interagency Radiation Research
Policy Coordination (CIRRPC); Robert Alvarez, Environmental Policy Institute,
Washington, D.C.; and Carl Johnson, Denver, Colorado. 

Hearings continued tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Monday, June 10, the Committee
approved for reporting the nominations of Carl W. Salser, of Oregon, Donna H.
Hearne, of Missouri, and J. Floyd Hall, of South Carolina, each to be a Member
of the National Council on Educational Research. 

GALLAUDET COLLEGE/NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded oversight hearings on the recent accomplishments and future
direction of Gallaudet College and the National Technical Institute for the
Deaf and to examine the role these institutions play in services the Federal
Government provides to the nation's deaf students, receiving testimony from
Madeleine C. Will, Assistant Secretary of Education for Special Education and
Rehabilitative Services; William J. Gainer, Associate Director, Human
Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Jerry C. Lee, President,
Gallaudet College; and William E. Castle, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, New York, on behalf of the National Technical Institute for the
Deaf. 

SMALL BUSINESS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BONDS 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Small Business: Family Farm
concluded hearings on small issue industrial development bonds as a source of
capital for small business expansion, after receiving testimony from Ronald
Pearlman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original bill (S. 1271) authorizing funds for fiscal year 1986 for the
Intelligence Community. 

Joint Meeting 

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR FY 1986 

Conferees met to resolve the difference between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of S. Con. Res. 32, setting forth recommended levels of total budget
outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for fiscal years 1986,
1987, and 1988, and revising the congressional budget for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1985, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow. 



1985/06/12
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 12, 1985; pages D667 - D ?  (Bound vol. D361-
D366)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon and will meet again tomorrow. 

CORPORATE TAKEOVERS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
concluded hearings to examine corporate takeovers, focusing on securities,
financing and other aspects of mergers and acquisitions, after receiving
testimony from Senator Domenici; James A. Goldsmith, General Oriental
Investments, Limited, John J. Phelan, Jr., New York Stock Exchange, and Arthur
Levitt, Jr., American Stock Exchange, all of New York, New York; Fred L.
Hartley, Unocal, Los Angeles, California; T. Boone Pickens, Jr., Mesa
Petroleum Company, Amarillo, Texas; and Gordon S. Macklin, National
Association of Securities Dealers, and H. Wayne Howell, North American
Securities Administrators Association, both of Washington, D.C. 

CONRAIL 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
a proposal to purchase the Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) by Morgan
Stanley and Company, Inc., receiving testimony from John H. Riley,
Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; and Thomas A. Saunders III,
Morgan Stanley & Co., Incorporated.  

INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORTATION PROTECTION ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 1218, to provide for the revocation of an
international route certificate if the certificate is being sold in the
liquidation of assets of an air carrier that has been the subject of a hostile
takeover, after receiving testimony from Senator Eagleton; Matthew Scocozza,
Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Policy and International Affairs;
Councilman Robert Lewellen, City of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri;
Leonard L. Griggs, St. Louis Lambert International Airport, St. Louis,
Missouri; John Ash, Trans World Airlines, and Mel Yarke, Airline Pilots
Association, both of New York, New York; and Mary Ellen Miller, Independence
Federation of Flight Attendants, Kansas City, Missouri. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1068, to repeal certain provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act
and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Amendments of 1978, which require
the Department of the Interior to provide reports on shut-in and flaring oil
and gas wells and investigations of oil and gas reserves, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; 

S. 953, to validate contractual relationships between the United States and
various non-federal entities; and 

The nominations of Eric Reichl, of Connecticut, Tom Corcoran, of Illinois, and
Paul W. MacAvoy, of New York, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on the President's tax
reform proposal, receiving testimony from Roscoe Egger, Commissioner, Internal
Revenue Service. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of J. William Middendorf II, of Virginia, to be the Representative
of the United States of America to the European Communities, with the rank and
status of Ambassador, Nicholas Ruwe, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Iceland, and John D. Scanlan, of Hawaii, as
Ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their behalf. Mr. Middendorf was
introduced by Senators Warner, Trible, and Pell, and Mr. Ruwe was introduced
by Senator Warner. 

RELOCATION OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS TEAMS/ANTITRUST ISSUES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 172, to provide
a cause of action to cities to prevent professional football teams from
abandoning them for more profitable locations, and to provide limited
antitrust immunity to joint action of those teams engaged in professional
football, S. 298, to clarify congressional intent regarding the application of
antitrust laws to certain types of major sports leagues practices and
decisions, and to review the antitrust provisions of S. 259, to protect local
community interests regarding the relocation of certain professional sports
teams, after receiving testimony from Senators Gore and Sarbanes;
Representative Mikulski; Charles F. Rule, Acting Assistant Attorney General,
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; former Senator Joseph Tydings, on
behalf of Maryland Governor Harry Hughes, Annapolis; Edward Snider,
Philadelphia Flyers Hockey Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; California State
Senator William Campbell, on behalf of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Commission, and Alan I. Rothenberg, San Diego Clippers Basketball Club, both
of Los Angeles, California; Russell Granik, National Basketball Association,
and Neal Pilson, CBS Broadcast Group, both of New York, New York; and George
Vukasin, Oakland Coliseum Board, Oakland, California. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Robert C. Broomfield, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Arizona,
Claude M. Hilton, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of
Virginia, and Loren A. Smith, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the U.S. Claims
Court, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Broomfield was introduced by Senator DeConcini, Mr. Hilton was
introduced by Senators Trible and Warner, and Mr. Smith was introduced by
Senators Trible, Warner, and Roth. 

RADIOEPIDEMIOLOGICAL TABLES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded joint hearings
with the Committee on Environment and Public Works' Subcommittee on Nuclear
Regulation on the implementation of the Orphan Drug Act (P.L. 97-414),
focusing on section 7(b) relating to radiation-cancer liability and possible
medical consequences arising from the use of the radioepidemiological tables,
after receiving testimony from Robert L. Willmore, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Division, Department of Justice; E. Cooper Brown, and Kathleen
Tucker, both of the National Committee for Radiation Victims, both of
Washington, D.C.; Robert Catlin, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto,
California; Ralph E. Lapp, Alexandria, Virginia; Vincent Boyer, Philadelphia
Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Samuel T. Fife, Atomic Trades
and Labor Council, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Richard Schmalz, American Nuclear
Insurers, Southington, Connecticut; and Joseph Fiksel, Arthur D. Little, Inc.,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Ralph E. Kennickell, Jr., of Virginia, to be Public Printer of
the United States, where the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Mattingly
and Representative Lindsay Thomas, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Joyce Blalock, Inspector General,
Government Printing Office; Robert S. Willard, Information Industry
Association, George Lord, Joint Council of GPO Unions, Shirley Echelman,
Association of Research Libraries, Jesse Hamilton, Coalition of Minority
Workers -- GPO Incorporated, and Eileen D. Cooke, American Library
Association, all of Washington, D.C. Benjamin Y. Cooper, Printing Industries
of America, Arlington, Virginia; and Brenda Curtis-Heiken, National
Association of Government Communicators, Alexandria, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 876, to clarify and improve certain health-care programs and services
provided and administered by the Veterans Administration, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the Committee, the bill
incorporates certain provisions of S. 6, Senate amendment No. 22 to S. 6, S.
875, S. 1007, S. 1052, and provisions providing authorizations for
construction of Veterans Administration facilities); 

An original resolution waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, with respect to the consideration of S. 876, listed above; and 

S. 367, to establish certain procedures to the adjudication of claims for
benefits under laws administered by the Veterans Administration, to provide
for judicial review of certain final decisions of the Administrator of
Veterans Affairs, and to provide for the payment of reasonable fees to
attorneys for rendering legal representation to individuals claiming benefits
under laws administered by the Veterans Administration. 

Joint Meeting 

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR 1986 

Conferees met to resolve the difference between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of S. Con. Res. 32, setting forth recommended levels of total budget
outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for fiscal years 1986,
1987, and 1988, and revising the congressional budget for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1985, but did not complete action thereon and will meet again
tomorrow. 



1985/06/13
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 13, 1985; pages D674 - D ?  (Bound vol. D366-
D373)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM BILL 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 501 and S. 616, bills to expand export markets for United States
agricultural commodities, provide price and income protection for farmers,
assure consumers an abundance of food and fiber at reasonable prices, and
continue low-income food assistance programs, and related measures, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, June 18. 

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported H.R. 2577,
making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1985, with amendments. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the condition, structure, and competition within the domestic
financial services industry, focusing on implications of further deregulation
of depository institutions, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III,
Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 18. 

APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on S. 635, to
express opposition of the United States to the system of apartheid in South
Africa by prohibiting new U.S. bank loans to the Government of South Africa,
prohibiting investment by U.S. firms in South Africa, prohibiting the
importation of South African gold coins into the United States, and forbidding
the sale of computers to the Government of South Africa, after receiving
testimony from Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, Zion Baptist Church, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 1714, authorizing $7 billion 652 million for fiscal year 1986 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute, and in lieu of S. 1278; 

S. 1218, to provide for the revocation of an international route certificate
if the certificate is being sold in the liquidation of assets of an air
carrier that has been the subject of a hostile takeover, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1279, authorizing $295 million for fiscal year ending September 30, 1985
through fiscal year 1989; and 

An original resolution waiving section 402(a) of the Congressional Budget Act
with respect to consideration of S. 1279, listed above. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on the President's tax
reform proposal, receiving testimony from Roger B. Smith, General Motors
Corporation, Detroit, Michigan; John H. Bryan, Jr., Sara Lee Corporation,
Chicago, Illinois, representing the Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc.,
Donald H. Trautlein, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
John G. Smale, Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio; John H.
Richmann,
Dart & Kraft, Northbrook, Illinois; William W. Berry, Dominion Resources
(Virginia Power, North Carolina Power, and Virginia Natural Gas), Richmond,
Virginia; and Philip L. Smith, General Foods Corporation, White Plains, New
York. 

Hearings continue on Monday, June 17. 

NORTH PACIFIC FUR SEAL CONVENTION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Protocol
Amending the Interim Convention on Conservation of North Pacific Fur Seals
Between the United States, Canada, Japan, and the Soviet Union (Treaty Doc.
99-5), signed at Washington, D.C., on October 12, 1984, after receiving
testimony from Senators Stevens and Levin; Edward J. Derwinski, Counselor, and
Raymond V. Arnaudo, Pacific Fisheries Officer, Office of Fisheries Affairs,
both of the Department of State; Carmen J. Blondin, U.S. Commissioner, North
Pacific Fur Seal Commission, and Deputy Assistant Administrator For Fisheries,
Charles Fowler, National Marine Fisheries Service, and Timothy Keeney, Deputy
General Counsel, all of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; Robert J. Hoffman, Director, Scientific Programs,
Marine Mammal Commission; Charles A. Black, Chairman, Fur Seal Panel, National
Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere; Marlow Cook, Bishop, Liberman,
Cook, Purcell, and Reynolds, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the St. Paul Aleut
Village Corporation; John W. Grandy, The Humane Society of the United States,
Yvonne B. Eider, Friends of Animals, Vivia Boe, Greenpease, USA, Lonnie L.
Williams, Wildlife Management Institute, Jack H. Berryman, International
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Buff Bohlen, World Wildlife Fund
(U.S.), Dave Cline, Audubon Society, and Lucy Sloan, National Federation of
Fishermen, all of Washington, D.C.; Nancy Wallace, on behalf of the Animal
Protection Institute, Sacramento, California; Norman Cohen, Alaska Associate
Director for Fisheries and Environment, Juneau; Allen M. Springer, University
of Alaska, Institute of Marine Studies, Fairbanks; Boris Merculief,
Traditional Village Council of St. George, and Iliodor Philemonof, St. George
Tanaq Corporation, both of St. George Island, Alaska; and Mayor Michael
Zacharof, and Maxim Lestenkof, Traditional Governing Council of St. Paul, both
of St. Paul Island, Alaska. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Anton R. Valukas, to be United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Illinois, and Richard V. Wiebusch, to be United States
Attorney for the District of New Hampshire; 

S.J. Res. 24, to designate the Month of October 1985 as "National
Make-A-Wish
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 124, to designate a specified day as "National Day of
Peace", with
amendments; 

S.J. Res. 136, to authorize and request the President to issue a proclamation
designating the week beginning with Sunday, April 13, 1986, as "National
Garden Week"; and 

S. 1262, to extend for two years the authorizations for refugee assistance. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S.J. Res. 13, to propose an
amendment to the United States Constitution relating to a Federal balanced
budget and tax limitation, and began consideration of S. 51, the Superfund
Improvement Act, but did not take final action thereon, and will continue
tomorrow. 

REGISTRY OF TEACHING HOSPITALS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity approved for full committee consideration S. 1210, to authorize
the establishment of a registry of teaching hospitals. 

FEDERAL CONTRACTOR EMPLOYEES FLEXTIME ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 1105, to reform the Walsh-Healey Act to allow private sector
employers performing work for the Federal government to work flextime hours,
after receiving testimony from James R. Malone, Facet Enterprises, Inc.,
Tulsa, Oklahoma; Carl J. Oles, Rockwell International Corporation, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Aerospace Industries Association of America,
Inc.; Benjamin Y. Cooper, Arlington, Virginia, Inger Trudelle, W.J. Trudelle
Company, Boston, Massachusetts, and Charles Johnson, United Lithographic
Services, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia, all on behalf of the Printing
Industries of America, Inc.; James D. Burge, Motorola, Inc., Shamburg,
Illinois; Richard J. Hart, Blount Brothers, Montgomery, Alabama, representing
the Associated General Contractors of America; Dan L. Stefanoff, South Country
Builders, Jenks, Oklahoma, representing the Associated Builders and
Contractors, Inc.; Gerard Kenny, Kenny Corporation Company, Wheeling,
Illinois, representing the National Utility Contractors Association; and
William D. Russell, RCA Service Company, Rosslyn, Virginia, representing the
National Council of Technical Service Industries. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on national
intelligence strategy, receiving testimony from Caspar Weinberger, Secretary
of Defense; and Michael Armacoft, Under Secretary of State. 

Also, the committee reconvened in closed session to receive a briefing on
certain intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community, but
made no announcements, and will meet again on Tuesday, June 18. 

Joint Meetings 

RURAL AMERICA ECONOMIC PROBLEMS 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation
resumed hearings to examine economic problems of rural America, focusing on
rural employment problems, receiving testimony from Janet L. Norwood,
Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor; Robert I.
Coltrane, Section Head for Rural Labor, Economic Research Service, Department
of Agriculture; Vernon Briggs, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and Glen
Pulver, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 19. 

FIRST BUDGET RESOLUTION FOR 1986 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the
Senate-and-House-passed versions of S. Con. Res. 32, setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988, and revising the congressional budget for
fiscal year ending September 30, 1985, but did not complete action thereon,
and will meet again on Monday, June 17. 



1985/06/17
Daily Digest - Monday, June 17, 1985; pages D688 - D ?  (Bound vol. D373-D377)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- WIC/COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM/TEMPORARY FOOD
ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Special
Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), the
Commodity Supplemental Food Program, and the Temporary Food Assistance
Program, after receiving testimony from Richard Blount, Missouri State WIC
Director, Jefferson City, on behalf of the National Association of State WIC
Directors; Alvin M. Mauer, University of Tennessee, Memphis, on behalf of the
American Academy of Pediatrics; David Rush, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, New York, New York; David Paige, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; Eleanor JosAitis, HOPE, Detroit, Michigan; Michael Lipsky
and Mark Thibideau, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; Virginia Smith, Greater Philadelphia Food Bank, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; and Father Richard Etzel, and Wilhemina Gill, both of Saint
Mary's Kitchen, Kansas City, Kansas. 

FOOD STAMP AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: On Friday, June 14, the
Subcommittee on Nutrition concluded hearings on S. 969, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1986 through 1989 for the food stamp program, and related
measures, after receiving testimony from John Bode, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture-Designate for Food and Nutrition Service; Robert Fulton, Oklahoma
Department of Human Services, Oklahoma City; Charles Atkins, Massachusetts
Department of Human Resources, Boston; Steve Richmond, New York State
Assistant Chief Budget Examiner, Albany, representing the National Association
of State Budget Officers; and John C. Weicher, American Enterprise Institute,
Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Ruth Flower,
Friends Committee, all of Washington, DC. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, June 14, the
committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Thomas G. Moore, of
California, to be a Member of the Council of Economic Advisers, Lee L.
Verstandig, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, and Glenn R. Wilson, of Nebraska, to be President,
Government National Mortgage Association, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Moore was introduced by Senator
Wilson, Mr. Verstandig was introduced by Senator Chafee, and Mr. Wilson was
introduced by Senators Exon and Zorinsky. 

GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances
and Environmental Oversight held oversight hearings on ground-water levels and
use and on ground-water quality and flow in the United States, receiving
testimony from Philip Cohen, Chief Hydrologist, United States Geological
Survey; Paula Stone, Groundwater Project Director, Office of Technology
Assessment; Joseph Rodricks, Environ Corporation, and Edwin Clark, The
Conservation Foundation, both of Washington, D.C.; and Alvin Alm, Clean Sites,
Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 20. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the President's tax reform
proposal, focusing on its impact on people below the poverty level, receiving
testimony from Mary Bourdette, Children's Defense Fund, Reverend Charles V.
Bergstrom, The Lutheran Council, Frederick C. Hutchinson, Bread for the World,
Joseph M. Trevino, League of United Latin American Citizens, and Robert
Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, all of Washington, D.C.;
Rev. Monsignor Jerome Boxleitner, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St.
Paul and Minneapolis, and Reverend Edward Ryle, Arizona Catholic Conference,
Phoenix, both on behalf of the National Conference of Catholic Charities; and
Stanley Hill, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees,
New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, June 14, the Subcommittee on Health concluded
hearings on health promotion and disease prevention strategies for Medicare
beneficiaries, after receiving testimony from Michael McGinnis, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Health, Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, and
Edward Schneider, Deputy Director, National Institute of Aging, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Lester Breslow, U.C.L.A. School of
Public Health, Los Angeles, California; Robert Kane, The Rand Corporation,
Santa Monica, California; James C. Hunt, University of Tennessee, Memphis;
Donald M. Vickery, The Center for Corporate Health Promotion, Incorporated,
Reston, Virginia, on behalf of the American College of Preventive Medicine;
William Bridgers, University of Alabama, Birmingham, on behalf of the
Association of Schools for Public Health; Christy W. Bell, Fallon Community
Health Plan, Worcester, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Group Health
Association of America, Incorporated; James R. Brennan, Northwestern National
Life Insurance Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Health
Insurance Association of America; Ronald E. Fox, Wright State University,
Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of the Association for the Advancement of Psychology;
Alan Jette, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, on behalf of the American
Physical Therapy Association; Karl Sussman, University of Colorado Medical
School, Denver, on behalf of the American Diabetes Association; James L.
Reinertsen, Park Nicollet Medical Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Paul
Barnhart, American Academy of Actuaries, Mary Nell Lehnhard, The Blue Cross
and Blue Shield Association, and Willis B. Goldbeck, Washington Business Group
on Health, all of Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Harry G. Barnes, Jr., of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Chile, John A. Ferch, of Ohio, to be Ambassador to the Republic of
Honduras, Charles A. Gillespie, Jr., of California, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Columbia, Lowell C. Kilday of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic, Sheldon J. Krys, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Fernando E. Rondon, of Virginia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, Edward M. Rowell, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Bolivia, Richard T. McCormack, of Pennsylvania,
to be Permanent Representative of the United States to the Organization of
American States, with the rank of Ambassador, and Lewis A. Tambs, of Arizona,
to be Ambassador to the Republic of Costa Rica, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. 

IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
held hearings on S. 1200, to control unauthorized immigration into the United
States, receiving testimony from Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, Notre Dame
University, Notre Dame, Indiana, and former Chairman, Select Commission on
Immigration and Refugee Policy; Austin O. Fragomen, New York University, and
Michael Teitelbaum, Alfred D. Sloan Foundation, both of New York, New York;
Barry R. Chiswick, Stanford University, Stanford, California; Lawrence H.
Fuchs, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Michael V. Durando,
California Grape and Tree Fruit League/Farm Labor Alliance, Fresno,
California; George F. Sorn, Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association, Orlando;
Reverend Salvador Alvarez, United Farmworkers Union, San Jose, California;
Wade Henderson, American Civil Liberties Union, David S. North, New
Transcentury Foundation, Raul Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, Joe
Trevino, League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), Arnoldo S. Torres,
Hispanic Leadership Conference, on behalf of the Arizona Farm Workers Union,
Richard Fajardo, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and
Edward Tuddenham, Farm Worker Justice Fund, all of Washington, D.C.; and Henry
J. Voss, California Farm Bureau, Ceres, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau
Federation. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources and Committee on Veterans' Affairs:
Committees jointly approved for reporting the nomination of Donald E.
Shasteen, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans'
Employment. 

PENSION BENEFITS 

Special Committee on Aging: On Friday, June 14, the committee held hearings to
review the pension system, focusing on how pension plans can keep workers from
earning benefits, factors that keep workers from earning pensions and what the
future holds and on the changes that companies and unions operating pension
plans are dealing with, and how plans could improve the delivery of benefits,
receiving testimony from Ronald L. Sprague, Evendale, Ohio; Lola Falls,
Vancouver, Washington; Margery Boley, Columbus, Ohio; Dallas L. Salisbury,
Employee Benefit Research Institute, Judy Schub, American Association of
Retired Persons, Alan V. Reuther, International Union, U.A.W., and John J.
Sheehan, United Steelworkers of America, all of Washington, D.C.; Harry Smith,
Sun Company, Radnor, Pennsylvania; and a public witness from Astoria, New
York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

INTERNATIONAL DEBT CRISIS/U.S. ECONOMY 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearing