99th Congress

1986/01/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 21, 1986; pages D18 - D ?  (Bound vol. D3-D5)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COPYRIGHTS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks concluded hearings on S. 1822, to provide for the manufacturing and
public distribution of certain copyrighted material, and S. 1938, to make
permanent the requirements of the manufacturing clause of the copyright law,
after receiving testimony from Ralph Oman, Register of Copyrights, Library of
Congress; William B. Milam, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
Finance and Development, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Department
of State; Alan Holmer, General Counsel, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; Donald J. Quigg, Commissioner of Patents and Assistant
Secretary of Commerce; Howard D. Samuel, AFL-CIO, James J. Noryon, Graphic
Communications International Union, and Townsend Hoopes, Association of
American Publishers, all of Washington, D.C.; Arthur C. Prine, Jr., R.R.
Donnelley & Sons, Co., Chicago, Illinois; Benjamin Y. Cooper, Printing
Industries of America, Inc., Arlington, Virginia; Rebecca Ratliff, Bethesda
Regional Public Library, Bethesda, Maryland; and Irwin Karp, The Authors
League of America, Inc., Marc Cheshire, Books for Young Readers, and Andrew
Stewart, Stewart, Tabori and Chang, Publishers, all of New York, New York. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/01/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 22, 1986; pages D23 - D ?  (Bound vol. D5-
D8)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEPOSIT INSURANCE 

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to review Federal deposit insurance programs and the enforcement
responsibilities of State regulators, after receiving testimony from Kathleen
P. Utgoff, Executive Director, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Theodore
H. Focht, Securities Investor Protection Corporation; and Edward J. Muhl,
Maryland Insurance Commissioner, Annapolis, and John E. Washburn, Illinois
Director of Insurance, Springfield, both representing the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners. 

DEFICIT CONTROL 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to review the
implementation of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act (Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985), focusing on the sequester and review of procedures for fiscal year
1986, after receiving testimony from James C. Miller, Director, Office of
Management and Budget; Rudolph C. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget
Office; and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, General Accounting
Office. 

CRIMINAL IDENTIFICATION RECORDS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Law concluded hearings on
S. 1203, to grant railroad police and private college or university police
departments access to Federal criminal identification records, after receiving
testimony from Lawrence K. York, Assistant Director, and Melvin D. Mercer,
Jr., Section Chief, Recording and Posting Section, both of the Identification
Division, and David T. Mitchell, Supervisory Special Agent, Technical Services
Division, National Crime Information Center, all of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; Raymond C. Ingalls, Chief of Police,
AMTRAK; Carl B. Stokes, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Gerald T.
Witsil, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and Charles E. Lamb III,
International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators,
Washington, D.C. 

CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on S. 1787, S.
1806, S. 1891, and related measures to amend the Federal campaign finance
laws, receiving testimony from Senators Boren, Heinz, Mitchell, and Stennis;
and Representative Synar. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/01/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 23, 1986; pages D29 - D ?  (Bound vol. D8-
D10)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Wayne D. Angell, of Kansas and Manuel H. Johnson, of
Virginia, each to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Angell was introduced by Senator Dole and Mr. Johnson was
introduced by Senator Warner. 

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
Presidential elections in the Philippines, after receiving testimony from
Senator Gramm; Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs; Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Keith Schuette, National Republican
Institute for International Affairs; and J. Brian Atwood, National Democratic
Institute for International Affairs, both of Washington, D.C.

Joint Meeting 

NATIONAL DEBT 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental
Policy concluded hearings on managing the debt problem, after receiving
testimony from David Mulford, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
International Affairs; and Stanley Fisher, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge. 



1986/01/27
Daily Digest - Monday, January 27, 1986; pages D36 - D ?  (Bound vol. D10-D11)


Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FARM FORECLOSURES 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, January 24, the Subcommittee on
Agriculture, Rural Development and related agencies held oversight hearings on
the foreclosure policies of the Farmers Home Administration and on new
regulations of handling delinquent farm borrowers, receiving testimony from
Frank Naylor, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural
Development; and Vance Clark, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

FOREIGN COVERT OPERATIONS IN U.S. 

Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, January 24, the committee met in
closed session to receive a briefing on foreign covert operations in the
United States from officials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice, but made no announcements. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1986/01/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 28, 1986; pages D40 - D ?  (Bound vol. D11-
D14)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee approved for reporting the nomination
of H. Lawrence Garrett III, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the
Department of Defense, and 5,045 routine nominations in the Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Marine Corps. 

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

TERRORISM 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on state-sponsored
terrorism and its implications on U.S. foreign policy, receiving testimony
from Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, former Ambassador to the United Nations. 

Also, the committee met in closed session to receive a briefing on
state-sponsored terrorism from officials of the intelligence community, but
made no announcements, and recessed subject to call. 

CREDIT CARD INTEREST RATES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Affairs concluded hearings on S. 1603 and S. 1922,
bills to impose a ceiling on credit card interest rates, after receiving
testimony from Senators Hawkins and D'Amato; Emmett J. Rice, Member, Board of
Governors, Federal Reserve System; Robert Ranck, Associated Dry Goods
Corporation, New York, New York, representing the National Retail Merchants
Association; Charles F. Anderson, Ranier National Bank, Seattle, Washington,
representing the Washington Bankers Association; Richard E. Huddleston,
Indiana National Bank, Indianapolis, representing the American Bankers
Association; and Alan Fox, Consumer Federation of America, and Elwood
Holstein, Bankcard Holders of America, both of Washington, DC. 

RETIREMENT INCOME POLICY ACT 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Savings, Pensions and Investment Policy
concluded hearings on S. 1784, to enhance retirement security by broadening
retirement benefit delivery, strengthening the present system of voluntary
employer-sponsored pensions and encouraging growth and development of the
private pension system by simplifying the administration of pension plans,
after receiving testimony from Howard C. Weizmann, the Sun Company, Inc.,
Radnor, Pennsylvania; L. Mark Rigg, the Southland Corporation, Dallas, Texas;
Harry Garber, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, Long
Island, New York; Verle G. Whittington, Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas; G.
David Hurd, the Bankers Life Company, Des Moines, Iowa, on behalf of the
Association of Private Pension and Welfare Plans; Edward O. Handy, Jr.,
Textron, Inc., Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the ERISA Industry
Committee; Walter Holan, Profit Sharing Council of America, Chicago, Illinois;
William S. Hoffman, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement
Workers of America, Detroit, Michigan; and John N. Erlenborn, Seyfarth, Shaw,
Fairweather and Geraldson, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, David
Silver, and Alfred Johnson, both of the Investment Company Institute, Anne E.
Moss and Karen Ferguson, both of the Pension Rights Center, Mary W. Gray,
Women's Equity Action League, and William B. Welsh, and Charles M. Loveless,
both of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, all
of Washington, DC. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution requesting $2,434,509 in operating expenses for 1986. 

OMB -- REGULATORY REVIEW ACTIVITIES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
concluded oversight hearings on the Office of Management and Budget's
regulatory review and planning process and on the implementation of the
Paperwork Reduction Act (P.L. 96-511), after receiving testimony from James C.
Miller III, Director, and Wendy Gramm, Administrator, Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, both of the Office of Management and Budget; Deborah
Berkowitz, AFL-CIO, Robert V. Percival, Environmental Defense Fund, Daniel
Guttman, Spiegel and McDiarmid, on behalf of the Service Employees
International Union, and Gary D. Bass, OMB Watch, all of Washington, DC.;
Larry Jackson, American Federation of Grain Millers, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Barbara Fenster, Modesto, California; James Fite, White Lung Association,
Baltimore, Maryland; Harold Seidman, University of Connecticut, Storrs; and
Steven Kargman, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 300) requesting $4,453,130 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1986. 

HIGHER EDUCATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts and
Humanities held hearings to review the role of the Federal Government in
measuring the quality of higher education in America, focusing on improving
postsecondary education programs, receiving testimony from William J. Bennett,
Secretary of Education; James Rogers, Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools, Atlanta, Georgia; and C. Donald Sweeney, National Association of
State Approving Agencies, Augusta, Maine. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MIA'S 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on the reported
sightings of live military personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia,
receiving testimony from Ann Mills Griffiths, National League of Families of
American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, Cooper T. Holt, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Paul S. Egan, The American Legion, and Stephen L. Edmiston,
Disabled American Veterans, all of Washington, DC.; Scott T. Barnes,
Kernville, California; Ruth Brellenthin, Dunedin, Florida; and Robert A.
Cressman, National Forget-Me-Not Association for POW/MIAs, Inc., St.
Petersburg, Florida.  

Hearings continue on Thursday, January 30. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/01/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 29, 1986; pages D45 - D ?  (Bound vol. D14-
D18)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 301) requesting $2,397,763 in
operating expenses for the Committee for 1986. 

Also, Committee resumed consideration of S. 1192 and H.R. 3113, bills to
coordinate the operation of the Central Valley project with the State project
in California, and S. 1171, to authorize additional funds for assistance to
non-Federal organizations for developing reclamation projects, but did not
complete action thereon and recessed subject to call. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on H.R. 3838, proposed Tax
Reform Act of 1986, focusing on the economic impact of the proposal, receiving
testimony from Lawrence Chimerine, Chase Econometrics, Balacynwyd,
Pennsylvania; Roger E. Brinner, Data Resources, Inc., Lexington,
Massachusetts; and George Schink, Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates,
Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Mark N. Blitz, of Virginia, to be an Associate Director of the United
States Information Agency, after the nominee testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on intelligence matters from officials of the intelligence community,
but made no announcements, and will meet again tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

SCHOOL LUNCH/CHILD NUTRITION 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 7, to extend and improve the National School Lunch Act and
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, but did not complete action thereon, and will
meet again tomorrow. 



1986/01/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 30, 1986; pages D51 - D ?  (Bound vol. D18-
D23)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee approved for
reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 311) requesting $1,300,500 in
operating expenses for the committee for 1986. 

FARM LOANS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the Farmers Home Administration loan servicing
regulations and on a General Accounting Office report on FmHA's farm loan
portfolio, focusing on total farm debt, number of loans and borrowers and loan
amounts for each of FmHA's major farm programs, and delinquencies and loan
losses occurring in these programs, after receiving testimony from Brian P.
Crowley, Senior Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, General Accounting Office; Frank W. Naylor, Under
Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; and Vance
L. Clark, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration. 

ATBM DEFENSES 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held hearings on issues associated with anti-tactical ballistic missile
(ATBM) defenses, receiving testimony from R. James Woolsey, Shea and Gardner,
Washington, D.C. former Under Secretary of the Navy; and Dennis Gormley,
Pacific-Sierra Research Corporation, Arlington, Virginia. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

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

H.R. 3851, to extend the statute of limitations of challenges to the Bureau of
Land Management's determination of nonnavigability of submerged lands in
Alaska, after receiving testimony from James M. Parker, Associate Director,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; John W. Katz, Alaska
Director of State/Federal Relations and Special Counsel to the Governor,
Juneau; and Don Mitchell, Alaska Federation of Natives, and Lloyd Meeds,
Calista Corporation, both of Anchorage, Alaska; and 

S.J. Res. 221 and H.J. Res. 382, measures to permit the continued use of
Sequoia National Park lands, California, for the Kaweah Project of Southern
California Edison Company, after receiving testimony from P. Daniel Smith,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks;
Tom P. Gilfoy, Southern California Edison, Rosemead, California; and Steven C.
Whitney, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington, D.C. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 308) requesting $2,333,631 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1986. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of J. Craig Potter, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Simpson, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

EPA -- SUPERFUND 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to
review the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund contingency plan, after
receiving testimony from Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution requesting $2,687,245 in operating expenses for the committee for
1986. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on H.R. 3838, proposed Tax
Reform Act of 1986, focusing on the economic impact of the proposal, receiving
testimony from Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan and Company, Inc., New York,
New York; Murray Weidenbaum, Center for Study of American Business, Washington
University, St. Louis, Missouri; and Paul Craig Roberts, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Monday, February 3. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee approved for reporting the
nomination of Mark N. Blitz, of Virginia, to be an Associate Director of the
United States Information Agency. 

ANGOLA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held closed hearings to review U.S.
policy toward Angola, receiving testimony from Robert Gates, Deputy Director
for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; and Chester A. Crocker,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 313) requesting $4,440,229 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1986. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Howard V. Adair, to be United States Marshal for the
Southern District of Alabama, Kernan H. Bagley, to be United States Marshal
for the District of Oregon, Thomas C. Greene, to be United States Marshal for
the Northern District of Alabama, Melvin E. Jones, to be United States Marshal
for the Middle District of Alabama, and Robert L. Pavlak, Sr., to be United
States Marshal for the District of Wyoming; 

An original resolution (S. Res. 306), requesting $4,246,242 in operating
expenses for the committee for 1986; 

S.J. Res. 226, to designate the week of April 6-12, 1986, as "World
Health
Week," and to designate April 7, 1986, as "World Health Day"; 

S.J. Res. 239, to designate the week beginning on June 1, 1986, as
"National
Maternal and Child Health Week"; 

S.J. Res. 247, to designate the week of June 1-7, 1986, as "National
Theatre
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 249, to proclaim October 23, 1986, as "A Time of
Remembrance" for
all victims of terrorism throughout the world; 

S.J. Res. 254, to designate the year of 1987 as the "National Year of
Thanksgiving"; and 

S.J. Res. 234, to designate the week of February 9-15, 1986, as "National
Burn
Awareness Week." 

MIA'S 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee continued hearings on the reported
sightings of live military personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia,
receiving testimony from Representatives Solomon and Gilman; Richard F.
Hebert, Center for POW/MIA Accountability, Greenwich, Connecticut; Col. Earl
P. Hopper, U.S. Army (Ret.), Glendale, Arizona; Patricia B. Skelly, Fairmont,
Minnesota; Lt. Col. Robert Howard, U.S. Army, Stuttgart, West Germany; and
Michael Van Atta, "The Insiders," Dr. Larry Ward, Emeritus Food for
the Hungry
International, and William Bennett, Vietnam Veterans Coalition, all of
Washington, DC. 

The committee also met in closed session, but made no announcements. 

Committee will meet again on Monday, February 3. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 314) requesting $814,032 in operating expenses
for the committee for 1986. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution requesting $1,918,904 in operating expenses for the committee for
1986. 

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 5. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 310) requesting $1,072,116 in operating expenses for the
committee for 1986. 

Also, the committee discussed its agenda for the second session of the 99th
Congress. 

Joint Meeting 

SAFE DRINKING WATER 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of 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, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call. 



1986/02/03
Daily Digest - Monday, February 3, 1986; pages D61 - D ?  (Bound vol. D23-D27)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, January 31,
committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 327)
requesting $1,660,768 in operating expenses for the committee for 1986. 

AVIATION FUNDING AND SAFETY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded oversight hearings on the impact of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 on aviation funding and safety, after
receiving testimony from Donald D. Engen, Administrator, Federal Aviation
Administration; and Edward Stimpson, General Aviation Manufacturers
Association, Capt. Henry A. Duffy, Air Line Pilots Association, International,
John Baker, Aircraft Operators and Pilots Association, and Howard Johannssen
and Mark E. Schneider, both of the Professional Airway System Specialists, all
of Washington, D.C. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on H.R. 3838, proposed Tax
Reform Act of 1986, focusing on the alternative minimum tax provisions of the
proposal, receiving testimony from Byrle M. Abbin, Arthur Andersen and
Company, Washington, D.C.; Victor Zonana, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and
Handler, and Donald Schapiro, Barrett, Smith, Schapiro, Simon, and Armstrong,
both of New York, New York; and John W. Hamm, Arthur Young and Company, San
Jose, California. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

TAX TREATMENT 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, January 31, the Subcommittee on Taxation and
Debt Management concluded hearings on S. 1959, to clarify the tax treatment of
certain mortgage related securities, and to authorize the ownership of certain
mortgage loans in multiple class arrangements, S. 1978, to clarify the
taxation of certain asset backed securities in multiple class arrangements,
and S. 1839, to provide that certain deductions and credits not be allowed for
expenditures within an environmental zone, after receiving testimony from
Senator D'Amato; Dennis Ross, Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the
Treasury; Caryl Bernstein, Federal National Mortgage Association, Warren
Lasko, Mortgage Bankers Association, Peter B. Harkins, National Association of
Realtors, William Y. Brown, Waste Management, Inc., Faith Campbell, Natural
Resources Defense Council, Inc., on behalf of the National Wildlife
Federation, Hope M. Babcock, National Audubon Society, Ruth Caplan,
Environmental Action, William Condrell, Forest Industries Committee on Timber
Valuation and Taxation, Karl Moody, Independent Petroleum Association of
America, Andrew Yood, American Petroleum Institute, and David E. Stahl and
Mark Rey, both of the National Forest Products Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; Lewis S. Ranieri, Salomon Brothers, Inc., Laurence D. Fink, First Boston
Corporation, Thomas A. Kasper, Morgan Stanley and Company, Michael C. Rush,
Shearson Lehman Brothers, and Helen Peters, Security Pacific National Bank,
all of New York, New York; Robert Horner, Sears Mortgage Corporation,
Lincolnshire, Illinois; Michael Wise, Silverado Banking of Denver, Denver,
Colorado, on behalf of the United States League of Savings Institutions. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Paul D. Wolfowitz, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, and Gaston J. Sigur, Jr., of
Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of State, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, January 31, the committee
concluded hearings on the nomination of Lois Shepard, of Maryland, to be
Director of the Institute of Museum Services, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Mathias, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

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

FOREIGN RELATIONS: (S. Res. 302 -- $2,434,509), Senators Lugar and Pell. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/02/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 4, 1986; pages D68 - D ?  (Bound vol. D28-
D32)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee began markup of a staff proposal on
Defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee approved for
reporting the nominations of Manuel H. Johnson, of Virginia, and Wayne D.
Angell, of Kansas, each to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System.


TAX REFORM IMPLICATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings to
review the implications of the proposed Tax Reform Act on those programs which
fall within the jurisdiction of the committee, focusing on manufacturing,
insurance, and non-bank financial services industries, receiving testimony
from James H. Mack, National Machine Tool Builders Association, McLean,
Virginia; Paul R. Huard, National Association of Manufacturers, George J.
Clarke, Citibank, N/A., on behalf of the National Foreign Trade Council,
Lowell R. Beck, National Association of Independent Insurers, and Thomas P.
Maletta, Household International, Inc., on behalf of the American Financial
Services Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Robert D. Hostetler, CTS
Corporation, Elkhart, Indiana, on behalf of the Electronic Industries
Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee approved for reporting
the nomination of J. Craig Potter, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Michael A. Samuels, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy United States
Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Heinz, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on H.R. 3838, proposed Tax
Reform Act of 1986, receiving testimony from Senator Wilson; Representative
Frenzel; Bernard R. Tresnowski, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,
Chicago, Illinois; James G. MacDonald, Teachers Insurance and Annuity
Association of America-College Retirement Equities Fund, Philip J. Loree,
Federation of American Controlled Shipping, and Thomas F. Ruhm, Bessemer
Securities Corporation, all of New York, New York; Raymond Wiacek, Jones, Day,
Reavis and Poque, on behalf of the Emergency Committee for American Trade, and
Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, both of Washington, D.C.; and Larry Langdon,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California, on behalf of the American
Electronics Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

EMBASSY SECURITY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 2015, to provide
for the security of United States diplomatic personnel, facilities, and
operations, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ADMINISTRATIVE CONFERENCE ON THE UNITED STATES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for an
additional four years for the Administrative Conference of the United States,
after receiving testimony from Marshall J. Breger, Chairman, Administrative
Conference of the United States. 

EDUCATION OF THE HANDICAPPED 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings on the reauthorization of discretionary programs under the Education
of the Handicapped Act (P.L. 98-199), focusing on comprehensive intervention
services during the early years for young handicapped children and their
families, receiving testimony from Madeleine C. Will, Assistant Secretary for
Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Department of Education; Sandra
S. Parrino, National Council on the Handicapped, Washington, D.C.; Michael
Guralnick, Nisonger Center, Ohio State University, Columbus; Martin and
Barbara Lampe, University Park, Maryland; Philip J. Burke, University of
Maryland, College Park; and Martha H. Ziegler, Federation for Children for
Special Needs, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Friday, February 21. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS 

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

Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 327 -- $1,660,768), Senators
Garn and Proxmire; 

Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 301 -- $2,397,763), Senator McClure; 

Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 308 -- $2,333,631), Senators Stafford
and Bentsen; 

Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 311 -- $1,300,500), Senators
Helms and Zorinsky; 

Finance: (S. Res. 325 -- $2,687,245), Senators Packwood and Long; 

Judiciary: (S. Res. 306 -- $4,246,242), Senators Thurmond and Biden; 

Budget: (S. Res. 321 -- $2,958,284), Senators Domenici and Chiles; and 

Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 326 -- $3,312,233), Senators
Danforth and Hollings. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMMITTEE BUDGET 

Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S.
Res. 331) requesting $887,069 in operating expenses for the committee for
1986. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/02/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 5, 1986; pages D75 - D ?  (Bound vol. D32-
D36)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AVIAN INFLUENZA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on the recent outbreak of Avian Influenza
on the poultry industry, receiving testimony from Senator Roth; Raymond D.
Lett, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection
Services; John Atwell, Deputy Administrator, and Euclid Charman, Assistant
Deputy Administrator for Animal Health Programs, both of Veterinary Services,
and Sam Ladd, Director of Budget and Accounting, all of the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service, and Charles W. Beard, Laboratory Director,
Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (Athens, Georgia), Agricultural Research
Service, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS -- DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,783
military nominations in the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

The committee also continued closed markup of a staff proposal on Defense
reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again
tomorrow. 

DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the proposed
military authorization request for the Department of Defense, focusing on U.S.
military posture, receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of
Defense; and Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TAX REFORM IMPLICATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued hearings
to review the implications of the proposed Tax Reform Act on those programs
which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee, focusing on the
manufacturing, insurance, and non-bank financial services industries,
receiving testimony from Donald T. Senterfitt, Sun Trust, Orlando, Florida,
representing the American Bankers Association; B.F. Backlund, Bartonville
Bank, Peoria, Illinois, representing the Independent Bankers Association of
America; Thomas Macy, Price Waterhouse, on behalf of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants, and Walter V. Shipley, New York Clearing House,
both of New York, New York; Charles Miller, Philadelphia National Bank,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Bankers Association for Foreign
Trade; Alberto Parracchini, Banco de Pouce, on behalf of Puerto Rico Bankers
Association and Puerto Rico League of Savings Institutions; Johann H.
Brinckmann, Amsterdam, Rotterdam Banks, representing the Institute of Foreign
Bankers; Joseph C. Morris, Columbia Savings Association, Emporia, Kansas, on
behalf of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions; and Kenneth F.X. Albers,
Provident Savings Bank, Jersey City, New Jersey, representing the National
Council of Savings Institutions. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1987 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget, receiving
testimony from James C. Miller, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued hearings on the economic effects of
H.R. 3838, proposed Tax Reform Act of 1986, receiving testimony from Walter W.
Heller, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Laurence H. Meyer,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; and Harvey Galper, The Brookings
Institution, and Carl T. Curtis, on behalf of the National Association of
Royalty Owners, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Danny J. Boggs, of Kentucky, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth
Circuit, Walter J. Gex III, to be United States District Judge for the
Southern District of Mississippi, Thomas J. McAvoy, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and Sidney A. Fitzwater,
to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Boggs
was introduced by Senator McConnell, Mr. McAvoy was introduced by Senator
D'Amato, and Mr. Fitzwater was introduced by Senator Gramm. Testimony was also
received on the nomination of Mr. Fitzwater from Representative Leland, on
behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus; Robert M. Greenberg, Dallas, Texas;
and Andrew Hernandez, Southwest Voter Registration Educational Project, and
Althea T.L. Simmons, NAACP, both of Washington, D.C. 

MIROSLAV MEDVID INCIDENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
concluded hearings to review issues surrounding the attempted defection of
Seaman Miroslav Medvid, focusing on the United States Government procedures
for handling potential Soviet bloc country asylum cases, after receiving
testimony from William M. Woessner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for
European and Canadian Affairs; Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner, and Roger P.
Brandemuehl, Assistant Commissioner, Border Patrol, both of the Immigration
and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Lt. Comdr. J.M. Caruthers,
United States Navy, Naval Medical Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana; Maj. William
M. Hunt III, Chief Inpatient Psychiatry Service, United States Air Force
Medical Center, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi; and Taras Szmagala,
Ukrainian National Association, Cleveland, Ohio. 

JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held oversight
hearings to explore the services and programs offered to older citizens
through the Job Training Partnership Act, after receiving testimony from
Steven H. Sandell, Project Director, National Employment Policy and Older
Americans, National Commission for Employment Policy; Brent Johnson, Maryland
Department of Employment and Training, Baltimore, representing the National
Governors' Association; Wilda Ferguson, Virginia Department of Aging,
Richmond, representing the National Association of State Units on Aging;
Esther F. Schaeffer, National Alliance of Business, Washington, D.C.; John R.
Kiley, Iowa Job Training Programs, Davenport; Alec G. Olson, Green Thumb,
Inc., Arlington, Virginia; William S. Massey, Peninsula Agency on Aging,
Newport News, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Area Agencies
on Aging; and Katherine Lewis, Project Grow, Rochester, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

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: 

Armed Services: (S. Res. 323 -- $2,298,260), Senators Goldwater and Nunn; 

Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 300 -- $4,453,130), Senator Hatch; 

Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. 313 -- $4,440,229), Senators Roth and Eagleton; 

Select on Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 314 -- $814,032), Senators Andrews and
Melcher; 

Appropriations: (S. Res. 324 -- $4,117,385), Senator Stennis; 

Small Business: (S. Res. 315 -- $926,220), Senators Weicker and Bumpers; 

Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 331 -- $887,069), Senator Cranston; 

Select on Intelligence: (S. Res. 322 -- $1,918,904), Senators Durenberger and
Boren; and 

Special on Aging: (S. Res. 310 -- $1,072,116), Senators Heinz and Glenn. 

Joint Meetings 

SCHOOL LUNCH/CHILD NUTRITION 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 7, to extend and improve the National School Lunch Act and
the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 



1986/02/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 6, 1986; pages D83 - D ?  (Bound vol. D36-
D44)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of a staff
proposal on Defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

TAX REFORM IMPLICATIONS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
to review the implications of the proposed Tax Reform Act on those programs
which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee, focusing on the
manufacturing, insurance, and non-bank financial services industries, after
receiving testimony from Mayor Xavier Suarez, Miami, Florida, on behalf of the
United States Conference of Mayors; Richard Guthman, Atlanta, Georgia, on
behalf of the National League of Cities; Edward Alter, Utah Director
Treasurer, Salt Lake City; David Herlinger, Colorado Housing Finance
Authority, Denver; Leo Henikoff, Jr., Rush University, Chicago, Illinois;
William A. Holby, King and Spaulding, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the
National Association of Bond Lawyers; Richard F. Kezer, Citibank, New York,
New York, on behalf of the Public Securities Association and Dealer Bank
Association; Ronald F. Poe, Dorman & Wilson, Inc., White Plains, New York,
on
behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America; Robert F. Sherman,
S&S
Properties, Inc., Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the National Apartment
Association; John J. Koelemij, Orange State Construction Company, Tallahassee,
Florida, on behalf of the National Association of Home Builders; and Bernard
L. Tetreault, Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies, G.V. Brenneman,
Jr., National Association of Realtors, Stephen D. Driesler, National Multi
Housing Council, Robert W. Maffin, National Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Officials, J. Roderick Heller III, National Corporation of
Housing Partnerships, and Barry Zigas, National Low Income Housing Coalition,
all of Washington, D.C. 

1987 BUDGET 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget,
receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AIRPORT OPERATING RIGHTS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 1966, to provide for efficient and equitable use of
operating rights at certain congested airports, focusing on a new approach to
allocating the Federal Aviation Administration instrument flight rule
operating rights at O'Hare, JFK, Laguardia, and Washington National Airports,
after receiving testimony from James Burnley, Deputy Secretary of
Transportation; Charles M. Barclay, American Association of Airport
Executives, Alexandria, Virginia; Donald Reilly, Airport Operators Council
International, Cornish Hitchcock, Aviation Consumer Action Project, Fred
Gammon, National Association of State Aviation Officials, Robert Cohn, Peoples
Express, Gene E. Overbeck, American Airlines, Robert Stevenson, Delta
Airlines, John Sheehan, Aircraft Operators and Pilots Association, Edward
Stimpson, General Aviation Manufacturers Association, and Robert A. Cooke,
National Business Aviation Association, all of Washington, D.C.; George J.
Aste, United Airlines, Chicago, Illinois; Ed Witkowski, Ozark Airlines, St.
Louis, Missouri; Sandy Murdoch, Jet America Airlines, Inc., Newport Beach,
California; and John Leonard, Ransome Airlines, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and Alan Stephen, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of the Regional Airline
Association. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 360, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey, without
consideration, to the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, approximately 160
acres of land within the Nebraska National Forest to be used for the purpose
of expanding the Chadron State Park, Nebraska, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; 

H.J. Res. 382, to permit the continued use of Sequoia National Park lands,
California, for the Kaweah Project of Southern California Edison Company, with
an amendment; 

H.R. 3443, to designate the Closed Basin Conveyance Channel of the Closed
Basin Division, San Luis Valley Project, Colorado, as the "Franklin Eddy
Canal," in lieu of S. 1875; and 

H.R. 3851, to extend the statute of limitations of challenges to the Bureau of
Land Management's determination of nonnavigability of submerged lands in
Alaska. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 1192 and H.R. 3113, bills to
coordinate the operation of the Central Valley project with the State project
in California, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Tuesday, February 25.  

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the economic effects of
H.R. 3838, proposed Tax Reform Act of 1986, focusing on capital formation and
international competitiveness, after receiving testimony from Martin
Feldstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Charles L. Schultze,
The Brookings Institution, and Norman B. Ture, Institute for Research on the
Economics of Taxation, both of Washington, D.C.; and Alan J. Auerbach,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting the
nominations of Frances M. Norris, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Education for Legislation and Public Affairs, and Lois B. Shepard, of
Maryland, to be Director of the Institute of Museum Services. 

AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989, for the Domestic Volunteer
Service Act (ACTION), after receiving testimony from Donna M. Alvarado,
Director, ACTION; Nancy Doctor, Audubon Area Community Services, Inc.,
Owensboro, Kentucky, on behalf of the National Association of Senior Companion
Program Directors; James H. Sugarman, National Association of Retired Senior
Volunteer Program Directors; Betty Manley, National Association of Foster
Grandparent Program Directors, San Jose, California; Francis Judd, Clairfield,
Utah; Jean Goering, Creston, Iowa, on behalf of Medcrest VISTA; Ira Greiff,
Boston, Massachusetts; and Daisy Martin, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 

SMALL BUSINESS -- TAX REFORM 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the impact of tax
reform and simplification proposals on small business, after receiving
testimony from Frank Swain, Chief Counsel, Office of Advocacy, Small Business
Administration; Frank B. Fairbanks, Horix Manufacturing Company, McKees Rock,
Pennsylvania, representing Small Business United; Abraham Schneier, National
Federation of Independent Business, John Satagaj, Small Business Legislative
Counsel, Peter McNeish, National Association of Small Business Investment
Companies, and Kent Colton, National Association of Home Builders, all of
Washington, D.C.; Roger S. Vail, Fred W. Uhlman Company, Bowling Green, Ohio,
representing the National Retail Merchants Association; James McCarthy,
General Business Services, Rockville, Maryland, representing the National
Small Business Association; W. Scott Smith, Jr., Stull Enterprises, Chadds
Ford, Pennsylvania, representing the National Association of Wholesaler
Distributors; Burton J. McMurtry, Technology Venture Investors, Menlo Park,
California, representing the National Venture Capital Association; Jeanine
Hanson, LINSCO, Alexandria, Virginia; and Mario Borini, Seidman & Seidman,
New
York, New York. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on counter-intelligence from officials of the intelligence community,
but made no announcements, and will meet again on Wednesday, February 19. 

Joint Meetings 

ECONOMY 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the economic
outlook, receiving testimony from Beryl W. Sprinkel, Chairman, Council of
Economic Advisers; Lester Thurow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge; Alan Greenspan, Townsend Greenspan, Inc., New York, New York; and
Lawrence Chimerine, Chase Econometrics, BalaCynwyd, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1986/02/07
Daily Digest - Friday, February 7, 1986; pages D94 - D ?  (Bound vol. D44-D46)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded hearings on S. 2058,
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1991 for the Export-Import Bank, after
receiving testimony from William H. Draper III, President and Chairman,
Export-Import Bank of the United States; Frederick D. Wolf, Director,
Accounting and Financial Management Division, General Accounting Office; Larry
Williams, Caterpillar Tractor Company, Peoria, Illinois, on behalf of the
National Association of Manufacturers; Fruzsina M. Harsanyi, Combustion
Engineering, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of the National Foreign
Trade Council; Axel O. Velden, Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
on behalf of the Emergency Committee for American Trade; and Rosemary Maxon,
the Allied Signal Companies, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Coalition for
Employment through Exports. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS 

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

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1986/02/17
Daily Digest - Monday, February 17, 1986; pages D97 - D ?  (Bound vol. D46)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/02/18
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 18, 1986; pages D99 - D ?  (Bound vol. D46-
D50)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD -- Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Major
General Andrew J. Adams, USA, Secretary, The American Battle Monuments
Commission; Major General John L. Ballantyne, Commander, U.S. Army Military
District of Washington, in support of funds for Cemeterial Expenses,
Department of the Army; Teresa N. Nasif, Director, Consumer Information
Center; Virginia H. Knauer, Special Adviser to the President for Consumer
Affairs; and Carol G. Dawson, Acting Chairman, Consumer Product Safety
Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 20. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed markup of a staff
proposal on Defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again tomorrow. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget,
receiving testimony from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget
Office; and James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE IN TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings to examine alcohol and drug abuse in the aviation, bus, railroad, and
truck industries, after receiving testimony from Patricia A. Goldman, Vice
Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; John H. Riley, Administrator,
Federal Railroad Administration, Richard H. Jones, Deputy Administrator,
Federal Aviation Administration, and Richard P. Landis, Associate
Administrator for Motor Carriers, Federal Highway Administration, all of the
Department of Transportation; William H. Dempsey, Association of American
Railroads, Fred Hardin, United Transportation Union, R.V. Durham,
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, James E. Landry, Air Transport
Association of America, and Richard B. Stone, and Richard L. Masters, both of
the Air Line Pilots Association International, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking Associations, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia. 

SPACE SHUTTLE "CHALLENGER" ACCIDENT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the accident of the space
shuttle CHALLENGER (Flight 51L), focusing on plans for investigating the
accident and methods for conducting the investigation, receiving testimony
from William P. Rogers, Chairman, and Neil Armstrong, Vice Chairman, both of
the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle CHALLENGER Accident; and
William R. Graham, Acting Administrator, and Jesse Moore, Associate
Administrator of Space Flight, both of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ENERGY AND INTERIOR -- BUDGET REQUESTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began oversight hearings
to review those programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, with a view
toward making its recommendations to the Committee on the Budget, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John S.
Herrington, Secretary of Energy, and Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the
Interior. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ANGOLA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1972 and S.
2021, bills to authorize military and humanitarian assistance for the National
Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and S. Res. 280,
expressing the sense of the Senate regarding support by the United States for
the UNITA, after receiving testimony from Chester A. Crocker, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Thomas H. Henriksen, Hoover Institute,
Stanford, California; and Richard Moose, Shearson/Lehman Brothers, New York,
New York. 

INDIAN PROGRAMS -- BUDGET REQUESTS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review
those programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in
the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987 with a view toward making
its recommendations to the Committee on the Budget, after receiving testimony
from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Henrietta
Whiteman, Director, Office of Indian Education, Frank Ryan, Director, Office
of Trust, Ron Esquerra, Director, Office of Administration, and Hazel Elbert,
Director, Office of Indian Services, all of the Department of the Interior;
Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, and Edward Martin, Acting
Deputy Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration, both of
the Department of Health and Human Services; Bruce Carnes, Deputy Under
Secretary, Office of Planning, Budget and Evaluation, Lawrence Davenport,
Assistant Secretary, Elementary and Secondary Education, and Hakim Kahn,
Acting Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, all of the Department of
Education; John Myers, Director, and Patricia Arnaudo, Deputy Director, both
of the Office of Indian Housing, Department of Housing and Urban Development;
Larry Miike, Project Director, Indian Health Study, Office of Technology
Assessment; Julie Kitka, Anchorage, Alaska, Spud Williams, Tanama Chiefs
Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska, Robert Clark, Bristol Bay Health Corporation,
Dillingham, Alaska, and Carl Jack, Association of Village Council Presidents,
Bethel, Alaska, all on behalf of the Federation of Alaska Natives; Keith
Jewitt, Cheyenne River Tribe, Timberlake, South Dakota, on behalf of the
Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Association; Anselm Davis, Fort Defiance,
Arizona; Susan Shown Harjo, Washington, D.C., National Congress of American
Indians; Richard LaFromboise, Belcourt, North Dakota, National Tribal
Chairmen's Association; William LaRoque, American Indian Health Care
Association, St. Paul Minnesota; Jake Whitecrow, Denver, Colorado, National
Indian Health Board; Virginia Spencer, and Edward V. Fagan, both of the
National American Indian Housing Council, Washington, D.C.; Roger Bordeaux,
Pierre, South Dakota, Association of Contract Tribal Schools; Phyllis Howard,
Sissenton, South Dakota, American Indian Higher Education Consortium; Michael
L. Stepetin, Portland, Oregon, National Advisory Council on Indian Education;
Bruce Hoffman, Navajo Contract Schools Association, and Ernest Dick, Navajo
Community Controlled School Boards, both of Rock Point, Arizona; and Carmen
Taylor, Albuquerque, New Mexico, National Indian School Board Association. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/02/19
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 19, 1986; pages D109 - D ?  (Bound vol.
D50-D58)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 2045, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1992 for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, receiving testimony from Susan M. Phillips, Chairman,
Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Robert K. Wilmouth, National Futures
Association, Leo Melamed, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and John F. Gilmore,
Jr., Chicago Board of Trade, all of Chicago, Illinois; Alan J. Brody,
Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York, New York; Louis E. Carabini, Monex
International, Ltd., Newport Beach, California; and Harvey Kochen,
International Precious Metals Corporation, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

1987 BUDGET 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee held hearings to review the President's
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony from James
C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION/ADVISORY COUNCIL ON
HISTORIC PRESERVATION/WILSON CENTER FOR SCHOLARS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Glen T.
Urquhart, Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission; Cynthia Grassby
Baker, Chairman, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and James
Billington, Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elizabeth H. Dole,
Secretary of Transportation, and Raymond A. Karam, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Transportation for Budget and Programs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 26. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of a staff
proposal on Defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again tomorrow. 

FOREIGN POLICY EXPORT CONTROLS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 2076, authorizing funds for export administration and export promotion
activities of the Department of Commerce, and concluded oversight hearings on
the first annual report on foreign policy controls of the Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of
Commerce; Allan I. Mendelowitz, Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; Larry L. Hansen,
Varian Associates, Palo Alto, California, on behalf of the Semi-Conductor
Equipment and Materials Institute; and Robert G. Mills, United States Defense
Committee, Fairfax, Virginia. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget,
after receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

LIABILITY INSURANCE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
liability insurance, focusing on the availability and affordability of
insurance in various property and casualty lines, receiving testimony from
Senator Simon; Albert J. Beer, Tillinghast, Nelson, and Warren, Inc., New
York, New York; Ralph Nader, Center for Study of Responsive Law, Mavis A.
Walters, Insurance Service Office, Inc., Andre Maisonpierre, Reinsurance
Association of America, and Robert H. Moore, Alexander and Alexander Services,
Inc., on behalf of the National Association of Insurance Brokers, all of
Washington, D.C.; Jay Angoff, National Insurance Consumer Organization,
Alexandria, Virginia; William H. McCormick, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company,
Novato, California; Stephen I. Martin, Hartford Insurance Group, Hartford,
Connecticut, representing the American Insurance Association; Bradford W.
Mitchell, Harleysville Insurance Company, Harleysville, Pennsylvania,
representing the National Association of Independent Insurers; Christopher G.
Mansfield, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, Massachusetts,
representing the Alliance of American Insurers; Edmond F. Rondepierre, General
Reinsurance Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut; Alan G. Page, Johnson and
Higgins, New York, New York, representing the National Association of
Independent Brokers; R.C. Riley, Peel and Holland, Inc., Venton, Connecticut,
representing the Independent Insurance Agents of America; and Richard B.
Berman, S and A Restaurant Corporation, Dallas, Texas, representing the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 4. 

ENERGY/FOREST SERVICE -- BUDGET REQUESTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings to review those programs which fall within the committee's
jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year
1987, with a view toward making its recommendations to the Committee on the
Budget, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony G. Sousa, Acting Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission, and R. Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture, and Peter C. Myers, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for
Natural Resources and Environment. 

NRC BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to review
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from Nunzio
J. Palladino, Chairman, Thomas M. Roberts, James K. Asselstine, Fred Bernthal,
and Lando W. Zech, Jr., all Commissioners, Victor Stello, Acting Executive
Director for Operations, and John G. Davis, Director, Office of Nuclear
Material Safety and Safeguards, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of James L. Malone, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Belize,
Arthur H. Davis, of Colorado, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, and
Larry K. Mellinger, of California, to be the United States Alternate Executive
Director to the Inter-American Development Bank, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Davis was introduced by
Senator Armstrong. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Frank J. Magill, of North Dakota, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eighth Circuit, Robert J. Bryan, to be United States District Judge for the
Western District of Washington, Miriam G. Cedarbaum, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, David R. Hansen, to be
United States District Judge for the Northern District of Iowa, Ronald R.
Lagueux, to be United States District Judge for the District of Rhode Island,
and Lawrence P. Zatkoff, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern
District of Michigan, after the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Magill was introduced by Senators Burdick and Andrews,
Mr. Bryan was introduced by Senators Gorton and Evans, Ms. Cedarbaum was
introduced by Senators Moynihan and D'Amato, Mr. Hansen was introduced by
Senators Grassley and Harkin, Mr. Lagueux was introduced by Senator Chafee,
and Mr. Zatkoff was introduced by Senators Riegle and Levin. 

JUDICIAL SURVIVORS ANNUITY REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts concluded hearings on H.R.
3570 and S. 1392, bills to revise annuity programs for survivors of Federal
justices and judges, after receiving testimony from Senator Eagleton; Spencer
Williams, U.S. District Judge, San Francisco, California, on behalf of the
Federal Judges Association; William L. Hungate, U.S. District Judge for the
Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, on behalf of the Conference of
Federal Trial Judges, American Bar Association; and Frank M. Coffin, Circuit
Judge, First Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals, Portland, Maine, on behalf of the
Judicial Conference of the United States. 

LIBYAN SPONSORED TERRORISM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism concluded
hearings on the dilemma for U.S. policy makers confronting Libyan sponsored
terrorism, and to examine the nature and extent of Libya's involvement in
international terrorism, after receiving testimony from Fred C. Ikle, Under
Secretary of Defense for Policy; Robert B. Oakley, Director, Office for
Counter-Terrorism and Emergency Planning, Department of State; and Yonah
Alexander, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C. 

EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIP ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 1990, to establish an Education and Training
Partnership to administer the Job Training Partnership Act, the Wagner-Peyser
Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, and to improve
coordination among Federal agencies with related responsibilities and increase
private sector involvement at the Federal level, receiving testimony from
William E. Brock III, Secretary of Labor, and William J. Bennett, Secretary of
Education. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 25. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the intelligence
community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/02/20
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 20, 1986; pages D121 - D ?  (Bound vol. D58-
D64)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 2045, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1992 for the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, after receiving testimony from John
Damgard, Futures Industry Association, Washington, D.C.; James A. Layton,
Clayton Brokerage Company of St. Louis, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri; Gary L.
Seevers, Goldman, Sachs and Company, New York, New York; Warren W. Lebeck,
National Grain Trade Council, Westmont, Illinois; David C. Lucterhand,
Lucterhand Group, Chicago, Illinois; Joe Cramblit, Geldermann Inc., Chicago,
Illinois, representing the National Grain and Feed Association; Theodore
Thomte, National Association of Futures Trading Advisors, Bedford, New York;
Phil Feigin, North American Securities Administrators Association, Inc.,
Denver, Colorado; Gregory C. Glynn, Glynn and Graham, Washington, D.C.; and
John F. Walter, Los Angeles, California. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AIR FORCE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Air Force, receiving testimony
from Russell A. Rourke, Secretary of the Air Force, and General Charles A.
Gabriel, Chief of Air Force Staff. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ARMY CIVIL WORKS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Army Corps
of Engineers civil works programs, receiving testimony from Robert K. Dawson,
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), Lt. Gen. E.R. Heiberg, Chief,
Corps of Engineers, and Maj. Gen. Henry J. Hatch, Director of Civil Works, all
of the Department of the Army. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from A. Alan
Hill, Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; Edwin J. Gray, Chairman,
Federal Home Loan Bank Board; Thomas K. Turnage, Director, Selective Service
System; William A. Whiteside, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment
Corporation; and Thomas M. Moses, Chairman, Board of Directors, National
Institute of Building Sciences. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, February 25. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of a staff
proposal on defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

MONETARY POLICY 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the first annual report on the Federal Reserve's
monetary policy, after receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman,
Federal Reserve Board. 
 
FEDERAL FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL -- AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the Fire Prevention and Control Act, after receiving testimony from
General Julius W. Becton, Jr., Director, James P. McNeill, Associate Director,
Training and Fire Programs Directorate, and Clyde A. Bragdon, Jr.,
Administrator, U.S. Fire Administration, all of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency; Robert H. Ely, International Association of Fire Chiefs,
Washington, D.C.; Charles A. Henry, Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner,
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Harrisburg; Larry J. Brown,
Arlington County, Virginia, representing the International City Management
Association; and Ralph J. Jackson, Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook,
Illinois. 

EPA BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings to review
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the committee as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Environmental Protection Agency from Lee
M. Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION/BUDGET REPORT 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Michael A. Samuels, of the District of Columbia, to be a Deputy United States
Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador. 

Also, the committee completed its review of those programs which fall within
the jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed
budget for fiscal year, and agreed on recommendations which it will make to
the Budget Committee pursuant to section 301(d) of the Congressional Budget
Act. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Walter J. Gex III, to be United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Mississippi, Richard S. Cohen, to be United States
Attorney for the District of Maine, Joseph M. Whittle, to be United States
Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, Roger Ray, to be United States
Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Bodhan A. Futey, of Ohio, to
be Chairman, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; 

H.J. Res. 499, to designate the week of March 2-8, 1986, as "Women's
History
Week," in lieu of S.J. Res. 253; 

S.J. Res. 271, to designate June 14, 1986, as "Baltic Freedom Day"; 

H.J. Res. 409, to designate "Lithuanian Independence Day," in lieu
of S.J.
Res. 259; 

S.J. Res. 266, to designate the month of June 1986, as "Youth Suicide
Prevention Month"; 

S. 239, to establish constitutional procedures for the imposition of the
sentence of death, with amendments; 

H.R. 2434, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988, for the
Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce, with amendments; and 

The following private relief bills: S. 98, S. 129, S. 197, S. 257, S. 290, S.
331, S. 332, S. 343, S. 345, S. 381, S. 462, S. 832, and S. 1046; and
indefinitely postponed the following private relief bills: S. 96, S. 99, S.
111, S. 158, S. 166, S. 170, S. 219, S. 221, S. 223, S. 224, S. 226, S. 422,
S. 948, S. 1390, and S. 1749. 

Also, the committee announced the assignments of Senators Specter and Kennedy
to the Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- ALCOHOL ABUSE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the
National Institute on Drug Abuse, after receiving testimony from Donald Ian
Macdonald, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, Loren D. Archer, Acting
Director, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and Jerome H.
Jaffe, Acting Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, all of the Public
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services; Jose Szapocznik,
University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida; and Thomas F. Babor,
University of Connecticut Health Center, Storrs. 

LIABILITY INSURANCE 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on the cost and
availability of liability insurance for small business, receiving testimony
from James C. Sanders, Administrator, Small Business Administration; L. Stan
Neely, Trackmobile, LaGrange, Georgia; Earl H. Hess, Lancaster Laboratories,
Inc., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Dana
Baldwin, Oliver Machinery Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, representing the
Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America; S. Brian Simons, OEM Controls, Inc.,
Shelton, Connecticut; Judy Silverman, Jackson Child Care Program, Inc., New
Haven, Connecticut; Karen Ehrnman, American College of Nurse Midwives,
Washington, DC; Norman W. Lipshie, Weber, Lipshie and Company, New York, New
York, representing the New York Society of CPAs; William H. Brine, Brine and
Company, Milford, Massachusetts; Robert Young, Ireland and Bellinger, Inc.,
Bellingham, Washington, representing the Independent Insurance Agents of
America; James A. Temp, Alexander and Alexander, Inc., Green Bay, Wisconsin;
Steve Martin, The Hartford Insurance Group, Hartford, Connecticut,
representing the American Insurance Association; and Robert L. Habush,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, representing the American Trial Lawyers Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

VETERANS' PROGRAMS 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to review
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Veterans'
Administration and Veterans' employment and training programs administered by
the Department of Labor, after receiving testimony from Everett Alvarez, Jr.,
Acting Administrator, Donald Ivers, General Counsel, Conrad R. Hoffman,
Director, Office of Budget and Finance (Controller), Raymond J. Vogel, Chief
Benefits Director, and John W. Ditzler, Chief Medical Director, all of the
Veterans' Administration; Donald E. Shasteen, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Veterans' Employment and Training, Joseph Juarez, Director, Office of
Veterans' Employment, Reemployment Rights and Training Programs, and Jeffrey
Crandall, Acting Director, Office of Field Operations and Administrative
Services, all of the Department of Labor; Paul Egan, and John Sommer, both of
the American Legion, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United
States, Stephen L. Edmiston, Disabled American Veterans, and R. Jack Powell,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Inc., all of Washington, D.C. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 26. 

Joint Meeting 

ECONOMY 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee concluded hearings to review the economic
outlook, focusing on the Administration's economic strategy for dealing with
the trade deficit, the stability of the banking institutions, and the
implication of Gramm-Rudman on public investment, after receiving testimony
from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 



1986/02/24
Daily Digest - Monday, February 24, 1986; pages D136 - D ?  (Bound vol. D65-
D70)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies concluded hearings to review the funding requirements of
the Commodity Credit Corporation, after receiving testimony from Daniel G.
Amstutz, Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and
Commodity Programs. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LAND MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Bureau
of Land Management, receiving testimony from Robert F. Burford, Director,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ARMY/NAVY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for Army programs, receiving testimony
from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army, and Gen. John A. Wickham, Jr.,
Chief of Army Staff. 

On Friday, February 21, the Subcommittee held hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Navy, receiving testimony from John
Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. James Watkins, Chief of Naval Operations;
and Gen. P.X. Kelley, Commandant, United States Marine Corps. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 4. 

STAGGERS RAIL ACT 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, February 21,
the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation concluded hearings on S. 477, to
revise the standards of railroad revenue adequacy, railroad market dominance,
railroad rate reasonableness, and the Interstate Commerce Commission review of
State ruling on intrastate rail rates, after receiving testimony from Heather
Gradison, Chairperson, Interstate Commerce Commission; W. Reid Thompson,
Potomac Electric Power Company, on behalf of Consumers United for Rail Equity
(CURE), and William H. Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Branko Terzic, Wisconsin Public Service Commission,
Madison, on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners
(NARUC). 

ENERGY/FUEL CELL SYSTEMS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on S. 1687, to implement a research program
regarding specified aspects of fuel cell technology, and S. 1687, to develop a
national policy for the utilization of fuel cell technology, after receiving
testimony from Senator Matsunaga; Robert L. San Martin, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Renewable Energy, Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy,
and Richard E. Harrington, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Coal Utilization,
Advanced Conversion, and Gasification, Office of Fossil Energy, both of the
Department of Energy; Michael E. Berger, Deputy Associate Director,
Alternative Energy Sources, Los Alamos National Laboratories; Peter D. Blair,
Program Manager, Energy and Materials, Office of Technology Assessment; Fred
Sissine, Analyst in Science and Technology, Congressional Research Service,
Library of Congress; Fritz Kalhammer, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo
Alto, California; Ted H. Light, Public Service Electric & Gas Company,
Newark,
New Jersey, on behalf of the Fuel Cells Users Group; Malcolm Jones, Ebasco
Services Inc., Santa Ana, California, on behalf of the Industrial Fuel Cells
Association; George F. Mechlin, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; John P. Ackerman, Argonne National Laboratories, Argonne,
Illinois: Saifur Rahman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia;
Donald Topping, Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii,
Honolulu; Richard C. Alkire, University of Illinois, Urbana; and David Webb,
Gas Research Institute, Donald R. Glenn, Energy Research Corporation, and
William L. George, Georgetown University, all of Washington, D.C. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: On Friday, February 21, the
Subcommittee on Public Lands, Reserved Water and Resource Conservation
concluded hearings on the following bills: 

H.R. 1963, to provide for the development at the Allegheny Portage Railroad
National Historic Site and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial,
Pennsylvania, and H.R. 105, to provide for the inclusion of the Washington
Square area within the Independence National Historical Park, after receiving
testimony from Senator Specter; 

S. 1766, to dedicate the Cumberland terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Historical Park to J. Glenn Beall, Sr., after receiving testimony
from Carrie Johnson, C&O Canal National Historical Park Commission,
Arlington,
Virginia; 

S. 1819, to add a certain segment of the Cache la Poudre River, Colorado, to
the list of rivers designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic
River System, after receiving testimony from F. Dale Robertson, Associate
Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Greg Hobbs, Denver, and
Larry Simpson, Loveland, both of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy
District; Christopher N. Brown, American Rivers Conservation Council,
Washington, D.C.; Maggie Fox, Sierra Club, Boulder, Colorado; and Patrick
Tierney, Adrift Adventures Inc., Chuck Wanner, Preservice Our Poudre, and
Jerry Horak, all of Fort Collins, Colorado. 

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills, and on S. 530 and
H.R. 1343, bills to authorize the use of funds from rental of floating drydock
and other marine equipment to support the National Maritime Museum in San
Francisco, California, H.R. 934, to implement a program to reduce erosion from
specified lands within the authorized boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley
National Recreation Area in Ohio, and H.R. 1390, to authorize additional
long-term leases in the El Portal administrative site adjacent to Yosemite
National Park, California, after receiving testimony from Denis P. Galvin,
Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; and
William Lienesch, National Parks and Conservation Association, Washington,
D.C. 

FISH AND WILDLIFE BUDGET REQUEST 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, February 21, the
committee held hearings to review those programs which fall within the
jurisdiction of the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget
for fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for fish and
wildlife programs from William P. Horn, Assistant Secretary of the Interior
for Fish, Wildlife and Parks; and Lynn A. Greenwalt, National Wildlife
Federation, Amos S. Eno, National Audubon Society, John Fitzgerald, Defenders
of Wildlife, and Lonnie Williamson, Wildlife Management Institute, all of
Washington, D.C. 

RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution concluded hearings on H.R. 3917, to extend the period allowed for
compliance with certain financial responsibility requirements applicable to
land disposal facilities under the Solid Waste Disposal Act, after receiving
testimony from Representative Johnson; Mark Hyner, Whyco Chromium Company,
Inc., Thomaston, Connecticut; Robert N. Genereau, Stanley Plating Company,
Inc., Forestville, Connecticut; William R. Boakes, Sikes Corporation,
Lakeland, Florida; and Sue Ellen Pirages, National Solid Waste Management
Association, and Richard Fortuna, Hazardous Waste Treatment Council, both of
Washington, D.C.; and concluded oversight hearings on the implementation of
the Resource Recovery and Conservation Act of 1984 and the loss of interim
status, after receiving testimony from Linda Greer, and Ellen Silbergeld, both
of the Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.; and Douglas Mackay,
Stanford University, Stanford, California. 

Testimony was also received on both the aforementioned issues from J. Winston
Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Frank
Blake, General Counsel, Gene Lucero, Director, Office of Enforcement; and
Marcia Williams, Director, Office of Solid Waste, all of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency. 

HOSPITAL PROFITS 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, February 21, the Subcommittee on Health
concluded hearings to review hospital income under the Medicare Prospective
Payment System (PPS), after receiving testimony from Bryan B. Mitchell, Acting
Deputy Inspector General, and Larry Simmons, Deputy Assistant Inspector
General for Audit, both of the Department of Health and Human Services; Nathan
J. Stark, former Under Secretary of Health and Human Services, Jack W. Owen,
American Hospital Association, Stephen H. Lipson, District of Columbia
Hospital Association, and Ronald R. Kovener, Healthcare Financial Management
Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Samuel H. Howard, Hospital Corporation
of America, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the Federation of American
Health Systems; and Robert Maxwell and Jack Christy, both of the American
Association of Retired Persons, Crossville, Tennessee. 

TORT REFORM AND LIABILITY CRISIS 

Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, February 21, the committee held
oversight hearings to review tort reform and alternative legal dispute
resolution, focusing on S. 2038, to require attorneys to certify that clients
have been apprised of alternatives to court action, and S. 2046, to place a
cap on pain and suffering awards in litigation cases, receiving testimony from
James K. Coyne, American Tort Reform Association, Marvis A. Walters, Insurance
Services Office, Inc., Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell and Moring, and James L.
Kimble, American Insurance Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Allen R.
Thieme, Amigo Sales, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce; Linda Locke, Community Coordinated Child Care,
Louisville, Kentucky; and Jay Angoff, National Insurance Consumer
Organization, Alexandria, Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EDUCATION OF THE HANDICAPPED 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, February 21, the
Subcommittee on the Handicapped concluded hearings on the reauthorization of
the discretionary programs under the Education of the Handicapped Act (P.L.
98-199), after receiving testimony from William Gainer, Associate Director,
Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office; Humphrey Taylor, Louis
Harris and Associates, Inc., New York, New York; John McDonnell, University of
Utah, Salt Lake City; Brad Ferguson, Weber School District, Roy, Utah; Lois
and Brett Ibrahim, Ogden, Utah; Kenneth T. Baker, Northeast Regional Resource
Center, Burlington, Vermont; Hill M. Walker, University of Oregon, Eugene; and
Paul L. Hazen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. 

LIABILITY INSURANCE 

Committee on Small Business: On Friday, February 21, the committee continued
hearings on the cost and availability of liability insurance for small
business, receiving testimony from Michael Nystrom, Aerostar International,
Inc., Sioux Falls, South Dakota; William D. Gullickson, Jr., McLaughlin,
Gormley, King Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, representing the Chemical
Specialties Manufacturers Association; Danny Coleman, Powerscourt and Dubliner
Restaurants, Washington, D.C., representing the National Federation of
Independent Businesses; Francis R. Carroll, Small Business Service Bureau
Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts; John J. Polk, Council of Small Enterprises,
Cleveland, Ohio, representing the Small Business United; James Lienhart, Arrow
Coach Lines, Little Rock, Arkansas, representing the United Bus Owners of
America; Kenneth Green, Oklahoma Liquefied Gas Company, Seminole, Oklahoma,
representing the Natural LP Gas Associaton; William A. Sehnder, Bavarian Inn,
Frankenmuth, Michigan, representing the National Association of Restaurants;
Edward J. Muhl, Maryland Commissioner of Insurance, Baltimore, representing
the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; and Illinois State
Representative Woods Bowman, Evanston, representing the National Conference of
State Legislatures. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

VA HOME LOAN GUARANTIES 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting with an
amendment S. 2052, to provide that, for purposes of implementing the
President's fiscal year 1986 sequestration order, the guaranteed loan
limitation amount to Veteran Administration's home-loan guaranties under
chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code. 

GRAMM/RUDMAN -- IMPACT ON ELDERLY 

Special Committee on Aging: On Friday, February 21, the committee held
hearings to review the impact of Gramm-Rudman on the elderly, focusing on
research and training programs, housing subsidy programs, Medicare
beneficiaries and providers, and Social Security Administration and Veterans'
Administration programs, receiving testimony from T. Franklin Williams,
Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Public
Health Service, Bartlett S. Fleming, Acting Deputy Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, and Michio Suzuki, Associate Commissioner for State
and Tribal Programs, Administration on Aging, all of the Department of Health
and Human Services; John J. Knapp, Acting Under Secretary, Department of
Housing and Urban Development; Nelson J. Sabatini, Acting Deputy Commissioner
for Management and Assessment, Social Security Administration; John H. Mather,
Assistant Chief of Medical Director for Geriatrics and Extended Care,
Veterans' Administration; Shauna O'Neil, Salt Lake City Area Agency on Aging,
Salt Lake City, Utah, representing the National Association of Area Agencies
on Aging and the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations; and L.J. Andolsek,
National Association of Retired Federal Employees, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

DOLLAR AND EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEM 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, February 21, the Subcommittee on Economic
Goals and Intergovernmental Policy concluded hearings on the role of the
dollar and the present exchange rate system, after receiving testimony from
Rodiger Dornbusch and Paul Drugman, both of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Richard Cooper, Harvard University, all of Cambridge,
Massachusetts; William Branson, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey;
and Rimmer de Vries, Morgan Guaranty, New York, New York. 



1986/02/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 25, 1986; pages D145 - D ?  (Bound vol. D70-
D76)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERIOR/RECLAMATION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of the Interior, receiving testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the
Interior, Robert Broadbent, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and
Science, and C. Dale Duvall, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department
of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 4. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Michael F.
Hill, Director, Office of Revenue Sharing, Department of the Treasury; Roger
W. Jepsen, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration; and John P.
McTague, Acting Science Advisor to the President and Acting Director, Office
of Science and Technology Policy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 5. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE/EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Naval
Petroleum Reserve from Donald L. Bauer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy
for Fossil Energy; and in behalf of funds for the Office of Emergency
Preparedness from George J. Bradley, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy
for International Affairs and Energy Emergencies. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 4. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from William
E. Brock, Secretary of Labor; Thomas C. Komarek, Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Administration and Management; and Roger D. Semerad, Assistant Secretary
of Labor for Employment and Training. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Daniel Oliver, of Connecticut, and Andrew
Strenio, of Maryland, each to be a Commissioner of the Federal Trade
Commission, and Janet Hale, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Budget and Programs, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. 

BUDGET REPORT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee completed its review of
those programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, and agreed on
recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of David
B. Rohr, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States International Trade
Commission, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.  

COURT INTERPRETERS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S. 1853, to establish a program to facilitate the use of certified
interpreters in judicial proceedings instituted by the United States,
receiving testimony from Judge Thomas G. Gee, United States Court of Appeals
for the Fifth Circuit, on behalf of the Judicial Conference of the United
States; Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, United States District Court for the
Southern District of New York; Dena Kohn, Supervisor of Interpreters, United
States District Court for the Southern District Court of New York; Patrick
O'Leary, Tanaka, Ritger and Middleton, Washington, D.C.; Roseann Duenas
Gonzalez, University of Arizona, Tucson; Dennis Cokely, Registry of
Interpreters for the Deaf; Silver Spring, Maryland; Robert Joe Lee,
Administrative Office of the New Jersey State Courts, Trenton; and John
Mochizuki, New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

EMPLOYMENT TRAINING AND PARTNERSHIP ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 1990, to establish an Education and
Training Partnership, to administer the Job Training Partnership Act, the
Wagner-Peyser Act, and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, and to
improve coordination among Federal agencies with related responsibilities and
increase private sector involvement at the Federal level, after receiving
testimony from Bill Burtnett, Northeast Indiana Service Delivery Area, Fort
Wayne; Anthony P. Carnevale, American Society for Training and Development,
and Patrick J. McDonough, American Association for Counseling and Development,
both of Alexandria, Virginia; Henrietta L. Dabney, Amalgamated Clothing and
Textile Workers Union, New York, New York; William H. Kolberg, National
Alliance of Business, Markley Roberts, AFL-CIO, Stephen J. Blair, National
Association of Trade and Technical Schools, Carol Jusenius Romero, National
Commission for Employment Policy, and Cynthia E. Marano, Wider Opportunities
for Women, all of Washington, D.C.; Michael E. Crawford, Eastern Iowa
Community College District, Davenport, on behalf of the Association of
Community College Trustees and the American Association of Community and
Junior Colleges; Rosemary F. Kolde, Great Oaks Joint Vocational School
District, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the American Vocational Association;
Jack Struck, National Association of Vocational Education Professional
Consortium, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the National Association of
State Directors of Vocational Education; C. Bruce Cornett, Missouri Division
of Employment Security, Jefferson City; Catherine N. Stratton, Massachusetts
Office of Training and Employment Policy, Boston; Barry R. Niemann, Tigre
Systems, Carmel, Indiana, on behalf of the National Association of Personnel
Consultants; and Dean Griffin, American Vocational Association, Arlington,
Virginia. 

BUDGET REPORT 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee completed its review of those
programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, but did not agree on recommendations
which it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

Joint Meeting 

DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS 

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 Albert H. Linden,
Jr., Camp Springs, Maryland, Denvel D. Adams, San Diego, California, Charles
E. Joeckel, Davidsonville, Maryland, Arthur H. Wilson, Bowie, Maryland, John
F. Heilman, Washington Grove, Maryland, and Ronald W. Drach, Potomac,
Maryland, all representing the Disabled American Veterans. 

Joint hearings continue tomorrow. 



1986/02/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 26, 1986; pages D155 - D ?  (Bound vol.
D76-D82)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUDGET -- 1987 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee completed its review of those programs
which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, and agreed on recommendations which it
will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget, and adopted its rules of
procedure for the second session of the 99th Congress. 

Also, the committee resumed hearings to receive an analysis of the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony from Rudolph G.
Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF LABOR/PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, William G.
Barron, Deputy Commissioner for Administration and Internal Operations, and
Kenneth V. Dalton, Associate Commissioner for Prices and Living Conditions,
all of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Susan R. Meisinger, Deputy Under
Secretary for Employment Standards Administration, Carol A. Gaudin, Director,
Office of Management, Administration and Planning, and Nancy L. Ricker,
Director, Division of Financial Management, all of the Employment Standards
Administration, and David A. Zegeer, Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and
Health, Thomas J. Shepich, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and
Health, and John A. Stockman, Acting Chief, Division of Budget and Finance,
Office of Administration and Management, all of the Mine Safety and Health
Administration, all of the Deparment of Labor; and Kathleen P. Utgoff,
Executive Director, Royal S. Dellinger, Deputy Executive Director for
Insurance Programs, and Henry R. Thompson, Director, Corporate Budget
Department, all of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. 

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 1987 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Joseph J. Genovese,
Acting Deputy Inspector General, and Cynthia Douglass, Administrator, and
George Nesterczuk, Deputy Administrator, both of the Research and Special
Programs Administration, all of the Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 5. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed markup of a staff
proposal on defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again tomorrow. 

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on the internationalization of the world's capital markets, receiving
testimony from Dennis Weatherstone, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, Robert D.
Hormats, Goldman Sachs & Company, and Donald L. Galvin, New York Stock
Exchange, all of New York, New York; Gordon S. Macklin, National Association
of Securities Dealers, Washington, D.C.; and Charles N. Villiers, National
Westminster Bank, Martin Jacomb, Barclays Merchant Bank, and Jeffrey R.
Knight, The Stock Exchange, all of London, England. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported with amendments S.J. Res. 192, to authorize financial assistance for
the Northern Mariana Islands. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 1192 and H.R. 3113, bills to
coordinate the operation of the Central Valley project with the State of
California, and began consideration of S. 1225, to compensate the public for
injuries or damages suffered in the event of an accident involving nuclear
activities undertaken by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees or
Department of Energy contractors, but did not complete action thereon, and
will continue on Thursday, March 6.  

ROMANIA -- MOST FAVORED NATION STATUS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs conducted
hearings to review the most favored nation status to Romania, focusing on the
United States strategy in differentiating its policies toward the different
states in the Soviet bloc, and the impact of that differentiation on East-West
relations, after receiving testimony from Representatives Christopher Smith,
Wolf, and Tony Hall; Edward J. Derwinski, Counselor, and Richard D. English,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Refugee Admissions, Bureau of Refugee Programs,
both of the Department of State; Joseph Dennin, Assistant Secretary for
International Economic Policy, International Trade Administration, Department
of Commerce; James M. Murphy, Jr., Assistant United States Trade
Representative for Europe and the Mediterrean, Office of the United States
Trade Representative; Jeri Laber, Helsinki Watch, and Laszlo Hamos, Committee
for Human Rights in Romania, both of New York, New York; and Jeffrey A.
Collins Christian Response International, Washington, D.C. 

PRESIDENT'S MANAGEMENT LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on measures to
improve the management and performance of government, including S.J. Res. 190,
S. 1206, S. 1657, S. 2004, S, 2005, S.2006, S. 2007, S. 2008, S. 2009, S.
2010, and H.R. 2401, after receiving testimony from James C. Miller III,
Director of Office of Management and Budget; and Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, and William J. Anderson, Director,
General Government Division, both of the General Accounting Office. 

BUDGET REPORT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee completed its review of those
programs which fall within its jurisdiction as contained in the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1987, and agreed to submit its views and
estimates to the Committee on the Budget. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Con. G. Cholakis, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District
of New York, Raymond J. Dearie, to be United States District Judge for the
Eastern District of New York, and Eric G. Bruggink, of Virginia, and Marian B.
Horn, of Maryland, each to be a Judge of the United States Claims Court, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Messrs.
Cholakis and Dearie were introduced by Senators D'Amato and Moynihan, Mr.
Bruggink was introduced by Senator Heflin, and Ms. Horn was introduced by
Senator D'Amato. 

COMMITTEE RULES 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee adopted its rules of procedure for
the Second Session of the 99th Congress. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meetings 

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
Richard D. Hoover, Tucson, Arizona, R. Jack Powell, Gaithersburg, Maryland,
and Doug Vollmer, Washington, D.C., all of the Paralyzed Veterans of America;
Robert Routh, Jr., Los Angeles, California, George E. Stocking, Miami,
Florida, and Ronald L. Miller, Silver Spring, Maryland, all of the Blinded
Veterans of America; and Jules Carvalho, Jr., Colton, California, Joseph Del
Quaglio, Arlington, Virginia, Frank A. Athanason, Tantallon, Maryland, Maurice
Loir, Long Island, New York, and Richard J. Gallant, Burke, Virginia, all of
the Military Order of the Purple Heart of the United States of America. 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1986/02/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 27, 1986; pages D166 - D ?  (Bound vol. D82-
D91)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

Appropriations -- Department of Labor 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 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, J. Brian Hyland, Inspector
General, Donald Shasteen, Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and
Training, and Harold Russell, Chairman, President's Committee on Employment of
the Handicapped, all representing Departmental Management, Patrick R. Tyson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, John B. Miles,
Director, Office of Field Coordination, and Paula O. White, Budget Officer,
all of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and Dennis M. Kass,
Assistant Secretary for Pension and Welfare Benefit Administration, Stephen I.
Schlossberg, Deputy Under Secretary for Labor-Management Relations and
Cooperative Programs, and Ronald J. St. Cyr, Acting Assistant Secretary for
Labor-Management Standards, all representing the Labor-Management Services,
all of the Department of Labor.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 4. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued closed markup of a staff
proposal on defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF CAPITAL MARKETS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the internationalization of the world's capital markets,
after receiving testimony from Robert T. Blakely, Tenneco Inc., Houston,
Texas; Alan J. Lacy, Dart and Kraft, Inc., Northbrook, Illinois; John Hopkins,
Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and Daniel P. Kearney, Salomon Brothers, Inc.,
both of New York, New York; and Charles W. Taylor, Home Federal Savings and
Loan Association, San Diego, California. 

PRODUCT LIABILITY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on S. 1999, to provide for a uniform product liability law to conform
with an alternative claim system for expedited recovery of damages by those
injured by defective products, receiving testimony from Jeffrey O'Connell,
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville; Richard Carone,
Rexworks, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, representing the Independent Business
Association of Wisconsin and Small Business United; Marshall S. Shapo,
Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, representing the
American Bar Association; Deborah R. Hensler, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica,
California; David Owen, University of South Carolina, Columbia; J. Kenneth
Wainwright, Jr., Allied-Signal, Inc., Morristown, New Jersey; Deborah M.
Chalfie, HALT, Inc., Peter W. Huber, Victor E. Schwartz, and Liberty
Mahshigian, both of the Product Liability Alliance, Gene Kimmelman, Consumer
Federation of America, Stephen Lyons, Borg-Warner Corporation, Theresa
Schwartz, George Washington University Law School, Leslie Cheek, Crum and
Forster Insurance Companies, Andrew F. Popper, The American University, Pamela
Gilbert, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Joseph Goffman, Public
Citizen/Congress Watch, Patrick J. Head, FMC, Corporation, and Martin F.
Connor, General Electric Company, all of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 11. 

MICRONESIAN STATUS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded closed hearings
on the status of Micronesia, after receiving testimony from Ambassador Fred M.
Zeder, the President's Personal Representative for Micronesian Status
Negotiations; James Lilley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian
and Pacific Affairs; James A. Kelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs; Richard Montoya, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Territorial and International Affairs; and James D. Berg,
Political and Economic Advisor, Office for Micronesian Status Negotiations. 

TAXATION ON IMPORTED OIL 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation held
hearings on S. 1997, to impose a tax on the importation of crude oil and
refined petroleum products, and S. 1507, to increase the tariff on imported
crude oil and refined petroleum products, receiving testimony from Danny J.
Boggs, Deputy Secretary of Energy; Roger Mentz, Acting Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury for Tax Policy; Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan and Company,
Inc., New York, New York; Robert E. Hall, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University, Stanford, California; G. Henry M. Schuler, Center for Strategic
and International Studies, Georgetown University, Leonard P. Steuart II,
Steuart Petroleum Company, on behalf of the Independent Fuel Terminal
Operators Association, the New England Fuel Institute, the Empire State
Petroleum Association, the Pennsylvania Petroleum Association, and the Fuel
Merchants Association of New Jersey, and Lawrence Goldmuntz, on behalf of the
American Jewish Committee, all of Washington, DC; S. Fred Singer, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia; Robert L. Bradley, Jr., Citizens for a Sound
Economy, and George Slocum, Transco Energy Company, both of Houston, Texas;
James C. Phelps, Independent Petroleum Association of America, San Antonio,
Texas; James W. Hunt, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners
Association, Dallas, Texas; Carl Bloch, Jr., Society of Independent Gasoline
Marketers of America, Atlanta, Georgia; and George Jandacek, Crown Central
Petroleum, Baltimore, Maryland, representing the Independent Refiners
Coalition and the American Independent Refiners Association. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Paul D. Wolfowitz, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia, Gaston J. Sigur, Jr., of Maryland, to
be an Assistant Secretary of State, Arthur H. Davis, of Colorado, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Larry K. Mellinger, of California, to be
United States Alternate Executive Director to the Inter-American Development
Bank, Hugh W. Foster, of California, to be United States Alternate Executive
Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and two
Foreign Service Officer promotion lists, received by the Senate on January 27,
1986. 

NICARAGUA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings to
review United States policy toward Nicaragua, receiving testimony from George
P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 4. 

DOD SUBCONTRACTOR KICKBACKS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings on alleged Department of Defense
subcontractor kickbacks, receiving testimony from Robert C. Bonner, U.S.
Attorney for the Central District of California; John Volz, U.S. Attorney for
the Eastern District of Louisiana; Victoria Toensing, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Jeffrey J. Jamar, Section Chief,
White Collar Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division, and Joseph T.
Sheehan, Supervisory Special Agent, Los Angeles Division, both of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, all of the Department of Justice; and Tom B. Carvey,
Jr., Hughes Aircraft Company, Canoga Park, California.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Danny J. Boggs, of Kentucky, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Sixth Circuit, Frank J. Magill, of North Dakota, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Eighth Circuit, Robert J. Bryan, to be United
States District Judge for the Western District of Washington, Mariam G.
Cedarbaum, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of New
York, Sydney A. Fitzwater, to be United States District Judge for the Northern
District of Texas, David R. Hansen, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Iowa, Ronald R. Lagueux, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Rhode Island, Thomas J. McAvoy, to be United States
District Judge for the Northern District of New York, and Lawrence P. Zatkoff,
to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan; 

S.J. Res. 257, to designate the first Friday of May of each year as
"National
Teacher Appreciation Day," with amendments; 

S.J. Res. 261, to designate the week of April 14-20, 1986, as "National
Mathematics Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 262, to designate June 2-8, 1986, as "National Fishing
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 265, to designate the week of March 9-15, 1986, as "National
Employ
the Older Worker Week"; 

S.J. Res. 278, to designate March 16, 1986, as "Freedom of Information
Day";
and 

S. 1923, to provide for additional bankruptcy judges, with an amendment. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review white collar
crime in the United States, receiving testimony from Lowell Jensen, Deputy
Attorney General, Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 5. 

AUTHORIZATION -- HEAD START 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the Head Start program, after receiving testimony from Dorcas Hardy,
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Human Development
Services; Sarah M. Greene, National Head Start Association, E. Bradenton,
Florida; Mary Ann Hutchison, Latin American Civic Association/Head Start, Los
Angeles, California, representing the American Psychological Association;
Marilyn Smith, National Association for the Education of Young Children,
Washington, D.C.; Becky Davidson, Utah State University, Logan; and Maria
Flores and Rosalee Wilson, both of South Norwalk, Connecticut. 

COMMITTEE BUDGETS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 353) providing funds for operating expenses of
standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res.
300, S. Res. 301, S. Res. 302, S. Res. 306, S. Res. 308, S. Res. 309, S. Res.
310, S. Res. 311, S. Res. 313, S. Res. 314, S. Res. 315, S. Res. 321, S. Res.
322, S. Res. 323, S. Res. 324, S. Res. 325, S. Res. 326, S. Res. 327, and S.
Res. 331. As approved by the committee, the resolution provides funds, as
follows: 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry -- $1,263,379; 

Committee on Appropriations -- $3,999,860; 

Committee on Armed Services -- $2,097,190; 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- $1,613,364; 

Committee on the Budget -- $2,873,843; 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- $3,217,690; 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources -- $2,329,322; 

Committee on Environment and Public Works -- $2,267,021; 

Committee on Finance -- $2,153,790; 

Committee on Foreign Relations -- $2,365,019; 

Committee on Governmental Affairs -- $4,313,488; 

Committee on the Judiciary -- $4,125,039; 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources -- $4,326,021; 

Committee on Rules and Administration -- $1,194,353; 

Committee on Small Business -- $899,782; 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- $861,749; 

Select Committee on Aging -- $1,041,514; 

Select Committee on Intelligence -- $1,864,131; and 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs -- $790,797. 

Also, the committee ordered favorably reported the following additional
business items: 

S. Res. 305, relating to the printing of a report entitled "Developments
in
Aging: 1985"; 

S. Res. 337, to authorize from the Senate's contingent fund of judgments in a
civil action against the widow of a former Senate employee as representative
of his estate; 

An original resolution (S. Res. 356) authorizing the printing of a revised
edition of Senate document numbered 99-23, entitled "Senate Election Law
Guidebook 1984" as a Senate document; and 

Two original resolutions (S. Res. 354-355), each to pay a gratuity to the
survivor of a deceased Senate employee. 

MIA'S 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the reported
sightings of live military personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia,
receiving testimony from Paul D. Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Richard L. Armitage, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs; Lt. Gen. Leonard H. Perroots, U.S.
Air Force, Director, and Charles Throwbridge, Deputy Chief, Special Office for
Prisoners of War and Missing in Action, both of the Defense Intelligence
Agency; Maj. Gen. William C. Moore, U.S. Army, Director of Operations,
Readiness, and Mobilization, Office of the Deputy Chief of Army Staff for
Operations and Plans; and Maj. Gen. Kenneth C. Leuer, U.S. Army, Commanding
General, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort Polk, Louisiana. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 5. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), focusing on all
matter other than that in section 463 of Title IV and Title V of the House
amendment, and Title II of the Senate amendments, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/02/28
Daily Digest - Friday, February 28, 1986; pages D 177 - D ?  (Bound vol. D91-
D93)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

TAXATION ON IMPORTED OIL 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation
concluded hearings on S. 1997, to impose a tax on the importation of crude oil
and refined petroleum products, and S. 1507, to increase the tariff on
imported crude oil and refined petroleum products, after receiving testimony
from Senators Chafee, Heinz, Moynihan, Pell, Hart, and Bingaman;
Representatives Conte, James R. Jones, and Schneider; E. Allan Wendt, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for International Energy and Resources Policy, Economic
and Business Bureau, Department of State; Daniel H. Yergin, Cambridge Energy
Research Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Bernard L. Weinstein, Edwin L.
Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Charles
K. Ebinger, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University, and Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking Associations, Inc., both
on behalf of Direct Transportation Users, Washington, D.C.; Emma Brossard,
Center for Energy Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; Mack
Wallace, Railroad Commission of Texas, Austin; and Ronald S. Wishart, Union
Carbide Corporation, Stamford, Connecticut, on behalf of the Chemical
Manufacturers Association. 

OVER-THE-COUNTER PRODUCT PACKAGE SAFETY 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to review
the effectiveness of current packaging and safety regulations governing
over-the-counter products, after receiving testimony from Frank E. Young,
Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Nicholas V. O'Hara, Chief, General
Crimes Section, Criminal Investigative Division, Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice; Carol G. Dawson, Acting Chairman,
Consumer Product Safety Commission; David R. Clare, Johnson and Johnson, New
Brunswick, New Jersey; Arthur Hull Hayes, New York Medical College, New York,
former Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration; Nancy Harvey Steorts, Nancy
Steorts and Associates, Dallas, Texas, former Chairman of Consumer Product
Safety Commission; Peter Fink, R.P. Scherer Corporation, Troy, Michigan; and
Monroe Gilmour, American Association of Retired Persons, Odonna Mathews, Giant
Food Corporation, James D. Cope, Daniel F. O'Keefe, Jr., and R. William
Soller, all of Proprietary Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/03
Daily Digest - Monday, March 3, 1986; pages D185 - D ?  (Bound vol. D93-D96)

Committee Meetings 

No meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/04
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 4, 1986; pages D191 - D ?  (Bound vol. D97-D103)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Richard E. Lyng, of Virginia, to be Secretary of
Agriculture, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Wilson, Warner,
and Trible testified and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was
also received from Gerald Kopp, representing the National Democratic Policy
Committee, Washington, D.C. 

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported with an
amendment H.J. Res. 534, making an urgent supplemental appropriations for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, for the Commodity Credit Corporation,
Department of Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for research and engineering programs from Donald
A. Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
departmental administration of the Department of Energy from John S.
Herrington, Secretary of Energy, and Martha O. Hesse, Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Management and Administration. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE DEVELOPMENT/FINE ARTS/GALLERY OF ART 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Henry A.
Berliner, Jr., Chairman, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; and J.
Carter Brown, Chairman, Commission on Fine Arts, and Director, National
Gallery of Art. 

Subcommittee will meet again Thursday, March 6. 

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 1987 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed markup of a staff
proposal on defense reorganization, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again on Thursday, March 6. 

DEPOSIT INSURANCE REFORM 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings to review Federal deposit insurance programs, receiving testimony
from George D. Gould, Under Secretary of Finance, Department of the Treasury;
and Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 13. 

LIABILITY INSURANCE 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on liability insurance, focusing on the availability and
affordability of insurance in various property and casualty lines, after
receiving testimony from Senator Sasser; Jeffrey S. Bragg, Administrator,
Federal Insurance Administration; Lawrence H. Thompson, Chief Economist,
General Accounting Office; Richard D. Hazell, Lloyds of London, London,
England; Josephine Driscoll, Oregon Insurance Commissioner, Salem, on behalf
of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; William D. Gunter,
Florida Commissioner of Insurance, Tallahassee; Bruce W. Foudree, Iowa
Commissioner of Insurance, Des Moines; Michael J. Mullen, Crowell and Moring,
Karen Ehrnman, American College of Nurse-Midwives, Bruce J. Parker, National
Solid Wastes Management Association, Carole Rogin, National Association for
Child Care Management, representing the American Tort Reform Association;
James S. Todd, American Medical Association, and John J. Motley, National
Federation of Independent Businesses, all of Washington, D.C.; Jack Floyd,
Tennessee Municipal League, Nashville; Ronald Stasch, Federal Mogul
Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, on behalf of the Finance, Risk and Insurance
Management Society, Inc.; Allen Sigoloff, Camp Thunderbird for Boys and Girls,
St. Louis, Missouri, representing the American Camping Association;
Assemblyman Chuck Hardwick, Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly,
Trenton, on behalf of the National Conference on State Legislatures; Stephen
R. Hemphill, Platte City, Missouri; and Paul Flanagan, Raleigh County
Commission, Raleigh, West Virginia. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

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

S. 1911, to direct the Administrator of General Services to release, on the
behalf of the United States, certain conditions and reservations contained in
a conveyance of land to the State of Utah, after receiving testimony from
James J. Buckley, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Office of Real Property,
Federal Property Resources Services, General Services Administration; and
Charles Peck, Upland Industries Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah; 

S. 2031, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to release restrictions on
certain property located in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, after receiving
testimony from Representative Breaux; and Mayor Edward S. Watson, Lake
Charles, Louisiana; 

S. 1617, to provide for more effective management of lands of the United
States which are subject to conflicting claims or disputes, and to require the
Secretary of the Interior to report annually thereon, after receiving
testimony from Douglas W. MacCleery, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
for Natural Resources and Environment; F. Henry Habicht II, Assistant Attorney
General, Land and Water Resources Division, Department of Justice; Idaho
Attorney General Jim Jones, Boise; North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas
Spaeth, Bismarck; Howard Schrinar, Wyoming Commissioner of Public Lands,
Cheyenne; and Jan Stevens, California Supervising Deputy Attorney General,
Sacramento; 

S. 1888, to provide for a cleanup and maintenance of Federal public lands,
national parks and recreation areas, after receiving testimony from Robert K.
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Carl Garner, Resident
Engineer, Army Corps of Engineers, Greers Ferry, Arkansas; and Gere McCall,
Keep America Beautiful, Arlington, Virginia; 

S. 1568, to declare that the United States hold certain lands in trust for the
Reno Sparks Indian Colony, after receiving testimony from Lawrence Astor and
Wayne Sampson, both of the Reno Sparks Indian Colony, Reno, Nevada; 

Testimony was also received on all the aforementioned bills, with the
exception of S. 1911, and, in addition, on S. 1021 and H.R. 1795, bills to
exempt certain lands in the State of Mississippi from a restriction set forth
in the Act of April 21, 1806, S. 1690, to provide for the transfer of certain
interests in lands in Dona Ana County, New Mexico, to Dona Ana County for the
use as a fairgrounds, S. 1963, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to
convey certain interest in lands in Socorro County, New Mexico, to the New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, S. 2091, to amend the provisions of
the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, relating to the
acquisition of public lands, H.R. 850, to modify the boundary of Humboldt
National Forest in the State of Nevada, H.R. 1740, to direct the Secretary of
the Interior to release a reversionary interest in certain lands in Orange
County, Florida, and S. 1638 and H.R. 1593, bills to direct the Secretary of
the Interior to release, on behalf of the United States, certain restrictions
in the previous conveyance of land to the Town of Jerome, Arizona, from James
M. Parker, Associate Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the
Interior. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
David B. Rohr, of Maryland, to be a Member of the United States International
Trade Commission. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 3838, proposed Tax
Reform Act of 1986, after receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; Mayor
Joseph Casale, Portland, Maine; Vincent R. Sombrotto, National Association of
Letter Carriers, Washington, D.C.; and Tom W. Griffith, National Rural Letter
Carriers Association, Alexandria, Virginia. 

NICARAGUAN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 283,
to approve the President's request (Presidential Message 116) for additional
assistance for the democratic resistance in Nicaragua, after receiving
testimony from Robert S. Leiken and Peter D. Bell, both of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, and Wayne S. Smith, Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies, all of Washington, D.C.; and John Silber,
Boston University, Boston Massachusetts. 

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, by making it unlawful for any rail carrier, with the effect
of monopolizing, to deny use, on reasonable terms, of a railroad facility
which is the sole facility providing rail services to a shipper, after
receiving testimony from Heather Gradison, Chairman, Interstate Commerce
Commission; John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration,
Department of Transportation; George Mauro, FMC Corporation, Chicago,
Illinois; and Dwight Long, ICI Americas, Incorporated, Wilmington, Delaware. 

JUDICIAL SURVIVORS -- ANNUITY PROGRAMS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts approved for full committee
consideration with amendments H.R. 3570, to revise annuity programs for
survivors of Federal justices and judges. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
nomination of Jeffrey I. Zuckerman, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SENATE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met and agreed on a procedure
to select a vendor to provide a new telecommunications system for the Senate. 

Joint Meetings 

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS -- LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs to review the legislative priorities
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, receiving testimony from John S. Staum,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Al Loehr, St. Cloud, Minnesota, and James Magill, Fred
Juarbe, and Cooper T. Holt, all of Washington, D.C., all representing the
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. 

Joint hearings continue on Wednesday, April 16. 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, March 6. 



1986/03/05
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 5, 1986; pages D201 - D ?  (Bound vol. D104-
D110)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Richard E. Lyng, of Virginia, to be Secretary of
Agriculture. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Strategic Defense Initiative from Lt.
Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative
Organization. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TVA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Tennessee Valley Authority from Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman, and John B.
Waters, Director, both of the TVA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 11. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
AGENCY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Erich Bloch,
Director, National Science Foundation; and Julius W. Becton, Jr., Director,
Federal Emergency Management Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from James B. Wyngaarden,
Director, Vincent T. Devita, Jr., Director, National Cancer Institute, and
Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and
Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration; and Diane K. Steed, Administrator, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 12. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee began mark up of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Alfred C. Sikes, of Missouri, to be Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, after the nominee
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Morton I. Abramowitz, of Massachusetts, and H. Allen Holmes, of
the District of Columbia, each to be an Assistant Secretary of State, and Otto
J. Reich, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Venezuela, after
the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. 

D.C. COURT SYSTEM 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and
the District of Columbia held oversight hearings on the District of Columbia
court system, and on H.R. 2946, to allow the courts of the District of
Columbia to establish their own jury system, and enable the D.C. Superior
Court to adopt a one trail/one day jury service procedure, and H.R. 3578, to
provide permanent authority for hearing commissioners in the District of
Columbia courts, and to modify certain procedures of the District of Columbia
Judicial Nomination Commission and the District of Columbia Commission on
Judicial Disabilities and Tenure, receiving testimony from William C. Pryor,
Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals; H. Carl Moultrie I, Chief
Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia; John H. Suda, Acting
Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia; and Julie Gilbert, Council
for Court Excellence, John H. Pickering, D.C. Bar Court Study Implementation
Committee, Gay Gellhorn and James McKay, both of the D.C. Bar Division VI
(D.C. Affairs), Bette L. Catoe, D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and
Tenure, and Katherine S. Broderick, Antioch School of Law, all of Washington,
D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
J. Daniel Mahoney, of New York, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Second Circuit, and Barbara K. Hackett, to be United States District Judge for
the Eastern District of Michigan, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Mahoney was introduced by Senators D'Amato
and Moynihan. 

OFFICE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice concluded
oversight hearings on the activities of the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice, focusing on the funding for and
the Federal role in improving juvenile justice systems and preventing juvenile
delinquency, after receiving testimony from Alfred S. Regnery, Administrator,
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Department of Justice;
A.L. Carlisle, National Coalition of State Juvenile Justice Advisory Groups,
Cape Elizabeth, Maine; Marvin E. Wolfgang, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; Don Mathis, Centinela Valley Juvenile Diversion Project,
Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California; and Dean Dickson, Mid-Atlantic
Association of Youth Services, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meeting 

FTC AUTHORIZATIONS 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of S. 1078, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1986, 1987, and 1988
for the Federal Trade Commission, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/06
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 6, 1986; pages D211 - D ?  (Bound vol. D110-
D117)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SBA/BIB/JAPAN-U.S. FRIENDSHIP COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert A. Turnbull, Associate Deputy Administrator, Small
Business Administration; Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Chairman, and Ben Wattenberg,
Assistant Vice Chairman, both of the Board for International Broadcasting;
Gene Pell, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; and W. Glenn Campbell,
Chairman, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 12. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from William D. Bettenberg,
Director, Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 11. 

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 1987 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from T. Franklin
Williams, Director, National Institute on Aging, Betty H. Pickett, Director,
Division of Research Resources, and Harold Loe, Director, National Institute
of Dental Research, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 10. 

DEFENSE REORGANIZATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill providing for the reorganization of the Department of Defense. 

FARM CREDIT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings to review the problems of agricultural credit, focusing on the
financial problems of agricultural banks, receiving testimony from Senators
Grassley, Boschwitz, and Abdnor; Representative Bruce; Charles O. Sethness,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance; Randall A.
Killebrew, First National Bank, Petersburg, Illinois, and Michael E. Fitch,
Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, California, both on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; B.F. Backlund, Bartonville Bank, Peoria, Illinois, on
behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; and Leslie G.
Horsager, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey, on
behalf of the American Council of Life Insurance. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 11. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, March 11. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute H.R. 3113, to
coordinate the operation of the Central Valley project with the State of
California. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates the text of
S. 1171, to authorize additional funds for assistance to non-Federal
organizations for developing reclamation projects, and S. 1192, Senate
companion measure to H.R. 3113.) 

Also, the Committee resumed consideration of S. 1225, to compensate the public
for injuries or damages suffered in the event of an accident involving nuclear
activities undertaken by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees or
Department of Energy contractors, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again on Wednesday, March 19. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee conducted hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987 through 1990 for
the Federal-aid highway program, after receiving testimony from Elizabeth H.
Dole, Secretary of Transportation; Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Ralph L. Stanley,
Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Department of
Transportation; and Edward C. Gramlich, Deputy Director, Congressional Budget
Office. 

ETHIOPIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
current situation in Ethiopia, focusing on forced population removal and human
rights, after receiving testimony from Alan Keyes, Assistant Secretary of
State for International Organizations; Princeton Lyman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Ted D. Morse, Director, Drought
Coordination Committee, Bureau for Africa, U.S. Agency for International
Development; and Jason W. Clay, Cultural Survival, Inc., Cambridge,
Massachusetts. 

AIRLINE SAFETY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held oversight hearings on the current state of United States air safety,
focusing on ways in which new innovative technology can improve the safety of
aircraft, receiving testimony from Senator Simon; George E. Batchelor, and
Richard Skully, both of Arrow Air, Inc., and Pilot George Lycan, Rich
International Airways, all of Miami, Florida; and Daniel E. Hood, and Michael
Sanjenis, both former Arrow Air pilots. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 13. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Con. G. Cholakis, to be United States District Judge for
the Northern District of New York, Raymond J. Dearie, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Robert Q. Whitwell, to be
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Wayne D.
Beaman, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Virginia,
William I. Berryhill, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of
North Carolina, Ralph L. Boling, to be United States Marshal for the Western
District of Kentucky, Lee Koury, to be United States Marshal for the Western
District of Missouri, P.A. Mangini, to be United States Marshal for the
District of Connecticut, and J. Jerome Perkins, to be United States Marshal
for the Northern District of Indiana; 

S.J. Res. 205, to designate March 21, 1986, as "National Energy Education
Day"; 

S.J. Res. 272, to designate March 21, 1986, as "Afghanistan Day"; 

S.J. Res. 275, to designate the week of May 11-17, 1986, as "Jewish
Heritage
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 276, to designate February 19, 1987, as "National Day for
Federal
Retirees"; 

S.J. Res. 285, to designate the week of May 11-17, 1986, as "National
Osteoporosis Awareness Week"; 

H.J. Res. 345, to designate the month of March 1986, as "Music In Our
Schools
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 273, to designate the week of March 9, 1986, as "National
Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week"; and 

S. 1889, to prevent the discharge of any order, rule, or determination made
pursuant to a State administrative process for obtaining and enforcing child
or spousal support orders. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 238, to reform procedures for
collateral review of criminal judgments, but did not complete action thereon,
and will meet again on Thursday, March 13. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPENDENT CARE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for dependent care programs, after receiving testimony from Senator
Riegle; Edward Zigler, Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, New
Haven, Connecticut; Marge Gates, representing the National Collaboration for
Youth, New York, New York; Suzann Nowels, Utah Chapter of the Junior League,
Salt Lake City; and Joseph Mathos, Dade County Public School Systems, Miami,
Florida. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
Intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the Intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue to Wednesday, March 12. 

DISPOSABLE DIALYSIS DEVICES 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings on the safety and efficacy
in the reprocessing and reuse of disposable dialysis devices, receiving
testimony from John E. Marshall, Director, National Center for Health
Services, Research and Health Care Technology Assessment, Public Health
Service, and Bartlett S. Fleming, Acting Deputy Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Melinda McFadden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Vagn Vogter, St. Petersburg,
Florida; Malcolm Shuman, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Robert D. Rosen, Bensalem,
Pennsylvania; James R. Beall, Association of Government Toxicologists,
Gaithersburg, Maryland; Charles J. Wolf, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia;
and Terry D. Oberley, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, March 11. 



1986/03/07
Daily Digest - Friday, March 7, 1986; pages D222 - D ?  (Bound vol. D117-D119)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on S. 2132, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony from James P. Wade, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics; Maj. Gen. Robert J. Dacey,
USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army; L. Wayne Arny III,
Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and
Logistics; Rear Adm. John Paul Jones, Jr., USN, Commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command, Department of the Navy; Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, USMC,
Director, Facilities and Services Division, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Installations and Logistics, Department of the Navy; and Maj. Gen.
George E. Ellis, USAF, Director of Air Force Engineering and Services,
Department of the Air Force. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 10. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Paul Lamboley, of Nevada, and J.J. Simmons, of
Oklahoma, each to be a Commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and
Janet Hale, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Lamboley was introduced by Senator Hecht and former Senator Cannon, and Mr.
Simmons was introduced by Senator Boren. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Jed Dean Christensen, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office
of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Hecht, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from Senator Sasser.  

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings on the nomination of Ronald S. Lauder, of New York, to be Ambassador
to Austria, after the nominee who was introduced by Senators D'Amato and
Hawkins, testified and answered questions on their own behalf. 

MIROSLAV MEDVID/EAST BLOC DEFECTORS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
resumed hearings in open and closed session to review issues surrounding the
attempted defection of Miroslav Medvid and the Administration's procedures
regarding East Bloc defectors, receiving testimony from Rozanne L. Ridgway,
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Louis Sell,
Deputy Director for Bilateral Political Relations, Office of Soviet Union
Affairs, Department of State; and William B. Worley, Deputy Chief Border
Patrol, and Joe Bashaw, Ernest M. Spurlock, and David T. Vannett, all Border
Patrol Agents, all of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department
of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on employment/unemployment
statistics for February, receiving testimony from Janet L. Norwood,
Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/10
Daily Digest - Monday, March 10, 1986; pages D232 - D ?  (Bound vol. D120-
D121)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on S. 2132, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for military
construction programs, after receiving testimony from George R. Schlossbert,
Office of the General Counsel, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Col. John
B. Rosamond, USA, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Guard/Reserve,
Materiel and Facilities); Brig. Gen. Richard D. Dean, Deputy Director, Army
National Guard, Departments of the Army and Air Force; Col. Charles T.
McManamay, Chief of Construction Management Division, Office of the Chief of
Army Reserve, Department of the Army; Rear Adm. Francis Neale Smith, Deputy
Director, Naval Reserve, Department of the Navy; Brig. Gen. John F. McMerty,
Deputy Director, Air National Guard, and Brig. Gen. Shirley M. Carpenter,
Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserve, both of the Department of the Air
Force; Commander Harold E. Phillips, USN, Deputy Director, Defense Medical
Facilities, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs;
Robert J. Lanrue, Director, NATO and Foreign Programs, Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; Terry Trepal, Chief,
Logistics Division, Department of Defense Dependends Schools; Robert Bradach,
Section 6 Schools, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force
Management and Personnel; and Lt. Col. Harvey Player, USA, Chief, Management
and Resources Division, Office of the Strategic Defense Initiative. 

PANAMA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
resumed hearings to review the current situation in Panama, receiving
testimony from Ambler Moss, former Ambassador to Panama; Norman A. Bailey,
former Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs;
Richard Millet, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale; and Adelaide
Eisenmann, Pan American Committee on Human Rights, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/11
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 11, 1986; pages D237 - D ?  (Bound vol. D122-
D128)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary for
Conservation and Renewable Energy, Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of
Energy Research, and Mary L. Walker, Assistant Secretary for Environment,
Safety and Health, all of the Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL PARK 

SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from William Penn Mott,
Director, National Park Service, and William P. Horn, Assistant Secretary for
Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, both of the Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL 

INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the National Institutes of Health, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Edward E. Nicholas, Jr.,
Acting Associate Director for Administration, Office of the Director, Donald
A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine, Craig K. Wallace,
Director, John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the
Health Sciences, David P. Rall, Director, National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye Institute, and Murray
Goldstein, Director, National Institute of Neurological and Communicative
Disorders and Stroke, all of the National Institutes of Health, Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MILITARY UNIFIED COMMANDS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the status of the
unified commands, receiving testimony from Gen. John R. Galvin, USA,
Commander-in-Chief, Southern Command; Gen. Fred Mahaffey, USA,
Commander-in-Chief, Readiness Command; Adm. Ronald J. Hays, USN,
Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command; and Gen. George B. Crist, USMC,
Commander-in-Chief, Central Command. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

FARM CREDIT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to review the problems of agricultural credit, focusing on
the financial problems of agricultural banks, after receiving testimony from
Senators Nickles, Melcher, and Exon; L. William Seidman, Chairman, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation; Robert L. Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency;
and Preston Martin, Governor, and William Taylor, Director, Division of
Banking Supervision and Regulation, both of the Federal Reserve System. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

PRODUCT LIABILITY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
resumed hearings on S. 1999, to provide for a uniform product liability law to
conform with an alternative claim system for expedited recovery of damages by
those injured by defective products, receiving testimony from Edward J.
Burger, Jr., Georgetown University Medical Center, Lawrence B. Novey, Kaye,
Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, Steven Lamm, Consultants in Epidemiology
and
Occupational Health, Inc., Jonathan Marks, Endispute, Inc., Dwayne Buckmaster,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Richard E. Lerner, American
Arbitration Association, and Linda Lipsen, Consumers Union, all of Washington,
D.C.; E. Donald Elliott, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Hans Weill,
Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Bruce Karrah, E.I. Dupont,
Wilmington, Delaware, and Lee Nute, Dow Chemical USA, Midland, Michigan, both
representing the Chemical Manufacturers' Association; James H. Mack, National
Machine Tool Builders Association, and Mark Nuzzaco, National Printing
Equipment and Supplies Association, both of McLean, Virginia; and Richard
Whiston, Otis Elevator Company, Armington, Connecticut. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on white
collar crime in the United States, receiving testimony from Stan Wheeler, Yale
Law School, New Haven, Connecticut; Donald Cressey, University of California,
Santa Barbara; David Cherrington, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and
Ken Carlson, ABT, Associates, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 18. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks approved for full committee consideration the following bills: 

S. 1543, to prohibit the importation, use or sale in the country of products
made abroad by a U.S. patented process, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 1093, to allow an extension of patent life for agricultural chemicals and
veterinary medicines for time lost in regulatory review procedures at the
Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 2069, to improve Job Training
Partnership Program stability and lessen burdensome administrative
requirements, improve services to youth and the hard-to-serve, and strengthen
enforcement, after receiving testimony from Roger D. Semerad, Assistant
Secretary of Labor for the Employment and Training Administration; William J.
Gainer, Associate Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting
Office; Joan Hammond, Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Columbus, on behalf
of the National Governors' Association; Mayor Arthur J. Holland, Trenton, New
Jersey, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Pierce A. Quinlan,
National Alliance of Business, Marta M. Escutia, National Council of La Raza,
Douglas G. Glasgow, National Urban League, Cynthia E. Marano, Wider
Opportunities for Women, Georgetta Mitchell, Displaced Homemakers Network,
Susan Shown Harjo, National Congress of American Indians, on behalf of the
Indian Employment and Training Coalition, and Dennis K. Rhoades, The American
Legion, all of Washington, D.C.; Hubert Price, Commissioner of Oakland County,
Michigan, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Leo Toupin,
Hoosier Falls Private Industry Council, Jeffersonville, Indiana; William
Colon, National Employment and Training Council, Jersey City, New Jersey;
James J. Darr, Boston Private Industry Council, Boston, Massachusetts; Milton
J. Little, Jr., Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York, New
York; J. Michael Levesque, Rhode Island Job Training Partnership Liaison,
Providence; Judy Sheets, Calumet College, Whiting, Indiana; Bonnie L. Voyles,
Brannell College, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Association of
Independent Colleges and Schools; Charneil M. Hadl, Kansas Department of Human
Resources, Topeka; C.W. Van Valkenburgh, Rappahannock Services Corporation,
Fredericksburg, Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of
Rehabilitation Facilities; and Al Androlewicz, RCA Service Company, Cherry
Hill, New Jersey, on behalf of the Home Builders Institute. 

SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION 

DEVELOPMENT 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation and Technology held
oversight hearings on the implementation of the Small Business Innovation and
Research Program (P.L. 97-219), receiving testimony from Richard Shane,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Innovation, Research and Technology, Small
Business Administration; Sarah Frazier, Associate Director, Resources
Community and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Leo
Young, Chairman, and Horace Crouch, Deputy Chairman, both of the Small
Business Innovation Research Program, Department of Defense; David Franklin
and Loretta C. Franklin, both of Audiological Engineering, Inc., Somerville,
Massachusetts; Ernest Koerner, Techrad, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Herbert
A. Platt, Genetic Diagnostics Corporation, Great Neck, New York; Stephen
Andrade, Ben Franklin Partnership Program, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Lawrence L. Barker, Jr., New York State Science and Technology Foundation,
Albany; and A. Wade Blackman, American Research and Development, Inc., Boston,
Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

ARMS CONTROL BRIEFING 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on arms control issues from officials of the intelligence community. 

Joint Meeting 

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS -- URGENT SUPPLEMENTAL 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.J. Res. 534, making an urgent supplemental appropriation for the
Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, but
did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1986/03/12
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 12, 1986; pages D247 - D ?  (Bound vol. D128-
D136)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMERCE/ITC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of
Commerce; and Paula Stern, Chairwoman, International Trade Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for defense acquisition policies from James Wade,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics; and Everett
Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Multilateral Development Banks from James A. Baker
III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Environmental Protection Agency from Lee
M. Thomas, Administrator, EPA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19. 

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 1987 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from John H.
Kelso, Acting Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration,
Donald I. Macdonald, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, and Dennis P.
Williams, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Budget, Duane Alexander, National
Institute of Child Health, Pierre Renault, Director, National Institute on
Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Lawrence Shulman, Acting
Director, National Institute on Arthritis, Claude Lenfant, Director, National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and Ruth Kirschstein, Director, National
Institute of General Medical Sciences, all of the National Institutes of
Health, all of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION/PANAMA CANAL
COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James L. Emery, Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation;
William R. Gianelli, Special Assistant to Secretary of Defense for Panama
Canal Affairs and Chairman, Board of Directors, Panama Canal Commission; and
Dennis P. McAuliffe, Administrator, Panama Canal Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Marshall J. Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United
States; Chief Judge Samuel B. Sterrett, United States Tax Court; Frank Gearde,
Jr., Chairman, Committee for the Blind and Handicapped; David E. Nething,
Member, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; Maria Johnson,
Acting Chairman, Merit Systems Protection Board; K. William O'Connor, Special
Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; Martin L. Duggan, Chairman, Advisory
Committee on Federal Pay; and Jerry L. Calhoun, Chairman, and John C. Miller,
General Counsel, both of the Federal Labor Relations Authority. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

MILITARY UNIFIED COMMANDS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the status of the
unified commands, after receiving testimony from Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, USA,
Commander-in-Chief, European Command; and Adm. Lee Baggett, Jr., USN,
Commander-in-Chief, Atlantic Command. 

NICARAGUAN RESISTANCE ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on the President's request for additional assistance to the
Nicaraguan resistance from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs; Gen. John R. Galvin, USA, Commander-in-Chief, Southern
Command; and an official of the Central Intelligence Agency. 

Committee recessed subject to call. 

WORLD OIL SITUATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met in closed session to
receive testimony on the domestic and international oil situation, and on the
political and financial impact of the current oil surplus from Danny J. Boggs,
Deputy Secretary of Energy; David Cohen, Director, Office of Global Issues,
Directorate of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency; Charles Schotta,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Arabian Peninsula Affairs; and
E. Allan Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy
and Resources Policy. 

Hearings continue on Friday, March 14. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Daniel A. Manion, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Circuit, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Lugar and
Quayle, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Robert E. Rader, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Gramm, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

SENATE 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 AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the defense
community. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

Joint Meetings 

OIL PRICES -- ECONOMIC IMPACT 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic
Growth concluded hearings on the economic impact of the oil price collapse,
focusing on how the drop in oil prices will affect the international oil
market, domestic production, refining and distribution, and banking
institutions, after receiving testimony from Joseph Kalt, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Joel Prakken, Laurence Meyer and Associates, St.
Louis, Missouri; Philip Verleger, Charles River Associates, Boston,
Massachusetts; and Edward Friedman, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., New York,
New York. 

U.S./CANADA TRADE 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy concluded
hearings on U.S./Canada trade policies, after receiving testimony from
Representative Craig; Alfred E. Eckes, Commissioner, International Trade
Commission; Thomas Richards, Idaho Forest Industries, Coeur d'Alene; Lloyd
Stahl, Black Hills Forest and Resource Association, Custer, South Dakota; and
Carlton E. Nichols, Nichols and Stone, Gardner, Massachusetts. 

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS -- URGENT SUPPLEMENTAL 

Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.J. Res. 534, making an urgent
supplemental appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1986. 



1986/03/13
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 13, 1986; pages D259 - D ?  (Bound vol. D136-
D144)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- RESERVE AFFAIRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Guard and Reserve affairs from James H.
Webb, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NUCLEAR/WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for nuclear
fission, uranium enrichment, and nuclear waste management from James W.
Vaughan, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Ben C. Rusche,
Director, Office of Civilian Radio-Active Waste Management, and John R.
Longenecker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment, all of the
Department of Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, for the Department of
State, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN EDUCATION/HUMANITIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lawrence F.
Davenport, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary
Education, on behalf of Indian education programs; and John Agresto, Acting
Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

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 1987 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Richard P.
Kusserow, Inspector General, Betty Lou Dotson, Director, Office for Civil
Rights, James O. Mason, Director, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health
Service, Robert L. Trachtenberg, Acting Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse,
and Mental Health Administration, and Shervert H. Frazier, Director, National
Institute of Mental Health, on behalf of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987, for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Paul H. Cooksey, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Administration, William E. Douglas, Commissioner, Financial
Management Service, Donna Pope, Director, Bureau of the Mint, W.M. Gregg,
Commissioner of the Public Debt, Katherine D. Ortega, Treasurer of the United
States, John F.W. Rogers, Assistant Secretary for Management, and Roscoe
Egger, Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, all of the Department of the
Treasury.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on S. 2082, to improve the management of major defense acquisition
programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition Service, and to limit employment
contacts between senior officials of the Department of Defense and defense
contractors, receiving testimony from Senator Dixon; John Lehman, Secretary of
the Navy; Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research,
Development & Logistics; and Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the
Army
for Research, Development and Acquisition. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 2076, to authorize funds for the export administration and export promotion
activities of the Department of Commerce, with an amendment; 

An original bill to establish a $300 million tied-aid credit facility to offer
financing for the exportation of United States goods and services to countries
or in sectors which are present or likely future export markets for any
country which the Secretary determines engages in predatory export financing
through the use of tied-aid or partially untied-aid credits and which impedes
progress toward the conclusion of a comprehensive arrangement to restrict the
use of such credits for commercial purposes, in lieu of S. 1763; 

An original bill to authorize funds through fiscal year 1996 for the
Export-Import Bank, in lieu of S. 2058; 

An original bill incorporating the provisions of each of the aforementioned
original bills; 

The nominations of John A. Bohn, Jr., of Virginia, to be President of the
Export-Import Bank of the United States, Richard H. Francis, of Virginia, to
be President of the Solar Energy and Energy Conservation Bank, Frank B.
Sollars, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the National
Consumer Cooperative Bank, and Philip D. Winn, of Colorado, to be a Member of
the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences; 

S. 1707, to authorize the President to present a gold medal to the parents of
Father Jerzy Popieluszko; 

S. 1756, to authorize the President, on behalf of the Congress, to present a
gold medal to Sargent Shriver, in commemoration of the Peace Corps' 25th
anniversary and in recognition of his contributions as its first director; 

S. 1952, to provide for the striking of medals to commemorate the Young
Astronauts Program; 

S. 2084, to authorize the President to present gold medals to the families of
the crew members of the Mission 51-L of the Space Shuttle CHALLENGER; and 

S.J. Res. 222, to award a Congressional gold medal posthumously to Leon
Klinghoffer to show the Congress' admiration for the bravery he displayed
while kidnaped by terrorists, with an amendment. 

DEPOSIT INSURANCE REFORM 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings to review Federal deposit insurance programs, after
receiving testimony from William Seidmann, Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; and Edwin Gray, Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board. 

BUDGET RESOLUTION 

Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of the first concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1987 budget, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 3773, to promote technology transfer by authorizing Government-operated
laboratories to enter into cooperative research agreements and by establishing
a Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer within the National
Science Foundation, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2180, to authorize $18.3 million for fiscal year 1987 for the U.S. Fire
Administration and the National Fire Academy; 

S. 2054, to allow the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to accept
and use funds that are designated for the building of a new CHALLENGER space
shuttle, with an amendment; 

S. Res. 332, to honor the CHALLENGER Space Shuttle astronauts, with an
amendment; 

S. 1966, to provide for efficient and equitable use of operating rights at
certain congested airports, focusing on a new approach to allocating the
Federal Aviation Administration instrument flight rule operating rights at
O'Hare, JFK, La Guardia, and Washington National Airports, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1750, to impose and increase civil penalties for safety violations by
persons engaged in commercial aircraft operations; 

S. 2179, to provide for reduction in the term of office of members of the
Federal Communications Commission; 

S. 186, to require the U.S. Postal Service to contract with U.S. registered
vessels for international sea transportation of mail; 

S. Con. Res. 95, to recognize and honor the Consumers Union for contributions
made in informing, protecting, and aiding consumers; 

S. Res. 298, to express support and encouragement of the Senate for the United
States Disabled Ski Team at the 1986 World Disabled Ski Championships to be
held in Salem, Sweden, on April 6 through 17, 1986; and 

The nominations of Alfred C. Sikes, of Missouri, to be Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Communications and Information, Daniel Oliver, of Connecticut,
and Andrew J. Strenio, Jr., of Maryland, both to be Commissioners, Federal
Trade Commission, J.J. Simmons III, of Oklahoma, and Paul H. Lamboley, of
Nevada, both to be Members of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Janet Hale,
of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation, Coast Guard
nominations in the rank of Rear Admiral received by the Senate on February 21,
1986, and two lists of routine Coast Guard nominations received by the Senate
on February 11 and 12, 1986. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Donald
M. Newman, of Indiana, to be Under Secretary of Health and Human Services,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Quayle, and Representatives
Hiler, Hillis, Visclosky, Jacobs, and Meyers, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

AIRLINE SAFETY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
resumed oversight hearings on the current state of United States air safety,
focusing on the FAA's certification and inspection programs, receiving
testimony from Anthony J. Broderick, Associate Administrator for Aviation
Safety, Federal Aviation Administration; and Harry A. Langdon, San Mateo,
California, James E. Alley, Burlingame, California, and Melvin Derry,
Scottsdale, Arizona, all former FAA Inspectors.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on the nomination of
Jefferson B. Sessions III, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Alabama, where the nominee testified and answered questions in his
own behalf. Testimony was also received from Jerry Hebert, Senior Attorney,
Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 19. 

LOW-INCOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for low-income energy assistance programs, receiving testimony from Jo Anne B.
Ross, Associate Commissioner for Family Assistance, Social Security
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; J. William Gadsby,
Associate Director, Human Resources Division, United States General Accounting
Office; Shirley E. Marcus, National Energy Assistance Directors' Association,
Baltimore, Maryland; S. Diane Kelley, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Tahlequah;
and Robert Hatheway, New England Community Action Program Directors
Association, South Windson, Connecticut, representing the National Community
Action Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 20. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 19. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 



1986/03/14
Daily Digest - Friday, March 14, 1986; pages D269 - D ?  (Bound vol. D145-
D148)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVY SHIPBUILDING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for Navy shipbuilding programs,
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. William H. Rowden,
Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction resumed
hearings on S. 2132, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for energy
security programs from Jeffrey A. Jones, Acting Director, Energy Policy,
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics;
and Brig. Gen. Daniel R. Schroeder, Deputy Assistant Army Chief of Engineers
for Facilities. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 18. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the ICBM modernization program from Donald A. Hicks, Under
Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics; Lt. Gen.
Bernard P. Randolph, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, Research, Development and
Acquisition; and Brig. Gen. Charles A. May, Jr., USAF, Special Assistant for
ICBM Modernization. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 18. 

WORLD OIL SITUATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
domestic and international oil situation, focusing on how the current price
and supply situation could effect the United States oil market, United States
economy, domestic oil producers, world oil market, national security, and
international oil producers, receiving testimony from John Lichtblau,
Petroleum Industry Research Foundation, Robert B. Albertson, Smith Barney
Harris Upham & Co., Inc., and John Elting Treat, Petroleum Intelligence
Weekly, all of New York, New York; G. Henry M. Schuler, Georgetown Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Llewellyn King, The Energy Daily, Charles
J. DiBona, American Petroleum Institute, and Jack A. Blum, Independent
Gasoline Marketers Council, all of Washington, D.C.; Gene T. Kinney, Oil and
Gas Journal, Tulsa, Oklahoma; John W. Dewes, Chevron Corporation, San
Francisco, California; and Raymond H. Hefner, Jr., Bonray Energy, on behalf of
the Independent Petroleum Association of America, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, March 20. 

MEDICARE CAPITAL PAYMENTS REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health concluded hearings on S. 2121, to
revise the method of payment to hospitals for capital-related costs under the
Medicare program, after receiving testimony from Senator Quayle; Robert Helms,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health
and Human Services; Jack W. Owen, American Hospital Association, Michael D.
Bromberg, Federation of American Health Systems, William J. Cox, Catholic
Health Association, Larry S. Gage, National Association of Public Hospitals,
Ronald R. Kovener, Healthcare Financial Management Association, and Kathleen
E. Means, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, all of Washington, D.C.; E. George
Middleton, Jr., Alliance Health System, Norfolk, Virginia, on behalf of the
Association of American Medical Colleges; C. Edward Schwartz, University of
Minnesota Hospital and Clinic, Minneapolis, on behalf of the Coalition for
Fair Capital Reimbursement; David S. Abernethy, New York State Department of
Health, Albany, on behalf of the American Health Planning Association;
Kathleen E. Means, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Chicago, Illinois;
Michael J. Kalison, Manger, Kalison, Murphy and McBride, Morristown, New
Jersey; Richard Averill, Health Systems International, New Haven, Connecticut;
Gerard F. Anderson, The Center for Hospital Finance and Management, Baltimore,
Maryland; and Hugh W. Long, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/17
Daily Digest - Monday, March 17, 1986; pages D281 - D ?  (Bound vol. D149-
D150)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY -- BUDGET 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held oversight hearings on proposed budget requests for 1987 for
the Department of Energy, focusing on conservation and renewable and fossil
energy programs, receiving testimony from Representative Schneider; Donna R.
Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable
Energy; Donald L. Bauer, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil
Energy; Lloyd R. Lawrence, Jr., Mechanical Technology, Inc., Latham, New York;
Stuart Ridgeway, R&D Associates, Marina del Ray, California; Vladimir
Bazjanac, Berkeley, California; Frank C. Schora, HYCRUDE, Chicago, Illinois;
David O. Webb, Gas Research Institute, Bernard S. Lee, Institute of Gas
Technology, and John W. Larsen, American Chemical Society, all of Washington,
DC; George H. Lawrence, American Gas Association, Arlington, Virginia; and J.
Read Holland, University of Alabama, University, Alabama. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

ECONOMIC STATISTICS 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the quality and accuracy
of U.S. economic statistics, focusing on a report highlighting the problems
which have developed with existing statistics as well as the failure to
develop new data on important emerging areas of the economy, receiving
testimony from Courtenay Slater, CEC Associates, and Katherine Wallman,
Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Joseph Duncan, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, New
York,
New York, on behalf of the National Association of Business Economists. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/18
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 18, 1986; pages D287 - D ?  (Bound vol. D151-
D159)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1987 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Richard
E. Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ARMY MODERNIZATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for Army modernization programs,
receiving testimony from Jay R. Sculley, Assistant Secretary of the Army of
Research, Development and Acquisition; and Lt. Gen. Louis G. Wagner, USA,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NRC/FERC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities for Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; and Anthony G. Sousa, Acting Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for international security
assistance programs of the Department of State, receiving testimony from
William Schneider, Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance,
Science, and Technology; and Lt. Gen. Philip C. Gast, Director, Defense
Security Assistance Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Senator Durenberger;
Representative Schneider; Delegates de Lugo and Sunia; and Donald P. Hodel,
Secretary of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for military
construction programs of the Department of Defense and related agencies,
receiving testimony from James P. Wade, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Acquisition and Logistics). 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

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 1987 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Henry R.
Desmarais, Acting Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Nelson
J. Sabatini, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Management and Assessment and
Associate Commissioner for Management, Budget and Personnel, Social Security
Administration, Phillip N. Hawkes, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement,
and Steve Ritchie, Director, Office of Child Support Enforcement, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY/POSTAL SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from James A.
Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury; and in behalf of funds for the Postal
Service from Albert V. Casey, Postmaster General of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS/DOD SUPPLEMENTAL 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 2,216
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

Also, the committee met in closed session to consider proposed legislation
authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1986, for
the Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again on Friday, March 21. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction resumed
hearings on S. 2132, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for military
construction programs, focusing on code revision and alternative financing,
receiving testimony from Robert A. Stone, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Installations); Col. Fred Meurer, U.S. Army, Director of Engineering
and Housing, Fort Ord, California; Rear Adm. John Paul Jones, Commander, Naval
Facilities Engineering Command, Department of the Navy; Brig. Gen. Daniel R.
Schroeder, Deputy Assistant Chief of Engineers for Facilities, Department of
the Army; and Maj. Gen. George E. Ellis, Director, Air Force Engineers and
Services, Department of the Air Force.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Soviet strategic
force developments, receiving testimony from representatives of the
intelligence community. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 20. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nomination of C.C. Hope, Jr., of North Carolina, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Helms, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf. 

D.C. MEMORIALS AND MONUMENTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
Reserved Water and Resource Conservation concluded oversight hearings on
memorials and monuments on Federal and District lands in the District of
Columbia, including criteria for approval, jurisdiction, placement, design,
funding and maintenance, after receiving testimony from Representative Oakar,
Chairman, Task Force on Libraries and Memorials; Representative Vento,
Chairman, Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation; Manus J. Fish, Jr.,
Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; J. Carter Brown, Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts; George M.
White, Architect of the Capitol; Robert E. Gresham, Assistant Executive
Director for Operations, National Capital Planning Commission; Col. Frederick
Badger, Assistant Secretary, American Battle Monuments Commission; Hampton
Cross, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs; James Whitlock,
Assistant Regional Administrator for Public Buildings and Real Property,
National Capital Region, General Services Administration; Steven Kleiman,
Assistant for Installation Planning, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense, Department of Defense; Richard Gookin, Associate Chief of
Protocol, Department of State; Jan Scruggs, Columbia, Maryland; Jann
Warren-Findley, Falls Church, Virginia; James Moyer, Environmental Management
Consultants, Washington, D.C.; Lambertus van Zelst, Alexandria, Virginia; and
Constantine Seferlis, Garrett Park, Maryland. 

ENVIRONMENTAL TREATIES 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the following
treaties: 

An Amendment to the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), adopted in an Extraordinary Meeting
of the Parties to the Convention April 30, 1983 (Treaty Doc. 98-10), the
Protocol to the 1966 International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic
Tunas (ICCAT), agreed upon July 10, 1984, by the Conference of
Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties to the 1966 Convention and signed
by the United States on September 10, 1984 (Treaty Doc. 99-4), and the Vienna
Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, done at Vienna on March 22,
1985 (Treaty Doc. 99-9), after receiving testimony from John D. Negroponte,
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs; Fitzhugh Green, Associate Administrator for International
Activities, Environmental Protection Agency; Richard E. Benedick, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Environmental, Health and Natural Resources;
Richard Barnett, Alliance for Responsible CFC Policy, Arlington, Virginia; and
Alan S. Miller, World Resources Institute, David A. Wirth, National Resources
Defense Council, and Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, all of
Washington, D.C. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on white
collar crime in the United States, receiving testimony from David Queen,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement; Robert H. Hodges,
Jr., South Carolina Bankers Association, Columbia, on behalf of the American
Bankers Association; and Samuel J. Buffone, American Bar Association,
Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 25. 

PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS/RETIREMENT POLICY 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
oversight hearings on the retirement policy for public safety officials under
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, after receiving testimony from
Senators Ford and Bradley; William Ng, Deputy General Counsel, Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission; Donald Cahill, Stafford, Virginia, on
behalf of the National Fraternal Order of Police; William C. Summers,
Gaithersburg, Maryland, on behalf of the International Association of Chiefs
of Police, Inc.; Robert Bellumo, Baltimore City Fire Department, Baltimore,
Maryland, on behalf of the International Association of Fire Chiefs, Inc.;
Mayor Max R. Chiddister, Goshen, Indiana, on behalf of the Indiana Association
of Cities and Towns; Ronald D. Buckler, Indiana Deputy Attorney General,
Indianapolis, on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General;
Clinton L. Pagano, Sr., New Jersey State Police, West Trenton; and Harold A.
Schaitberger, International Association of Firefighters, and Mark H. Levitt,
National Public Employer Labor Relations Association, both of Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Thomas K. Turnage, of California, to be Administrator of
Veterans' Affairs. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Mr. Turnage, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from E. Philip Riggin, and Robert E.
Lyngh, both of the American Legion, James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
John F. Heilman, Disabled American Veterans, and Frank R. DeGeorge, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, all of Washington D.C.; and David J. 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. 

Committee will hold closed hearings on tomorrow. 

Joint Meetings 

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic
Growth concluded hearings on the economic outlook for 1987, after receiving
testimony from James C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget;
Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Paul Craig Roberts, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, both of
Washington, D.C.; Richard McKenzie, Clemson University, Clemson, South
Carolina; and C. Lowell Harris, the Academy of Political Science, New York,
New York. 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Responses, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, March 20. 



1986/03/19
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 19, 1986; pages D300 - D ?  (Bound vol. D159-
D166)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from George
P. Shultz, Secretary of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE PROGRAMS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from Chapman B. Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force
Management and Personnel). 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EXPORT-IMPORT BANK 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Export-Import Bank,
receiving testimony from John A. Bohn, Jr., Acting Chairman, Export-Import
Bank of the United States. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 10. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD -- Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Veterans'
Administration, receiving testimony from Everett Alvarez, Jr., Acting
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 25. 

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 1987 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, Jerrold B. Speers,
Acting Director, Office of Community Services, John J. O'Shaughnessy,
Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget, and Robert B. Helms, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Army military construction programs, and Army
National Guard and Army Reserve construction programs from Maj. Gen. Robert J.
Dacey, USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers; Brig. Gen. Harry J. Mott, Deputy
Chief, Army Reserve; and Brig. Gen. Richard D. Dean, Deputy Director, Army
National Guard.  

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION BOARDS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Charles Hauser, Chairperson, and David Welch, Executive Assistant to the
Chairperson, both of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance
Board; and Jim Burnett, Chairman, and Peter Kissinger, Managing Director, both
of the National Transportation Safety Board. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 26. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Terrence C. Golden, Administrator, General Services Administration; Frank
G. Burke, Acting Archivist of the United States; Christopher Hicks, Deputy
Assistant to the President for Administration, Executive Office of the
President; and Manus J. Fish, Regional Director, National Capital Region,
National Park Service, Department of the Interior (regarding White House and
Vice President residences). 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on Air Force tactical programs, receiving testimony from
Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research,
Development and Logistics, Lt. Gen. Bernard P. Randolph, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Research, Development and Acquisition, Maj. Gen. John M. Loh, Director for
Requirements, and Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Ferguson, AMRAAM Program Director,
Armament Division, Air Force Systems Command, all of the Department of the Air
Force. 

Hearings continue on Monday, March 24. 

DEFENSE PROCUREMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on S. 2082, to improve the management of major defense acquisition
programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition Service, and to limit employment
contracts between senior officials of the Department of Defense and defense
contractors, and S. 2151, to establish within the Office of the Secretary of
Defense an Office of Defense Acquisition for the centralized procurement of
all property and services for the Department of Defense and to provide for an
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, receiving testimony from William
H. Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Robert Kirk, LTV Aerospace, Dallas,
Texas, representing Aerospace Industries Association; Earl Williams, BDM
International, Inc., McLean, Virginia, representing Professional Services
Council; Mike Brunner, AT&T, and Bob Donaldson, Honeywell Information
Systems,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, both representing Scientific Apparatus Manufacturers
Association, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association and
Electronic Industries Association; and John Fluke, Jr., representing
Commercial Product Acquisition Team. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Preparedness Subcommittee held hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on operations and maintenance requirements, receiving
testimony from Paul L. Dube, Director, Operations Program/Budget, Office of
the Comptroller, Department of Defense. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Navy anti-submarine warfare
capabilities, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. James R. Hogg, USN, Director,
Office of Naval Warfare; and Rear Adm. D.L. Wolkensdorfer, USN, Director,
Anti-Submarine Warfare Division, Office of Naval Warfare. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

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
1987, 1988, and 1989, and revising the congressional budget for fiscal year
ending September 30, 1986. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee began markup of H.R. 3838, proposed Tax Reform
Act of 1986, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Monday, March 24. 

BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY AND TROPICAL DEFORESTATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposals to
assist developing nations to manage and conserve tropical forests and to take
action to address the loss of plant and animal species, including S. 1747
(concerning tropical forests) and S. 1748 (concerning biological diversity),
after receiving testimony from Senator Roth; Susal Shen, Project Director,
Office of Technology Assessment; Nyle C. Brady, Senior Assistant Administrator
for Science and Technology, U.S. Agency for International Development; Andrew
McGuire, World Resources Institute, Fran L. Spivy-Weber, National Audubon
Society, Russell E. Train, World Wildlife Fund-U.S./The Conservation
Foundation, and Lawrence Williams, Sierra Club, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Peter Seligmann, The Nature Conservatory International Programs, Arlington,
Virginia. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on the nomination of
Jefferson B. Sessions III, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Alabama, receiving testimony from Paul F. Hancock, Deputy Chief,
Voting Section, Barry Kowalski, Deputy Chief, Criminal Section, Albert Glenn,
Trial Attorney, Criminal Section, and Daniel Bell, Deputy Chief, Criminal
Section, all of the Civil Rights Division, and John C. Keeney, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, all of the Department of
Justice; Arthur Fleming, Citizens Commission on Civil Rights, Washington,
D.C.; James D. Liebman, Columbia Law School, New York, New York; Robert
Turner, Chestnut, Sanders, Sanders, Turner & Williams, and Lavon Phillips,
Perry County District Attorney, both of Marion, Alabama; Robert Gilliard,
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ferrill D. McRae,
Judge, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, and Eddie Menton, Mobile Press Register,
all of Mobile, Alabama; Larry Thompson, King & Spaulding, Atlanta,
Georgia;
and William Kimbrough, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
Alabama. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

S. 1793, to establish a grant program to provide safe and effective systems of
caring for medical technology dependent children in the home, with an
amendment; 

S. 1895, to relieve Marlboro County General Hospital Charity, of
Bennettsville, South Carolina, of liability to the United States under the
Public Health Service Act, resulting from its sale of a hospital to a
specified corporation; 

S. 1874, to reenact and codify certain provisions of law relating to the
education of the deaf, with amendments; 

S. 1965, to revise certain provisions and to authorize funds for programs of
the Higher Education Act, with amendments; 

S. 2057, to establish the President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention; and 

The nominations of Lois B. Shepard, of Maryland, to be Director of the
Institute of Museum Services, Frances M. Norris, of Virginia, to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Legislation and Public Affairs, John R. Wall, of
Ohio, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission,
Marilyn L. Mennello, of Florida, to be a Member of the National Museum
Services Board, James H. Duff, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the National
Museum Services Board, Truman M. Hobbs, of Alabama, to be a Member of the
Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, David B.
Gray, of Maryland, to be Director of the National Institute of Handicapped
Research, C. Ronald Kimberling, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of
Education for Postsecondary Education, and Joan M. Gubbins, of Indiana, Robert
H. Mattson, of Oregon, D. Alan Heslop, of California, Robert L. McElrath, of
Tennessee, Donald Barr, of Connecticut, and James H. Harrison, Jr., of
Virginia, each to be a Member of the National Council on Educational Research. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 26. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/20
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 20, 1986; pages D312 - D ?  (Bound vol. D166-
D175)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Power Marketing Administrations from Donna R. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy; Robert J. Cross,
Administrator, Alaska Power Administration; Peter T. 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. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from Dallas Peck, Director,
U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 25. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, after receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from L. Wayne
Arny III, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Shipbuilding and
Logistics); Rear Adm. John P. Jones, Jr., USN, Commander, Naval Facilities
Engineering Command; Brig. Gen. Joseph P. Hoar, USMC, Director, Facilities and
Services Division, Hq.; Maj. Gen. George E. Ellis, USAF, Director of
Engineering and Services, Hq.; Brig. Gen. Shirley M. Carpenter, USAF, Deputy
Chief, Air Force Reserve; Brig. Gen. John F. McMerty, USAF, Deputy Director,
Air National Guard; and numerous component witnesses. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987, for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the U.S. Secret Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center from David D. Queen, Acting
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement and Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Strategic Air Command's
strategic force assessment, receiving testimony from General Larry D. Welch,
USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 25. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Defense, focusing on manpower and personnel programs, receiving testimony
from Chapman B. Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force Management &
Personnel); James H. Webb, Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs);
Lt. Gen. Robert M. Elton, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Department
of the Army; Vice Adm. Dudley Carlson, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
(Manpower, Personnel and Training), Department of the Navy; Lt. Gen. John A.
Shaud, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Department of the Air Force;
and Lt. Gen. E.C. Cheatham, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower,
Department of the Navy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 26. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
continued hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the C-17 airlifter, receiving testimony
from Gen. Duane H. Cassidy, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Military Airlift
Command; Lt. Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations and
Plans), Department of the Army; Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director for
National Security, Congressional Budget Office; and Kim Holmes, The Heritage
Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 27. 

RISK RETENTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on S. 2129, to make it easier for businesses, associations,
professionals, governmental entities, and other organizations to form
collective purchasing groups and self-insurance groups for general liability
coverage, after receiving testimony from Dennis Connelly, American Insurance
Association, Richard E. Lynn, Alexander and Alexander Services, Inc.,
representing the National Association of Independent Brokers, and Jon Harkavy,
Risk Insurance Management Society, Inc., all of New York, New York; George R.
Shaffer, Insurance Center, Inc., Albuquerque, New Mexico, representing the
Independent Insurance Agents of America, the Professional Insurance Agents,
and the National Association of Casualty and Surety Agents; Leslie Cheek, Crum
and Forster Insurance Companies, Michael J. Mullen, Crowell and Moring, Karen
Ehrnman, American College of Nurse-Midwives, and Anthony C. Williams, National
Rural Electric Cooperative Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and Lyndon L.
Olson, Jr., Texas State Board of Insurance, Austin, Edward Muhl, Maryland
State Insurance Commissioner, Baltimore, and John E. Washburn, Illinois
Director of Insurance, Springfield, all representing the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners.  

BUILD AND CHARTER PROGRAM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 1885, to establish a Military Auxiliary
Revolving Fund within the Treasury of the United States for the construction
in private U.S. shipyards of merchant vessels capable of serving as naval and
military auxiliaries in time of war or national emergency, after receiving
testimony from Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding
and Logistics; John A. Gaughan, Administrator, Richard E. Bowman, Associate
Administrator for Maritime Aids, and Reginald A. Bourdon, Assistant
Administrator for Policy and International Affairs, all of the Maritime
Administration, Department of Transportation; W. James Amoss, Jr., Lykes Bros.
Steamship Co., Inc., and Erik F. Johnsen, Central Gulf Lines, Inc., both of
New Orleans, Louisiana; George F. Lowman, Farrell Lines, and Spyros S.
Skouras, Sr., Prudential Lines, Inc., both of New York, New York; Peter J.
Finnerty, Sea-Land Corporation, Iselin, New Jersey; Frank Drozak, Seafarers
International Union of North America, AFL-CIO, Camp Springs, Maryland; M. Lee
Rice, Shipbuilders Council of America, Washington, D.C.; H. Allen Fernstrom,
The American Ship Building Company, Tampa, Florida; Paul H. Wells, Adventure
Cruise Lines, Miami, Florida; Philip J. Shapiro, Apex Marine Corporation, Lake
Success, New York; Robert Thomson, Moore McCormack Resources, Inc., Stamford,
Connecticut; and James P. McGregor, Ocean Shipholdings, Inc., Houston, Texas. 
 
AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony
from Raymond Colladay, Associate Administrator, Office of Aeronautics and
Space Technology, and Edmund Sanchez, Deputy Director of Resources, both of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Robert C. Duncan, and James
Tegnelia, both of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington,
Virginia; Norris Krone, University Research Foundation, Greenbelt, Maryland;
Roger D. Schaufele, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California; and
Thomas F. Donohue, General Electric Company, Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

WORLD OIL SITUATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
domestic and international oil situation, focusing on implications of fees on
imported oil, receiving testimony from Theodore A. Burtis, Sun Co., Inc.,
Radnor, Pennsylvania; Fred L. Hartley, Unocal Corporation, Los Angeles,
California; J.M. Graves, Calumet Oil Co., Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of the
Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association; C. Wayne Harmon, Louisiana
Association of Independent Producers and Royalty Owners, Baton Rouge; William
E. Perrine, Ashland Oil, Inc., Ashland, Kentucky; George J. McNally,
Borg-Warner Chemicals, Inc., Parkersburg, West Virginia, on behalf of the
Petrochemical Energy Group, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Man-Made Fiber
Producers Association, and Society of the Plastics, Inc., John A. Clements,
New England Fuel Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of Empire State
Petroleum Association, Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey, Independent
Fuel Terminal Operators Association, New England Fuel Institute, and
Pennsylvania Petroleum, Association; Carl Bolch, Jr., Racetrac Petroleum,
Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf of the Society of Independent Gasoline
Marketers of America; Jack Copeland, Copeland, Wickersham and Wiley, Inc., New
York, New York; Lester P. Lamm, Highway Users Federation, Washington, D.C.,
and Thomas J. Donohue, American Trucking Associations, Inc., both on behalf of
the American Trucking Associations, Inc., Air Transport Association of
America, American Automobile Association, Regional Airline Association, United
Bus Owners of America, and Highway Users Federation; R. Thomas Van Arsdall,
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, and Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation
of America, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 25. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of J. Daniel Mahoney, of New York, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Second Circuit, Barbara K. Hackett, to be United States District
Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan, Thomas E. Dittmeier, to be United
States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Henry K. Oncken, to be
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Texas, and Harry Connolly,
to be United States Marshal for the Northern District of Oklahoma; 

S. Res. 105, to designate March 21, 1986, as "Henry Ossian Flipper
Day"; 

S.J. Res. 251, to designate the week of May 11-17, 1986, as "National
Science
Week, 1986"; 

S.J. Res. 263, to designate the week of September 7-13, 1986, as
"National
Independent Retail Grocer Week"; 

S.J. Res. 264, to designate April 28, 1986, as "National Nursing Home
Residents Day"; 

S.J. Res. 267, to designate the week of May 26, 1986, as "Older Americans
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week"; 

S.J. Res. 279, to designate the month of October 1986, as "Lupus
Awareness
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 286, to designate the week of April 20-26, 1986, as "National
Reading is Fun Week"; 

S.J. Res. 296, to designate October 16, 1986, as "World Food Day"; 

S.J. Res. 297, to designate the week of April 20, 1986, as "Crime Victims
Week"; 

H. Con. Res. 278, to designate February 28, 1986, as "National Trio
Day," in
lieu of S. Con. Res. 109; 

S. 8, to grant a Federal Charter to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc.,
with an amendment; 

S. 1827, to amend the Federal charter of the General Federation of Women's
Clubs, with an amendment; 

S. 1655, to provide for enforcement of prohibitions concerning the importation
or sale of merchandise in United States commerce; and 

H.R. 3570, to revise annuity programs for survivors of Federal justices and
judges, with amendments. (As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates
certain provisions of S. 1392, Senate companion measure. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 238, to reform procedures for
collateral review of criminal judgments, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jefferson B. Sessions III, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Alabama, after receiving testimony from Maryland State Senator
Clarence Mitchell, Annapolis, representing the National Black Caucus of State
Legislators; Alabama State Senator Hank Sanders, Montgomery; O.C. Dobynes,
Perry County, Alabama; Deval L. Patrick, Legal Defense Fund, New York, New
York; Ed Vulavich, Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of
Alabama; Thomas Figures, Figures, Ludgood & Figures, Braxton Kittrell,
Judge,
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Ben Sawada, Ashland Place United Methodist
Church, George Horn, Mobile County Republican Executive Committee, and Bobby
Eddy, District Attorney's Office, all of Mobile, Alabama. 

COMMUNITY SERVICES 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the Community Services Block Grant Program, after receiving
testimony from Jerrold B. Speers, Acting Director, Office of Community
Services, Department of Health and Human Services; J. William Gadsby,
Associate Director, Human Resources Division, United States General Accounting
Office; James Lynch, Iowa Office of Planning and Programming, Des Moines,
representing the National Association of State Community Services Programs;
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez, representing the United States Conference of Mayors,
and Mary Blatch, Dade County Community Action Agency, both of Miami, Florida;
David Bradley, National Community Action Foundation, Washington, D.C.; and
Donald F. Stricker, Wood-Sandusky-Ottawa-Seneca Counties Community Action
Commission, Fremont, Ohio. 

REHABILITATION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for rehabilitation
programs, receiving testimony from Madeleine Will, Assistant Secretary of
Education; Elmer C. Bartels, Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission, Boston;
Dave Daugherty, National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Hartford,
Connecticut; Bob Nichols, East Ely, Nevada; Bill Ashe, Barre, Vermont; Jon
Rossman, Tallahassee, Florida; Jim Gashel, National Federation of the Blind,
Baltimore, Maryland; Diana Richardson, University of Maryland, College Park;
and Charles Carr, Northeast Independent Living Program, Lawrence,
Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 25. 

INDIAN EDUCATION 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2095,
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for the tribally controlled
community colleges and the Navajo Community College, after receiving testimony
from Henrietta Whiteman, Director, Office of Indian Education Programs, Bureau
of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Joe McDonald, American Indian
Higher Education Consortium and Salish-Kootenai Community College, Pablo,
Montana; Myrna DeMarias, Little Hoop Community College, Devils Lake, North
Dakota; Sherman Marshall, Sinte Gleska College, Rosebud, South Dakota; Dean
Jackson, Navajo Community College, Tsaile, Arizona; and Suzanne Harjo,
National Congress of American Indians, Washington, D.C. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 26. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/21
Daily Digest - Friday, March 21, 1986; pages D323 - D ?  (Bound vol. D175-
D178)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

DOD SUPPLEMENTAL 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill authorizing supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September 30, 1986,
for the Department of Defense. 

BANKRUPTCY REFORM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 1992 and S. 1993, bills to preserve the rights
of certain parties with an interest in certain vessels or fishing facilities,
or with an interest in aircraft, aircraft parts, or vessels, after receiving
testimony from John A. Gaughan, Administrator, Richard E. Bowman,
Administrator, Maritime Aids, and Robert J. Patton, Acting Chief Counsel, all
of the Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation; James E.
Douglas, Jr., Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, Michael L.
Grable, Chief of Financial Services Division, and John Pedrick, Counsel, all
of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce; Sharon M. Meadows, The First Boston Corporation, and Lawrence P.
King, New York University School of Law, on behalf of the National Bankruptcy
Conference, both of New York, New York; John M. Donnelly, Jr., Ingram Barge
Co., Nashville, Tennessee; J.H. Pyne, Dixie Carriers, Inc., and Kenneth W.
Waldorf, Zapata Gulf Marine Corporation, both of Houston, Texas; Thomas L.
Mills, and Leonard Egan, both of Kominers, Fort, Schlefer and Boyer,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Apex Corporation, and Crowley Maritime
Corporation; and John C. Newcomb, Sonat Marine, Inc., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. 

ATLANTIC STRIPED BASS 

Committee on Environment amd Public Works: On Thursday, March 20, the
committee ordered favorably reported S. 1813, authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1989 for the Atlantic Striped Bass Conservation Act, and to revise
certain provisions of the Act concerning the regulated fishing for Atlantic
striped bass carried on by northeastern U.S. coastal States. 

ANTITRUST LAWS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2162 and S. 2022,
bills to promote and improve efficient and effective enforcement of the
antitrust laws, receiving testimony from Douglas H. Ginsburg, Assistant
Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Donald F. Turner,
Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and Steven C. Salop, Georgetown University Law
Center, both of Washington, D.C.; and Charles B. Renfrew, Chevron Corporation,
San Francisco, California; and Robert Abrams, New York State Attorney General,
New York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/24
Daily Digest - Monday, March 24, 1986; pages D329 - D ?  (Bound vol. D178-
D179)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on S. 219,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Army tactical programs, receiving testimony from Jay R. Sculley, Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Development and Acquisition, and Lt. Gen. Louis C.
Wagner, Jr., Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition,
both of the Department of the Army. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 26. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Joseph T. Nall, of North Carolina, and James E.
Burnett, Jr., of Arkansas, each to be a Member of the National Transportation
Safety Board, and Robert Ortner, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of
Commerce for Economic Affairs, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Burnett was introduced by Senator Pryor. 

Committee will consider the nominations tomorrow. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on the application of
minimum tax to interest on tax-exempt bonds, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/03/25
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 25, 1986; pages D333 - D ?  (Bound vol. D179-
D184)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 2045, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1992 for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, with amendments; and 

The nomination of John W. Bode, of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1987 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Orville Bentley, Assistant
Secretary for Science and Education, Terry Kinney, Administrator, Agricultural
Research Service, John Patrick Jordan, Administrator, Cooperative State
Research Service, and Mary Nell Greenwood, Administrator, Extension Service,
all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 8. 

SPACE TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings to review the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's overall
accomplishments in their space program, focusing on industrial utilization and
environmental and earth science applications of space technology, receiving
testimony from Curtis Mack II, Deputy Administrator, National Oceanic
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Joseph P. Allen, Space
Industries, Inc., Houston, Texas; Robert Hood, Jr., C. Conrad, Jr., and
Charles D. Walker, all of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Huntington Beach,
California; Karl G. Harr, Jr., Aerospace Industries Association of America,
Inc., Washington, D.C.; Francis Bretherton, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, Boulder, Colorado; Barrett N. Rock, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Pasadena, California; and Verner E. Suomi, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. FOREST SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the U.S.
Forest Service, receiving testimony from Peter C. Myers, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture; and R. Max Peterson, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, Department of
Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Preparedness Subcommittee held hearings on S.
2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Navy/Marine Corps readiness and the operations and maintenance
budgets, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. Jeremy D. Taylor, USN, Director,
Operations Division, Fiscal Management Division, and Robert C. Storey, Deputy
Director, Operations Division, Fiscal Management Division, both of the Office
of the Chief of Naval Operations; and Lt. Gen. J.J. Went, USMC, Deputy Chief
of Staff, Installations and Logistics. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 27. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for
the Department of Defense, focusing on Strategic Defense Initiative policy and
program issues, receiving testimony from Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary
of Defense for International Security Policy; and Lt. Gen. James A.
Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill to extend for 90 days the moratorium of Titles I and II of
Public Law 97-320, to revitalize the housing industry by strengthening the
financial stability of home mortgage lending institutions and ensuring the
availability of home mortgage loans, to impose a moratorium on non-banks for
90 days, and to approve language to bank regulators relating to agricultural
and energy lending banks; and 

The nomination of C.C. Hope, Jr., of North Carolina, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 739, to provide for the documentation of the vessel MARILYN as a vessel
of the United States entitled to engage in coastwise trade, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of Robert Ortner, of New Jersey, to be Under Secretary of
Commerce for Economic Affairs, James E. Burnett, Jr., of Arkansas, and Joseph
T. Nall, of North Carolina, both to be Members of the National Transportation
Safety Board, Daniel J. Murphy, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, in the rank of Rear
Admiral (lower half), and a list of routine Coast Guard nominations received
by the Senate on March 12, 1986. 

The committee failed to approve for reporting the nomination of Kenneth J.
Hill, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 2129, to make it easier for
businesses, associations, professionals, governmental entities, and other
organizations to form collective purchasing groups and self-insurance groups
for general liability coverage, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call. 

WORLD OIL SITUATION 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed hearings on the
domestic and international oil situation, focusing on implications of fees on
imported oil, receiving testimony from John S. Herrington, Secretary of
Energy; J. Roger Mentz, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax
Policy; E. Allan Wendt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International
Energy and Resources Policy; Bruce Wilson, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
for Industry and Services, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative; Robert V.
Shumway, Director, Division of Bank Supervision, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation; and Jonathan L. Fiechter, Director, Economic and Policy Analysis,
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

WASTE DISPOSAL 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Pollution and Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation concluded joint hearings on
the regulation of mixed chemical and radioactive waste disposal under the
Atomic Energy Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, after
receiving testimony from Senator Glenn; John Barker, Director, Environmental
Audit and Compliance, Department of Energy; Marcia A. Williams, Director,
Office of Solid Waste, Environmental Protection Agency; John G. Davis,
Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Nuclear Regulatory
Commission; Jerry J. Scoville, U.S. Ecology, Louisville, Kentucky; Richard C.
Reba, George Washington University Medical Center, on behalf of the American
College of Nuclear Physicians and the Society of Nuclear Medicine, and David
Berick, Environmental Policy Institute, both of Washington, D.C.; Sherman
Naymark, Quadrex Corporation, Campbell, Colorado; and Leonard Slosky, Adviser
to the Governor of Colorado, Denver. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on the application of
minimum tax to interest on tax-exempt bonds, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed oversight hearings on white
collar crime in the United States, receiving testimony from Stephen S. Trott,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and
William Weld, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and Richard H.
Dionne, Provident Institution for Savings, both of Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. TRUSTEE SYSTEM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts concluded hearings on S.
1961, to authorize a new United States Trustee system by providing for the
apppointment of United States trustees to supervise the administration of
bankruptcy cases in judicial districts throughout the United States, after
receiving testimony from Arnold I. Burns, Associate Attorney General,
Department of Justice; Judge Robert E. DeMascio, Chairman, Committee on the
Administration of the Bankruptcy System, Judicial Conference of the United
States; Judge James Hancock, District Judge, Birmingham, Alabama; Judge J.
William Brown, Bankruptcy Judge, Louisville, Kentucky; Judge T. Glover
Roberts, Bankruptcy Judge, Biloxi, Mississippi; Benson Zion, Bryn Mar,
Pennsylvania, and Hal Loskey, Los Angeles, California, both representing the
Commercial Law League of America; K. Richard Kaufman, Credit Managers
Association of Southern California, Los Angeles; Lawrence P. King, National
Bankruptcy Conference, New York, New York; Judge Robert E. Ginsberg,
Bankruptcy Judge, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago; Robert Anderson,
National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees, Columbia, South Carolina;
Aldernon Butler, North Carolina Bar Association, Wilmington; Judge Thomas
Milton Moore, Bankruptcy Judge, Wilson, North Carolina; and Robert W. Sawdey,
Michigan State Bar Association, Grand Rapids. 

HOME AUDIO RECORDING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
concluded hearings on S. 1739, to legalize the home taping of copyrighted
music and other audio material in exchange for a royalty on audio recording
equipment, after receiving testimony from Stanley M. Gortikov, Recording
Industry Association of America, Inc., and Robert Summer, RCA Red Seal, both
of New York, New York; Donald McCoy, CBS Technology Center, Stamford,
Connecticut; Jack Goiodner, AFL-CIO, and Charles Ferris, Audio Recording
Rights Coalition, both of Washington, D.C.; Ervine Drake, Songwriters Guild of
America, Great Neck, New York; and Barry Mann, David Mann's Audio,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

RAHABILITATION PROGRAMS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
rehabilitation programs, after receiving testimony from Sandra S. Parrino,
Chairperson, National Council on the Handicapped; Lee Valenta, Auburn,
Washington; Dave Jay, and Peter MacLean, both of the Physio Control
Corporation, Redmond, Washington; Theodore Fabyan, Vocational Guidance
Services, Cleveland, Ohio; Dan Sullivan, Delaware Valley PWI, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Louis Esposito, Madison, Connecticut; Pat Kraft, Technology
Consumer, Center Industries, Wichita, Kansas; and Marcus Fuhrer, Baylor
University, Houston, Texas. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/26
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 26, 1986; pages D341 - D ?  (Bound vol. D185-
D188)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FTC/CIVIL RIGHTS/ACDA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Terry Calvani, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission;
Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr., Chairman, Civil Rights Commission; and Kenneth L.
Adelman, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9. 

D.C. PRISONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings to review the overcrowding issue of the District of Columbia prison
system, receiving testimony from Senator Warner; Mayor Marion Barry, Thomas
Downs, Deputy Mayor for Operations, David Clarke, Chairman, and Wilhelmina
Rolark and Nadine Winter, both Council Members, all of the District of
Columbia City Council, all of the Government of the District of Columbia; and
Kenneth Tack, 268 Center, Inc., Cowansville, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 9. 

SPACE TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
concluded hearings to review the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's overall accomplishments in their space program, after
receiving testimony from Otho E. Eskin, Director, Office of Advanced
Technology, Department of State; Jack Anderson, Young Astronauts Council,
Washington, D.C.; John Denver, Aspen, Colorado; and Barbara Redding Morgan,
McCall, Idaho. 

Also, the Subcommittee concluded joint hearings with the Appropriations
Subcommittee on Defense to discuss NASA's alternative to sending satellites
into space, after receiving testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Under
Secretary of the Air Force; Adm. Richard C. Truly, Associate Administrator for
Space Flight, and Chester M. Lee, Director, Customer Services, both of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ICC/TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Heather J. Gradison, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; and Jim
Burnley, Deputy Secretary of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on S. 2199,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on Navy tactical programs, receiving testimony from Vice Adm. Edward H.
Martin, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); Lt. Gen. Keith A.
Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation; Vice Adm. Joseph B.
Wilkinson, USN, Commander, Naval Air Systems Command; and Rear Adm. Span
Arthur, USN, Director, Aviation Plans and Requirements. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MILITARY REFORM 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel completed
its review of options to reform the military retirement system and agreed on
recommendations it will make to the full committee thereon. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Strategic Command, Control and
Communications (C<3>) and Warning Assessment, receiving testimony from
Donald
C. Latham, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications
and Intelligence; and Gen. Robert T. Herres, USAF, Commander in Chief, North
American Aerospace Defense Command. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 1625, to convey certain land in Nevada to the University of Nevada to
create a research and development center, with an amendment; 

S. 2031, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to release restrictions on
certain property located in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; and 

The nomination of Jed Dean Christensen, of Virginia, to be Director of the
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the
Interior. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 1225, to compensate the public
for injuries or damages suffered in the event of an accident involving nuclear
activities undertaken by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees or
Department of Energy contractors, but did not complete action thereon, and
will meet again tomorrow. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on methods of cash
accounting, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on
Tuesday, April 8. 

LITIGATION ABUSE REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2046, to provide
limits and procedures in certain civil litigation cases, receiving testimony
from Richard K. Willard, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division,
Department of Justice; Robert Cummins, Guardsman Elevator Company, Inc.,
Bronx, New York; Peter Perlman, American Trial Lawyers Association, Lowell
Beck, National Association of Independent Insurers, Franklin W. Nutter,
Alliance of American Insurers, Thomas S. Chittenden, American Insurance
Association, William S. Hotchkiss, and B.J. Anderson, both of the American
Medical Association, all of Washington, D.C.; Aaron Broder, Bailey &
Broder,
New York, New York; Ned Good, Good & Novak, Pasadena, California; William
McCormick, The Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Novato, California; and
Patricia Danzon, The Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2184, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the National Science
Foundation, after receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National
Science Foundation. 

SMALL BUSINESS PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held hearings on S. 2147, to extend the
authorization for non-profit organizations operated in the interest of
handicapped and blind individuals to receive procurement contracts under the
Small Business Act, receiving testimony from Frank Swain, Chief Counsel,
Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Eivind Johansen, National
Industries for the Severely Handicapped, Inc., Vienna, Virginia; William P.
Wolk, South Shore Rehabilitation Center, North Quincy, Massachusetts; Barry J.
Trilling, Trilling & Kennedy, Washington, D.C.; J. Elliot Barrow, Jebco,
Inc.,
Warrenton, Georgia; Colin Offenhartz, FRAAS Survival Systems, Inc., Bronx, New
York; William J. McCallister, HLI Lordship Industries, Hauppauge, New York;
James Gashel, National Federation of the Blind, Baltimore, Maryland; Dwight
Whittaker, National Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Idaho Falls,
Idaho; and Anthony Young, Fairfax Opportunities Unlimited, Inc., Springfield,
Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 9. 

Joint Meeting 

CLEAN WATER ACT 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of S. 1128, proposed Clean Water Act Amendments of 1985, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/03/27
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 27, 1986; pages D348 - D ?  (Bound vol. D188-
D192)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF MINES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 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 Tuesday, April 8. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- CUSTOMS SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from William von
Raab, Commissioner, Customs Service, Department of the Treasury. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 9. 

DOD ACQUISITION IMPROVEMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on S. 2082, to improve the management of major defense acquisition
programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition Service, and to limit employment
contracts between senior officials of the Department of Defense and defense
contractors, S. 2151, to establish within the Office of the Secretary of
Defense an Office of Defense Acquisition for the centralized procurement of
all property and services for the Department of Defense and to provide for an
Under Secretary of Defense Acquisition, and S. 2196, to improve procedures for
the acquisition of spare and repair parts for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; William H. Reed, Director, Defense
Contract Audit Agency; Derek J. Vander Schaaf, Deputy Inspector General,
Department of Defense; Paul F. Math, Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Ray Kline,
National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 8. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Preparedness Subcommittee resumed hearings on S.
2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Army/Army National Guard/Army Reserve Readiness and the Operations
and Maintenance budgets, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Carl E. Vuono, USA,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans; Maj. Gen. William G. O'Leksey,
USA, Director, Military Personnel Management, Office of the Deputy Chief of
Staff for Personnel; Brig. Gen. Jackson E. Rozier, Jr., USA, Director, Plans
and Operations, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics; Brig. Gen.
Charles E. Williams, USA, Director, Operations and Support, Office of the
Comptroller of the Army; Maj. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., USA Director, Army
National Guard, National Guard Bureau; and Maj. Gen. William R. Berkman, USA,
Chief, Army Reserve. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
concluded hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the SSN-21 submarine, after receiving
testimony from Vice Adm. Bruce DeMars, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
for Submarine Warfare (OP-02); Adm. Kinnaird R. McKee, USN, Director, Naval
Nuclear Propulsion Program; Ronald O'Rourke, Analyst, National Defense,
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress; John D. Landicho, Senior
Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs Division,
Government Accounting Office; and Jack Harris, Project Manager, Department of
Defense Product Engineering Services Office. 

RISK RETENTION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute S. 2129, to
make it easier for businesses, associations, professionals, governmental
entities, and other organizations to form collective purchasing groups and
self-insurance groups for general liability coverage. 

PRICE-ANDERSON 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee met to further consider
S. 1225, to compensate the public for injuries or damages suffered in the
event of an accident involving nuclear activities undertaken by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission licensees or Department of Energy contractors, but took
no action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity approved for full committee consideration S. 2069, to improve Job
Training Partnership Program stability and lessen burdensome administrative
requirements, improve services to youth and the hard-to-serve, and strengthen
enforcement, with amendments. 

CAMPAIGN FINANCING 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on bills to
amend the Federal campaign finance laws, including S. 59, S. 1787, S. 1806,
and S. 1891, receiving testimony from Senator Goldwater; Fred Wertheimer and
Archibald Cox, both of Common Cause, and Leon G. Billings, Leon G. Billings
Inc., all of Washington, D.C.; John T. Dolan, National Conservative Political
Action Committee, Alexandria, Virginia; Mark Green, Democracy Project, New
York, New York; John Grunseth, Economics Laboratory, Inc., St. Paul,
Minnesota; and Reed Larson, National Right to Work Committee, Springfield,
Virginia. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

SBA PILOT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on H.R. 2787, to
extend through fiscal year 1988 SBA Pilot Programs under section 8 of the
Small Business Act, after receiving testimony from Representative Mitchell;
Jon Seymour, Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Administration;
Wilfredo Gonzalez, Associate Administrator, Office of Minority Small Business
Capital Ownership Development, Small Business Administration; Robert L. Ozuna,
New Bedford Panoramex, Santa Fe Springs, California, representing the Latin
American Manufacturers Association; Jerry T. Jones, Sonicraft, Inc., Chicago,
Illinois; Lee Wan, Lee Wan and Associates, Decatur, Georgia; and Robert L.
Jones, AMAF Industries, Inc., Columbia, Maryland. 

ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT IN AMERICA 

Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Entrepreneurship and Special
Problems Facing Small Business concluded hearings on promoting U.S.
entrepreneurship and small business after receiving testimony from Frank S.
Swain, Chief Counsel, Office of Advocacy, Small Business Administration; John
Ciccarelli, Small Business Development Center, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst; John Kao, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Verne
Harnish, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; Kim Merritt, Kim's
Khocolate, Cumberland, Maryland; Dan Dipert, Dan's Odd Jobs, San Marcos,
Texas; and Mark Idzik, Strictly Software, Inc., Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/08
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 8, 1986; pages D354 - D ?  (Bound vol. D192-
D196)

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 1987 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Frank W. Naylor, Under Secretary of
Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; Merritt W. Sprague,
Manager, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and Harold V. Hunter,
Administrator, Rural Electrification Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 10. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY CONSERVATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy
conservation programs, receiving testimony from Donna R. Fitzpatrick,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15. 

DOD ACQUISITION IMPROVEMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy
concluded hearings on S. 2082, to improve the management of major defense
acquisition programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition Service, and to limit
employment contracts between senior officials of the Department of Defense and
defense contractors, S. 2151, to establish within the Office of the Secretary
of Defense an Office of Defense Acquisition for the centralized procurement of
all property and services for the Department of Defense and to provide for an
Under Secretary of Defense Acquisition, and to discuss the acquisition
findings and report of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense
Management (Packard Report), after receiving testimony from David Packard,
Chairman, William Perry, Member, and Jacques S. Gansler, Senior Consultant,
all of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY/SECURITY PROGRAMS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces held closed hearings on S. 2218, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1987 and 1988 for national security programs of the Department of Energy,
receiving testimony from Sylvester R. Foley, Jr., Assistant Secretary of
Energy for Defense Programs; Maj. Gen. Robert F. Molinelli, USA, Acting
Chairman, Military Liaison Committee to the Department of Energy; Brig. Gen.
Sidney Davis, USA, Acting Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic
Energy; Roger E. Batzel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore,
California; Sigfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos,
New Mexico; and Irwin Welber, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New
Mexico. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 10. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on estates, trusts, and
pension, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/09
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 9, 1986; pages D366 - D ?  (Bound vol. D197-
D204)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SDI 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF,
Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD -- Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce,
Jr., Secretary of HUD. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 29. 

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 1987 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AMTRAK/FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, National Railroad
Passenger Corp. (AMTRAK); and John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad
Administration, Department of Transportation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 16. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OPM/FEC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel Management; and John
Warren McGarry, Vice Chairman, Federal Election Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS -- MILITARY RETIREMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,739
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

Also, the committee began consideration of proposed legislation to reform the
military retirement system, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on S. 2199,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the defense of NATO, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Edward J. Heinz,
USAF, Director, Intelligence J2, United States European Command; and Maj. Gen.
Norman H. Smith, USMC, Acting Chief of Staff and Director of Plans and Policy,
United States Atlantic Command. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 1931, to require construction management plans as a precondition to
Federal funding for major transit capital projects, after receiving testimony
from Ralph L. Stanley, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation
Administration, Department of Transportation; Lloyd A. Duscha, Deputy Director
for Engineering and Construction, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; David L. Gunn,
New York City Transit Authority, New York, New York; William K. Hellmann,
Maryland Department of Transportation, Annapolis; Carmen E. Turner, Washington
Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority, and James L. Lammie, Parsons,
Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Albert
Martin,
Southeast Michigan Transportation Authority, Detroit; Joseph M. Fletcher,
Metro-Dade Transportation Administration, Miami, Florida; John W. Leonard,
Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Boise, Idaho; John A. Polutchko, Dynatrend,
Inc., Arlington, Virginia; and Samy E.G. Elias, Day & Zimmermann, Inc.,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Transportation and Distribution
Associates, Inc. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of Patricia Diaz Dennis, of Virginia, to be a
Member of the Federal Communications Commission, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Bingaman, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
J. Roger Mentz, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. 

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

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on energy, natural
resources, accelerated cost recovery system, and pension and employee benefit
provisions, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

MERGER LAW REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2160 and S. 2022,
bills to clarify and improve the analysis of mergers under the antitrust laws,
receiving testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; Douglas H.
Ginsburg, Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of
Justice; Donald F. Turner, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and F.M. Scherer,
Brookings Institution, both of Washington, D.C.; and Joseph Brodley, Boston
University School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Kenneth L. Ryskamp, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of
Florida, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Chiles, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. 

SOURCE LICENSING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 1980, to prohibit a copyright holder from conveying the
right to publicly perform and audiovisual work on non-network commercial
television without simultaneously conveying the right to perform in
synchronization any copyrighted music which accompanies such work, receiving
testimony from Senator Gore; Representative Boucher; Ralph Oman, Register of
Copyrights, Library of Congress; Les Arries, All-Industry Television Station
Music License Committee, Edward M. Cramer, Broadcast Music, Inc., Hal David,
American Society of Composers, Artists and Publishers, and Thomas Valentino,
Valentino, Inc., all of New York, New York; Edward O. Fritts, National
Association of Broadcasters, Preston Padden, Association of Independent
Television Stations, and Jack Valenti, Motion Picture Association of America,
all of Washington, D.C.; W. Robert Thompson, SESAC, Nashville, Tennessee; Mike
Post, Post Productions, and Mel Blumenthal, MTM Enterprises, Inc., both of
Studio City, California; and Fred Epstein, Storer Communications, Inc., Miami,
Florida. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Jeffrey I. Zuckerman, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, after the nominee testified and
answered further questions in his own behalf. 

INDIAN LANDS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1452,
to provide for the purchase of certain lands on behalf of the Gay Head Indian
Band, and to require that all rights, title, and interest in such lands be
transferred to the Wampanoag Tribal Council, after receiving testimony from
Senator Kennedy; Hazel Elbert, Director, Office of Indian Services, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Gladys Widdiss, Luther Madison,
Jack Campisi, Henry J. Sockbeson, Frank James, Thelma Weissberg, Helen
Manning, Joan Pantadel, Beatrice Gentry, Barbara Gentry, Adrinna Ignacio,
Roland James, Rosalie Francis, Sammy Sapio, and James Faction, all of the Gay
Head Tribe, Hannah Malkin and James Quarles, both on behalf of the Gay Head
Taxpayers Association, and Jeff Madison, Mark Widdiss, and David Vanderhoop,
all on behalf of the Town of Gay Head, all of Gay Head, Massachusetts;
Priscilla Attean, Penobscot Tribe of Maine, Old Town; and Curtis Osceola,
United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 16. 

Joint Meeting 

EXCISE TAX ON WINE 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity and Economic
Growth concluded hearings on the economic impact of the proposed increase in
the excise tax on wine as contained in the recently proposed tax reform
proposal, after receiving testimony from John Martini, New York State
Winegrape Growers, Inc., Penn Yan; Jerry Bookwalter, Washington Association of
Winegrape Growers, Pasco, Washington; J. William Moffett, The Association of
American Vintners, Watkins Glenn, New York; Arthur Ciocca, Wine Institute, San
Francisco, California; Robert Hartzell, California Association of Winegrape
Growers, Sacramento; Bill Blosser, Solcol-Blosser Winery, Dundee, Oregon;
Monty Stamp, Winegrape Growers of America, Washington, D.C.; Richard
Garabedian, California Raisin Bargaining Association, Fresno; Lynn Hunter,
Pennsylvania Grape Industry Association, Brogue; Rebecca Murphy, Texas Grape
Growers Association, Fort Worth; Michael Hogue, Washington Wine Institute,
Prosser; Tony DeBevec, Ohio Wine Producers Association, Austinburg; William
Oliver, Oliver Wine Cellars, Bloomington, Indiana; Stofford Krause, New York
Association of Wine Producers, Canandaigua; Al Wiederkehr, Arkansas Wine
Producers Association, Altus; and Al Weed, Virginia Wineries Association,
Lovingston. 



1986/04/10
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 10, 1986; pages D377 - D ?  (Bound vol. D204-
D212)

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 1987 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John Bode, Assistant Secretary for
Food and Consumer Services, Suzanne S. Harris, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Food and Consumer Services, and Sonia Crow, Associate Administrator, Food and
Nutrition Service, all of the Department of Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SDI 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense continued hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony from Robert S. McNamara, and Harold Brown,
both former Secretaries of Defense. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AID/INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION/AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Herbert L. Beckington,
Inspector General, Agency for International Development; Deborah Szekely,
President, Inter-American Foundation; and Leonaid H. Robinson, Jr., President,
African Development Foundation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy
Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation, Alicia Coro, Acting
Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Office for Civil Rights, James B.
Thomas, Jr., Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, Lawrence F.
Davenport, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Mary
Jean LeTendre, Director, Compensatory Education Programs, John Staehle, Acting
Director, Migrant Education Programs, Lois A. Bowman, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, W. Stanley Kruger, Director,
Division of Impact Aid, and Sally H. Cristensen, Director, Budget Services,
all of the Department of Education. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- OMB 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from James
C. Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 16. 

U.S. SECURITY IN THE PHILIPPINES 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Sea Power and Force Projection
and Subcommittee on Military Construction held joint hearings on United States
security interests in the Philippines, receiving testimony from John Lehman,
Secretary of the Navy; Tidal W. McCoy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics; Gaston J. Sigur, Jr., Assistant
Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Robert C. McFarlane,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University,
Washington, D.C.; and Richard C. Holbrooke, Shearson-Lehman Brothers, Inc.,
New York, New York, formerly Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness resumed open and
closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on Air Force readiness status and operation
and maintenance, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez, Deputy Chief
of Staff for Logistics and Engineering, Maj. Gen. E.H. Fischer, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations, Brig. Gen. Robert F. Swarts,
Deputy Director of Budget, Operations Comptroller of the Air Force, Maj. Gen.
John B. Conaway, Director, Air National Guard, and Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill,
Chief of the Air Force Reserve, all of the United States Air Force. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on binary chemical
modernization programs, receiving testimony from David Abshire, U.S. Permanent
Representative to NATO; Thomas J. Welch, Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense (Atomic Energy), (Chemical Matters); David Emery, Deputy Director,
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Amoretta M. Hober, Deputy Under Secretary
of the Army; and Gen. Jack N. Merritt, USA, United States Representative to
the NATO Military Committee. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

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 1987 for the National Bureau of Standards, after
receiving testimony from Clarence J. Brown, and Deputy Secretary of Commerce,
Ernest Ambler, Director, and Raymond G. Kammer, Deputy Director, both of the
National Bureau of Standards, and D. Bruce Merrifield, Assistant Secretary for
Productivity, Technology, and Innovation, and Joseph F. Caponio, Director,
National Technical Information Service, all of the Department of Commerce;
Pete England, National Conference of Standards Laboratories, Montclair,
California; Norman D. Collins, Boeing Computer Services, Seattle, Washington;
and Joseph G. O'Grady, American Society for Testing and Materials, and William
Y. Epling, American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc., both of Washington,
D.C. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1987 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
receiving testimony from Isaac T. Gillam, Assistant Administrator for
Commercial Programs, and Burton I. Edelson, Associate Administrator for Space
Science and Applications, both of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; Thomas Donahue, Chairman, Space Science Board, National
Academy of Sciences; John W. Townsend, Jr., Fairchild Industries, Inc.,
Chantilly, Virginia; Glenn Mason, University of Maryland, College Park, on
behalf of the Association of American Universities; and Richard Braley,
Federal Express Satellite System, Memphis, Tennessee. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 16. 

U.S. NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT PROGRAM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on the proposed Department of Energy enrichment
criteria and the current status of Department of Energy rulemaking proceedings
on those criteria, and on proposed amendments to S. 1004, to establish a
program to provide for reclamation and other remedial actions with respect to
mill tailings at active uranium and thorium processing sites, receiving
testimony from James W. Vaughan, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for
Nuclear Energy Programs, John R. Longnecker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Uranium Enrichment, and William R. Voigt, Jr., Director, Office of Remedial
Action and Waste Technology, all of the Department of Energy; and Robert P.
Luke, Uranium Producers of America, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on accounting
provisions, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet on Monday,
April 14. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of H. Allen Holmes, of the District of Columbia, to be
Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs, Ronald S. Lauder,
of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Austria, Otto J. Reich, of
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Venezuela, and Carlos Salman, of
Florida, and Henry F. Schickling, of Pennsylvania, both to be Members of the
Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; and 

The following treaties: The Protocol to the 1966 International Convention for
the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), agreed upon July 10, 1984, by the
Conference of Plenipotentiaries of the Contracting Parties to the 1966
Convention and signed by the United States on September 10, 1984 (Treaty Doc.
99-4); and The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer done at
Vienna on March 22, 1985 (Treaty Doc. 99-9). 

The Committee failed to approve for reporting the nomination of James L.
Malone, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Belize. 

U.S. FOREIGN ASSISTANCE/IRELAND 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2139, to
provide economic support of the United States to the Anglo-Irish Agreement on
Northern Ireland, after receiving testimony from Rozanne Ridgway, Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; Robert Bauerlein,
Special Assistant, Office of the Under Secretary for Security Assistance,
Science and Technology, Department of State; and M. Peter McPherson,
Administrator, Agency for International Development. 

PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation and Government Processes held oversight hearings to review
United States nuclear nonproliferation policy, receiving testimony from
Richard T. Kennedy, Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary
of State on Nonproliferation and Nuclear Energy Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Eric G. Bruggink, of Virginia, to be a Judge of the United
States Claims Court, Marian Blank Horn, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the
United States Claims Court, K. William O'Connor, of Virginia, to be United
States Attorney for the District of Guam and concurrently United States
Attorney for the District of the Northern Mariana Islands, Emery R. Jordan, to
be U.S. Marshal for the District of Maine, John R. Kendall, to be U.S. Marshal
for the Western District of Michigan, Ralph D. Morgan, to be U.S. Marshal for
the Southern District of Indiana, and Donald W. Peterson, of Missouri, to be
Deputy Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Department of Commerce; and 

S.J. Res. 188, to designate July 6, 1986, as "National Air Traffic
Control
Day," with amendments; 

S.J. Res. 199, to designate the month of November 1985 as "National Elks
Veterans Remembrance Month," with an amendment; 

S.J. Res. 281, to designate the week of May 11-17, 1986, as "Senior
Center
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 284, to designate the month of May 1986, as "Better Hearing and
Speech Month"; 

S.J. Res. 300, to recognize and honor 350 years of service of the National
Guard; 

S.J. Res. 303, to designate April 1986, as "Fair Housing Month"; 

S.J. Res. 306, to designate the week beginning November 23, 1986, as
"National
Adoption Week"; 

S.J. Res. 309, to designate the week of June 1-7, 1986, as "National
Intelligence Community Week"; 

S.J. Res. 307, to designate the week of April 18-27, 1986, as "National
Carpet
and Floorcovering Week"; 

S.J. Res. 315, to designate May 1986, as "Older Americans Month";
and 

S. Res. 352, to establish a Commission on the Bicentennial of the United
States Senate to oversee and coordinate bicentennial activities. 

CONGRESSIONAL POSTAGE COSTS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: On Wednesday, April 9, the committee
concluded hearings on S. 2059, to control franking costs of Members of
Congress, S. 2255, to prohibit the expenditures of Federal funding for
Congressional newsletters, and S. Res. 374, to limit the amount that may be
expended by Senators for mass mailings during the remainder of fiscal year
1986, after receiving testimony from Senators Wilson and Quayle. 

Committee will consider the above measures on Wednesday, April 16. 

VA MEDICAL 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 Thomas K. Turnage,
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, John W. Ditzler, Chief Medical Director,
Richard P. Falco, Acting Director, Facility Engineering Planning and
Construction Office, Susan Livingstone, Acting Associate Deputy Administrator
for Logistics, Gerald E. Neumann, Director, Office of Construction, Charles
Yarbrough, Director, Management Support Office, Robert E. Lindsey, Jr.,
Director of Operations, and Marjorie Quandt, Assistant Chief Medical Director,
Office of Administration, all of the Veterans' Administration; John Cherbini,
Associate Director, and William O. Jenkins, Evaluator-In-Charge, both of the
Accounting and Financial Management Division, and Norman Rabkin, Group
Director, Human Resources Division, all of the General Accounting Office;
Winfield M. Kelly, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Richard J. Davidson, Maryland
Hospital Association, Carl Schramm, Maryland Health Services Cost Review
Commission, and Dom Raino, Maryland Health Resource Planning Commission, all
of Baltimore; and Paul S. Egan, The American Legion, Dennis M. Cullinan,
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, David W. Gorman, Disabled
American Veterans, David J. Passamaneck, AMVETS, and Bob Moran, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, all of Washington, D.C. 

NOMINATION 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Robert M. Gates, of Virginia, to be Deputy Director of Central
Intelligence. 

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

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/11
Daily Digest - Friday, April 11, 1986; pages D387 - D ?  (Bound vol. D212-
D217)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

HEALTH RESEARCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings to review the impact of the
President's proposed budget on health research programs, receiving testimony
from Samuel Thier, President, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of
Sciences; Robert Butler, New York, New York, former Director, National
Institute on Aging; Theodore Cooper, Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
former Assistant Secretary for Health; Roger Guillemin, Salk Institute,
Lajolla California; Kenneth Shine, University of California, Los Angeles, on
behalf of the American Heart Association; John Durant, The Fox-Chase Cancer
Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Herbert Pardes, Columbia University, New
York, New York; and George Palade, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

STRATEGIC HOMEPORTING INITIATIVE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on the strategic homeporting initiative, receiving testimony from
Senators Moynihan, D'Amato, and Gorton; Bill W. Thurman, Deputy Director,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; L. Wayne Arny III, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Rear Adm. John Paul Jones, Jr., Commander,
Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Vice Adm. Thomas Hughes, Deputy Chief of
Naval Operations for Logistics; Adm. J.L. Holloway III, USN (Ret.), former
Chief of Naval Operations; and Vice Adm. C. Edwin Bell, USN (Ret.), former
Director of Navy Program Planning. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness continued open and
closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on ammunition readiness, sustainability, and
procurement, receiving testimony from Thomas Christie, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Programs and Resources; Maj. Gen. Robert F.
Molinelli, USA, Director of Combat Support Systems, Office of the Deputy Chief
of Staff for Research, Development, and Acquisition; Maj. Gen. Charles
Skipton, USAF, Director, Logistics Plans and Programs; and Brig. Gen. R.J.
Winglass, USMC, Director, Materials Division. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces continued closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Strategic Command, Control and
Communications, and warning assessment, receiving testimony from Donald C.
Latham, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications
and Intelligence. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 15. 

PUBLIC LANDS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
Reserve Water and Resource Conservation concluded hearings on the following
bills: 

S. 997, to establish the Hennepin Canal National Heritage Corridor in
Illinois, after receiving testimony from Senator Dixon, and Representative
Lane Evans; 

S. 1542, to designate the Nez Perce Trail in Oregon and Montana, as a
component of the National Trails System, after receiving testimony from J.
Lamar Beasley, Deputy Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; 

S. 1374, to establish the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, after receiving testimony from Senators
Chafee and Pell; Massachusetts State Representative Richard Moore, Uxbridge;
Robert Kumor, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Boston;
Robert Bendick, Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management,
Providence; and Pat Malone, Slater Mill Association, Pawtucket, Rhode Island. 

S. 2265, to authorize the establishment of the Burr Trail National Rural
Scenic Road in Utah, after receiving testimony from Senators Garn and Hatch;
Representative Nielson; Tom Hatch and H. Del LeFevre, both of the Garfield
County Commission, and Clem Church, Utah State Road Commissioner, all of
Panguitch, Utah; Steve Creamer, Garfield County Engineer, St. George, Utah; C.
Booth Wallentine, Utah Farm Bureau Federation, and Terri Martin, National
Parks and Conservation Association, Rocky Mountain Regional Representative,
both of Salt Lake City, Utah; Del Smith, Clive Kinkaid, and Kris Dangerfield,
all of Springdale, Utah; Dale Dockstader, Rockville, Utah; Clay Puckett, Orem,
Utah; Thomas J. Messenger, Arlington, Virginia; Louise Liston, Escalante,
Utah; Christine Swanson, Boulder, Utah; Maggie Fox, Sierra Club, (Southwest
Representative), Boulder, Colorado; and Darell Knuffke, Wilderness Society,
(Central Rockies Regional Director), Denver, Colorado; 

S. 1946, to designate the West Branch of the Farmington River as a study area
for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, after receiving
testimony from Representative Johnson; Suzanne C. Wilkins, Farmington River
Watershed Association, Simsbury, Connecticut; and Christopher Brown, American
Rivers Conservation Coalition, Washington, D.C.; and

S. 1413 and H.R. 2067, bills to validate conveyances of certain lands in
California that form part of the right-of-way granted by the United States to
the Central Pacific Railway Company, after receiving testimony from
Representative Shumway; David Tidwell, Special Assistant to the Director,
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; David Burwell,
Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, D.C.; Larry W. Telford, Santa
Fe-Southern Pacific Corporation, San Francisco, California; and Robert H.
Mullen, Tracy, California; 

H.R. 3556, to provide for the exchange of land for the Cape Henry Memorial
site in Fort Story, Virginia, after receiving testimony from Senator Warner. 

Testimony was also received on S. 997, S. 1374, S. 1542, S. 1946, S. 2265, and
H.R. 3556, (all listed above) from Denis P. Galvin, Deputy Director, National
Park Service, Department of the Interior. 

U.S.-CANADA TRADE 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to discuss United
States-Canadian trade relations, focusing on the Canadian proposal for
comprehensive trade negotiations between the United States and Canada, after
receiving testimony from Senators Cohen and Wilson; Clayton Yeutter, United
States Trade Representative; Stanley S. Dennison, Atlanta, Georgia, on behalf
of the Fair Lumber Imports; J.M. Tolleson Jr., Tolleson Lumber Company, Perry,
Georgia: M.J. Kuehne, Northwest Independent Forest Manufacturers, Tacoma,
Washington; Carlton E. Nichols, Nichols and Stone Company, Gardner,
Massachusetts, representing the American Furniture Manufacturers Association;
Robert W. McMinn, Automotive Parts and Accessories Association, Lanham,
Maryland; and Lawrence A. Fox, the National Association of Manufacturers, and
Lucy Sloan, National Federation of Fishermen, both of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/14
Daily Digest - Monday, April 14, 1986; pages D399 - D ?  (Bound vol. D217-
D220)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Dole, Denton,
and Bentsen; and numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed closed hearings on S. 2199,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony on the defense of NATO from Maj. Gen. Edward J. Heinz,
USAF, Director, Intelligence J2, U.S. European Command; and Maj. Gen. Norman
H. Smith, USMC, Acting Chief of Staff and Director of Plans and Policy, U.S.
Atlantic Command. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of William F. Martin, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy
Secretary of Energy, and David B. Waller, of the District of Columbia, to be
an Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs and Energy
Emergencies, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Martin was introduced by Senator Nickles and Mr. Waller was
introduced by Senator Lugar. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on foreign tax
provisions and tax-exempt bonds, but did not complete action thereon, and will
meet again tomorrow.  

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/15
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 15, 1986; pages D405 - D ?  (Bound vol. D220-
D226)

Committee Meetings 

AGRICULTURAL PROVISION PROPOSALS TO TRADE LEGISLATION 

Committee on Agriculture: Held a hearing on Agricultural provision proposals
to omnibus trade legislation. Testimony was heard from Representative
Lightfoot; Daniel G. Amstutz, Under Secretary, International Affairs and
Commodity Programs, USDA; Alan I. Mendelowitz, Associate Director, Trade
Energy and Finance Group, National Security and International Affairs
Division, GAO; Edward Andersen, National Commission on Agricultural Trade and
Export Policy; and public witnesses. 

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture continued
appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior held a hearing on
Minerals Management Service. Testimony was heard from William D. Bettenberg,
Director, Mineral Management Service, Department of the Interior. 

LABOR -- HHS -- EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor -- HHS -- Education held a
hearing on Vocational Education; Educational Research and Statistics; Higher
Education; Higher Education Facilities; College Housing Loans; and Educational
Research Overseas. Testimony was heard from the following officials of the
Department of Education: John K. Wu, Acting Assistant Secretary, Vocational
and Adult Education; Chester E. Finn, Jr., Assistant Secretary, Educational
Research and Improvement; C. Ronald Kimberling, Assistant Secretary,
Postsecondary Education. 

TREASURY -- POSTAL SERVICE -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury -- Postal Service --
General Government continued appropriation hearings. Testimony was heard from
public witnesses. 

IMPLICATIONS OF ABANDONING SALT 

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on Arms Control, International
Security and Science held a hearing on the Implications of Abandoning SALT.
Testimony was heard from public witnesses. 

SHORT SUPPLY EXPORT CONTROLS; SECURITY OF DIPLOMATIC PERSONNEL 

Committee on Foreign Affairs: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy
and Trade held a hearing on Short Supply Export Controls, including
consideration of H.R. 4159, to provide for the security of U.S. diplomatic
personnel, facilities and operation. Testimony was heard from Representative
Weaver; John Richards, Director, Office of Industrial Resource Administration,
Department of Commerce; and public witnesses. 

OVERSIGHT 

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Mining and Natural
Resources held an oversight hearing on recent developments in electric utility
purchases of imported coal mining industry. Testimony was heard from Senator
Rockefeller; Representative Boucher; Lawrence A. Pettis, Deputy Administrator
of Energy Information Administration, Department of Energy; and public
witnesses. 

GOVERN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMEMORATIVE WORKS 

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on National Parks and
Recreation held a hearing on H.R. 4378, to govern the establishment of
commemorative works within the National Capital Region of the National Park
System. Testimony was heard from Representative Oakar; Manus J. Fish, Jr.,
Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; George M. White, Architect of the Capitol; Robert E. Gresham,
Assistant Executive Director for Operations, National Capital Planning
Commission; J. Carter Brown, Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts; Hampton Cross,
Administrator, Building and Land Regulation Administration, Department of
Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, District of Columbia; James Whitlock,
Assistant Regional Administrator for Public Buildings and Real Property,
National Capital Region, GSA; Col. Frederick Badger, Assistant Secretary,
American Battle Monuments Commission; Steven N. Kleiman, Assistant for
Installation Planning, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of
Defense; and public witnesses. 

MILITARY LANDS WITHDRAWAL ACT 

Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs: Subcommittee on Public Lands held a
hearing on H.R. 1790, Military Lands Withdrawal Act of 1985. Testimony was
heard from Guy E. Baier, Acting Assistant Director, Lands and Renewable
Resources, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior; and Rupert
Jennings, Acting Chief, Legislative Services Office, Directorate of Real
Estate, Office of the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. 

DIRECT REIMBURSEMENT FOR NON-PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS 

Committee on Post Office and Civil Service: Subcommittee on Compensation and
Employee Benefits held a hearing on direct reimbursement for non-physician
health professionals and other cost containment initiatives under the Federal
Employee Health Benefits Program. Testimony was heard from James W. Morrison,
Jr., Associate Director for Compensation, Office of Personnel Management;
Gloria Ruby, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment; Dr. J. Michael
McGinnis, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of Disease Prevention
and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human Services; and public
witnesses. 

FIBER-OPTIC CABLES 

Committee on Public Works and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation and the Subcommittee on Economic Development held a joint
hearing on the use of the interstate right-of-way for the laying of
fiber-optic cables. Testimony was heard from Richard D. Morgan, Executive
Director, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; and
public witnesses. 

NATIONAL RESEARCH FUNDING LEVELS 

Committee on Science and Technology: Science Policy Task Force held a hearing
on National Research Funding Levels. Testimony was heard from public
witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

COMPREHENSIVE TRADE LEGISLATION 

Committee on Ways and Means: Subcommittee on Trade continued hearings on
comprehensive trade reform legislation. Testimony was heard from
Representative Richardson; Gil Kaplan, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration, Department of Commerce; Alan Holmer, General Counsel, Office
of U.S. Trade Representative; and public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 



1986/04/16
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 16, 1986; pages D416 - D ?  (Bound vol. D226-
D234)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NOAA/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 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony J. Calio, Administrator, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; and William E. Evans,
Chairman, Marine Mammal Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

D.C. PRISON OVERCROWDING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
concluded hearings on the overcrowding issue of the District of Columbia
prison system, after receiving testimony from Lowell Jensen, Deputy Attorney
General, Department of Justice; Joseph diGenova, U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia; and Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., and Richard Ben-Veniste,
Advisory Committee on Corrections Education Reform, both of the District of
Columbia. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senator
Cranston and Representatives Anderson and Shumway. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 23. 

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 1987 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for student financial assistance, guaranteed student loans,
higher education, higher education facilities loans and insurance, and college
housing loans from C. Ronald Kimberling, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary
Education, Sally K. Kirkgasler, Director, Office of Policy Development, John
S. Haines, Director, Postsecondary Analysis Division, and Richard Hastings,
Director, Debt Collection and Management Assistance, all of the Department of
Education. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- UNITED STATES COAST GUARD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for
the U.S. Coast Guard, receiving testimony from James S. Gracey, Commandant,
United States Coast Guard. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 23. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1987 for certain programs of the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Postal
Service, and National Historical Publications, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

MILITARY RETIREMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill to provide for reform of the military retirement system. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued open and closed hearings on
S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony on the posture of the Navy and Marine Corps from John
Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Admiral James B. Busey, USN, Vice Chief of
Naval Operations; and General P.X. Kelley, USMC, Commandant, United States
Marine Corps. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MASS TRANSIT 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded oversight hearings on the Federal mass transit
program, after receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; William W. Millar,
Port Authority of Alleghany County, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; William L. Volk,
Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District, Urbana, Illinois; Michael P. Bolton,
Ann Arbor Transportation Authority, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Deane Dana, Los
Angeles County Transportation Commission, Los Angeles, California; Gary L
Brosch, Rice Center, Houston, Texas; Roger F. Teal, Irvine, California; Norman
R. Sherlock, American Bus Association, Washington, D.C; William L. Cotter,
Jr., Yellow Cab Company, Hartford, Connecticut; representing the International
Taxicab Association; William H. Frank, Central New York Regional
Transportation Authority, Syracuse, New York, representing the American Public
Transit Association; Jerome C. Premo, New Jersey Transit Corporation, Newark;
Vickie Shaffer, Tri-State Transit Authority, Huntington, West Virginia; and
David Turney, Luminator, Plano, Texas. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1987 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, and to review United States assured access to space, receiving
testimony from E.C. Aldridge, Jr., Acting Secretary of the Air Force; Rear
Adm. Richard H. Truly, Associate Administrator of Space Flight, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Madeline Johnson, Director, Office of
Commercial Space Transportation, Department of Transportation; Gareth D.
Flora, Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, Denver, Colorado; Alan M. Lovelace,
General Dynamics Corporation, San Diego, California; Robert H. Hood, Jr.,
McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company, Huntington Beach, California; and
Douglas A. Heydon, Arianespace, Inc., Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 23. 

PRICE-ANDERSON ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 1225, to compensate the public for injuries or damages suffered in the
event of an accident involving nuclear activities undertaken by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission licensees or Department of Energy contractors, but took
no action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, April 23. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on pension provisions,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Richard T. McCormack, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the Inter-American Foundation, and a Foreign Service
Officer promotion list received by the Senate on March 12, 1986. 

Also, the committee began consideration of The Supplementary Extradition
Treaty Between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, with annex, signed at Washington on June 25,
1985 (Treaty Doc. 99-8), and S. 2139 and S. 2149, bills to provide economic
support of the United States to the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Northern Ireland,
but took no action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

COMPUTER CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2281, to
discourage and deter unauthorized access to and use of computer systems
maintained by federally insured financial institutions when initiated outside
a state's boundaries, to broaden the protection given computers belonging to
the Federal Government, and to proscribe certain computer crimes that are
interstate in nature, after receiving testimony from Senator Trible; Victoria
Toensing, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; Joseph Tompkins, Sidley & Austin, Washington, D.C.; and John J.
Sponski, Sovran Bank, Norfolk, Virginia. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
James L. Edmondson, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Eleventh Circuit, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Mattingly,
testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for
the Drug Enforcement Administration, and to review current activities of the
DEA, receiving testimony from John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement
Administration, Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 15. 

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
to review the effects of Federal efforts in AIDS research, prevention and
treatment, and on health policy issues involving the public and private
sectors dealing with AIDS, after receiving testimony from Donald Ian
MacDonald, Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, and Walter Dowdle, Acting
AIDS Coordinator, both of the Public Health Service, Department of Health and
Human Services; J. Jarrett Clinton, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Professional Affairs and Quality Assurance; Nathan Smith, Fort Worth, Texas,
on behalf of the National Hemophilia Foundation; Jeffrey Levi, National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force, Washington, D.C.; Helen G. Kushnick, American
Foundation for AIDS Research, Los Angeles, California; Harvey V. Fineburg,
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Anne A. Scitovsky,
Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, California; and Barbara
Lautzenheiser, Trans America Occidental Life Insurance Company, Hartford,
Connecticut, on behalf of the Health Insurance Association of America. 

SENATE MASS MAILINGS 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
with an amendment S. Res. 374, to limit the amount that may be expended by
Senators for mass mailings during the remainder of fiscal year 1986. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 2272, to limit the amount that
may be expended in any fiscal year by a Member of Congress for franked mail,
and S. 2255, to prohibit the expenditures of Federal funding for Congressional
newsletters, but did not take final action thereon, and recessed subject to
call. 

ETHICS 

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

Joint Meetings 

VETERANS LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES 

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 Pavlik, West Allis, Wisconsin, on behalf of the Veterans of World War I
of the United States of America; Robert A. Medairos, Brockton, Massachusetts,
on behalf of the American Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam; Mary
Stout, Arlington, Virginia, on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans of America,
Inc.; Harvey Friedman, Oakhurst, New Jersey, on behalf of the Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of America; and Thomas Houser, Alexandria,
Virginia, on behalf of the National Association of Atomic Veterans. 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ISSUES 

Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Patents,
Copyrights and Trademarks concluded joint hearings with the House Committee on
the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration
of Justice to review an Office of Technology Assessment report on
"Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and
Information,"
focusing on the Federal copyright system, and on the impact of recent and
anticipated advances in communication and information technologies on the
intellectual property system, after receiving testimony from D. Linda Garcia,
Project Director, Conceptual Framework and Societal Analysis, Office of
Technology Assessment; and Paul Goldstein, Stanford University School of Law,
Stanford, California, Jon Baumgarten, Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn,
Washington, D.C., and Stephen Breyer, Circuit Judge, First Circuit Court of
Appeals, Boston, Massachusetts, all of the Intellectual Property Rights in an
Age of Electronics and Information Advisory Panel. 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/04/17
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 17, 1986; pages D427 - D ?  (Bound vol. D234-
D241)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

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 1987 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony from Edwin
Meese III, Attorney General, Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee on Foreign Operations held hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony from William P. Horn,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22. 

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 1987 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for bilingual education, vocational and adult education,
research and improvement, and libraries from Carol Pendas Whitten, Director,
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs, John K. Wu,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, Chester E.
Finn, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Development, and
Anne Mathews, Director, Library Programs, all of the Department of Education. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 22. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings on S. 2199,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony in open session on the posture of the Air Force from
Edward C. Aldridge, Acting Secretary of the Air Force; Gen. Charles A.
Gabriel, Chief of Staff, United States Air Force; and in closed session on
special operations airlift forces from Donald C. Latham, Assistant Secretary
of Defense (Command Control, Communications and Intelligence); Maj. Gen.
August M. Cianciolo, Director, Weapons Systems, Department of the Army; Maj.
Gen. Wesley H. Rice, USMC, Director, Joint Special Operations Agency, Office
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Maj. Gen. Harold J.M. Williams, USAF, Director
of Operations, Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Operations; and Maj. Gen.
John M. Loh, USAF, Director of Operational Requirements, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Research, Development and Acquisition. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FISHERIES PRODUCTS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 2138 and
H.R. 2935, bills to establish a National Marketing Council to enable the
United States fishing industry to establish a coordinated program of research,
education, and promotion to expand markets for fisheries products, and S.
2297, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987 and 1988 for programs of the
Atlantic Tunas Convention Act of 1975, after receiving testimony from Carmen
J. Blondin, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Fisheries Resource Management,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; James
B. Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health
and Human Services; Eric Laschever, representing Alaska Seafood Marketing
Institute, Lee J. Weddig, National Fisheries Institute, Kristin L. Vehrs, on
behalf of the Texas Shrimp Association, and David Burney, United States Tuna
Foundation, all of Washington, D.C.; Pete Granger, West Coast Fisheries
Development Foundation, Portland, Oregon; Kenelm W. Coons, New England
Fisheries Development Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts; Paul A. Sandifer,
Marine Resources Division of South Carolina, Charleston; Robert P. Brubaker,
King Shrimp Company, Incorporated, Brunswick, Georgia; and Robert F. Morgan,
Pacific Seafood Processors Association, Seattle, Washington. 

NEVADA WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICTS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power
concluded hearings on S. 1319, to relieve the Washoe County Water Conservation
District, Nevada, of certain Federal repayment obligations, and S. 1772, to
convey certain real property to the Pershing County Water Conservation
District, Nevada, after receiving testimony from Joseph Marcotte, Acting
Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; and
Allen Brinkerhoff, Pershing County Water Conservation District, Lovelock,
Nevada. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, but did not complete action
thereon and will meet again tomorrow. 

ARMS SALES TO SAUDI ARABIA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on proposed arms
sales to Saudi Arabia, after receiving testimony from Senators Lautenberg and
D'Amato; Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs; and Richard L. Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Affairs. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Kenneth L. Ryskamp, to be United States District Judge for
the Southern District of Florida, and Joe D. Whitley, to be United States
Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia; 

S.J. Res. 280, to designate the month of November 1986, as "National
Alzheimer's Disease Month"; 

S.J. Res. 288, to designate the month of May 1986, as "National Birds of
Prey
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 289, to designate 1988 as the "Year of New Sweden" and to
recognize
the New Sweden '88 American Committee; 

S.J. Res. 293, to designate the month of May 1986, as "National Child
Safety
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 298, to designate the week of October 5-11, 1986, as "Mental
Illness
Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 310, to proclaim June 15-21, 1986, as "National Agricultural
Export
Week"; 

S.J. Res. 312, to designate the week beginning April 13, 1986 as
"National
Medical Laboratory Week"; 

S.J. Res. 317, to designate the month of November 1986, as "National
Hospice
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 318, to designate November 1986, as "National Diabetes
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 321, to designate October 1986, as "National Down Syndrome
Month"; 

S.J. Res. 324, to designate the week beginning May 18, 1986, as "National
Digestive Diseases Awareness Week"; and 

S. 2216, to designate September 17, 1987, the bicentennial of the signing of
the Constitution of the United States, as "Constitution Day", and to
make such
day a legal public holiday. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on white collar crime
in the United States, focusing on the Department of Justice's investigation of
E.F. Hutton on mail and wire fraud, receiving testimony from Stephen S. Trott,
Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, and Albert Murray, Assistant
United States Attorney, both of the Department of Justice; and Robert Foman,
and Robert Ritterreiser, both of E.F. Hutton, and George Ball, Prudential
Bache, all of New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 8. 

INDIAN CLAIMS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2118,
to provide for the distribution of funds awarded to the Devils Lake Sioux
Tribe of North Dakota, the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, and
the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, after
receiving testimony from Ralph Reeser, Director, Congressional and Legislative
Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Russell
Hawkins, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Council, Sisseton, South Dakota; Carl
McKay, Devil's Lake Sioux Tribal Council, Fort Totten, North Dakota; Leland
Spotted Bird, Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board, Fort Peck, Montana; Grady
Renville, Martha Renville, and Robin Renville, all of Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Joyce Nelson, Portland, Oregon; and Josephine Zollinger, Eugene, Oregon. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 30. 

Joint Meeting 

ECONOMIC DATA 

Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings on the quality and
accuracy of U.S. economic statistics, receiving testimony from Wendy L. Gramm,
Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget; Sidney L. Jones, The Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C., former Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs; Peter Francese,
Ithaca, New York; James T. Bonnen, Michigan State University, East Lansing, on
behalf of the Reorganization Project for the Federal Statistical System; and
F. Thomas Juster, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on behalf of the American
Economic Association. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1987/04/18
Daily Digest - Friday, April 18, 1986; pages D437 - D ?  (Bound vol. D241-
D243)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed open and closed hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Navy nuclear
programs, receiving testimony from Rear Adm. Roger F. Bacon, USN, Assistant
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Plans, Policies and Operations, and Rear
Adm. Theodore E. Lewin, USN, Director, Strategic Submarine Division, both of
the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Adm. Kenneth C. Malley, USN,
Director, Strategic Systems Project Office; Rear Adm. Stephen J. Hostettler,
USN, Director, Joint Cruise Missiles Project; and Adm. Kinnaird R. McKee, USN,
Director, Office of Naval Nuclear Propulsion, Department of Energy. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- U.S. TRAVEL AND TOURISM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Business,
Trade, and Tourism concluded hearings on S. 2307, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1987, 1988, and 1989 for activities of the United States Travel and
Tourism Administration, after receiving testimony from Senator Warner; Donna
Tuttle, Under Secretary for Travel and Tourism, United States Travel and
Tourism Administration, Department of Commerce; Patrick A. McMahon, Virginia
Director of Tourism, Richmond; Robert Willis, Baltimore Office of Promotion
and Tourism, and Wayne Chappell, Baltimore Convention Bureau, both of
Baltimore, Maryland; James Montgomery, Pan Am World Airways, New York, New
York; Scott Lorenz, Mayflower Hotel, Plymouth, Michigan; David Gilroy Bevan,
and Roger Gale, both Members of Parliament, House of Commons, London, England;
and Joseph Hallisey, Jr., American Society of Travel Agents, and William D.
Toohey, Travel Industry Association of America, both of Washington, D.C. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued markup of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, April 22. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/21
Daily Digest - Monday, April 21, 1986; pages D445 - D ?  (Bound vol. D243-
D245)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

TAX REFORM -- EXCISE TAXES 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings to review the implications
of excise tax and tariff non-deductibility as contained in proposed
legislation providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, after receiving
testimony from Senators Eagleton, Ford, Wilson, and McConnell; J. Roger Mentz,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; J. Tylee Wilson, R.J.
Reynolds Industries, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the
Tobacco Industry; T. Carlton Blalock, Tobacco Growers Association of North
Carolina, Raleigh; Gerry Oster, Policy Analysis, Inc., Brookline,
Massachusetts; August A. Busch, III, Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., St.
Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the Beer Institute; Anthony P. Debevc,
Association of American Vinters, Madison, Ohio, on behalf of the Wine
Institute and the Grapegrowers of America; William P. Morelli, Midland
Enterprises, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the American Waterways
Operators, Inc.; Daniel B. Scherder, Peabody Coal Company, St. Louis,
Missouri, on behalf of the National Coal Association and the Mining and
Reclamation Council; Peter V. Handal, Victor B. Handal and Brothers, Inc., New
York, New York, on behalf of the American Association of Exporters and
Importers; Richard Donahue, Nike, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon; Robert E. Dewar, K
Mart Corporation, Troy, Michigan, on behalf of the National Retail Merchants
Association; Maryland State Senator Clarence M. Mitchell, Baltimore, on behalf
of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators; John A. Newman, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; and Matthew L. Myers, Coalition on Smoking or Health, F.A.
Meister, Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, Michael F. Jacobson,
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Thomas J. Donohue, American
Trucking Associations, Inc., on behalf of the Coalition Against Regressive
Taxation, Charles J. DiBona, American Petroleum Institute, Elihu Bergman,
Americans for Energy Independence, Robert A. Dickemper, Southwestern Bell, on
behalf of the United States Telephone Association, Paul R. Ignatius, Air
Transport Association of America, Robert M. McElwaine, American International
Automobile Dealers Association, John K. Meagher, The LTV Corporation, Robert
M. McGlotten, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial
Organizations, and Paul R. Huard, National Association of Manufacturers, all
of Washington, DC. 

AID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held oversight hearings to review
the activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving
testimony from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International
Development; and Douglas J. Bennet, National Public Radio, and Edward Feulner,
The Heritage Foundation, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

PANAMA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
concluded hearings to review the current situation in Panama after receiving
testimony from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs; James Montgomery, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human
Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Ray McKinnon, Deputy Assistant Administrator,
Office of International Programs, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department
of Justice; Bonni Tischler, Director for Financial Investigations Division,
and Peter Balonon, Director for Special Investigations Division, both of the
U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Steve Ropp, University of
Wyoming, Laramie; and Jose Sorzano, Cuban-American National Foundation,
Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/22
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 22, 1986; pages D455 - D ?  (Bound vol. D244-
D253)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
S. 2346, authorizing funds for programs of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act, receiving testimony from Jack Moore, Assistant
Administrator, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection
Agency; Karen Darling, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing
and Inspection Service; Jack Early and Carl J. Kensil, both representing the
National Agricultural Chemicals Association, Nancy Drebble, Public Citizens
Congress Watch, Mark A. Maslyn, American Farm Bureau Federation, and Jay
Feldman, National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, all of
Washington, D.C.; Al Meyerhoff, Natural Resources Defense Council, San
Francisco, California; and Ron D. White, Texas State Department of
Agriculture, Austin. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 30. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 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, Peter C. Myers,
Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Wilson Scaling,
Chief, Soil Conservation Service, Milton Hertz, Acting Administrator,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Melvin E. Sims, General
Sales Manager, Food for Peace Program (P.L. 480). Joan S. Wallace,
Administrator, Office of International Cooperation and Development, and Tom O.
Kay, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, all of the Department of
Agriculture. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 29. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of State,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James N. Purcell, Jr., Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs, Ann Wrobleski,
Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics Matters, and Parker W.
Borg, Principal Deputy Director, Office for Counter-Terrorism and Emergency
Planning, all of the Department of State. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVAJO-HOPI INDIAN RELOCATION COMMISSION/SURFACE MINING 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Ralph
Watkins, Chairman, Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation Commission; and Jed D.
Christensen, Acting Director, Office of Surface Mining, Department of the
Interior. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 24. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Gen. George H. McKee, USAF (Ret), Governor, U.S. Soldiers and
Airmen's Home; Stuart Altman, Chairman, Prospective Payment Commission; Robert
A. Gielow, Chairman, Railroad Retirement Board; Donald L. Dotson, Chairman,
and Rosemary M. Collyer, General Counsel, both of the National Labor Relations
Board; Walter C. Wallace, Chairman, and Helen M. Witt and Charles L. Woods,
both Members, all of the National Mediation Board; E. Ross Buckley, Chairman,
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and Kay McMurray, Director,
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NUCLEAR LICENSING REFORM 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
2073, to require the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish procedures,
standards, and criteria for preapproved sites and standardized designs for
nuclear powerplants and to revise the procedures for issuing construction and
operating licenses, after receiving testimony from John S. Herrington,
Secretary of Energy; Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman, and Thomas M. Roberts,
Frederick M. Bernthal, and Lando W. Zech, Jr., all Commissioners, all of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Richard P. Priory, Duke Power Company,
Charlotte, North Carolina; Shelby T. Brewer, Combustion Engineering, Inc.,
Windsor, Connecticut; Daniel R. Wilkins, General Electric Company, San Jose,
California; James S. Moore, Westinghouse Electric Corp., Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Sherwood H. Smith, Jr., Carolina Power and Light Company,
Raleigh, North Carolina; and Keith L. Turley, Arizona Public Service Company,
H. Richard Seibert, Jr., National Association of Manufacturers, Michael E.
Faden, Union of Concerned Scientists, Howard B. Friend, Bechtel Power
Corporation, and John A. Anderson, The Electricity Consumers Resource Council,
all of Washington, D.C. 

COLORADO RIVER FLOODWAY 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources
concluded hearings on S. 1696, to establish a Federally-declared floodway for
the Colorado River, after receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini; C. Dale
Duvall, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Frank
H. Thomas, Assistant Administrator, Federal Insurance Administration, Federal
Emergency Management Agency; Col. Edward A. Starbird, Deputy Director of Civil
Works, Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Vernon Valantine,
Colorado River Board of California, Los Angeles; Gerald R. Zimmerman, Upper
Colorado River Commission, Salt Lake City, Utah; Anthony Drennan, Sr.,
Colorado River Indian Tribes, Parker, Arizona; Jack Rose, Mohave County Board
of Supervisors, Kingman, Arizona; and Edward Osann, National Wildlife
Federation, Washington, D.C. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE/TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee began consideration of a committee resolution
disapproving United States/Canada free trade negotiations, and resumed markup
of proposed legislation providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
William L. Roper, of Alabama, to be Administrator of the Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, after the nominee,
who was introduced by Senator Heflin, testified and answered questions in his
own behalf. 

AID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued oversight hearings to
review the activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving
testimony from Jay F. Morris, Deputy Administrator, Ain Kivimae, Deputy
Assistant to the Administrator, and Ray Love, Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Africa, all of the Agency for International Development; David Shear, ORT
International Corporation, Washington, D.C.; James L. Collom, Purdue
University, Lafayette, Indiana; and Elliott R. Morss, Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

TELEPHONE SYSTEM FOR THE SENATE 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met in open and closed
sessions and approved the selection of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company as the vendor to provide an on-site telephone system for the Senate. 

NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAMS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1991,
to authorize funds for fiscal years 1987-1990 for Native American programs,
after receiving testimony from William Lynn Engles, Commissioner,
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human Services;
Calvin Lay, Nashville, Tennessee, on behalf of the United South and Eastern
Tribes, and the Seneca Nation of New York; Karl Funke, Funke & Associates,
Washington, D.C.; David Lester, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, and Gregory
Frazier, National Urban Indian Council, both of Denver, Colorado; and A. Van
Horn Diamond, Alu Like, Honolulu, Hawaii. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/23
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 23, 1986; pages D464 - D ?  (Bound vol. D253-
D259)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for Navy aircraft procurement, receiving
testimony from Vice Adm. Edward G. Martin, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
for Air Warfare; and Lt. Gen. K.A. Smith, DCS Aviation, Headquarters United
States Marine Corps. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 29. 

ATOMIC ENERGY ACTIVITIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings to review atomic energy activities of the Department of
Defense, receiving testimony from Adm. Kinnaird McKee, Director, Naval Nuclear
Propulsion Program, Department of Defense; Sylvester Foley, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs; Brig. Gen. Sidney Davis, Acting
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; and Lt. Gen. James A.
Abramson, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the respective
activities from Donna M. Alvarado, Director, ACTION Agency; Martin Rubenstein,
President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Lex Frieden, Executive
Director, and Justin Dart, Jr., Member, both of the National Council on the
Handicapped; Ford B. Ford, Chairman, Mine Safety and Health Review Commission;
Elinor Hashim, Chairman, National Commission on Libraries and Information
Science; and John Norton Moore, Chairman, U.S. Institute of Peace. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. RAILWAY ASSOCIATION/CONRAIL 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Stephen Berger, Chairman, United States Railway Association; and L. Stanley
Crane, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Conrail. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 7. 

DEFENSE ACQUISITION 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy
approved for full committee consideration an original bill to improve the
management of major defense acquisition programs, to establish a Defense
Acquisition Service, to limit employment contracts between senior officials of
the Department of Defense and defense contractors, to establish within the
Office of the Secretary of Defense an Office of Defense Acquisition for the
centralized procurement of all property and services for the Department of
Defense, to provide for an Under Secretary of Defense Acquisition, and to
improve procedures for the acquisition of spare and repair parts for the
Department of Defense. As approved by the subcommittee, the original bill
incorporates certain provisions of S. 2151, S. 2082, and S. 2196. 

NAVY'S STRATEGIC HOMEPORTING PROGRAM 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction met to
consider the Navy's strategic homeporting initiative program, but did not
agree on recommendations which it will make to the full committee thereon, and
will meet again on Monday, April 28. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of James C. Fletcher, of Virginia, to be
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Glenn and Garn, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1987 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the space station program, receiving testimony
from John D. Hodge, Acting Associate Administrator for Space Station, and
David C. Black, Chief Scientist, Office of Space Station, both of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Richard Smith, Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State on Oceans and International, Environmental and
Scientific Affairs; Hugh S. Hudson, University of California, San Diego; and
Georgia Franklin, Washington State Citizens for Space, Seattle. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 30. 

PRICE-ANDERSON ACT AMENDMENTS/NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported with amendments S. 1225, to compensate the public for injuries or
damages suffered in the event of an accident involving nuclear activities
undertaken by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees or Department of
Energy contractors. 

Also, the committee considered the nominations of William F. Martin, of the
District of Columbia, to be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and David B. Waller,
of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for
International Affairs and Energy Emergencies, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, April 30. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Frank H. Dunkle, of Montana, to be Director of the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, after the nominee testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued in evening session to consider a
committee resolution disapproving United States/Canada free trade
negotiations. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported S.J. Res.
316, to prohibit the sale of certain defense articles and related defense
services to Saudi Arabia. 

Also, the committee began consideration of the Supplementary Extradition
Treaty between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, with annex, signed at Washington on June 25,
1985 (Treaty Doc. 99-8), but did not complete action thereon, and recessed
subject to call. 

AID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued oversight hearings to
review the activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving
testimony from Dwight Ink, Assistant Administrator for Latin America, and
Haven North, Associate Assistant Administrator, Center for Development,
Information and Evaluation, both of the Agency for International Development;
Cornelia B. Flora, Kansas State University, Manhattan; Anthony M.
Schwarzwalder, Management Sciences for Health, Rosslyn, Virginia; and Edward
Marasciulo, Pan-American Development Foundation, Arlington, Virginia. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Andrew J. Kleinfeld, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Alaska, and
Roger M. Olsen, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department
of Justice, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Kleinfeld was introduced by Senators Stevens and Murkowski, and
Representative Don Young; and Mr. Olsen was introduced by Senator Warner. 

TERRORISM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism held
hearings to examine legal mechanisms to combat terrorism, receiving testimony
from Senators Grassley and Lautenberg; Mark Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, and Lawrence Lippe, Chief, General Litigation and
Legal Advice Section, both of the Department of Justice; Mary Mochary, Deputy
Legal Adviser, Department of State; and Harris Weinstein, Covington &
Burling,
Irvin B. Nathan, Arnold & Porter, John Norton Moore, American Bar
Association,
and Clifford J. Zatz, Seifman, Semo, Slevin & Marcus, all of Washington,
D.C. 

Closed hearings continue on Thursday, May 15. 

POLYGRAPH TESTING IN THE WORKPLACE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1815, to
prohibit any employer from using any lie detector test or examination in the
workplace, either for pre-employment testing or testing in the course of
employment, receiving testimony from Senator Hecht; Representatives Williams
and McKinney; Stephen J. Markman, Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy,
Department of Justice; David C. Raskin, University of Utah, Salt Lake City;
Mary C. Braxton, Toano, Virginia; William H. Wynn, United Food and Commercial
Workers International Union, and William Scheve, Jr., American Polygraph
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; F. Lee Bailey, and Leonard Saxe, Boston
University, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Lawrence W. Talley, Georgia State
Board of Polygraph Examiners, Roswell; Herbert R. Matthews, American Trucking
Associations, Key Largo, Florida; Donald Zale, Zale Corporation, Dallas,
Texas, on behalf of the American Retail Federation and the National Retail
Merchants Association; and Robert A. Ostrovsky, Gaming Industry Association of
Nevada, Inc., and Nevada Resort Association, Reno. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEC 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Joan D. Aikens, Chairman,
John Warren McGarry, Vice Chairman, Thomas J. Josefiak, Commissioner, John
Surina, Staff Director, and Charles Steele, General Counsel, all of the
Federal Election Commission; Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, Washington, D.C.;
and Robert Sack, The Wall Street Journal, New York, New York. 

Joint Meetings 

EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL TRADE 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy concluded
hearings to review European community agricultural trade practices, after
receiving testimony from Thomas O. Kay, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural
Service, Department of Agriculture; Suzanne Early, Assistant U.S. Trade
Representative; Dwayne Andreas, Archer-Daniels-Midland Company, Decatur,
Illinois; and Jack Hay, National Association of Wheat Growers, Washington,
D.C. 

FEDERAL WELFARE POLICY 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic
Growth concluded hearings on the impact and efficiency of Federal welfare
policies, focusing on the concept of workfare as a component of welfare
reform, after receiving testimony from David Swoap, Franchetti and Swoap, San
Francisco, California; Barbara Blum, Manpower Demonstration Research Project,
and Lawrence Mead, New York University, both of New York, New York; Lowell
Gallaway, Ohio University, Athens; and Morton Sklar, Jobs Watch, Washington,
D.C. 



1986/04/24
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 24, 1986; pages D473 - D ?  (Bound vol. D259-
D263)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

U.S. EXPORT ELEVATOR FACILITIES 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Rural
Development, Oversight, and Investigations concluded hearings on S. 1121, to
encourage foreign agricultural trade by improving the quality of grain shipped
from U.S. export elevator facilities, after receiving testimony from Senator
Abdnor; Representative Cooper Evans; Kenneth A. Gilles, Administrator, Federal
Grain Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture; Charles Ottem, North
Dakota Barley Council, Osnabrock, on behalf of the National Barley Council;
Erv Friehe, and Dan McGuire, both of the Nebraska Wheat Board, McCook; William
Jerry Cotter, Corpus Christi, Texas, representing the National Grain and Feed
Association; William R. Allen, Jr., Union Equity Co-Operative Exchange, Enid,
Oklahoma, representing the National Grain Trade Council; Richard Konzak, North
Dakota Farm Bureau Commodity Committee, Devils Lake; Cecil Watson, Cavalier,
North Dakota, representing the U.S. Wheat Associates and the North Dakota
State Wheat Commission; Donald M. Mennel, Mennel Milling Company, Fostoria,
Ohio, representing Millers National Federation; and Myron R. Laserson,
Continental Grain Company, New York, New York, representing North American
Export Grain Association. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY ADMINISTRATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Helmut A.
Merklein, Administrator, Energy Information Administration; and Marshall A.
Staunton, Acting Administrator, Energy Regulatory Administration.  

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 29th. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL/CANCER INSTITUTE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Department of
Labor, Centers for Disease Control, and National Cancer Institute from
numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 29. 

ATBM SYSTEM 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces resumed hearings on the development of the anti-tactical ballistic
missile (ATBM) system, receiving testimony from Fred C. Ikle, Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy; Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic
Defense Initiative Organization; and Lt. Gen. John F. Wall, USA, Commanding
General, Army Strategic Defense Command. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

GEOTHERMAL STEAM ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Natural Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 1322, to provide that if
geothermal steam is produced or utilized in commercial quantities under an
approved operation within any lease or administrative lease extension period,
such lease shall continue for so long as geothermal steam is produced in
commercial quantities, after receiving testimony from Robert Lawton, Deputy
Associate Director for Energy and Mineral Resources, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; Joseph L. Wilson, UNOCAL, Los Angeles,
California; Dominic J. Falcone, Geothermal Resource International, Inc., San
Mateo, California; Kenneth P. Nemzer, Geothermal Resources Association, Santa
Rosa, California; R. Gordon Bloomquist, Washington State Energy Office,
Olympia; and Destry Jarvis, National Parks and Conservation Association,
Washington, D.C. 

U.S.-CANADA FREE TRADE 

Committee on Finance: On Wednesday, April 23, the committee failed to approve
for reporting an original resolution disapproving United States/Canada free
trade negotiations. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed consideration of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, focusing on the compliance,
financial interest, and research and development provisions, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, April 28. 

AID 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued oversight hearings to
review the activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving
testimony from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, and Mark Edelman, Assistant
Administrator for Africa, both of the Agency for International Development;
Goran Hyden, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; and Lawrence H.
Harrison, National Cooperative Business Association, and John W. Mellor,
International Food Policy Research Institute, both of Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of James L. Edmondson, of Georgia, to be United States Circuit
Judge for the Eleventh Circuit, and Henry E. Hudson, to be United States
Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; 

H.J. Res. 462, to designate May 25, 1986, as "Hands Across America
Day," with
an amendment; and 

S. 1822, to provide for the manufacturing and public distribution of certain
copyrighted material, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. 

Further action on S. 1938, to make permanent the requirements of the
manufacturing clause of the copyright law, was indefinitely postponed. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 1300, to provide for antitrust
law violators to be subject to individual responsibility for treble the amount
of damages attributable to their violations, and to assure fairness in the
allocation and award of antitrust damages, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, May 1. 

PLANT GUARDS 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 1018, to provide that a specified prohibition against
certification of labor organizations representing both "guards" and
other
employees, for collective bargaining unit purposes, is to be applied only in
the case of "plant guards," after receiving testimony from Senator
Gorton;
Mark C. Endresen, Western Conference of Teamsters, and Melvin E. Bailet, Mayne
Nickless Inc., on behalf of the National Armored Car Association, both of
Seattle, Washington; James L. Medoff, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; Edward B. Miller, Chicago, Illinois, former Chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board; Jeffrey W. Pagano, Brink's Incorporated, New
York, New York; David W. Yost, Metropolitan Armored Car, Inc., Columbus, Ohio;
Sterling Smith, Stanley Smith Security, Inc., San Antonio, Texas, on behalf of
the Committee of National Security Companies, Inc.; Eugene H. Methvin,
Reader's Digest, former member of the President's Commission on Organized
Crime, McLean, Virginia; A. Mark Goldberg, Purolator Courier Corporation,
Piscataway, New Jersey; William L. Cole, Wells Fargo Armored Service
Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; Wilma B. Liebman, International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America, Mark A.
deBernardo,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Richard W. Cordtz, Service Employees International
Union, and Gordon Gregory, United Plant Guards Workers of America, all of
Washington, D.C.; and John A. Maher, First Fidelity Bank, and Herman J.
Koehler, Coin Depot Corporation, both of Elizabeth, New Jersey. 

INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING 

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

Joint Meeting 

AUTO PARTS TRADE WITH JAPAN 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Trade, Productivity, and Economic
Growth concluded hearings on U.S./Japanese trade policy regarding automotive
parts, after receiving testimony from H.P. Goldfield, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Trade Development; Robert W. McMinn, Automotive Parts and
Accessories Association, Inc., Lanham, Maryland; Robert E. Cole, Kaiser
Aluminum and Chemical Corporation, Oakland, California; and Andrew S.
Procassini, Semiconductor Industry Association, Cupertino, California. 



1986/04/28
Daily Digest - Monday, April 28, 1986; pages D484 - D ?  (Bound vol. D264-
D267)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NAVY'S STRATEGIC HOMEPORTING PROGRAM 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Military Construction completed
its review of the Navy's strategic homeporting initiative program, and agreed
on recommendations which it will make to the full committee thereon. 

Prior to this action, the subcommittee concluded closed hearings on the Navy's
strategic homeporting initiative program, after receiving testimony from L.
Wayne Arny, Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding
and Logistics; Vice Admiral Thomas Hughes, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations
for Logistics; and Captain Louis A. Fermo, Head, Shore Activity Planning
Branch, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee resumed consideration of proposed legislation
providing for revisions in Federal tax laws, but did not complete action
thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

MEDICARE 

Committee on Finance: On Friday, April 25, the Subcommittee on Health
concluded hearings on S. 2368, to provide for improved procedures for payment
for physician services under the Medicare program, and the Administration's
budget request for fiscal year 1987 proposed thereto, after receiving
testimony from Henry R. Desmarais, Acting Deputy Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Paul B.
Ginsburg, The Rand Corporation, and John McGrath, American Psychiatric
Association, both of Washington, D.C.; William C. Hsiao, Harvard University,
and Carol Lockhart, Boston University, on behalf of the American Nurses
Association, both of Boston, Massachusetts; Monroe Gilmour, American
Association of Retired Persons, Charlotte, North Carolina; James H. Sammons,
American Medical Association, C. Rollins Hanlon, American College of Surgeons,
and Lawrence C. Morris, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, all of
Chicago, Illinois; Bruce E. Spivey, American Academy of Ophthalmology, San
Francisco, California; Franklin B. McKechnie, American Society of
Anesthesiologists, Winter Park, Florida; Henry L. Metcalf, American Academy of
Family Physicians, Williamsville, New York; T. Reginald Harris, American
Society of Internal Medicine, Shelby, North Carolina; and Ron Nelson, American
Academy of Physician Assistants, White Cloud, Michigan. 

ANTITRUST REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2163, to amend
certain provisions of Section 8 of the Clayton Act, by removing certain
restrictions on American businesses to obtain qualified corporate directors,
receiving testimony from Douglas H. Ginsburg, Assistant Attorney General,
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; James T. Halverson, Shearman and
Sterling, New York, New York, on behalf of the American Bar Association;
Richard W. Pogue, Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue, and Martin A. Coyle, TRW,
Incorporated, on behalf of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, both
of Cleveland, Ohio; and Charles Tausche, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the United States Chamber of Commerce. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- INS 

Committee on the Judiciary: On Friday, April 25, the Subcommittee on
Immigration and Refugee Policy concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and to
review the activities of the Service, after receiving testimony from Alan C.
Nelson, Commissioner, Doris Meissner, Executive Associate Commissioner,
Richard Norton, Associate Commissioner for Examinations, and Raymond M. Kisor,
Associate Commissioner for Enforcement, all of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice. 

SBA 

Committee on Small Business: Committee held oversight hearings on the
implementation of Title XVIII of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act (P.L. 99-272),
authorizing funds through fiscal year 1988 for the Small Business
Administration, receiving testimony from Charles L. Heatherly, Acting
Administrator, Small Business Administration. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/04/29
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 29, 1986; pages D491 - D ?  (Bound vol. D267-
D274)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1987 for the Farmers Home Administration, receiving testimony from Frank
Naylor, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural
Development; and Vance L. Clark, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FBI/DEA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from William H. Webster, Director,
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug
Enforcement Administration, both of the Department of Justice. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for certain defense programs, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN AFFAIRS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, for the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, receiving testimony from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 1. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 1. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 7,055
nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. 

NUCLEAR TESTING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review nuclear testing
issues, receiving testimony from Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for International Security Policy; Kenneth L. Adelman, Director, and Robert
Barker, Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Verification and Intelligence,
both of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Hans Bethe, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York; Alton Frye, Council on Foreign Relation,
Washington, D.C.; and Donald M. Kerr, EG&G, Inc., Wellesley,
Massachusetts,
former Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory. 

Committee will meet again tomorrow. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held oversight hearings to review the proposed budget request for
fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Energy, focusing on nuclear energy
supply, research and development, and uranium enrichment programs, receiving
testimony from James W. Vaughan, Jr., Acting Assistant Secretary for Nuclear
Energy Programs, and Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive
Waste Management, both of the Department of Energy; Victor Stello, Jr.,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Col. George Hess, Director, Survivability,
Lethality and Key Technologies, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization; and
Col. James H. Heilman, USAF, Deputy Director, Directorate of Space, Deputy
Chief of Staff, Plans and Operations. 

Hearings continue on Monday, May 5. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of Frank H. Dunkle, of Montana, to be Director of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior. 

OIL POLLUTION 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held oversight hearings
on domestic and international oil pollution issues, receiving testimony from
Elizabeth H. Dole, Secretary of Transportation. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination
of Morton I. Abramowitz, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant Secretary of
State, after the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own
behalf. Testimony was also received from John C. Whitehead, Deputy Secretary
of State. 

AIRCRAFT AVIONICS SALES TO CHINA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded open and closed hearings
on S.J. Res. 331, to prohibit the proposed sale of integrated avionics
components to the People's Republic of China, after receiving testimony from
James R. Lilley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and
Pacific Affairs; and Rear Adm. Edward B. Baker, Jr., Acting Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. 

DOJ APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2376,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for programs of the Department of
Justice, after receiving testimony from Edwin Meese III, Attorney General,
Department of Justice. 

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES -- POST EMPLOYMENT 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 2334, to restrict
all Federal employees from lobbying the Federal Government and from working
for a foreign entity after they leave Government service, receiving testimony
from Senators Boren and Pryor; John C. Keeney, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and David Martin, Director
of Government Ethics, Office of Personnel Management. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

IMPACT OF TAX REFORM ON AGRICULTURE 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation held
hearings on the impact of tax reform on agriculture and family farm, focusing
on agriculture tax shelters and how they contribute to the overproduction of
agricultural commodities, receiving testimony from Senators Boschwitz,
Grassley, and Kasten; Neil Harl, Iowa State University, Ames; Michael
O'Connor, South Dakota Farm Bureau, and Mike O'Connor, South Dakota Farmers
Union, both of Huron; Charles Swanson, National Association of Wheat Growers,
Washington, D.C.; and John Urbanchuk, Wharton Econometrics, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 



1986/04/30
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 30, 1986; pages D501 - D ?  (Bound vol. D274-
D279)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

FEDERAL INSECTICIDE, FUNGICIDE, AND RODENTICIDE ACT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on S. 2346 and S. 2215, bills to authorize funds for the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), establishing the
standards by which the Environmental Protection Agency regulates the
production and application of pesticide used for agricultural and other
purposes after receiving testimony from William J. Walsh III, Senior Staff
Officer, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council, National
Academy of Sciences; Ralph Engel, and Warren E. Stickle, both of the Chemical
Specialties Manufacturers Association, Lawrence T. Graham, National Food
Processors Association, Benjamin C. Bolusky, American Association of
Nurserymen, Inc., Peter Hutt, representing the Grocery Manufacturers of
America, James K. Champion, Robert D. Shockey, and George Miller, all of the
Pesticide Producers Association, Maureen K. Hinkle, National Audubon Society,
Ellen Haas, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, and Erik Olson, National
Wildlife Federation, all of Washington, D.C.; Harvey Gold, National Pest
Control Association, Inc., Dunn Loring, Virginia; Earle K. Borman, Jr.,
Sterling Drug Inc., New York, New York; Robert M. Russell, Orkin Pest Control,
Atlanta, Georgia; Robert C. Keeney, and Claudia R. Fuguay, both of the United
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, Alexandria, Virginia; Donald H. Swan,
Monsanto Agricultural Products Co., St. Louis, Missouri; Larry D. Brady, FMC
Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and John L. Hagaman, Dow Chemical
Co., Midland, Michigan. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FDA/CFTC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Frank E. Young, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration;
and Susan M. Phillips, Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 6. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. TRADE/FCC 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative; and Mark Fowler,
Chairman, Federal Communications Commission. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 7. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and certain independent agencies,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2199,
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the Guard and Reserve components, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen.
William R. Berkman, Chief, Army Reserve; Rear Adm. C.J. Kempf, Director, Navy
Reserve; Maj. Gen. L.H. Buehl, Deputy Chief of Staff, Marine Corps Reserve;
Maj. Gen. Sloan R. Gill, Director, Air Force Reserve; Maj. Gen. Herbert R.
Temple, Jr., Director, Army National Guard; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway,
Director, Air National Guard; Lt. Gen. Emmett H. Walker, Jr., Chief, National
Guard Bureau; and Rear Adm. Alan D. Breed, Chief, Office of Readiness and
Reserves, U.S. Coast Guard. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NUCLEAR TESTING 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review nuclear
testing issues, receiving testimony from Alton Frye, Council on Foreign
Relations, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nomination of James C. Fletcher, of Virginia, to be
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of William F. Martin, of the District of Columbia, to
be Deputy Secretary of Energy, and David B. Waller, of the District of
Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs and
Energy Emergencies. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 372, S. 570, S. 913, and S. 946,
bills to improve the administration of the Federal coal leasing program, but
did not complete action thereon, and will continue on Wednesday, May 7. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of J.
Michael Hudson, of Texas, to be a Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury,
after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Bentsen, testified and
answered questions in his own behalf. 

EMBASSY SECURITY 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 2015 and H.R.
4151, bills to provide for the security of United States diplomatic personnel,
facilities, and operations, receiving testimony from Ronald I. Spiers, Under
Secretary for Management, Robert E. Lamb, Assistant Secretary for
Administration and Security, David C. Fields, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Security, and Richard N. Dertadian, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Foreign
Buildings, all of the Department of State. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services resumed hearings on S. 1327, to establish higher minimum
rates of basic pay in geographic areas where the Federal Government is
experiencing significant recruitment and retention problems, S. 1727, to
establish alternative personnel management systems for scientific and
technical employees, and the provisions of S. 2082, to improve the management
of major defense acquisition programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition
Service, and to limit employment contacts between senior officials of the
Department of Defense and defense contractors, receiving testimony from
Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Associate Director, and Thomas A. Eickmeyer, Group
Director, both of the General Government Division, General Accounting Office;
and Michael E. Minahan and Catherine Ball, both of the Federal Managers
Association, G. Jerry Shaw and Richard L. Strombotne, both of the Senior
Executives Association, James Peirce and Tricia Thomas, both of the National
Federation of Federal Employees, Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, and Martin L. Duggan, and Lucretia D. Tanner, both of the Advisory
Committee on Federal Pay, all of Washington, DC. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 14. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Daniel A. Manion, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Circuit, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

FBI 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism concluded
oversight hearings on certain activities of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, Department of Justice, and receiving testimony from William H.
Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

WOMEN IN TRANSITION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the human resources impact of reentry of women into education and labor
forces, after receiving testimony from Ruth Fossedal, Genesee Community
College, Batavia, New York; Charlotte Gore, Florida State Department of
Vocational Education, Tampa; Anne L. Byrant, American Association of
University Women, and Cynthia Marano, Wider Opportunities for Women, both of
Washington, D.C.; Virginia P. Kelson, The Phoenix Institute, Salt Lake City,
Utah; and Myrna Young, Everywoman's Opportunity Center, Buffalo, New York. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee concluded closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community, after receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/01
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 1, 1986; pages D510 - D ?  (Bound vol. D279-D286)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for certain defense programs, receiving
testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANK LENDING POLICIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
to review environmental implications of Multilateral Development Bank lending
policies, receiving testimony from John D. Negroponte, Assistant Secretary of
State for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific
Affairs; Bruce Rich, Environmental Defense Fund, and Barbra Bramble, National
Wildlife Federation, both of Washington, D.C.; Kilaparti Ramakrishna, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Rick Lomba, Atlanta, Georgia; Pat Adams,
Energy Probe, Canada; Marcus Colchester, Survival International, United
Kingdom of Great Britain; Wouter Veening, International Union for Conservation
and Nature and Natural Resources, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Almy Hafild,
SKEPHI, Republic of Indonesia; and Marie Allegretti, Institute of
Socioeconomic Studies, Federative Republic of Brazil. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRUST TERRITORIES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for U.S. trust
territories, receiving testimony from Delegates de Lugo, Sunia, and Blaz;
Richard T. Montoya, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Territorial and
International Affairs; Janet McCoy, High Commissioner of the Trust Territory
Government; Governor Juan Luis, Virgin Islands; Governor A.P. Lutali, American
Samoa; Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo, Guam; Governor Pedro P. Tenorio,
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; President Tosiwo Nakayama,
Federated States of Micronesia; President Lazarus Salii, Republic of Palau;
and President Amato Kabua, Republic of the Marshall Islands. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 8. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 6. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Defense, receiving testimony from William Mayer, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs; and representatives of military organizations. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy
concluded hearings on S. 2152 and S. 2380, bills to require the head of any
contracting defense agency to consider the foreign policy and national
security objectives of the United States before entering into a procurement
contract with a foreign government, after receiving testimony from Fred C.
Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; William Schneider, Jr., Under
Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; and Jerry
A. Waite, J.I. Case Company, Racine, Wisconsin. 

MONEY LAUNDERING/DRUG TRAFFICKING 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 571 and S. 2306, bills to prohibit the structuring of financial
transaction for the purpose of evading the currency reporting requirements of
the Bank Secrecy Act and to provide criminal and civil penalties for such
conduct, after receiving testimony from Francis A. Keating II, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Enforcement; Brian Bruh, Director, Office of
Investigations (Criminal), Internal Revenue Service, Department of the
Treasury; James I.K. Knapp, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice; Brian A. Sun, Assistant United States
Attorney for the Central District of California; and Robert H. Hodges, Jr.,
South Carolina Bankers Association, Columbia, representing the American
Bankers Association. 

DOMESTIC COAL INDUSTRY 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Natural Resources
Development and Production concluded oversight hearings on the impact of coal
and electricity imports on the domestic coal industry, after receiving
testimony from Michael T. Kelley, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic
Industries, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce;
Hermann Enzer, Assistant Director, Minerals Data Analysis, Bureau of Mines,
Department of the Interior; Lawrence A. Pettis, Deputy Administrator, Energy
Information Administration, Department of Energy; Carl Bagge, National Coal
Association, Washington, D.C.; Steve Leer, Ashland Coal Co., Inc., Huntington,
West Virginia; James L. Van Lanen, ANR Coal Company, Roanoke, Virginia; Glenn
Schleede, New England Energy, Inc., Westborough Massachusetts; and Tracy
Danese, Florida Power and Light, Juno Beach, on behalf of Jacksonville
Electric Authority. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Evan G. Galbraith, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Board
of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. 

Also, the committee ordered reported, unfavorably, S.J. Res. 331, to prohibit
the proposed sale of integrated avionics components to the People's Republic
of China. Prior to this action, the committee failed to order reported
favorably the joint resolution. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Roger M. Olsen, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney
General, and Herman W. Rodriquez, to be United States Marshal for the District
of Puerto Rico; 

S.J. Res. 241, to designate the week beginning May 11, 1986, as "National
Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 245, to designate the week of December 1-7, 1986, as "National
Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week"; 

S.J. Res. 337, to designate May 18-24, 1986, as "Just Say No to Drugs
Week";
and 

H. Con. Res. 281, to recognize the achievements of the Ireland Fund, with
amendments, and in lieu of S. Con. Res. 125. 

S. Con. Res. 125 was indefinitely postponed. 

Also, the committee resumed consideration of S. 1300, to provide for antitrust
law violators to be subject to individual responsibility for treble the amount
of damages attributable to their violations, and to assure fairness in the
allocation and award of antitrust damages, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, May 8. 

MIA 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the reported
sightings of live military personnel missing in action in Southeast Asia,
receiving testimony in closed session from Lieutenant General Leonard H.
Perroots, USAF, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; Major General William
C. Moore, USA, Director of Operations, Readiness, and Mobilization, Office of
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans; and Major General Kenneth
C. Leuer, USA, Commanding General, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized), Fort
Polk, Louisiana; and in open session from Everett Alvarez, Deputy
Administrator, Veterans' Administration; Lieutenant Colonel Paul Mather, USAF,
Joint Casualty Resolution Center Liaison Officer, United States Embassy,
Bangkok, Thailand; and Sergeant Major Benjamin Dennis, USA (Ret.),
Fayetteville, North Carolina. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 15. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/05
Daily Digest - Monday, May 5, 1986; pages D524 - D ?  (Bound vol. D287-D289)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

INTELLIGENCE OVERVIEW 

Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, May 2, the Subcommittee on Defense met
in closed session to review proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1987 for
the intelligence community, receiving testimony from William J. Casey,
Director of Central Intelligence. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 8. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department
of Defense, receiving testimony from William A. Mayer, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Health Affairs. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded oversight hearings to review the proposed budget request
for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Energy, focusing on nuclear energy
supply, research and development, after receiving testimony from Edwyna G.
Anderson, Michigan Public Service Commission, Lansing; C.E. Till, Argonne
National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; Joseph S. Armijo, General Electric
Company, and Fred Davis, Edison Electric Institute, both of Washington, D.C.;
Fred R. Mynatt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Warren P.
Chernock, Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Connecticut; John S.
McDonald, Rockwell International, Canoga Park, California; W. Howard Arnold,
Westinghouse Advanced Energy Systems Division, Madison, Pennsylvania; and
Richard A. Dean, GA Technologies, Inc., and Richard F. Walker, Gas-Cooled
Reactor Associates, both of San Diego, California. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued in evening session to mark up
proposed legislation providing for revisions in Federal tax laws. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Ronald F. Lehman II, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador
during his tenure of service as United States Negotiator for Strategic Nuclear
Arms, Paul H. Nitze, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador at Large,
and Warren Zimmerman, of Virginia, for the rank of Ambassador in his capacity
as Chief of the United States Delegation to the Vienna Conference on Security
and Cooperation in Europe Follow-up Meeting, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. 

Joint Meetings 

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR INCIDENT 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation
concluded hearings to review implications of the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant
incident on world security and U.S. farm economy, after receiving testimony
from Dwayne Andreas, Archer-Daniels Midland Company, Decatur, Illinois; John
Urbanchuk, Wharton Econometrics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; J. Frank
McCormick, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Donald Frahm, Sparks
Commodities, Inc., Memphis, Tennessee; Alan Robock, University of Maryland,
College Park; and Miro Todorovich, Scientists and Engineers for Secure Energy,
New York, New York. 

EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT 

Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, May 2, the committee held hearings to
review 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. 

PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY FOR MENTALLY ILL PERSONS 

Conferees, on Friday, May 2, agreed to file a conference report on the
differences between the Senate- and House-passed versions of S. 974, to
provide for protection and advocacy for mentally ill persons. 



1986/05/06
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 6, 1986; pages D529 - D ?  (Bound vol. D289-D293)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

EUROPE AND U.S. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry: Committee concluded hearings
to examine the effects of the European Community's enlargement on U.S.
agricultural exports, after receiving testimony from Richard E. Lyng,
Secretary of Agriculture; Harold Cutler, Scotland Neck, North Carolina, on
behalf of the National Corn Growers Association; George Fluegel, LeRoy,
Illinois, on behalf of the American Soybean Association; John Leuthold,
Billings, Montana, representing the National Association of Wheat Growers;
Dean Kleckner, Park Ridge, Illinois, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau
Federation; Robert M. Frederick, National Grange, Washington, D.C.; and
William Quarles, Sunkist Growers, Van Nuys, California, on behalf of the
National Council of Farmers Cooperatives. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1987, receiving testimony from Senators Grassley, Thurmond, and Gore; and
numerous public witnesses. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 8. 

STRATEGIC STOCKPILE/NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Preparedness concluded hearings
on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of
Defense, and S. 2102, to prescribe the method for determining the quantity and
classification of any materials to be stockpiled under the Strategic and
Critical Materials Stock Piling Revision Act (P.L. 96-41), after receiving
testimony from Senator McClure; Representative Bennett; Bernard A. Maguire,
Associate Director, National Preparedness, Federal Emergency Management
Agency; John D. Morgan, Jr., Chief Staff Officer, Bureau of Mines, Department
of the Interior; Warren Farb, Senior Economic Advisor to the Under Secretary
of Commerce for Economic Affairs; Capt. Ralph Buck, USN, Deputy Director of
Resources and Policy Evaluation, Department of Defense; and Simon D. Strauss,
American Mining Congress, Washington, D.C. 

TAX REFORM 

Committee on Finance: Committee continued in evening session consideration of
proposed legislation providing for revisions in Federal tax laws. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Jefferson B. Sessions III, to be United States District Judge for the Southern
District of Alabama, after the nominee testified and answered further
questions in his own behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 7, 1986; pages D537 - D ?  (Bound vol. D294-
D300)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from Senator Gore; and numerous public
witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- COURTS/BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Justice Lewis Powell, both of
the United States Supreme Court; Judge Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; and Dr. Mark Cannon, Staff Director,
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 14. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- METRO/URBAN MASS TRANSIT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Carmen E. Turner, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority; and Ralph L. Stanley, Administrator, Urban Mass Transportation
Administration. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

FINANCIAL SERVICES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the financial service needs of the American consumer,
focusing on the accessible marketplace, open competition, and maximum consumer
benefit, after receiving testimony from Robert E. Wood, II, Dean Witter
Financial Services Group, Chicago, Illinois; Gary R. Heller, Beneficial
Corporation, Wilmington, Delaware; Lynn L. Anderson, First National Bank,
Lawrence, Kansas; Kenneth Kehrer, Kenneth Kehrer Associates, Princeton, New
Jersey; and Thomas A. Kinst, Land of Lincoln Savings and Loan, Chicago,
Illinois. 

FEDERAL COAL LEASING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 372, S. 570, S. 913, and S. 946, bills to improve the administration of the
Federal coal leasing program, but did not complete action thereon, and will
continue on Tuesday, May 13. 

TAX REFORM/NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Finance: On Tuesday, May 6, the committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items: 

H.R. 3838, to provide for revisions in Federal tax laws, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute; and 

The nominations of William L. Roper, of Alabama, to be Administrator of the
Health Care Financing Administration, and J. Michael Hudson, of Texas, to be a
Deputy Under Secretary of the Treasury. 

A press release summarizing the action taken by the committee will be
available in the committee office in room SD-219. 

TERRORISM 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2015 and
H.R. 4151, bills to provide for the security of United States diplomatic
personnel, facilities, and operations, S. 1941, to provide for sanctions
against any country which provides support for perpetrators of acts of
international terrorism, and S. Res. 190, expressing the sense of the Senate
that the President should call for international negotiations to make
international terrorism a universal crime prosecutable in the United States,
after receiving testimony from Senators Denton and Specter; Robert Oakley,
Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-terrorism; Parker W. Borg, Deputy, Office of
the Ambassador-at-Large for Counter-terrorism, Department of State; and
Stephen S. Trott, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice. 

PANAMA 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
concluded closed hearings to review the current situation in Panama, after
receiving testimony from John Helgerson, Assistant Deputy Director for
Intelligence, and Marty Rober, Chief, Middle American/Caribbean, Director of
Intelligence, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; Col. John Cash, Defense
Intelligence Officer for Latin America, Defense Intelligence Agency; Bonnie
Tischler, Director, Financial Investigations, and Peter Balonon, Director,
Special Investigations, both of the U.S. Customs Service, Department of the
Treasury; and David Westrate, Assistant Administrator for Operations, Drug
Enforcement Agency, Department of Justice. 

ANTITRUST LAWS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2162 and S. 2022,
bills to promote and improve efficient and effective enforcement of antitrust
laws, receiving testimony from Griffin Bell, King and Spalding, Atlanta,
Georgia; Steven D. Susman, Susman, Godfrey and McGowan, and John A. Irvine,
Porter and Clements, both of Houston, Texas; Ernest Gellhorn, Jones, Day,
Reavis and Pogue, Washington, D.C.; James T. Halverson, Shearman and Sterling,
on behalf of the American Bar Association, and Thomas R. Long, Westvaco
Corporation, both of New York, New York; and Monroe Millstein, Burlington Coat
Factory, Burlington, New Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Patricia C. Fawsett, to be United States District Judge for the Middle
District of Florida, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Chiles,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf. 

MEDICAL MALPRACTICE INSURANCE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1804, to
establish a program to provide development and incentive grants to States for
enacting medical malpractice liability reforms, receiving testimony from Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Arnoldy, Auburn, Maine; Sherry Thomas, Montgomery, Alabama; John
Stevens, and Julia Doherty, both of the Prince Georges Volunteer Health
Clinic, Capital Heights, Maryland; Mary E. Raum, Ocala, Florida; Roger A.
Gaddy, Winnsboro, South Carolina; Danine Rydland, Petersburg, West Virginia;
Howard G. McQuarrie, Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the American College
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Gaston J. Acosta-Rua, Jacksonville,
Florida; Barbara A. Rockett, Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham,
Massachusetts; James E. Davis, and James S. Todd, both of the American Medical
Association, and Terry Mason, all of Chicago, Illinois; George O'Neill, Jr.,
Shawnee Health Service and Development Corporation, Murphysboro, Illinois;
Richard L. Epstein, American Hospital Association, and Sidney M. Wolf, Public
Citizen Health Research Group, both of Washington, D.C.; Daniel F. Creasey,
Risk Management Foundation, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Ellison C. Pierce, The
Deaconess Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the American Society
of Anesthesiologists; and Steven L. Salman, Sisters of Charity Health Care
Systems, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 17. 

INDIAN CLAIMS/NATIVE HAWAIIANS 

Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2260,
to settle claims against the United States arising from the occupation of
Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1973, after
receiving testimony from Ronald Esquerra, Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Indian Affairs (Operations); and concluded hearings on S.
2243, to improve the health status of Native Hawaiians, after receiving
testimony from Senator Matsunaga; Representatives Akaka and Heftel; Sam Lin,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Denis
Mee-Lee, Hawaii State Department of Health, Winona Kealamapuana, Alu Like,
Inc., Naleen Andrade, Queens Hospital, Claire Hughes, Association of Hawaii
Civic Clubs, Ormond Hammond, The Kamehameha Schools, Bishop Estate, Terence
Rogers, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Kamaki Kanahele, Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, Genevieve Lehuananiokilauea Kinny, Hawaii Nurses
Association, and Bernadette Pang, University of Hawaii School of Nursing, all
of Honolulu, Hawaii; and Noa Emmett Aluli, Molakai Heart Study,
Kona-Kaunakakai, Hawaii. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund),
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1986/05/08
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 8, 1986; pages D548 - D ?  (Bound vol. D300-D308)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the
subcommittee, receiving testimony from Senator Exon; and numerous public
witnesses. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the strategic systems, receiving testimony from Thomas E. Cooper, Assistant
Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Logistics; Melvin R.
Paisley, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and
Systems; and Vice Adm. Albert J. Baciocco, Director, Research, Development and
Acquisition, Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation, Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations. 

Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL COUNCIL/SMITHSONIAN 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Richard
Krieger, Executive Director, Holocaust Memorial Council; and Robert McC.
Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 15. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 13. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FAA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Federal Aviation Administration
from Donald D. Engen, Administrator, FAA. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 13. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Michael P.W. Stone, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of
the Army for Financial Management, Eugene R. Sullivan, of Maryland, to be a
Judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals, Walter J. Shea, of
Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of the Panama Canal Commission, and 73
nominations in the Army and Marine Corps. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Messrs. Stone and Sullivan, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Sullivan was introduced by Senator
Danforth. 

GOLD MEDALS 

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

S. 2308, to authorize the President of the United States to award
congressional gold medals to Anatoly and Avital Shcharansky in recognition of
their dedication to human rights, and to authorize the Secretary of the
Treasury to sell bronze duplicates of those medals and with an amendment; and 

H.R. 1207, to award a special gold medal to the family of Harry Chapin in
recognition of his efforts to address issues of world hunger. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- NASA 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focusing on the
space transportation system, after receiving testimony from R.E. Hallgren,
Associate Administrator for Weather Services, Rear Adm. Richard H. Truly,
Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Joseph B. Mahon, Director, Space
Transportation Development Division, Mack J. Steel, Director, Resource and
Institution Office, Office of Space Flight, and John C. Brizendine, Chairman,
and Herbert E. Grier, Consultant, both of the NASA Aerospace Safety Panel, all
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Anthony J. Calio,
Administrator, Rear Adm. F.D. Moran, Director, Office of Aircraft Operations,
and William P. Bishop, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Satellites, all of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, all of the Department of
Commerce. 

TARIFFS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on the following bills: 

S. 438, to lower the rate of duty on certain fishing nets, after receiving
testimony from Irving Smith, Office of George R. Tuttle, Washington, D.C., on
behalf of the Pacific Northwest Fishnet Importers; and Robert Batey, Blue
Mountain Industries, Blue Mountain, Alabama, on behalf of the American Cordage
and Twine Manufacturers; 

S. 851, to suspend the tariff on 1,5 naphthalene diisocyanate, after receiving
testimony from Donald Birnie and Paul G. Gemeinhardt, both of the Mobay
Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Ron Fuest, Uniroyal, Inc.,
Middlebury, Connecticut; 

S. 854, to eliminate the special marking requirements for imported watches and
clocks, after receiving testimony from John B. Rehm, Busby, Rehm and Leonard,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Timex Corporation; and Emilio G. Collado III,
and Eugene A. Ludwig, Covington and Burlington, both on behalf of the American
Watch Association, Washington, D.C.; 

S. 1288, to provide that television picture tubes imported in combination with
other articles are to be classified as television picture tubes unless they
are incorporated with other specified items, after receiving testimony from
Jerry K. Pearlman, Zenith Electronics Corporation, Glenview, Illinois; Joseph
Donahue, RCA Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana; Richard Kraft, Matsushita
Industrial Company, Franklin Park, Illinois; and Robert Traeger, Nashville,
Tennessee, and Joseph Sandler, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin, and Kahn,
Washington, D.C., both representing Toshiba America, Inc.; 

S. 1651, to extend the suspension on duty on p-hydroxybenzoic acid for an
additional three years, after receiving testimony from Louis Murphy, Acting
Director, Office of Industry Assessment, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce; and Ted W. Palmer, Kalama Chemical, Inc., Seattle,
Washington; 

S. 1709, to increase the duty on men's and boys' neckties, after receiving
testimony from Jerome Myers, Rooster Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and
Stanley Nehmer, Economic Consulting Services, Washington, D.C.; 

S. 1809, to repeal the prohibition against the importation into the United
States of certain fur skins from the Soviet Union, after receiving testimony
from Franklin J. Vargo, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Europe; and
Charles Perrin, National Board of Fur Farm Organizations, Inc., Cherokee,
Iowa; 

S. 1981, to provide a duty on surimi, after receiving testimony from Gerald A.
Malia, Ragan & Mason, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American Ship
Building Company; and Myron H. Nordquist, Kelley, Drye and Warren, Washington,
D.C., on behalf of Korea Wonyang Fisheries Company, Ltd.; 

S. 1987, to impose a duty on sodium bicarbonate, after receiving testimony
from Irwin P. Altschuler, Brownstein, Zeidman and Schomer, Washington, D.C.,
on behalf of Industria Del Alcali; 

S. 2104, to provide that certain gloves shall be treated as gloves of textile
materials, after receiving testimony from William Grundy, JOMAC Products,
Inc., Warrington, Pennsylvania; Kenneth Button, Economic Consulting Services,
Washington, D.C.; Craig Schultz, Work Glove Manufacturers Association,
Chicago, Illinois; and Gunter von Conrad, Barnes, Richardson and Colburn,
Washington, D.C., on behalf of Magid Glove and Safety Manufacturing Company;
and 

S. 2222, to treat certain types of plywood as plywood for duty treatment
purposes, after receiving testimony from Richard L. Barnes, Preston,
Thorgrimson, Ellis and Holman, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the American
Plywood Association; and John B. Rehm and Munford P. Hall II, both of Busby,
Rehm and Leonard, Washington, D.C., on behalf of MacMillan Bloedel, Inc. 

NUCLEAR TESTING ISSUES 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held oversight hearings on nuclear
testing issues, focusing on seeking verification improvements to the Threshold
Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty and on possible
Soviet violations of limited testing, in addition to proposals relating to
nuclear testing, including S.J. Res. 252, S. 2220, H.J. Res. 3, S. Con. Res.
7, and S. Con. Res. 135, receiving testimony from Robert B. Barker, Deputy
Assistant Director for Verification and Intelligence, U.S. Arms Control
Disarmament Agency; H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for
Political-Military Affairs; Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security Affairs; and Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., Chairman,
Joint Chiefs of Staff. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SAFETY 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation, and Government Processes concluded oversight hearings on
international nuclear safety issues, focusing on the General Accounting Office
report "International Response to Nuclear Power Reactor Safety
Concerns,"
after receiving testimony from Allan Mendelowitz, Associate Director, and Tom
Flaherty, Senior Evaluator, both of the Trade, Energy, and Finance Group,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; and James R. Shea, Director, Office of International Programs, and
Clemens J. Heltemes, Jr., Director, Office of Analysis and Evaluation of
Operational Data, both of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

The nominations of Andrew J. Kleinfeld, to be United States District Judge for
the District of Alaska, Frank W. Donaldson, to be United States Attorney for
the Northern District of Alabama, John W. Gill, Jr., to be United States
Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and Breckinridge L. Willcox,
to be United States Attorney for the District of Maryland; 

S. 1300, to provide for antitrust law violators to be subject to individual
responsibility for treble the amount of damages attributable to their
violations, and to assure fairness in the allocation and award of antitrust
damages, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and 

S.J. Res. 334, to allow qualified persons representing all the States to be
naturalized on Ellis Island on July 3 or 4, 1986. 

Also, the committee ordered reported, without recommendation, the nomination
of Daniel A. Manion, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Circuit. 

WHITE COLLAR CRIME 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on white collar crime
in the United States, focusing on the E.F. Hutton investigation, receiving
testimony from Representative McCollum; and Griffin Bell, King and Spalding,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

CAPITOL SECURITY 

Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings on a Senate
leadership Capitol security proposal to enhance Capitol security by
establishing a perimeter around the Capitol, establishing a delivery center,
enhancing office building security, and enhancing bomb detection, receiving
testimony from Senators Simpson and Cranston; George M. White, Architect of
the Capitol; Ernest E. Garcia, Sergeant at Arms, United States Senate; Chief
James J. Carvino, U.S. Capitol Police; and Stephen E. Garmon, Assistant
Director, Office of Protective Operations, U.S. Secret Service, Department of
the Treasury. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund),
but did not complete action thereon, recessed subject to call. 



1986/05/09
Daily Digest - Friday, May 9, 1986; pages D563 - D ?  (Bound vol. D308-D310)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SDI 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Strategic Defense
Initiative, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 15. 

U.S. COMPACT WITH THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S.J.
Res. 325, to approve the Compact of Free Association between the United States
and the Republic of Palau, receiving testimony from Fred M. Zeder II,
President's Personal Representative for Micronesian Status Negotiations, and
Kittie Baier, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Territorial and International
Affairs, both of the Department of the Interior; Lazarus E. Salii, President
of the Republic of Palau, Palau Washington Office, and Rear Adm. Eugene J.
Carroll, Jr., USN (Ret.), Deputy Director, Center for Defense Information,
both of Washington, D.C.; and Elizabeth Bounds, Micronesia Coalition, New
York, New York. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

MEDICARE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings on the status of
rural hospitals under the Medicare program, focusing on the impact of
Medicare's prospective payment system on the fiscal viability of small, rural
hospitals, the effects of swing bed, sole community provider, and rural
referral center provisions, and measures to enhance access to care in rural
areas, receiving testimony from Representatives Watkins and Tauke; Bartlett S.
Fleming, Acting Deputy Administrator, Alan Dubso, Director, Office of
Research, and Robert Streimer, Negotiating Director of Eligibility,
Reimbursement and Coverage, all of the Health Care Financing Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Joyce B. Jensen, National Research
Corporation, Lincoln, Nebraska; Ira Moscovice, University of Minnesota, and
Carol J. Kiecker, Health Central Systems, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Jeffrey C. Merrill, Princeton, New Jersey, and Anthony R. Kovner, New York
University, New York, New York, both on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation; Gordon H. Russell, Hi-Plains Hospital, Hale Center, Texas, on
behalf of the American Hospital Association; Kevin M. Fickenscher, University
of North Dakota School of Medicine, Grand Forks, on behalf of the National
Rural Health Care Association, A.E. Brim, Brim and Associates, Inc., Portland,
Oregon; Curtis C. Erickson, Great Plains Health Alliance, Phillipsburg,
Kansas; William F. Brockman, Caylor-Nickel Hospital, Bluffton, Indiana; Olaf
Kaasa, American Association of Retired Persons, Minnetonka, Minnesota;
Sterling Hayward, American Medical Peer Review Association, Billings, Montana;
Eugene C. Beck, Intermountain Health Care, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; and
Frank Trembulak, Geisinger Foundation, Danville, Pennsylvania. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

JACKIE PRESSER INVESTIGATION 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings on the progress the subcommittee has made in examining the
Department of Justice's handling of the investigation of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters' President Jackie Presser in connection with certain
labor fraud allegations, receiving testimony from Howard L. Shapiro, Staff
Counsel, and John F. Sopko, Assistant Counsel to the Minority, both of the
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Raymond Maria, Deputy Inspector
General, and David Williams, Director of Field Operations, Office of Inspector
General, both of the Department of Labor; Stephen S. Trott, Assistant Attorney
General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; Franklin A. Curtis,
Associate Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office;
Robert E. Magee, former Acting Inspector General, Department of Labor; and
John Nardi, Jr., Irvine, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of John A. Pendergrass, of Minnesota, to be Assistant Secretary of
Labor for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Durenberger, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received on the nomination of
Mr. Pendergrass from Mark A. De Bernardo, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
Alexandria, Virginia; Franklin E. Mirer, United Auto Workers, Detroit,
Michigan; and Margaret Seminario, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/12
Daily Digest - Monday, May 12, 1986; pages D567 - D ?  (Bound vol. D310-D312)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- ITC/CUSTOMS SERVICE/U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the International Trade
Commission, U.S. Customs Service, and the Office of the United States Trade
Representative, after receiving testimony from William von Raab, Commissioner
of Customs, and Alfred R. DeAngelus, Deputy Commissioner of Customs, both of
the U.S. Customs Service; Alan Woods, Deputy United States Trade
Representative; Paula Stern, Chairwoman, and Altied Eckes, Commissioner, both
of the International Trade Commission; Kenneth A. Kumm, The 3M Company, St.
Paul, Minnesota, representing the Joint Industry Group; Arthur J. Fritz, Jr.,
Fritz Companies, Inc., San Francisco, California, representing the National
Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association of America, Inc.; Thomas G. Travis,
Sandler and Travis, on behalf of the National Bonded Warehouse Association,
and Robert M. Tobias, The National Treasury Employees Union, both of
Washington, D.C.; Pat Davis, Port of Seattle Commission, Seattle, Washington,
on behalf of the Western States Coalition for Effective Customs Services; and
Patrick D. Gill, Rode and Qualey, New York, New York, on behalf of the
Northwest Apparel and Textile Association. 

MEXICO 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
held closed hearings to review the current situation in Mexico, receiving
testimony from Robert Vickers, National Intelligence Officer for Latin
America, and Richard Staken, Director, Office of African and Latin American
Analysis, both of the Central Intelligence Agency; Colonel John A. Cash,
Defense Intelligence Officer for Latin America, and Susan McGuinn,
Intelligence Analyst for Latin America, both of the Defense Intelligence
Agency; William von Raab, Commissioner, William Rosenblatt, Assistant
Commissioner for Enforcement, and William R. Logan, Regional Commissioner,
Southwest Region (Houston, Texas), all of the U.S. Customs Service, Department
of the Treasury; and David L. Westrate, Assistant Administrator for
Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Roger P. Brandemuehl,
Assistant Commissioner for Border Patrol, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, both of the Department of Justice. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

MERGER REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2160 and S. 2022,
bills to clarify and improve the analysis of mergers under the antitrust laws,
receiving testimony from John Ong, B.F. Goodrich, Akron, Ohio; James Rill,
Collier, Shannon and Rill, John Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council,
and Tom Wenning, National Grocers Association, all of Washington, D.C.; and
Eleanor Fox, New York University School of Law, James Halverson, Shearman and
Sterling, on behalf of the American Bar Association, and Lloyd Constantine,
New York Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, all of New York, New York. 

Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 21. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Lynne V. Cheney, of Wyoming, to be Chairperson of the National
Endowment for the Humanities, after the nominee, who was introduced by
Senators Simpson and Wallop, testified and answered questions in her own
behalf. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/13
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 13, 1986; pages D574 - D ?  (Bound vol. D312-D318)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

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 1987 for
those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee,
receiving testimony from Senator Mattingly, and numerous public witnesses. 

Subcomittee will meet again tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 59 military
nominations in the Marine Corps and Air National Guard. 

BANK FAILURES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held hearings on
S. 2372, to provide expanded emergency interstate bank acquisition authority,
receiving testimony from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System; L. William Seidman, Chairman, Board of Directors,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; and Robert Clarke, Comptroller of the
Currency. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- COAST GUARD 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1987 for the U.S. Coast Guard, and H.R. 1362, to establish uniform
regulation of loadline requirements for and measurement of vessels operating
in the domestic and international trades, after receiving testimony from Adm.
James S. Gracey, Commandant, United States Coast Guard. 

FEDERAL COAL LEASING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began consideration of S.
2427, to improve the administration of the Federal coal leasing program, but
did not complete action thereon, and will continue on Thursday, May 15. 

LIABILITY OF NUCLEAR INCIDENTS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on S. 445, S. 1225, and S. 1761, bills to revise certain
provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 regarding liability for nuclear
incidents after receiving testimony from John G. Harkins, Jr., Pepper,
Hamilton and Scheetz, and David Berger, Berger & Montague, both of
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William F. Kennedy, Hunton & Williams, Easton,
Connecticut; Kenneth R. Feinberg, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler,
Washington, DC; Kenneth C. Hall, General Electric Company, New York, New York;
Richard A. Schmalz, American Nuclear Insurers and Mutual Atomic Energy
Liability Underwriters, Farmington, Connecticut; and J. Robert Hunter,
National Insurance Consumer Organization, Alexandria, Virginia. 

U.S. TRADE DEFICITS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held joint hearings
with the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs' Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy on the effect of exchange rate
volatility and the debt problems of developing countries on U.S. trade
competitiveness and on related provisions of title V of S. 1860, proposed
Trade Enhancement Act of 1985, receiving testimony from Senator Mattingly;
James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury; and Jeffrey D. Sachs, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Subcommittee on International Trade will continue hearings tomorrow. 

MEXICO 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs
continued hearings to review the current situation in Mexico, receiving
testimony from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American
Affairs; William von Raab, Commissioner, United States Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury; and David L. Westrate, Assistant Administrator for
Operations, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Roger P. Brandemuehl,
Assistant Commissioner for Border Patrol, Immigration and Naturalization
Service, both of the Department of Justice. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

DEBT COLLECTION/FEDERAL CREDIT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 2230 and S.
2142, bills to improve financial management in the Federal Government and
reduce the Federal budget deficit, receiving testimony from Senators Trible,
Heinz, and Domenici; Representatives Gradison, Kasich, DioGuardi, and Boulter;
Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General, Frederick D. Wolf, Accounting and
Financial Management Division, and William A. Anderson, Director, General
Government Division, all of the U.S. General Accounting Office; Rudolph G.
Penner, Director, Congressional Budget Office; George S. Goldberger, Citizens
Against Government Waste, Ray Kline and Alan Dean, both of the National
Academy of Public Administration, Christopher T. Cross, University Research
Corporation, representing the Center for Excellence in Government, Edward G.
Sanders, Sears World Trade, Lester E. Hammer, Abbott Laboratories,
representing the Financial Executives Institute, Murray Comarow, American
University, and Charles F. Bingman, George Washington University, all of
Washington, D.C.; Joseph F. Connor, Price Waterhouse, on behalf of the
Citizens Against Government Waste, J. Edward Sheridan, Columbia Business
School, representing the Private Sector Council, Miner H. Warner, Salomon
Brothers, Inc., and Christopher L. Snyder, Jr., Loan Pricing Corporation, all
of New York, New York; and Roland W. Buris, Illinois State Comptroller,
Springfield, and Edward J. Mazur, Virginia State Comptroller, Richmond, both
representing the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and
Treasurers. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

ATTORNEYS' FEES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the
forfeiture of assets intended for use as attorneys' fees, after receiving
testimony from Stephen S. Trott, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice; Elliot L. Richardson, and William W. Taylor
III, both representing the American Bar Association, and Neal R. Sonnett,
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, all of Washington, D.C.;
Edward F. Marek, Federal Public Defender, Northern District of Ohio,
Cleveland; and Kathleen F. Brickey, Washington University School of Law, St.
Louis, Missouri. 

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure concluded hearings on S. 673, to establish a specialized corps of
judges necessary for certain Federal proceedings required to be conducted, and
S. 580, to ensure the independence of certain administrative law judges, after
receiving testimony from Robert J. Cynkar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Civil Division, Department of Justice; Victor W. Palmer, Administrative Law
Judge, Department of Agriculture, on behalf of the Federal Administrative Law
Judges Conference; Joyce K. Barlow, Administrative Law Judge, Social Security
Administration, on behalf of the Association of Administrative Law Judges;
Marvin H. Morse, Chief Administrative Law Judge, Small Business
Administration, on behalf of the Federal Bar Association; Joseph B. Kennedy,
Administrative Law Judge, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission,
and Mary Ellen Benard, Administrative Law Judge, National Labor Relations
Board, both on behalf of the Forum on Administrative Law Judges; Nahum Litt,
Chief Administrative Law Judge, Department of Labor; William E. Fowler, Jr.,
Chief Administrative Law Judge, National Transportation Safety Board; Donna
Price Cofer, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield; and Ronald I.
Parker, New Jersey State Office of Administrative Law, Trenton. 

Joint Meetings 

FOREIGN AGRICULTURE EXPORTS 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Monetary and Fiscal Policy concluded
hearings to review foreign agriculture investment reform, after receiving
testimony from Senator Nickles; Representative Craig; Timothy Hallinan, Falls
Church, Virginia; Alan Reynolds, Polyconomics, Morristown, New Jersey; Howard
Ruff, Free the Eagle Citizen's Lobby, David Senter, American Agriculture
Movement, and Peter T. Nelsen, International Trade Council, all of Washington,
D.C.; and Arlie Perry, American Soybean Association, Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma. 

Also, the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Transportation concluded hearings to
review the policies of multilateral lending institutions lending practices
relating to foreign agriculture exports, after receiving testimony from
Representatives Boulter and Kramer; George J. Pope, Assistant Administrator
for Agriculture Service, Department of Agriculture; Naioma Benson, Women
Involved in Farm Economy, Sterling, Colorado; William Nelson, Texas Wheat
Producers Association, Amarillo; Robert Paarlberg, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, Massachusetts; and S.M. True, American Farm Bureau Federation,
William Galston, the Roosevelt Center, and Stuart Hardy, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, all of Washington, D.C.F 



1986/05/14
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 14, 1986; pages D584 - D ?  (Bound vol. D318-
D324)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- SEC/LEGAL SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John Shad, Chairman, George Kunkahl, Executive Director, and
Lawrence Haynes, Comptroller, all of the Securities and Exchange Commission;
and James Wentzel, President, Pepe Mendez, Chairman, Audit and Appropriations
Committee of the Board of Directors, and Michael Coster, Comptroller and
Treasurer, all of the Legal Services Corporation. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 21. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987
for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS/AUTHORIZATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met to discuss fiscal year 1986
appropriations in excess of authorizations for the Department of Defense, but
made no announcements, and recessed subject to call. 

U.S. TRADE COMPETITIVENESS 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the effect of exchange rate volatility and the debt
problems of developing countries on U.S. trade competitiveness, after
receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; and Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of
Commerce. 

BANK FAILURES 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on S. 2372, to provide expanded emergency interstate bank acquisition
authority, after receiving testimony from Thomas P. Rideout, Savannah Bank and
Trust Company, Savannah, Georgia, on behalf of the American Bankers
Association; Charles T. Doyle, Gulf National Bank, Texas City, Texas, on
behalf of the Independent Bankers Association of America; John R. Petty,
Marine Midlands Banks, Inc., New York, New York, on behalf of the Association
of Bank Holding Companies; and John E. Malarkey, Delaware State Bank
Commissioner, Wilmington, on behalf of the Conference of State Bank
Supervisors. 

GSA -- PUBLIC BUILDINGS 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on
H.R. 2403, to require that public buildings constructed or altered under the
Public Buildings Act shall be in compliance with nationally recognized
building codes and State and local zoning laws, and S. 2397, authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1987 for the public buildings program of the General Services
Administration, after receiving testimony from Senator Specter;
Representatives Shaw, and Robert F. Smith; William F. Sullivan, Commissioner,
Stuart Smith, Executive Director, Jo-Anne Venneberg, Assistant Commissioner
for Real Property Planning, and William Lawson, Deputy Assistant Commissioner
for Real Property Development, all of the Public Buildings Service, General
Services Administration; and Richard Kuchnicki, Council of American Building
Officials, Falls Church, Virginia. 

U.S. TRADE/MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on S.
1865 and S. 1837, bills providing for a new round of multilateral trade
negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers and distortions, and to
revise U.S. trade and financial agreements to meet specified objectives,
receiving testimony from Clayton Yeutter, United States Trade Representative. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

U.S. TRADE/INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade continued hearings
on S. 1860, proposed Trade Enhancement Act of 1985, and related measures,
including S. 1869, focusing on the protection of intellectual property rights,
receiving testimony from Senator Wilson; Representative Lundine; James Moore,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic Policy, International
Trade Administration, Department of Commerce; Harvey Bale, Jr., Assistant
United States Trade Representative for Trade Policy, Office of the United
States Trade Representative; Paula Stern, Chairwoman, International Trade
Commission; Allan Mendelowitz, Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs, General Accounting Office; Jack Valenti, Motion Picture
Association of America, Inc., Nicholas A. Veliotes, Association of American
Publishers, on behalf of the International Intellectual Property Alliance, F.
David Foster, ITC Trial Lawyers Association, and Donald E. DeKieffer,
Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro, all of Washington, D.C.; Donald H. Swan,
Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the International
Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition; and Richard C. Witte, Intellectual Property
Owners, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

H.R. 4151, to provide for the security of United States diplomatic personnel,
facilities, and operations, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
(As approved by the committee, the bill incorporates certain provisions of S.
2015;) 

The nominations of Morton I. Abramowitz, of Massachusetts, to be an Assistant
Secretary of State, Ronald F. Lehman II, of Virginia, for the rank of
Ambassador during his tenure of service as United States Negotiator for
Strategic Nuclear Arms, Paul H. Nitze, of the District of Columbia, to be
Ambassador at Large, and Warren Zimmerman, of Virginia, for the rank of
Ambassador in his capacity as Chief of the United States Delegation to the
Vienna Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe Follow-up Meeting. 

DEBT COLLECTION/FEDERAL CREDIT PROGRAMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2230 and
S. 2142, bills to improve financial management in the Federal Government and
reduce the Federal budget deficit, after receiving testimony from James C.
Miller III, Director, Office of Management and Budget. 

FEDERAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Civil Service, Post Office,
and General Services resumed hearings on S. 1327, to establish higher minimum
rates of basic pay in geographic areas where the Federal government is
experiencing significant recruitment and retention problems, S. 1727, to
establish alternative personnel management systems for scientific and
technical employees, and the provisions of S. 2082, to improve the management
of major defense acquisition programs, to establish a Defense Acquisition
Service, and to limit employment contracts between senior officials of the
Department of Defense and defense contractors, receiving testimony from
Constance J. Horner, Director, and Kathleen Connelly, Chief, Research and
Development staff, both of the Office of Personnel Management; Kenneth T.
Blaylock, American Federation of Government Employees, Edward S. Murphy,
National Association of Government Employees, and Ray Kline, National Academy
of Public Administration, all of Washington, D.C.; Ralph J. McElfresh, Jr.,
and Jerry W. Cox, both of the International Federation of Professional and
Technical Engineers, Huntsville, Alabama; and John W. Gregorits, and Donald G.
Weinert, both of the National Society of Professional Engineers, Dover, New
Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Alan E. Norris, of Ohio, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit, David
Hittner, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Alfred
J. Lechner, Jr., to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and
Douglas P. Woodlock, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of
Massachusetts, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. Mr. Hittner was introduced by Senator Gramm; Mr. Lechner was
introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg; and Mr. Woodlock was introduced
by Senator Kennedy. Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr.
Woodlock from Representative Conte, and Andrew Caffrey, Chief Judge for the
District of Massachusetts. 

CAREER CRIMINALS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Criminal Law concluded hearings on
S. 2312, to expand the coverage of the Armed Career Criminal Act of 1984 by
broadening the class of predicated crimes that make an armed person a career
criminal, after receiving testimony from Representative Wyden; James I.K.
Knapp, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of
Justice; Edward S.G. Dennis, Jr., U.S. Attorney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
James J. West, U.S. Attorney, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Joseph E. deGenova,
U.S. Attorney, Washington, D.C.; David Dart Queen, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury for Enforcement; and Ronald D. Castille, District Attorney,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and on behalf of the National District Attorneys
Association. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 2095, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for the tribally
controlled community colleges and the Navajo Community College, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 2260, to settle claims against the United States arising from the
occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
in 1973, with an amendment; 

S. 2243, to improve the health status of Native Hawaiians, with an amendment
in the nature of a substitute; 

S. 1988, to establish a program for the prevention and control of diabetes
among Native Americans, with amendments; 

H.R. 3247, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1987-1990 for Native American
programs, in lieu of S. 1991; 

S. 1622, to promote the development of Native American culture and art, with
amendments; and 

H.R. 1904, to provide for the distribution and use of judgment funds awarded
to the Mississippi Band of Chippewa Indians who are members of the Minnesota
Chippewa Tribe. 

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 2118, to provide for the
distribution of funds awarded to the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe of North Dakota,
the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, and the Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation, Montana, but did not complete
action thereon. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued in evening session to
mark up proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the
intelligence community. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 



1986/05/15
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 15, 1986; pages D593 - D ?  (Bound vol. D324-
D333)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings on the nominations of Marvin Duncan, of Missouri, and Frank W.
Naylor, Jr., of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Farm Credit
Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Duncan was introduced by
Senator Andrews, and Mr. Naylor was introduced by Senator Dole. 

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR IMPACT 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded
hearings to review the possible impact on agriculture of the explosion of the
Soviet nuclear powerplant at Chernobyl, after receiving testimony from Senator
Abdnor; Sheldon Meyers, Director, Office of Radiation Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency; Robert L. Thompson, Assistant Secretary for Economics,
James R. Donald, Chairman, and Norton Strommen, Chief Meteorologist, both of
the World Agricultural Outlook Board, Kathryn Zeimetz, Soviet Analyst,
Economic Research Service, Keith Severin, Agricultural Economist, Foreign
Agricultural Service, Mary Carter, Associate Administrator, Agricultural
Research Service, and Lester Crawford, Associate Administrator, Food Safety
and Inspection Service, all of the Department of Agriculture; Delbert Bunch,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy for Reactor Development; Victor
Stello, Executive Director for Operations, Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and
John M. Urbanchuk, Wharton Forecasting Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued in evening session to mark up
H.R. 4515, making urgent supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1986 for the Federal Government. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DOD/AIDS TESTING AND RESEARCH 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held oversight hearings
on AIDS testing and research policy in the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from William E. Mayer, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs; and Brig. Gen. Philip K. Russell, Deputy Commander, U.S. Army Medical
Research and Development Command. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 20. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of State,
focusing on voluntary contributions to international organizations programs,
and for the Office of the U.S. Representative to the United Nations, receiving
testimony from Alan L. Keys, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs; and Vernon Walters, U.S. Permanent Representative to the
United Nations. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA SUPPLEMENTAL 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, and on proposed
supplemental appropriations for fiscal year ending September 30, 1986 for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, focusing on the impacts of the
Shuttle CHALLENGER accident on the NASA program, receiving testimony from
James C. Fletcher, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.  

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 20. 

LIABILITY INSURANCE AND TORT REFORM 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded oversight hearings on the affordability and
availability of liability insurance for local governments, housing industries,
and transit systems, after receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Leonard
Miller, Pembroke, Florida, on behalf of the National Association of Home
Builders; Richard Gaskins, Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, Chicago,
Illinois; Dennis J. Fitzgerald, Capitol District Transportation Authority,
Albany, New York, on behalf of the American Public Transit Association; Mary
Ann Russ, Delaware Housing Authority, Wilmington, on behalf of the Council of
Large Public Housing Authorities; Michael D. McCafferty, Notre Dame
University, Notre Dame, Indiana; and David Allen Daileda, American Institute
of Architects, John H. Rousselot, National Council of Savings Institutions,
Richard Y. Nelson, Jr., National Association of Housing Redevelopment
Officials, Lee Ruck, National Association of Counties, Stephen Chapple, U.S.
Conference of Mayors, David M. Farmer, Alliance of American Insurers, Robert
L. Zeman, National Association of Independent Insurers, William L. Larsen,
American Insurance Association, and George K. Bernstein, all of Washington,
D.C. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION -- FUNDING LEVELS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on funding levels for research
programs of the National Science Foundation, after receiving testimony from
Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation; Roland Schmitt, Chairman,
National Science Board; Lawrence Bogorad, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, Harry B. Gray, National Research Council, and Maarten
Schmidt, American Astronomical Society, all of Washington, D.C.; and Daniel
Klepner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

FEDERAL COAL LEASING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 2427, to improve the administration of the Federal coal leasing program,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, May 21. 

HAZARDOUS ASBESTOS USE 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Toxic Substances
and Environmental Oversight held oversight hearings on S. 2083, to promulgate
regulations for asbestos hazard abatement in the Nation's schools, and S.
2300, to set standards for identification and abatement of hazardous asbestos
in Federal and other buildings, receiving testimony from John A. Moore,
Assistant Administrator, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Environmental
Protection Agency; Lloyd A. Kelley, Jr., Superintendent of Schools, Rutland,
Vermont, on behalf of the American Association of School Administrators,
Roberta R. Coffin, Vermont Commissioner of Health, Burlington, on behalf of
the Association of State and Territorial Health Offices; William B. Smith,
Masterclean of North Carolina, Inc., Winston Salem, North Carolina; and John
M. Laping, American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Dorcas
R. Hardy, of California, to be Commissioner of Social Security, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senators Domenici and Denton and Representative
Biaggi, testified and answered questions in her own behalf. Testimony was also
received from Virginia Castleberry, National Alliance of Senior Citizens,
Arlington, Virginia; and Wilbur J. Cohen, Save Our Security, Washington, D.C. 

U.S. TRADE/NON-MARKET ECONOMY DUMPING 

Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade concluded hearings
on S. 1860, proposed Trade Enhancement Act, and related measures, including S.
1868, focusing on procedures for determining dumping by non-market countries,
after receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; Gilbert Kaplan, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Import Administration, International Trade
Administration, Department of Commerce; Paula Stern, Chairwoman, International
Trade Commission; and Richard O. Cunningham, Steptoe and Johnson, Charles Owen
Verrill, Jr., Wiley and Rein, Arthur T. Downey, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and
Peter Suchman, Sharretts, Paley Carter and Blauvelt, on behalf of the American
Association of Exporters and Importers, all of Washington, D.C. 

OIL POLLUTION DAMAGE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings to examine issues
related to the 1984 Protocols Amending the Civil Liability and Fund
Conventions on Oil Pollution Damage (Treaty Doc. 99-12), which establish a
liability limit on tanker owners for damage caused by oil from their vessels,
receiving testimony from Senators Mitchell and Stafford; Elizabeth H. Dole,
Secretary of Transportation; Rear Adm. J. William Kime, Chief, Office of
Merchant Marine Safety, United States Coast Guard; John D. Negroponte,
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs; Clifton Curtis, The Oceanic Society, Washington, D.C.;
Frank J. Iarossi, Exxon Shipping Company, Houston, Texas, and Peter H. Ghee,
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, New York, both on behalf of the American
Petroleum Institute; and James H. Rand, International Association of
Independent Tanker Owners, Secaucus, New Jersey. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES EARLY RETIREMENT 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2197, to
establish an optional early retirement program for Federal employees, after
receiving testimony from Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel
Management; Rosslyn Kleeman, Associate Director, and Robert E. Shelton, Deputy
Associate Director, both of the General Government Division, U.S. General
Accounting Office; Fletcher Acord, Associate Postmaster General, Office of the
Postmaster General, U.S. Postal Service; G. Jerry Shaw, Senior Executives
Association, Helene Benson, Professional Managers Association, Kenneth T.
Blaylock, American Federation of Government Employees, David Gusky, National
Federation of Federal Employees, Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees
Union, Moe Biller, American Postal Workers Union, and Vincent R. Sombrotto,
and George Gould, both of the National Association of Letter Carriers, all of
Washington, D.C.; Glenn Stahl, Federal Executive and Professional Association,
Silver Spring, Maryland; David Sanasack, and Catherine Ball, both of the
Federal Managers Association, Arlington, Virginia. 

INTERCIRCUIT COURTS PANEL 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began consideration of S. 704, to
establish an Intercircuit Panel of the United States Courts of Appeals to
decide cases referred by the U.S. Supreme Court, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, June 5. 

SOVIET EMBASSY DEMONSTRATORS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and
Procedure concluded hearings regarding the prosecution of individuals on
charges of demonstrating illegally before the Embassy of the Soviet Union in
Washington, D.C., after receiving testimony from Abraham D. Sofaer, Legal
Advisor, Department of State; Joseph E. DiGenova, U.S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia; Rabbi I. David Oler, Washington Board of Rabbis, Mark A.
Epstein, Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, Henry Siegman, American Jewish
Congress, Paul D. Kamenar, Washington Legal Foundation, Henry W. Asbill,
Asbill, Junkin, Myers and Buffone, Seth P. Waxman, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca
and Lewin, and Arthur B. Spitzer, American Civil Liberties Union of the
National Capital Area, all of Washington, D.C.; June Daniels, Des Moines,
Iowa; and Dina Kaminskaya, Falls Church, Virginia. 

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 2050, to notify workers who are at risk of occupational disease
in order to establish a system for identifying and preventing illness and
death of such workers, after receiving testimony from Robert L. Willmore,
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of Justice;
Patrick R. Tyson, Acting Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration, Department of Labor; James Melius, Director, Division
of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies, Department of Health and
Human Services; Willie Hall, Augusta, Georgia; Patricia Ware, Villa Hills,
Kentucky; George Hight, Bluffton, Ohio; William Ailiff, Garrettsville, Ohio;
William R. Gaffey, Monsanto Co., St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the
National Association of Manufacturers; Clarence Kluck, Cyprus Coal Co.,
Englewood, Colorado, and Bernard R. Roy, AMAX, Inc., Greenwich, Connecticut,
both on behalf of the American Mining Congress; Irving J. Selikoff, Mt. Sinai
Medical Center, New York, New York, on behalf of the American Cancer Society,
Inc.; John F. Finklea, University of Alabama, Birmingham; Nicholas A. Ashford,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, on behalf of the American
Public Health Association; Charles A. Coakley, American Insurance Association,
New York, New York; John L. Abbott, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the Health Insurance Association of America; and
William A. Winpisinger, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace
Workers, Washington, D.C. 

INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered reported an original bill
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the intelligence community. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/19
Daily Digest - Monday, May 19, 1986; pages D609 - D ?  (Bound vol. D333-D336)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

PRODUCT LIABILITY REFORM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on proposals to reform product liability laws, receiving testimony
from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; and Douglas A. Riggs, General
Counsel, Department of Commerce. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, May 16,
committee concluded hearings on the nominations of Vice Adm. Paul A. Yost,
Jr., to be Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, with the grade of Admiral, and Rear
Adm. James C. Irwin, to be Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, with the grade
of Vice Admiral, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their
own behalf. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARITIME ADMINISTRATION/COMMISSION 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, May 16, the
Subcommittee on Merchant Marine concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Maritime Administration, and on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for the Federal Maritime Commission, after receiving
testimony from Edward V. Hickey, Jr., Chairman, Robert D. Bourgoin, General
Counsel, Frederick Trutkoff, Director, Budget and Financial Management, and
William Jarrel Smith, Director of Programs, all of the Federal Maritime
Commission; John A. Gaughan, Administrator, Elaine Lan Chao, Deputy
Administrator, Richard E. Bowman, Associate Administrator, Maritime Aids, and
Earnest Hawkins, Associate Administrator, Administration, all of the Martime
Administration, Department of Transportation; Rear Adm. Walter T. Piotti, Jr.,
Commander, Military Sealift Command, Department of the Navy; Rear Adm. Floyd
H. Miller, State University of New York, Bronx; Rear Adm. S.A. Swarztrauber,
USN-Ret., Maine Maritime Academy, Castine; Rear Adm. James F. McNulty,
Maritime College, Travers City, Michigan; and Rear Adm. John F. Aylmer,
Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay. 

ENVIRONMENT 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Friday, May 16, the Subcommittee
on Toxic Substances and Environment Oversight concluded oversight hearings on
the government-approved release of genetically-engineered organisms, receiving
testimony from John A. Moore, Assistant Administrator, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Orville Bentley, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education; Alan Tracy, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Inspection Services; Margaret
Mellon, Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C.; and Alan Goldhammer,
Industrial Biotechnology Association, Rockville, Maryland. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/05/20
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 20, 1986; pages D615 - ?  (Bound vol. D336-D343)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Marvin Duncan, of Missouri, and Frank W. Naylor,
Jr., of Virginia, each to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board,
Farm Credit Administration. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the Indian
Health Service, receiving testimony from Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian
Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 3. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates
for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the subcommittee, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses. 

Subcommittee recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 268 military
nominations in the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. 

Also, the committee reconsidered its action of May 8, when the committee
ordered favorably reported the nominations of Michael P.W. Stone, of
California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management,
Eugene R. Sullivan, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of
Military Appeals, Walter J. Shea, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of
the Panama Canal Commission, and 73 nominations in the Army and Marine Corps,
and today ordered favorably reported all of the aforementioned nominations,
with the exception of Mr. Shea. 

STRATEGIC HOMEPORTING INITIATIVE 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to review the
Subcommittee on Military Construction recommendations on the Navy's strategic
homeporting initiative program, but made no announcements, and recessed
subject to call. 

DEFENSE MANAGEMENT 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Acquisition Policy held
hearings on the recommendations of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on
Defense Management on the organizational placement of the Office of the
Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, receiving testimony from Senators
Pryor, Roth, and Kassebaum; William H. Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of Defense;
John E. Krings, Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, Department of
Defense; and R. James Woolsey, Member, President's Blue Ribbon Commission on
Defense Management. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

BUDGET WAIVER 

Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting S. Res. 410, waiving
section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with respect to the
consideration of the conference report on H.R. 2672, the Federal Employees'
Retirement System Act of 1986. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the nominations of Vice Adm. Paul A. Yost, Jr., to be
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, with the grade of Admiral, Rear Adm. James C.
Irwin, to be Vice Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, with the grade of Vice
Admiral, Rear Adm. Donald C. Thompson, to be Commander, U.S. Coast
Guard/Atlantic Area, with the grade of Vice Admiral, and a routine list of
U.S. Coast Guard nominations, received by the Senate on May 12, 1986. 

PRODUCT LIABILITY REFORM 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
concluded hearings on proposals to reform product liability laws, after
receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Edwin Meese, Attorney General, and
Richard K. Willard, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, both of the
Department of Justice; Johnny C. Finch, Senior Associate Director, and Natwar
M. Gandhi, Group Director, Tax Policy, both of the General Government
Division, General Accounting Office; M. Dana Baldwin II, Oliver Machinery
Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, on behalf of the Wood Machinery Manufacturers
of America; Niels J. Reimers, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California,
representing the American Council on Education; John Preston, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge; John M. Reiff, Coleman Company, Inc.,
Wichita, Kansas; Larry McClain, Rawlings Sporting Goods Company, St. Louis,
Missouri, representing the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association;
Christopher P. Hitchcock, Crawford Fitting Company, Solon, Ohio, representing
the National Federation of Independent Business; Harry L. Carrico, Chief
Justice, The Supreme Court of Virginia, Richmond, on behalf of the Conference
of Chief Justices; J. Kendall Few, & Glenn, Greenville, South Carolina;
Hugh
E. Reynolds, Jr., Reynolds, Boyd, and Weisell, Indianapolis, Indiana; David
Owen, University of South Carolina, Columbia; J. Robert Hunter, National
Insurance Consumer Organization, Alexandria, Virginia; and James K. Coyne,
American Tort Reform Association, Jeffrey Joseph, United States Chamber of
Commerce, Martin F. Connor, representing the National Association of
Manufacturers, Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation of America, Joseph Goffman,
Public Citizen's Congresswatch, Linda Lipsen, Consumers Union, Pamela Gilbert,
U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Deborah Chalfie, HALT, Alfred W. Cortese,
Jr., representing the National Coalition for Litigation Cost Containment,
Victor E. Schwartz, Crowell & Moring, representing the Product Liability
Alliance, W. Suttle, the American Insurance Association, and Leslie Cheek,
Crum and Forster Insurance Companies, all of Washington, D.C. 

NATURAL GAS 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
834, to require pipelines, distribution companies, and gathering systems to
transport natural gas on a nondiscriminatory basis, according to available
capacity and publicly filed tariffs, S. 1251, to repeal certain prohibtions on
the use of natural gas and petroleum under the Powerplant and Industrial Fuel
Use Act of 1978, S. 1302, to repeal certain restrictions placed upon the use
of natural gas and petroleum as primary energy sources, S. 2205, to repeal
prohibitions against the use of natural gas petroleum as a primary energy
source in new and existing electric powerplants and major fuel-burning
installations, and S. 2285, to promote competition in the natural gas market,
to ensure open access to transportation service, to encourage production of
natural gas, to provide natural gas consumers with adequate supplies at
reasonable prices, and eliminate demand restraints, after receiving testimony
from John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy; Nicholas J. Bush, Natural Gas
Supply Association, and Mark N. Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, both
of Washington, D.C.; Brian E. O'Neill, Transcontinental Gas Pipeline
Corporation, Houston, Texas, and Keith E. Bailey, Northwest Central Pipeline
Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma, both on behalf of the Interstate Natural Gas
Association of America; George H. Lawrence, American Gas Association,
Arlington, Virginia; E.E. Porter, Union Carbide Corporation, Danbury,
Connecticut, on behalf of the Petrochemical Energy Group; Andy S. Merrels,
Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation, Toledo, Ohio, on behalf of the Process
Gas Consumers; Irene Wischer, Panhandle Producing Company, San Antonio, Texas,
on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of America; Jack Graves,
Calumet Oil Company, and David House, Sampson Resources Company, both of
Tulsa, Oklahoma, on behalf of Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association;
Joseph L. Hargrove, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on behalf of the Louisiana
Association of Independent Producers and Royalty Owners; John E. Watson,
Mitchell Energy Corporation, The Woodlands, Texas, on behalf of the Texas
Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association; Barry Snyder, AEON
Energy, Lakewood, Colorado, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association
of Mountain States; and R. Charles Gentry, Shank, Irwin and Conant, Dallas,
Texas, on behalf of the Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM 

Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Transportation
concluded hearings on S. 2405, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987, 1988,
1989, and 1990, for the Federal-Aid Highway program, after receiving testimony
from Senators Lautenberg, Hecht, Gorton, Trible, Inouye, and Matsunaga; John
Hirten, Honolulu, Director of Transportation, and Gard Kealoha, Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, both of Honolulu, Hawaii; Lester P. Lamm, Highway Users
Federation, Robert J. Fogel, National Association of Counties, and Thomas A.
Callaghan, Jr., Alliance for Simple, Equitable and Rational Truck Taxation,
all of Washington, D.C.; Thomas D. Larson, Pennsylvania Secretary of
Transportation, Harrisburg, on behalf of the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials, James W. Supica, United Construction
Company, Lenexa, Kansas, on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of
America; Robert E. Hirschman, Elderlee, Inc., York, Pennsylvania, on behalf of
the American Road and Transportation Builders Association; Ross Sandler, New
York City Commissioner of Transportation, New York, New York, representing the
United States Conference of Mayors; Joann Payne, Association of Business and
Professional Women in Construction, Little Rock, Arkansas; Jeff Roehm,
Enterprise Flasher Company, Wilmington, Delaware, on behalf of the American
Traffic Safety Services Association, Inc.; and James A. Wilkins, Marathon Oil
Company, Findlay, Ohio. 

ECONOMIC SUMMIT 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review the
principal economic developments at the Tokyo Summit and on progress in
implementing United States international debt strategy, after receiving
testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury. 

LIBERIA 

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

BUSINESS MEETING 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items: 

The nominations of Judy F. Rolfe, of Montana, Diana P. Evans, of Oregon, Irene
R. Robinson, of the District of Columbia, Betty Ann G. Cordoba, of California,
Hazel M. Richardson, of California, Esther K. Everett, of New York, John O.
Laird, of Wisconsin, Della M. Newman, of Washington, Lilli K.D. Hausenfluck,
of Virginia, Marcilyn D. Leier, of Minnesota, Virginia G. Tinsley, of Arizona,
Mary Jo Arndt, of Illinois, Elizabeth H. Adams, of California, Marge Bodwell,
of New Mexico, Naomi Bvummond, of Nebraska, Judith D. Moss, of Ohio, and Helen
J. Valerio, of Massachusetts, each to be a Member of the National Advisory
Council on Women's Educational Programs, Richard J. Fitzgerald, of Illinois,
to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship
Foundation, Nanette F. MacDougall, of California, Phyllis D. Zlotnick, of
Connecticut, Brenda Premo, of California, Robert S. Muller, of Michigan, and
John F. Mills, of Virginia, each to be a Member of the National Council on the
Handicapped, Morris I. Leibman, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Board of
Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Phyllis P. Berney, of Wisconsin, to
be a Member of the National Council on the Arts, Salvatore R. Martoche, of New
York, to be Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Standards,
Charles J. Chamberlain, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Railroad Retirement
Board, Paula V. Smith, of Missouri, to be Administrator of the Wage and Hour
Division, Department of Labor, John A. Pendergrass, of Minnesota, to be
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, and Lynne V.
Cheney, of Wyoming, to be Chairperson of the National Endowment for the
Humanities; 

S. 2069, to improve Job Training Partnership Program stability and lessen
burdensome administrative requirements, improve services to youth and the
hard-to-serve, and strengthen enforcement, with amendments; 

S. 2184, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for the National Science
Foundation, with amendments; 

S. 2443, authorizing funds for an additional five years for programs of the
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, with amendments; 

S. 2444, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990 for
Head Start, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance, Community Services Block Grant,
and the Dependent Care Services Program; 

S. 1744, to require States to develop, establish, and implement State
comprehensive mental health plans, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

S. 2294, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1987, 1988, and 1989 for the
Education of the Handicapped Act, with amendments.

Also, the committee began consideration of S. 1815, to prohibit any employer
from using any lie detector test or examination in the workplace, either for
pre-employment testing or testing in the course of employment. 

The committee failed to approve for reporting the nomination of Jeffrey I.
Zuckerman, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. 

VETERANS' PROGRAMS 

Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1536, to
provide that per diem subsidies paid by the Veterans' Administration for the
care of veterans in State homes shall not be used to offset payments made to
such homes under title XIX (Medicaid) for the purpose of assisting eligible
veterans, S. 2174, to require that non-Federal providers of hospital care and
services receiving direct payment of Medicare funds for services to Medicare
beneficiaries provide similar services to VA beneficiaries under similar VA
payment policies, S. 2388, proposed VA Health-Care Programs Extension and
Improvement Act of 1986, S. 2445, proposed Veterans' Health Care Programs
Improvements Act of 1986, S. 2422, to increase the rates of disability
compensation for disabled veterans, S. 2168, to improve veterans benefits for
former prisoners of war, S. 2304, to extend the period of time during which
veterans' readjustment appointments may be made, and S. 2423, and the
provisions of S. 2186 and S. 2187, bills to exempt certain VA programs from
any sequester order, receiving testimony from John W. Ditzler, Chief Medical
Director, R. John Vogel, Chief Benefits Director, Donald Ivers, General
Counsel, Grady W. Horton, Deputy Chief Benefits Director, D. Earl Brown, Jr.,
Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director, and Robert E. Lindsey, Jr., Director
of Operations, all of the Veterans' Administration; Paul S. Egan, and John F.
Sommer, Jr., both of the American Legion, Dennis M. Cullinan, Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, David W. Gorman, Disabled American
Veterans, David J. Passamaneck, AMVETS, and Bob Moran, Paralyzed Veterans of
America, all of Washington, D.C.; and William J. Carney, Maine Veterans Home,
Augusta. 

Joint Meeting 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow. 



1986/05/21
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 21, 1986; pages D625 - D ?  (Bound vol. D343-
D350)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Foresty: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of Peter C. Myers, of Missouri, to be Deputy
Secretary of Agriculture, and Christopher Hicks, of Maryland, to be General
Counsel, Department of Agriculture. 

Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Messrs. Myers and Hicks, after the nominees testified and answered questions
in their own behalf. Mr. Myers was introduced by Senator Danforth, and
Representatives Taylor, Emerson, and Hillis. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- USIA/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1987, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Charles Z. Wick, Director, United States Information Agency;
and Carl Gersham, President, and John Richardson, Chairman, Board of
Directors, both of the National Endowment for Democracy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 4. 

AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE 

Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces concluded hearings on S. 2199, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987
for the Department of Defense, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for the Federal Emergency Management Agency from Julius W. Becton, Jr.,
Director, Federal Emergency Management Agency; and in behalf of funds for
nuclear reactor safety programs from John S. Herrington, Secretary, Sylvester
R. Foley, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, and Mary Walker,
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Health and Safety, all of the Department
of Energy. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1987 for housing, community
and neighborhood development, and related programs; 

H.R. 237, to revise certain provisions of the Fair Debt Collection Practices
Act to provide that any attorney who collects debts on behalf of a client
shall be subject to the provisions of such Act; and 

The nomination of David F. Goldberg, of Illinois, to be a Director of the
Securities Investor Protection Corporation. 

TRUTH IN LENDING/CREDIT CARD DISCLOSURE 

Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Financial
Institutions and Consumer Affairs concluded hearings on S. 2421, S. 2264, and
S. 2140, bills to require that credit card issuers disclose certain
information on initial applications regarding interest rates and annual fees,
after receiving testimony from Emmett J. Rice, Member, Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System; Jerry D. Craft, Sr., 1st National Bank of Atlanta,
Atlanta, Georgia, representing the American Bankers Association; Ralph Rohner,
Catholic University, representing the Consumer Bankers Association, Sheldon
Feldman, representing the National Retail Merchants Association, Allan Fox,
Consumer Federation of America, and Elgie Holstein, BankCard Holders of
America, all of Washington, D.C.; and Meredith M. Fernstrom, Sr., American
Express Company, New York, New York. 

FEDERAL COAL LEASING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 2427, to improve the administration of the Federal coal leasing program,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June 4. 

MERGER REFORM 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2160 and S. 2022,
bills to clarify and improve the analysis of mergers under the antitrust laws,
receiving testimony from Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission;
Thomas J. Campbell, Stanford University School of Law, Stanford, California;
Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.; James P.
Melican, International Paper Company, New York, New York; and Timothy Roth,
University of Texas, El Paso. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Stephen F. Williams, of Colorado, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
District of Columbia Circuit, and John G. Davies, to be United States District
Judge for the Cenral District of California, after the nominees testified and
answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Davies was introduced by Senator
Wilson. 

HOME AUDIO RECORDING 

Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
approved for full committee consideration, with an amendment in the nature of
a substitute, S. 1739, to legalize the home taping of copyrighted music and
other audio material in exchange for a royalty on audio recording equipment. 

HUNGER IN AMERICA 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on strategies to reduce hunger in America, after receiving testimony from
Senators Dole, and Boschwitz; Representative Panetta; Cicely Tyson, Malibu,
California, and Donna Brazile, Washington, D.C., both on behalf of Hands
Across America; Veronica Maz, Martha's Table, S. Anna Kondratas, The Heritage
Foundation, and Lynn Parker, Food Research and Action Center, all of
Washington, D.C.; Sherry Mize, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Marie K. Whiteing, Iowa
Farm Crisis Network, Mapleton; and Stanley Gershoff, Tufts University,
Medford, Massachusetts. 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. 2147, to extend the authorization for non-profit organizations operated in
the interest of handicapped and blind individuals to receive procurement
contracts under the Small Business Act with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and 

H.R. 2787, to extend through fiscal year 1988 SBA Pilot Programs under section
8 of the Small Business Act. 

INTELLIGENCE 

Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community. 

Committee will meet again on Wednesday, June 4. 

HOME NURSING CARE 

Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings to review nursing home
care for the elderly, receiving testimony from William Roper, Administrator,
Health Care Finance Administration, Department of Health and Human Services;
Ralph Lopez, Los Angeles Department of Health Services, Los Angeles,
California; Sandra K. Casper, Rehabilitation Care Consultants, Madison,
Wisconsin; Conrad Thompson, Washington State Bureau of Nursing Home Affairs,
Olympia; Toby Edelman, National Senior Citizens Law Center, Washington, D.C.;
Dorothy Doyle, Alpharetta, Georgia; and Peggy Dowling, Napa, California. 

Hearings were recessed subject to call. 

Joint Meetings 

IMMIGRATION -- DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Resources, Competitiveness,
and Security Economics held hearings to review the effects of legal and
illegal immigration on the U.S. economy, receiving testimony from John Keane,
Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Alan C. Nelson,
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice;
Ray Marshall, University of Texas, Austin; and Charles Keeley, Population
Council, New York, New York. 

Hearings continue tomorrow. 

SUPERFUND 

Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2005, to extend and amend the Comprehensive, Environmental
Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (Superfund), but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call. 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET 

Conferees, on Tuesday, May 20, met to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of S. Con. Res. 120, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 1987,
1988, and 1989, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to
call. 



1986/05/22
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 22, 1986; pages D635 - D ?  (Bound vol. D350-
D354)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

Joint Meeting 

IMMIGRATION -- DEMOGRAPHIC CONSEQUENCES 

Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on Economic Resources, Competitiveness,
and Security Economics continued hearings to review the effects of legal and
illegal immigration on the U.S. economy, receiving testimony from Beryl W.
Sprinkel, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers; Thomas Espenshade, Urban
Institute, Washington, D.C.; Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois, Chicago;
and George Borjas, University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, May 29. 



1986/06/02
Daily Digest - Monday, June 2, 1986; pages D641 - D ?  (Bound vol. D354-D357)

Committee Meetings 

No committee meetings were held. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/06/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, June 3, 1986; pages D649 - D ?  (Bound vol. D358-D363)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

WORLD FOOD PRODUCTION -- AGRICULTURAL TRADE 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Foreign
Agricultural Policy began hearings to review agricultural trade issues,
focusing on prospects for world food production, receiving testimony from
Robert L. Thompson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics; Dennis
T. Avery, Senior Agricultural Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State; Willard Sparks, Sparks Commodities, Memphis, Tennessee;
and Fred Sanderson, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. 

Hearings continue on Tuesday, June 17. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held hearings on proposed
budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 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. Bernard Randolph, Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development
and Acquisition, United States Air Force. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 19. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- FOSSIL ENERGY/CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for fossil
energy and clean coal technology, receiving testimony from Donald L. Bauer,
Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, June 5. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Air Force, after
the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

BUDGET WAIVER 

Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported S. Res. 416,
waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act with respect to
consideration of H.R. 3838, to provide for revisions in Federal tax laws
(pending on Senate Calendar). 

BUSINESS MEETING 

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

S. Con. Res. 137, expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal
Government take immediate steps to support a national STORM Program, with
amendments; and 

The nominations of Capt. George D. Passmore, Jr., and Capt. Ernest B. Acklin,
Jr., each to be a Rear Admiral in the U.S. Coast Guard. 

Also, the committee discussed proposed legislation to provide for a uniform
product liability law to conform with an alternative claim system for
expedited recovery of damages by those injured by defective products (text of
Amendment #1951 to S. 1999), but took no action thereon, and recessed subject
to call. 

PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began oversight hearings
on the implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (P.L.
95-617), focusing on the production and sale of electricity by qualifying
facilities, receiving testimony from D.E. Simmons, Houston Lighting and Power
Co., Houston, Texas, representing the Edison Electrict Institute; Logan
Lanham, Idaho Power Co., Boise; Calvin Hebert, Gulf States Utilities Co.,
Beaumont, Texas; Michael R. Peevey, Southern California Edison Company,
Rosemead; Robert E. Morris, Cogeneration Coalition of America, Inc., William
J. Nicholson, American Paper Institute, Reuben Brown, National Hydropower
Association, and James Caldwell, Solar Energy Industries Association, all of
Washington, D.C.; Jan Hamrin, Independent Energy Producers Association,
Sacramento, California, representing the American Wind Energy Association, and
the Independent Energy Producers Forum; and Mark Lyons, National Wood Energy
Association, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. 

Hearings continue on Thursday, June 5. 

MEDICARE'S PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM 

Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2331, to assure the
quality of inpatient hospital services and post-hospital services furnished
under the Medicare prospective payment system, after receiving testimony from
Senator Heinz; William Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Eleanor Chelimsky,
Director, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, General Accounting
Office; Judith L. Wagner, Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment;
Michael R. Goldwyn, Northwest Oregon Health Systems, Portland; Cynthia L.
Polich, Interstudy, Excelsior, Minnesota; Mark Russell Chassin, The Rand
Corporation, Santa Monica, California; Gerard F. Anderson, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland; Harrison L. Rogers, Jr., American Medical
Association, Atlanta, Georgia; Thomas G. Dehn, American Medical Peer Review
Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; William H. Moncrief, Jr., California
Medical Review, Inc., San Francisco; Louise Crooks, American Association of
Retired Persons, West Lafayette, Indiana; Margaret J. Cushman, Visiting
Nursing and Home Care, Waterbury-Hartford, Connecticut, on behalf of the
National Association for Home Care; Donald A. Young, Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission, Jack Owen, American Hospital Association, and Paul R.
Willging, American Health Care Association, all of Washington, D.C. 

PHILIPPINES -- SUPPLEMENTAL ASSISTANCE 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2378,
authorizing supplemental economic and military assistance for the Philippines,
after receiving testimony from Senator Melcher; Charles W. Greenleaf, Jr.,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau of Asia, Agency for International Development;
Gaston Sigur, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs;
and Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs.  

STATISTICAL POLICY FOR AN AGING AMERICA 

Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear
Proliferation, and Government Processes concluded joint hearings with the
Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on Aging on statistical
policy with regard to older Americans, focusing on socioeconomic and health
status, employment and retirement, living arrangements, and family and
community supports, after receiving testimony from T. Franklin Williams,
Director, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Manning
Feinleib, Director, National Center for Health Statistics, and Jane Ross,
Director, Office of Research Statistics and International Policy, Social
Security Administration, all of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Jack G. Keane, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce; Sam
Shapiro, Panel on Statistical Requirements for Policy in an Aging Society,
National Academy of Sciences; John M. Cornman, Gerontological Society of
America, Washington, D.C.; and Jacob A. Brody, University of Illinois, Urbana. 

ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT -- ILLINOIS BRICK 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2481, to create
a limited exception to the Supreme Court's holding in ILLINOIS BRICK CO. V.
ILLINOIS, 431 U.S. 720 (1977), that only direct purchasers from antitrust
violators may obtain monetary relief under the Clayton Act for overcharges
resulting from violations of the antitrust laws, after receiving testimony
from Senator Bingaman; Charles Brown, Attorney General of West Virginia,
Charleston; John Connor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Charles
B. Renfrew, Chevron Corporation, San Francisco, California; James T.
Halverson, Shearman and Sterling, New York, New York, on behalf of the
American Bar Association; Edward Cavanaugh, St. John's University School of
Law, Jamaica, New York; and Priscilla Budieri, Public Citizen, Mark Nestlen,
on behalf of the National Grange, and Bill Carroll, former Director, Poultry
and Packers Division, Packers and Stockyard Administration, Department of
Agriculture, all of Washington, D.C. 

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/06/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, June 4, 1986; pages D657 - D ?  (Bound vol. D363-
D368)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMERCE/JUSTICE/STATE/JUDICIARY 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies concluded hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1987 for those programs which fall within the
jurisdiction of the subcommittee, after receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses. 

APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987 for the District of
Columbia government, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., and
David Clarke, Chairman, District of Columbia Council. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, June 11. 

DOMESTIC CRUISE SHIP INDUSTRY 

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on the
Merchant Marine conducted hearings on S. 1935 and S. 1929, bills to provide
for certain vessels to be documented under the laws of the United States to
entitle them to engage in domestic coastwise trade, after receiving testimony
from John A. Gaughan, Administrator, Reginald A. Bourdon, Assistant
Administrator for Policy and International Affairs, and Robert J. Patton,
Acting Chief Counsel, all of the Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation; Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Shipbuilding and Logistics; Frank Drozak, Seafarers International Union of
North America, AFL-CIO, Camp Springs, Maryland; C.E. DeFries and Raymond T.
McKay, both of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, AFL-CIO,
Washington, DC; Robert L. Lambert, Sr., Cruise America Line, Inc., Fort
Lauderdale, Florida; George A. Sotir, United States Cruises, Inc., S.S. UNITED
STATES, Brisbane, California; Ian Westwood-Booth, Vintero Corp., S.S. SANTA
ROSA, and Fred Bush, Travel Trade Publications, both of New York, New York;
and James L. Murray, ADDSCO Industries, Inc., Mobile, Alabama. 

FEDERAL COAL LEASING 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 2427, to improve the administration of the Federal coal leasing program,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, June
11. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Edwin M. Kosik, to be United States District Judge for the Middle District of
Pennsylvania, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Specter and
Heinz and Representative McDade, testified and answered questions in his own
behalf. 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Robert E. Windom, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of
Health and Human Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators
Chiles and Hawkins, testified and answered questions in his own behalf. 

SMALL BUSINESS CAPITAL FORMATION 

Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the elimination
of the capital gains differential for individuals and its impact on small
business capital formation, after receiving testimony from Paul Tsongas,
Foley, Hoag and Eliot, Boston, Massachusetts on behalf of the American Venture
Capital Association; Burton McMurtry, Technology Venture Investors, Menlo
Park, California; Stanley E. Pratt, Venture Economics Inc., Wellesley Hills,
Massachusetts; Walter Stults, National Association of Small Business
Investment Companies, Robert S. McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice, Joseph J.
Minarik, Urban Institute, and Thomas E. Vasquez, deSeve Economics Associates,
Inc., all of Washington, DC; Jack Lloyd, Nellcor Incorporated, Hayward,
California; George N. Hatsopoulos, Thermo Electron Corporation, Waltham,
Massachusetts; and Lawrence B. Lindsey, National Bureau of Economic Research,
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

INTELLIGENCE 

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

No Joint hearings noted.



1986/06/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, June 5, 1986 pages D665 - D ?  (Bound vol. D368-D376)

Committee Meetings 

(Committees not listed did not meet) 

NOMINATION 

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nomination of George S. Dunlop, of North Carolina, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. 

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

APPROPRIATIONS -- ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS/MUSEUM SERVICES 

Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1987, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frank
Hodsoll, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; and Lois Burke Shepard,
Director, Institute of Museum Services. 

Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, June 10. 

NOMINATIONS 

Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., of Virginia, to be Secretary of the
Air Force, Walter J. Shea, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Board of the
Panama Canal Commission, and 542 nominations in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marine Corps. 

Also, the committee discussed committee consideration of S. 2199, authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1987 for the Department of Defense, and agreed on the
Subcommittee on Military Construction recommendations on the Navy's strategic
homeporting initiative program. 

PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT 

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act
(P.L. 95-617), focusing on the environmental impact of construction and
operation of qualifying hydroelectric facilities, after receiving testimony
from Lawrence R. Anderson, Director, Office of Electric Power Regulation,
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Perry Swisher, Idaho Public Utilities
Commission, Boise; Paul L. Gioia, New York Public Service Commission, Albany;
Dennis Thomas, Texas Public Utility Commission, Austin; Duncan Wyse,
California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco; Jay Botkin, Northwest
Hydroelectric Association, Seattle, Washington; Paul J. Elston, Long Lake
Energy Corporation, New York, New York; David Conrad, Friends of the Earth,
and John Anderson, Electricity Consumers Resource Council, both of Washington,
D.C.; Alan S. Miller, San Franscisco, California, representing the Natural
Resources Defense Council; and Dennis P. Ward, Atomic Industrial Forum,
Bethesda, Maryland. 

U.S.-JAPAN TRADE IN SERVICES 

Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings to review the general situation of trade services in Japan
and t