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.



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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 Inter