100th Congress (1987 - 1988)
January 6 - December 22, 1987
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests
1987/01/06
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 6, 1987 ; pages D30 - D ? (Bound vol. D1-D7)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/07
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 7, 1987; pages D40 - D ? (Bound vol. D7-D8)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1988 Budget
Committee on the Budget: Committee began hearings in preparation for reporting
the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget, receiving
testimony from James C. Miller, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/08
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 8, 1987; pages D44 - D ? (Bound vol. D8-D9)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from James Baker, Secretary, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 13.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/12
Daily Digest - Monday, January 12, 1987; pages D47 - D ? (Bound vol. D9-D11)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE ORGANIZATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session to consider the
proposed committee budget, but did not take final action thereon, and recessed
subject to call.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review the national
security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony from Caspar W.
Weinberger, Secretary, Department of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence: Senators Exon
(Chairman), Stennis, Levin, Kennedy, Bingaman, Glenn, Thurmond, Humphrey,
Cohen, Quayle, and Wilson.
Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Dixon, Glenn, Gore, Wirth, Shelby, Quayle, Thurmond, Cohen,
Wilson, and Gramm.
Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional Defense: Senators Kennedy
(Chairman), Stennis, Exon, Gore, Shelby, Cohen, Humphrey, Symms, and McCain.
Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology: Senators Bingaman (Chairman),
Gore, Dixon, Wirth, Gramm, Quayle, and Symms.
Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and Support: Senators Dixon
(Chairman), Stennis, Levin, Bingaman, Wirth, Humphrey, Thurmond, Gramm, and
McCain.
Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel: Senators Glenn (Chairman), Exon,
Kennedy, Shelby, Wilson, Symms, and McCain.
NATIONAL HEALTH GOALS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review
health care programs, focusing on health promotion and disease prevention,
access to essential care, reasonable prices and reasonable costs, and the
access of the elderly to health care, receiving testimony from Joseph A.
Califano, Jr., Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer, and Wood, former Secretary
of Health, Education, and Welfare, Robert M. Ball, Center for Study of Social
Policy, former Commissioner of Social Security, and Sara Rosenbaum, Children's
Defense Fund, all of Washington, DC; Stuart H. Altman, Florence Heller
Graduate School, Waltham, Massachusetts; David R. Smith, Brownsville Community
Health Center, Brownsville, Texas; Joshua Lederberg, Rockefeller University,
New York, New York; Mr. and Mrs. John Muir, Hyattsville, Maryland; Helen
Green, Memphis, Tennessee; Connie Gates, Johnston, Pennsylvania; and Ruth
Dugan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee announced the following
subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Labor: Senators Metzenbaum (Chairman), Matsunaga, Harkin,
Mikulski, Kennedy (ex officio), Quayle, Humphrey, Stafford, and Hatch (ex
officio).
Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities: Senators Pell (Chairman),
Metzenbaum, Matsunaga, Dodd, Simon, Mikulski, Kennedy (ex officio), Stafford,
Hatch, Quayle, Thurmond, and Weicker.
Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity: Senators Simon (Chairman),
Harkin, Adams, Mikulski, Kennedy (ex officio), Humphrey, Hatch, and Quayle.
Subcommittee on Handicapped; Senators Harkin (Chairman), Metzenbaum, Simon,
Adams, Kennedy (ex officio), Weicker, Stafford, Cochran, and Hatch (ex
officio).
Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism: Senators Dodd
(Chairman), Pell, Harkin, Adams, Kennedy (ex officio), Thurmond, Cochran, and
Hatch.
Subcommittee on Aging: Senators Matsunaga (Chairman), Pell, Metzenbaum, Dodd,
Kennedy (ex officio), Cochran, Thurmond, Weicker, and Hatch (ex officio).
Joint Meeting
DECEMBER EMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, January 9, the committee held hearings to
review the employment/unemployment situation for December 1986, receiving
testimony from Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1987/01/13
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 13, 1987; pages D51 - D ? (Bound vol. D11-
D13)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review the
national security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony from
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs, and on a conceptual framework for strategy-making, receiving
testimony from Gregory D. Foster, Institute for National Strategic Studies,
National Defense University; Col. Arthur F. Lykke, Jr., USA (Ret.), Army War
College; Robert S. Wood, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College;
and Col. Dennis M. Drew, USAF, Air Power Research Institute, Air University.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held an
organizational business meeting where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,760,000 in
operating expenses of the committee;
Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress; and
Announced the following majority subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs: Senators Cranston (Chairman),
Riegle, Sarbanes, Dodd, Dixon, Sasser,
Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy: Senators Sarbanes
(Chairman), Proxmire, Dixon, Sanford, Graham,
Subcommittee on Securities: Senators Riegle (Chairman), Proxmire, Cranston,
Sasser, Sanford, Shelby,
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs: Senators Dodd (Chairman), Shelby, Graham.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
WORLD ECONOMY -- TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on the world economy and trade
issues, focusing on a U.S. response to the international trade deficit,
receiving testimony from Robert Strauss, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
Washington, DC, and former U.S. Special Trade Representative.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 15.
TEST BAN TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on a Treaty between
the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on
Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes, and the Protocol
thereto, signed in Washington and Moscow on May 28, 1976 (EX.N, 94th Cong.,
2nd Sess.), and the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Peaceful Nuclear
Explosions Treaty, signed in Moscow on July 3, 1974 receiving testimony from
H. Allen Holmes, Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs;
James H. McNally, Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Verification and
Intelligence, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Robert B. Barker,
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; Sylvester R. Foley,
Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, Department of Energy; and Lt. Gen.
Dale A. Vesser, USA, Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs of
Staff.
The committee also met in closed session to discuss verification of the
aforementioned treaties from Mr. Barker, and representatives of the
intelligence community.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 15.
NATIONAL GOALS -- EMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review the
state of employment in America, receiving testimony from Senator Simon;
William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor; Thomas Donahue, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC;
Bishop Joseph Sullivan, National Catholic Conference of Bishops, and Michael
Harrington, both of New York, New York; Barry Bluestone, University of
Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts; and Karen Nussbaum, National Association
of Working Women, Cleveland, Ohio.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/14
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 14, 1987; pages D55 - D ? (Bound vol. D13-
D15)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Appropriations: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 58) requesting
$4,119,856 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987; and
Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development and Related Agencies: Senators
Burdick (Chairman), Stennis, Chiles, Sasser, Bumpers, Harkin, Cochran,
McClure, Kasten, Specter, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies:
Senators Hollings (Chairman), Inouye, Bumpers, Chiles, Lautenberg, Sasser,
Rudman, Stevens, Weicker, Hatfield, and Kasten.
Subcommittee on Defense: Senators Stennis (Chairman), Proxmire, Inouye,
Hollings, Chiles, Johnston, Byrd, Leahy, Sasser, DeConcini, Stevens, Weicker,
Garn, McClure, Kasten, D'Amato, Rudman, and Cochran.
Subcommittee on the District of Columbia: Senators Harkin (Chairman),
Lautenberg, Reid, Nickles, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: Senators Johnston (Chairman),
Stennis, Byrd, Hollings, Burdick, Sasser, DeConcini, Hatfield, McClure, Garn,
Cochran, Domenici, and Specter.
Subcommittee on Foreign Operations: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Johnston,
Leahy, DeConcini, Lautenberg, Harkin, Mikulski, Kasten, Hatfield, D'Amato,
Rudman, Specter, and Nickles.
Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies: Senators Proxmire (Chairman),
Stennis, Leahy, Johnston, Lautenberg, Mikulski, Garn, D'Amato, Domenici,
Grassley, and Nickles.
Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies: Senators Byrd (Chairman),
Johnston, Leahy, DeConcini, Burdick, Bumpers, Hollings, Reid, McClure,
Stevens, Garn, Cochran, Rudman, Weicker, and Nickles.
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related
Agencies: Senators Chiles (Chairman), Byrd, Proxmire, Hollings, Burdick,
Inouye, Harkin, Bumpers, Weicker, Hatfield, Stevens, Rudman, Specter, McClure,
and Domenici.
Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch: Senators Bumpers (Chairman), Mikulski,
Reid, Grassley, and Hatfield.
Subcommittee on Military Construction: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Inouye,
Proxmire, Reid, Specter, Garn, and Stevens.
Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies: Senators Lautenberg
(Chairman), Stennis, Byrd, Chiles, Harkin, D'Amato, Cochran, Kasten, and
Weicker.
Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government: Senators
DeConcini (Chairman), Proxmire, Mikulski, Domenici, and D'Amato.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
resolution (S. Res. 57) requesting $2,271,039 in operating expenses of the
committee for 1987.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review the
national security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony from
James R. Schlesinger, former Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, and
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Also, the committee held closed hearings on the use of operational gaming and
simulation to assist strategy making, receiving testimony from Col. Edward C.
Kielkopf, USA, Director, Center for Land Warfare, Army War College; Capt.
Joseph S. Hurlburt, USN, Director, War Gaming Department, and Orville E. Hay,
Director, Global War Game and Advanced Concepts Department, both of the Center
for Naval Warfare Studies, Naval War College; Col. C.A. Pappas, USAF,
Director, Air Force War Gaming Center, Air University, and Colonel James Sims,
USMC, Chief, Politico-Military Analysis Division, Office of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
Committee will meet again Tuesday, January 20.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from William J. Bennett, Secretary of Education.
Hearings continue on Friday, January 23.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held an organizational
business meeting, where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 56) requesting
$2,405,168 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987;
Adopted a revision to the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress;
and
Announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Energy Regulation and Conservation: Senators Metzenbaum
(Chairman), Bradley, Bingaman, Fowler, Nickles, Weicker, and Evans.
Subcommittee on Research and Development: Senators Ford (Chairman), Fowler
(Vice Chairman), Bumpers, Metzenbaum, Melcher, Domenici, Evans, Weicker, and
Hecht.
Subcommittee on Mineral Resources Development and Production: Senators Melcher
(Chairman), Wirth (Vice Chairman), Ford, Bingaman, Conrad, Hecht, Nickles,
Wallop, and Murkowski.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests: Senators Bumpers
(Chairman), Bingaman (Vice Chairman), Melcher, Bradley, Wirth, Fowler, Conrad,
Wallop, Weicker, Hatfield, Domenici, Murkowski, and echt.
Subcommittee on Water and Power: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Conrad (Vice
Chairman), Bumpers, Ford, Metzenbaum, Wirth, Evans, Hatfield, Murkowski,
Wallop, and Nickles.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on recent
developments in United States relations with Iran, focusing on the United
States posture toward Iran, the strategic and foreign policy consequences of
the administration's recent arms sales to Iran, what are appropriate and
inappropriate roles for making foreign and national security policy in the
executive branch, receiving testimony from Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of
State.
Hearings continue on Friday, January 16.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. ) requesting
$4,373,629 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987; and
Announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business Rights; Senators Metzenbaum
(Chairman), DeConcini, Heflin, Simon, Kennedy, Thurmond, Specter, Humphrey,
and Hatch.
Subcommittee on the Constitution: Senators Simon (Chairman), Metzenbaum,
DeConcini, Kennedy, Specter, and Hatch.
Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice: Senators Heflin
(Chairman), Metzenbaum, DeConcini, Grassley, and Thurmond.
Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs: Senators Kennedy (Chairman),
Simon, and Simpson.
Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks: Senators DeConcini
(Chairman), Kennedy, Leahy, Heflin, Hatch, Simpson, and Grassley.
Subcommittee on Technology and the Law: Senators Leahy (Chairman), DeConcini,
and Humphrey.
NATIONAL GOALS -- EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review the
future course of education in America, focusing on what is happening in
America's classrooms, receiving testimony from William J. Bennett, Secretary
of Education; Shin Murakami, Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Maryland;
Lewis M. Branscomb, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mary Hatwood Futrell, National Education
Association, and Robert Taggart, Remediation and Training Institute, both of
Washington, DC; Jacqueline Vaughn, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago, Illinois,
representing the American Federation of Teachers; Robert F. Wagner, Jr., New
York City Board of Education, New York, New York; David C. Knapp, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, on behalf of the Massachusetts Corporation for
Educational Telecommunications; Mayor Raymond Flynn, Boston, Massachusetts;
and Paul E. Barton, National Assessment of Educational Progress, Princeton,
New Jersey.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/16
Daily Digest - Friday, January 16, 1987; pages D59 - D ? (Bound vol. D15-D18)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Thursday, January 15, the
committee announced the following minority subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs: Senators D'Amato, Garn, Hecht,
Heinz, and Bond.
Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy: Senators Heinz,
Garn, Armstrong, and Gramm.
Subcommittee on Securities: Senators Armstrong, Bond, Chafee, D'Amato, and
Hecht.
Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs: Senators Gramm and Chafee.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 69) requesting $2,982,255 in operating expenses of the
committee for 1987.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Thursday, January 15,
the committee held an organizational meeting and took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 61), requesting
$3,322,736 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987;
Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress; and
Announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Aviation: Senators Ford (Chairman), Exon, Inouye, Kerry, Breaux, Kassebaum,
Stevens, Kasten, and McCain.
Communications: Senators Inouye (Chairman), Hollings, Ford, Gore, Exon, Kerry,
Packwood, Pressler, Stevens, Wilson, and McCain.
Consumer: Senators Gore (Chairman), Ford, Breaux, McCain, and Kasten.
Foreign Commerce and Tourism: Senators Rockefeller (Chairman), Hollings,
Riegle, Bentsen, Trible, Packwood, and Wilson.
Merchant Marine: Senators Bentsen (Chairman), Inouye, Breaux, Adams, Stevens,
and Trible.
Science, Technology, and Space: Senators Riegle (Chairman), Gore, Rockefeller,
Bentsen, Kerry, Adams, Pressler, Kassebaum, Trible, and Wilson.
Surface Transportation: Senators Exon (Chairman), Riegle, Rockefeller,
Hollings, Adams, Kasten, Packwood, Pressler, and Kassebaum.
National Ocean Policy Study: Senators Hollings (Chairman), Kerry (Vice
Chairman), Inouye, Gore, Bentsen, Breaux, Adams, Danforth, Stevens, Packwood,
Kasten, Trible, and Wilson.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: On Thursday, January 15, the
committee approved for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 67)
requesting $2,447,791 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987.
WORLD ECONOMY -- TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the world economy and
trade issues, focusing on a U.S. response to the international trade deficit,
receiving testimony from Edmund T. Pratt, Jr., Pfizer, Inc., New York, New
York, on behalf of the Emergency Committee for American Trade; and John Young,
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California, on behalf of the President's
Commission on Industrial Competitiveness.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, January 20.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Finance: On Thursday, January 15, the committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 71) requesting $2,455,654 in
operating expenses of the committee for 1987.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held open and closed hearings on
recent developments in United States relations with Iran, focusing on the
administration's recent arms sales to Iran, receiving testimony from Robert C.
McFarlane, former Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
Hearings continue on Friday, January 23.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Thursday, January 15, the committee ordered
favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 60) requesting $2,442,789
in operating expenses of the committee for 1987.
TEST BAN TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Thursday, January 15, the committee
concluded hearings on two treaties between the United States of America and
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on (1) the Limitation of Underground
Nuclear Weapon Tests, and the Protocol thereto, known as the Threshold Test
Ban Treaty (TTBT), signed in Moscow on July 3, 1974, and (2) the Underground
Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes, and the Protocol thereto, known as
the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNET), signed in Washington and Moscow
on May 28, 1976 (EX N, 94th Cong., 2nd Sess.), after receiving testimony from
Roger Batzel and Milo Nordyke, both of the Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratories, Livermore, California; Siegfried S. Hecker, Los Alamos National
Laboratories, Los Alamos, New Mexico; William Colby, former Director, Central
Intelligence Agency; Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky, Stanford University, Stanford,
California; and Paul G. Richards, Columbia University, New York, New York.
AIDS RESEARCH
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review
Federal efforts in AIDS research, receiving testimony from Robert Windom,
Assistant Secretary for Health, C. Everett Koop, U.S. Public Health Corps, and
Anthony S. Fauci, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and
AIDS Coordinator, National Institutes of Health, all of the Department of
Health and Human Services; David Baltimore, Director, Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Sheldon M. Wolff, Tufts University School of Medicine,
Medford, Massachusetts, both of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on
a National Strategy for AIDS; Jonathan M. Mann, World Health Organization,
Geneva, Switzerland; Brian Cunningham, Genetech Inc., San Francisco,
California; and Samuel L. Katz, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North
Carolina.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, January 20.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: On Thursday, January 15, the committee
held an organizational meeting and took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution requesting $1,231,058 in
operating expenses of the committee for 1987; and
Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
Also, the committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution to pay a
gratuity to the survivor of a deceased Senate employee.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 68) requesting $907,901 in operating expenses of the
committee for 1987.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: On Thursday, January 15, the committee approved
for reporting an original resolution (S. Res. 66) requesting $981,173 in
operating expenses of the committee for 1987.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 70) requesting $916,954 in operating expenses of
the committee for 1987.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee approved for reporting an original
resolution (S. Res. 63) requesting $1,926,804 in operating expenses of the
committee for 1987.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Special Committee on Aging: On Thursday, January 15, the committee held an
organizational meeting and took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 65) requesting
$1,077,424 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987; and
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/20
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 20, 1987; pages D65 - D ? (Bound vol. D18-
D20)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AMTRAK ACCIDENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on certain implications following the January 4 Amtrak
accident in Chase, Maryland, and to review railroad safety issues, receiving
testimony from John Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration; Jim
Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; Richard Hasselman,
Conrail, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Jim Snyder, Rail Labor Executives
Association, Don Lindsey, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, W. Graham
Claytor, Jr., Amtrak, and Ross Capon, National Association of Railroad
Passengers, all of Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to review the national
security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony from David M.
Abshire, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO; and Dennis Kloske, Special Advisor to
the Deputy Secretary of Defense on NATO Armaments, Office of the Secretary of
Defense.
Also, the committee held hearings on the relationship between resource
constraints and U.S. military strategy, receiving testimony from Lawrence J.
Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and
Personnel; Richard Stubbing, former Deputy Chief of the National Security
Division, Office of Management and Budget; and Colonel John M. Collins, USA
(Ret.), Senior Specialist in National Defense, Congessional Research Service,
Library of Congress.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. INDUSTRIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
the challenge of competition for U.S. industry, receiving testimony from
Senators Baucus and Chafee; George Kozmetsky, University of Texas, Austin;
Howard D. Samuel, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; and Richard Cyert, Carnegie-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WORLD ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on the world economy and
trade issues, focusing on the U.S. response to the international trade
deficit, receiving testimony from Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC; Owen
Bieber, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan; and Lynn R. Williams, United
Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Hearings continue on Thursday, January 22.
CHERNOBYL INCIDENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings to review
certain implications of the Chernobyl nuclear powerplant incident, focusing on
the causes and consequences of the accident, after receiving testimony from
Yevgeny Velikhov, USSR Academy of Sciences; and Rober T. Gale, University of
California, Los Angeles, on behalf of the International Bone Marrow Transplant
Registry.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee held hearings to receive
testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions requesting
funds for operating expenses of their respective committees, as follows:
Intelligence: (S. Res. 63 -- $1,926,804) Senators Boren and Cohen;
Energy and Natural Resources: (S. Res. 56 -- $2,405,168) Senators Johnston and
McClure;
Finance: (S. Res. 71 -- $2,455,654) Senators Bentsen and Packwood;
Armed Services: (S. Res. 57 -- $2,271,039) Senators Nunn and Warner;
Governmental Affairs: (S. Res. -- $4,453,972) Senator Glenn;
Budget: (S. Res. 69 -- $2,982,255) Senators Chiles and Domenici;
Appropriations: (S. Res. 58 -- $4,119,856) Senators Stennis and Hatfield;
Foreign Relations: (S. Res. 60 -- $2,442,798) Senator Pell; and
Environment and Public Works: (S. Res. 67 -- $2,447,791) Senators Burdick and
Stafford.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider
certain intelligence matters, but made no announcements, and recessed subject
to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/21
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 21, 1987; pages D70 - D ? (Bound vol. D20-
D25)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original resolution (S. Res. 79) requesting $1,336,185 in
operating expenses of the committee for 1987.
AGRICULTURE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began
consideration of S. 341, to require the Secretary of Agriculture to make
disaster payments to producers who were prevented from planting the 1987 wheat
crop in time to ensure normal crop production, but did not complete action
thereon, and will meet again on Tuesday, January 27.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee began hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony from James C. Miller
III, Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Hearings continue on Friday, January 23.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review the
national security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony on U.S.
military strategy from Adm. William J. Crowe, Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff.
Hearings continue on Monday, January 26.
U.S. FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee began oversight
hearings to review the structure of the U.S. financial system, focusing on the
Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation recapitalization, emergency
bank acquisitions, nonbank banks, securities powers for bank holding
companies, and bank checkholds, receiving testimony from Paul Volcker,
Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; George D. Gould, Under
Secretary of the Treasury; L. William Seidman, Chairman, Board of Directors,
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Edwin J. Gray, Chairman, Federal Home
Loan Bank Board; and Robert Clarke, Comptroller of the Currency.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee met in evening
session to consider legislation authorizing funds for Federal mass transit
assistance programs, including S. 224, S. 315, and S. 317.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from Richard E. Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held a business meeting
where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original bill authorizing funds through fiscal
year 1991 for Federal highway construction programs, in lieu of S. 185;
Ordered favorably reported S. 245, to provide for the reimbursement of States
for advanced construction of highways; and
An original resolution to waive section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act
with respect to consideration of aforementioned original bill.
Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, and Infrastructure: Senators
Moynihan (Chairman), Burdick, Mitchell, Breaux, Mikulski, Reid, Graham, Symms,
Stafford, Chafee, Durenberger, Warner, and Pressler;
Subcommittee on Environmental Protection: Senators Mitchell (Chairman),
Moynihan, Baucus, Lautenberg, Breaux, Graham, Chafee, Stafford, Simpson,
Durenberger, and Pressler;
Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances: Senators Baucus
(Chairman), Lautenberg, Mikulski, Reid, Graham, Durenberger, Chafee, Simpson,
and Symms;
Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Oversight: Senators Lautenberg
(Chairman), Baucus, Mikulski, Warner, and Pressler; and
Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation: Senators Breaux (Chairman), Moynihan,
Mitchell, Reid, Simpson, Symms, and Warner.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session on U.S. policy
toward Iran, focusing on intelligence relating to the strategic initiative,
receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates, Deputy Director, Central
Intelligence Agency.
Hearings continue on Friday, January 23.
ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held an organizational meeting
where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S. Res. 77) requesting
$4,453,972 in operating expenses of the committee for 1987; and
Announced the following majority member subcommittee assignments:
Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations: Senators Nunn (Chairman), Glenn
(Vice Chairman), Chiles, Levin, Sasser, Pryor, and Mitchell;
Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget, and Accounting: Senators Chiles
(Chairman), Nunn, Levin, and Bingaman;
Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management: Senators Levin (Chairman),
Chiles, Pryor, Mitchell, and Bingaman;
Subcommittee on Government Efficiency, Federalism, and the District of
Columbia: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Levin, and Mitchell; and
Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service: Senators
Pryor (Chairman), Sasser, and Bingaman.
COMMITTEE BUDGET
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting an
original resolution (S. Res. 75) requesting $4,471,270 in operating expenses
of the committee for 1987.
JOB TRAINING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review the
extent of long-term poverty and dependence, focusing on job training and
employment services provided by the Government, receiving testimony from David
T. Ellwood, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Robert Greenstein,
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC; Gary C. Walker,
Public and Private Ventures, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Robert M. Coard,
Action for Boston Community Development, on behalf of the National Community
Action Foundation, and Charles M. Atkins, Massachusetts Department of Public
Welfare, both of Boston, Massachusetts; and Randy Rowel, Arundel Development
Institute, Annapolis, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUDGET REQUESTS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings after
receiving testimony from Senators, as indicated, in support of resolutions
requesting funds for operating expenses of their respective committees, as
follows:
Labor and Human Resources: (S. Res. 75 -- $4,471,270) Senators Kennedy and
Hatch;
Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: (S. Res. 55 -- $1,758,512) Senator
Proxmire;
Select on Indian Affairs: (S. Res. 70 -- $913,954) Senator Inouye;
Judiciary: (S. Res. 64 -- $4,373,629) Senators Biden and Thurmond;
Small Business: (S. Res. 66 -- $981,173) Senators Bumpers and Weicker;
Special on Aging: (S. Res. 65 -- $1,077,424) Senators Melcher and Heinz;
Veterans' Affairs: (S. Res. 68 -- $907,901) Senators Cranston and Murkowski;
Commerce, Science, and Transportation: (S. Res. 61 -- $3,322,736) Senators
Hollings and Danforth; and
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: (S. Res. 79 -- $1,336,185) Senators
Leahy and Lugar.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/22
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 22, 1987; pages D77 - D ? (Bound vol. D25-
D28)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS -- MASS TRANSIT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Wednesday, January 21,
the committee ordered favorably reported the following measures:
An original bill authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for Federal mass
transit assistance programs, in lieu of S. 224, S. 315, and S. 317; and
An original resolution waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act
with respect to consideration of the aforementioned original bill.
U.S. FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued
oversight hearings to review the structure of the U.S. financial system,
focusing on the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
recapitalization, emergency bank acquisitions, nonbank banks, securities
powers for bank holding companies, and bank checkholds, receiving testimony
from Connecticut State Representative Irv Stolberg, Hartford, on behalf of the
National Conference of State Legislatures; Eugene W. Kuthy, Michigan
Commissioner of Financial Institutions, Lansing, on behalf of the Conference
of State Bank Supervisors; Gerald J. Levy, Guaranty Savings and Loan
Association, on behalf of the United States League of Savings Institutions,
and Robert S. Gaiswinkler, National Savings and Loan Association, representing
the National Council of Savings Institutions, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Charles T. Doyle, Gulf National Bank, Texas City, Texas, representing the
Independent Bankers Association of America; Mark W. Olson, Security State
Bank, Fergus Falls, Minnesota, representing the American Bankers Association;
John P. LaWare, Shawmut Corporation, representing the Association of Bank
Holding Companies, Dennis J. Kelleher, Bank of Boston, representing the Dealer
Bank Association, and William S. Edgerly, State Street Bank and Trust Company,
on behalf of the Association of Reserve City Bankers, all of Boston,
Massachusetts; and Charles E. Rice, Barnett Banks of Florida, Jacksonville, on
behalf of the Coalition for Regional Banking.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
SPACE SHUTTLE
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held oversight hearings on the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration's development of solid rocket boosters for the space
shuttle, receiving testimony from James C. Fletcher, Administrator, Dale D.
Myers, Deputy Administrator, Richard H. Truly, Associate Administrator, Office
of Space Flight, Arnie Aldrich, Director, National Space Transportation
System, and J.R. Thompson, Director, Bob Marshall, Shuttle Projects Director,
and John Thomas, Manager, Solid Rocket Motor Design Team, all of the Marshall
Space Flight Center (Alabama), all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; E.U. Garrison, Morton Thiokol Aerospace Group, Ogden, Utah;
Edward G. Dorsey and Alan J. McDonald, both of Morton Thiokol, Brigham City,
Utah; George G. Brown, Aerojet Strategic Propulsion Company, Sacramento,
California; Harry L. Crosby, United Technologies Corporation, San Jose,
California; Ernest A. Mettenet, Hercules Aerospace Company, Hercules, Inc.,
Salt Lake City, Utah; and James R. Sides, Atlantic Research Corporation,
Gainsville, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WORLD OIL OUTLOOK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began oversight hearings
on the world oil outlook, receiving testimony from James R. Schlesinger,
Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University, and James E. Akins, former U.S. Ambassador, both of Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee held a business meeting where it took the
following action:
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress; and
Authorized the chairman, on behalf of the committee, to offer an amendment
providing for a 4-year extension of the Highway Trust Fund taxes to an
appropriate legislative measure.
WORLD ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the world economy and
trade issues, focusing on the U.S. response to the international trade
deficit, after receiving testimony from Robert D. Hormats, Goldman, Sachs and
Company, and Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan and Company, both of New York,
New York; and Rudiger Dornbusch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge.
COMMITTEE FUNDING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported an
original resolution (S. Res. 80) authorizing $45,087,512 in operating expenses
of standing, select, and special committees of the Senate, in lieu of S. Res.
55, S. Res. 56, S. Res. 57, S. Res. 58, S. Res. 60, S. Res. 61, S. Res. 63, S.
Res. 64, S. Res. 65, S. Res. 66, S. Res. 67, S. Res. 68, S. Res. 69, S. Res.
70, S. Res. 71, S. Res. 75, S. Res. 76, S. Res. 77, and S. Res. 79. As
approved by the committee, the resolution provides funds, as follows:
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry -- $1,304,430;
Committee on Appropriations -- $4,119,856;
Committee on Armed Services -- $2,167,877;
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs -- $1,659,572;
Committee on the Budget -- $2,970,655;
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation -- $3,322,736;
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources -- $2,405,168;
Committee on Environment and Public Works -- $2,341,434;
Committee on Finance -- $2,223,333;
Committee on Foreign Relations -- $2,442,798;
Committee on Governmental Affairs -- $4,453,972;
Committee on the Judiciary -- $4,262,841;
Committee on Labor and Human Resources -- $4,471,270;
Committee on Rules and Administration -- $1,231,058;
Committee on Small Business -- $956,048;
Committee on Veterans' Affairs -- $907,901;
Special Committee on Aging -- $1,077,424;
Select Committee on Intelligence -- $1,926,804; and
Select Committee on Indian Affairs -- $842,335.
Joint Meeting
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
Joint Economic Committee: Committee began hearings to review the economic
outlook for 1987, receiving testimony from Lawrence Chimerine, Chase
Econometrics, Bala Cynwd, Pennsylvania; and Richard Rahn, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce; Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
1987/01/26
Daily Digest - Monday, January 26, 1987; pages D83 - D ? (Bound vol. D28-D30)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
[Only the last of the Senate committee meetings for 1/26 are listed on
Academic Universe. The majority of these entries have been entered by hand.]
U.S. FINANCIAL SYSTEM
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: On Friday, January 23, the
committee concluded oversight hearings to review the structure of the U.S.
financial system, after receiving testimony from Alan Fox, Consumers
Federation of America, Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, Francine Livingston,
Congress Watch, Robert Evans, American Financial Services Association, John
Motley, National Federation of Independent Business, David Silver, Investment
Company Institute, and Gary Hughes, American Council of Life Insurance, all of
Washington, DC; Alan J. Heuer, Marine Midland Bank, on behalf of the Consumer
Bankers Association, and Robert Gerard, Morgan Stanley, both of New York, New
York; and William V. Irons, East Providence, Rhode Island, on behalf of the
Independent Insurance Agents of America, National Association of Casualty and
Surety Agents, National Association of Insurance Brokers, National Association
of Life Underwriters, National Association of Professional Insurance Agents,
and National Association of Surety Bond Producers.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: On Friday, January 23, the committee continued
hearings in preparation for reporting the first concurrent resolution on the
fiscal year 1988 budget, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary
of State.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, January 28.
WELFARE PROGRAM
Committee on Finance: On Friday, January 23, the Subcommittee on Social
Security and Family Policy began hearings on how to improve the existing
family welfare system and how to promote the well-being of families with
children, receiving testimony from Senator Evans; Representatives Harold E.
Ford and Downey; Cathy Reynolds, Councilwoman, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of
the National League of Cities; Mary Jo Bane, representing New York State
Governor Mario Cuomo, Albany; Arthur Flemming, former Secretary of Health,
Education, and Welfare, Alexandria, Virginia; and A. Sidney Johnson III,
American Public Welfare Administration, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Monday, February 2.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, January 23, the committee resumed
hearings on U.S. policy toward Iran, receiving testimony from Gerald Lamberry,
American Foreign Service Association, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, January 23, the committee held
a business meeting where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported S. 142, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1987
through 1991 for the Native American Programs Act, with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute, and
Ordered favorably reported S. 129, to authorize funds for and revise certain
provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE COSTS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee began hearings on catastrophic health
care costs, receiving testimony from Joan Yelineck, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,
Edith Rieger, Alva, Oklahoma; Helen Fish, Newport, Michigan; and Robert
Shapland, Mutual of Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.
Hearings will continue on Wednesday, January 28, with the House Select
Committee on Aging.
[The following Joint committee meeting given in the 1/26 Digest is not listed
in Academic Universe. It has been entered by hand.]
Joint Meeting
INTERNATIONAL TRADE/ECONOMIC POLICY
Joint Economic Committee: On Friday, January 23, the committee continued
hearings to review international trade and international economic policy
issues, receiving testimony from Lionel Olmer, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
and Garrison, former Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, and
Gerald Holtham, The Brookings Institution, both of Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, January 29.
1987/01/27
Daily Digest - Tuesday, January 27, 1987; pages D87 - D ? (Bound vol. D30-
D32)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on U.S. military strategy
in East Asia, the Pacific, and Southwest Asia, receiving testimony in open and
closed sessions from Adm. Ronald J. Hays, USN, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Pacific Command, and Gen. George B. Crist, USMC, Commander-in-Chief, U.S.
Central Command; and in open session from Jeffrey Record, Institute for
Foreign Policy Analysis, Inc., and Col. Harry Summers, USA (Ret.), U.S. News
and World Report, both of Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on U.S. policy
toward Iran, receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 4.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
Subcommittee on International Trade: Senators Matsunaga (Chairman), Bentsen,
Moynihan, Baucus, Boren, Bradley, Mitchell, Riegle, Rockefeller, Daschle,
Danforth, Packwood, Roth, Chafee, Heinz, Wallop, Armstrong, and Durenberger;
Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy: Senators Moynihan
(Chairman), Boren, Mitchell, Daschle, Dole, Durenberger, and Armstrong;
Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management: Senators Baucus (Chairman),
Matsunaga, Moynihan, Pryor, Chafee, Roth, Danforth, and Wallop;
Subcommittee on Energy and Agricultural Taxation: Senators Boren (Chairman),
Matsunaga, Daschle, Wallop, and Armstrong;
Subcommittee on International Debt: Senators Bradley (Chairman), Riegle,
Rockefeller, Roth, Dole, and Danforth;
Subcommittee on Health: Senators Mitchell (Chairman), Bentsen, Baucus,
Bradley, Pryor, Riegle, Rockefeller, Durenberger, Packwood, Dole, Chafee, and
Heinz;
Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and Oversight of the Internal Revenue
Service: Senators Pryor (Chairman), Bentsen, and Heinz.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/01/28
Daily Digest - Wednesday, January 28, 1987; pages D 92 - D ? (Bound vol. D32-
D35)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Gen. Robert T. Herres, to be Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and four military nominations in the Air Force.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
General Herres, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
MILITARY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on U.S. military strategy
for low intensity conflicts, receiving testimony from Gen. Paul F. Gorman, USA
(Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee began oversight
hearings on the economy, insider trading and hostile corporate takeovers,
receiving testimony from Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan, Nicholas F.
Brady, Dillon, Read & Company, Inc., and Felix G. Rohatyn, Lazard Freres &
Co., all of New York, New York; Lloyd N. Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler, and
Pickering, Roderick M. Hills, The Manchester Group Ltd., and A.A. Sommer, Jr.,
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, all of Washington, DC; and Francis M. Wheat, Gibson,
Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from Rudolph G. Penner, Director, Congressional Budget
Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 214, to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to issue an order
with respect to Docket No. EL-85-38-000; and
S. 83, to establish national energy efficiency requirements for major
household appliances and establish uniform national standards, with
amendments.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection and Subcommittee on Hazardous Wastes and Toxic Substances held
joint hearings on greenhouse gases, the relationship between the greenhouse
effect and ozone depletion and the connections between the causes of the
greenhouse effect and acid deposition, receiving testimony from John D.
Negroponte, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International
Environment and Scientific Affairs; J. Craig Potter, Assistant Administrator
for Air and Radiation, Fitzhugh Green, Associate Administrator for
International Affairs, and Vaun Newill, Assistant Administrator for Research
and Development, all of the Environmental Protection Agency; Tom M.L. Wigley,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, England; Ralph J. Cicerone, National
Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado; V. Ramanathan, University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Wallace S. Broecker, Lamont-Doherty Geological
Observatory, New York, New York; Gordon J. MacDonald, MITRE Corporation,
McLean, Virginia; Jessica Tuchman Mathews, World Resources Institute, and
David D. Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, both of Washington, DC;
and Richard Barnett, Alliance for a Responsible CFC Policy, Rosslyn, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on how the private sector and
government might cooperate to improve protection for vulnerable Americans when
catastrophic illness strikes, receiving testimony from Otis R. Bowen,
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Thomas Burke, Chief of Staff,
Department of Health and Human Services.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CENTRAL AMERICA -- ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 184, to provide
economic assistance to Central America, and to review United States policy
options with respect to Nicaragua and aid to the Contras, receiving testimony
from Senators Dodd and Weicker; Kenneth Sharpe, Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; and Sol M. Linowitz, Inter-American Dialogue, Samuel
Dickens, American Security Council Foundation, and Robert Schweitzer, former
Representative to the Inter-American Defense Board, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH CARE COSTS
Joint Hearing: Senate Special Committee on Aging concluded joint hearings with
the House Select Committee on Aging on catastrophic health care costs, and to
assess the adequacy of the President's proposal for protecting uninsured and
underinsured families from financial risk of catastrophic illness, after
receiving testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
1987/01/29
Daily Digest - Thursday, January 29, 1987; pages D97 - D ? (Bound vol. D35-
D39)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 341, to require that the Secretary of Agriculture make disaster
payments to producers who were prevented from planting the 1987 wheat crop in
time to ensure normal crop production, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Also, the committee announced the following subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Agricultural Production and Stabilization of Prices: Senators
Zorinsky (Chairman), Conrad, Heflin, Boren, Fowler, Pryor, Daschle, Helms,
Dole, Cochran, McConnell, Bond, and Wilson.
Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General
Legislation: Senators Melcher (Chairman), Heflin, Fowler, Bond, and Wilson.
Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion: Senators
Pryor (Chairman), Daschle, Melcher, Conrad, Zorinsky, Harkin, Cochran, Helms,
Bond, Wilson, and Boschwitz.
Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit: Senators Boren (Chairman), Zorinsky,
Harkin, Daschle, Boschwitz, Cochran, and McConnell.
Subcommittee on Rural Development and Rural Electrification: Senators Heflin
(Chairman), Fowler, and McConnell.
Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations: Senators Harkin (Chairman),
Melcher, Pryor, Conrad, Dole, Boschwitz, and Helms.
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.J. Res. 102, making emergency additional funds available by
transfer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1987, for the Emergency Food
and Shelter Program of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
DRUG EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education held hearings on proposed reductions in drug abuse prevention
and treatment and drug education programs, receiving testimony from Donald
Macdonald, Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; John Walters, Special
Assistant to the Secretary, Department of Education; John Daigle, Florida
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Association, and Betty Castor, Florida Commissioner of
Education, both of Tallahassee; John S. Gustafson, New York State Division of
Substance Abuse, Albany; Frank Campana, and Clarence Coburn, both of the
Driftwood Middle School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Derrek Dame, Perry Parker
High School, Jacksonville, Florida; and Alice Riddell, New York City Board of
Education, New York, New York;
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PROBLEMS OF THE HOMELESS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs concluded hearings to review the problems of homeless persons,
after receiving testimony from Harvey Vieth, Acting Director, Office of Family
Assistance, Department of Health and Human Services, and Chair, Federal
Interagency Task Force on Food and Shelter; James Stimpson, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Policy Development; Steve N.
Kleiman, Assistant for Installation Assistance, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics; Mayor Joseph Riley, Jr.,
Charleston, South Carolina, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mayor
Raymond L. Flynn, Boston, Massachusetts, and Mayor Jerry Abramson, Louisville,
Kentucky, both representing the Task Force on Hunger and Homelessness; Ross
Polege, Fellowship of Lights, Baltimore, Maryland; Valerie Harper, LIFE (Love
is Feeding Everyone), Hollywood, California; and Maria Foscarinis, National
Coalition for the Homeless, Mark Talisman, Council of Jewish Federation and
Welfare Fund, J. Bryan Hehir, on behalf of the U.S. Catholic Conference, Paul
Egan, The American Legion, Gordon Thorson, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States, Ronald Drach, Disabled American Veterans, and Richard Weidman,
Vietnam Veterans of America, all of Washington, DC.
BUDGET WAIVERS
Committee on the Budget: Committee approved for reporting the following
resolutions:
S. Res. 83, waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for
the consideration of S. 382, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1990 for
Federal mass transit assistance programs; and
S. Res. 85, waiving section 303(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for
the consideration of S. 387, authorizing funds through fiscal year 1991 for
Federal highway construction programs.
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held oversight hearings on aviation safety, receiving testimony from Donald
Engen, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration; James E. Burnett,
Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board; and Herbert R. McClure,
Associate Director, General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INTERIOR BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of the
Interior, after receiving testimony from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the
Interior.
DOE'S CIVILIAN NUCLEAR WASTE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee began oversight hearings
on the current status of the Department of Energy's nuclear waste activities,
focusing on developments and new information in the waste program, receiving
testimony from John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy, and Ben C. Rusche,
Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of
Energy.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 4.
MEDICARE/MEDICAID
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings to examine how the
Medicare and Medicaid Programs have been affected by deficit reduction efforts
and structural changes since 1980, receiving testimony from Michael Zimmerman,
Associate Director, Human Resources Division, U.S. General Accounting Office;
Stuart Altman, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Karen Davis, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Cynthia Polich, InterStudy,
Excelsior, Minnesota; Uwe Reinhardt, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey; and Jack A. Meyer, New Direction for Policy, John L. Palmer, The Urban
Institute, Robert Rubin, ICF, Inc., and Joshua Wiener, The Brookings
Institute, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAN ARMS SHIPMENTS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session and agreed
to release a committee report in relation to the shipment of arms to Iran.
Committee recessed subject to call.
IRAN ARMS SHIPMENTS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to review a report of the Select
Committee on Intelligence in relation to the shipment of arms to Iran and the
channeling of funds to the Nicaraguan opposition. Also, the committee
discussed staff assignments and security guidelines.
Committee recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC REPORT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings on the economic report of
the President, receiving testimony from Beryl Sprinkel, Chairman, and Thomas
G. Moore, and Michael Mussa, both members, all of the Council of Economic
Advisers.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
1987/02/02
Daily Digest - Monday, February 2, 1987; pages D105 - D ? (Bound vol. D39-
D43)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AVIATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, January 30, the
Subcommittee on Aviation concluded oversight hearings on aviation safety,
after receiving testimony from Senator Byrd; William F. Bolger, Air Transport
Association, Alan Stephen, Regional Airline Association, John Sheehan,
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, John O'Brien, Air Line Pilots
Association, and John F. Thornton, Dennis Delaney, and Howard Barte, all of
the National Air Traffic Controllers' Association, all of Washington, DC.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on how to improve the existing family welfare system and how
to promote the well-being of families with children, receiving testimony from
Delaware Governor, Michael N. Castle, Dover, on behalf of the National
Governors Association; Mayor Arthur J. Holland, Trenton, New Jersey, on behalf
of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Ann Klinger, Supervisor, Merced County,
California, on behalf of the National Association of Counties; Dorothy V.
Harris, National Association of Social Workers, Silver Spring, Maryland; and
Douglas G. Glasgow, National Urban League, Inc., J. Bryan Hehir, U.S. Catholic
Conference, Charles V. Bergstrom, American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in
America and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, Robert Greenstein,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, David Liederman, Child Welfare League
of America, Robert J. Fersh, Food Research Action Center, and Cynthia Marano,
Wider Opportunities for Women, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Friday, February 20.
ENERGY TAXATION
Committee on Finance: On Friday, January 30, the Subcommittee on Energy and
Agricultural Taxation held hearings on energy tax issues, including S. 233, to
encourage increased production of domestic crude oil, S. 255, to repeal the
windfall profit tax on domestic crude oil, and S. 302, to impose a tax on the
importation of crude oil and refined petroleum products, receiving testimony
from William Fisher, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Francis
Durand, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners, and Mack Wallace,
Texas Railroad Commission, all of Austin, Texas; Henry Schuller, and Charles
Ebinger, both of Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Phil Verleger, Institute for International Economics, and Charles
DiBona, American Petroleum Institute, all of Washington, DC; George Singer,
Independent Petroleum Association of America, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Jack Taylor,
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; William
Bradford, Dresser Industries, Houston, Texas; Carl Bolch, Racetrac Petroleum
Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, representing the Society of Independent Gasoline
Marketers; and William F. Kenny II, Meenan Oil Company, Soyosset, New York, on
behalf of the Independent Fuel Terminal Operators Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK AND POLICY
Joint Economic Committee: Committee resumed hearings to review the economic
outlook and economic policy for 1987, receiving testimony from Paul A.
Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.
On Friday, January 30, the committee began hearings to review the economic
outlook and economic policy for 1987, receiving testimony from James A. Baker
III, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1987/02/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 3, 1987; pages D111 - D ? (Bound vol. D44-
D47)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense began hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from William Howard Taft IV, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, February 18.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to review those programs
which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's
proposed budget, with a view toward making its recommendations to the
Committee on the Budget, receiving testimony on proposed budget requests for
the Department of Defense for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 from Rudolph Penner,
Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings to review the national
security strategy of the United States, receiving testimony from George P.
Shultz, Secretary of State.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee began
hearings on the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from
James C. Fletcher, Administrator, Dale Myers, Deputy Administrator, Richard
Truly, Associate Administrator, and C. Thomas Newman, Comptroller, all of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ACID RAIN AND HEALTH
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to review the health effects of acid rain
precursors, focusing on sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, after receiving
testimony from Richard Narkewicz, American Academy of Pediatrics, Thomas
Godar, American Lung Association, and Anthony Robbins, American Public Health
Association, all of Washington, DC; and Phillip Landrigan, Mount Sinai Medical
Center, New York, New York.
WORLD ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the world
economy and trade issues, focusing on the U.S. response to the international
trade deficit, receiving testimony from James D. Robinson III, American
Express, New York, New York, representing the Business Roundtable Task Force
on International Trade and Investment; and Mark Shepherd, Jr., Texas
Instruments Incorporated, Dallas.
Hearings continue on February 5.
JOBS FOR EMPLOYABLE DEPENDENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources; Committee began hearings on proposed
legislation to pay bonuses to States that succeed in training and employing
long-term welfare dependents, receiving testimony from Massachusetts Governor,
Michael Dukakis, and Richard McAloon, Aetna Life and Casualty, both of Boston,
Massachusetts; Vermont Governor, Madeleine M. Kunin, Montpelier; Dawn Lawson,
Norton Company, Inc., Worcester, Massachusetts; Ed Farris, and Carmen Colon,
both of EF Industries, Lawrence, Massachusetts; John Jacob, National Urban
League, New York, New York; Raul Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza,
Washington, DC; and Leon H. Sullivan, Opportunities Industrialization Centers
of America, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 4, 1987; pages D117 - D ? (Bound vol. D47-
D53)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE BUDGET
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began hearings on
the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the
Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Richard E. Lyng, Secretary
of Agriculture; Peter C. Myers, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; and Stephen
B. Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, Department of
Agriculture.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget with a view toward making its recommendations to
the Committee on the Budget, receiving testimony on proposed budget requests
for the Department of Defense for fiscal years 1988 and 1989, and on the
relationship of the program proposals of the military departments to national
security objectives and policies and to the operational requirements of the
combatant commands, receiving testimony from John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of
the Army; James F. Goodrich, Under Secretary of the Navy; and Edward C.
Aldridge, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation;
Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research, Department of
Energy; and Ian M. Ross, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FTC AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal Trade
Commission, receiving testimony from Daniel Oliver, Chairman, and Patricia P.
Bailey, Terry Calvani, Mary L. Azcuenaga, and Andrew J. Sternio, Jr., all
Commissioners, all of the Federal Trade Commission; W.J. Michael Cody,
Tennessee Attorney General, Nashville, representing the National Association
of Attorneys General; and Kathleen E. McDermott, Collier, Shannon, Rill and
Scott, representing the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington,
DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
DOE'S CIVILIAN NUCLEAR WASTE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the current status of the Department of Energy's nuclear waste
activities, focusing on the selection of geological repository sites,
receiving testimony from Grant Sawyer, Nevada Commission on Nuclear Projects,
Carson City; Steve Frishman, Texas Nuclear Waste Programs, Austin; Curtis
Eschels, Special Assistant to the Governor of Washington, Olympia; Melvin
Sampson, Yakima Indian Tribal Council, Toppenish, Washington; Del T. White,
Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee, Lapwai, Idaho; and Louie Dick, Jr.,
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
REVENUE INCREASES
Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on revenue increases as
contained in the President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony from Senator Murkowski; Roger Mentz, Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for Tax Policy; and Kathleen P. Utgoff, Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee began hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony from Edwin Meese III, Attorney General, and Charles F.
Rule, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, both of the
Department of Justice.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
JOBS FOR EMPLOYABLE DEPENDENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee continued hearings on
proposed legislation to pay bonuses to States that succeed in training and
employing long-term welfare dependents, receiving testimony from John Horsley,
Commissioner, Kitsap County, Port Orchard, Washington, on behalf of the
National Association of Counties; Pierce Quinlan, National Alliance of
Business, Washington, DC; and Stephen Heintz, Connecticut Commissioner of
Income Maintenance, Hartford.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NEW GI BILL CONTINUATION ACT
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 12, to
remove the expiration date of eligibility for educational assistance programs
for veterans of the All-Volunteer Force, after receiving testimony from
Senator Daschle; R.J. Vogel, Chief Benefits Director, and Dennis R. Wyant,
Director, Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Service, both of the
Veterans' Administration; Chapman B. Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Force Management and Personnel, and Dennis R. Shaw, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Robert M. Elton, Deputy
Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Dudley L. Carlson, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations; Lt. Gen. Thomas A. Hickey, Deputy Chief of Air Force
Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. Ernest C. Cheatham, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps
Staff for Personnel; Richard W. Johnson, Non-Commissioned Officers
Association, C. Judson Lively, Reserve Officers Association of the United
States, Maj. Gen. Robert F. Cocklin, USA (Ret), Association of the United
States Army, Col. Charles C. Partridge, USA (Ret), National Association for
Uniformed Services, Rudy I. Clark, Air Force Sergeants Association, Robert W.
Nolan, Fleet Reserve Association, Dennis Cullinan, Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States, Joseph E. Miller, and James Hubbard, both of the American
Legion, Richard F. Schultz, Disabled American Veterans, Robert Moran,
Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ralph Spencer, American Veterans Committee, and
Allan W. Ostar, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, all
of Washington, DC; Edward J. Liston, Community College of Rhode Island,
Warwick, on behalf of the American Association of Community and Junior
Colleges and the Association of Community College Trustees; and Edward C.
Keiser, Chico State College, Chico, California, on behalf of the National
Association of Veterans Program Administrators.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 5, 1987; pages D125 - D ? (Bound vol. D53-
D57)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USDA FOOD AID PROGRAMS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry, and General Legislation held
hearings on the status of American foreign food assistance programs in
relation to agricultural trade, receiving testimony from Thomas O. Kay,
Administrator, George Pope, Assistant General Sales Manager, and Mary
Chambliss, Director, Program Analysis Division, all of the Foreign
Agricultural Service, Department of Agriculture; and Duane Acker, Director for
Food and Agriculture, Agency for International Development.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued hearings to review those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget with a view toward making its recommendations to
the Committee on the Budget, receiving testimony on proposed budget requests
for the Department of Defense for fiscal years 1988 and 1989, and on major
military missions, priorities for correcting any mission deficiencies, and the
relationship of the program proposals of the services to these priorities from
Gen. John A Wickham, Jr., Chief of Staff, United States Army; Gen. Paul X.
Kelley, Commandant, U.S. Marine Corps; Adm. Carlisle A.H. Trost, Chief of
Naval Operations; and Gen. Larry D. Welch, Chief of Staff, United States Air
Force.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 17.
FAIR DEPOSIT AVAILABILITY ACT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 344, to require depository institutions to
disclose to their customers their practices relating to the availability of
funds in connection with check deposits, after receiving testimony from Wayne
D. Angell, Governor, Board of the Federal Reserve System; Alan Fox, Consumer
Federation of America, Michelle Meier, Consumers Union, Francine Livingston,
Congress Watch, Samuel Cooper, United States Public Interest Research Group,
and Gayle K. Lawrence, American Association of Retired Persons, all of
Washington, DC; Donald R. Monks, Irving Trust Company, New York, New York, on
behalf of the American Bankers Association; Gregory O. Wilhelm, Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., San Francisco, California, on behalf of the Consumers Bankers
Association; Robert C. Hewell, River Oaks Bank, Houston, Texas, on behalf of
the Houston Clearing House Association; and Terrence F. Kehoe, National
Financial Automation Corporation, Milford, Connecticut.
FTC AUTHORIZATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Consumer Subcommittee
continued hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Federal
Trade Commission, receiving testimony from Mark Silbergeld, representing
Consumers Union, Consumer Federation of America, the National Consumers
League, Public Citizen's Congress Watch, and the United States Public Interest
Research Group, Donald A. Randall, National Independent Dairy-Foods
Association, William W. Suttle, American Insurance Association, and John S.
Satagaj, Small Business Legislative Council, all of Washington, DC; Glen
Wagner, Milk Marketing, Inc., Strongsville, Ohio, representing The National
Council of Farmer Cooperatives; Gilbert H. Weil, Weil, Guttman & Malkin, on
behalf of the Association of National Advertisers, and David S. Versfelt,
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, both of New York, New York, on behalf of
the American Association of Advertisers; and David A. Rice, Boston University,
Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DOE CIVILIAN NUCLEAR WASTE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded oversight
hearings on the current status of Department of Energy nuclear waste
activities, after receiving testimony from Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy.
EPA -- BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lee M. Thomas,
Administrator, and A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
WORLD ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed oversight hearings on the world
economy and trade issues, focusing on the United States response to the
international trade deficit, receiving testimony from Colby H. Chandler,
Eastman Kodak, Inc., Rochester, New York; Robert W. Galvin, Motorola, Inc.,
Schaumburg, Illinois; and William Lilley III, American Business Conference,
Bronxville, New York.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 19.
U.S. POLICY TOWARD NICARAGUA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 184, to
provide economic assistance to Central America, and to review United States
policy options with respect to Nicaragua and aid to the Contras, after
receiving testimony from Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs; and Ambassador Philip C. Habib, Special Envoy for
Central America.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony from William F. Weld, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal
Division, and John C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration,
both of the Department of Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REFUGEE CRISIS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
held hearings to review the refugee crisis in southern Africa, receiving
testimony from Michael H. Armacost, Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs; Robert L. Funseth, Acting Director, Bureau for Refugee Programs,
Department of State; Charles W. Freeman, Jr., Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; Julia Taft, Office of United States
Foreign Disaster Assistance, Agency for International Development; James
Mayrides, UNICEF, Nairobi, Kenya; Rudy Ramp, CARE, New York, New York; and
Thomas R. Getman, World Vision, and Roger P. Winter, U.S. Committee for
Refugees, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/09
Daily Digest - Monday, February 9, 1987; pages D132 - D ? (Bound vol. D57)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 10, 1987; pages D136 - D ? (Bound vol. D57-
D59)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/11
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 11, 1987; pages D140 - D ? (Bound vol.
D59-D60)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/16
Daily Digest - Monday, February 16, 1987; pages D143 - D ? (Bound vol. D60)
Committee Meetings
No committee meetings were held.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 17, 1987; pages D145 - D ? (Bound vol. D60-
D63)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. MILITARY POSTURE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on U.S. military posture, receiving testimony
from Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense; and Adm. William J. Crowe,
Jr., USN, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Committee will meet again on Thursday, February 19.
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs held hearings on proposed legislation, authorizing funds for
Federal housing and community development programs administered by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture,
receiving testimony from Mayor James E. Roark, Charleston, West Virginia, on
behalf of the National League of Cities; Mayor William J. Althaus, York,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Councilmember Ruth
Keeton, Howard County, Maryland, on behalf of the National Association of
Counties; Thomas M. French Jr., BancBoston Mortgage Companies, Inc.,
Jacksonville, Florida, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association of
America; Leon T. Kendall, Mortgage Guarantee Insurance Corporation, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, on behalf of the Mortgage Insurance Companies of America; Thomas F.
McHugh, Rochester Housing Authority, Rochester, New York, on behalf of the
National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials; Terrence
Duvernay, Michigan State Housing Development Authority, Lansing, on behalf of
the Council of State Housing Agencies; Alonzo Watson, South Bend Housing
Authority, South Bend, Indiana, on behalf of the Public Housing Authorities
Directors Association; Thomas R. Runquist, First Centrum Corporation, East
Lansing, Michigan, on behalf of the Council for Rural Housing and Development;
and Richard Geltman, National Governors' Association, Barry Zigas, National
Low Income Housing Coalition, Robert E. McKay, Council of Large Public Housing
Authorities, Harold Wilson, Housing Assistance Council, Moises Loza, National
Rural Housing Coalition, and John Denning, American Association of Retired
Persons, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 19.
FEDERAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to review Federal education
policy, receiving testimony from New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, Trenton;
Charles B. Rood, State University System of Florida, Tallahassee; David
Packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, California; and Marc S. Tucker,
Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, New York, New York.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
RAIL SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings to review rail safety issues, focusing on
automatic train control, radio communications, alcohol and drug use, and
passenger car interior safety, receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg;
Representative Collins; John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad
Administration, Department of Transportation; James Burnett, Chairman,
National Transportation Safety Board; J.R. Snyder, Railroad Labor Executives'
Association, William H. Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, and W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., National Railroad Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK), all of
Washington, DC; and Richard B. Hasselman, Conrail, Philadelphia, Pennsylanvia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION/FOREST SERVICE BUDGETS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their resepective activities from Martha O. Hesse,
Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and George S. Dunlop,
Assistant for Natural Resources and Environment, and F. Dale Robertson, Chief,
and George Leonard, Associate Chief, both of the Forest Service, all of the
Department of Agriculture.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
U.S. FISH/WILDLIFE SERVICE -- BUDGET
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service from William P. Horn,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks; and Frank
H. Dunkle, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
PATENTS AND TRADEMARKS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and
Trademarks held oversight hearings on patent and trademark issues, focusing on
systems for protecting patent and intellectual property rights, receiving
testimony from David J. Quigg, Commissioner, Patent and Trademark Office,
Department of Commerce; Norman J. Latker, Director, Federal Technology
Management Policy, Office of Productivity, Technology and Innovation,
Department of Commerce; Jay Michael Cleary, The United States Trademark
Association, New York, New York; Robert C. Kline, American Intellectual
Property Law Association, Wilmington, Delaware; Donald W. Banner, Intellectual
Property Owners, Inc., Washington, DC; and William Marshall Lee, American Bar
Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DISADVANTAGED YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings to
review minority youth unemployment, receiving testimony from Jesse Jackson,
National Rainbow Coalition, Lawrence C. Brown, Jr., 70001 Training and
Employment Institute, Raul Yzaguirre, National Council of La Raza, and William
H. Kolberg, National Alliance of Business, all of Washington, DC; Elton Jolly,
Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, Inc., Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; James Hyman, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New
York, New York; Sandra C. Hagerty, Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chicago,
Illinois; Arnetta Battle, Steve Fears, and Shawn Leyba, all of Cleveland,
Ohio; and Dwyane Harris and Vance Ison, both of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to consider
pending committee business, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee began hearings on the nomination
of Robert M. Gates, of Virginia, to be Director of Central Intelligence, where
the nominee, who was introduced by Senator Warner, testified and answered
questions in his own behalf.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, February 18, 1987; pages D153 - D ? (Bound vol.
D63-D65)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FCC/FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION/MARITIME ADMINISTRATION -- BUDGETS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Mark Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission;
Edward V. Hickey, Jr., Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission; and John
Gaughan, Administrator, Maritime Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 26.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the MX Rail Garrison basing mode, a proposal for the small ICBM,
and on the problems with the B-1B bomber, receiving testimony from Gen. John
Chain, Commander, Strategic Air Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 25.
INTERIOR/ENERGY BUDGETS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy, receiving testimony
from Senator Boren; Representative Beilenson; Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of
the Interior; and John S. Herrington, Secretary of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 20.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee began oversight
hearings on the Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for 1987,
focusing on the conduct of monetary policy, receiving testimony from Stephen
H. Axilrod, The Nikko Securities Company International, Inc., New York, New
York; Lawrence Chimerine, Chase Econometrics, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; Allan
H. Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Paul Graig
Roberts, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC; and H. Erich Heinermann, Ladenburg, Thalmann &
Company, Inc., New York, New York.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee held hearings to review the President's
proposed budget request for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony
from Adm. Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr., USN (Ret.), former Chief of Naval Operations,
Joshua Epstein, Brookings Institution, and Lt. Gen. Glenn A. Kent, USAF
(Ret.), The Rand Corporation, all of Washington, DC.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY BUDGET
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, after receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Department of Energy from John Herrington, Secretary
of Energy.
VA/NRC -- BUDGETS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee held hearings on those
programs which fall within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the
President's proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for the Tennessee Valley Authority from Senator Gore; and
Charles H. Dean, Jr., Chairman, John B. Waters, Director, William F. Willis,
General Manager, Edward S. Christenbury, General Counsel, B.J. Bond, Manager
of Natural Resources and Economic Development, and John T. Shields, Office of
Agricultural and Chemical Development, all of the Tennessee Valley Authority;
and in behalf of funds for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from Lando W.
Zech, Jr., Chairman, and Thomas M. Roberts, Fred Bernthal, James K.
Asselstine, and Kenneth M. Carr, all Commissioners, all of the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on those programs which fall
within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed
budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony from James C. Miller III,
Director, Office of Management and Budget.
Hearings continue on Monday, February 23.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a business meeting where it
took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported with amendments S. 184, to provide additional
economic assistance to Central America, and to terminate aid to the Contras;
and
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings on the elimination
of waste, fraud, and abuse in certain Government agencies, focusing on open,
classified, and covert accounts, receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, Milton J. Socolar, Special Assistant
to the Comptroller General, Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller, General
Security and International Affairs Programs, and Frederick D. Wolf, Director
of the Accounting and Financial Management Division, all of the General
Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
McCARRAN-FERGUSON ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings on S. 80, to repeal the
exemption from the Federal antitrust laws the business of insurance, receiving
testimony from Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Charles F.
Rule, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of
Justice; Massachusetts Attorney General James M. Shannon, Boston, and West
Virginia Attorney General Charles G. Brown, Charleston, both on behalf of the
National Association of Attorneys General; Rhode Island State Representative
Jeffrey J. Teitz, Providence, on behalf of the National Conference of State
Legislatures; Edward Muhl, Maryland Commissioner of Insurance, Annapolis, and
John Washburn, Illinois Commissioner of Insurance, Springfield, both on behalf
of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; David Levinson,
Delaware Commissioner of Insurance, Dover; New York State Senator Donald
Halperin, Albany, on behalf of the Conference of Insurance Legislators; J.
Robert Hunter, National Insurance Consumer Organization, Alexandria, Virginia;
F.J. O'Neill, Wilmington, Delaware, representing the Independent Insurance
Agents of America, Inc.; Brad Mitchell, Harleysville Insurance, Harleysville,
Pennsylvania, representing the National Association of Independent Insurers;
and John Motley, National Federation of Independent Business, John Satagaj,
Small Business Legislative Council, Mark N. Cooper, Consumer Federation of
America, Leslie W. Seldin, American Dental Association, Mark F. Horning,
American Insurance Association, and Robert S. Seiler, American Council of Life
Insurance and the Health Insurance Association of America, all of Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS' PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held hearings on the President's
proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1988 for veterans' programs, and on
section 4(b) of S. 6 (Veterans' Health Care Improvement Act of 1987) and S.
279, measures to provide a 1-year extension of the date by which the VA's
readjustment counseling program for Vietnam-era veterans is to begin a 2-year
transition to a program providing counseling services through the VA's general
medical facilities, and S. 477, to assist homeless veterans, receiving
testimony from Thomas K. Turnage, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, Thomas
E. Harvey, Deputy Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, John A. Gronvall, Chief
Medical Director, Grady W. Horton, Deputy Chief Benefits Director for Program
Management, Arthur S. Hamerschlag, Chief Memorial Affairs Director, and Donald
L. Ivers, General Counsel, all of the Veterans' Administration; Donald E.
Shasteen, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment and Training;
and Paul S. Egan, and John F. Sommer, both of the American Legion, Michael R.
Leaveck, Richard F. Weidman, and Thomas A. Sherwood, all of the Vietnam
Veterans of America, Jesse Moses, Leroy Kellar, and Ben Littlejohn, all of
Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued hearings on the
nomination of Robert M. Gates, of Virginia, to be Director of Central
Intelligence, where the nominee testified and answered further questions in
his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, February 19, 1987; pages D159 - D ? (Bound vol. D66-
D72)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
1988 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony from Rudolph Penner,
Director, Congressional Budget Office.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 26.
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Farm Credit Administration, receiving testimony from Frank
Naylor, Chairman, and James R. Billington, and Marvin R. Duncan, both Members
of the Board of Directors, all of the Farm Credit Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, February 23.
APPROPRIATIONS -- CIVIL WORKS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for civil works projects from Robert K. Dawson,
Assistant Secretary of the Army for 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 24.
DEFENSE BUDGET
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings to assess the Department
of Defense budget request for fiscal years 1988 and 1989, receiving testimony
from Charles Bowsher, Comptroller General, General Accounting Office.
Committee will meet again on Monday, February 23.
MONETARY POLICY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on the Federal Reserve's First Monetary Policy Report for
1987, focusing on the conduct of monetary policy, after receiving testimony
from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and
Urban Affairs resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
Federal housing and community development programs administered by the
Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture,
receiving testimony from Representative Schumer; James M. Fischer, Jr.,
National Association of Home Builders, Nashville, Tennessee; Nestor R.
Weigand, Jr., National Association of Realtors, Wichita, Kansas; Kent Willis,
National Fair Housing Coalition, I.D. Robbins, Nehemiah Plan, East Brooklyn
Churches, and James Spengler, Our Lady of Mercy Church, both of Brooklyn, New
York; Carol Reckling, Baltimorian United for Leadership Development,
Baltimore, Maryland; Bertha Gilkey, Cochran Tenant Management Corporation, St.
Louis, Missouri; and John Simon, National Housing Conference, Robert Dodge,
Rental Housing Association, David Caprara, National Center for Neighborhood
Enterprise, and Kimi Gray, Kenilworth Parkside Resident Management
Corporation, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 26.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
focusing on the applicability of the Federal securities laws to the sale of
the Federal Government loan assets mandated by the Omnibus Budget
Reconciliation Act of 1986, receiving testimony from John Shad, Chairman, and
Edward Fleishman, Commissioner, both of the Securities and Exchange
Commission; Martin Feldstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts;
and Alan Greenspan, Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Inc., New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, February 24.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space held hearings on the President's proposed budget request
for fiscal year 1988 for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration,
focusing on space science and application, receiving testimony from Burton I.
Edelson, Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, Sam
Keller, Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications,
Jeffrey Rosendhal, Assistant Administrator for Science, and Ronald Konkel,
Director, Administration and Resources Management, all of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Louis J. Lanzerotti, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey; Andrew Nagy, Association of American
Universities, Washington, DC; and Carl Sagan, The Planetary Society, Pasadena,
California.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 26.
NATIONAL PARKS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 90, to establish the Big Cypress National Preserve Addition in the State of
Florida, after receiving testimony from Senators Chiles and Graham; Steven
Whitney, Wilderness Society, and Paul Pritchard, National Parks and
Conservation Association, both of Washington, DC; and Roy Cawley, Collier
Enterprises, Naples, Florida; and
S. 56, to establish the El Malpais National Monument, the Masua Trail, and the
Grants National Conservation Area in the State of New Mexico, after receiving
testimony from Representative Richardson; William R. Humphries, New Mexico
Commissioner of Public Lands, Santa Fe; George G. Byers, Santa Fe Pacific
Minerals Corporation, and Chuck Wiggins, New Mexico BLM Wilderness Coalition,
both of Albuquerque, New Mexico; Stanley Paytiamo, Acoma Pueblo, Abe M. Pena,
Grants Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Jackie Fisher, Joe Murrietta, Cibola County
Manager, and David Candelaria, all of Grants, New Mexico; Mayor Warren
Mathers, Mayor Pro-tem Pete Maldonado, and Jim Craine, all of Milan, New
Mexico; Trecia Blancett, City Manager, Aztec, New Mexico; and John W. Somers,
Sierra Club (Rio Grande Chapter), and Jim Norton, Wilderness Society, both of
Washington, DC.
Testimony was also received on both the aforementioned bills from William P.
Horn, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, Department of the
Interior.
WORLD ECONOMY
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded oversight hearings on the world
economy and trade issues, focusing on the United States response to the
international trade deficit, after receiving testimony from James A. Baker
III, Secretary of the Treasury; and Clayton Yeutter, United States Trade
Representative.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported two
treaties between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics on (1) the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests,
and the Protocol thereto, known as the Threshold Test Ban Treaty (TTBT) signed
in Moscow on July 3, 1974, with a declaration and a reservation, and (2) the
Underground Nuclear Explosions for Peaceful Purposes, and the Protocol
thereto, known as the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty (PNET), signed in
Washington and Moscow on May 28, 1976, with a declaration and reservation
(Ex.N, 94th Cong., 2nd Sess.).
Also, the committee ordered favorably reported an original resolution
providing it is the sense of the Senate that the President should negotiate
for enhanced and effective verification methods with respect to the
aforementioned treaties.
GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on the
elimination of waste, fraud, and abuse in certain Government agencies,
focusing on Inspector General operations and needs, receiving testimony from
Richard P. Kusserow, Inspector General, Department of Health and Human
Services; James R. Richards, Inspector General, Department of the Interior;
John J. Adair, Associate Director, and David L. Clark, Deputy Associate
Director, both of the Fraud Prevention and Audit Oversight Group, Accounting
and Financial Management Division, General Accounting Office; and Charles R.
Clauson, Chief Postal Inspector, and Kenneth M. Hearst, Assistant Chief
Inspector, both of the United States Postal Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings to review the
President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of
Justice, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Civil Division from
Richard K. Willard, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, Department of
Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PARENTAL AND TEMPORARY MEDICAL LEAVE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Families,
Drugs and Alcoholism held hearings on S. 249, to grant employees parental and
temporary medical leave under certain circumstances, receiving testimony from
Barbara Ferguson Kamara, Office of Early Childhood Development, and Jim Weeks,
United Mineworkers of America, both of Washington, DC; Jean Goebel, Weston,
Connecticut; Ed Zigler, Yale Bush Center on Child Development and Social
Policy, and Jeanne Kardos, Southern New England Telephone, both of New Haven,
Connecticut; James T. Bond, National Council of Jewish Women, New York, New
York; Cheryle Mitvalsky, Association of Junior Leagues, Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Karen Nussbaum, Nine to Five: National Association of Working Women,
Cleveland, Ohio; Frances Shaine, Holyoke, Massachusetts, representing the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce; Mary Del Brady, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, representing
the National Association of Women Business Owners; Jay Wilson, Baltimore,
Maryland, representing the National Association of Manufacturers; Carol
Merrick, Merrick Consultants, Inc., Kenosha, Wisconsin; and Joan Specter,
Councilwoman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS' PROGRAMS
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
President's proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1988 for veterans'
programs, and on section 4(b) of S. 6 (Veterans' Health Care Improvement Act
of 1987), and S. 279, measures to provide a 1-year extension of the date by
which the VA's readjustment counseling program for Vietnam-era veterans is to
begin a 2-year transition to a program providing counseling services through
the VA's general medical facilities, and S. 477, to assist homeless veterans,
after receiving testimony from David W. Gorman, Disabled American Veterans, R.
Jack Powell, and Donald R. Custis, both of Paralyzed Veterans of America,
James N. Magill, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, David J.
Passamaneck, AMVETS, Shirley McVay-Wiseman, National Association of Home
Builders, and Stan H. Sabin, National Association of Realtors, all of
Washington, DC; and Willard Gourley, Barclays-American/Mortgage Corporation,
Charlotte, North Carolina, on behalf of the Mortgage Bankers Association of
America.
INDIAN PROGRAMS
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 1988, after receiving
testimony from Ross Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian
Affairs; Frank Ryan, Deputy Secretary of the Interior for Trust and Economic
Development; Everett Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of
Health and Human Services; Bruce Carnes, Deputy Under Secretary of Education
for Planning, Budget and Evaluation; Thomas Corwin, Acting Director, Office of
Elementary and Secondary Education, Department of Education; Lawrence
Davenport, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary
Education; John Meyers, Director, and Pat Arnado, Assistant to the Director,
both of the Office of Indian Housing Programs, Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Paula Schneider, Chief, and Edna Paisano and Nampeo, both
Assistants to the Chief, all of the Population Division, Department of
Commerce; Paul Mayrand, Director, Office of Special Targeted Programs,
Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor; Suzan Shown
Harjo, National Congress of American Indians; John Forekenbrock, American
Indian Higher Education Consortium; Virginia Spencer, National American Indian
Housing Council, and William Lynn Engles, Administration for Native Americans,
all of Washington, DC; Roger Bordeaux, Association of Tribal Contract Schools
and National Indian School Board Association, Pierre, South Dakota; Michael
Clements, Intertribal Timber Council, Warm Springs, Oregon; Julie Kitka,
Alaska Federation of Natives, Anchorage; Caleb Pungowiyi, Kawerak, Inc., Nome,
Alaska; Emery Johnson, former Director of the Indian Health Service,
Rockville, Maryland; Suzan Weryackwe, National Indian Education Association,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Dean Jackson, Navajo Community College, Chinle,
Arizona.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/23
Daily Digest - Monday, February 23, 1987; pages D173 - D ? (Bound vol. D72-
D76)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Richard
E. Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture, Peter C. Myers, Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture, and Steve Dewhurst, Director, Office of Budget and Program
Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, February 25.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 20, Subcommittee on the
Interior and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the National Park Service, receiving testimony from
William Penn Mott, Director, National Park Service, and William P. Horn,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, both of the Department of
the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 3.
APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 20, Subcommittee on HUD --
Independent Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Maj. Gen. A.J. Adams, USA, Secretary, American Battle
Monuments Commission; John Doyle, Principal Deputy Assistant to the Secretary
of the Army; Wilfred Ebel, Acting Director, Selective Service System; and
Roger Jepsen, Chairman, National Credit Union Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, February 27.
SNOW REMOVAL IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, February 20, the Subcommittee on the
District of Columbia concluded hearings on the status of the District of
Columbia emergency snow removal system, after receiving testimony from James
Colvard, Deputy Director, Office of Personnel Management; D.C. Mayor Marion S.
Barry; Nadine P. Winter, Chairperson, D.C. Council Committee on Public Works;
Maj. Gen. Calvin Franklin, Commanding General, D.C. National Guard; and Carmen
Turner, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
MILITARY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on U.S. military
strategy in the areas of responsibility of the U.S. Southern and Atlantic
Commands, after receiving testimony from Gen. John R. Galvin, USA, Commander
in Chief, U.S. Southern Command; and Adm. Lee Baggett, Jr., USN, Commander in
Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command.
B-1B BOMBER
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on certain issues relating to the B-1B Bomber,
receiving testimony from Gen. John T. Chain, Jr., USAF, Commander in Chief,
Strategic Air Command; Lt. Gen. Bernard Randolph, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff
for Research, Development and Acquisition; Lt. Col. Mike Kenney, Instructor
Pilot, Maj. Mike Elliot, Instructor, Offensive Systems Operator, and Capt.
Fred Strain, Defensive Systems Operator, all of the 96th Bombardment Wing,
Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AIRLINE AND RAIL PASSENGER PROTECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: On Friday, February 20,
the committee held hearings on S. 356 and S. 362, bills providing for testing
for the use, without lawful authorization, of alcohol or controlled substances
by the operators of aircraft and railroads, receiving testimony from Elizabeth
H. Dole, Secretary of Transportation, Melissa Allen, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Administration, and Matt Scocozza, Assistant Secretary for
Policy and International Affairs, all of the Department of Transportation;
James E. Landry, Air Transport Association, William H. Dempsey, Association of
American Railroads, Douglas Turner, American Bus Association, Richard Stone,
Air Line Pilots Association, Lawrence M. Mann, Mann and Reiser, Vernon
McDougall, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen,
and Helpers of America, and Robert Molofsky, Amalgamated Transit Union, all of
Washington, DC; and Lana Batts, American Trucking Association, Alexandria,
Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES -- BUDGET
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on those programs which fall
within the committee's jurisdiction as contained in the President's proposed
budget for fiscal year 1988, focusing on Medicare, Medicaid, Maternal and
Child Health Block Grant, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Child
Support Enforcement and other social service and income maintenance programs,
receiving testimony from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on how to improve the existing family welfare system and how
to promote the well-being of families with children, receiving testimony from
Senator Kennedy; Representative Levin; Washington Gov. Booth Gardner, Olympia;
Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft, Jefferson City; New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean,
Trenton; Connecticut State Senator John Larson, Hartford; California State
Assemblyman Art Agnos, San Francisco; Judith Gueron, Manpower Demonstration
Research Corporation, New York, New York; Lawrence Mead, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; Robert Lerman, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Massachusetts; and Robert Reischauer, Brookings Institution, William H.
Kolberg, National Alliance of Business, Gerald W. McEntee, American Federation
of State and County Municipal Employees, and Robert McGlotten AFL/CIO, all of
Washington, DC.
On Friday, February 20, the subcommittee also resumed hearings on welfare
reform, receiving testimony from Representative Pepper; Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis, Boston; Wayne A. Stanton, Administrator, Family Support
Administration, and Director, Office of Child Support Enforcement; Delaware
State Representative Jane Maroney, Dover, on behalf of National Conference of
State Legislatures; Paula MacIlwaine, Commissioner, Montgomery County, Ohio,
and Kevin P. Kenney, Associate County Administrator, Hennepin County,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, both on behalf of the National Association of
Counties; Marian Wright Edelman, Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC;
Carol Curtis, Darien, Connecticut; and Carolyn Kastner, Center for the Support
of Children, Cambridge, Massachusetts, John Abbott, Salt Lake City, Utah, and
Susan Paiken, Family Court of Delaware, Wilmington, all on behalf of the
National Child Support Enforcement Association.
Hearings continue on Monday, March 2.
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
Subcommittee on European Affairs: Senators Biden (Chairman), Sarbanes,
Zorinsky, Simon, Pressler, Trible, and Boschwitz;
Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs: Senators Sarbanes
(Chairman), Cranston, Sanford, Moynihan, Boschwitz, McConnell, and Pressler;
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Communications:
Senators Zorinsky (Chairman), Adams, Moynihan, McConnell, and Murkowski;
Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs: Senators Cranston (Chairman),
Zorinsky, Dodd, Kerry, Adams, Murkowski, Evans, Lugar, and McConnell;
Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace Corps Affairs: Senators Dodd
(Chairman), Cranston, Kerry, Sanford, Pell, Lugar, Kassebaum, Trible, and
Evans;
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and Environment:
Senators Kerry (Chairman), Sarbanes, Dodd, Adams, Evans, Murkowski, and Lugar;
Subcommittee on African Affairs: Senators Simon (Chairman), Sanford, Moynihan,
Kassebaum, and Helms.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Friday, February 20, the committee
concluded hearings on the nominations of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to
be Under Secretary of State for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs, and
Arnold L. Raphel, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Derwinski was introduced by Senator Dixon.
FEDERAL LICENSING PROCEDURES FOR ARMS EXPORTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, February 20, the committee held
hearings on Federal licensing procedures for international arms dealers, and
on the Administration's policy on the export of conventional arms, receiving
testimony from William Robinson, Director, Office of Munitions Control, Bureau
of Politico-Military Affairs, Department of State; Lt. Gen. Phillipp C. Gast,
USAF, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency, Department of Defense; and
Sam Banks, Assistant Commissioner, Inspection and Control Division, Steve
Walton, Director, Office of Strategic Investigations, Enforcement Division,
and Michael Schmitz, General Counsel, all of the U.S. Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: On Friday, February 20, the committee
concluded hearings on S. 187, to provide for the protection of Native American
rights for the remains of their dead and sacred artifacts, and for the
creation of Native American cultural museums, after receiving testimony from
Robert McC. Adams, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; John Fowler,
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and Leslie Wildeson and Mark Leone,
both of the Society of American Archaeology, all of Washington, DC; Bill
Tallbull, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, Inc., Lame Deer, Montana; Earl Old Person,
Blackfeet Tribal Council, Browning, Montana; Nelson Walluatum, WASCO Tribe,
Confederated Tribe of Warm Springs, on behalf of the Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians, Portland, Oregon; and Lionel John, United South and Eastern
Tribes, Nashville, Tennessee.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/02/24
Daily Digest - Tuesday, February 24, 1987; pages D182 - D ? (Bound vol. D76-
D82
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Army Corps of Engineers projects from Col.
Ernest P. Harrell, Division Engineer, Ohio River Division, Brig. Gen. Charles
E. Dominy, Division Engineer, Missouri River Division, and Brig. Gen. Patrick
J. Kelly, Division Engineer, South Pacific Division, all of the Army Corps of
Engineers.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 26.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations began hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on the role the multilateral banks play in promoting U.S.
national interests in international economic affairs, receiving testimony from
James A. Baker, III, Secretary of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, February 26.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held an open and closed business
meeting where it took the following action:
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress; and
Completed its review of those programs which fall within the jurisdiction of
the committee as contained in the President's proposed budget and agreed on
recommendations it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY AND SEC
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Securities
held oversight hearings on the activities of the securities industry and the
Securities and Exchange Commission, focusing on the roles of the Government
and the private sector in regulating the securities markets, possible changes
in the SEC's activities and possible improvements in the regulation of the
securities markets, and the adequacy of SEC resources to fulfill its statutory
mandates and the adequacy of remedies to deter violations of the securities
laws, receiving testimony from Donald B. Marron, Paine Webber Group, Inc.,
Raymond A. Mason, Legg, Mason, Wood, Walker, Inc., Robert P. Rittereiser, E.F.
Hutton Company, Inc., and Alvin V. Shoemaker, The First Boston Corporation,
all of New York, New York; Milton H. Cohen, Schiff, Hardin and Waite, Chicago,
Illinois; and Harvey L. Pitt, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson, and
James C. Treadway, Baker and Botts, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
focusing on fiscal policy and the economic outlook, receiving testimony from
Paul Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
U.S. ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
the technological strengths and weaknesses of American industry, the role that
current Federal science and technology policies play in promoting U.S.
technological leadership, and policy directions for the future, receiving
testimony from Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; and Erich Bloch,
Director, National Science Foundation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings to examine
long-term health care, types of long-term care services available, current
programs for providing and financing long-term care, and problems with access
to services, receiving testimony from Senator Mikulski; Marjory Blood,
Augusta, Maine, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons;
Jacob Clayman, National Council of Senior Citizens, Silver Spring, Maryland;
Victoria Jaycox, Older Women's League, Val J. Halamandaris, National
Association for Home Care, Sheldon Goldberg, American Association of Homes for
the Aged, and Paul Willging, American Health Care Association, all of
Washington, DC; Stanley J. Brody, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
Trish Riley, Maine Department of Human Services, Augusta; Gail R. Wilensky,
Project Hope, Millwood, Virginia; and George Halvorson, Group Health, Inc.,
Minneapolis, Minnesota, on behalf of the Group Health Association of America.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Edward J. Derwinski, of Illinois, to be Under Secretary of
State for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs, and Arnold L. Raphel, of
New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE/FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for foreign assistance
programs and the Department of State, and other international agency requests,
receiving testimony from George P. Shultz, Secretary of State.
Hearings continue on Thursday, February 26.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings on how the
international spread of nuclear weapons affects specific U.S. national
security interests, receiving testimony from Leonard S. Spector, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
HIGH RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held hearings on
S. 79, to notify workers who are at risk of occupational disease in order to
establish a system for identifying and preventing illness and death of such
workers, receiving testimony from Robert Windom, Assistant Secretary of Health
and Human Services; James Melius, Director, Division of Surveillance,
Hazardous Evaluation and Field Studies, National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health, Department of Health and Human Services; Philip J.
Landrigan, Association of University Programs in Occupational Health and
Safety, New York, New York; John Seffrin, Bloomington, Indiana, on behalf of
the American Cancer Society; James A. Merchant, Oakdale, Iowa, on behalf of
the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society; Howard D. Samuel,
AFL-CIO, Michael J. Wright, United Steelworkers of America, and Leslie Cheek,
Crum and Forster Insurance Companies, all of Washington, DC; Robert Watson,
USWA Local 1066, Gary, Indiana; George Cafasso, USWA Local 1557, Clairton,
Pennsylvania; Robert E. Finnigan, San Jose, California, on behalf of the
American Electronics Association; Robert Clark, Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of the
National Tooling and Machining Association; and Tom Evans, St. Louis,
Missouri, on behalf of the National Association of Manufacturers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it adopted committee rules of procedure, and announced the following
subcommittee assignments:
Subcommittee on Export Expansions: Senators Sasser (Chairman), Bumpers, Nunn,
Harkin, Boschwitz, D'Amato, and Wallop.
Subcommittee on the Rural Economy and Family Farming: Senators Baucus
(Chairman), Nunn, Levin, Dixon, Boren, D'Amato, Boschwitz, Kasten, and
Pressler.
Subcommittee on Government Contracting and Paperwork Reduction: Senators Dixon
(Chairman), Sasser, Mikulski, Kasten, and Rudman.
Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and Productivity: Senators Levin
(Chairman), Baucus, Boren, Kerry, Rudman, Weicker, and Bond.
Subcommittee on Competition and Antitrust Enforcement: Senators Harkin
(Chairman), Bumpers, and Wallop.
Subcommittee on Urban and Minority-Owned Business Development: Senators Kerry
(Chairman), Mikulski, and Bond.
SBA BUDGET
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Small Business
Administration, after receiving testimony from Charles Heatherly, Deputy
Administrator, Small Business Administration; Anthony Wilkinson, Stillwater
National Bank, Stillwater, Oklahoma, representing the Independent Bankers
Association; Marc Turtletaub, The Money Store Investment Corporation,
Sacramento, California; and Herbert P. Wilkins, SYNCOM Capital Corporation,
representing the National Association of Investment Companies, and Rick
Weidman, Vietnam Veterans of America, both of Washington, DC.
Joint Meetings
DAV'S LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs held joint hearings with
the House of Representative's Veterans' Affairs Committee to review the
legislative priorities of the Disabled American Veterans, receiving testimony
from Kenneth Musselmann, Huntington Beach, California, on behalf of the
Disabled American Veterans.
Committees will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL MASS TRANSIT AUTHORIZATIONS
Conferees met to resolve the differences between the Senate- and House-passed
versions of H.R. 2, to authorize funds for construction of highways, for
highway safety programs, and for mass transportation programs, and to expand
and improve the relocation assistance program, but did not complete action
thereon and will meet again tomorrow.
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D82-D88)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
their respective activities from George S. Dunlop, Assistant Secretary for
Natural Resources and Environment, Wilson Scaling, Chief, and Galen S. Bridge,
Deputy Chief for Programs, both of the Soil Conservation Service, Milton
Hertz, Administrator, and David Hall, Director, Budget Division, both of the
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Richard Goldberg, Deputy
Under Secretary for Conservation and International Programs, and Robert
Sherman, Deputy Budget Officer, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 2.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Army Guard and Reserve Readiness, receiving testimony from Gen.
Joseph T. Palastra, Jr., Commander, Forces Command; Lt. Gen. Herbert Temple,
Jr., Chief, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, Chief, Army
Reserve; Maj. Gen. K.C. Leuer, Commander, 5th Infantry Division (Mechanized),
Fort Polk, Louisiana; Maj. Gen. J.H. Corns, Commander, 6th Infantry Division
(Light), Fort Richardson, Alaska; Brig. Gen. W.K. McDaniel, Commander, 48th
Infantry Brigade (NG), Macon, Georgia; and Brig. Gen. S.E. Fleming, Commander,
155th Armored Brigade (NG), Tupelo, Mississippi.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 4.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings to review proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Elizabeth
H. Dole, Secretary of Transportation, and Janet Hale, Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Budget and Programs.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 5.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
Robert B. Costello, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Logistics, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senator
Quayle, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
SOVIET STRATEGIC FORCE DEVELOPMENTS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Soviet
strategic force developments, receiving testimony from officials of the
intelligence community.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the first concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget,
focusing on Medicare catastrophic insurance, receiving testimony from Joseph
A. Califano, Jr., Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, Washington, DC;
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; and Stuart H.
Altman, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1988 BUDGET REPORT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: 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 1988 and agreed
on recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee on the Budget.
U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Finance: Committee began hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the U.S. Customs Service, and to
review the operation and management of the Service, receiving testimony from
Representatives Bustamante and Ronald D. Coleman; William von Raab,
Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; and
Allan Mendelowitz, Senior Associate Director, James Burow, Project Manager,
and Samuel Banks, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Inspection and Control,
all of the General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS -- AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for multilateral
development banks, receiving testimony from James A. Baker III, Secretary of
the Treasury.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on how the
international spread of nuclear weapons affects specific U.S. national
security interests, receiving testimony from Richard T. Kennedy, Ambassador at
Large, Department of State; and Lewis Dunn, Assistant Director, U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 5.
COMMITTEE RULES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee met to consider the
committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress, but did not complete
action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
VETERANS' ORGANIZATIONS LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs continued joint hearings
with the House of Representative's Veterans' Affairs Committee to review the
legislative priorities of certain veterans' organizations, receiving testimony
in behalf of their respective activities from Richard D. Hoover, Paralyzed
Veterans of America, Robert Routh, Jr., Blinded Veterans of America, Dana J.
Pyle, World War I Veterans, and Jules Carvalho, Jr., Military Order of the
Purple Heart, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 3.
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Daily Digest - Thursday, February 26, 1987; pages D202 - D ? (Bound vol. D88-
D97)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FARM CREDIT SYSTEM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit held oversight hearings on the status of the farm credit
system, receiving testimony from Senator Grassley; Frank Naylor, Chairman, Jim
Billington and Marvin Duncan, both members, all of the Farm Credit
Administration Board; Wayne Rasmussen, National Agricultural Library, Dean
Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation, David Senter, American Agriculture
Movement, Grant Buntrock, National Farmers Organization, Leroy Watson,
National Grange, Ray Hankes, National Pork Producers Council, and H. Brent
Beasley, Farm Credit Corporation of America, all of Washington, DC; Jack
Kelsey, Oklahoma Farmers Union, representing the National Farmers Union, and
Ron Voth, Oklahoma Wheatgrowers Association, both of Oklahoma City; Eugene
Severens, Center for Rural Affaris, Walthill, Nebraska; Sam Eberly, Farm
Credit Services of Wichita, Kansas; Larry Buegler, Farm Credit Services of St.
Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota; and Luman W. Holman, National Association of Farm
Credit System Stockholders, Jacksonville, Texas.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on Appropriations: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony from James A. Baker
III, Secretary of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S.TRADE REPRESENTATIVE/INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Ambassador Clayton Yeutter, U.S. Trade Representative; and
Susan Liebeler, Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
APPROPRIATIONS -- CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Army Corps of Engineers projects from Maj.
Gen. George R. Robertson, Division Engineer, North Pacific Division, Maj. Gen.
Jerome B. Hilmes, Division Engineer, Southwestern Division, and Brig. Gen.
Joseph Pratt, Division Commander, North Central Division, all of the Army
Corps of Engineers.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 3.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for foreign
assistance programs, receiving testimony from James W. Conrow, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Developing Nations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
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 1988 for the Department of Labor, receiving testimony from William
E. Brock, Secretary of Labor, Raymond Maria, Deputy Inspector General, and
Dennis E. Whitfield, Deputy Secretary of Labor, all of the Department of
Labor.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 3.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John R. Simpson, Director, U.S.
Secret Service, Stephen E. Higgins, Director, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, and Charles F. Rinkevich, Director, Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center, all of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 2.
NUCLEAR TESTING LIMITATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held open and closed hearings to review nuclear testing
limitations, receiving testimony from Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy; Lt. Gen. Dale A. Vesser, USA, Director
for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Sylvester R. Foley,
Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, Department of Energy; Siegfried S.
Hecker, Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Roger E. Batzel, Director,
and Milo D. Nordyke, Leader, Treaty Verification Program, both of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory; Paul G. Richards, Columbia University and
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, New York, New York; and Frank von
Hippel, Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
SOVIET NUCLEAR TESTING
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on the monitoring of Soviet nuclear testing,
receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued hearings in preparation for
reporting the concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget, focusing
on international competitiveness and trade, receiving testimony from Lester C.
Thurow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Pat Choate, TRW
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Robert C. Holland, Committee for
Economic Development, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 4.
INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on international telecommunications, receiving
testimony from Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission;
Alfred Sikes, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and
Information; Ambassador Diana Lady Dougan, U.S. Coordinator and Director,
Bureau of International Communications and Information Policy, Department of
State; M. Alan Woods, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative; Robert Bruce,
Debevoise & Plimpton, Washington, DC; Michael Borrus, University of
California, Berkeley; Edward D. McKeever, AT&T International, Basking Ridge,
New Jersey; George Fisher, Sr., Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois; and Kenneth L.
Phillips, Committee of Corporate Telecommunications Users, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1988 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on research and development of aeronautics and space
technology, receiving testimony from Raymond S. Colladay, Associate
Administrator for Aeronautics and Space Technology, National Aeronautics and
Space Administration; William R. Graham, Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy; and Norris J. Krone, Jr., American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 3.
U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICES
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on the President's proposed
budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the U.S. Customs Service, and to
review the operation and management of the Service, after receiving testimony
from Senator Chiles; Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union,
Harry Lamar, Joint Industry Group, J.H. Kent, National Customs Brokers and
Forwarders Association of America, Inc., and James E. Landry, Air Transport
Association of America, all of Washington, DC; James Chenoweth, Lone Star
Steel Company, Dallas, Texas, on behalf of the American Iron and Steel
Institute; David Rose, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, on behalf
of the American Electronics Association; and James R. Williams, National
Retail Merchants Association, New York, New York.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a closed hearing on the
nomination of Arnold L. Raphel, of New Jersey, to be Ambassador to the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan (pending on Senate Executive Calendar), where the nominee
testified and answered further questions in his own behalf.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE -- AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for foreign assistance
programs, focusing on development and security assistance, receiving testimony
from Thomas Stoel, National Resources Defense Council, Nancy Alexander,
Interfaith Action, Thomas A. Dine and Douglas Bloomfield, both of the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, Andrew E. Manatos, United Hellenic American
Congress, American Hellenic Alliance, Pan Cyprian Association of America,
David Sadd, National Association of Arab Americans, Theodore F. Weihe,
Overseas Cooperative Development Committee, and Robert Basil, American
Lebanese League, all of Washington, DC; Lawrence E. Bruce, Jr., U.S. Committee
for UNICEF, New York, New York; W. Henry Mosley, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland; John S. Aird, former Senior Research Specialist on the
Population of China, Bureau of the Census, Silver Spring, Maryland; Kenneth
Philips, Interaction, Warwick, Rhode Island; and Dean C. Lomis, American
Hellenic Institute, Wilmington, Delaware.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 10.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Robert E. Lamb, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State
for Diplomatic Security, Arthur G. Linkletter, of California, for the rank of
Ambassador during the tenure of his service as Commissioner General of the
United States Exhibition for the International Exposition, Brisbane,
Australia, 1988, and Joseph C. Petrone, of Iowa, to be the Representative of
the United States of America to the European Office of the United Nations,
with the rank of Ambassador, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Petrone was introduced by Senator Grassley.
ANTITRUST IMPROVEMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings on S. 431 and S. 432, bills to strengthen the
pre-merger reporting requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust
Improvements Act of 1976, after receiving testimony from Patricia Bailey,
Terry Calvani, and Andrew Strenio, all Commissioners, Federal Trade
Commission; Leroy S. Zimmerman, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Harrisburg;
Robert M. Langer, Connecticut Assistant Attorney General, Hartford; Mark
Crane, American Bar Association, Chicago, Illinois; Frederick S. Myers,
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio; and Malcolm R. Pfunder, Hamel & Park,
Washington, DC.
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law held
hearings on S. 442, to enable the Secretary of Commerce to grant certain
nations additional time to finalize the mechanisms through which they protect
semiconductor chip designs, receiving testimony from Ronald L. Kerber, Deputy
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced Technology; Ralph Oman,
Register of Copyrights, Copyright Office, Library of Congress; Donald J.
Quigg, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, Patent and Trademark Office,
Department of Commerce; William Milam, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State;
Michael Gadbaw, Semiconductor Industry Association, Cupertino, California;
Ronald Reiling, Digital Equipment Company, Landover, Maryland; and Charles
Ferguson, M.I.T. Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 3.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee held a business meeting, where it
took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported S. 12, to remove the expiration date of eligibility
for the educational assistance programs for veterans of the All-Volunteer
Force, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
Ordered favorably reported S. 477, to assist homeless veterans, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the
bill incorporates provisions of Sec. 4(b) of S. 6 (Veterans' Health Care
Improvement Act of 1987) and S. 279, measures to provide a 1-year extension of
the date by which the VA's readjustment counseling program for Vietnam-era
veterans is to begin a 2-year transition to a program providing counseling
services through the VA's general medical facilities);
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
1988 and agreed on recommendations which it will make thereon to the Committee
on the Budget; and
Adopted committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran/Contra affair, and recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY AUTHORIZATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to authorize funds for construction of
highways, for highway safety programs, for mass transportation programs, and
to expand and improve the relocation assistance program, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, March 4.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- CONSUMER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of their respective activities from Terrence Scanlon,
Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Virginia H. Knauer, Special
Adviser to the President, Office of Consumer Affairs; and Teresa Nasif,
Director, Consumer Information Center.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 6.
U.S. TRADE/ITC BUDGETS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on the
President's proposed budget requests for fiscal year 1988 for the Office of
the U.S. Trade Representative and the U.S. International Trade Commission,
receiving testimony from M. Alan Woods, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative;
Susan Liebeler, Chairwoman, U.S. International Trade Commission; and William
K. Krist, American Electrical Association, Fairfax, Virginia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/02
Daily Digest - Monday, March 2, 1987; pages D221 - D ? (Bound vol. D97-D100)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Kenneth Gilles, Assistant Secretary
for Marketing and Inspection Services, Bert W. Hawkins, Administrator, Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service, Randall E. Torgerson, Administrator,
Agricultural Cooperative Service, B.H. Jones, Administrator, Packers and
Stockyards Administration, and Martin Fitzpatrick, Administrator, Office of
Transportation, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 4.
APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Daniel R. Levinson, Chairman, and Mary F. Wieseman, Special Counsel, both
of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board; Jerry L. Calhoun, Chairman,
Federal Labor Relations Authority; Samuel B. Sterrett, Chief Judge, U.S. Tax
Court; Marshall J. Breger, Chairman, Administration Conference of the United
States; Frank Gearde, Jr., Chairman, Committee for Purchase From the Blind and
Other Severely Handicapped; and Martin Dugan, Chairman, Advisory Committee on
Federal Pay.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
resumed hearings on how to improve the existing family welfare system and how
to promote the well-being of families with children, receiving testimony from
John Bode, Assistant Secretary ob Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services;
Robert Helms, Assistant Secretary ob Health and Human Services for Planning
and Evaluation; Charles and Ronnie Blakeney, Berkeley Academy for Youth
Development, Berkeley, California; Robert Woodson, National Center for
Neighborhood Enterprise, Leslie Lenkowsky, Institute for Educational Affairs,
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute, Jack Kammer, The National
Congress for Men, and David Levy, National Council for Children's Rights, all
of Washington, DC; Richard Nathan, Princeton University, Princeton, New
Jersey; Barbara Blum, Foundation for Child Development, New York, New York;
David Ellwood, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Christopher
Jencks, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; and Ginnie Nuta, Parents
Without Partners, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/03
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 3, 1987; pages D227 - D ? (Bound vol. D101-
D107)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for Army Corps of Engineers projects from Maj.
Gen. Thomas Sands, Division Engineer, Lower Mississippi Valley Division, and
President, Mississippi River Commission; and Col. Thomas A. Rehen, Division
Engineer, New England Division, both of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 5.
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from J. Carter
Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art; J. Carter Brown, Chairman,
Commission on Fine Arts; Henry A. Berliner, Jr., Chairman, Pennsylvania Avenue
Development Corporation; and Cynthia Grassby Baker, Chairman, Advisory Council
on Historic Preservation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 10.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/RELATED AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Jean K. Elder, Assistant Secretary-Designate for Human
Development Services, and William L. Roper, Administrator, Health Care
Financing Administration, both of the Department of Health and Human Services;
Donna M. Alvarado, ACTION; William Lee Hanley, Jr., Chairman, Board of
Directors, and Donald E. Ledwig, Acting President and Vice President and
Treasurer, both of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Robert A. Gielow,
Chairman, and William J. Doyle III, Inspector General, both of the Railroad
Retirement Board; Kay McMurray, Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service; Charles L. Woods, Chairman, National Mediation Board; Philip R. Lee,
Chairman, Physician Payment Review Commission; Patricia L. Johanson, Staff
Director, Commission on Education of the Deaf; Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Chairman,
and Bessie B. Moore, Vice Chairman, both of the National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science; Sandra S. Parrino, Chairperson, National
Council on the Handicapped; Donald L. Dotson, Chairman, National Labor
Relations Board; E. Ross Buckley, Chairman, Occupational Safety and Health
Review Commission; Ford B. Ford, Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health
Review Commission; John N. Moore, Chairman of the Board, and Robert F. Turner,
President, both of the U.S. Institute of Peace; and Lt. Gen. George H. McKee,
Governor, Soldiers' and Airmen's Home.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1987 for the Department of Defense to initiate construction of
chemical munitions disposal facilities, receiving testimony from Senator Ford;
Representative Bentley; Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Secretary of
Defense for Atomic Energy; James R. Ambrose, Under Secretary of the Army;
Brig. Gen. David Nydam, Program Manager, Chemical Munitions, U.S. Army
Chemical Research and Development Center, Aberdeen, Maryland; Tom J. Brew,
Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; Kentucky Attorney General David L. Armstrong,
Frankfort; David Leland, Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus; and
Katherine Flood, Concerned Citizens of Madison County, Kentucky, Richmond.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel held
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and
1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
manpower needs for the Total Force from Chapman B. Cox, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Robert M. Elton, USA,
Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Dudley L. Carlson, USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Manpower, Personnel and Training; Lt. Gen.
Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Air Force Staff for Personnel; Lt.
Gen. E.C. Cheatam, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Manpower;
Dennis R. Shaw, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Chief, and Brig. Gen. Richard Dean,
Acting Director, both of the National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward,
Jr., USAR, Chief, Office of Reserve; Vice Adm. Cecil Kemp, USN, Director of
Naval Reserve; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway, ANG, Director, Air National Guard;
Maj. Gen. Roger Scheer, USAFR, Chief of Air Force Reserve; Maj. Gen. John
Sallesse, USMC, Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for Reserve Affairs; and
Rear Adm. Alan D. Breed, USCG, Chief, Office of Readiness and Reserve.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
FBI BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony on behalf of funds for the Federal Bureau of Investigation
from William H. Webster, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law concluded
hearings on S. 442, to enable the Secretary of Commerce to grant certain
nations additional time to finalize the mechanisms through which they protect
semiconductor chip designs, after receiving testimony from Norman R.
Augustine, Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland; Robert Noyce,
Intel Corporation, Sunnyvale, California; and Jonathan E. Cornell, Harris
Corporation, Melbourne, Florida.
Joint Meeting
VETERANS' ORGANIZATIONS LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs resumed joint hearings
with the House of Representatives Veterans' Affairs Committee, to review the
legislative priorities of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, receiving testimony
from Norman G. Staab, Russell, Kansas, Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Joint hearings continue on Wednesday, April 1.
1987/03/04
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 4, 1987; pages D237 - D ? (Bound vol. D107-
D114)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held a business
meeting where it took the following action:
Ordered favorably reported with amendments S.410, to extend the date for
submitting the report required by the National Commission on Dairy Policy. (As
approved by the committee, the bill incorporates the text of S. 515, to
provide equitable treatment under the highly-erodible land conservation
provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 to farmers who produced alfalfa
and other multi-year grasses and legumes in a rotation practice during each of
the years 1981 through 1985); and
Adopted the committee rules of procedure for the 100th Congress.
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Ewen M. Wilson, Acting Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Economics, Oliver Bentley, Assistant Secretary
for Science and Education, Myron D. Johnsrud, Administrator, Extension
Service, John E. Lee, Jr., Administrator, Economic Research Service, and
William E. Kibler, Administrator, National Agricultural Statistics Service,
all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 9.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on progress on the 600-ship Navy and the need for two new aircraft
carriers, receiving testimony from Adm. Frank Kelso, Commander-in-Chief,
Atlantic Fleet; Adm. James A. Lyons, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet;
Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics;
and Rear Adm. William D. Smith, Director, Office of Budget and Reports,
Comptroller of the Navy.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 10.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/RELATED AGENCY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Robert E. Windom, Assistant Secretary for Health, and James O.
Mason, Director, Centers for Disease Control, both of the Department of Health
and Human Services; and Donald Young, Executive Director, Prospective Payment
Assessment Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGISLATIVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Walter J. Stewart,
Secretary of the Senate; Henry Giugni, Senate Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper;
Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress; and Joseph Ross, Director,
Congressional Research Service.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the current readiness and sustainability posture of U.S. forces, receiving
testimony from Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Craig, USAF, Director of Plans and Policy,
United States European Command; Maj. Gen. Christian Patte, USA, Director of
Logistics and Security Assistance, United States Central Command; and Brig.
Gen. Joseph K. Stapleton, USAF, Deputy Director of Operations, United States
Readiness Command.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on insider trading and hostile corporate takeovers, receiving
testimony from David M. Roderick, USX Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Raymond Plank, Apache Corporation, Denver, Colorado; John L. Murray, Universal
Food Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; George S. Slocum, Transco Energy
Company, Houston, Texas; Andrew C. Sigler, Champion International Corporation,
Stamford, Connecticut; James K. Baker, Arvin Industries, Inc., Columbus,
Indiana; Donald C. Clark, Household International, Prospect Heights, Illinois;
William F. Frist, Hospital Corporation of America, Nashville, Tennessee;
William Howell, J.C. Penney Company, New York, New York; William L. McKinley,
Gerber Products Company, Fremont, Michigan; Robert P. Luciano, Schering-Plough
Corporation, Madison, New Jersey; Robert E. Mercer, Goodyear Tire & Rubber
Company, Akron, Ohio; Alva H. Chapman, Knight-Ridder, Inc., Miami, Florida;
William D. Smithburg, Quaker Oats Company, and Clarence E. Johnson,
Borg-Warner Corporation, both of Chicago, Illinois; and William E. Wall,
Kansas Power & Light Company, Topeka.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1988 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings in preparation for
reporting the concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget, focusing
on credit reform, after receiving testimony from Joseph R. Wright, Deputy
Director, Office of Management and Budget; James Blum, Assistant Director of
the Budget Analysis Division, Congressional Budget Office; and Frederick D.
Wolf, Director of Accounting and Financial Management Division, General
Accounting Office.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year
1988 for the National Transportation Safety Board, after receiving testimony
from James E. Burnett, Chairman, National Transportation Safety Board.
ACID RAIN PRECURSORS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on emerging and available technologies for the
control of acid rain precursors, receiving testimony from Senator Byrd;
Michael D. High, Director, Division of Energy Demonstration and Technology,
Tennessee Valley Authority; Gene G. Mannella, Electric Power Research
Institute, Washington, DC; Flynt Kennedy, Consolidation Coal Company, Library,
Pennsylvania; James R. Tacheny, Northern States Power, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Lawrence T. Papay, Southern California Edison, Rosemead, California; Paul G.
LaHaye, the Hague Corporation, Portland, Maine; and F.P. Boer, W.R. Grace and
Company, New York, New York.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE -- BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee continued hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony from Edwin Meese III, Attorney General, Department of
Justice.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 10.
Joint Meeting
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY AUTHORIZATIONS
Conferees continued to resolve the differences between the Senate- and
House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to authorize funds for construction of
highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transportation programs,
and to expand and improve the relocation assistance program, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
1987/03/05
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 5, 1987; pages D247 - D ? (Bound vol. D114-
D121)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- COMMERCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Commerce, receiving testimony from
Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
APPROPRIATIONS -- CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Army Corps of Engineers from Brig. Gen.
Robert H. Ryan, Division Engineer, Pacific Ocean Division, Brig. Gen. Charles
E. Williams, Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division, and Maj. Gen. Henry
J. Hatch, Director of Civil Works, all of the Army Corps of Engineers.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Donald I.
Macdonald, Administrator, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health
Administration, and David N. Sundwall, Administrator, Health Resources and
Services Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 10.
APPROPRIATIONS -- LEGISLATIVE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Legislative Branch concluded
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Legislative
Branch, after receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from George White, Architect of the Capitol; Charles A. Bowsher,
Comptroller General of the United States, General Accounting Office; Ralph
Kennickell, Public Printer of the United States, Government Printing Office;
John Gibbons, Director, Office of Technology Assessment; Edward Gramlich,
Acting Director, Congressional Budget Office; and Philip Vande Vorde, Iowa
State University, Ames, on behalf of the American Library Association.
APPROPRIATIONS -- AMTRAK/FRA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from W.
Graham Claytor, Jr., President and Chairman of the Board, Charles W. Hayward,
Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, both of the National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK); and John H. Riley, Administrator, and Joseph
Walsh, Associate Administrator for Safety, both of the Federal Railway
Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the U.S. Customs Service, receiving testimony from William von Raab,
Commissioner, U.S. Customs Service, Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support continued open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the current posture of U.S. forces, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen.
Thomas Darling, USAF, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, United States Atlantic
Command; and Rear Adm. Hugh L. Webster, USN, Director for Logistics and
Security Assistance, United States Pacific Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1988 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the National Space Transportation Program and
Policy, receiving testimony from Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Secretary of the Air
Force; Dale D. Myers, Deputy Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; and Courtney Stadd, Office of Commercial Space Transportation,
Department of Transportation.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 24.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on European Affairs concluded
hearings on the nominations of Alfred H. Kingon, of New York, to be the
Representative of the United States to the European Communities, with the rank
and status of Ambassador, Richard N. Viets, of Florida, to be Ambassador to
the Republic of Portugal, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador
to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Alton G. Keel, Jr., of
Virginia, to be the United States Permanent Representative on the Council of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of
Ambassador, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Mr. Keel was introduced by Senators Nunn and Warner, and Mr. Kingon
was introduced by Senator D'Amato.
NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on how the
international spread of nuclear weapons affects specific U.S. national
security interests, receiving testimony for Richard N. Perle, Assistant
Secretary of Defense, who was accompanied by several of his associates.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Education Consolidation and
Improvement Act, receiving testimony from William J. Bennett, Secretary of
Education, Wendell Willkie, General Counsel, and Bruce N. Carnes, Deputy Under
Secretary for the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, all of the
Department of Education.
Hearings continue on Monday, March 16.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee began hearings on S. 2, S.
50, S. 179, S. 207, S. 615, and S. 625, bills to provide for spending limits
and public financing for Senate general elections, receiving testimony from
Senators Byrd, Boren, Simon, Gore, Helms, and Domenici.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 18.
RURAL ECONOMY AND RURAL POLICY
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on the Rural Economy and Family
Farming held hearings to examine new perspectives on the rural economy,
focusing on the recent performance of the rural economy relative to the urban
economy, the rural economic problems that will most likely concern
policymakers, and rural transition and development policy, receiving testimony
from Frank S. Swain, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administrator;
Kenneth L. Deavers, Director, Agriculture and Rural Economics Division,
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture; Pat Choate, TRW, Inc.,
Arlington, Virginia; New York State Senator Charles C. Cook, Albany; Glen C.
Pulver, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Mark Drabenstott, Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri; Donald R. Peoples, Butte-Silver
Bow Government, Butte, Montana; Don Stringham, Utah Innovation Center, Salt
Lake City; and David A. Martin, Arrowhead Regional Development Commission,
Duluth, Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
Federal-Aid Highway Authorizations
Conferees continued in evening session to resolve the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 2, to authorize funds for
construction of highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass
transportation programs, and to expand and improve the relocation assistance
program.
1987/03/06
Daily Digest - Friday, March 6, 1987; pages D258 - D ? (Bound vol. D121-
D124)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- VETERANS' PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD -- Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Veterans'
Administration, receiving testimony from Thomas K. Turnage, Administrator,
Veterans' Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John F.W. Rogers, Assistant
Secretary for Management, Donna Pope, Director, U.S. Mint, Lawrence B. Gibbs,
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, and Gerald Murphy, Fiscal Assistant
Secretary, (Financial Management Service and Bureau of the Public Debt), all
of the Department of the Treasury.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 9.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on U.S. strategic warning capabilities and the Administration's ICBM
modernization program, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. William L. Doyle,
Jr., USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff/Intelligence, Strategic Air Command; Larry
Woodruff, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Strategic and Theater Nuclear
Forces); and Brig. Gen. Charles A. May, USAF, Special Assistant for ICBM
Modernization; and focusing on ICBM modernization issues, receiving testimony
from Donald A. Hicks, former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering; and R. James Woolsey, former Under Secretary of the Navy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 10.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on the
Consumer concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1988 for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after
receiving testimony from Diane K. Steed, Administrator, Jeffrey Miller, Deputy
Administrator, Barry Felrice, Associate Administrator for Rulemaking, George
Parker, Associate Administrator for Enforcement, and Erika Jones, Chief
Counsel, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of
Transportation; Herbert R. McLure, Associate Director, Resources, Community
and Economic Development Division, United States General Accounting Office;
Clarence M. Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, Brian O'Neill, Insurance Institute
for Highway Safety, Joan B. Claybrook, Public Citizen, Robert M. McElwaine,
American International Automobile Dealers Association, and Benjamin R.
Jackson, Automobile Importers Compliance Association, all of Washington, DC;
Christopher M. Kennedy, Chrysler Corporation, Highland Park, Michigan; Robert
H. Munson, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; David E. Martin, General
Motors Technical Center, Warren, Michigan; and Peter J. Rafaeli, West German
Sales Corporation, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, representing the Dealer
Action Association, and the National Automobile Dealers Association.
COSTA RICAN PEACE INITIATIVE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings on S. Con. Res. 24, supporting the initiative
of Central American heads of state, meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, in
formulating a regional proposal for bringing about an end to the armed
conflict in Central America, after receiving testimony from Senator Sanford;
Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; and
Francis McNeil, former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica.
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT AND FORM W-4
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget,
and Accounting held oversight hearings on the implementation of the Paperwork
Reduction Act (P.L. 96-511) and on the application of the act in reviewing
income tax forms, receiving testimony from Wendy Gramm, Administrator, Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; James
I. Owen, Deputy Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service, Department of the
Treasury; and Al Galato, H and R Block and Company, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AMERICA'S TRAINING NEEDS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings to review America's training needs, focusing
on methods to deal with the problem of plant closings and mass layoffs and the
resulting dislocation of workers and ways to improve the Nation's ability to
maintain a healthy and competitive economy, after receiving testimony from
Malcolm R. Lovell, Jr., Chairman, Task Force on Economic Adjustment and Worker
Dislocation, Department of Labor; William Wiggenhorn, Motorola, Inc.,
Schaumburg, Illinois; Don Davis, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan;
Anthony Carnevale, American Society for Training and Development, Alexandria,
Virginia; G. Glenn Gardner, Diamond-Star, Inc., Bloomington-Normal, Illinois;
Jack Sheehan, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and
Pat Choate, TRW, Inc., Arlington, Virginia.
JOBS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on S. 514, to establish an incentive bonus to
States which successfully train and employ long-term welfare dependents, after
receiving testimony from Roger D. Semerad, Assistant Secretary of Labor for
Employment and Training; Raymond C. Scheppach, National Governors Association,
Washington, DC; and Donald A. Newberg, Chicago Board of Education, Chicago,
Illinois.
Subcommittee will consider the bill, and amendments proposed thereto, on
Friday, March 13.
Joint Meeting
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment statistics for February, receiving testimony from
Janet L. Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of
Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1987/03/09
Daily Digest - Monday, March 9, 1987; pages D269 - D ? (Bound vol. D124-D126)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Orville G. Bentley, Assistant
Secretary of Agriculture for Science and Education; Terry B. Kinney,
Administrator, and Mary E. Carter, Associate Administrator, both of the
Agricultural Research Service; and John P. Jordan, Administrator, and Clare
Harris, Associate Administrator, both of the Cooperative State Research
Service.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 11.
APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Terence C. Golden, Administrator, General Services Administration; Grant
S. Green, Jr., Executive Secretary, National Security Council; Frank G. Burke,
Acting Archivist of the United States; Johnathan S. Miller, Deputy Assistant
to the President for Administration, Executive Office of the President; and
Manus J. Fish, Jr., Regional Director, National Capital Region, National Park
Service, Department of the Interior (regarding White House and Vice President
residences).
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY BASE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
held hearings on the vitality of the defense technology base, receiving
testimony from Ronald L. Kerber, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for
Research and Advanced Technology; Erich Bloch, Director, National Science
Foundation; William R. Graham, Science Advisor to the President; and Frank
Press, National Academy of Science, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
URANIUM MINING AND ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held oversight hearings on the current status of the domestic
uranium mining industry, and implementation of the Department of Energy's
Uranium Enrichment Program, receiving testimony from Helmut A. Merklein,
Administrator, Energy Information Administration, and A. David Rossin,
Assistant Secretary, Nuclear Energy Programs, both of the Department of
Energy; and Edward M. Davis, American Nuclear Energy Council, Thomas Kuhn,
Edison Electric Institute, and Nolan Hancock, Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers
of America, all of Washington, DC; and Robert Luke, Uranium Producers of
America, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Hearings continue on Friday, March 13.
LATIN AMERICAN DEBT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Debt held hearings to
assess the impact of the Latin American debt crisis on U.S. manufacturing
jobs, U.S. farms, U.S. nonfinancial businesses, Latin American standards of
living, and inter-American security, receiving testimony from Joaquim dos
Santo Andrade, General Confederation of Labor, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Reverend
Thomas Burns, Padres de Maryknoll, Lima, Peru; Sally Shelton-Colby, Bankers'
Trust, Richard E. Feinberg, Overseas Development Council, Steve Beckman,
United Auto Workers, and Leroy Watson, National Grange, all of Washington, DC;
Sam Brownback, Kansas State Secretary of Agriculture, Topeka; James Lee Adams,
Jr., Camilla, Georgia; Donald V. Fites, Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Illinois;
John T. Plunket, Transmisiones y Equipos Mecanios, Mexico City, Mexico; and
Phil LaRocco, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and Margaret Daly
Hayes, Washington Council of the Americas, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGH RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor concluded
hearings on S. 79, to notify workers who are at risk of occupational disease
in order to establish a system for identifying and preventing illness and
death of such workers, after receiving testimony from Edward J. Burger, Jr.
and John Higginson, both of Georgetown University Medical Center, Frederick
Hoerger and Martin Reape, both of the American Industrial Health Council,
Wallace Parker, Associated General Contractors of America, Peter Ruane, Small
Business Legislative Council, John A. Knebel and Bernard Roy, both of the
American Mining Congress, Earl Arp, Ashland Oil Company, and Gerry Raabe,
Mobil Oil Corporation, both on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute,
George A. Rodenhausen, Celanese Corporation, and Bruce W. Karrh, E.I. du Pont
de Nemours and Company, both on behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers'
Association, Craig Berrington, American Insurance Association, and Eugene
Humphrey, on behalf of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers
Association, Inc., all of Washington, DC; James F. Patterson, Ohio Farm
Bureau, Columbus, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Allyn
Tatum, Arkansas Commissioner for Workers' Compensation, Little Rock, on behalf
of the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and
Commissions.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/10
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 10, 1987; pages D275 - D ? (Bound vol. D126-
D135)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURE AID AND TRADE MISSIONS ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Research, Conservation, Forestry and General Legislation
concluded hearings on S. 659, to establish agricultural aid and trade
missions, to assist foreign countries to participate in United States
agricultural aid and trade programs, after receiving testimony from Orville
Freeman, Agriculture Council of America, Charles Sykes, CARE, Peggy Sheehan,
National Cooperative Business Association, and Carl Schwensen, National
Association of Wheat Growers, all of Washington, DC; and LaVern A. Freeh, Land
O'Lakes, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
U.S. AGRICULTURE EXPORTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Domestic
and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion held hearings on proposed
legislation to promote the export of U.S. agricultural commodities and the
products thereof, including S. 308, S. 310, and S. 512, receiving testimony
from Senators Baucus and Grassley; Thomas O. Kay, Director, Foreign
Agriculture Service, Department of Agriculture; Steve McCoy, National
Commission on Agricultural Trade and Export Policy, Vernon Scott, on behalf of
the Cotton Council, and Robert M. Bor, Bishop, Liberman, Cook, Purcell,
Reynolds, representing the National Corn Growers Association, all of
Washington, DC; Alex Curtis, Greenville, Mississippi, representing the
National Council of Farm Cooperatives; and LaVern A. Freeh, Land O' Lakes,
Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from Chapman Cox, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force
Management and Personnel.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS -- MINERALS MANAGEMENT/INDIAN EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from William D.
Bettenberg, Director, Minerals Management Service, Department of the Interior;
and Lawrence F. Davenport, Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and
Secondary Education (Office of Indian Education).
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 13.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the National Institutes of Health from James
B. Wyngaarden, Director, Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., Director, National Cancer
Institute, Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, Harold Loe, Director, National Institute of Dental
Research, Claude Lenfant, Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute,
Phillip Gorden, Director, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and
Kidney Diseases, T. Franklin Williams, Director, National Institute on Aging,
and Craig K. Wallace, Director, John E. Fogarty International Center, all of
the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- OMB
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the Office of Management and Budget, receiving testimony from James
C. Miller III, Director, and Robert P. Bedell, Administrator for Federal
Procurement Policy, both of the Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 20.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of Robert B. Costello, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Acquisition and Logistics, and 12,063 nominations in the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of
Defense, focusing on the U.S. position at the INF negotiations and on
strategic policy and arms control issues, receiving testimony from Paul Nitze,
Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State for Arms Control
Matters; Fred Ikle, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and Charles Thomas,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 12.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed authorizations for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds on manpower
needs for the Total Force from David J. Armor, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel; Lt. Gen. Robert M.
Elton, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel; Vice Adm. Dudley L. Carlson,
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower, Personnel and Training;
Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen.
E.C. Cheatam, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower; Dennis R. Shaw,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen.
Herbert R. Temple, Jr., Chief, National Guard Bureau; Brig. Gen. Richard Dean,
Acting Director, National Guard Bureau; Maj. Gen. William F. Ward, Jr., USAR,
Chief, Office of Reserve; Vice Adm. Cecil Kemp, USN, Director of Naval
Reserve; Maj. Gen. John B. Conaway, Director, Air National Guard; Maj. Gen.
Roger Scheer, Chief of Air Force Reserve; Maj. Gen. John Sallesse, USMC,
Deputy Chief of Staff for Reserve Affairs; and Rear Adm. Alan D. Breed, USCG,
Chief, Office of Readiness and Reserve.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the nominations of James G. Stearns, of Nevada, to be a member of the
Board of Directors of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, J.
Michael Dorsey, of Missouri, to be General Counsel, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, Lawrence J. White, of New York, to be a member of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Judith Y. Brachman, of Ohio, to be an
Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee continued in
evening session to mark up proposed legislation relating to Federal Savings
and Loan Insurance Corporation recapitalization, emergency bank acquisitions,
nonbank banks, securities powers for bank holding companies, and bank check
holds.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill to establish a drug testing program in the commercial
aviation, rail, and motor carrier industries;
S. 677, authorizing funds for the Federal Trade Commission with amendments.
(As approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $69,850,000 for fiscal year
1988, $70,850,000 for fiscal year 1989, and $71,850,000 for fiscal year 1990);
S. 623, authorizing funds for the National Transportation Safety Board. (As
approved by the committee, the bill authorizes $26.2 million for fiscal year
1988, $27.5 million for fiscal year 1989, and $28.8 million for fiscal year
1990);
An original joint resolution (S.J. Res. 80), commemorating the Interstate
Commerce Commission on its 100th anniversary;
The nominations of the following officers of the U.S. Coast Guard for
promotion to the grade of Rear Admiral: Capt. Paul A. Welling, Capt. Walter T.
Leland, and Capt. Robert E. Kramek, and routine lists of Coast Guard
nominations. 27
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. Con. Res. 24, supporting the initiative of the Central American heads of
state, meeting in San Jose, Costa Rica, in formulating a regional proposal for
bringing about an end to the armed conflict in Central America, with
amendments;
S. Res. 98, expressing the sense of the Senate that the Government of the
Soviet Union should allow Igor V. Ogurtsov to be released from exile and
allowed to emigrate to the West without renouncing his views;
The nominations of Everett E. Bierman, of Virginia, current Ambassador to
Papua New Guinea and to the Solomon Islands, to serve concurrently as
Ambassador to the Republic of Vanuatu, Deane R. Hinton, of Illinois, for the
personal rank of Career Ambassador in recognition of especially distinguished
service, Alton G. Keel, Jr., of Virginia, to be the U.S. Permanent
Representative on the Council of NATO, with the rank of Ambassador, Joseph L.
Kirkland, of Washington DC, to be a member of the Board for International
Broadcasting, Robert E. Lamb, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of State
for Diplomatic Security, Arthur G. Linkletter, of California, for the rank of
Ambassador during the tenure of his service as Commissioner General of the
United States Exhibition for the International Exposition, Brisbane,
Australia, 1988, Jack F. Matlock, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Joseph C. Petrone, of Iowa, to be the
U.S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations, with the
rank of Ambassador; and three foreign service officers' promotion lists.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for foreign assistance
programs, receiving testimony from Peter M. McPherson, Administrator, Agency
for International Development; Edward J. Derwinski, Under Secretary of
State-Designate for Coordinating Security Assistance Programs; and Lt. Gen.
Philip C. Gast, USAF, Director, Defense Security Assistance Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE -- BUDGET
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
receiving testimony from William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 24.
ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT AND WORKER DISLOCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor held joint
hearings with the Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity on S. 538, to
implement the recommendations of the Secretary of Labor's Task Force on
Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation, receiving testimony from Roger D.
Semerad, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training; Ohio Gov.
Richard C. Celeste, Columbus; Mayor James P. Moran, Jr., Alexandria, Virginia,
on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors; Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, and
Morton Bahr, Communication Workers of America, both of Washington, DC; Owen
Bieber, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan; Frank P. Doyle, General
Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut, on behalf of the Committee for
Economic Development; and Allan R. Thieme, Amigo Sales, Inc., Bridgeport,
Michigan, on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Joint hearings continue on Thursday, March 26.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the intelligence
community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence officials.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY AUTHORIZATIONS
Conferees completed action on H.R. 2, to authorize funds for construction of
highways, for highway safety programs, and for mass transportation programs,
and to expand and improve the relocation assistance program.
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D143)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FmHA -- FARMER PROGRAM REGULATIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
review proposed new credit regulations affecting the Farmers Home
Administration loan programs (52 Fed. Reg. 1706), receiving testimony from
Vance L. Clark, Administrator, Farmers Home Administration, Department of
Agriculture; Brian P. Crowley, Senior Associate Director, Resources,
Community, and Economic Development, and Jim Yeager, and John Wanska, both
Evaluators, all of the General Accounting Office; Ron Albee, Vermont
Commissioner of Agriculture, Montpelier; Frank Kirschenheiter, Credit Review
Board of North Dakota, Bismarck; Diane Thomas, FmHA County Supervisor,
Donaldsonville, Seminole County, Georgia; Minnesota Attorney General Hubert H.
Humphrey III, Minneapolis; North Dakota Attorney General Nicholas J. Spaeth,
Bismarck; South Dakota Attorney General Roger Tellinghuisen, Pierre; Nebraska
Attorney General Robert M. Spire, Lincoln; Eugene Severens, Center for Rural
Affairs, Walthill, Nebraska; Jim Massey, Farmer's Legal Action; and Alan
Bergman and Carl Limvere, both representing the North Dakota Farmer's Union,
Jamestown.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the Farmers Home Administration from Kathleen W. Lawrence, Acting
Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development, Vance Clark,
Administrator, and James Anderson, Director, Budget Division, both of the
Farmers Home Administration, and Robert E. Sherman, Deputy Director,
Legislative and Regulatory Systems, Office of Budget and Program Analysis, all
of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NOAA/MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Anthony J. Calio, Administrator, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; and Robert Elsner,
Chairman, Marine Mammal Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SOCIAL SECURITY/FAMILY SUPPORT/INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Dorcas R. Hardy, Commissioner, Social Security Administration; Wayne A.
Stanton, Administrator, Family Support Administration; and in behalf of funds
for the National Institutes of Health from James B. Wyngaarden, Director,
Murray Goldstein, Director, National Institute of Neurological and
Communicative Disorders and Stroke, Duane Alexander, Director, National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Lawrence E. Shulman,
Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases, Carl Kupfer, Director, National Eye Institute, Ruth L. Kirschstein,
Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Betty H. Pickett,
Director, Division of Research Resources, David P. Rall, Director, National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director,
National Library of Medicine, and Doris H. Merritt, Acting Director, National
Center for Nursing Research, all of the National Institutes of Health,
Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony from Robert A. Stone, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Installations; Maj. Gen. Robert L. Dacey,
USA, Assistant Chief of Engineers, Rear Adm. John P. Jones, Jr., Commander,
Naval Facilities, Engineering Command, and Brig. Gen. Joseph A. Ahearn, USAF,
Deputy Director, Engineering and Services, all of the Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the Army's
long-term plans for major equipment acquisition, receiving testimony from Gen.
Max Thurman, Vice Chief of Staff, and Lt. Gen. Louis Wagner, Jr., Deputy Chief
of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, both of the United States
Army.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on depot maintenance, supply and spare parts programs, receiving testimony
from Gen. Earl T. O'Loughlin, USAF, Commander, Air Force Logistics Command;
and Lt. Gen. Peter G. Burbules, USA, Deputy Commanding General for Material
Readiness/Executive Director for Conventional Ammunition, Army Materiel
Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Tuesday, March 10, the
committee ordered favorably reported an original bill, the Competitive
Equality Banking Act of 1987, relating to Federal Savings and Loan Insurance
Corporation recapitalization, emergency bank acquisitions, nonbank banks,
securities powers for bank holding companies, and bank check holds.
WORLD OIL OUTLOOK
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed oversight
hearings on the world oil outlook and its implications for the domestic oil
and natural gas industry, receiving testimony from John Lichtblau, Petroleum
Industry Research Foundation, Inc., New York, New York; Scott Jones, Chase
Econometrics, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania; and Daniel Dreyfus, Gas
Research Institute, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Environmental and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection resumed hearings on the emerging and available technologies for the
control of acid rain precursors, focusing on clean coal technology and the
U.S.-Canada Joint Report of the Special Envoys on Acid Rain, receiving
testimony from J. Allen Wampler, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil
Energy; Mary L. Walker, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environment, Safety
and Health; Craig J. Potter, Assistant Administrator for Air, Noise and
Radiation, and Frank Princiotta, Director, Air and Energy Engineering Research
Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, both of the Environmental
Protection Agency; and David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original bill
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the U.S. Customs Service,
Department of the Treasury, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and the
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Also, the committee ordered favorably reported S. Res. 164, calling on the
President to respond to the violations by Japan of the U.S.-Japan agreement on
semiconductors.
ABM TREATY -- CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review constitutional implications of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, receiving testimony from Senators Nunn
and Wilson; Lt. Gen. Royal Allison, (USAF-Ret.), Member, and Raymond Garthoff,
Executive Secretary and Senior Adviser, both of the U.S. ABM Treaty
Negotiating Delegation; J.W. Fulbright, former Chairman, Senate Foreign
Relations Committee; Laurence Tribe, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Louis Henkin, Columbia University, New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 26.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Edward Leavy, of Oregon, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit,
Malcolm F. Marsh, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon, Morton
I. Greenberg, of New Jersey, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit,
and James B. Zagel, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of
Illinois, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own
behalf. Messrs. Leavy and Marsh were introduced by Senators Hatfield and
Packwood, Mr. Greenberg was introduced by Senators Bradley and Lautenberg, and
Mr. Zagel was introduced by Senator Simon.
MERGERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and
Business Rights concluded oversight hearings on mergers and acquisitions,
focusing on the role of the Department of Justice in enforcing the antitrust
laws with respect to such transactions, after receiving testimony from Charles
F. Rule, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of
Justice; Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Robert Abrams, New
York Attorney General, Albany; Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Ohio Attorney
General, Columbus; Robert Pitofsky, Georgetown Law Center, and Ernest
Gellhorn, Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue, both of Washington, DC; F.M. Scherer,
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennylvania; and John D. Ong, B.F. Goodrich
Co., Akron, Ohio.
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held oversight hearings on
the activities of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Department of
Labor, focusing on enforcement of the Mine Safety and Health Act, receiving
testimony from Larry Layne, Barboursville, Kentucky, Michael Finnie,
Vincennes, Indiana, Allen Howell, Madisonville, Kentucky, and A. Dewey Riffle
and Dorsey Owens, both of Norton, Virginia, all Special Investigators, Paul
Helton, Barboursville, Kentucky, and Ronald Beason, Moab, Utah, both
Inspectors, and Clarence Goode, Safety and Health Specialist, all of the Mine
Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor; J. Davitt McAteer,
Occupational Safety and Health Law Center, Washington, DC; Herschel H. Potter,
former Chief, Division of Safety, Mine Safety and Health Administration; Paul
Componation, former Mine Safety and Health Specialist, Mine Safety and Health
Administration; Barbara Myers, Tracy City, Tennessee; Daniel Simpson, Gulston,
Kentucky; and Paul Scaff, Barboursville, Kentucky.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
development of a regional educational telecommunications system, receiving
testimony from Sandra Lauffer, Academy for Educational Development, New York,
New York; Joseph Duffey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Henry J.
Cauthen, South Carolina Educational Television Network, Columbia; Will
Kitchen, Tele-Systems Associates, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota; Aldo Monteiro,
East Providence Senior High School, East Providence, Rhode Island; Benjamin
Stavely, Alvirne High School, Hudson, New Hampshire; Marilyn Gardner, Boston
Public Schools, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Council of Great City
Schools; and Robert Bennett, Wakefield High School, Wakefield, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 17.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call.
No Joint hearings noted.
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D150)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. AGRICULTURE EXPORTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Domestic
and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion concluded hearings on proposed
legislation to promote the export of U.S. agricultural commodities, including
S. 308, S. 310, and S. 512, after receiving testimony from Allan I.
Mendelowitz, Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs
Division, General Accounting Office; Orville Freeman, Agriculture Council of
America, Dean Kleckner, American Farm Bureau Federation, Bart C. Fisher,
Patton, Boggs and Blow, John Baize, American Soybean Association, and C. Manly
Molpus, American Meat Institute, all of Washington, DC; and William K.
Quarles, Sunkist Growers, Sherman Oaks, California.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TVA/BONNEVILLE POWER/APPALACHIAN REGION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Charles H.
Dean, Jr., Chairman, and John B. Waters, Director, both of the Tennessee
Valley Authority; Winifred A. Pizzano, Federal Co-Chairman, Appalachian
Regional Commission; and James Jura, Administrator, Bonneville Power
Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 16.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for certain
international organizations and programs and certain activities of the Agency
for International Development, receiving testimony from Vernon A. Walters,
United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Alan L. Keyes,
Assistant Secretary for International Organizational Affairs; and Richard E.
Bissell, Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator for
Bureau for Policy Planning and Coordination.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 17.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the National
Science Foundation, receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National
Science Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Health and Human Services, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Office of the Secretary, departmental
management, Office for Civil Rights, policy research, and the Office of the
Inspector General from Otis R. Bowen, Secretary, and Richard P. Kusserow,
Inspector General, both of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 22.
APPROPRIATIONS -- PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION/NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
William R. Gianelli, Secretary of Defense Representative for Panama Canal
Affairs, and Chairman, Board of Directors, Dennis P. McAuliffe, Administrator,
both of the Panama Canal Commission; and James E. Burnett, Chairman, and J.
Peter Kissinger, Managing Director, both of the National Transportation Safety
Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 19.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and
Alliance Defense on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years
1988 and 1989, focusing on the aircraft carrier replacement program, receiving
testimony from John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Vice Adm. Henry C. Mustin,
USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Plans, Policy and Operations); Robert
W. Komer, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; Francis J. West, Jr.,
former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and
Edward N. Luttwak, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington,
DC.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on a
net assessment of the capabilities of United States and Soviet strategic
forces, receiving testimony from Gen. John T. Chain (USAF),
Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Air Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 16.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for
housing and community development programs.
EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held oversight hearings on U.S.
export controls and competitiveness, receiving testimony from Malcolm
Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; Edward Derwinski, Acting Under Secretary of
State for Security Assistance; Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Policy; and Lew Allen, Jr., Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, California, Richard Cooper, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and John McLucas, QuestTech Corporation, McLean,
Virginia, all of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on National Security
Export Controls.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 17.
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study to review coastal management
policy, receiving testimony from Neil Frank, National Hurricane Center, Coral
Gables, Florida; Erick Ficken, A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., Myrtle Beach, South
Carolina; Don Boesch, Louisiana University Marine Consortium, Chauvin; and
Robert W. Knecht, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NATURAL GAS UTILIZATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Regulation
and Conservation concluded hearings on S. 85, to repeal the end use constraint
on natural gas and to repeal the incremental policy requirements, after
receiving testimony from Senator Heinz; Tom Chema, Public Utilities Commission
of Ohio, Columbus; Christopher G. Farrand, Peabody Holding Company,
representing the National Coal Association, Nick Bush, Natural Gas Supply
Association, Jerome McGrath, Interstate Natural Gas Association of America,
Michael Buckner, United Mine Workers, Edwin S. Rothschild, Citizen/Labor
Energy Coalition, and Larry Hobart, American Public Power Association, all of
Washington, DC; George Lawrence, American Gas Association, and Kenneth P.
Woodcock, Applied Energy Services, Inc., both of Arlington, Virginia; Kenneth
L. Lay, ENRON Corporation, Houston, Texas; and James G. Harlow, Jr., Oklahoma
Gas and Electric Company, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, representing the Edison
Electric Institute.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs concluded
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for economic assistance
programs for Africa, after receiving testimony from Senators Kennedy and
Kasten; Edward L. Saiers, Deputy Assistant Administrator for east and southern
Africa, Agency for International Development; Roy A. Stacy, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs; David Shear, ORT Federation, James
Upchurch, Cooperative Housing Foundation, and Ronald Walters, Howard
University, all of Washington, DC; John Nicholaides, University of Illinois,
Urbana; and Nick Eberstadt, Harvard Center for Population Studies, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
DOE NUCLEAR FACILITIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings to review the
environmental, health, and safety concerns at the Department of Energy nuclear
production facilities, focusing on the issue of nuclear reactor safety at the
Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina locations, receiving
testimony from J. Dexter Peach, Assistant Comptroller General, Keith O. Fultz,
Associate Director, Louis H. Roddis, Jr., Consulting Engineer, and Gary L.
Jones, Senior Evaluator, all of the United States General Accounting Office;
Forrest J. Remick, Vice Chairman, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards,
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Mary L. Walker, Assistant
Secretary for Environment, Safety and Public Health, and Don Ofte, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, both of the Department of
Energy.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 17.
ILLEGAL ALIEN FELONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget
and Accounting held hearings to examine Federal spending cost associated with
the incarceration of illegal aliens, receiving testimony from Jack Shaw,
Assistant Commissioner of Investigations, and John Simon, Deputy Assistant
Commissioner for Detention and Deportation, both of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Robert Dempsey, Florida
Department of Law Enforcement, Tallahassee; Sheriff Joe Sheppard, Highlands
County, Florida, on behalf of the Florida Sheriffs Association; Willis Booth,
Florida Police Chiefs Association, Tallahassee; Lt. David Smith, Orlando
Police Department, Orlando, Florida; and a public witness.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight hearings
on the activities of the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Department of
Labor, focusing on enforcement of the Mine Safety and Health Act, after
receiving testimony from Alan C. McMillan, Acting Assistant Secretary for Mine
Safety and Health, Department of Labor; and Rich Trumka, United Mine Workers
of America, and John A. Knebel, American Mining Congress, both of Washington,
DC.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations
of James Abdnor, of South Dakota, to be Administrator, Small Business
Administration, and Charles R. Gillum, of Virginia, to be Inspector General,
Small Business Administration, after the nominees testified and answered
questions in their own behalf. Mr. Abdnor was introduced by Senator Pressler.
Joint Meeting
1990 DECENNIAL CENSUS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on
Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service held joint hearings with the
House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service Subcommittee on Census and
Population to review the status of planning for the 1990 decennial census,
receiving testimony from Robert Ortner, Under Secretary of Commerce for
Economic Affairs; John G. Keane, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of
Commerce; and Gene Dodaro, Associate Director, General Government Division,
General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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D152)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION/SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Roland W.
Schmitt, Chairman, and Erich Bloch, Director, both of the National Science
Foundation; and William R. Graham, Jr., Director, Office of Science and
Technology Policy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 20.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded oversight hearings on the current status of the domestic
uranium mining industry, and implementation of the Department of Energy's
uranium enrichment program, after receiving testimony from A. David Rossin,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy; Robert C. Steffy, Jr.,
Manager of Office of Power, and Edward S. Christenbury, General Counsel, both
of the Tennessee Valley Authority; William S. Lee, Duke Power Company,
Charlotte, North Carolina, on behalf of the American Nuclear Energy Council
and the Edison Elelctric Institute; and J.D. Stephens, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
on behalf of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers of America.
ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT OF SEIZED CASH
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Spending, Budget
and Accounting held hearings to examine the results of a General Accounting
Office survey regarding the accounting procedures and processing of seized
cash and property by Federal agencies, receiving testimony from Senator
Sasser; Gene L. Dodaro, Associate Director, Sabastian Correira, Assistant
Director, Mario Artesiano, Group Leader, all of the General Government
Division, General Accounting Office; James J. Hogan, Controller, Drug
Enforcement Administration, and James I.K. Knapp, Deputy Associate Attorney
General, both of the Department of Justice; and William von Raab,
Commissioner, and Wayne Hamilton, Comptroller, both of the U.S. Customs
Service, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET IMPACT ON OLDER AMERICANS
Special Committee on Aging: Committee concluded hearings to review the impact
of the President's budget request for fiscal year 1988 on older Americans,
focusing on Medicare and Medicaid proposals, after receiving testimony from
William L. Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, James
B. Wyngaarden, Director, National Institutes of Health, T. Franklin Williams,
Director, National Institute on Aging, Carolyn D. Gray, Acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, Carol Frazer Fisk,
Commissioner, Administration on Aging, and Nelson J. Sabatini, Deputy
Commissioner of Social Security for Management and Assessment, all of the
Department of Health and Human Services; and Eugene Lehrmann, American
Association of Retired Persons, and Jacob Clayman, National Council of Senior
Citizens, both of Washington, DC.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/16
Daily Digest - Monday, March 16, 1987; pages D139 - D ? (Bound vol. D152-
D154)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- RECLAMATION PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Federal
reclamation projects from Donald P. Hodel, Secretary of the Interior, and C.
Dale Duvall, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 18.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving testimony
from officials of the Department of Defense.
Subcommittee will neet again on Thursday, March 19.
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings to review the status of the defense industrial base, after
receiving testimony from Robert B. Costello, Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Acquisition and Logistics (Designate); Norm Augustine, Martin Marietta
Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland; Jacques S. Gansler, The Analytic Sciences
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia; and Admiral Bobby R. Inman (USN-ret.),
Westmark Systems Incorporated, Austin, Texas.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and
International Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for foreign assistance programs, after
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for international narcotics programs
from Ann Barbara Wrobleski, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Narcotics Matters.
POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service held oversight hearings on the condition of the
Nation's postal system, receiving testimony from Preston R. Tisch, Postmaster
General, who was accompanied by Michael S. Coughlin, Deputy Postmaster
General, Comer S. Coppie, Senior Assistant Postmaster General, Finance and
Planning Group, and Harold Hughes, Deputy General Counsel, all of the U.S.
Postal Service.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
AUTHORIZATIONS -- ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resource's Subcommittee on
Education, Arts, and Humanities concluded joint hearings with the House
Committee on Education and Labor's Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and
Vocational Education on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the Education Consolidation and
Improvement Act, including H.R. 5, H.R. 950, and S. 373, after receiving
testimony from William S. Woodside, American Can Company, and Charles
Marshall, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, both of New York, New
York; Charles W. Parry, Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
William S. Edgerly, State Street Bank Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts;
and Gerald D. Foster, Pacific Telesis Group, Los Angeles, California.
1987/03/17
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 17, 1987; pages D326 (sic) - D ? (Bound vol.
D154-D161)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from John Bode, Assistant Secretary for
Food and Consumer Services, E. Anna Kondratas, Acting Administrator, George
Braley, Deputy Administrator, Special Nutrition Program, Scott Donn, Acting
Deputy Administrator, Family Nutrition Program, and Suzanne Harris, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, all of the Food and
Nutrition Service, and Laura Sims, Administrator, Human Nutrition Information
Service, all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 19.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on Army aviation programs, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. Robert
W. Riscassi, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Operations and Plans, Lt. Gen.
Louis Wagner, Deputy Chief of Army Staff for Research Development and
Acquisition; Brig. Gen. Rondal K. Andreson, USA, Program Manager, Light
Helicopter Family (LHX); and Maj. Gen. Ellis D. Parker, Commanding General,
U.S. Army Aviation Center at Fort Rucker.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 19.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for certain
activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving testimony
from M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for International Development
(AID).
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 19.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense and the Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology concludes
joint hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the production rates of
major acquisition programs, after receiving testimony from Robert B. Costello,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Logistics; and Robert F.
Hale, Assistant Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget
Office.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support resumed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
year 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on depot
maintenance, supply and spare parts programs, receiving testimony from Vice
Adm. T.J. Hughes, Jr., USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics); Lt.
Gen. J.J. Went, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Installations and Logistics;
and Lt. Gen. Vincent Russo, USA, Director, Defense Logistics Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy resumed oversight hearings on U.S.
export controls and competitiveness, receiving testimony from Allan I.
Mendelowitz, Senior Associate Director, National Security and International
Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; John E. Pomeroy, Universal
Instruments Corp., Binghamton, New York, on behalf of the American Electronics
Association; Calman J. Cohen, Emergency Committee for American Trade,
Washington, DC; Charles R. Hough, Honeywell Corp., Minneapolis, Minnesota, on
behalf of the Scientific Apparatus Makers Association; and Lawrence Brady,
Sanders Associates, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export
Administration, Washington, DC.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee began markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ACTIVITIES
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal year 1988 for certain activities of the Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Ernest Ambler, Director, and Raymond
G. Kammer, Deputy Director, both of the National Bureau of Standards, D. Bruce
Merrifield, Assistant Secretary for Productivity, Technology, and Innovation,
and Joseph F. Caponio, Director, National Technical Information Service, all
of the Department of Commerce; Peter Cannon, Rockwell International, Thousand
Oaks, California; Edward Nemeroff, Datron Instruments, Inc., Stuart, Florida;
and Robert Bay, American Society of Civil Engineers, Kansas City, Missouri.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on the
nominations of Lawrence F. Davenport, of Virginia, to be an Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Management and Administration, Raymond G. Massie, of
New Jersey, to be Director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact,
Department of Energy, and James W. Ziglar, of Maryland, to be an Assistant
Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science, after the nominees testified
and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Davenport was introduced by
Senator Inouye and Senator Hatch spoke in his behalf, and testimony was also
received on behalf of Mr. Ziglar from Senators DeConcini, McCain, and Cochran.
PCB DUMPING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight held hearings to examine issues surrounding the
dumping of PCBs, by the Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Company in West Amwell, New
Jersey, and to explore the scope of environmental and health risks posed by
the PCB disposal, receiving testimony from Thomas L. Adams, Assistant
Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring, Christopher J.
Daggett, Regional Administrator, Region II, and A.E. Conroy, Director, Office
of Compliance Monitoring, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, all of
the Environmental Protection Agency; Howard Homeyer, H.D. Church, and Steve
Horton, all of the Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline, Company, Houston; John W.
Gaston, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Trenton; Martha
Madden and James A. Brent, both of the Louisiana Department of Environmental
Quality, Baton Rouge; Mayor Robert Fulper, and Jacqueline Nelson, both of West
Amwell, New Jersey; and Esla Byno-Andriolo, New Jersey Environmental
Federation, New Brunswick.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRADE AGREEMENT ENFORCEMENTS
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on proposed legislation to
improve enforcement of trade agreements, focusing on sections 301 and 303-306
of S. 490, Omnibus Trade Act, sections 111-118 of H.R. 3, Trade and
International Economic Policy Reform Act, and section 5007 of S. 539, Trade,
Employment, and Productivity Act, and related proposals, receiving testimony
from Alan F. Holmer, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative;
Allan Mendelowitz, Senior Associate Director, United States General Accounting
Office; Clyde Prestowitz, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, and
former Counsellor to the Secretary of Commerce; Phillip A. O'Reilly, Houdaille
Industries, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on behalf of the National Machine
Tool Builders Association; J. Stephen Gabbert and Bart S. Fisher, both of the
Rice Millers' Association, Arlington, Virginia; Julian C. Morris, Automotive
Parts and Accessories Association, Lanham, Maryland; Robert E. Ronzoni,
Ronzoni Foods Corporation, Long Island City, New York, on behalf of the
National Pasta Association; and Veronica A. Haggert, Motorola, Inc., Chicago,
Illinois, on behalf of the Semiconductor Industry Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- USIA AND BOARD FOR INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 740,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Board for
International Broadcasting, and proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
U.S. Information Agency, after receiving testimony from Charles Z. Wick,
Director, U.S. Information Agency; Malcolm S. Forbes, Jr., Chairman, and Ben
Wattenberg, Vice Chairman, both of the Board for International Broadcasting;
E. Eugene Pell, President, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; and Norman
Painter, AFGE Local 1812, and William Woessner, Youth for Understanding, on
behalf of Liaison Group on International Educational Exchange, both of
Washington, DC.
DOE NUCLEAR FACILITIES
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings to review the
environmental, health, and safety conditions at the Department of Energy
nuclear production facilities, focusing on environmental issues, receiving
testimony from Keith O. Fultz, Associate Director, U.S. General Accounting
Office; J. Winston Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and
Emergency Response, Environmental Protection Agency; Mary L. Walker, Assistant
Secretary for Environment, Safety and Public Health, Department of Energy;
Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr., Ohio Attorney General, Columbus; Roger Stanley,
Washington Department of Ecology, Hanford; and Lewis Bedenbaugh, South
Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
VETERANS' BENEFITS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs concluded joint hearings
with the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs on a Veterans' Administration
compliance with a discovery request of NARS vs TURNAGE, after receiving
testimony from Donald Ivers, General Counsel, and R.J. Vogel, Chief Benefits
Director, both of the Veterans' Administration; Gordon P. Erspamer, on behalf
of the National Association of Radiation Survivors, San Francisco, California;
and numerous public witnesses.
1987/03/18
Daily Digest - Wednesday, March 18, 1987; pages D337 - D ? (Bound vol. D161-
D169)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURE AID AND TRADE MISSIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began markup of
S. 659, to establish agricultural aid and trade missions to assist foreign
countries to participate in United States agricultural aid and trade programs,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, March
25.
1985 FARM BILL
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings on features of the Food Security Act of 1985, focusing on target
prices and the relationship between government income-support payments and
production decisions, receiving testimony from Heather Ball, Texas Department
of Agriculture, Austin; Wayne A. Boutwell, National Council of Farmer
Cooperatives, Lynn Daft, Abel, Daft and Early, and Thomas G. Moore, Council of
Economic Advisers, all of Washington, DC; Harold F. Breimyer, University of
Missouri, Columbia; and Carroll G. Brunthaver, Sparks Commodities, Inc.,
Memphis, Tennessee.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- USIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S.
Information Agency from Charles Z. Wick, Director, USIA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DOE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Donna R.
Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy, Alvin
W. Trivelpiece, Director, Office of Energy Research, and Mary L. Walker,
Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety and Health, all of the Department
of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony from John J. Maresca, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy; Karl Jackson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs;
Captain Michael Dallam, USN, Director, Quality Facilities Acquisition
Directorate; and T.J. Loveland, Director, Infrastructure and Logistics, United
States Mission to NATO.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed authorizations for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, receiving testimony in behalf of funds on military
health care from William Mayer, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health
Affairs; Dennis R. Shaw, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Reserve Affairs; Lt. Gen. Quinn H. Becker, USA, Surgeon General of the Army;
Vice Adm. Lewis H. Seaton, USN, Surgeon General of the Navy; Lt. Gen. Murphy
A. Chesney, USAF, Surgeon General of the Air Force; David P. Baine, Associate
Director, Human Resources Division, and Melrow D. Quasney, Associate Director,
Information Management and Technology Division, both of the General Accounting
Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on airlift,
sealift, and amphibious shipping programs, receiving testimony from Gen. Duane
H. Cassidy, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, Military Airlift Command; Vice Adm.
Joseph Metcalf III, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Surface Warfare;
and Vice Adm. Walter T. Piotti, Jr., USN, Commander, Military Sealift Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications held hearings on S. 742, to clarify the congressional intent,
and to codify certain requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 that
ensure that broadcasters afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of
conflicting views on issues of public importance, receiving testimony from
Mark S. Fowler, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission; Charles Ferris,
Mintz, Levin, Cohen, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, and Craig T. Smith, Freedom of
Expression Foundation, both of Washington, DC; Tom Elkins, KNUI-AM, Kahului,
Hawaii; Thomas L. Goodgame, Westinghouse Broadcasting Co., Inc., New York, New
York; John Spain, WBRZ, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Robert L. Shayon, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and Roy Fisher, University of Missouri,
Columbia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR ACCIDENT POLICY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
748, to establish a comprehensive, equitable, reliable, and efficient
mechanism for full compensation of the public in the event of an accident
resulting from activities undertaken under contract with the Department of
Energy, after receiving testimony from James W. Vaughan, Jr., Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Programs, Jerome D. Saltzman, Deputy
Director, Office of Policy and Outreach, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management, and Susan Kuznick, General Counsel, Office of the General Counsel,
all of the Department of Energy; Arthur Murphy, Columbia School of Law, New
York, New York; Steve Griffith, Jr., Duke Power Co., Charlotte, North
Carolina; M.G. Johnson, Price-Anderson Contractors, Policy Issues Study, San
Francisco, California; Omer Brown III, Energy Contractors, Price-Anderson
Group, Keiki Kehoe, Environmental Policy Institute, and Kathleen Welch, U.S.
Public Interest Research Group, all of Washington, DC.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
measures:
S. Res. 164, calling on the President to respond to the violations by Japan of
the United States-Japan agreement on semiconductors;
S. Con. Res. 21, expressing the sense of the Congress in opposition to the
proposal by the European Community to establish a tax on vegetable and marine
fats and oils and urging the President to take strong and immediate
countermeasures should such a tax be implemented; and
S. Con. Res. 27, expressing the sense of the Congress that the President
should direct the Secretary of Commerce to initiate a countervailing duty
investigation of subsidized agricultural imports from Canada and/or an
investigation under section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to determine whether
Canadian agriculture programs constitute an unfair and unjustifiable trade
practice.
Also, the committee began consideration of S. Res. 50, expressing the sense of
the Senate that the representatives of the United States should proceed on an
expedited and priority basis to conclude the negotiation of a mutually
beneficial comprehensive bilateral trade agreement between the United States
and Canada, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
WORKERS' RIGHTS AND TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine the impact of the
trade deficit on certain American workers, focusing on provisions relating to
workers' rights of S. 490, Omnibus Trade Act, H.R. 3, Trade and International
Economic Policy Reform Act, S. 497 and S. 498, bills to treat the denial of
internationally recognized workers' rights as an unfair and unreasonable trade
practice, and S. 734, to extend trade adjustment assistance to workers and
firms in the oil and gas industry whose services or products are not directly
competitive with imports, receiving testimony from Senators Johnston and
Harkin; Representative Pease; Michael B. Smith, Deputy U.S. Trade
Representative; Roger D. Semerad, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment
and Training; Howard D. Samuel, AFL-CIO, Holly Burkhalter, Americas Watch, and
Pharis J. Harvey, North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, on
behalf of the International Labor Rights Working Group, all of Washington, DC;
and Lynn R. Williams, United Steelworkers of America, and Barney Oursler,
Unemployed Council of Southwestern Pennsylvania, both of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY -- KOREA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
held hearings on S. Con. Res. 17, regarding the promotion of democracy and
security in the Republic of Korea, receiving testimony from Senator DeConcini;
Representative Feighan; Richard Holbrooke, Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York,
New York; Brian Atwood National Democratic Institute, Daryl Plunk, Heritage
Foundation, and Steven Schneebaum, International Human Rights Law Group, all
of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 25.
NOMINATION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded hearings on the nomination of Daryl Arnold, of California, to be
Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, after the nominee, who was introduced
by Senator Wilson, testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
FEDERAL DRUG INTERDICTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
held hearings to review Federal drug interdiction capabilities and
coordination, focusing on efforts to establish a comprehensive command,
control, communications and intelligence system for Federal interdiction
efforts, receiving testimony from Peter A. Johnson, Project Director, Oceans
and Environment Program, and Larry Jenney, Senior Analyst, both of the Office
of Technology Assessment; Arnold P. Jones, Senior Associate Director, James H.
Burow, Group Director, and Grace Haskins, Evaluator, all of the General
Government Division, General Accounting Office; Adm. Paul A. Yost, Jr.,
Commandant, Capt. Kent H. Williams, Chief, Office of Operations, and Rear Adm.
Clyde E. Robbins, Chief, Programs Division, all of the U.S. Coast Guard;
William von Raab, Commissioner, William Rosenblatt, Assistant Commissioner,
Office of Enforcement, and Stuart Seidel, Regional Counsel (Miami Region), all
of the U.S. Customs Service; and Capt. Frank W. Ault, USN (Ret.), former
Consultant, U.S. Customs Service.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 24.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 514, to establish an incentive bonus to States which successfully train and
employ long-term welfare dependents, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute; and
The nominations of James H. Duff, of Pennsylvania, and Rosemary G. McMillan,
of Nevada, both to be members of the National Museum Services Board, George H.
Nash, of Iowa, to be a member of the National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science, and David N. Baker, of Indiana, Nina Brock, of Tennessee,
Robert Garfias, of California, Robert M. Johnson, of Florida, Ardis Krainik,
of Illinois, Harvey Lichtenstein, of New York, Arthur Mitchell, of New York,
and Sally Brayley Bliss, of New York, each to be a member of the National
Council on the Arts.
CEREMONIES TO REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported H.
Con. Res. 49, authorizing the use of the rotunda of the Capitol on April 28,
1987, for ceremonies to observe the "Days of Remembrance of Victims of the
Holocaust."
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2, S.
50, S. 179, S. 207, S. 615, S. 625, S. 725, and Amendment No. 36 to S. 2,
measures to provide for spending limits and public financing for Senate
general elections, receiving testimony from Senators Mitchell, Stennis,
Kennedy, Cranston, Packwood, Chiles, Humphrey, Nickles, Evans, Reid, and
Graham.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Small Business: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of James Abdnor, of South Dakota, to be Administrator of the Small
Business Administration, and Charles R. Gillum, of Virginia, to be Inspector
General, Small Business Administration.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/19
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 19, 1987; pages D349 - D ? (Bound vol. D169-
D178)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Kenneth A. Gilles, Assistant
Secretary for Marketing Inspection Services, J. Patrick Boyle, Administrator,
Agricultural Marketing Service, W. Kirk Miller, Administrator, Federal Grain
Inspection Service, Donald L. Houston, Administrator, Food Safety Inspection
Service, and Steve Dewhurst, Budget Officer, all of the Department of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 23.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the SDI Program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. James
Abrahamson, Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Office, who was accompanied
by several of his associates.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
FOREIGN ASSISTANCE APPROPRIATIONS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for certain
activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving testimony
from Richard E. Bissell, Assistant Administrator for Program and Policy
Coordination, Ray Love, Acting Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Africa, and
Dwight A. Ink, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Latin America and the
Caribbean, all of the Agency for International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
APPROPRIATIONS -- ARTS/HUMANITIES/MUSEUM SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Frank
Hodsoll, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts; Lynne V. Cheney,
Chairperson, National Endowment for the Humanities; and Lois Burke Shepard,
Director, Institute of Museum Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 24.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FEDERAL HIGHWAY/HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, and Richard
D. Morgan, Executive Director, both of the Federal Highway Administration; and
Diane K. Steed, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony from officials of the Department of Defense.
Also, the subcommittee held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
bomber and tanker issues, receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Michael Loh,
USAF, Director of Operational Requirements, and Deputy Chief of Staff for
Research and Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, March 23.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, March 23.
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to review catastrophic health
insurance issues, focusing on the impact of catastrophic health insurance on
consumers and health care providers, receiving testimony from Senator
Domenici; John Denning, Clinton, North Carolina, on behalf of the American
Association of Retired Persons; William Hutton, National Council of Senior
Citizens, John P. McDaniel, Medlantic Health Care Group, on behalf of American
Hospital Association, and Paul Willging, American Health Care Association, all
of Washington, DC; Wilbur Cohen, University of Texas, Austin; Jerald R.
Schenken, American Medical Association, Omaha, Nebraska; Ruth Constant, Port
Arthur Home Health, Beaumont Home Health and Wichita Home Health, Victoria,
Texas, on behalf of National Association for Home Care; Gary Shorb, Regional
Medical Center, Memphis, Tennessee, on behalf of National Association of
Public Hospitals; Richard Materson, American Academy of Physical Medicine and
Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas, on behalf of American Academy of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation and American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine;
J.E. Stibbards, Children's Hospital of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York,
representing the Trustees of the National Association of Children's Hospitals
and Related Institutions; Doris Nash, Cancer Care, Inc., New York, New York;
and Camilla M. Miller, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Richmond,
Virginia, on behalf of National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, American
Psychiatric Association and National Association of Private Psychiatric
Hospitals.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy
concluded hearings on the nomination of Jean K. Elder, of Virginia, to be
Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Human Development
Services, after the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Riegle and Hatch,
testified and answered questions in her own behalf.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- STATE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on S. 766, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of State, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the United States' contribution to the United
Nations from Vernon A. Walters, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United
Nations; Alan L. Keyes, Assistant Secretary of State for International
Organization Affairs; and William H. McBeath, American Public Health
Association, on behalf of the National Council on International Health and
other Associations, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
PROMPT PAYMENT ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 328, to
revise Federal law regarding prompt payment on completion of contracts for
service or delivery of property, receiving testimony from Jeffrey C.
Steinhoff, Associate Director, Accounting and Financial Management Division,
United States General Accounting Office; Joseph R. Wright, Jr., Deputy
Director, Office of Management and Budget; Frank S. Swain, Chief Counsel for
Advocacy, Small Business Administration; Kenton Pattie, Coalition for Prompt
Pay, Fairfax, Virginia; Michael Roush, National Federation of Independent
Business, Washington, DC; John C. Rennie, Pacer Systems, Inc., Billerica,
Massachusetts, on behalf of the National Small Business United; Paul Emerick,
Emerick Construction, Portland, Oregon, representing the Associated General
Contractors of America; M.R. Sullivan, Jr., Sullivan Mechanical Company,
Shenandoah, Virginia, representing the American Subcontractors Association;
and David A. Buttrum, Swanson-Nunn Electric Company, Evansville, Indiana,
representing Associated Specialty Contractors, Inc.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review the proposed reauthorization of
the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978,
receiving testimony from John R. Bolton, Assistant Attorney General,
Legislative Affairs, Department of Justice; Archibald Cox, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of Common Cause; Alan B. Morrison, Public
Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC; and Irvin B. Nathan, American Bar
Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Independent Counsel Statute, Chicago,
Illinois.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of Morton I. Greenberg, of New Jersey, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit, Edward Leavy, of Oregon, to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Malcolm F. Marsh, to be United
States District Judge for the District of Oregon, Frederick J. Hess, to be
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, P. Raymond
Lamonica, to be United States Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana,
John T. Callery, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of
Tennessee, O. Evans Denny, to be United States Marshal for the District of
Delaware, Eugene V. Marzullo, to be United States Marshal for the Western
District of Pennsylvania, James L. Meyers, to be United States Marshal for the
Middle District of Louisiana, Francis K. Peo, to be United States Marshal for
the Northern District of New York, and Blaine Skinner, to be United States
Marshal for the District of Idaho.
S.J. Res. 5, designating June 14, 1987 as "Baltic Freedom Day";
S.J. Res. 18, authorizing and requesting the President to issue a proclamation
designating June 1-7, 1987, as "National Fishing Week";
S.J. Res. 22, designating September 21-27, 1987, as "National Historically
Black Colleges Week";
S.J. Res. 47, designating April 9, 1987, as "National POW Recognition Day";
S.J. Res. 52, designating the week of May 10-16, 1987, as "National Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 55, designating the week of May 10-16, 1987, as "National
Osteoporosis Prevention Week of 1987";
S.J. Res. 57, designating May 3-10, 1987 as "National Older Americans Abuse
Prevention Week";
S.J. Res. 58, designating the month of April, 1987, as "National Child Abuse
Prevention Month";
S.J. Res. 60, authorizing the President to proclaim the last Friday of April
each year as "National Arbor Day", with an amendment;
S.J. Res. 64, designating May 1987, as "Older Americans Month";
S.J. Res. 67, designating the month of May 1987 as "National Digestive
Diseases Awareness Month";
S.J. Res. 69, designating the week beginning April 20, 1987 as "World
Population Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 70, commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Marshall plan;
S.J. Res. 74, designating the month of May 1987 as "National Cancer Institute
Month";
S.J. Res. 89, designating the week beginning April 26, 1987, as "National
Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week";
S.J. Res. 84, designating October 1987 as "National Down's Syndrome Month";
S.J. Res. 85, designating the period commencing on August 2, 1987, and ending
on August 8, 1987, as "International Special Olympics Week," and designating
August 3, 1987, as "International Olympics Day"; and
S.J. Res. 49, designating September 18, 1987, as "National POW/MIA Recognition
Day"; and
Three private relief bills: S. 392, S. 393, and S. 423.
ANTITRUST IMPROVEMENTS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the
nature of a substitute S. 431, to strengthen the pre-merger reporting
requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976.
CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 557, to
ensure that discrimination is prohibited by the recipients of Federal
financial assistance, receiving testimony from Benjamin Hooks, Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights, Baltimore, Maryland; Eleanor Smeal, National
Organization for Women, Marcia Greenberger, National Women's Law Center, Kay
James, National Right to Life Committee, David Tatel, Hogan & Hartson, and
former Director, Office for Civil Rights, Department of Health, Education and
Welfare, and Chuck Fields, American Farm Bureau Federation, all of Washington,
DC; Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., Facing the Challenge, Boston, Massachusetts;
Kermit Phelps, American Association of Retired Persons, Kansas City, Missouri;
E. Richard Larson, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los
Angeles, California; and James J. Wilson, Council Member, St. Louis, Missouri.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following measures:
S. 136, to establish a health promotion and disease prevention program to
serve Native Hawaiian communities, with an amendment in the nature of a
substitute;
S. 360, to improve the education status of Native Hawaiians, with an
amendment; and
Adopted an amendment in the nature of a substitute to S. 129, to authorize
funds for and revise certain provisions of the Indian Health Care Improvement
Act (A bill which the committee ordered favorably reported without amendment
on January 23, 1987).
Joint Meeting
SUBCOMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
Joint Economic Committee: Committee announced the following subcommittee
assignments:
Subcommittee on International Economic Policy: Senators Sarbanes (Chairman),
Proxmire, Kennedy, and Roth, and Representatives Hamilton, Solarz, Snowe, and
Wylie.
Subcommittee on National Security Economics: Senators Proxmire (Chairman),
Bingaman, Sarbanes, and Wilson, and Representatives Obey, Scheuer, McMillan,
and Fish.
Subcommittee on Economic Growth Trade and Taxes: Senators Bentsen (Chairman),
Melcher, D'Amato, and Roth, and Representatives Hamilton, Obey, Stark, and
Fish.
Subcommittee on Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Senators Kennedy (Chairman),
Proxmire, and Symms, and Representatives Stark, Solarz, Wylie, and McMillan.
Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy: Representatives
Hamilton (Chairman), Hawkins, and Snowe, and Senators Melcher, Bentsen, Roth,
and Wilson.
Subcommittee on Economic Resources and Competitiveness: Representatives Obey
(Chairman), Scheuer, Wylie, and McMillan, and Senators Melcher, Bingaman, and
Symms.
Subcommittee on Investment, Jobs and Prices: Representatives Hawkins
(Chairman), Solarz, and Fish, and Senators Kennedy, Sarbanes, D'Amato, and
Symms.
Subcommittee on Education and Health: Representatives Scheuer (Chairman),
Hawkins, Stark, and Snowe, and Senators Bingaman, Bentsen, Wilson, and
D'Amato.
NATIONAL SECURITY
Joint Economic Committee: Subcommittee on National Security Economics held
closed hearings on national security matters, receiving testimony from certain
intelligence officials, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to
call.
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Daily Digest - Friday, March 20, 1987; pages D362 - D ? (Bound vol. D178-
D181)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- FEMA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency, receiving testimony from Gen. Julius W. Becton,
Jr., Director, FEMA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TREASURY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the Department of the Treasury, receiving testimony from James Baker,
Secretary, Department of the Treasury, and Robert M. Tobias, President,
National Treasury Employees Union.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
ENROLLMENT CORRECTION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
reported, without recommendation, H. Con. Res. 77, to make a correction,
relating to the maximum speed limit, in the enrollment of H.R. 2, Federal-Aid
Highway Act of 1987.
IMPLICATIONS OF DECLINE OF THE DOLLAR
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on International Economic Policy,
Trade, Oceans, and Environment held hearings to review the economic and
foreign policy implications of the decline of the U.S. dollar, receiving
testimony from C. Fred Bergsten, Institute for International Economics, John
H. Makin, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Robert
Solomon, The Brookings Institution, all of Washington, DC; and Rimmer DeVries,
Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management continued oversight hearings to review the proposed reauthorization
of the independent counsel provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978,
receiving testimony from David H. Martin, Director, and Gary Davis, Counsel,
both of the Office of Government Ethics, Office of Personnel Management; Lloyd
N. Cutler, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering, and Benjamin R. Civiletti, Venable,
Baetjer, Howard, and Civiletti, both of Washington, DC; Norman Lefstein,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Thomas D. Morgan, Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
SCHOOL DROPOUT DEMONSTRATION ASSISTANCE ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities approved for full committee consideration S. 320, to make grants to
local educational agencies for dropout prevention and reentry demonstration
projects, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/23
Daily Digest - Monday, March 23, 1987; pages D372 - D ? (Bound vol. D181-
D184)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Daniel G. Amstutz, Under Secretary
for International Affairs, Kathleen Lawrence, Under Secretary Designee, Small
Community and Rural Development, Milton J. Hertz, Administrator, Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Service, and Executive Vice President,
Commodity Credit Corporation, David Hall, Director, Budget Division,
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, E. Ray Fosse, Manager,
and Edward D. Hews, Deputy Manager, both of the Federal Crop Insurance
Corporation, and Robert Sherman, Deputy Budget Officer, all of the Department
of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 25.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
selected chemical and theater nuclear weapons issues, receiving testimony from
Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy;
Michael Huffington, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; James R. Ambrose,
Under Secretary of the Army; Capt. Richard E. Marsden, USN, Program Manager,
Bigeye; Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Eggers, USAF, Deputy Director for Operations; and
Col. Robert D. Orton, USA, Project Manager, Binary Munitions.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
REVENUE INCREASE PROPOSALS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings to review the revenue increases proposed in the President's proposed
budget for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony from Florence Shapiro, Plano,
Texas, on behalf of the National League of Cities; Chris Farrand, Peabody
Holding Company, on behalf of the National Coal Association, William H.
Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, R.T. Bates, Railroad Labor
Executives' Association, William Burhop, Air Transport Association of America,
and Eric Vaughn, Renewable Fuels Association, all of Washington, DC; Michael
J. Grisanti, Grisanti, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, on behalf of the National
Restaurant Association; and Frank E. Willis, Willis Construction, Florence,
South Carolina, on behalf of the Associated General Contractors of Amercia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 720, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988
for foreign assistance programs, focusing on funds for the Near East and South
Asia, after receiving testimony from Senators Glenn and Humphrey; Richard W.
Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs;
Robert Bell and James Norris, both Deputy Assistant Administrators, Agency for
International Development, Bureau for Asia and Near East; Robert H.
Pelletreau, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs; Jagat Matwani, on behalf of the National Federation of
Asian Indian Organizations in America, Los Angeles, California; and Nayyar
Zaidi, Washington Round Table for Asian-Pacific Press, Washington, DC.
EDUCATION FOR COMPETITIVE AMERICA ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on S. 406, to provide additional Federal
education programs designed to strengthen competitiveness of American
industry, after receiving testimony from F. James Rutherford, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Dale Parnell, American Association
of Community and Junior Colleges, and David Edwards, Joint National Committee
for Languages, all of Washington, DC; Eleanor McMahon, Rhode Island
Commissioner of Higher Education, Providence; Darrell Parks, Ohio Department
of Education, Columbus; Claire Gaudiani, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; and Charles Parry, Aluminum Company of America, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
GUARANTEED JOB OPPORTUNITY ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held hearings on S. 777, to guarantee a work opportunity for all
Americans, receiving testimony from Senators Moynihan and Reid; and Coretta
Scott King, Full Employment Action Council, Father J. Bryan Hehir, U.S.
Catholic Conference, and LaDonna Harris, Americans for Indian Opportunity, all
of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
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Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 24, 1987; pages D380 - D ? (Bound vol. D184-
D190)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for certain
activities of the Agency for International Development, receiving testimony in
behalf of their respective activities from David A. Santos, Director, American
Schools and Hospitals Abroad, Julia Taft, Director, Office of U.S. Foreign
Disaster Assistance, Herbert L. Beckington, Inspector General, Neal Peden,
Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Private Enterprise, and Peter Kimm,
Director, Office of Housing and Urban Programs, all of the Agency for
International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
APPROPRIATIONS -- BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Bureau of Land Management from Robert F.
Burford, Director, BLM, Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, March 27.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel resumed
hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and
1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on recruiting, retention,
compensation programs, receiving testimony from David J. Armor, Principal
Deputy Assistance Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel;
Dennis R. Shaw, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve
Affairs; Lt. Gen. Robert M. Elton, USA, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel;
Rear Adm. John Disher, USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel; Lt. Gen. Thomas
J. Hickey, USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel; Lt. Gen. E.C. Cheatham,
USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower; and Neil Singer, Deputy Assistant
Director, National Security Division, Congressional Budget Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 31.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense and the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense held
joint hearings in open and closed sessions on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing
on the new SSN-21 submarine, receiving testimony from Adm. Kinnaird R. McKee,
USN, Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program; Vice Adm. Bruce DeMars, USN,
Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Submarine Warfare (OP-02); and John D.
Landicho, Senior Associate Director, Frederick A. Bigden, Supervisory
Evaluator, and Ralph Tavares, Supervisory Auditor, all of the National
Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
Joint hearings continue on Thursday, March 26.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the
SDI Program, receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, Director,
Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 26.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee ordered
favorably reported the following business items:
An original bill authorizing funds for the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, Department of Transportation. (As approved by the committee,
the bill authorizes $53,733,000 for fiscal year 1988, and $55,233,000 for
fiscal year 1989);
S. 742, to clarify the congressional intent, and to codify certain
requirements of the Communications Act of 1934 that ensure that broadcasters
afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on
issues of public importance; and
A routine list of nominations in the Coast Guard received by the Senate on
March 9, 1987.
RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on the status of U.S. policy for solar and other
renewable energy research and development, receiving testimony from Donna
Fitzpatrick, Assistant Secretary of Energy for Conservation and Renewable
Energy Programs; Robert Nathan, Robert Nathan Associates, Inc., Washington,
DC; Roger Little, Patriot Spire Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts; Robert
Sherwin, American Wind Energy Association, Norwich, Connecticut; and Patrick
Francois, LUZ International Ltd., Los Angeles, California.
Hearings continue on Thursday, March 26.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Daryl Arnold, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Singapore, James K. Bishop, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic
of Liberia, Alfred H. Kingon, of New York, to be U.S. Representative to the
European Communities, with the rank of Ambassador, and Stephen R. Lyne, of
Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana.
Also, the committee began consideration of S.J. Res. 90, S.J. Res. 91, and
S.J. Res. 92, measures disapproving the certification by the President under
section 481(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, that the Bahamas, Mexico
and Panama have fully cooperated with the United States' anti-drug efforts,
but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Thursday, March
26.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- ACDA
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held hearings on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency, receiving testimony from Kenneth L. Adelman, Director,
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on S. 766,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of State
and on the National Endowment for Democracy provisions of S. 767, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the U.S. Information Agency, after
receiving testimony from Ronald I. Spiers, Under Secretary of State for
Management; John Richardson, Chairman of the Board and Carl Gershman,
President, both of the National Endowment for Democracy; Gerald P. Lamberty,
American Foreign Service Association, and Anthony H. Wallace, FSI Coordinating
Group, both of Washington, DC.
FEDERAL DRUG INTERDICTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings to review Federal drug interdiction capabilities and
coordination, focusing on efforts to establish a comprehensive command,
control, communications and intelligence system for Federal interdiction
efforts, after receiving testimony from Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Olmstead, USMC,
Director, Department of Defense Task Force on Drug Enforcement; Maj. Gen.
Buford D. Lary, USAF, Commander, First Air Force; and Stephen S. Trott,
Associate Attorney General, and Chairman, Coordinating Group, National Drug
Enforcement Policy Board, Oliver B. Revell, Executive Assistant Director for
Investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Thomas Byrne, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Intelligence, Drug Enforcement Administration, all
of the Department of Justice.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee resumed hearings on the President's
proposed budget request for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice,
focusing on the Immigration and Naturalization Service, receiving testimony
from Alan Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, and
Mark R. Disler, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, both
of the Department of Justice; Michael E. Baroody, Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Policy; Phillip N. Hawkes, Deputy Administrator, Family Support
Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; and Ewen Wilson,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meetings
PENSION PLANS
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources' Subcommittee on
Labor held joint hearings with the House Committee on Labor's Subcommittee on
Labor-Management Relations on the overfunding and underfunding of pension
plans, receiving testimony from William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor; Edwin
Ballas, Newton Falls, Ohio; Richard Cecconi, Warren, Ohio; Steven Knox, Reeves
Brothers, Cornelius, North Carolina; John Rother, American Association of
Retired Persons, Lawrence Smedley, AFL-CIO, John J. Sheehan, United
Steelworkers of America, and Robert Stone, on behalf of the ERISA Industry
Committee, all of Washington, DC; Dorothy Ryan, Ohio State Council of Senior
Citizens, Youngstown, on behalf of the National Council of Senior Citizens;
William Hoffman, United Auto Workers, Detroit, Michigan; Robert C.
Hendrickson, Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio, on behalf of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce; Vance J. Anderson, Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, New
York; and Michael Gulotta, AT&T Company, Actuarial Sciences Associates, Inc.,
Piscataway, New Jersey, on behalf of the National Association of
Manufacturers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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D196)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURE AID AND TRADE MISSIONS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported S. 659, to establish agricultural aid and trade missions, to assist
foreign countries to participate in United States agricultural aid and trade
programs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
APPROPRIATIONS -- REA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for the Rural Electrification Administration from Kathleen Lawrence,
Under Secretary Designee, Small Community and Rural Development, and Harold V.
Hunter, Administrator, REA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 31.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of State, receiving testimony from George
P. Shultz, Secretary of State; and Kenneth L. Adelman, Director, U.S. Arms
Control and Disarmament Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTING PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water met in closed
session to discuss the nuclear weapons testing program, receiving testimony
from officials of the Department of Defense, the Los Alamos National
Laboratory, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
U.S. MILITARY STRATEGY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on U.S. military
strategy in the area of responsibility of the U.S. European Command, receiving
testimony from Gen. Bernard W. Rogers, USA, Commander in Chief, U.S. European
Command.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held open and closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, receiving
testimony on Navy mine warfare programs from Rear Adm. Robert E. Klee, USN,
Director, Combat Logistics, Auxiliary, Amphibious, and Mine Warfare Division
(OP-37), Department of the Navy.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, after receiving
testimony on readiness and sustainability programs from William H. Taft IV,
Deputy Secretary of Defense.
EXPORT PROMOTION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded oversight hearings on
activities of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, focusing on
proposals to enhance the competitiveness of export trading companies owned by
bank holding companies, and export promotion programs of the Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Alex Good, Director General, U.S. and
Foreign Commercial Service, Department of Commerce; Manuel H. Johnson, Vice
Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board; John A. Bohn,
President and Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States; Kenneth W.
Rosenberg, First Interstate Trading Company, Los Angeles, California; Richard
Barovick, National Federation of Export Associations, Washington, DC; and
James R. Nelson, United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, Connecticut, on
behalf of the Coalition for Employment Through Exports and National Foreign
Trade Council.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 85, to repeal the end use constraint on natural gas and to repeal the
incremental policy requirements, with amendments;
S. 626, to prohibit the imposition of an entrance fee at the Statue of Liberty
National Monument; and
The nominations of James W. Ziglar, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Water and Science, Lawrence F. Davenport, of Virginia, to
be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Management and Administration, and
Raymond G. Massie, of New Jersey, to be Director of the Office of Minority
Economic Impact, Department of Energy.
IMPACT OF IMPORTS ON NATIONAL SECURITY
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on the impact of imports and
foreign investment on national security, focusing on the provisions of S. 285,
title V of S. 490, and S. 470, measures to strengthen the Trade Expansion Act
that provide safeguards when imports and foreign investment threaten U.S.
national security, receiving testimony from Senators Byrd and Grassley;
Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of Commerce; North Dakota Governor George A.
Sinner, Bismarck, on behalf of the Interstate Oil Compact Commission; R.
Charles Gentry, Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association,
Austin; Juan A. Benitez, Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho; and Edwin S.
Rothschild, Citizen/Labor Energy Coalition, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 2.
EAST ASIA -- NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
concluded oversight hearings on U.S. policy toward East Asia, after receiving
testimony from Gaston J. Sigur, Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for East
Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Also, the subcommittee concluded hearings on the nominations of Burton Levin,
of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma,
and John C. Monjo, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to Malaysia, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs concluded hearings on S. 720, authorizing funds for fiscal year
1988 for development and security assistance programs, focusing on Latin
America regional aid, after receiving testimony from Elliott S. Abrams,
Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Dwight Ink, Assistant
Administrator of AID, Bureau of Latin America and the Caribbean; Gen. John R.
Galvin, USA, Commander-and-Chief, Southern Command; and Deborah Szekely,
Inter-American Foundation, and Mary Williamson, Overseas Development Council,
both of Washington, DC.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee began hearings on the
Government's role in economic competitiveness, receiving testimony from James
A. Baker III, Secretary of the Treasury; and Malcolm Baldrige, Secretary of
Commerce.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AIRLINES -- INDUSTRY COMPETITION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies, and
Business Rights concluded hearings to discuss the state of competition in the
airline industry and the effect of recent airline mergers and acquisitions on
competitive behavior, after receiving testimony from Matthew V. Scocozza,
Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Department of
Transportation; Roger A. Andewelt, Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Alfred E. Kahn, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York; Cornish F. Hitchcock, Aviation Consumer Action Project, and
William W. Winpisinger, International Machinists and Aerospace Workers, both
of Washington, DC; Kenneth Dettelbach, Travaco Management Systems, Inc.,
Willoughby Hills, Ohio; Edward R. Beauvais, America West Airlines, Inc.,
Phoenix, Arizona; and Barbara Wyatt, Arlington, Virginia.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following business items:
S. 778, to authorize funds for fiscal years 1988 through 1992 to establish a
star schools program under which grants are made to State and multistate
regional telecommunications partnerships which would create networks to
provide math, science, and foreign language courses by satellite and other
telecommunications devices, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
and
The nominations of Frank H.T. Rhodes, of New York, and Howard A Schneiderman,
of Missouri, both to be members of the National Science Board, National
Science Foundation, and Charles A. Shanor, of Georgia, to be General Counsel
of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 1.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/26
Daily Digest - Thursday, March 26, 1987; pages D400 - D ? (Bound vol. D196-
D203)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
PAYMENT-IN-KIND CERTIFICATES
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings on
payment-in-kind (PIK) certificates, receiving testimony from Brian P. Crowley,
Senior Associate Director, Dave Wood, Assignment Manager, and Jay R. Cherlow,
Group Director, Economics Analysis Group, all of the Resources, Community
Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; Daniel Amstutz,
Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity
Programs; Ralph Klopfenstein, Deputy Administrator, and William Bailey, Deputy
Administrator for Program Planning, both of the Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture; Keith Hora, Washington, D.C.,
and Larry Johnson, Cologne, Minnesota, both on behalf of the National Corn
Growers Association; Duncan D. Russell, The Andersons, Maumee, Ohio; and Jim
Mosely, Clarks Hill, Indiana.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FARM CREDIT SYSTEM
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit concluded oversight hearings on the status of the farm
credit system, after receiving testimony from Senator McClure; Robert Henry,
Oklahoma Attorney General, Oklahoma City; H. Brent Beasley, Chief Executive
Officer, Farm Credit Corporation of America, and Dean Kleckner, American Farm
Bureau Federation, both of Washington, D.C.; Ray Hankes, National Pork
Producers Council, Fairbury, Illinois; Neil E. Harl, Iowa State University,
Des Moines, on behalf of the National Pork Producers Farm Credit Task Force;
Jack Dahl, National Cattlemen's Association, Gackle, North Dakota; Cecil Huff,
Ava, Missouri, representing the National Save the Family Farm Coalition; Luman
W. Holman, National Association of Farm Credit System Stockholders,
representing the Federal Land Bank Associations of Texas Stockholder's Defense
Fund, Jacksonville, Texas; Dean Biery, Production Credit Association of
Northern Ohio, Rawson, Ohio; John C. Dean, Glenwood State Bank, Glenwood,
Iowa, representing the Independent Bankers Association of America; Robert
Ranger, Norstar Bank of Upstate New York, Utica, New York, representing the
American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Division; Paul Lindholm,
Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Clarkfield, Minnesota, on behalf of the
American Bankers Association Agricultural Bankers Division; John W. Ball,
Mutual Life Insurance Co., New York, New York, representing the American
Council of Life Insurance; Donald R. Cundall, Guernsey, Wyoming; and Don
Schieber, Kildare, Oklahoma.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the SDI program, receiving testimony from Harold Brown, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, former Secretary of Defense; and
George H. Miller, Associate Director for Defense Systems, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, California.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 31.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of State,
receiving testimony in behalf of their respective activities from Ambassador
Jonathan Moore, U.S. Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, and Director, Bureau for
Refugee Programs, and L. Paul Bremer, Ambassador at Large for Counter
Terrorism, both of the Department of State; and Deborah Szekely, President,
Inter-American Foundation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 31.
APPROPRIATIONS -- EPA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
Environmental Protection Agency, receiving testimony from Lee M. Thomas,
Administrator, EPA.
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 1988 for
the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
their respective activities from James H. Burnley, IV, Deputy Secretary of
Transportation; Janet Hale, Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Budget
and Programs; and John W. Melchner, Inspector General, Raymond J. Decarli,
Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, Glenn W. Weinhoff, Assistant
Inspector General for Policy, Planning and Resources, and H. Ray Scott,
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, all of the Department of
Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April2.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense and the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense
resumed joint hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on Navy aviation
programs, receiving testimony from Vice Admiral Robert F. Dunn, USN, Deputy
Chief of Naval Operations (Air Warfare); Robert F. Hale, Assistant Director
for National Security, Congressional Budget Office; and Lt. General K.A.
Smith, USMC, Deputy Chief of Staff for Aviation.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on
anti-satellite capabilities under development, receiving testimony from
General John L. Piotrowski, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Space Command/NORAD;
Brig. General R.R. Rankine, Jr., USAF, Director of Space Systems and Command,
Control and Communications, Hq.; and John H. Hammond, Director, Directed
Energy, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, March 31.
EXCHANGE RATES AND THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy held oversight hearings to review
exchange rates and the Third World debt issue, receiving testimony from David
Mulford, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs; Peter
Kenen, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; C. Fred Bergsten,
Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.; Richard Cooper,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Rimmer DeVries, Morgan
Guaranty Trust Co., New York, New York.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, April 1.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Monday, March 30.
AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings on S. 586, authorizing funds for the Federal Aviation
Administration, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the Airport and
Airway Trust Fund from Senators Chiles and Humphrey; James E. Burnley IV,
Deputy Secretary of Transportation; Donald Engen, Administrator, Federal
Aviation Administration; and Edward Gramlich, Acting Director, Congressional
Budget Office.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 7.
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on S. 828, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1988 and 1989 for the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration, Department of Commerce, after receiving testimony from Alfred
C. Sikes, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information,
Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information
Administration, Department of Commerce.
RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concludes hearings on the status of U.S. policy for solar and
other renewable energy research and development, after receiving testimony
from Peter D. Blair, Program Manager, Energy and Materials, Office of
Technology Assessment; H. M. Hubbard, Solar Energy Research Institute, Golden,
Colorado; Frank Potter, Renewable Energy Institute, and Marc Ledbetter,
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, both of Washington, D.C.;
and Art Rosenfeld, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California.
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on State and local government control efforts in
nonattainable areas, focusing on whether polluted areas have taken all
reasonable steps to reduce pollution and what additional controls could be
implemented, receiving testimony from Senator Wirth; Mayor Federico Pena,
Denver, Colorado; Nick Nikkila, Missouri Department of Natural Resources,
Jefferson City, representing the State and Territorial Air Pollution Program
Administrators; John A. Paul, Regional Air Pollution Control Agency, Dayton,
Ohio, representing the Association of Local Air Pollution Control Officials;
Bruce K. Maillet, Massachusetts Division of Air Quality Control, Boston,
representing the North East States for Coordinated Air Use Management; James
M. Lents, South Coast Air Quality Management District, El Monte, California;
Harvey W. Schultz, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, New
York, New York; and Donald F. Theiler, Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources, Madison.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, March 31.
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings to review catastrophic health
insurance issues, focusing on the role of private insurance and financing
alternatives for catastrophic protection, receiving testimony from Rosemary
Marcuss, Assistant Director for Tax Analysis, Congressional Budget Office;
James L. Moorefield, Health Insurance Association of America, Mary Nell
Lehnhard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, Bert Seidman, AFL-CIO,
Patrick F. Killeen, International Union UAW, Gail Shearer, Consumers Union,
Lynn Etheredge, Consolidated Consulting Group, and Ronald F. Pollack, Villers
Advocacy Associates, all of Washington, D.C.; S. David Childers, Arizona
Director of Insurance, Phoenix, and Earl Pomeroy, North Dakota Commissioner of
Insurance, Bismarck, both on behalf of the National Association of Insurance
Commissoners; and Robert W. Hungate, Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto,
California, on behalf of National Association of Manufacturers.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following resolutions:
S.J. Res. 90, disapproving the certification by the President under section
481(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute;
S.J. Res. 91, disapproving the certification by the President under section
481(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute; and
S.J. Res. 92, disapproving the certification by the President under section
481(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute.
ABM TREATY -- CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review the constitutional implications of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, receiving testimony from Senator
Hollings; Abraham D. Sofaer, Legal Adviser, Department of State; Richard N.
Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; and
Gerard C. Smith, ABM Treaty Negotiating Delegation (1972).
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- PEACE CORPS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Peace
Corps Affairs completed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal year 1988 for the Peace Corps, after receiving testimony from Loret M.
Ruppe, Director, Peace Corps.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee continued hearings on the
government's role in economic competitiveness, receiving testimony from C.
Fred Bergsten and I.M. Destler, both of the Institute for International
Economics, Washington, D.C.; Pat Choate, TRW Inc., Arlington, Virginia;
Stephen Cohen, University of California, Berkeley; and Michael E. Porter,
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, March 31.
PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 791, to provide protection for industrial designs that are
original and distinctive, receiving testimony from Giles Rich, U.S. Court of
Appeals, Federal Circuit; Cooper C. Woodring, Better Mousetraps, Inc.,
Plandome, New York; William Thompson, Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Illinois;
Joseph E. Richardson III, Richardson Brothers Company, Sheboygan Falls,
Wisconsin; Gary L. Newtson, Chrysler Motors Corporation, Highland Park,
Michigan; Jean C. Hiestand, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance,
Bloomington, Illinois; August Allegi, GEICO, Washington, D.C.; and Malcolm J.
Romano, Lear Siegler, Inc., Santa Monica, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT AND WORKER DISLOCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor resumed joint
hearings with the Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity on S. 538, to
implement the recommendations of the Secretary of Labor's Task Force on
Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation, receiving testimony from Leon
Lynch, United Steelworkers of America, and J. Bruce Johnston, USX Corporation,
both of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; James Scheibel, Member, City Council, St.
Paul, Minnesota; Carl W. Struever, Baltimore Metropolitan Manpower, Baltimore,
Maryland; Jack Klepinger, National Association of Private Industry Councils,
Ogden, Utah; Eleanor Holmes Norton, Full Employment Action Council, and Raul
Yzaguirre, National Council of LaRaza, both of Washington, D.C.; and Donna
LeClair, Bay State Skills Corp., Boston, Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/27
Daily Digest - Friday, March 27, 1987; pages D409 - ? (Bound vol. D203-D205)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- EPA AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Lee M.
Thomas, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency; and A. Alan Hill,
Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Forest Service from Dale Robertson,
Chief, U.S. Forest Service, and George Dunlop, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 1.
NATIONAL TRAILS AND RIVERS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 349 and H.R. 240, bills to designate the Santa Fe Trail as an Historic
Trail under the National Trails Systems Act, after receiving testimony from
Senators Kassebaum and Wirth; and Daniel T. Kipp, Union Land and Grazing
Company, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and
S. 251 and H.R. 14, to designate certain segments of the Maurice, the
Manatico, and the Manumuskin Rivers in New Jersey as study rivers for
inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Systems, after receiving
testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Representative Hughes; Dennis P. Galvin,
Deputy Director, National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Edward H.
Salmon, Cumberland County Board of Freeholders, and Stephen L. Kehs,
Cumberland County Department of Planning and Development, both of Bridgetown,
New Jersey; Mayor John Feltes, Maurice River Township, Leesburg, New Jersey;
and Mayor Sumner N. Lippincott, and Donald L. Fauerbach, Citizens United to
Protect the Tidal Maurice River, both of Millville, New Jersey.
PEER REVIEW ORGANIZATIONS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings to examine the role
and performance of utilization and quality control peer review organizations
under the Medicare Program, receiving testimony from Representative Stenholm;
William L. Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas G. Dehn, American Medical Peer
Review Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Lovola Burgess, American Association
of Retired Persons, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Warren Kessler, Kennebec Valley
Medical Center, Augusta, Maine, on behalf of American Hospital Association;
John J. Ring, American Medical Association, Mundelein, Illinois; John Ludden,
Harvard Community Health Plan, Boston, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Group
Health Association of America and American Medical Care and Review
Association; and Peter Reibold, Providence Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
INDIAN FISHING RIGHTS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 727, to
clarify Indian treaties and executive orders with respect to fishing rights,
receiving testimony from Senator Bradley; Ross Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior for Indian Affairs; Jewell James, Lummi Tribe, Bellingham,
Washington; Stan Jones, Sr., Tulalip Tribe, Marysville, Washington; Daniel
Jordan, Hoopa Valley Business Council, Hoopa, California; Billy Frank,
Northwest Indian Fish Commission, Olympia, Washington; Mason Morisset, Pirtle,
Morisset, Schlosser and Ayer, Seattle, Washington; and Harry Sachse, Sonosky,
Chambers & Sachse, Charles Hobbs, Hobbs, Strauss, Dean, and Wilder, and Henry
Sockbeson, Native American Rights Fund, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/30
Daily Digest - Monday, March 30, 1987; pages D420 - D ? (Bound vol. D205-
D208)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for energy and
water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Pressler,
Daschle, Conrad, Stennis, Cochran, Shelby, Pryor, and Bumpers; Representatives
Tim Johnson and Campbell; Colorado Governor Roy Romer, Denver; North Dakota
Governor George A. Sinner, Bismarck; and numerous public witnesses.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held hearings on the military strategy
of the United States, receiving testimony from Gen. David C. Jones, USAF
(Ret.), former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Edward C. Meyer, USA
(Ret.), former Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; and Adm. Harry D. Train II, USN
(Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command.
Committee will meet again on Friday, April 3.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee resumed markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
RELIEF FOR THE HOMELESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 813, to
provide urgently needed assistance to protect and improve the lives and safety
of the homeless, after receiving testimony from Dennis Kwiatkowski, Chairman,
Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, Federal Emergency
Management Agency; Harvey Vieth, Chairman, Federal Task Force on the Homeless,
and Acting Director, Office of Family Assistance, and James Stimpson, Vice
Chairman, Federal Task Force on the Homeless, and Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Policy Development, both of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development; Dee Roth, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Columbus; and Maria
Foscarinis, National Coalition for the Homeless, Debora Kramer, and Clifford
L. Alexander, Jr., both of the Committee for Food and Shelter, Mark Talisman,
Council of Jewish Federations, and Jack Moskowitz, United Way of America, all
of Washington, DC.
MOSS TALKS/U.S. AUTO PARTS INDUSTRY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity concluded hearings on Market Oriented Sector Specific (MOSS)
Talks between the United States and Japan and their effect on U.S. employment
in the auto parts industry, after receiving testimony from Representatives
Kaptur and Levin; Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce for International
Trade; Bruce K. Bowden, Stant, Inc., Connersville, Indiana; Ellit Lehman,
Fel-Pro Incorporated, Skokie, Illinois; John Reiss, Gates Rubber Co., Denver,
Colorado; and Alex Warren, Toyota Motor Manufacturing USA, Inc., Lexington,
Kentucky.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/03/31
Daily Digest - Tuesday, March 31, 198; pages D428 - D ? (Bound vol. D209-
D216)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development
and Related Agencies resumed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Daniel G. Amstutz, Under Secretary
for International Affairs and Commodity Programs, Thomas O. Kay,
Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service, Joan S. Wallace, Administrator,
and James L. Walker, Assistant Administrator for International Research and
Development, both of the Office of International Cooperation and Development,
Robert Sherman, Deputy Budget Officer, and Melvin Sims, General Sales Manager,
all of the Department of Agriculture.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
TACTICAL AIRCRAFT DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense held closed hearings to
review the progress on development of new Air Force and Navy tactical aircraft
(ATA/ATF), receiving testimony from Gen. Robert D. Russ, USAF, Commander,
Tactical Air Command; Lt. Gen. Bernard P. Randolph, USAF, Military Deputy for
Acquisition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition);
Richard Rumpf, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research,
Engineering and Systems); Vice Adm. Paul F. McCarthy, USN, Director, Research,
Development and Acquisition; and Vice Adm. Robert F. Dunn, USN, Deputy Chief
of Naval Operations (Air Warfare).
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 2.
APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators
DeConcini, McCain, Exon, Byrd, Bentsen, and Metzenbaum; Representatives Rhodes
and Brooks; West Virginia Governor Arch Moore, Charleston; and former
Representatives John Rhodes and Rudd.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Foreign Operations held hearings
on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in
behalf of funds for their respective activities from Loret Miller Ruppe,
Director, Peace Corps; Leonard H. Robinson, Jr., President, African
Development Foundation; and M. Peter McPherson, Administrator, Agency for
International Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 28.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- ENERGY (MILITARY APPLICATIONS)
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Energy, focusing on the
military applications provisions, receiving testimony from Sylvester R. Foley,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Military Applications; and Robert B. Baker,
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Atomic Energy, and Staff Director to
the Nuclear Weapons Council.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings to review Department of Defense implementation of recent
changes in acquisition policy, after receiving testimony from Richard P.
Godwin, Under Secretary for Acquisition, John E. Krings, Director, Operational
Test and Evaluation, Office of the Secretary, and Derek J. Vander Schaaf,
Deputy Inspector General, all of the Department of Defense; and Frank C.
Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International
Affairs Division, General Accounting Office.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel concluded
hearings on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on manpower and personnel issues, after
receiving testimony from Glen E. Morrell, USA, Sergeant Major of the Army;
William H. Plackett, USN, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy; James
Binnicker, USAF, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force; R.E. Cleary, USMC,
Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps; Chief Petty Officer Robert W. Nolan, USN,
(Ret), Fleet Reserve Association; Col. Charles C. Partridge, USA, (Ret),
National Association for Uniformed Services; Sergeant Major C.A. McKinney,
USMC, (Ret), Non Commissioned Officers Association; Maj. Gen. Evan L. Hultman,
USA, (Ret), Reserve Officers Association; and Vice Adm. Thomas J. Kilcline,
USN, (Ret), The Retired Officers Association.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued markup of a proposed concurrent
resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal Government, but did
not complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- MARITIME PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine concluded hearings on S. 800, authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988
for certain maritime programs of the Department of Transportation and the
Federal Maritime Commission, and a related proposal, after receiving testimony
from Edward V. Hickey, Jr., Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission; John A.
Gaughan, Administrator, Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation;
Vice Comdr. Wallace T. Sansone, Military Sealift, Department of the Navy; Rear
Adm. Floyd H. Miller, USN (Ret.), State University of New York Maritime
Academy, Fort Schuyler; Rear Adm. James F. McNulty, USN (Ret.), North Western
Michigan College, Traverse City; Rear Adm. John Aylmer, USMS, Massachusetts
Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay; Rear Adm. Kenneth M. Curtis, USMS, Maine
Maritime Academy, Castine; Rear Adm. William H. Clayton, USMS, Texas Maritime
Academy, Galveston; and Albert E. May, Council of American-Flag Ship
Operators, and John J. Stocker, Shipbuilders Council of America, both of
Washington, DC.
ABANDONED MINE RECLAMATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Mineral Resources
Development and Production concluded hearings on S. 643, to permit States to
set aside in a special trust fund up to 10 percent of the annual State
allocation from the abandoned mine land reclamation fund for expenditure in
the future for purposes of abandoned mine reclamation, after receiving
testimony from Jed D. Christensen, Director, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior; and Richard Bechtel,
Federal-State Coordinator, Washington, DC, on behalf of the State of Montana.
HEALTH EFFECTS OF OZONE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on health effects of ozone and carbon monoxide in
non-attainment areas, receiving testimony from William McDonnell, Medical
Officer, and Donald Horstman, Chief, Physiology Section, both of the Clinical
Research Branch, (Raleigh, North Carolina), Environmental Protection Agency;
Homer Boushey, American Lung Association, Washington, DC; Carmia Borek,
Columbia University, New York, New York; Christopher C. Green, General Motors
Research Laboratory, Warren, Michigan; Michael K. Schonbrun, National Jewish
Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colorado; and Bernard
Goldstein, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Trusten F. Crigler, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Somali
Democratic Republic, Burton Levin, of Maryland, to be Ambassador to the
Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma, John C. Monjo, of Maryland, to be
Ambassador to Malaysia, and Melissa F. Wells, of New York, to be Ambassador to
the People's Republic of Mozambique.
INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to receive a
briefing on problems related to international shipping in the Persian Gulf
from Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and
South Asian Affairs.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the
government's role in economic competitiveness, receiving testimony from
William E. Brock, Secretary of Labor; and Allen Wallis, Under Secretary of
State for Economic Affairs.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 2.
FAIR HOUSING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution held hearings on
S. 558, to revise the procedures for the enforcement of fair housing under
title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, receiving testimony from Samuel R.
Pierce, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Althea Simmons, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Raul Yzaguirre, National
Council of La Raza, Irene Natividad, National Women's Political Caucus, and
Robert Butters, National Association of Realtors, all of Washington, DC; Marca
Bristo, Access Living, Chicago, Illinois, on behalf of the National Centers on
Independent Living; and Rodney Smolla, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 2.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging held hearings on
S. 887 authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988-1992 for programs of the Older
Americans Act, and to review the changing needs of the elderly, receiving
testimony from Rhode Island Governor Edward D. DiPrete, Providence, on behalf
of the National Governors Association; Jeanette Takamura, Hawaii State Agency
on Aging, Honolulu; C. Kermit Phelps, American Association of Retired Persons,
Kansas City, Missouri; Jane Mapp, Three Rivers Area Agency on Aging,
Ponototoc, Mississippi; Bill Carroll, Traceway Manor Nursing Home, Tupelo,
Mississippi; Carl Eisdorfer, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, on behalf of
the American Psychological Association, American Nurses Association, American
Psychiatric Association, and National Association of Social Workers; and Mary
Howell, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, Waltham, Massachusetts, on behalf of
the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation, National Association of Protection and
Advocacy Systems.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 23.
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GARRISON UNIT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded joint hearings with
the Energy and Natural Resource's Subcommittee on Water and Power and the
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to review the final report and
the recommendations of the Garrison Unit prepared by the Joint Tribal Advisory
Committee, relating to the return of excess lands to the Tribes, the
development of shoreline recreation potential, and the protection of the
Tribes hunting and fishing rights, after receiving testimony from Ross
Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs; Brig. Gen.
Charles E. Dominy, Division Engineer, (Omaha, Nebraska), Missouri River
Diversion, Army Corps of Engineers; Ann Zorn, Las Vegas, Nevada, former
Member, Garrison Diversion Unit Commission; C. Emerson Murry, Bismarck, North
Dakota, and Brent Blackwelder and Hans Walker, Jr., both of Washington, DC,
all former Members, Joint Tribal Advisory Committee; Ed Lone Fight, William
Gordnam, Paul Friesema, and Ron Billstein, all of the Three Affiliated Tribes
of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, North Dakota; and Alan White
Lightning and Rob McLaughlin, both of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort
Yates, North Dakota.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
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D223)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- CFTC/FDA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from Susan M. Phillips, Chairman, Molly G. Bayley, Executive
Director, and Russell Cherry, Budget Director, all of the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission; and Frank E. Young, Commissioner, Thomas Scarlett, Chief
Counsel, John A. Norris, Deputy Commissioner, Sharon Holston, Acting Associate
Commissioner for Management and Operations, and Frank Claunts, Director,
Division of Financial Management, all of the Food and Drug Administration,
Department of Health and Human Services.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April6.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of State, receiving testimony in behalf of
funds for their respective activities from Alan Keyes, Assistant Secretary of
State for International Organizations; Vernon Walters, United States
Ambassador to the United Nations; and Elliot Richardson, Chairman, United
Nations Association.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 8.
APPROPRIATIONS -- ENERGY AND WATER PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
energy and water development programs, receiving testimony from Senators Garn,
Exon, and Wilson; Representative Anderson; Utah Governor Norman Bangerter,
Salt Lake City; former Representative Robert Duncan; and numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April6.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department
of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Samuel R. Pierce,
Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for certain
programs of the Department of Energy, receiving testimony in behalf of funds
for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Naval Petroleum Reserve from J. Allen
Wampler, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, and Donald L. Bauer, Principal
Deputy Assistant Secretary, and in behalf of funds for the Office of Emergency
Preparedness from David B. Waller, Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs and Energy Emergencies, all of the Department of Energy.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for Air Force
military construction, reserve components construction, and family housing
programs from Tidal W. McCoy, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower,
Reserve Affairs and Installations); Maj. Gen. George E. Ellis, Director of
Engineering and Services; USAF: Brig. Gen. John G. McMerty, Deputy Director,
Air National Guard; and Brig. Gen. Shirley M. Carpenter, Deputy Chief, Air
Force Reserve.
Subcommittee will meet again on Monday, April6.
APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities
from Constance J. Horner, Director, Office of Personnel Management; Thomas J.
Josefiak, Vice Chairman, Federal Election Commission; and James S. Dwight,
member, and Franklin A. Steinko, Jr., Budget and Management Officer, both of
the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 3.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense held hearings on the reorganization of Special Operations Forces (SOF)
and program proposals for SOF airlift, receiving testimony for Richard L.
Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;
Maj. Gen. T.W. Kelly, USA, Director, Joint Special Operations Agency; Noel C.
Koch, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs; Gen. Edward C. Meyer, USA (Ret.), former Chief of Staff,
United States Army; and Lt. Gen. Samuel V. Wilson, USA (Ret.), former Director
of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and former Deputy Assistant to the
Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April7.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- SDI RESEARCH
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held hearings on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the SDI research program
and on its compliance with existing Treaty obligations, receiving testimony
from Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF, Director, Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization; and Richard P. Godwin, Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
EXCHANGE RATES AND THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy resumed oversight hearings to review
exchange rates and the Third World debt issue, receiving testimony from Jack
D. Guenther, Citibank, New York, New York; Charles Coltman, Philadelphia
National Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; William D. Rogers, Arnold and
Porter, Washington, DC, and former Under Secretary of State for Economic
Affairs; Jack Pierce, Boeing Corporation, Seattle, Washington; Dwayne Andreas,
Archer Daniels Midland Corporation, Decatur, Illinois; Bishop William Weigand,
Salt Lake City, Utah, on behalf of the United States Catholic Conference; and
Sally Shelton-Colby, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
BUDGET RESOLUTION
Committee on the Budget: Committee continued in evening session to mark up a
proposed concurrent resolution on the fiscal year 1988 budget for the Federal
government.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following business items:
S. 813, to provide urgently needed asssistance to protect and improve the
lives and safety of the homeless, with amendments; and
The nomination of Charles R. Gillum, of Virginia, to be Inspector General,
Small Business Administration.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
David B. Sentelle, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for
the District of Columbia Circuit, David S. Doty, to be United States District
Judge for the District of Minnesota, Richard J. Daronco, to be United States
District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and Reena Raggi, to be
United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Sentelle
was introduced by Senator Helms, Mr. Doty was introduced by Senators
Durenberger and Boschwitz, and Mr. Daronco and Ms. Raggi were introduced by
Senator D'Amato. Testimony was also received on the nomination of Mr. Sentelle
from Paul L. Friedman, District of Columbia Bar.
RETIREES BENEFITS SECURITIES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
held hearings on S. 548, to clarify that the benefits protected under a
collective bargaining agreement include the benefits of retired employees, to
extend protection against unilateral termination or modification of retirement
insurance benefits to all retirees without regard to whether or not they are
covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and to provide that employers
can modify, when necessary, retiree insurance benefits in the absence of a
negotiated settlement, receiving testimony from Senator Heinz; Representatives
Regula and Traficant; Lynn Williams, United Steelworkers of America,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Michael Holland, United Mine Workers, and Richard A.
Gitlin, and William Perlstein, both of the American Bankruptcy Institute, all
of Washington, DC; Mike Nicholson, United Auto Workers, Detroit Michigan;
Grayson Kirtland, Richmond, Virginia; Lillian Lemmens, Strongville, Ohio;
Kathryn O. Hunt, Cleveland, Ohio; Nathan B. Feinstein, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the American Bar Association; Robert G. Watts, A.H.
Robins Company, Richmond, Virginia; and Victor Hurst, Clemson, South Carolina,
on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons.
Hearings continue on Friday, April 24.
CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on S.
557, to ensure that discrimination is prohibited by the recipients of Federal
financial assistance, after receiving testimony from Mark Disler, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice;
Jerry Kicklighter, Savannah, Georgia; Richard Foss, Chicago, Illinois; Arlene
Bern, and Leslie Leier, both of Amarillo, Texas; Bishop Joseph M. Sullivan,
Brooklyn, New York, on behalf of the United States Catholic Conference; Rabbi
David Saperstein, Union of American Hebrew Congregations, James Conway,
National Association of Manufacturers, Lex Frieden, National Council on the
Handicapped, Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Arlene Mayerson,
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, all of Washington, DC; William
Bentley Ball, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and John Garvey, University of
Kentucky, Lexington.
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, receiving testimony from
Jean Elder, Assistant Secretary for Human Development Services, and Dodie
Livingston, Commissioner, and Jane Burnley, Assistant Commissioner of the
Children's Bureau, both of the Administration of Children, Youth and Families,
all of the Department of Health and Human Services; Linda Hull, Formerly
Abused Children Emerging in Society (FACES), Wethersfield, Connecticut; Cloe
Madanes, The Family Therapy Institute of Washington, DC; Ann Cohn, National
Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Chicago, Illinois; Shirley
Fitz-Ritson, Division of Child Protective and Preventive Services, Columbia,
South Carolina; Larry Aber, Barnard College, New York, New York; Jay
Whitworth, Florida Child Protective Services Team, Tallahassee; and Jim
Hollihan, United Cerebral Palsy Foundation, Washington, DC.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met to consider pending
adminstrative business, and recessed subject to call.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
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 AMVETS, Vietnam Veterans of America, and the Jewish War
Veterans, after receiving testimony from Joseph T. Piening, Cincinnati, Ohio,
on behalf of AMVETS; Mary Stout, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Vietnam
Veterans of America; and Edwin Goldwasser, Monsey, New York, on behalf of the
Jewish War Veterans.
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Daily Digest - Thursday, April 2, 1987; pages D451 - D ? (Bound vol. D224-
D231)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOMELESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on Nutrition
and Investigations concluded hearings on S. 728 and S. 812, bills to improve
the nutrition of the homeless, after receiving testimony from John W. Bode,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; Veronica
Celani, Vermont Department of Social Services, Montpelier; Susan Motley, New
York City Human Resources Administration, New York, New York; and Robert
Fersh, Food Research and Action Center, Washington, DC.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the SDI program, and related Administration arms control
perspectives, receiving testimony from Paul H. Nitze, Special Advisor to the
President and Secretary of State on Arms Control Matters; and Ambassador Henry
F. Cooper, Deputy Negotiator of the Defense and Space Negotiating Group.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April7.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HUD
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies
continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
Department of Housing and Urban Development, receiving testimony from Samuel
R. Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April9.
APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN PROGRAMS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Everett
Rhoades, Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human
Services; and Ralph A. Watkins, Jr., and Sandra L. Massetto, both
Commissioners, Navajo-Hopi Indian Relocation Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 8.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
James Emery, Administrator, St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; and
Charles Hauser, Chairperson, David Welch, Executive Assistant to the
Chairperson, and Margaret Milner, Executive Director, all of the Architectural
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April9.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- B-1B AIRCRAFT
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence held closed hearings on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the B-1B aircraft,
receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan, Assistant Comptroller General,
National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting
Office; and John E. Krings, Director of Operational Test and Evaluation,
Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April9.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Defense Industry and
Technology on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, focusing on the Department's efforts to implement
baselining, defense enterprise programs and milestone authorizations for major
acquisition programs, receiving testimony from Richard P. Godwin, Under
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition; and Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller
General of the United States, U.S. General Accounting Office.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following business items:
S. 810, to authorizing housing assistance for homeless individuals and
families, with an amendment; and
The nominations of Alfred J. Fleischer, of Missouri, to be a Member of the
Board of Directors of the National Corporation for Housing Partnerships, and
Thomas J. Healey, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of
the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.
EXCHANGE RATES AND THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy continued oversight hearings to
review exchange rates and the Third World debt issue, receiving testimony from
Senator Bradley; Representatives LaFalce, Schumer, and Bruce A. Morrison;
Allen Mendelowitz, Senior Associate Director, National Security and
International Affairs, General Accounting Office; Robert Bench, Deputy
Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury; Rudiger Dornbusch,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Karen Lissakers, Columbia
University School of International and Public Affairs, Andrew C. Quale, Jr.,
Sidley and Austin, and Thomas Keaveney, Peat, Marwich, Mitchell, and Co., all
of New York, New York; James Leisenring, Financial Accounting Standards Board,
Stamford, Connecticut; Lawrence Fox, National Association of Manufacturers,
and Henry Schecter, AFL-CIO, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 7.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Research and
Development held oversight hearings on the status of the Clean Coal Technology
Program, and on S. 879, to provide financial and regulatory incentives to the
electric utility industry to construct commercial-sized clean coal technology
projects, receiving testimony from Senator Byrd; George E. Evans, Jr.,
Kentucky Energy Cabinet, Lexington; Dick Balzhiser, Electric Power Research
Institute, Palo Alto, California; Joseph Dowd, American Electric Power Service
Corporation, Columbus, Ohio, on behalf of the Clean Coal Technology Coalition;
and Robert L. Wise, Pennsylvania Electric Company, Johnstown, on behalf of the
Edison Electric Institute.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 9.
RADON GAS ISSUES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight on S. 744, to assist States in responding to the
threat to human health posed by exposure to radon, and S. 743, to authorize a
study to determine the extent to which radon in the Nation's schools poses a
threat to children and employees, receiving testimony from Senators Gore and
Specter; A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator, Environmental Protection
Agency; Maine State Senator Judy Kany, Waterville, on behalf of the Maine
Advisory Commission on Radioactive Waste; A.J. Hazle, Colorado Department of
Health, Denver, representing the Conference of State Radiation Control
Directors; Donald A. Deieso, New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, Trenton; William Leary, East Pennsylvania School District, Emmous,
Pennsylvania; and Kenneth Melley, National Education Association, Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on certain trade issues,
including provisions of H.R. 3, Trade and International Economic Policy Reform
Act, S. 490, Omnibus Trade Act, and Title II of S. 636, International Economic
Environment Improvement Act, receiving testimony from Clayton Yeutter, United
States Trade Representative.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 7.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the
Government's role in economic competitiveness, receiving testimony from Erich
Bloch, Director, National Science Foundation; John Brademas, New York
University, New York, New York; Jordan J. Baruch, Jordan Baruch Associates,
Washington, DC; and Adm. Bobby Inman, USN (Ret.), Westmark Systems, Inc.,
Austin, Texas.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 7.
HOSTILE CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopolies and Business
Rights concluded hearings to review corporate takeovers, focusing on proposals
for reform of existing Federal regulation of tender offers, after receiving
testimony from Representative Sawyer; Charles C. Cox, Commissioner, Securities
and Exchange Commission; T. Boone Pickens, Jr., Mesa Limited Partnership,
Amarillo, Texas; Robert E. Mercer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and Milan
O. Stone, United Rubber Workers International Union, both of Akron, Ohio;
James S. Martin, College Retirement Equities Fund, New York, New York; and Al
A. Sommer, Jr., Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, and former Commissioner, Securities
and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC.
FAIR HOUSING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution resumed hearings
on S. 558, to revise the procedures for the enforcement of fair housing under
title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, receiving testimony from Robert
Abrams, New York Attorney General, Albany; James Morales, National Center for
Youth Law, San Francisco, California; Jordan Band, Community Relations Board
of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio; Henry F. Hain II, Pennsylvania Human Rights
Commission, Harrisburg; Mary Rose Wilcox, Councilmember, Phoenix, Arizona; Tom
Holmes, National Association of Real Estate Brokers, and Diane Pearce, Women
and Poverty Project, both of Washington, DC; Jacqueline Simon, Mimi Selig
Homes Inc., Montgomery County, Maryland; Fletcher Hall, Greater Baltimore
Board of Realtors, Baltimore, Maryland; Randall Raynolds, Illinois Association
of Realtors, Springfield; and Elvin Pearson, Greater South Suburban Board of
Realtors, Chicago, Illinois.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 7.
SEMICONDUCTOR CHIP DESIGNS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Technology and the Law approved
for full committee consideration S. 442, to enable the Secretary of Commerce
to grant certain nations additional time to finalize the mechanisms through
which they protect semiconductor chip designs, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute.
HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee ordered favorably reported
S. 811, to provide health services, mental health services, and job training
for homeless individuals and education for homeless children, with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 9.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and will meet again on
Thursday, April 9.
Joint Meeting
COPYRIGHT ISSUES
Joint Hearing: Senate Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Patents,
Copyrights and Trademarks held joint hearings with the House Committee on the
Judiciary's Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of
Justice, to review copyright issues presented by the effect that the
Japanese-made digital audio tape could have on the U.S. recording industry,
receiving testimony from Ralph Oman, Registrar of Copyrights, Library of
Congress; Fred W. Weingarten, Program Manager, Communication and Information
Technologies Program, Office of Technology Assessment; Jay Berman, Recording
Industry Association of America, and Charles Ferris, Mintz, Levin, Cohn,
Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, representing the Home Recording Rights Coalition,
both of Washington, D.C.; David Stebbings, CBS Record Technology, Milford,
Connecticut; and Leonard Feldman, L. Feldman Electronic Laboratories, Great
Neck, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
HOMELESS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee ordered favorably
reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute S. 728, to improve
the nutrition of the homeless.
APPROPRIATIONS -- UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988 for the U.S. Postal Service, receiving testimony from Preston R. Tisch,
Postmaster General.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 10.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee resumed hearings on the military
strategy of the United States, receiving testimony on the President's recent
report, "National Security Strategy of the United States" from Amos A. Jordan,
Jr., Center for Strategic and International Studies, John D. Steinbruner, The
Brookings Institution, and W. Bruce Weinrod, The Heritage Foundation, all of
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TAX INCENTIVES FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings on S. 58, to make permanent and increase the income tax credit for
increasing research activities, and proposals regarding the allocation of
domestic research expenses, receiving testimony from J. Roger Mentz, Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy; Martin Baily, The Brookings
Institution, Washington, DC; Robert Eisner, Northwestern University, Chicago,
Illinois; Joseph A. Saloom, Burlington, Massachusetts, on behalf of the
Council on Research and Technology; Hans Mark, University of Texas, Austin;
Ron Pherigot, Applied Computing Technology, Reston, Virginia, on behalf of the
American Electronics Association; and Dean Morton, Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto,
California, on behalf of the 861 Ad Hoc Coalition Group.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SERVICES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities concluded hearings on S.J. Res. 26, to authorize the President to
call a White House Conference on Library and Information Services to develop
recommendations for improvement of such services and their public use, after
receiving testimony from Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress, Library of
Congress; Charles Benton; Public Media, Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Daniel W.
Casey, Syracuse, New York, and Bessie B. Moor, Little Rock, Arkansas, all of
the National Commission on Library and Information Services; Alexander V.
Nole, Association of Connecticut Library Boards, Wolcott; Joan Ress Reeves,
Rhode Island Coalition of Library Advocates, Providence; Christie Vernon,
American Library Association Legislation Committee, Yorktown, Virginia; Glen
Wilde, Utah State University, Logan; Patricia Klinck, Vermont Department of
Libraries, Montpelier; Joseph Shubert, New York State Library, Cultural
Education Center, Albany; and Wayne H. Johnson, Wyoming State Library,
Cheyenne.
Joint Meeting
EMPLOYMENT/UNEMPLOYMENT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the
employment/unemployment situation for March, receiving testimony from Janet L.
Norwood, Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1987/04/06
Daily Digest - Monday, April 6, 1987; pages D471 - D ? (Bound vol. D233-D235)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from numerous
public witnesses.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE PRODUCTION REACTORS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development met
in closed session to review the Defense Production Reactors for the nuclear
weapons program, receiving testimony from Adm. Sylvester R. Foley, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs, and John L. Meinhardt, Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Materials, both of the Department of Energy;
and Maj. Gen. Vincent E. Falter, USA, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Atomic Energy).
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 22.
APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for military
construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the
Caribbean Basin Construction program from Richard Armitage, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs; and Gen. John R.
Galvin, USA, Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Southern Command.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 8.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded hearings on the nomination of
James H. Webb, Jr., of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy, after the
nominee, who was introduced by Senator Glenn, testified and answered questions
in his own behalf.
THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Debt held hearings to
discuss whether current Third World debt management policies promote debt
crises rather than debtor reform, whether bridge loans undercut debtor
economic growth, and whether major Third World debtors have anything more to
lose when creditors threaten to withdraw credit, receiving testimony from
Senator Sarbanes; Norman A. Bailey, Norman A. Bailey, Inc., Washington, DC;
Richard Weinert, Leslie, Weinert and Company, Inc., James Hurlock, White and
Case, Henry Breck, and Bernard Nossiter, all of New York, New York; and Joel
Wells, Jr., SunTrusts Banks, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION OF DOOR-TO-DOOR SALESPERSONS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
concluded hearings on allegations of abuse and exploitation of young adults in
door-to-door sales, after receiving testimony from Susan L. Lebeaux,
Consultant, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations; Robert Abrams, New York
State Attorney General, Carlin Meyer, New York State Labor Bureau, and Dale
Steiger, Dale Steiger Associates, all of New York, New York; Joseph Edge,
Mecca Enterprises, Inc., and Horace Robertson, Ultra-Kleen, both of Arlington,
Texas; Jeffrey Medved, Easton, Maryland; Barbara McKnight, Clay City,
Illinois; and Rebecca Fox, Laurel, Maryland.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/07
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 7, 1987; pages D477 - D ? (Bound vol. D235-
D241)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held hearings to
examine rural problems and rural revitalization in America, receiving
testimony from Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Des Moines, representing the
National Governor's Association; Mayor Karen Merrick, Guttenberg, Iowa; Fulton
County Judge James M. Everett, Hickman, Kentucky; Hinds County Supervisor
Bennie G. Thompson, Jackson, Mississippi; and Darlene A. Vobejda, Blackberry
Township, Minnesota.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from Senators
Gore, Sasser, and Thurmond; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings in
closed session on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from Robert M. Gates, Acting
Director of Central Intelligence; James Taylor, Executive Director, Central
Intelligence Agency; Richard Lord, Deputy Director, National Security Agency;
Jimmie Hill, Deputy Under Secretary of the Air Force for Space Systems; and
Rear Adm. R.W. Schmitt, Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 9.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense and the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance Defense
resumed joint hearings on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and
1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the costs of the aircraft
carrier replacement program, receiving testimony from Frank C. Conahan,
Assistant Comptroller General for National Security and International Affairs,
General Accounting Office; Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for
Shipbuilding and Logistics; and Rear Adm. William D. Smith, USN, Director,
Fiscal Management Division, Office of Navy Program Planning, Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
EXCHANGE RATES AND THIRD WORLD DEBT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy concluded oversight hearings to
review exchange rates and Third World debt issues, after receiving testimony
from Paul A. Volcker, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
AIRPORT IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings to review the implementation of the airport improvement program
within the Department of Transportation, receiving testimony from Senator
Murkowski; Robert L. Donahue, Associate Administrator for Airports, and Dale
McDaniel, Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy and International
Aviation, both of the Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation; Larry Hedrick and Charles M. Barclay, both of the American
Association of Airport Executives, Alexandria, Virginia; Robert Aaronson and
J. Donald Reilly, both of the Airport Operators Council International, and
William F. Bolger, Air Transport Association, all of Washington, DC; A Doyle
Cloud, Jr., Federal Express, Memphis, Tennessee; Ralph E. Leonard, H.E.
Sargent, Inc., Stillwater, Maine, representing the Association of General
Contractors of America; and Kenneth A. Rowe, Washington, DC, Leslie Dawson,
Kentucky State Secretary of Transportation, Frankfort, Gina Marie Lindsey,
Alaska Statewide Aviation Department, Juneau, and Clarence M. Cook, New York
State Department of Transportation, Albany, all representing the National
Association of State Aviation Officials.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Research and
Development concluded hearings on the President's budget request for fiscal
year 1988 for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research for the
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), a high-energy physics accelerator
facility, after receiving testimony from Alvin W. Trivelpiece, Assistant
Secretary of Energy for Energy Research; Betsy Ancker-Johnson, Energy Research
Advisory Board, Department of Energy; Maury Tigner, Director, Central Design
Group, Superconducting Super Collider; and Steven Weinberg, University of
Texas, Austin.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection held hearings on S. 675, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1988-1992 for programs of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, receiving
testimony from Frank H. Dunkle, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Department of the Interior; William E. Evans, Assistant Administrator for
Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of
Commerce; Donald F. Husnik, Associate Deputy Administrator for Plan Protection
and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of
Agriculture; Gordon C. Robertson, International Association of Fish and
Wildlife Agencies, and Michael J. Bean, Environmental Defense Fund, both of
Washington, DC; Jimmy Buffett, Save The Manatee Committee, Key West, Florida;
and Roland C. Fischer, Colorado River Water Conservation District, Glenwood
Springs, Colorado; Tom Pitts, Colorado Water Congress, Loveland, Colorado; and
Christopher H. Meyer, National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, Colorado.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
U.S. TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed hearings on certain trade issues,
including provisions of H.R. 3, Trade and International Economic Policy Reform
Act, S. 490, Omnibus Trade Act, and Title II of S. 636, International Economic
Environment Improvement Act, receiving testimony from Representative Boehlert;
Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; and Rudy Oswald, AFL-CIO,
Frank Fenton, American Iron and Steel Institute, Lewis E. Leibowitz, National
Foreign Trade Council, Inc., and A.W. Jessup, Consumers for World Trade, all
of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
MEDICARE HOSPITAL PAYMENT RATES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health held hearings to examine hospital
payment rates under the Medicare Program, receiving testimony from Nancy M.
Gordon, Assistant Director, Human Resources and Community Development
Division, Congressional Budget Office; William L. Roper, Administrator, Health
Care Financing Administration, Department of Health and Human Services; Stuart
H. Altman, Chairman, Prospective Payment Assessment Commission; and Jack W.
Owen, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee resumed hearings on the
Government's role in economic competitiveness, receiving testimony from Howard
D. Samuel, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, and Alexander B. Trowbridge,
National Association of Manufacturers, both of Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FAIR HOUSING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution resumed hearings
on S. 558, to revise the procedures for the enforcement of fair housing under
title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, receiving testimony from William
Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice; Clarence
M. Pendleton, Jr., Chairman, Commission on Civil Rights; Robert Weaver, former
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Barbara Anderson, Cleveland, Ohio;
Laetita Pferdehirt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Dianne Betsey, Silver Spring,
Maryland; Michael Wilson, St. Petersburg, Florida; Drew Days, Yale Law School,
New Haven, Connecticut; and Martin Sloane, National Committee Against
Discrimination in Housing, Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 9.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Ronald S.W. Lew, to be United States District Judge for the Central District
of California, and Wilkes C. Robinson, of Kansas, and Bohdan A. Futey, of
Ohio, each to be a Judge of the United States Claims Court, after the nominees
testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr. Lew was introduced
by Senator Wilson, Mr. Robinson was introduced by Senator Kassebaum, and Mr.
Futey was introduced by Senator Metzenbaum.
HIGH-TECH SMALL BUSINESS
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Innovation, Technology and
Productivity concluded hearings to review the procedures used in an agency
award of a project to a Federally funded research and development center, and
the adverse impact felt by a small business technical service firm which had
been competing for a contract for the same project, after receiving testimony
from Harry L. Peebles, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Management and
Administration; Berton J. Roth, Director, Procurement and Assistance
Management Directorate, Department of Energy; Robert Priddy, Director, U.S.
Army Missile and Space Intelligence Center, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,
Alabama; Louis M. Cameron, Director, Army Research and Technology, Department
of the Army; Robert K. Vincent, GeoSpectra Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan;
and John C. Rennie, Pacer Systems, Inc., Billerica, Massachusetts,
representing the United States Chamber of Commerce and the Professional
Services Council.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/08
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 8, 1987; pages D488 - D ? (Bound vol. D242-
D249)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development,
and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Agriculture, receiving testimony from
Senators Exon, Wilson, Glenn, Symms, and Sarbanes, and numerous public
witnesses.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SEC/CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from John S.R. Shad, Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission;
and Clarence Pendelton, Jr., Chairman, Civil Rights Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, April 22.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from Frank
H. Dunkle, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service, and William P. Horn, Assistant
Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, both of the Department of the
Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again Tuesday, April 21.
APPROPRIATIONS -- MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction held open
and closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
military construction programs, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for
Navy military construction, reserve components, construction and family
housing programs from Keith Eastin, Principal Deputy, Assistant Secretary of
the Navy for Shipbuilding and Logistics; Rear Adm. John P. Jones, Jr., USN,
Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; and Brig. Gen. Joseph P.
Hoar, USMC, Director, Facilities and Services Division Headquarters.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 23.
NOMINATION
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of James H. Webb, Jr., of Virginia, to be Secretary of the Navy.
BALANCED TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded joint hearings with the Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and
Alliance Defense on Balanced Technology Initiative projects within the
Department of Defense, after receiving testimony from Donald N. Frederickson,
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Tactical Warfare Programs; Ronald L.
Kerber, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Advanced
Technology; Richard D. DeLauer, Orion Group, Ltd., Arlington, Virginia, and
former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; and Joseph V.
Braddock, The BDM Corporation, McLean, Virginia.
CORPORATE TAKEOVERS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded
oversight hearings on insider trading and hostile corporate takeovers, after
receiving testimony from Thomas R. Donahue, AFL-CIO, and William H. Wynn,
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, both of Washington,
DC; James E. Hatfield, Media, Pennsylvania, and Delbert Walsh, Laurel Springs,
New Jersey, both of the Glass, Pottery, Plastics and Allied Workers
International Union; Jacob Sheinkman, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers
Union, New York, New York; Milan Stone, Akron, Ohio, and Clayton C. Oster,
Cumberland, Maryland, both of the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic
Workers of America; Charles Bryan, International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace Workers, Miami, Florida; Jack Bavis, Eastern Airlines, Coral Gables,
Florida; and Mary Jane Barry, Transport Workers Union, Miami Springs, Florida.
BUDGET RESOLUTIONS
Committee on the Budget: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended levels of total
budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for fiscal years
1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991.
Also, the committee ordered reported, without recommendation, the following
resolutions:
An original concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal years 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991;
An original concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal years 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991; and
An original concurrent resolution on the budget setting forth recommended
levels of total budget outlays, Federal revenues, and new budget authority for
fiscal years 1988, 1989, 1990, and 1991.
NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM PLAN
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
held hearings to review the National Airspace System Plan, receiving testimony
from Martin Pozesky, Deputy Associate Administrator for Development and
Logistics, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation;
Herbert R. McClure, Associate Director, Resources, Community, and Economic
Development Division, and Carl Palmer, Associate Director, Information
Management and Technology Division, both of the General Accounting Office;
John Sheehan, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Frederick, Maryland; and
Edward W. Stimpson, General Aviation Manufacturers Association, Washington,
DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and National Resources: Committee ordered favorably
reported the following bills:
S. 90, to establish the Big Cypress National Preserve Addition in the State of
Florida, with an amendment;
S. 643, to permit States to set aside in a special trust fund up to 10 percent
of the annual State allocation from the Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation fund
for expenditure in the future for purposes of abandoned mine reclamation;
H.R. 14, to designate certain segments of the Maurice, the Manatico, and the
Manumuskin Rivers in New Jersey as study rivers for inclusion in the National
Wild and Scenic Rivers System; and
H.R. 240, to designate the Santa Fe Trail as a Historic Trail under the
National Trails Systems Act.
Also, the committee began consideration of S. 748, to establish a
comprehensive, equitable, reliable, and efficient mechanism for full
compensation of the public in the event of an accident resulting from
activities undertaken under contract with the Department of Energy, but did
not complete action thereon.
U.S. TRADE
Committee on Finance: Committee concluded hearings on certain trade issues,
including provisions of H.R. 3, Trade and International Economic Policy Reform
Act, S. 490, Omnibus Trade Act, and Title II of S. 636, International Economic
Environment Improvement Act, after receiving testimony from Senators Hollings,
Levin, and Graham; William T. Archey, United States Chamber of Commerce,
Calman Cohen, Emergency Committee for American Trade, and Jack Valenti, Motion
Picture Association of America, Inc., all of Washington, DC; Arthur
Gundersheim, AFL-CIO, on behalf of the American Fiber, Textile, Apparel
Coalition, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Leather Products
Coalition, the Rubber and Plastic Footwear Manufacturers Association, the
Specialty Steel Industry Association of the United States, and the Group of
33, New York, New York; Dexter Baker, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., on
behalf of the Chemical Manufacturers Association, the National Agricultural
Chemicals Association, the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., and the
Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, Allentown, Pennsylvania;
Milledge A. Hart III, The Hart Group, Dallas, Texas; Matthew B. Coffey,
National Tooling and Machining Association, on behalf of the Metalworking
Trade Coalition, Fort Washington, Maryland; and Stanley Nehmer, Economic
Consulting Services, New York, New York.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee began consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
The nominations of James B. Zagel, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Illinois; D. Michael Crites, to be United States Attorney
for the Southern District of Ohio, and William J. Jonas, Jr., to be United
States Marshal for the Western District of Texas;
S. 938, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of
Justice;
S. 442, to enable the Secretary of Commerce to grant certain nations
additional time to finalize the mechanisms through which they protect
semiconductor chip designs, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
S. 903, to extend certain protections under title 11 of the United States
Code, the Bankruptcy Code; and
S. 806, to provide that the Clayton Act and Sherman Act apply to the air
transportation industry, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.
Also, the committee began consideration of S.J. Res. 61, to authorize and
request the President to issue a proclamation designating May 3-10, 1987 as
"Jewish Heritage Week," S.J. Res. 83, to designate the week of April 19-25,
1987, as "National Minority Cancer Awareness Week," S.J. Res. 102, to
designate the week beginning April 11, 1987, as "National Community
Development Week," and S. 431, to amend the Clayton Act to define a "person"
to include a general or controlling partner in a partnership for purposes of
premerger notification requirements, but did not complete action thereon.
CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on
catastrophic health insurance for Medicare beneficiaries, receiving testimony
from Senator Sasser; Representative Pepper; Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health
and Human Services; Madge Takahashi, Bealomond, California; Cleo Bowyer, Salt
Lake City, Utah; Jacob Clayman, National Council of Senior Citizens, Louise
Crooks, American Association of Retired Persons, Judith Feder, Georgetown
University School of Medicine, and James L. Moorefield, Health Insurance
Association of America, all of Washington, DC; and Philip Brickner, St.
Vincent Hospital and Medical Center of New York, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on the Handicapped held
hearings on proposed legislation to reauthorize the programs of the
Developmental Disabilities Act, receiving testimony from Jean K. Elder, Acting
Assistant Secretary for the Office of Human Development Services, and Bob
Stovenour, Acting Commissioner for Developmental Disabilities, both of the
Department of Health and Human Services; Lynn Wasik, Highland, Michigan;
Raymond F. Kilroy, Unionville, Connecticut; Dolores Everitt, Lincoln,
Nebraska; Alfred Healy, University of Iowa, Iowa City; Judy Hoyt, Holland,
Massachusetts; and Elizabeth M. Boggs, on behalf of the Consortium for
Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, Hampton, New Jersey.
Testimony was also received on S. 926, to provide grants for the operation of
the National Information System for Health Related Services from Senator
Thurmond.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee began hearings on the nomination
of William H. Webster, of Missouri, to be Director of Central Intelligence,
where the nominee, who was introduced by Senators Danforth and Bond, testified
and answered questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from
Senator Moynihan.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to further discuss matters
relating to the Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and recessed
subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/09
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 9, 1987; pages D499 - D ? (Bound vol. D250-
D258)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on an overview of Navy and Marine Corps programs, receiving testimony
from John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Carlisle Trost, Chief of Naval
Operations; and Gen. Paul X. Kelley, Commandant, Marine Corps.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 21.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies resumed
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from James C.
Fletcher, Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Heather J. Gradison, Chairman, Interstate Commerce Commission; and M. Cynthia
Douglass, Administrator, Richard L. Beam, Chief, Pipeline Safety Regulations
Division, and Alan I. Roberts, Director for Hazardous Materials
Transportation, all of the Research and Special Programs Administration,
Department of Transportation.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 23.
DEFENSE ACQUISITION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
concluded hearings to review Department of Defense implementation of recent
changes in acquisition policy, after receiving testimony from Paul J. Gross,
Rexnord, and Harlan Ullman, Georgetown University, both of Washington, DC;
Robert Trimble, Martin Marietta Corporation, Bethesda, Maryland; Earle C.
Williams, BDM International, Inc., McLean, Virginia; and Michael D. Rich, RAND
Corporation, Santa Monica, California.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- SDI
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence resumed hearings on S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the Department of Defense, focusing on the strategic defense
initiative (SDI), receiving testimony from Harold Brown, former Secretary of
Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- U.S. COAST GUARD
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study on proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the U.S. Coast Guard,
after receiving testimony from Adm. Paul A. Yost, Commandant, Rear Adm. Clyde
Lusk, Chief of Staff, Capt. Kent Williams, Chief, Programs Division, and Capt.
Mike Murtagh, Chief, Budget Division, all of the U.S. Coast Guard, Department
of Transportation.
CLEAN COAL TECHNOLOGY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Research and
Development resumed oversight hearings on the status of the Clean Coal
Technology Program, and on S. 879, to provide financial and regulatory
incentives to the electric utility industry to construct commercial-sized
clean coal technology projects, receiving testimony from J. Allen Wampler,
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Fossil Energy; and Carl E. Bagge, National
Coal Association, and David O. Webb, Gas Research Institute, both of
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
CLEAN AIR -- MOBILE SOURCE EMISSIONS CONTROL
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection resumed hearings on health effects of ozone and carbon monoxide in
non-attainment areas, focusing on accomplishments in reducing emissions from
motor vehicles, receiving testimony from Sam Leonard, General Motors
Corporation, Warren, Michigan; Howard Padgham, Chrysler Motors, Detroit,
Michigan; Donald R. Buist, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; Teiji Iida,
Toyota Motor Corporation, Bruce Bertelsen, Manufacturers of Emission Controls
Association, and David Doniger, Natural Resources Defense Council, all of
Washington, DC; John Wall, Cummins Engine Company, Columbus, Indiana; and Jim
Boyd, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 21.
WELFARE REFORM
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings on how to improve the existing
family welfare system and how to promote the well-being of families with
children, receiving testimony from Richard E. Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture;
Otis R. Bowen, Secretary of Health and Human Services; Samuel R. Pierce, Jr.,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; John Bode, Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; and Arkansas Governor Bill
Clinton, Little Rock, and Delaware Governor Michael N. Castle, Dover, both on
behalf of the National Governors' Association.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday, April 22.
INSPECTOR GENERAL -- NRC
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee held hearings on S. 908,
Inspector General Act Amendments, focusing on provisions to establish a
statutory office of inspector general in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
receiving testimony from Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman, Thomas M. Roberts,
James K. Asselstine, Frederick M. Bernthal, and Kenneth M. Carr, all
Commissioners, Ben B. Hayes, Director, Office of Investigations, George A.
Mulley, Jr., Assistant Director for Investigations, Office of Inspector and
Auditor, and H. Shannon Phillips, Senior Resident Inspector, Comanche Peak
Nuclear Power Plant, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and Julian
Greenspun, Parker, Chapin, Flattau & Klimpl, Washington, DC, former Deputy
Chief of Litigation, Criminal Division, Department of Justice.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
DRUG TESTING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to review the implications
of random alcohol and drug testing in the work place, receiving testimony from
John H. Riley, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, Department of
Transportation; Lawrence Miike, Senior Associate for Health Programs, Office
of Technology Assessment; Charles R. Schuster, Director, National Institute of
Drug Abuse, Department of Health and Human Services; Lawrence M. Mann, Railway
Labor Executives Association; Gene Upshaw, National Football League Players
Association, R.V. Durham, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Arthur
H. Bunte, Jr., Trucking Management, Inc., all of Washington, DC; and Edward A.
Weihenmayer III, Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., and John P. Morgan, City
University of New York Medical School, both of New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
FAIR HOUSING
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on the Constitution concluded
hearings on S. 558, to revise the procedures for the enforcement of fair
housing under title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, after receiving
testimony from Rev. James W. Malone, Youngstown, Ohio, on behalf of the United
States Catholic Conference; Ronald L. Mace, Barrier Free Environments, Inc.,
Raleigh, North Carolina; Jay S. Levine, North Palm Beach, Florida; Robert G.
Schwemm, University of Kentucky Law School, Lexington, and Bonnie Milstein,
Washington, DC.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for the National Science Foundation,
after receiving testimony from Erich Bloch, Director, National Science
Foundation; LeRoy Lee, National Science Teachers' Association, and Robert M.
Rosenzweig, Association of American Universities, both of Washington, DC; and
David G. Marker, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, on behalf of the
Associated Colleges of the Midwest, the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Reed
College, Connecticut College, Rollins College, the Council of Graduate Schools
in the United States, and the National Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges.
HIGH-RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor began
consideration of S. 79, to notify workers who are at risk of occupational
disease in order to establish a system for identifying and preventing illness
and death of such workers, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again on Tuesday, April 28.
BUSINESS MEETING
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the
following bills:
S. 727, to clarify Indian treaties and executive orders with respect to
fishing rights, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
S. 795, to provide for the settlement of water rights claims of the La Jolla,
Rincon, San Pasqual, Pauma, and Pala Bands of Mission Indians in San Diego
County, California.
INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONDITIONS
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee held hearings to review Indian
economic development, focusing on control, capital, and management conditions
for economic development on Indian reservations, receiving testimony from
Steve Stallings, United Indian Development Association, El Monte, California;
Robert McLaughlin, Robert McLaughlin Company, Solen, North Dakota; Charles
Murphy, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota; Gerald I. James,
Lummi Indian Business Council, Bellingham, Washington; Eric Natwig, and David
Lester, both of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, Denver, Colorado;
Ronald Trosper, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Pablo, Montana; Eric
Eberhard, Gover, Stetson and Williams, Washington, DC; Phillip Martin, Choctaw
Indian Nation, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Robert Olney, Yakima Indian Nation,
Toppenish, Washington; and Al Henderson, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Arizona.
Hearings continue on Friday, May 1.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed closed hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, receiving testimony from certain intelligence
officials.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued hearings in open and
closed session on the nomination of William H. Webster, of Missouri, to be
Director of Central Intelligence, where the nominee testified and answered
further questions in his own behalf.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
Joint Meeting
ORGANIZATION MEETING
Joint Committee on Printing: Committee held an organizational business meeting
where it took the following action:
Elected Representative Annunzio and Senator Ford as Chairman and Vice
Chairman, respectively;
Adopted committee rules of procedure;
Agreed to a price increase for the Congressional Record; and
Considered other committee business.
Committee recessed subject to call.
1989/04/10
Daily Digest - Friday, April 10, 1987; pages D509 - D ? (Bound vol. D258-
D210)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- NASA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, receiving testimony from James Fletcher,
Administrator, NASA.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, April 24.
APPROPRIATIONS -- GENERAL GOVERNMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, and
General Government held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year
1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for those programs which fall
within the jurisdiction of the subcommittee from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
TAXPAYER RIGHTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and IRS
Oversight held hearings on S. 604 and S. 579, bills to promote and protect
taxpayer rights, receiving testimony from Senators Armstrong, Grassley, and
Reid; Representatives Tallon; Shirley A. Lojeski and Thomas Treadway, both of
Piperville, Pennsylvania; Elaine Mittleman, Falls Church, Virginia; Joseph P.
Smith, Jr., Las Vegas, Nevada; Jack Wade, Jr., Oakton, Virginia; James
McCarthy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC; and George M. Parker,
National Society of Public Accountants, Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, April 21.
DISPLACED NATIONALS OF EL SALVADOR
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
approved for full committee consideration S. 332, to provide for a temporary
stay of detention and deportation for certain nationals of El Salvador.
IMMIGRATION REFORM
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs
held oversight hearings on the implementation of the Immigration Reform and
Control Act, receiving testimony from Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner,
Immigration and Naturalization Service, and Mark R. Disler, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, both of the Department of Justice;
Reverend Monsignor Nicholas DiMarzio, United States Catholic Conference, Wade
Henderson, American Civil Liberties Union, and Charles Kamasaki, National
Council of La Raza, all of Washington, DC; James Paras, U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, San Francisco, California; and Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers,
Keene, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/21
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 21, 198; pages D513 - D ? (Bound vol. D260-
D264)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on an overview of Air Force programs, receiving testimony from Edward
C. Aldridge, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force; and Gen. Larry D. Welch, Chief
of Air Force Staff.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 23.
APPROPRIATIONS -- INDIAN AFFAIRS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for certain Indian programs, receiving testimony
from Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Defense Industry and Technology
approved for full committee consideration with amendments those provisions
which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 864, authorizing funds
for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense.
CREDIT CARD DISCLOSURE
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Consumer
Affairs concluded hearings on S. 241, S. 242, S. 616, and S. 647, bills to
require credit card issuers to disclose certain information regarding interest
rates and fees on applications, after receiving testimony from Representative
Schumer; Martha R. Seger, Member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System;
Alan Fox, Consumer Federation of America, Elgie Holstein, Bankcard Holders of
America, Meredith M. Fernstrom, American Express Company, and Ralph Rohner,
Catholic University, representing Consumer Bankers of America, all of
Washington, DC; James B. Wiesler, Bank of America National Trust and Savings
Association, San Francisco, California, representing VISA; Alan M.
Silberstein, Chemical Bank of New York, New York, New York, representing
Mastercard; Walter Connolly, Bank of New England Corporation, Boston,
Massachusetts; Jerry D. Craft, First National Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta,
Georgia, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Michael Zoroya, The
May Department Store Company, St. Louis, Missouri, representing the National
Retail Merchants Association; and William Kizer, Central States Health and
Life Insurance Company, Omaha, Nebraska.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FCC
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on
Communications concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds
for the Federal Communications Commission, after receiving testimony from
Dennis R. Patrick, Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
TAXPAYER RIGHTS
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Private Retirement Plans and IRS
Oversight resumed hearings on S. 604 and S. 579, bills to promote and protect
taxpayer rights, receiving testimony from Lawrence B. Gibbs, Commissioner,
James I. Owens, Deputy Commissioner, Thomas Coleman, Associate Commissioner
for Operations, and Jack Petrie, Taxpayer Ombudsman, all of the Internal
Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/22
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 22, 1987; pages D524 - D ? (Bound vol. D264-
D271)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- SBA/FTC
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective
activities from James Abdnor, Administrator, Small Business Administration;
and Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NAVY SUBMARINE REACTOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for energy
and water development programs, focusing on the Navy submarine reactor
program, receiving testimony from Don Oste, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Energy (Defense Programs); Adm. Kinnaird R. McKee, U.S.N.
Director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion; Roger E. Batzel, Director, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory; Siegfried S. Hecker, Director, Los Alamos
National Laboratory; and Irwin Welber, President, Sandia National Laboratory.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION/GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Glen
Urquhart, Chairman, National Capital Planning Commission; and Dallas Peck,
Director, United States Geological Survey.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
William J. Bennett, Secretary, Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Under Secretary for
Planning, Budget, and Evaluation, Wendell L. Willkie, General Counsel, and
James B. Thomas, Inspector General, all of the Department of Education.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Manpower and Personnel approved
for full committee consideration with amendments those provisions which fall
within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 864, authorizing funds for fiscal
years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness, Sustainability and
Support approved for full committee consideration, with amendments, those
provisions which fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of S. 864,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of
Defense.
SECURITIES INDUSTRY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee held oversight
hearings on improper activities in the securities industry, receiving
testimony from Gary Lynch, Director, Division of Enforcement, Securities and
Exchange Commission; and Rudolph W. Giuliani, United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, focusing on the operation of the
current hazardous materials program within the Department of Transportation,
receiving testimony from Senator Wirth; Edith B. Page, Project Director and
Senior Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment; Paul F. Rothberg, Specialist
in Science and Technology, Congressional Research Service, Library of
Congress; and Paul Rankin, Hazardous Materials Advisory Council, Washington,
DC.
Hearings continue on Friday, April 24.
PRICE-ANDERSON ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee resumed consideration of
S. 748, to establish a comprehensive, equitable, reliable, and efficient
mechanism for full compensation of the public in the event of an accident
resulting from activities undertaken under contract with the Department of
Energy, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet again on Wednesday,
May 6.
ACID RAIN CONTROLS -- ATTAINMENT STRATEGIES
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to review the Administration's current policy on
acid rain and the inability of many areas to attain compliance with the
requirements of the Clean Air Act by the deadline at the end of the year,
after receiving testimony from Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee began consideration of S. 490, to authorize
negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions, to change
the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish within the
Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trade Fund, to provide for
mandatory responses to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping and
countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed markup of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION EQUITY ACT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on S. 552, to improve the
efficiency of the Federal classification system and to promote equitable pay
practices within the Federal Government, after receiving testimony from
Senators Cranston and Evans; Constance Horner, Director, Office of Personnel
Management; Rosslyn S. Kleeman, Associate Director, General Government
Division, Curtis W. Copeland, Evaluator, and Lynn Gibson, Office of General
Counsel, all of the General Accounting Office; Eileen Stein, National
Committee on Pay Equity, James M. Peirce, National Federation of Federal
Employees, Robert M. Tobias, National Treasury Employees Union, and Lawrence
Z. Lorber, Breed, Abbot and Morgan, representing the American Society for
Personnel Administration, all of Washington, DC; Barbara Curtis, Wheaton,
Illinois, on behalf of the American Nurses Association; Bobbi Thompson,
Aviation Sales, Dayton, Ohio, representing the United States Chamber of
Commerce; and Susan Vergeront, Wisconsin State Assembly, Madison, representing
the National Association of Manufacturers.
U.S. PATENTED PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
held hearings on S. 568, and S. 573, bills to protect patent owners from
importation into the United States of goods made overseas by use of a United
States patented process, and S. 635, to protect intellectual property rights,
receiving testimony from Senator Lautenberg; Donald J. Quigg, Commissioner,
Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce; Roy H. Massengill, Allied
Corporation, Morristown, New Jersey; Gerald J. Mossinghoff, Pharmaceutical
Manufacturers Association, Washington, DC; David R. Haarz, National Retail
Merchants Association, Troy, Michigan; Alfred B. Engelberg, Generic
Pharmaceutical Industry Association, Carmel, New York; Robert C. Kline,
American Intellectual Property Law Association, Wilmington, Delaware; Richard
C. Witte, Intellectual Property Owners, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio; and John O.
Tramontine, The New York Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Association,
Inc., New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
LITERACY TUTORING ASSISTANCE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 1016,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 to provide startup grants to
colleges willing to establish special academic courses in which undergraduate
tutor reading, writing, and mathematics to the illiterate in classroom
settings, receiving testimony from Warren E. Burger, former Chief Justice of
the United States; Norman Manasa, Washington Education Project, Washington,
DC; Donna Petrie, and Ann Saffi, both of St. John's University, Jamaica, New
York; and Marilyn Schaeffer, New York City Public Schools, New York, New York.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FEC
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the Federal
Election Commission, after receiving testimony from Commissioner Scott E.
Thomas, Chairman, Commissioner Thomas J. Josefiak, Vice Chairman, and
Commissioner John W. McGarry, all of the Federal Election
Commission.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2, S.
50, S. 179, S. 207, S. 615, S. 625, S. 725, and Amendment No. 36 to S. 2,
measures to provide for spending limits and public financing for Senate
general elections, receiving testimony from William J. Baer, Lobbyist and
Lawyers for Campaign Finance Reform, G. Anthony Campbell, United States
Chamber of Commerce, Edward O. Fritts, National Association of Broadcasters,
Ellen Miller, Center for Responsive Politics, S.M. Brown, Jr., National
Association of Manufacturers, Amitai Etzioni, The George Washington
University, and Judy K. Brazeal, United Transportation Union, all of
Washington, DC; and Bonnie Reiss, Hollywood Women's Political Committee, Los
Angeles, California.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE ACT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
the implementation of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance
Act (P.L. 93-638), after receiving testimony from Phillip Martin, Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Ed Red Owl, Sisseton
Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Agency Village, South Dakota; Will Mayo, Tanana Chiefs
Conference, Fairbanks, Alaska; Ron Allen, James Klallam Tribe, Sequim,
Washington; Lloyd Coon, Columbia River InterTribal Fish Commission, Portland,
Oregon; Jim Sizemore, Madras, Oregon; George Shelhamer, Rosebud Sioux Tribe,
Rosebud, South Dakota; Lionel John, United South and Eastern Tribes,
Nashville, Tennessee; Eric Eberhard, Gover, Stetson, and Williams, Washington,
DC; and John Lewis, InterTribal Council of Arizona, Phoenix.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/23
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 23, 1987; pages D535 - D ? (Bound vol. D271-
D281)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on progress in military space programs, receiving testimony from
Edward C. Aldridge, Jr., Secretary of the Air Force; General John L.
Piotrowski, USAF, Commander-in-Chief, United States Space Command; and Vice
Admiral James R. Hogg, USN, Director, Office of Naval Warfare.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 28.
APPROPRIATIONS -- NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development held
closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for energy
and water development programs, focusing on nuclear weapons programs,
receiving testimony from Admiral Sylvester J. Foley, Jr., Assistant Secretary
of Energy for Defense Programs; Robert B. Barker, Assistant to the Secretary
of Defense for Atomic Energy; and Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, USAF,
Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, Department of Defense.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Joseph Gorrell, Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, Ralph W. Tarr, Solicitor, and James R. Richards, Inspector General,
all of the Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, April 28.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Education, receiving
testimony from Bruce M. Carnes, Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget
and Evaluation, Lois Bowman, Acting Assistant Secretary for Elementary and
Secretary Education, Carol Pendas Whitten, Director, Office of Bilingual
Education and Minority Languages Affairs, John Pucciano, Acting Assistant
Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, Madeleine C. Will, Assistant
Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, C. Ronald
Kimberling, Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education, and Chester E.
Finn, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement, all
of the Department of Education.
Subcommittee will met again on Monday, May 4.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for the United States Coast Guard from
Admiral Paul A. Yost, Jr., Commandant, United States Coast Guard.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Projection Forces and Regional
Defense approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall
within the subcommittee's jurisdiction proposed legislation authorizing funds
for fiscal year 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence met to consider those provisions which fall within the
subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, but did not complete
action thereon.
ESSENTIAL AIR SERVICE PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Aviation
concluded hearings on S. 724, to advance the scheduled termination date of the
Essential Air Service Program, after receiving testimony from Senators
Lautenberg and Metzenbaum; Matthew V. Scocozza, Assistant Secretary of
Transportation for Policy and International Affairs; Roger Andewelt, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; and
Robert Crandall, American Airlines, Inc., Thomas G. Plaskett, Continental
Airlines Corporation, Murph Dullum, Delta Air Lines, Inc., James E. Landry,
Air Transport Association, and Robert M. McGlotten, American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, all of Washington, DC.
AUTHORIZATION -- NATIONAL EARTHQUAKE HAZARD REDUCTION PROGRAM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for programs of the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act (P.L. 95-124) after
receiving testimony from David McLoughlin, Deputy Associate Director, State
and Local Programs, and Francis Reilly, Deputy Administrator, both of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency; Doyle Frederick, Associate Director, and
John R. Filson, Chief, Office of Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Engineering, both
of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior; Nam Suh,
Assistant Director for Engineering, James F. Hays, Director, Earth Sciences
Division, and Michael Gauf, Deputy Division Director, Critical Engineering
Systems, all of the National Science Foundation; John W. Lyons, Director,
National Engineering Laboratory, and Richard N. Wright, Director, Center for
Building Technology, both of the National Bureau of Standards, Department of
Commerce; Arch C. Johnston, Tennessee Earthquake Information Center, Memphis
State University, Memphis, Tennessee; James E. Beavers, Martin Marietta Energy
Systems, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and L. Thomas Tobin, California Seismic Safety
Commission, Sacramento.
NATIONAL WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 247, to designate the Kern River in California as a National Wild and
Scenic River, after receiving testimony from Senators Cranston and Wilson;
James W. Stewart, Acting Associate Director, National Park Service, Department
of the Interior; George Leonard, Associate Chief, United States Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture; Susan Lefever, Friends of the River,
Sacramento, California; Robin Little, Kern Valley Wildlife Association, Bill
Inskeep, Citizens for Choice, and Jackie Anderson, Sierra Enterprises, all of
Kernville, California; Ivan Halperin, Los Angeles, California; Eldin Hughes,
Sierra Club, Whittier, California; and Tom Gilfoy, Southern California Edison,
Rosemead; and
S. 275 and H.R. 317, bills to designate the Merced River in California as a
National Wild and Scenic River, after receiving testimony from Senators
Cranston and Wilson; James W. Stewart, Acting Associate Director, National
Park Service, Department of the Interior; George Leonard, Associate Chief,
United States Forest Service, Department of Agriculture; Ron Stork and Richard
Kunstman, both of the Merced Canyon Committee, and Eric Erickson, Mariposa
County Supervisor, all of Mariposa, California; Laurel Anderson, El Portal
Planning Council, El Portal, California; Hildegaard Heidt, Mountain King Mine,
Midpines, California; and Joe Keating, Keating Associates, Placerville,
California.
HIGH-LEVEL WASTE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
held oversight hearings on the Department of Energy implementation of the
Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, focusing on the disposal of high level
radioactive waste, receiving testimony from Senator Sasser; John S.
Herrington, Secretary of Energy; and Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for mandatory responses to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued in evening session to mark
up proposed legislation authorizing funds for foreign assistance programs.
RETAIL COMPETITION ENFORCEMENT ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on S. 430, to
preserve competition in the retail pricing of consumer goods, after receiving
testimony from Daniel Oliver, Chairman, Federal Trade Commission; Sharon
Levett, Cleveland, Ohio; Susan King, Northern Virginia; Anna Roberts,
Carlsbad, New Mexico; Robert Abrams, New York State Attorney General, Albany,
on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General; Mark Silbergeld,
Consumers Union of the United States, Inc., and Joe Sims, Jones, Day, Reavis &
Pogue, on behalf of the American Bar Association, both of Washington, DC;
Harry First, New York University Law School, and A. Robert Stevenson, K-Mart,
on behalf of National Mass Retailing Institute, both of New York, New York;
Monroe J. Milstein, Burlington Coat Factory, Burlington, New Jersey; Joseph R.
Creighton, Harris Corporation, Melbourne, Florida, on behalf of the National
Association of Manufacturers; and Joseph Alioto, Alioto and Alioto, San
Francisco, California.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging resumed hearings
on S. 887, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988-1992 for programs of the
Older Americans Act, and to review the changing needs of the elderly,
receiving testimony from Senator Bingaman; Carol Fraser Fisk, Commissioner,
Administration on Aging, Office of Human Development Services, Department of
Health and Human Services; David K. Brown, Mississippi Council on Aging,
Tupelo; Carmela G. Lacayo, Asociacion Nacional Pro Personas Mayores, Los
Angeles, California; Larry Crecy, National Caucus and Center on Black Aged,
Washington, DC; Iwalani Minton, Kensington, Maryland, on behalf of Winona
Rubin, Hawaii Department of Social Services and Housing; Louise Kamikawa,
National Pacific/Asian Resource Center on Aging, Seattle, Washington; Arnold
G. Parks, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri; Mae Chee Castillo,
Pueblo Pintado, New Mexico; James Hena, Pueblo of Tesuque, Santa Fe, New
Mexico; Steve Wilson, Creek Nation, Okmulgee, Oklahoma; and Kenneth White,
National Indian Council on Aging, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hearings continue on Thursday, April 30.
PARENTAL AND TEMPORARY LEAVE
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism resumed hearings on S. 249, to grant employees parental
and temporary medical leave under certain circumstances, receiving testimony
from William J. Gainer, Associate Director, Human Resources Division, Stephen
Backhus, Group Director, and James Spaulding, Economist, all of the General
Accounting Office; David Boggs, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Jack O'Connell,
Connecticut Hospice, Branford; Jan Deering, Ronald McDonald House, Wichita,
Kansas; Gerald McEntee, American Federation of State, County and Municipal
Employees, and Pat Scarcelli, United Food and Commercial Workers, both of
Washington, DC: Rosemary Trump, Service Employees International Union,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Cynthia Durham Simpler, Vermont American
Corporation, Fountain Inn, South Carolina.
Hearings continue on Monday, June 15.
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2,
S. 50, S. 179, S. 207, S. 615, S. 625, S. 725, and Amendment No. 36 to S. 2,
measures to provide for spending limits and public financing for Senate
general elections, after receiving testimony from David Adamany, Wayne State
University, Detroit, Michigan; Michael J. Malbin, University of Maryland,
Silver Spring, Maryland; Fred Wertheimer, Common Cause, William Moore,
National Association of Realtors, and Joseph J. Fanelli, Business-Industry
Political Action Committee, all of Washington, DC; and Gary Jacobson,
University of California at San Diego, San Diego, California.
SMALL BUSINESS/HEALTH CARE
Committee on Small Business: Committee concluded hearings on issues related to
the cost and availability of health care benefits for small businesses and
their employees and on proposals for federally funded mandated health
benefits, after receiving testimony from Frank Swain, Chief Counsel, Office of
Advocacy, Small Business Administration: Powell Jenkins, Jenkins Hardware,
Inc., Rocky Mount, North Carolina; Fredic M. Rohm, New Castle County Chamber
of Commerce, Newark, Delaware; Robert L. Shoptaw, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
of Arkansas, Little Rock; Mary Nell Lehnhard, Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Association, and Willis Goldbeck, Washington Business Group on Health, both of
Washington, DC; Michael J. Manley, The Travelers Companies, Hartford,
Connecticut; John J. Polk, Council of Smaller Enterprises, Cleveland, Ohio;
and Dorothee D. Maynard, The Good Neighbor Alliance Corporation, Cranston,
Rhode Island.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss matters relating to the
Iran-Contra affair, but made no announcements, and will meet again on
Thursday, April 30.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/24
Daily Digest - Friday, April 24, 1987; pages D547 - D ? (Bound vol. D281-
D283)
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 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Edwin Gray,
Chairman, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; William A. Whiteside, Executive
Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; and Herman J. Smith, Chairman
of the Board, National Institute of Building Sciences.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 1.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense met to consider those provisions which fall within the subcommittee's
jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon,
and recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- HAZARDOUS MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the
Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, receiving testimony from M. Cynthia
Douglass, Administrator, Research and Special Programs Administration, and
Alan Roberts, Director, Office of Hazardous Materials, both of the Department
of Transportation; Thomas X. White, council member, Greenbelt, Maryland, on
behalf of the National League of Cities; Jeffrey Schiff, National Association
of Towns and Townships, J. Andrew Doyle, National Paint and Coatings
Association, and William H. Dempsey, Association of American Railroads, all of
Washington, DC; Keith J. Bunting, Dow Chemical, Midland, Michigan, on behalf
of the Chemical Manufacturers Association; Ed D. Olmo, Shell Oil Company,
Houston, Texas, on behalf of the American Petroleum Institute; and John V.
Currie, American Trucking Associations, Inc., and Clifford Harvison, National
Tank Truck Carriers, Inc., both of Alexandria, Virginia.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 12.
INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings on the health threats posed by indoor air
pollutants and options for reducing exposures to such pollutants, after
receiving testimony from A. James Barnes, Deputy Administrator, United States
Environmental Protection Agency; John D. Spengler, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts; Jan A.J. Stolwijk, Yale University School of
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Ellen Silbergeld, Environmental Defense
Fund, Thomas Godar, American Lung Association, and Stephen Brobeck, Consumer
Federation of America, all of Washington, DC; Phil Merrill, Maine State
Employees Association, Augusta, on behalf of the Northern New England Indoor
Air Pollution Project; and Laura Oatman, Minnesota Department of Health,
Minneapolis.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for mandatory responses to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon and will continue on Tuesday, April 28.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: On Thursday, April 23, the committee ordered
favorably reported an original bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for foreign assistance programs. (As approved by the committee, the
bill incorporates certain provisions of the following measures: S. 630, S.
701, S. 720, S. 739, S. 750, S. 768, S. 783, S. 792, S. 793, S. 815, S. 842,
S. 851, and S. Con. Res. 24.)
RETIREES BENEFITS SECURITIES ACT
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Courts and Administrative Practice
concluded hearings on S. 548, to clarify that the benefits protected under a
collective bargaining agreement include the benefits of retired employees, to
extend protection against unilateral termination or modification of retirement
insurance benefits to all retirees without regard to whether or not they are
covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and to provide that employers
can modify, when necessary, retiree insurance benefits in the absence of
negotiated settlement, after receiving testimony from Staughton Lynd,
Solidarity U.S.A., Youngstown, Ohio; Jere Y. Heisler, Retired Employees'
Benefits Coalition, Inc., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Carl A. Ecklund, Roath and
Brega, Denver, Colorado, on behalf of the Retiree Subcommittee of Official
Unsecured Creditors Committee of Kaiser Steel; Joseph Patchan and Susan B.
Collins, both on behalf of Blue Cross/Blue Shield Mutual of Northern Ohio,
Cleveland; Herbert P. Minkel, Jr., Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson,
and Lawrence P. King, New York University School of Law, both representing The
National Bankruptcy Conference, New York, New York; Bruce E. Hendry, Kaiser
Steel Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota; William R. Hutton, National Council
of Senior Citizens, Washington, DC; and Hubert H. Humphrey III, Minnesota
Attorney General, St. Paul.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee continued closed hearings on
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence
community.
Committee will meet again on Tuesday, April 28.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/27
Daily Dgiest - Monday, April 27, 1987; pages D556 - D ? (Bound vol. D283-
D286)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee began mark up, in closed session, of
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear
Deterrence approved for full committee consideration those provisions which
fall within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of
Defense.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FEE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on H.R. 1320, to amend the Land
and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to charge new fees and increase
certain existing fees for admission into units of the National Park System,
after receiving testimony from William P. Horn, Assistant Secretary of the
Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks; William Mott, Director, and Richard
Rambur, Staff Park Ranger, both of the National Park Service, Department of
the Interior; Derrick A. Crandall, American Recreation Coalition, and Destry
Jarvis, National Parks and Conservation Association, both of Washington, D.C.;
and Katy Miller Johnson, Marin County, California.
TARIFF SCHEDULES
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on International Trade held hearings on the
conversion of the tariff schedules of the United States into the nomenclature
structure of the Harmonized System, receiving testimony from Christopher
Marcich, Director, Tariff Affairs, Office of the United States Trade
Representative; Francis W. Foote, Siegel, Mandell and Davidson, and Vico E.
Henriques, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, both of
Washington, D.C.; Gordon Freund and Joseph S. Kaplan, both of the American
Association of Exporters and Importers, Ted Rowland, International Footwear
Association, and Irene W. Meister, American Paper Institute, Inc., all of New
York, New York; and Kenneth A. Kumm, Joint Industry Group, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on the
nomination of Norma Pace, of Connecticut, to be a Governor of the United
States Postal Service, after the nominee testified and answered questions in
her own behalf.
POSTAL EMPLOYEE APPEAL RIGHTS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post
Office, and Civil Service concluded hearings on S. 541, to extend adverse
action appeal rights before the Merit Systems Protection Board to a large
number of postal employees, after receiving testimony from David H. Charters,
Senior Assistant Postmaster General, Human Resources Group, United States
Postal Service; Ron Swisher, National League of Postmasters of the United
States, and Hugh Bates, National Association of Postmasters of the United
States, both of Alexandria, Virginia; and Rubin Handelman, National
Association of Postal Supervisors, Washington, D.C.
MINE SAFETY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings to review mine
safety issues, focusing on factors which led to the Wilberg Mine fire in
Orangeville, Utah, and on enforcement of Mine Safety and Health Administration
regulations, receiving testimony from Alan McMillan, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health; and John Barton, Director,
District Nine Office, Denver, Colorado, Mine Safety and Health Administration,
Department of Labor; Neal Savage, Savage Industries, Salt Lake City, Utah;
William Zeller, Emery Mining Corp., David Lauriski, Utah Power and Light Co.,
Lester Walls, Sr., and Ron Carpenter, all of Huntington, Utah; Joseph Main,
United Mine Workers of America, Price, Utah; Don Cologie, Ferron, Utah; Edward
Saintz, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; James Bertuzzi, Indiana, Pennsylvania;
Herschel Potter, Glocester, Virginia; and James Simonelli, Albany, Georgia.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OLDER AMERICANS -- HOME CARE
Special Committee on Aging: Committee held hearings on the role of the Older
Americans Act in assuring access to quality home care for ill and aged
Americans and their families for health services in their homes, receiving
testimony from Charles Wells, Deputy Commissioner on Aging, Administration on
Aging, Louis B. Hays, Associate Administrator for Operations, Health Care
Financing Administration, and Donald Nicholson, Assistant Inspector General,
Office of the Inspector General, all of the Department of Health and Human
Services; Ann Mootz, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of National Association for
Home Care; Jane Anderson, Area V Area Agency on Aging, Anaconda, Montana, on
behalf of National Association of Area Agencies on Aging; and numerous public
witnesses.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/28
Daily Digest - Tuesday, April 28, 1987; pages D564 - D ? (Bound vol. D286-
D292)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
focusing on the National Guard and Reserve, receiving testimony from Dennis
Shaw, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs; Lt. General
Herbert R. Temple, Chief, National Guard Bureau; Brig. General Donald Burdick,
Director, Army National Guard; Major General John B. Conaway, USAF, Director,
Air National Guard; Major General W.F. Ward, USA, Chief, Army Reserve; Vice
Admiral Cecil J. Kempf, USN, Director, Naval Reserve; Major General John J.
Salesses, USMCR, Deputy Chief of Staff, Reserve Affairs; and Major General
Roger P. Scheer, USAF, Chief, Air Force Reserve.
Subcommitte will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the
Department of the Interior, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from Robert C. Horton, Director, Bureau of Mines, and
Jed Christensen, Director, Office of Surface Mining, both of the Department of
the Interior.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, April 30.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Conventional Forces and Alliance
Defense approved for full committee consideration those provisions which fall
within the subcommittee's jurisdiction of proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense.
TECHNOLOGY COMPETITIVENESS ACT
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee held hearings on
S. 907, to further United States technological leadership by providing for
support by the Department of Commerce of cooperative centers for the transfer
of research in manufacturing, receiving testimony from Donald G. Weinert,
National Society of Professional Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia; Donald G.
Zook, Caterpillar, Inc., Peoria, Illinois, on behalf of the Society of
Manufacturing Engineers; Jacques Koppel, The Technology Management Group,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Robert McIntyre, Amprotech, Inc., Grand
Rapids, Michigan.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
REFLAGGING OF FISHING VESSELS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded joint
hearings with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 377, to impose a
moratorium on the ability of foreign-built vessels to qualify for certain
benefits under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, after
receiving testimony from James E. Douglas, Jr., Acting Deputy Assistant
Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Department of Commerce; Captain William J. Ecker, Deputy Chief, Office of
Marine Safety, Security, and Environment, United States Coast Guard,
Department of Transportation; Terry Baker, Alaska Factory Trawler Association,
Theodore Kronmiller on behalf of USA Coalition, Denis Phelan, on behalf of
Pacific Seafood Processors Association, Robert F. Morgan, Oceantrawl, Inc.,
and Thorn Smith, North Pacific Fishing Vessel Owners' Association, all of
Seattle, Washington; Frank B. Bohannon, American High Seas Fisheries
Association, Portland, Oregon; Jack Edwards, Halter Marine, Inc., New Orleans,
Louisiana; H. Allen Fernstrom, The American Shipbuilding Company, Tampa,
Florida; Barry Fisher, South Beach, Oregon; Mayor Paul Fuhs, Unalaska, Alaska;
Dave Harville, Kodiak, Alaska; Geir Monsen, Seafreeze Limited, North Kingston,
Rhode Island, representing the National Fisheries Institute; and Frank
Pecquex, Seafarers International Union, Camp Springs, Maryland.
CIVILIAN NUCLEAR WASTE PROGRAM
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings to review
the Department of Energy's civilian nuclear waste program and technical issues
related to the siting of a geologic repository, receiving testimony from Hugh
Thompson, Director, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, and
Robert Browning, Director, Division of Waste Management, both of the United
States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Frank Parker, Chairman, Board on
Radioactive Waste Management, National Academy of Sciences; Ben C. Rusche,
Director, Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of
Energy, and Alvin Weinberg, Institute for Energy Analysis, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION -- CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings to review the policies
the Department of Transportation follows in communicating with Congress, and
to discuss the comparative analyses which the department prepared and
distributed during consideration of the Conference Report on H.R. 2, the
Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987, after
receiving testimony from Ray A. Barnhart, Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration, and Rebecca Gernhardt Range, Assistant Secretary for
Governmental Affairs, both of the Department of Transportation.
NOMINATION
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of
Jean K. Elder, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of Health and Human
Services for Human Development Services.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed consideration of S. 490, to authorize
negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions, to change
the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish within the
Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide for a
mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping and
countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon and will continue tomorrow.
LONG-TERM HEALTH CARE
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Health resumed hearings on the quality
of long-term care, focusing on proposals to assure high quality long-term care
under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, receiving testimony from William L.
Roper, Administrator, Health Care Financing Administration, Department of
Health and Human Services; Carl D. Yordy, Director, Division of Health Care
Services, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences; Barbara W.
Frank, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and Paul
Willging, American Health Care Association, both of Washington, D.C.; Aaron J.
Johnson, Georgia Department of Medical Assistance, Atlanta, on behalf of the
American Public Welfare Association; Marjory Blood, American Association of
Retired Persons, Augusta, Maine; and Ann Mootz, Home Aide Service and United
Home Care, Cincinnati, Ohio, on behalf of the National Association for Home
Care.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings on the nominations of
Michael S. Kanne, of Indiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the
Seventh Circuit, James H. Alesia, to be United States District Judge for the
Northern District of Illinois, Joseph P. Stadtmueller, to be United States
District Judge for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and Roger B. Andewelt,
of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Claims Court,
after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf. Mr.
Kanne was introduced by Senators Lugar and Quayle, Mr. Alesia was introduced
by Senator Dixon, and Mr. Stadtmueller was introduced by Senators Proxmire and
Kasten.
EMPLOYMENT AND DISABILITY
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Employment and
Productivity held joint hearings with the Subcommittee on the Handicapped on
employment opportunities for the disabled, and on S. 777, to guarantee a work
opportunity for all Americans, receiving testimony from Representative Coyne;
Harold Russell, Chairman, President's Committee on Employment of the
Handicapped; Humphrey Taylor, Louis Harris and Associates, Inc., New York, New
York; Bob Calloway, NewsBank, Inc., New Canaan, Connecticut; Nina McCoy,
Independent Living Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Susan Suter, Director,
Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services, Springfield; and Elizabeth
Anderson, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
HIGH-RISK OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND PREVENTION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Labor approved for
full committee consideration S. 79, to notify workers who are at risk of
occupational disease in order to establish a system for identifying and
preventing illness and death of such workers, with an amendment in the nature
of a substitute.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to mark up
proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the
intelligence community, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
VENICE ECONOMIC SUMMIT
Joint Economic Committee: Committee held hearings to review the prospects for
the upcoming Venice Economic Summit and to review appropriate objectives for
United States economic diplomacy, receiving from Stephen Marris, Institute for
International Economics, and Ralph C. Bryant, Brookings Institute, both of
Washington, D.C.; and Jeffrey Sachs, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
1987/04/29
Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 29, 1987; pages D573 - D ? (Bound vol. D292-
D298)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FIFRA -- PESTICIDE CONTAMINATION IN GROUND WATER
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee held oversight
hearings on the implementation of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and
Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), focusing on ground water contamination from
agricultural application of pesticides, receiving testimony from Senator
Durenberger; John A Moore, Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic
Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Stuart Z. Cohen, Biospherics,
Inc., Rockville, Maryland, former Ground Water Team Leader, Environmental
Protection Agency; George R. Hallberg, Iowa State Department of Natural
Resources, Iowa City; and Diane Cognal, Bakersfield, California.
Hearings continue on Wednesday, May 20.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued consideration of proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense, but did not complete action thereon, and will meet
again tomorrow.
NASA BUDGET
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Science,
Technology, and Space resumed hearings on the President's proposed budget
request for fiscal year 1988 for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, focusing on the space station program, receiving testimony
from Dale D Myers, Deputy Administrator, Thomas Newman, Assistant Deputy
Administrator, Andrew J. Stofan, Associate Administrator for Space Station,
David C. Black, Chief Scientist, Office of Space Station, and Thomas Moser,
Manager, Space Station Program, all of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration; and Peter Banks, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 839,
to authorize the Secretary of Energy to enter into incentive agreements with
certain States and affected Indian tribes concerning the storage and disposal
of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, receiving testimony
from Terry Husseman, on behalf of Governor Booth Gardner, Olympia, Washington;
Governor Richard Bryan, Carson City, Nevada; Steven Frishman, Office of
Governor Steven Frishman, Austin, Texas; Joseph C. King, Lexington, Virginia;
Joe S. Garcia, Jr., Tonopah, Nevada; Ron Jones, Prosser, Washington; Troy Don
Moore, Hereford, Texas; Albert Barros, Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, Idaho; Russell
Jim, Yakima Indian Tribe, Toppenish, Washington; and Bill Burke, Umatilla
Indian Reservation, Pendleton, Oregon.
Hearings continue on Thursday, May 7.
DOE'S MONITORED RETRIEVABLE STORAGE FACILITY
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded hearings to
review the Department of Energy's proposed establishment of a Monitored
Retrievable Storage (MRS) facility for high-level radioactive waste, after
receiving testimony from Ben C. Rusche, Director, Office of Civilian
Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy; Mayor Roy F. Pruett, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee; Roane County Executive Ken Yager, Kingston, Tennessee;
William W. Berry, Virginia Power, Richmond; and Peter Bradford, National
Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, and Brooks B. Yeager, Sierra
Club, both of Washington, D.C.
TRIBUTYLTIN (TBT) IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection concluded hearings to examine the impact of marine environment of
the use of tributyltin (TBT) in marine paints, after receiving testimony from
John A. Moore, Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances,
and James M. Seif, Regional Administrator, Region III, both of the
Environmental Protection Agency; Admiral M.V. Richetts, USN, Naval Sea Systems
Command; Torrey C. Brown, Maryland State Secretary of Natural Resources,
Annapolis; Velma Smith, Virginia State Water Pollution Control Board,
Richmond; Robert J. Huggett, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
Virginia; Arthur Sheldon, M&T Chemicals, Inc., Rahway, New Jersey; and John W.
Ludgate, Jr., International Paint Company.
SUPERFUND
Committee on Environment and Public Works: The Subcommittee on Superfund and
Environmental Oversight held oversight hearings on the implementation of the
Superfund Program, receiving testimony from Lee M. Thomas, Administrator, J.
Winston Porter, Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency
Response, Howard Messner, Assistant Administrator for Administration and
Resources Management, John C. Martin, Inspector General, Donald E. Kirkendall,
Deputy Inspector General, and Ernest E. Bradley III, Assistant Inspector
General for Audits, all of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for a mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
ABM TREATY -- CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee resumed joint hearings with the
Committee on the Judiciary to review the constitutional implications of the
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, receiving testimony in open session
from Antonia Chayes, End Dispute, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, former Under
Secretary of the Air Force; Leonard C. Meeker, Washington, D.C., former Legal
Adviser, Department of State; Arthur W. Rovine, Baker and McKenzie, New York,
New York, former Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs, Department of
State; Sidney N. Graybeal, Center for Strategic Policy, Systems Planning
Corporation, Arlington, Virginia, former ABM Treaty Negotiator; and William J.
Sims III, Meyer, Hendricks, Victor, Osborn & Maledon, Phoenix, Arizona, former
Attorney Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, and in
closed session from Messrs. Graybeal and Sims.
Hearings continue on Tuesday, May 19.
FEDERAL VALUE ENGINEERING PROGRAMS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held oversight hearings to review value engineering programs in
Federal agencies, receiving testimony from John A. Mittino, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Production Support; Gordon Frank, Director,
Industrial Productivity Support Office, Department of Defense; Robert P.
Bedell, Administrator, and Allan Burman, Deputy Administrator, both of the
Office of Federal Procurement Policy; and Alphonse Dell'Isola, Hinchman and
Grylls Associates, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the following
business items:
S. 431, to amend the Clayton Act to define a "person" to include a general or
controlling partner in a partnership for purposes of premerge notification
requirements, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
The nominations of David B. Sentelle, of North Carolina, to be United States
Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, Richard J. Daronco, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, David S. Doty, to
be U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota, Ronald S.W. Lew, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California, Reena Raggi, to be
U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, Bohdan A. Futey, of
Ohio, and Wilkes C. Robinson, of Kansas, each to be a Judge of the United
States Claims Court, Robert W. Foster, to be U.S. Marshal for the Eastern
District of Ohio, J. Keith Gary, to be U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District
of Texas, Earl L. Rife, to be U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of Ohio,
and Dwight G. Williams, to be U.S. Marshal for the Northern District of
Mississippi.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee held hearings on the
nominations of LeGree S. Daniels, of Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Secretary
of Education for Civil Rights, Beryl Dorsett, of New York, to be Assistant
Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education, and Bonnie
Guiton, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Vocational
and Adult Education, where the nominees testified and answered questions in
their own behalf. Mr. Daniels was introduced by Senators Heinz and Specter,
Mr. Dorsett was introduced by Senator D'Amato, and Ms. Guiton was introduced
by Senator Wilson.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
An original bill authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988 for the Federal
Election Commission;
S. 2, to provide for spending limits and public financing for Senate general
elections, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
Three original resolutions, each to pay a gratuity to the survivor of a
deceased Senate employee.
ROLE OF SMALL BUSINESS IN EXPORT MARKETS
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Export Expansion held hearings to
enhance small business participation in export markets, receiving testimony
from James Abdnor, Administrator, Small Business Administration; Bruce Smart,
Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade; L. Ebersole Gaines,
Executive Vice President, Overseas Private Investment Corporation; William F.
Ryan, First Vice President and Vice Chairman, Board of Directors,
Export-Import Bank of the United States; Robert Shockey, Chapman Chemical
Company, Memphis, Tennessee; and Tom Watson, Watson and Rice, Washington, D.C.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on
Indian economic development issues, focusing on proposed amendments to the
Indian Financing Act, and the Buy Indian Act, after receiving testimony from
Ross O. Swimmer, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs;
Wilfredo J. Gonzales, Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and
Capitol Ownership Development, Small Business Administration; Conrad Edwards,
Tribal Employment Rights Office, Seattle, Washington; Daniel S. Press, Council
for Tribal Employment Rights, and Susan Harjo, National Congress of American
Indians, both of Washington, D.C.; Steve Stallings, United Indian Development
Association, El Monte, California; Bailey S. Barnard, National Association of
Government Guarantee Lenders, San Francisco, California; John Washakie,
Shoshone Tribal Council, Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Johnny R. Thompson, Navajo
Nation, Window Rock, Arizona; and Ron Hall and Edward Danks, both of the
National Indian Contractors' Association, Boulder, Colorado.
INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATIONS
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee met in closed session to continue
markup of proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal year 1988, for the
intelligence community, but did not take final action thereon.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/04/30
Daily Digest - Thursday, April 30, 1987; pages D583 - D ? (Bound vol. D299-
D306)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AGRICULTURAL INTEREST RATE RELIEF ACT
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Subcommittee on
Agricultural Credit began consideration of S. 57, to establish an agricultural
loan interest subsidy program, but did not complete action thereon, and
recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee continued in evening session to mark up
H.R. 1827, appropriating supplemental funds for fiscal year ending September
30, 1987.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from Edwin Meese III, Attorney
General of the United States, Alan G. Nelson, Commissioner, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Norman Carlson, Director, Federal Prison System, and
Richard Abell, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, all of
the Department of Justice.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 6.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense resumed hearings on
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Defense,
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- TERRITORIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Richard T.
Montoya, Assistant Secretary for Territorial and International Affairs, and
Janet McCoy, High Commissioner, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, both
of the Department of the Interior; Delegate De Lugo, and Governor Alexander
Farrelly, both on behalf of the Virgin Islands; Governor A.P. Lutali, and
Speaker F. Tuia, both on behalf of American Samoa; Delegate Blaz, Governor
Joseph Ada, and Senator Franklin Quituqua, all on behalf of Guam; Lieutenant
Governor Pedro A. Tenorio, Froilan Tenorio, Resident Representative, and
Senator Benjamin T. Manglona, all on behalf of the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands; Franz Reksid, Minister of Administration, on behalf
of the Republic of Palau; Representative Epel K. Ilon, and Senator Peter
Christian, both on behalf of the Federated States of Micronesia; and Oscar
DeBrum, Chief Secretary, on behalf of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 5.
APPROPRIATIONS -- UMTA/METRO
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988,
receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from
Ralph L. Stanley, Urban Mass Transit Administration, Department of
Transportation; and Carmen Turner, General Manager, Washington Metropolitan
Transit Authority.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee continued in evening session to
consider proposed legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989
for the Department of Defense.
FISHERY PROGRAMS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings in conjunction with the National Ocean Policy Study on S. 62, to
regulate driftnet fishing operations in waters off the coast of the United
States, and to review fishery programs, after receiving testimony from William
E. Evans, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Edward E. Wolfe, Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and Fisheries Affairs; Douglas G.
Marshall, New England Fishery Management Council, Saugus, Massachusetts;
Dennis Phelan, Pacific Seafood Processors Association, and Roger McManus,
Center for Environmental Education, both of Washington, D.C.; Henry Mitchell,
Bering Sea Fishermen's Association, Anchorage, Alaska; Alan Reichman,
Greenpeace Northwest, Seattle, Washington; and Tim Sullivan, Cape Ann Vessel
Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded
hearings on the nomination of James L. Kolstad, of Colorado, to be a Member of
the National Transportation Safety Board, after the nominee, who was
introduced by Senator Simpson testified and answered questions in his own
behalf.
PUBLIC LANDS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 252 and H.R. 568, bills to establish the San Pedro Riparian National
Conservation Area in Arizona, after receiving testimony from Senators
DeConcini and McCain; Representative Kyl; Robert F. Burford, Bureau of Land
Management, Department of the Interior; C. Eugene Knoder, Audubon Society,
Boulder, Colorado; and Debbie Sease, Sierra Club, and Burton Eller and Patty
McDonald, both of the National Cattlemen's Association, all of Washington,
D.C.; and
S. 575, to convey public land to the Catholic Diocese of Reno/Las Vegas,
Nevada, after receiving testimony from Sister Marie Bernard Maurer, Sisters of
the Good Shepherd, Silver Spring, Maryland.
RADON EXPOSURE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Environmental
Protection approved for full committee consideration with amendments S. 744,
to assist States in responding to the threat to human health posed by exposure
to randon.
NUCLEAR LIABILITY INSURANCE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on S. 44 and S. 843, bills to extend and improve the
procedures for the protection of the public from nuclear incidents, after
receving testimony from Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman, and Thomas M. Roberts,
James K. Asselstine, Fred Bernthal, and Kenneth M. Carr, all Commissioners,
all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; A. David Rossin, Assistant Secretary
for Nuclear Energy, Jerome D. Saltzman, Deputy Director, Office of Policy and
Outreach, and Susan Kuznick, Attorney, Office of General Counsel, all of the
Department of Energy; Charles B. Roe, Jr., Washington Senior Assistant
Attorney General, representing Governor Booth Gardner and Attorney General Ken
Eikenberry, Olympia; James Davenport, Nevada Special Deputy Attorney General,
Carson City; Steve Frishman, Texas Nuclear Waste Program Office, Austin; Keiki
Kehoe, Environment Policy Institute, Kathleen Welch, U.S. Public Interest
Research Group, and Omer F. Brown II, Rivkin, Radler, Dunne & Bayh, all of
Washington, D.C.; Steve Griffith, Duke Power Electric Company, Charlotte,
North Carolina; M.G. Johnson, Bechtel Power Corporation, San Francisco,
California; and Joseph Marrone and Marguerite Shea, both of the American
Nuclear Insurers, Farmington, Connecticut.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for a mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
U.S. EMBASSY SECURITY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee held a closed briefing to review
security breaches at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, receiving testimony from
Arthur A. Hartman, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union; and officials of the
intelligence community.
Also, the committee held hearings to review embassy security issues, receiving
testimony from Ronald Spiers, Under Secretary of State for Management, Robert
E. Lamb, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security, Richard
Dertadian, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Foreign Buildings, and
James Nolan, Director, Office of Foreign Missions, all of the Department of
State.
AT&T
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly and Business
Rights concluded hearings to review Department of Justice recommendations
concerning the line-of-business restrictions imposed on the Bell Operating
Companies by the 1982 consent decree entered in the government's antitrust
case against AT&T, after receiving testimony from Charles F. Rule, Acting
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice; Sharon
L. Nelson, Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission, Olympia,
on behalf of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners;
Walter H. Alford, Bellsouth Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia; John D. Zeglis,
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Basking Ridge, New Jersey; Bert C.
Roberts, Jr., MCI Telecommunications, and Gene Kimmelman, Consumer Federation
of America, both of Washington, DC.; William A. Spratley, Ohio Consumers
Counsel, Columbus; Kenneth E. Millard, Ameritech, Chicago, Illinois; John R.
Hoffman, US Sprint Communications Company, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, on behalf
of the Competitive Telecommunications Association (CompTel); and Robert M.
Johnson, Newsday, Long Island, New York, on behalf of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association.
SAVE THE CHILDREN
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Children, Family,
Drugs, and Alcoholism held hearings on S. 476, to provide assistance in the
development of new or improved programs to help younger persons through grants
to States for community planning, services and training, and to examine
critical issues facing young Americans and families in the United States,
including alcohol and drug abuse, housing and homelessness, and poverty and
youth unemployment, receiving testimony from Senator McConnell; Marjorie C.
Benton, Chicago, Illinois, and Herman Blake, Tugaloo College, Jackson,
Mississippi, both of Save the Children Federation; George Gallup, Jr., Gallup
Organization, Princeton, New Jersey; Charles L. Baker, Buckhorn Children's
Center, Buckhorn, Kentucky; Donald Reilly, National Council on Aging, and June
P. Bucy and Esteban Tomas, both of the National Network of Runaway and
Homeless Youth, all of Washington, D.C.; Ira Mexicano, Tuba City, Arizona;
Deena Blase, Sells, Arizona; Holly Lenita Willis, Poplar Grove, Arkansas;
Michael Nieves, Bridgeport, Connecticut; Michelle Vialpando, Canones, New
Mexico, and Phillip Wilkie, Belcourt, North Dakota.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- OLDER AMERICANS ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Aging concluded
hearings on S. 887, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988-1992 for programs
of the Older Americans Act, and to review the changing needs of the elderly,
after receiving testimony from Senators Graham and Lautenberg; Roberts T.
Jones, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor; Sonia Crow, Associate
Administrator for Food and Nutrition, Department of Agriculture; Katheryn
Dusenberry, Federal Council on Aging, Tucson, Arizona; Eleanor Lloyd, National
Association of Area Agencies on Aging, Kauai, Hawaii; Wilda Ferguson, National
Association of State Units on Aging, Richmond, Virginia; Donald F. Reilly,
National Council on Aging, John Pickering, American Bar Association, John
Cornman, Gerontological Society of America, William R. Hutton, National
Council of Senior Citizens, and Janet Zobel, National Urban League, all of
Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth Crittendon, National Institute of Senior Centers,
Charleston, West Virginia; Jill Duson, National Association of State Long-Term
Care Ombudsman Programs, Augusta, Maine; Alice Smitherman, American Dietetic
Association, Alexandria, Virginia; June Durham, National Association of Meals
Programs, Greenville, South Carolina; Richard W. Lindsay, American Geriatrics
Society, Charlottesville, Virginia; and Alec G. Olson, Green Thumb, Inc.,
Falls Church, Virginia.
ROLE OF SMALL BUSINESS IN EXPORT MARKETS
Committee on Small Business: Subcommittee on Export Expansion continued
hearings to enhance small business participation in export markets, receiving
testimony from Frank S. Swain, Chief Counsel, Office of Advocacy, Small
Business Administration; Mitchell B. Wallerstein, Associate Executive
Director, Office of International Affairs, National Academy of Sciences;
Gordon O. F. Johnson, Johnson Associates, Alexandria, Virgina; Roger Little,
Spire Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts; Gregg L. Higgins, Small Business
Development Center of Florida, University of West Florida, Pensacola; Brian K.
Davis, Alabama International Trade Center, Tuscaloosa; and R. Wayne Sayer, R.
Wayne Sayer and Associates, representing the American Electronics Association,
Washington, D.C.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
VETERANS ASSISTANCE
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S.999, to
improve veterans employment, counseling, and job-training services, and S.918,
to improve veterans educational assistance programs, after receiving testimony
from R.J. Vogel, Chief Benefits Director, Dennis R. Wyant, Director,
Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Service, and Grady Horton, Deputy
Chief, Benefits Director for Program Management, all of the Veterans'
Administration; Donald E. Shasteen, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans'
Employment and Training; David L. Bush, State Director of Veterans' Employment
and Training Service, State of West Virginia, Department of Labor; Jerry Fink,
Raleigh County Memorial Airport, Beaver, West Virginia; Augustin Hernandez,
Hernandez Electric Company, Phoenix, Arizona; James N. O'Brien, McDonnell
Douglas Corporation, Long Beach, California; Mary Fichter, Management
Insights, Inc., Dallas, Texas; Ronald L. Sager, Town and Country Electric,
Inc., Appleton, Wisconsin; Robert E. David, Employment Security Commission of
South Carolina, Charleston; Vincent Rios, former California State Supervisor
of Veterans' Job Training Programs, Sacramento; James G. Bourie, American
Veterans of World War II, Korea and Vietnam; Paul S. Egan and Dennis K.
Rhoades, both of The American Legion, Gordon R. Thorson, Veterans of Foreign
Wars of the United States, Ronald W. Drach, Disabled American Veterans, Robert
Moran, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Ronald L. Miller, Blinded Veterans
Association, and Richard F. Weidmann, Vietnam Veterans of America, all of
Washington, D.C.
INDIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Select Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 721, to
provide for and promote the economic development of Indian tribes, after
receiving testimony from Senator Domenici; Thomas N. Tureen, Tureen and
Margolin, Portland, Maine; Dennis Gibb, Bear, Sterns and Company, San
Francisco, California; Lorraine Ruffing, Centre on Transnational Corporations,
New York, New York; David Harrison, Osage Tribal Council, Denver, Colorado;
Regis Pecos, New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs, Santa Fe; and Wilma
Mankiller, Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee resumed hearings on the nomination
of William H. Webster, of Missouri, to be Director of Central Intelligence,
where the nominee testified and answered further questions in his own behalf.
IRAN/CONTRA MATTERS
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed evening session to discuss matters
relating to the Iran-Contra affair.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/05/01
Daily Digest - Friday, May 1, 1987; pages D594 - D ? (Bound vol. D306-D309)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- SUPPLEMENTAL
Committee on Appropriations: Committee ordered favorably reported, with
amendments, H.R. 1827, appropriating supplemental funds for fiscal year ending
September 30, 1987.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SPACE STATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the space station program from David Black,
Chief Scientist, Space Station, National Aeronautic and Space Administration;
Carl R. Palmer, Associate Director, Information and Management and Technology
Division, General Accounting Office; Peter M. Banks, Star Laboratory, Stanford
University, Stanford, California; Riccardo Giacconi, Space Telescope Science
Institute, Baltimore, Maryland; Bruce Murray, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, and Carl Sagan, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York,
both representing the Planetary Society; L. Dennis Smith, Purdue University,
Lafayette, Indiana; and James Van Allen, University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 8.
GI BILL
Committee on Armed Services: On Thursday, April 30, the committee ordered
favorably reported S. 12, to remove the expiration date of eligibility for the
educational assistance programs for veterans of the All-Volunteer Force.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee met in closed session with the Select
Committee on Intelligence to receive their recommendations on proposed
legislation authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the
Department of Defense.
Also the committee continued closed markup of proposed legislation authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of Defense, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue on Tuesday, May 5.
FEDERAL TRIANGLE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Water Resources,
Transportation, and Infrastructure concluded hearings on the proposed
International Cultural and Trade Center on the Federal Triangle, in
Washington, DC, after receiving testimony from Terence C. Golden,
Administrator, General Services Administration; Donald J. Bouchard, Assistant
Secretary of State for Administration; Michael Farren, Deputy Under Secretary
for International Trade, Department of Commerce; Jay Brody, Executive
Director, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation; and Harry McPherson,
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, and Donald A. Brown, JBG
Associates, both of the Federal City Council, Washington, DC.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for a mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon and will continue on Tuesday, May 5.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee met to consider pending
calendar business, but took no action thereon, and will meet again on
Wednesday, May 6.
NOMINATION
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nomination of William H. Webster, of Missouri, to be Director of Central
Intelligence.
1987/05/04
Daily Digest - Monday, May 4, 1987; pages D604 - D ? (Bound vol. D310-D311)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS -- LABOR, HHS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for certain programs of the Department of Labor, and the
Department of Health and Human Services, receiving testimony from Delegate de
Lugo; Thomas Downs, representing the Office of Mayor Marion Barry, Washington,
DC; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development held hearings on proposals to restructure the Department of
Energy's uranium enrichment program, including amendment No. 176 to S. 1084,
and amendment No. 177 to S. 1100, both related measures, receiving testimony
from A. David Rossin, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy Programs, and
John Longenecker, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Uranium Enrichment, both of
the Department of Energy; Mitchell S. Diamond, Robert A. Tyre, and Anjan
Chatterjee, all of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc., and Harold Seidman,
Brookings Institution, and Alan Dean, both on behalf of the National Academy
of Public Administration, all of Washington, DC.
Hearings continue on Friday, May 8.
BILINGUAL EDUCATION ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee approved for reporting with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 857, to make Federal financial
assistance available for children of limited English proficiency without
mandating a specific method of instruction, to encourage innovation at the
State and local level through greater administrative flexibility, and to
improve program operations at the Federal level.
EDUCATION FOR COMPETITIVE AMERICA ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: On Friday, May 1, the Subcommittee on
Education, Arts, and Humanities approved for full committee consideration with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute, S. 406, to provide additional
Federal education programs designed to strengthen competitiveness of American
industry.
No Joint hearings noted.
1987/05/05
Daily Digest - Tuesday, May 5, 1987; pages D610 - D ? (Bound vol. D312-D317)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not neet)
RURAL REVITALIZATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee resumed hearings
to review economic problems of rural communities, focusing on the importance
of diversifying the rural economy, changes in the global marketplace, and
current state of rural America's infrastructure, receiving testimony from
North Dakota Governor George Sinner, Bismarch; Robert Bergland, Rural Electric
Cooperative Association, Washington, D.C.; Robert Rodale Press, Emmaus,
Pennsylvania; and Ken James, Appalachian Computer Services, London, Kentucky.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMPETITIVENESS/PRODUCTIVITY
Committee on Appropriations: Committee concluded hearings on the topic of
competitiveness to identify which programs and activities the government now
funds that make the best contribution to productivity and those which make
little or no contribution, after receiving testimony from Admiral Bobby Inman,
USN (Ret.), Westmark Systems, Inc., Austin Texas, former Director, National
Security Agency, and former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; and
Robert Reich, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for programs of the
District of Columbia, receiving testimony in behalf of funds for their
respective activities from William C. Pryor, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals;
Fred B. Ugast, Chief Judge, Superior Court; Larry P. Polansky, Executive
Office, District of Columbia Courts; and R. David Hall, President, and
Floretta D. McKenzie, Superintendent of Schools, both of the District of
Columbia Board of Education.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May7.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SMITHSONIAN/WILSON CENTER/HOLOCAUST COUNCIL
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the Interior and Related Agencies
held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for their respective activities from Robert McC.
Adams, Secretary, Smithsonian Institution; James H. Billington, Director,
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and David Weinstein, Acting
Executive Director, Holocaust Memorial Council.
Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, May 7.
APPROPRIATIONS -- EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for certain programs of the Department of Education,
receiving testimony from Senators Exon and Daschle; and numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported an original
bill authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of
Defense, in lieu of S. 864.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded hearings
on the nominations of Edward W. Kelley, Jr., of Texas, to be a Member of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Carl D. Covits, of
California, to be Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, after the
nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf, Mr. Kelley was
introduced by Senator Gramm, and Mr. Covits was introduced by Senators
Cranston and Wilson.
Committee will consider the nominees tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee ordered favorably reported the
nominations of Charles H. Dallara, of Virginia, to be United States Executive
Director of the International Monetary Fund, Fred J. Eckert, of Virginia, for
the rank of Ambassador during the tenure of his services as United States
Representative to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture in
Rome, and a routine list of Foreign Service nominations received by the Senate
on April 10, 1987.
Also, the committee began markup of S. 766, authorizing funds for fiscal years
1988 and 1989 for the Department of State, S. 740, authorizing funds for
fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Board for International Broadcasting, S.
767, authorizing funds for fiscal year years 1988 and 1989 for the United
States Information Agency, and S. 859, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, but did not complete
action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee resumed consideration, in open and closed
session of S. 490, to authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade
barriers or distortions, to change the import relief provisions of the Trade
Act of 1974, to establish within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness
Assistance Trust Fund, to provide for a mandatory response to certain trade
distortions, to change antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement
provisions, and to provide remedies for infringements on intellectual property
rights in international trade, but did not complete action thereon and will
continue tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
IRAN/CONTRA AFFAIR
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran
and the Nicaraguan Opposition began joint hearings with the House Select
Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran on matters
relating to the Iran/Contra affair, receiving testimony from Maj. General
Richard V. Secord, USAF (Ret.), former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1987/05/06
Daily Digest - Wednesday, May 6, 1987; pages D620 - D ? (Bound vol. D317-
D323)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. AGRICULTURE EXPORTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee began markup of
S. 512, to promote the export of U.S. agricultural commodities, but did not
complete action thereon, and will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- SUPREME COURT/JUSTICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice, receiving testimony in behalf
of funds for their respective activities from John D. Glover, Executive
Assistant Director for Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, John
C. Lawn, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Stanley E.
Morris, Director, United States Marshals Service, all of the Department of
Justice; Associate Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Lewis Powell, Jr., both of
the United States Supreme Court; and George M. White, Architect of the
Capitol.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for certain programs of the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony from Senator Matsunaga; and numerous public
witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DEFENSE AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Military Construction resumed
open and closed hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
military construction programs, focusing on defense agencies, receiving
testimony from Gordon K. Dowery, Director, Defense Medical Facilities Office;
Barbara A. Pope, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Family Support,
Education, and Safety), Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Force
Management and Personnel); Maj. Gen. Stanton R. Musser, USAF, Deputy Director,
Defense Logistics Agency; Lt. Gen. Bradely C. Hosmer, USAF, President,
National Defense University; Brig. Gen. Malcolm O'Neill, USA, Deputy Director
for Programs and Systems, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization; William
Jenkins, Assistant Director for Installations and Logistics, National Security
Agency; and Rear Adm. Robert W. Schmitt, Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence
Agency.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 20.
JAPANESE FINANCIAL MARKETS
Committee on the Budget: Committee concluded hearings to examine the level of
access American financial firms have to Japanese financial markets, after
receiving testimony from Representative Schumer; E. Gerald Corrigan, Federal
Reserve Bank of New York, New York; and Robert H. Binney, Chase Manhattan
Bank's International Banking Sector, Tokyo, Japan.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Foreign
Commerce and Tourism concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing
funds for the United States Travel and Tourism Administration, Department of
Commerce, after receiving testimony from Senators Sasser and Warner; Donna F.
Tuttle, Under Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism, United States
Travel and Tourism Administration; Jean Maguire, Director, User Fee Task
Force, United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Randy Worls,
Oglebay Park, Wheeling, West Virginia; Bill F. Miller, Long Beach Area
Convention and Visitors Council, Inc., Long Beach, California; William D.
Toohey, Travel Industry Association of America, and Gabriel Phillips, Air
Transport Association, both of Washington, D.C.; and William C. Pitt III, The
Greenbrier, White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- NRC
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
held hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, receiving testimony from Lando W. Zech, Jr., Chairman,
and Thomas M. Roberts, Fred Bernthal, James K. Asselstine, and Kenneth M.
Carr, all Commissioners, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee continued consideration of S. 490, to
authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or distortions,
to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 to establish
within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trust Fund, to provide
for a mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to change antidumping
and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to provide remedies for
infringements on intellectual property rights in international trade, but did
not complete action thereon, and will continue tomorrow.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee continued markup of S. 766,
authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Department of State,
S. 740, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Board for
International Broadcasting, S. 767, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
and 1989 for the United States Information Agency, and S. 859, authorizing
funds for fiscal years 1988 and 1989 for the Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency, but did not complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE INSTITUTE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government
Management held joint hearings with the Committee on Armed Services'
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces and Nuclear Deterrence to review a Department
of Defense proposal to establish a Federally-funded research and development
center known as the Strategic Defense Initiative Institute to provide
technical advice on SDI research, receiving testimony from Gen. Malcolm
O'Neill, Deputy Director for Programs and Systems, Strategic Defense
Initiative Organization, Department of Defense; Harry R. Finley, Senior
Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs Division,
General Accounting Office; James S. Hostetler, Kirkland & Ellis, representing
the Professional Services Council and the Business Alliance on Government
Competition, Washington, DC; Norman R. Augustine, Martin Marietta Corp.,
Bethesda, Maryland; Robert Park, Washington, DC, and C.K. Patel, AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, both representing the American Physical
Society; and Robert S. Cooper, Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corp,
Washington, DC.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
COMPETITIVENESS AND ANTITRUST
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held hearings to examine whether the
antitrust laws and antitrust enforcement policy should be modified to enhance
the competitiveness of American firms, receiving testimony from Robert W.
Crandall, The Brookings Institute, and Joseph Sims, Jones, Day, Reavis and
Pogue, both of Washington, DC; Lynn R. Williams, United Steelworkers of
America, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Curtis H. Barnett, Bethlehem Steel
Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; and Walter Adams, Michigan State
University, East Lansing.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
Joint Meeting
IRAN/CONTRA AFFAIR
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran
and the Nicaraguan Opposition continued joint hearings with the House Select
Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran on matters
relating to the Iran/Contra Affair, receiving further testimony from Maj. Gen.
Richard V. Secord, USAF (Ret.), former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
1987/05/07
Daily Digest - Thursday, May 7, 1987; pages D630 - D ? (Bound vol. D323-D330)
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
U.S. AGRICULTURE EXPORTS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee continued markup
of S. 512, to promote the export of U.S. agricultural commodities, but did not
complete action thereon, and recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- INS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget
estimates for fiscal year 1988 for the Department of Justice, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Department of Justice, from Senator Simpson; and Alan C. Nelson, Commissioner,
INS.
Subcommittee will meet again on Tuesday, May 12.
APPROPRIATIONS -- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on the District of Columbia held
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for programs of the
District of Columbia, receiving testimony from Mayor Marion S. Barry, Jr., and
David A. Clarke, Council Chairman, both of the District of Columbia.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for certain programs of the Department of Health and Human
Services, receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again tomorrow.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988 for
the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from Donald D. Engen,
Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Transportation,
who was accompanied by several of his associates; and on the FAA operations by
the General Accounting Office, receiving testimony from Herbert R. McLure,
Associate Director, Resources, Community and Economic Development Division,
General Accounting Office.
Hearings continue tommorrow.
NUCLEAR WASTE POLICY ACT AMENDMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee held hearings on S. 839,
to authorize the Secretary of Energy to enter into incentive agreements with
certain States and affected Indian tribes concerning the storage and disposal
of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, receiving testimony
from Senators Humphrey, Trible, Mitchell, Bentsen, and Reid; and
Representatives Vucanovich, Bilbray, and Bonker.
PEACE GARDEN/NATIONAL PARKS -- ALTITUDE FOR AIRCRAFT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Public Lands,
National Parks and Forests concluded hearings on the following bills:
S. 261 and H.R. 191, to authorize the establishment of a Peace Garden on
Federal land in the District of Columbia, after receiving testimony from
Senator Matsunaga; and Elizabeth Ratcliffe, Peace Garden Project, Berkeley,
California; and
S. 451, to provide for a study of the proper minimum altitude to be maintained
by aircraft flying over areas within units of the National Park System, after
receiving testimony from Senators Matsunaga, DeConcini, and McCain; John S.
Kern, Deputy Associate Administrator for Aviation Standards, Federal Aviation
Administration, Department of Tranportation; Denis P. Galvin, Deputy Director,
and Manus J. Fish, Jr., Director, National Capital Region, both of the
National Park Service, Department of the Interior; Gaylord Nelson, The
Wilderness Society, Edward M. Norton, Grand Canyon Trust, and William C.
Lienesch, National Parks and Conservation Association, all of Washington, DC;
Alan R. Stephen, Scenic Airlines, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada; Ken Walter, Grand
Canyon Chapter Sierra Club, Flagstaff, Arizona; James Kahan, Grand Canyon
Flight Operator's Association, Kirkland, Washington; Frank L. Jensen, Jr.,
Helicopter Association International, Alexandria, Virginia; Elling Halvorsen,
North American Helicopter Airways, Inc., Redmond, Washington; Richard Walsh,
Resource Center for the Handicapped, Seattle, Washington; and Bob DeCamp,
Hawaii Helicopter Operators Association, Honolulu.
NUCLEAR EMERGENCY PLANNING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation
concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds for the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, and to review the Federal Emergency Management Agency's
radiological emergency preparedness program, and on the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's proposed rule to change existing emergency planning standards,
after receiving testimony from Senators Kennedy and Humphrey; Representative
Hochbrueckner; Thomas M. Roberts, Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission;
Julius W. Becton, Jr., Director, and David McLoughlin, Associate Deputy
Director, both of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Sherwood H. Smith,
Jr., Carolina Power and Light Company, Raleigh, North Carolina; W. Taylor
Reveley III, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia; George W. Edwards, The
United Illuminating Company, New Haven, Connecticut; John Ahearne and Joseph
M. Hendrie, both former Chairmen and Commissioners, and Victor Gilinsky,
former Commissioner, all of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Stephen
Rosenfeld, on behalf of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Boston;
William Lord, Amesbury, Massachusetts; Ronald R. Jordan, Merrimac,
Massachusetts; Paul McEachern, Hampton, New Hampshire; Richard Wilson, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of Scientists and Engineers
for Secure Energy; and Wayne Prospect, Suffolk County Legislature Energy
Committee, Hauppauge, New York.
OMNIBUS TRADE ACT
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported with amendments S.
490, to authorize negotiations to reduce or eliminate trade barriers or
distortions, to change the import relief provisions of the Trade Act of 1974
to establish within the Treasury a Trade Competitiveness Assistance Trade
Fund, to provide for a mandatory response to certain trade distortions, to
change antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement provisions, and to
provide remedies for infringements on intellectual property rights in
international trade.
COMPETITIVENESS AND ANTITRUST
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded hearings to examine whether
the antitrust laws and antitrust enforcement policy should be modified to
enhance the competitiveness of American firms, after receiving testimony from
Michael Porter, Harvard Business School, and Joseph R. Brodley, Boston
University School of Law, both of Boston, Massachusetts; George Scalise,
Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California; and Richard Levin, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut.
CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee began consideration of S.
557, to ensure that discrimination is prohibited by the recipients of Federal
financial assistance, but did not complete action thereon.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
AUTHORIZATIONS -- SPECIAL EDUCATION
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and
Humanities held hearings on S. 373, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1988
through 1993 for elementary and secondary education assistance, receiving
testimony from New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean, Trenton, on behalf of the
National Governors Association; Gerald N. Tirozzi, Connecticut Commissioner of
Education, Hartford, on behalf of the Council of Chief State School Officers;
Reverend Thomas G. Gallagher, United States Catholic Conference, and Dorothy
Rich, Home and School Institute, Inc., both of Washington, D.C.; Robert C.
Wentz, Las Vegas Superintendent of Schools, Las Vegas, Nevada, on behalf of
the American Association of School Administrators; Jerome B. Jones, St. Louis
Superintendent of Public Schools, St. Louis, Missouri, on behalf of the
Council of the Great City Schools; and Jay K. Donaldson, Utah State Office of
Education, Salt Lake City.
Hearings continue Thursday, May 14.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee ordered favorably reported
the following measures:
An original resolution to provide for supplemental funds and consultant
authority for certain Senate committees;
S. 1020, to provide for the creation of the Office of Librarian of Congress
Emeritus;
S. Con. Res. 53, to authorize the printing as a Senate document of a Senate
Report entitled "Developments in Aging"; and
H. Con. Res. 91, authorizing the 1987 Special Olympics Torch Relay to be run
through the Capitol grounds, in lieu of S. Con. Res. 44.
IRAN/CONTRA AFFAIR
Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan
Opposition: Committee met in closed session to discuss actions by the
committee to further its investigation into the Iran-Contra affair, but made
no announcements.
Joint Meetings
IRAN/CONTRA AFFAIR
Joint Hearing: Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran
and the Nicaraguan Opposition continued joint hearings with the House Select
Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran on matters
relating to the Iran/Contra Affair, receiving further testimony from Major
General Richard V. Secord, USAF (Ret.), former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
ACREAGE DIVERSION PROGRAMS
Conferees agreed to file a conference report on the differences between the
Senate- and House-passed versions of H.R. 1157, to provide for an acreage
diversion program applicable to producers of the crop of winter wheat
harvested in 1987.
1987/05/08
Daily Digest - Friday, May 8, 1987; pages D639 - D ? (Bound vol. D330-D334)
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 1988, receiving
testimony in behalf of funds for the Environmental Protection Agency, National
Science Foundation, Veterans Administration, Federal Emergency Management
Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from
Senator Wirth; Representative Sabo; and numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee will meet again on Friday, May 15.
APPROPRIATIONS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services,
Education and Related Agencies held hearings on proposed budget estimates for
fiscal year 1988 for miscellaneous programs of the Department of Health and
Human Services and the Department of Education, receiving testimony from
numerous public witnesses.
Subcommittee recessed subject to call.
APPROPRIATIONS -- FAA
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation and Related
Agencies continued hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1988
for the Federal Aviation Administration, receiving testimony from Donald D.
Engen, Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of
Transportation, who was accompanied by several of his associates, and on the
FAA operations by the General Accounting Office, receiving testimony from
Herbert R. McLure, Associate Director, Arthur Shantz, Evaluator, and Carl
Cotton, Group Director, all of the Resources, Community and Economic
Development Division, and Carl Palmer, Associate Director, Information
Management and Technology Division, all of the General Accounting Office.
Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, May 13.
URANIUM ENRICHMENT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Energy Research and
Development concluded hearings on proposals to restructure the Department of
Energy's uranium enrichment program, including amendment No. 176 to S. 1084,
and amendment No. 177 to S. 1100, both related measures, after receiving
testimony from Clyde Hopkins, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge,
Tennessee; Sol Burstein, Wisconsin Electric Power, Milwaukee, on behalf of the
Edison Electric Institute and American Nuclear Energy Council; Ed Chambliss,
on behalf of Solomon Brothers, Inc., and C. Paul Robinson, Ebasco, Inc., on
behalf of American Enrichment Corporation, both of New York, New York.
STATUTORY DEBT LIMIT
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management held
hearings on the request for an extension and increase in the statutory limit
on the public debt, receiving testimony from George D. Gould, Under Secretary
of the Treasury.
Hearings were recessed subject to call.
TRADE ISSUES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings to review certain
trade issues, after receiving testimony from James Conrow, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury for Developing Nations; Alexander H. Good, Director
General for United States and Foreign Commercial Service, Department of
Commerce; Christian R. Holmes, Director, Trade and Development Program,
International Development Cooperation Agency; Joseph A. Massey, Assistant
United States Trade Representative for Japan and China; and Richard E.
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