100th Congress (1987 - 1988)
January 6 - December 22, 1987
Senate Committee Meetings by Date
Compiled from the Congressional Record's Daily Digests
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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. |
